Written answers

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

  • Department of Social Protection
    • Disability Support Services
      10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in what timeframe does she guarantee a quality offer of a job, further education and training or apprenticeship opportunity for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will revamp the Social Protection application process to reduce the excessive waiting times of six months for an oral...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Administration
      12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has carried out an analysis on the impact of her changes to the farm assist scheme including the effect income disregards...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to reverse the cuts made to pensioners since 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1218/16]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the supports and resources available to those affected by flooding; the efforts she is making to assist them; and if she will make...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review the impact that cuts to the one-parent family payment have had on recipients and their families. [1205/16]
    • Poverty Data
      16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent data in the Survey on Income and Living Conditions which shows that 29% of the population is experiencing...
    • Child Poverty
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the policy measures she is taking to address the drastic level of child poverty and the large percentage of children experiencing...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will restore equality for young jobseekers by increasing payments. [1214/16]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to report on how many rent supplement uplifts were awarded in December 2015 to help families avoid homelessness; if discretionary...
    • Employment Support Services
      20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has had any discussions with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding the prevalence of low wage,...
    • Bereavement Grant
      21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate the bereavement grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1217/16]
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of the reconfiguration of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1062/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will taper the restriction of working hours of 15 hours a week in the case of carer’s allowance in order that a...
    • Pension Provisions
      24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 16 December 2015, if she will introduce measures to ensure equality in the...
    • Water Conservation Grant Administration
      25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the administration costs for the implementation of the water conservation grant. [1204/16]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection how many persons who do not qualify for a social protection payment are currently signing on for credits at their local social...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of occasions in 2015 that rent supplement levels were agreed above the defined rent limits with persons, by local...
    • Community Services Programme
      28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the annual grant allocation from Pobal to meet the bills community dervice programmes, such as the Cherry...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to facilitate the qualification for a State pension (contributory) for spouses of self-employed or PAYE contributors who while...
    • Family Income Supplement Data
      30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of family income supplement for each of the years 2011 to 2015; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the time limits for Community Employment Schemes, particularly in cases where there are no new applicants for...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
      32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if homeless persons receiving supplementary payments for a 15 month period were paid the Christmas bonus in 2015, given that as...
    • National Internship Scheme Review
      33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the details of the external review into the JobBridge scheme she commissioned before Dáil Éireann is...
    • Youth Unemployment Data
      34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the high rate of youth unemployment, which currently stands at 19.2 per cent; the impact of the measures she has...
    • Employment Support Services
      35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection how she is addressing the issue of long-term and youth unemployment; the degree to which European Union supports in this regard...
    • School Meals Programme
      36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if some pupils in schools with DEIS status have an entitlement to a school meal, while others do not; if so, the reason; and if she...
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount of the €15 million humanitarian funding for flood victims that has been disbursed to victims to date; and the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the Invalidity Pension Scheme; and if she will...
    • Registration of Deaths
      41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to the enactment of the Civil Registration Act, if all provisions and systems are in place to register the death of an...
    • Social Welfare Code
      42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to reduce economic inequality for Social Protection recipients; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why the Christmas bonus is only given to persons on the live register for 15 months or longer, given that persons who are only...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when arrears under the disability allowance scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerrry under the Disability Allowance Scheme; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a review of an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused under the disability allowance scheme, given the...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of homeless persons presenting at and provided with accommodation by the new communities unit by nationality in each of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of payments to persons reaching 65 years of age who were born after April 1955 and who must wait until 67 years of age...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will change the retirement age of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if he will issue a decision on an application under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of new claims she has approved and the percentages for the number of refusals based on financial grounds under the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the invalidity pension scheme; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of payments to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46577/15]
    • Departmental Schemes
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of proposals for the amalgamation of the rural social, community employment and Gateway schemes into one joint scheme...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) is only receiving €30 per week on social protection; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why she has not acknowledged registered correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions Payments
      65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) was informed that a person would receive arrears of €1,000 and then of €2,700, and...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of disability payments to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46601/15]
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to confirm the status of the Christmas bonus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46603/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal under the jobseeker's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views that it is fair or reasonable that reviews under the Domiciliary Care Allowance Scheme are taking three months to be...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the names of the persons she has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on...
    • Bereavement Grant
      73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the bereavement grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Allowance Data
      75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Limerick by city and by county in receipt of disability allowance. [46705/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Data
      76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Limerick by city, by county, in receipt of invalidity pension. [46706/15]
    • Blind Person's Pension Data
      77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Limerick by city, by county, in receipt of a blind pension. [46707/15]
    • Disablement Benefit Data
      78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Limerick by city, by county, in receipt of disablement benefit. [46708/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups her Department has including the cost and details....
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the annual cost to her Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when she will make a determination on an application under the Disability Allowance Scheme by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application under the domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an entitlement to a Disability Allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Community Services Programme
      85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an issue (details supplied) regarding shortage of funding for a service in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Civil Registration Legislation
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 9 December 2015, when in 2016 she expects that marriages such as the one referred to in...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to review the legislation for family income supplement, given that the amount awarded is set for 12 months regardless of change of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a widow or widower who is in receipt of a State pension (contributory) is not entitled, on the death of a spouse, to a...
    • Debt Collection
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the deduction in the case of a person (details supplied). [46908/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disabilty allowance scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will investigate a matter (details supplied) regarding carer's benefit and carer's allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal of a farm assist decision by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal regarding a decision on an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal of a decision for a jobseeker's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal regarding a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amounts paid in rent supplement, by local authority area, in each year since 2013. [1085/16]
    • Social Insurance Refunds
      107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of the former employer PRSI exemption scheme in 2012 and in 2013; the number of employers who availed of the scheme;...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 20 October 2015, why a person (details supplied) in County Kildare did not qualify...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 did not receive the Christmas bonus in 2015; if she will make the payment if it is...
    • Widow's Pension Eligibility
      111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to an earlier parliamentary question (details supplied), the entitlement in respect of a contributory widow's pension for...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will reintroduce the telephone allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1220/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if medical evidence identifies that a child with severe disabilities is in need of two full-time carers, why both carers are not...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to approve and expedite an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if all arrears due in respect of disability payments have been paid to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the level of rent allowance payable to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare on foot of additional information supplied on...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to grant a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 an extension to a community employment placement. [1292/16]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if arrears in respect of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the disability allowance scheme will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the carer's allowance scheme will be processed; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will make...
    • Living Wage
      124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the discussions her Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to her Department or to agencies of her Department to...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the domiciliary care allowance scheme will be processed;...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the disability allowance scheme will be processed; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection notwithstanding the response to previous enquiries including parliamentary questions, the basis on which it was determined that a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in awarding a carer's allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [1415/16]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection how an application for jobseeker's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was assessed; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo including when it will be concluded and when the original...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork and indicate...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of a pending appeal...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the average weekly payment under the jobseeker's benefit scheme and jobseeker's allowance scheme in 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the domiciliary care scheme; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the invalidity pension scheme; and if she will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if rent allowance will continue to be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who wishes to give to her Department...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to urgently examine an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, given that all medical...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will make...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to review the eligibility of a person (details supplied) in County Meath under the disability allowance scheme with particular...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if and when a water conservation grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who has registered with Irish...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
      150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost in 2016 of increasing all working age payments by €2.50, €5.00, €6.00, €7.00,...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the full-year cost in 2016 of increasing the income disregard for the one-parent family payment from its current threshold of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the disability allowance scheme; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme. [1510/16]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for a review of the decision to refuse an...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the domiciliary care...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the State pension (contributory); the extent to which this figure has fluctuated over the past five...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Numbers
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the State pension (non-contributory); the extent to which this figure has fluctuated over the past...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Applications
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the State pension (contributory) refused in each of the past five years to date; and if she will...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the State pension (contributory) to women who retired from the workforce while rearing their children, and...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the time taken to process applications for various social protection payments has improved; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Application Numbers
      168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants in receipt of a carer's allowance payment; the extent to which this number has fluctuated over the past...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of payments under the jobseeker's allowance scheme and under the jobseeker's benefit scheme; the...
    • Back to Work Allowance
      173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to work allowance or similar return to employment incentives; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for a review of a decision to refuse a domiciliary...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the eligibility for the back to education allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1556/16]
    • Water Conservation Grant Eligibility
      177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will qualify for the water conservation grant, with particular reference to the...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the rationale for the restrictions applying to self-employed persons qualifying for family income supplement. [1566/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an application under the carer's allowance scheme; the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Exemptions
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of sports clubs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46605/15]
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if under European Union fiscal rules the required annual structural budget balance improvement for Ireland from 2016 must be at least 0.5% each year and that...
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if updated flood insurance policies will be applied to homes and businesses previously refused flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabled Drivers Grant Appeals
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1546/16]
    • Customs and Excise Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 8 December 2015, if he is satisfied with the resources deployed by the Customs and Excise Service in the...
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the tests that are being carried out by customs officers at airports and shipping ports on passengers suspected of having ingested narcotics...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a tax break for low-paid workers who must pay for annual rail commuter tickets to get to and from work, given that the cost of the annual ticket...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding interest paid on mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46555/15]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a case (details supplied) under the home renovation incentive scheme. [46602/15]
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines in place to ensure an insurance broker is independent of insurers or assurance providers and that any connection to an insurer or assurance...
    • Insurance Industry
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has been informed by any insurance brokerage that its relationship with any State banks has been altered recently; and if he...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial,...
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the opening hours in the Revenue Commissioners office in Tralee in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46679/15]
    • NAMA Property Sales
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if the sale of a commercial property (details supplied) in Clonmel in County Tipperary by the National Asset Management Agency was conducted in a sufficiently...
    • Data Protection
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance to support a matter (details supplied) regarding banking and the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46687/15]
    • Tax Compliance
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the public consultation process that he informed this Deputy during the finance Bill debates that he was putting in place around bogus...
    • Tax Code (1 comment)
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the recent change in employment status from self-employed to employees for home-tutors employed by the Department of Education and Skills...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and details. [46753/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social media.. [46755/15]
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of tax relief for research and development credits by cost of credits claimed against tax liabilities and credits refunded in 2014 and 2015 and the...
    • Tax Code
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a submission (details supplied), given the changes introduced in budget 2016. [46796/15]
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taxpayers have paid into the Insurance Fund since the liquidation of Insurance Corporation of Ireland. [46811/15]
    • Excise Duties
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the increase in excise on spirits imposed in 2014 budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46871/15]
    • Credit Unions
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding credit unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46877/15]
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the last occasion when a profession was added to the list that can claim rate expenses system for tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Data
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding special purpose vehicles set up to take advantage of the provisions of section 110 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, as amended, the number of...
    • Pension Provisions
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46893/15]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance when, following the Information Commissioner's decision to vary the decision of his Department in freedom of information request 177/2013, he will release the...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will revert to this Deputy on a matter (details supplied) regarding a passenger scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46910/15]
    • Tax Collection
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners can demand back income tax with interest, having previously made the mistake of informing a person (details supplied) that they...
    • State Banking Sector
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance the proceeds from the disposal of investments in the State supported banks, by institution, in each year since 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Institutions Support Scheme
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees received under the credit institutions (financial support) scheme and the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme in each year since their inception,...
    • NAMA Accounts
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the profit the National Asset Management Agency expects to make by the time of its wind-up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1070/16]
    • IBRC Operations
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the surplus the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation special liquidator expects the IBRC to make by the time of its wind-up; and if he will make...
    • House Prices
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the 8.5% increase in house prices, as indicated in a report (details supplied) published on 4 January 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Universal Social Charge Exemptions
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is exempt from the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1116/16]
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines or rules he has in place for mortgage lending institutions regarding the methods of calculation of tax relief at source for individual mortgage...
    • Employment Data
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the baseline employment and unemployment figures he has used for each of the next five years in preparing his fiscal and economic projections; and if he will...
    • Government Deficit
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest general Government debt and deficit projections between now and 2020, given the recently announced Exchequer update for 2015. [1234/16]
    • Home Repossession
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance to support a matter, including the options that are available to the person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [1276/16]
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect of abolishing the universal social charge on the fiscal space available over the next five years, including how its abolition will benefit in...
    • Mortgage Data
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of completed restructured arrangements and the figure, under the mortgage arrears resolution targets, that involved the loss of the family home....
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of competition in the motor insurance industry and the steps he is considering to prevent further increases in this area. [1355/16]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax reliefs available under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme can still be availed of if the vehicle is used as a taxi, if...
    • Living Wage
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure that employees of...
    • Property Tax Deferrals
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of deferrals on payment of property tax granted in 2015; the total amount involved; the interest rate applicable to such deferrals; the period for...
    • Exchequer Payments
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance further to previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), what the impact would be if all income under €30,000 received a basic additional income...
    • Insurance Industry
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the liquidation process of the Setanta Insurance company; if liability with respect to the payment of all outstanding claims has been...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance why the banks not only charge variable rate mortgage customers a multiple of the tracker mortgage rate but also charge a multiple of other European variable...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Properties
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform why properties (details supplied) in County Limerick are vested in him under the State Property Act 1954; his plans for these...
    • Drainage Schemes Status
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of funding for clearing the Flesk River, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any future forecasting will include tidal flooding as well as river flooding; if future forecasting will include areas of past...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Data
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that have been successful in the public procurement process, by county, in tabular...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a flood relief scheme (details supplied) in County Cork, including if funding for the scheme is available and ring-fenced;...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the types of works to rivers, streams and so on that require a section 50 application to the Office of Public Works; when the section 50...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Data
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Foynes flood alleviation scheme; when the contractor will be appointed to construct it; the construction schedule; the...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consultation channels open to members of the public who wish to submit their views on flood risk in the context of planning and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood defence proposals for Athlone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46504/15]
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of local authorities and public bodies insisting on a retirement age of 65 years of age and preventing employees from...
    • Ministerial Remuneration
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual salaries of Teachtaí Dála, Senators, an Taoiseach, Ministers, Minister of State attending Cabinet and Ministers of...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Question No. 265 of 16 July 2015, if he will address the question (details supplied) and questions restated; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has including the cost and details. [46750/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and social...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups in the Office of Public Works including the cost and...
    • Parental Leave
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to enable public sector workers to enjoy the same entitlements as their colleagues in the Civil Service regarding transferring...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the target for the employment of persons with a disability across the public service; if all public bodies are required to reach this...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will support a matter on reform (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46943/15]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding budgeted in 2015 for the Office of Public Works overall flood risk management programme; the amount of this that...
    • Animal Welfare
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps the Office of Public Works is putting in place to protect deer in the Phoenix Park, given that over 21 deer were killed by...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of any application to the Office of Public Works by Mayo County Council for flood mitigation works in the Keenagh,...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the next higher executive officer open competition for the Civil Service will be held; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Morrell River flood relief scheme; when he expects the Office of Public Works to proceed with the project given that...
    • Garda Station Closures
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Question No. 231 of 30 April 2014, if he will provide an update on a property (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to previous parliamentary questions, including Question No. 277 of 3 July 2012, if he is aware that properties in Tullig...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions incorporated in the overall proposed flood relief scheme for the Bandon River to ensure the village of Innishannon,...
    • Civil Service Management
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recourse available to public servants who believe they have been unfairly treated by their employer in the workplace as a result of...
    • Living Wage
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the planned flood relief scheme for the Glanmire area (details supplied) in County Cork including the timeline for its...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will establish dedicated task forces comprising of multiple agencies and bodies to be responsible for co-ordinating flood...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay on the Dunkellin River project; if the full scale works are going ahead; the details; when work will commence;...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the proposed flood protection works at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 12 along the River Poddle to be carried...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Office of Public Works buildings in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown local authority area in County Dublin that are not...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Consumer Protection
      284. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the automatic default to a higher payment plan which is part of Greyhound Household Recycling’s current renewal policy is in...
    • Research and Development Funding
      285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent supporting research and development expenditure in the private sector and the proportion of that expenditure made up...
    • Research and Development Supports
      287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the research budget he administers and the budgets administered by agencies of hisDepartment; how the spending of these budgets is...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has including the cost and details. [46762/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social...
    • Workplace Relations Services Staff
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide a breakdown of the current staffing of Workplace Relations Commission inspector services in tabular form. [46795/15]
    • Work Permit Applications
      293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to support a matter (details supplied) regarding an employment permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46942/15]
    • Departmental Bodies
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State organisations that have a North-South enterprise development remit by their activities and by the budgets that have been...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of firms from the North that have used each of the services offered to them in the Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern...
    • IDA Site Visits
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency Ireland client visits in 2015 by county and by month in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs by county at 1 January 2015 and at 31 December 2015, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of local enterprise office supported jobs by county at 1 January 2015 and at 31 December 2015, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to support a matter (details supplied) regarding start-up businesses. [1143/16]
    • Trade Missions
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to have a trade mission to India; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1164/16]
    • IDA Portfolio
      302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the proposals the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland have for projects in a town (details supplied) in west...
    • Employment Rights
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the mandatory three hours of continuous work for employees. [1282/16]
    • Living Wage
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Data
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there are definite guidelines in relation to grant assistance from local enterprise offices for a specific business sector (details...
    • Low Pay Commission Expenditure
      306. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost to the Exchequer of the Low Pay Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1508/16]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Data Programme
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the beef data and genomics programme; and if he...
    • Dairy Sector
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of Bord Bia's involvement in the quality checking of milk (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payment under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the areas of natural constraint scheme and basic...
    • Farm Safety Scheme
      312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farm safety grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the single payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a formal decision on an appeal under the single payment scheme which was...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the areas of natural constraint scheme; and...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of applications by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the area aid scheme and the suckler cow scheme. [46519/15]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received outstanding grants and payments, specifically the payment under the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46538/15]
    • Legislative Measures
      319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make changes to the legislation regarding animal cruelty (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why payments to a person (details supplied) were reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46544/15]
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly can recover the sum deducted under the single payment scheme regarding nitrate...
    • Farm Partnerships
      325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the agri-partnership scheme, if the application process is sufficiently efficient; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of entitlements from the national reserve for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [46579/15]
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Appeals
      327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry on a farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite payments under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, the single farm payment scheme and disadvantaged...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the basic payments scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the single payment scheme 2015 will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on...
    • Regulation of Hunting
      334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a need to introduce regulations surrounding the conduct of hunts and to licence hunts; if he has received any complaints...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and details. [46741/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and social...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to revert to this Deputy on a matter (details supplied) regarding the old young farmer scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fishing Industry
      340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of compensation packages (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46806/15]
    • GLAS Data
      341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied under tranche 1 of the new green low-carbon agri-environment scheme will qualify for the top-up...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farm payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46846/15]
    • Beef Genomics Scheme
      344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options open to a person (details supplied) in County Galway who applied for the beef genomics scheme, but who has been told that...
    • Departmental Staff
      345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 25 November 2015, the experience and expertise the director of the appeals office holds...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 25 November 2015, the evidence or information that was sought from the petitioner prior...
    • Agriculture Scheme Administration
      352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 25 November 2015, and given that the competent authority is the only body which is...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 25 November 2015, in which he stated on the record of Dáil Éireann that he had...
    • Departmental Investigations
      354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 25 November 2015, to confirm when the most recent inspection by his officers being the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Administration
      355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he has not accepted the evidence that shareholders of lands (details supplied) have provided in the form of a detailed survey and...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 25 November 2015, if he will clarify remarks made by him in that reply (details supplied);...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made a decision on an appeal under the single payment scheme from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme for 2015, given that...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the regulations governing farmers who have an outbreak of tuberculosis who specialise in beef-finishing, given that...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all counties are represented on the board of Bord Bia; his views that an agricultural representative from the south west is...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the farm payments received by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo for each of the years from 2012 to date; and if he will make...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of small boat operators who are unable to fish due to bad weather and the consequent effect on quotas (details supplied);...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to a sheep quota from the national reserve; and if he will make a statement...
    • Beef Data Programme
      368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have submitted data notifications under the beef data and genomics programme 2015; the number who have...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will admit all eligible applicants under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme tranche 2 into the scheme; the date from...
    • GLAS Payments
      371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have received payments under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the average payment made to...
    • GLAS Applications
      373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications formally submitted for tranche 2 of green low-carbon agri-environment scheme by the closing date of 18...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants participating in the rural environment protection scheme, agri-environment options scheme 1, AEOS scheme 2...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data
      375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who remain to be paid under the areas of natural constraint scheme for 2015 by county; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of collecting and administering the disease levies collected by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • TAMS Eligibility
      377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why agricultural contractors are not eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 for sustainable...
    • Beef Exports
      378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of Irish beef sales to the United States of America in 2015, by month; if he is satisfied with the figures; and if he will...
    • Beef Industry
      379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of the recent beef forum meeting; the steps he will take to address the growing gulf between meat factories and farmers;...
    • Live Exports
      380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for live cattle exports in 2015, by market; to explain the decline in many key markets; and his proposals for increasing...
    • Fishing Industry
      381. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ban super trawlers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1054/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Administration
      383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments to persons (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason for reductions following a ground inspection;...
    • GLAS Applications
      384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1065/16]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1157/16]
    • Horse Racing Industry Development
      389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last met formally with the chairperson and chief executive officer of Horse Sport Ireland and when he will meet the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Wexford under the single payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • GLAS Applications
      392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environment Scheme; when...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1185/16]
    • Forestry Sector
      394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding the cutting down of forestry (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal due by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath under the rural environment protection scheme will be...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to have the entitlements to which a farm partnership (details supplied) is duly entitled allocated to the said...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received payment under the agri-environment options scheme 3; the reasons for...
    • Hardship Grant Scheme Applications
      399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how a person (details supplied) in County Mayo can submit an application to his Department under the Hardship Recognition Scheme for...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when balancing payments to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the basic payment scheme/areas of natural constraint...
    • GLAS Payments
      402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments due to persons (details supplied) in County Limerick under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme and otherwise...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farmers who have lost livestock due to the recent floods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1330/16]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of payment to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      405. 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 Roscommon; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Hardship Grant Scheme Applications
      407. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application (details supplied) in County Mayo for funding under his Department's hardship grant scheme. [1363/16]
    • Living Wage
      408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a large number of young farmers who have entered farm partnerships have not received any basic payment; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when all payments including the young farmers payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments
      412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a payment being issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the areas of natural...
    • Fishing Industry Data
      413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the 500 atypical worker permits that are being made available to the owners of Irish fishing vessels in order that they may...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      415. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received any farm payments for 2014 and 2015; what can be done to assist this...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if and when a single payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the young farmers scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1474/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 24 November 2015, why a basic payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1522/16]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
    • GLAS Payments
      425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1542/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1545/16]
    • Organic Farming Scheme Applications
      429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1555/16]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 9 December 2015, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare;...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1564/16]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      433. To ask the Minister for Defence further to response to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 11 November 2015 wherein the Minister states that he is awaiting the outcome of seven files, if these...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      434. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will proceed with the Defence Forces operational service medal to be awarded for service on missions not governed by the United Nations, the European...
    • Defence Forces Allowances
      435. To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which the adjudicator will sit in 2016 to decide on the provision of the armed overseas peace support allowance, given the overwhelming evidence...
    • Easter Rising Commemorations
      436. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will issue a 1916 centenary medal to all serving members of Óglaigh na hÉireann who participate in the commemoration in 2016 and who have...
    • Defence Forces
      437. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will convene a medal and awards review board comprising of a wide cross-section of the Defence Forces to examine the reinstatement of the Good Conduct...
    • Naval Service
      438. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will direct a review board to consider a maritime deployment medal in recognition of the deployment of sailors on board Irish Naval vessels who complete...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      439. To ask the Minister for Defence the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions, industrial,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      440. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and details. [46735/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      442. To ask the Minister for Defence the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and social media. [46737/15]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Data
      443. To ask the Minister for Defence how many businesses in County Mayo have applied for assistance; how many have received assistance; the total value of payments made under the Irish Red Cross...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      444. To ask the Minister for Defence the assistance given to those whose homes and other properties were flooded in past number of weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1100/16]
    • Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
      445. To ask the Minister for Defence the Revised Estimate for army pensions and the details of any Supplementary Estimate for same for each of the years 2011 to 2015 in tabular form. [1186/16]
    • Living Wage
      446. To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure that employees of...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      447. To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of increasing the number of personnel in the Army Reserve from 2,188 to 3,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1443/16]
    • Air Corps Equipment
      449. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will investigate the age of each aircraft within the Air Corps; when each aircraft is next due to be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      450. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to formally meet the Secretary of Defence of the United States of America, Mr. Ash Carter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1506/16]
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      451. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount paid out to date to flood affected businesses under the humanitarian assistance scheme, by county and by town; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Maternity Leave
      452. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make changes to the provision of maternity leave (details supplied). [46540/15]
    • Ground Rents Payments
      453. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding ground rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46607/15]
    • Mental Health Commission
      454. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to support a matter (details supplied) regarding the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Emergency Services Personnel
      455. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the emergency services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46700/15]
    • Legal Aid
      456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legal aid granted in respect of a family law matter in 2013 would now still encompass ongoing legal aid for the enforcement of, or matters...
    • Parental Leave
      457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend the Parental Leave Act, in order that persons working for different employers in the public service would be able to transfer...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to refurbish the Garda Síochána station in Howth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1504/16]
    • Firearms Certificates
      461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legislation covering night sights on rifles and guns given that these are being sold in various supermarket outlets; and if she will make a...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners waiting to be assessed for transfer under the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act; the time frame for the assessment to be...
    • Migrant Accommodation
      463. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with a group (details supplied) in County Waterford which has concerns regarding the decision to convert Clonea Strand Hotel to...
    • Immigration Policy
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Yazidi community of Northern Iraq are included in her plans to accept refugees agreed with the European Union; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda superintendent, based in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, has now been transferred elsewhere; the plans for a replacement to be...
    • Prisoner Discipline
      466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of men 18 to 20, 21 to 25 and 25 plus years of age in prison who were placed under a restricted regime for punishment purposes during...
    • Visa Applications
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46561/15]
    • Legal Costs
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding legal fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46621/15]
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46637/15]
    • Family Reunification Applications
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a carer’s allowance and a domiciliary carer’s allowance will be taken into consideration for the purpose of calculating a...
    • Legal Aid Service Data
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the free legal aid budget by civil cases, by criminal cases, by the number of persons availing of it, including details of those who have availed...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names of the persons she has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions,...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the transfer of a prisoner (details supplied); why this prisoner's request to transfer to Portlaoise prison has not been addressed...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Asylum Applications
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Iraqi origin or claiming to be of Iraqi origin who were refused leave to land at various points of entry; the reason in...
    • Family Reunification
      476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to support Article 14(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the asylum issue (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Garda Deployment
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Kevin Street, Kilmainham, Sundrive, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot Garda stations, by station, and whether they...
    • Garda Transport Data
      478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles allocated and available for use in Kevin Street, Kilmainham, Sundrive, Crumlin and Ballyfermot Garda stations, by station,...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost and details of refurbishing buildings or upgrading equipment in Kevin Street, Kilmainham, Sundrive, Crumlin and Ballyfermot Garda...
    • Garda Deployment
      480. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-Garda staff assigned to Kevin Street, Kilmainham, Sundrive, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot Garda stations, by station, as of November...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      481. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups her Department has, including the cost and details. [46726/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Budgets
      483. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost to her Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social media. [46728/15]
    • Electronic Tagging
      485. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of using ankle bracelets (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46820/15]
    • Legal Services Regulation
      487. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will promote collaborative practice to resolve disputes and free up court time; the measures she is taking; the timetable involved; and if...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      488. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a more volunteer and business-friendly vetting system will be adopted whilst maintaining the optimum level of protection for children, as the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      489. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify question 5.6 in Form 8 of the 'Application by a person of full age for naturalisation as an Irish citizen (version 5.2 December 2014)'...
    • Child Custody and Access
      490. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her efforts to date and the planned reforms to address injustices suffered by fathers being denied access to their children; her views that the...
    • Garda Strength
      491. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations; the number of gardaí in each station in Waterford on 1 January 2011 and on 1 January 2016; and if she will...
    • Deportation Orders
      492. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will formally rescind the deportation order on a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Student Visas Applications
      494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how long it takes for international student visa applications to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1152/16]
    • Student Visas Administration
      496. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why international student visa applications are not processed through Irish embassies and consulates in Asia; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Garda Station Closures
      497. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will re-open the Garda stations that have been closed since 2011; if she will re-instate Sundrive Road Garda station as a full-time...
    • Garda Operations
      498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized by An Garda Síochána in the R district for having no valid insurance in 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      499. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of persons (details supplied) awaiting vetting by An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1175/16]
    • Garda Strength
      500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she will further augment Garda Síochána strength throughout County Kildare, with particular reference to those...
    • Garda Deployment
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will allocate additional resources to Tallaght Garda station to allow for effective action to be taken in respect of the increase in house...
    • Firearms Licences
      503. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of day gun licences issued by An Garda Síochána to a gun club (details supplied) in County Sligo during the 2014 season and...
    • Living Wage
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions her Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to her Department or to agencies of her Department to ensure...
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide funding to renovate the inside of a building (details supplied) in County Kerry, including to make it wheelchair accessible;...
    • Garda Expenditure
      507. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by An Garda Síochána on information technology in each of the years 2012 to 2015; the linkages with the Courts Service...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      508. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will allocate an additional Garda public order van for the R district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1439/16]
    • Garda Operations
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to report on the Garda Síochána Operation Waste including the number of persons arrested and charged, and the number of successful...
    • Firearms Licences
      510. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of firearm licences revoked, in each of the years 2013 to 2015, including a detailed breakdown of the difference types of firearms...
    • Prisoner Discipline
      511. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recorded assaults on prison officers and prisoners by other prisoners, by prison, and place of detention, in 2015, in tabular form;...
    • Garda Expenditure
      512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on the Garda's closed circuit television camera programme in each of the years 2013 to 2015; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to meet the Secretary for Homeland Security of the United States of America, Mr. Jeh Johnson; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Resources
      514. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide extra funding for additional specialist equipment and personnel for the Garda Síochána Computer Crime Unit; and if she will...
    • Garda Operations
      515. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide funding for the appointment of additional full-time forensic accountants for the Garda bureau of fraud investigation; and if she will...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Family Resource Centres
      516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he will ensure the retention of the national aspect of the family resource centre programme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the additional funding to be provided to Túsla, the Child and Family Agency, following Ireland's signing of the Istanbul Convention;...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      520. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a position on a panel with the Health Service Executive and Túsla, the...
    • Child Protection
      521. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to respond to proposals (details supplied) from the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and if he will make a...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      522. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the capitation fee awarded to participating services in the early childhood capitation scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child (details supplied) in County Kildare can benefit from the early childhood care and education scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      524. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      525. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has including the cost and details. [46738/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      527. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and social media....
    • Recreational Facilities Scheme
      528. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a grant or funding is available to assist an organisation (details supplied) [46886/15]
    • Legislative Process
      529. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the safeguards that exist within his Department to ensure that no bias, either subjective or objective, is allowed to taint decisions...
    • Child Care Services Expenditure
      530. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to extend the community childcare subvention scheme to private crèches before September 2016 in areas where there is no...
    • Departmental Schemes
      531. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the schemes in place to fund family centres and pre-school and afterschool services in disadvantaged communities; and if he will make a...
    • Family Resource Centres
      532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he will ensure that the national aspects of the family resource programme will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      533. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the legal advice he has been given regarding the legacy debt issues relating to refundable registration fees paid by clients to Arc...
    • Living Wage
      534. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure...
  • Department of Health
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      535. To ask the Minister for Health the status of persons with Down syndrome (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46524/15]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a senior health care professional nurse, who is employed by a major hospital, who has paid ten years contributions to the voluntary...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details suplied) in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Patient Safety
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding the use of closed circuit television systems in health care settings and in protecting vulnerable patients, in particular; and if he...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the orthodontic and dental services (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46430/15]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      540. To ask the Minister for Health the level and location of such services for each category of patient needing mental health services in County Louth; the waiting list for such services; the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the grants available from his Department to help community and artistic groups to work with older persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will relocate the Blanchardstown Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service from Cherry Orchard to the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a cystic fibrosis drug called Orkambi. [46455/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a hospital appointment for a procedure at the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7 will be brought forward for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • HSE Staffing
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) in County Longford receives the necessary medical treatment without further delay. [46466/15]
    • HSE Staff Promotions
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a recruitment process for a social work team leader and if those who went through the process were informed soon after that the requirements of...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      550. To ask the Minister for Health to include the medication used for treating glaucoma (details supplied) caused by type 2 diabetes in the long term illness scheme, given that diabetes is...
    • Prescription Charges
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations in force under, or relating to, section 59 of the Health Act 1970; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46479/15]
    • HSE Properties
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the status of vacant properties owned, rented or leased by the Health Service Executive in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46512/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new 100-bed unit for St. Mary's Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46513/15]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the status of fitness to practice hearings that have been initiated; if a report commissioned by the Health Service Executive into any incident being...
    • Respite Care Services
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a respite care facility (details supplied) in County Louth is permitted to accept guests over 65 years of age, if not, the reason; and if...
    • Disability Services Provision
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Rehabilitation Hospital is permitted to accept patients over 65 years of age, if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Stroke Survivors
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if stroke survivors under 65 years of age can access nursing home care; and if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46547/15]
    • HSE Properties
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's proposed plan for a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 7, if he is aware of local residents concerns about the use of the...
    • Health Care Professionals
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recommendations to protect the titles of physiotherapist and physical therapist under one register (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Mobility Allowance Eligibility
      563. To ask the Minister for Health in the context of the Equal Status Acts, why the mobility allowance continues to be paid and the motorised transport grant has been suspended while we await...
    • Mental Health Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the status of psychiatric patients smoking (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46572/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with physical and intellectual disabilities who are waiting for residential care placement, by county, by age profile, by age profile of...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      566. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that opticians are requiring a PPS number from customers when privately purchasing spectacles, if this is as a result of his guidelines or if it...
    • Medical Card Applications
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to refuse a full medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Payments
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid for the Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46589/15]
    • Respite Care Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Health to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46592/15]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appeal under the medical card scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46599/15]
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      571. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department can make contact with a community organisation (details supplied) concerning the organisation's funding needs under the lottery funding...
    • Registration of Nurses
      572. To ask the Minister for Health why An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann has not responded or advised a person (details supplied) in County Limerick of the status of a...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is on a waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46628/15]
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      574. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be scheduled for an orthodontic appointment; and if a date will be confirmed for 2016. [46644/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      575. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46645/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46646/15]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions and industrial,...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to address the widely reported practice of general practitioners charging medical card holders for international normalised ratio, INR,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      580. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46676/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      581. To ask the Minister for Health to support a matter (details supplied) regarding mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46691/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide support to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 who requires residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46692/15]
    • Mental Health Services
      584. To ask the Minister for Health to support a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who requires mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46694/15]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has applied for a primary care certificate; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      587. To ask the Minister for Health why a child (details supplied) in County Dublin is losing an entitlement to a special needs assistant, SNA; if he will reinstate the child's SNA hours; and if...
    • Health Services Provision
      589. To ask the Minister for Health to report on the treatment of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [46711/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46712/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department or the Health Service Executive has, including the cost and details....
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost to his Department or the Health Service Executive of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      594. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be performed; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      595. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding general practitioners. [46786/15]
    • Health Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when the person concerned will receive full-time residential service from the Health...
    • Health Promotion
      598. To ask the Minister for Health if electronic cigarettes play a role in assisting persons in stopping smoking; the supports he will put in place for smokers wishing to stop smoking; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [46812/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Health why a new blood test metering system known as FreeStyle Libre which has very significant benefits in terms of blood sugar monitoring and control for diabetics...
    • Medical Register Administration
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will tighten controls on medical professionals who are connected to adverse incidents but who leave the State before formal investigations and possible...
    • Medical Card Delays
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delay in the renewal of a medical card being issued to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [46816/15]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the anticipated €110 million in savings measures referred to on page 115 of the 2016 Health Service Executive service plan. [46821/15]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      605. To ask the Minister for Health his views on tobacco starter packs which contain tobacco, cigarette papers and filters, which are particularly attractive to young persons; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting for surgery to correct or prevent further curvature of the spine, by those waiting in three-month periods; the services...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in Cork University Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46828/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the eligibility under the fair deal scheme of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46829/15]
    • Disability Services Funding
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the funding and the number of hours the Health Service Executive provided for the personal assistant service in its disability services budget in 2015 and the...
    • Nursing Home Services
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the status of occupational therapists attending to residents of private and public nursing homes in counties Meath and Louth; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Funding
      612. To ask the Minister for Health why the 2016 Health Service Executive budget for older persons is €9.9 million less than the projected spend in 2015. [46841/15]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      614. To ask the Minister for Health why Sativex is still not available for multiple sclerosis patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46866/15]
    • Hospital Facilities
      615. To ask the Minister for Health when the new theatre space for orthopaedic cases will be operating at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, given the long waiting list of orthopaedic...
    • Respite Care Services
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional respite beds that will be available following the allocation of an additional €1 million for this in the 2016 Health Service...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of medical cards in respect of cancer patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46884/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case and when the person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore, County Offaly. [46901/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the level of the emergency medical technician service in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46904/15]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the amount it costs a multidisciplinary team in the Health Service Executive to diagnose autism spectrum disorder as against diagnosis by a private...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is awaiting a hospital bed in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Charges
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support patients' families with huge parking costs at Beaumont Hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a helicopter landing pad in the grounds of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, or immediately adjacent to...
    • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite care which has been removed from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1046/16]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      628. To ask the Minister for Health why Alzheimer's is not included on the list of illnesses that allow a person to qualify under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will extend the list to...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1050/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the referral of a person (details supplied) to Kerry County Hospital for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1059/16]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has plans to close residential units (details supplied) in County Westmeath; why this decision is being taken; what steps have...
    • Maternity Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the master of the Rotunda Hospital setting down conditions for its relocation to Connolly Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) in County Longford who has been on a waiting list for an operation; if this case will be reviewed given its urgency;...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      639. To ask the Minister for Health why the fee to register in pharmacy and the fee to remain registered, as a person and as a business, is a multiple of many European averages; when he will...
    • Medical Card Data
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the expected reduction in the number of medical cards over the coming years as a result of the reduction in the numbers on the live register and rising...
    • Community First Responders Network
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Killarney cardiac response unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1089/16]
    • Medical Card Applications
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the documentation still outstanding in this instance, if any;...
    • Registration of Nurses
      643. To ask the Minister for Health why the Irish Nursing Board has not issued a reply to an application for registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south Lee area and in the north Lee area...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is awaiting a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1106/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      646. To ask the Minister for Health why the HSE is not providing the recommended medication to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and why he has not provided a comprehensive reply to...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive an appointment with the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin [1115/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      651. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the serious funding shortfall for the Louth and Meath branch of Down Syndrome Ireland and its early intervention home teacher programme; if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1129/16]
    • Home Care Packages
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency home care package in place to help a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who requires home help as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
    • Primary Care Services
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a primary care certificate by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1137/16]
    • HSE Correspondence
      655. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will sign off the relevant forms for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence regarding the case of a person (details supplied) and their treatment in a hospital. [1145/16]
    • Home Help Service
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure the immediate restoration of home help support to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently examine and expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry given that the person has submitted...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1132 of 22 September 2015, if the benefit of the fair deal scheme has at any time applied to the case of a person...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if approval has been granted for the recruitment of a permanent replacement consultant obstetrician to fill a vacant post for the antenatal and gynaecology...
    • Home Help Service
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the status of district nurses (details supplied) and funding for home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1226/16]
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons waiting for appointments in the child and adolescent mental health services in County Cavan and in County...
    • Food Safety Standards
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations in place for the start-up of a private salting parlour for home cured bacon. [1242/16]
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive and his Department spent on the drug Ritaline and on all psychoactive medication used by children, by generic drug and...
    • Hospitals Funding
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue generated from car parking services in each public hospital here; the purposes for which this money is used; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Accident and Emergency Department Staffing
      669. To ask the Minister for Health his views on Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation members working in emergency departments in hospitals having rejected the proposals put forward by the...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      670. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 22 October 2015, if he will confirm that the planning application has been submitted; and if so, the proposed...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry following a further urgent referral; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      672. To ask the Minister for Health to support a matter (details supplied) regarding a medical card refusal. [1301/16]
    • Hospital Facilities
      673. To ask the Minister for Health following his visit to six hospitals on 4 January 2016, his plans to visit Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1302/16]
    • Accident and Emergency Departments
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will discuss with the Health Service Executive the need to take all necessary action to ensure that the new emergency department at Tallaght Hospital is...
    • Home Care Packages
      675. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the €703.3 million available funding for older persons as outlined in the Health Service Executive's service plan, by the amount...
    • Health Services Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is awaiting occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1332/16]
    • Medical Card Applications
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appeal for a medical card by persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1341/16]
    • Vaccination Programme
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the tuberculosis, BCG, vaccination for new infants; if supplies have been replenished; when will infants begin to receive them; and if he will...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to each local and regional drugs task force in each of the years 2011 to 2015, the projection for 2016 and the combined total from his...
    • Living Wage
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure that employees of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the waiting time for a public patient (details supplied) in County Kerry for an operation in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1390/16]
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of spent on agency staff at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal, in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1403/16]
    • Hospital Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if an overall review of ante-natal and gynaecology services at Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal, has been formally completed; the dates on which this...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for inpatient and day case treatment at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal, per specialty, who have been...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity of all nursing homes, by public, by private, by county, in tabular form; the current vacancy rates with respect to each; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to reduce current waiting times for outpatient appointments at Letterkenny University Hospital, County Donegal; if he is aware that...
    • Hospital Facilities
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the endoscopy unit at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, including when the project will go to tender; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Data
      690. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate why the Health Service Executive is providing conflicting replies in relation to a matter (details supplied). [1423/16]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      691. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding smoking in community health services' facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1428/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      692. To ask the Minister for Health when elective surgeries will take place in Limerick Hospital (details supplied). [1429/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing an additional 130,000 personal assistant hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1442/16]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      696. To ask the Minister for Health why documentary evidence provided from the account of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare is insufficient as proof of lack of income; what will be...
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ongoing review of the mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1455/16]
    • National Children's Hospital
      698. To ask the Minister for Health when a final reply will issue to his interim reply regarding persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1456/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Health when services will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1473/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients under 18 years of age awaiting an operation for scoliosis; the time they have spent on a waiting list; the number of these patients who...
    • Dental Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate the cost of employing an additional 100 dentists, dental nurses and dental hygienists for the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      702. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for a long-awaited procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1513/16]
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      703. To ask the Minister for Health his view on the legalisation of the medicinal use of cannabis and the use of such medical products under prescription from a medical doctor. [1521/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      704. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1524/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      705. To ask the Minister for Health in the event of the relocation of the Lantern Lodge day care centre from New Road in Killarney to Leewood House on the Countess Road in Killarney, County...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the titles physiotherapist and physical therapist are clearly defined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1551/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      707. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1557/16]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of extending free general practitioner care to all children, to every person of 60 years of age and over, and to the entire population. [1565/16]
    • Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed by a service provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1571/16]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of increasing the weekly income limits for the general practitioner visit card by 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. [1572/16]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2014 of the general practitioner visitor cards for persons under 70 years of age. [1573/16]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights Issues
      714. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the medical condition of a person (details supplied); if he has received information from the Egyptian authorities on whether...
    • International Relations
      715. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request the United States of America to cease funding illegal policies against Cuba and that Cuba should be compensated for...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      718. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions,...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      719. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade as a contributor to the European Union Trust Fund for Africa and as member of the strategic board, how he will ensure effective governance...
    • Human Rights Issues
      720. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what he will do to ensure that respect for human rights remains a criterion guiding engagement with the governments which take part in the...
    • Immigration Policy
      721. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that many European Union member states are in favour of applying the more-for-more principle to migration which means that...
    • Passport Applications
      722. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that many single parent families are concerned over the expense incurred in providing an affidavit from a solicitor...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      723. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has including the cost and details. [46729/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      725. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social media....
    • Consular Services Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the deportation from the United Arab Emirates of a person (details supplied) in October of 2014; if this matter has been...
    • Human Rights Issues
      728. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the execution of 47 persons in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 2 January 2016; if he has made representations to the authorities...
    • Living Wage
      730. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his Department to ensure...
    • Consular Services Provision
      731. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if each Irish embassy and honorary consul general office has an emergency out-of-hours telephone number; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Passports Data
      732. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of providing free passports to persons of over 75 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1500/16]
    • Consular Services Provision
      733. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to open a new Irish embassy in New Zealand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1501/16]
    • Official Engagements
      734. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to have a bilateral meeting with the Italian foreign Minister, Mr. Paolo Gentiloni; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Diplomatic Representation Expenditure
      735. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of running all embassies and consulates in the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      736. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost based on current growth forecasts of reaching 0.38%, 0.39%, 0.4%, 0.41%, 0.42%, 0.43%, 0.44%, 0.45%, 0.46%, 0.47%, 0.48%, 0.49% and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when and where an apprenticeship programme for bricklaying will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46477/15]
    • School Accommodation
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if favourable consideration will be given to the request for additional funding to complete a building project (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Properties
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a community council (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46431/15]
    • Teacher Training Provision
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of attendees recorded by the teacher education section at continuing postponed Department seminars for post-primary teachers,...
    • Research and Development Funding
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the research budget she administers and the budgets administered by agencies of her Department; how the spending of these budgets is prioritised;...
    • School Accommodation
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in temporary accommodation; and the number of these that are Gaelscoileanna. [46471/15]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide urgent funding to make safe a school yard (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the extension of a national school (details supplied) in County Galway, if this will be prioritised, when work will commence; and...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the differential in the pupil-teacher ratio between 16-teacher and 17-teacher schools; and her plans to address this. [46497/15]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide information regarding construction works (details supplied) in Dublin 4. [46500/15]
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      747. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for a project (details supplied) in County Cork under the summer works programme will be processed; when a decision will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      748. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on behalf of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry, if the new model for allocating resource teachers to special education needs schools...
    • School Patronage
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop a Steiner school in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46556/15]
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application by a school (details supplied) in County Galway under the summer works scheme; and if she will...
    • State Examinations
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was denied a reader for the leaving certificate examination despite having dyslexia and literacy...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for students in secondary schools who suffer from dyslexia, memory impairments and severe receptive speech issues; and...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the support schemes available to persons who return to education following unemployment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application under the summer works scheme from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; when a decision will be made;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding a teaching degree; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46597/15]
    • Teacher Recruitment
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to support matters (details supplied) regarding the provision of guidance counselling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46632/15]
    • State Examinations
      759. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a reader for the leaving certificate for a person (details supplied) which had been refused; if she will examine...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the persons she has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out-of-pocket expenses, on commissions,...
    • Education Policy
      761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has been refused an exemption from learning Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport Provision
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure that applies to a private bus contractor serving three schools in the midlands who is using a bus in which some of the seat belts...
    • Capitation Grants
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding capitation grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46686/15]
    • School Patronage
      764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Question No. 537 of 15 December 2015, if she will be meeting with organisations that advocate a secular education system such as...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups her Department has, including the cost and details. [46759/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost to her Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers and magazines, and on television, radio and social media....
    • Capitation Grants
      768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of funding for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46794/15]
    • School Transport Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the impact of the changes to the primary school transport scheme on Newcestown Central School (details supplied) in County Cork is fair; if...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation
      770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why qualifications from other countries are not recognised here (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46819/15]
    • Higher Education Institutions Staff
      771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the employment control framework for higher education for the period 2010 to 2014 remains in force; the conditions governing it and how these...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she appreciates the practical difficulties which arise when the number of hours required by pupils for special needs assistant support is...
    • School Enrolments
      775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the allocation of secondary school places and the relationship schools have with their feeder schools, particularly in relation to...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building programme for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; when the school building will be available for occupation; and...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine urgently a submission by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry under the summer works programme given the emergency works...
    • Capitation Grants
      778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding cuts to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46888/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a panel established for special needs assistants where there is no work available for them in a particular school; if they can be...
    • Pension Provisions
      780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of giving added years to a special needs assistant who is to retire on health grounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who has been employed as a special needs assistant with a qualification other than a Further Education and Training Awards Council...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Technological Universities Bill addresses the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pupil capacity for the 2015-16 school year of two special needs schools (details supplied) in County Cork; if she will provide additional...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a decision regarding school transport whereby families of a new amalgamated school (details supplied) in County Cork are not...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to look favourably on an application from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal under the summer works application scheme; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a start date will be announced for the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Galway as legal issues have now been resolved...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the Teaching Council had compelled persons to pay registration fees before the commencement of section 30 of the Teaching...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support a person (details supplied) in County Dublin with a disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46944/15]
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the current system governing the provision of additional teaching hours to children, such as cystic fibrosis sufferers, who...
    • School Accommodation
      793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry for funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1005/16]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a refusal of a Student Universal Support Ireland grant to students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      795. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a Student Universal Support Ireland grant received by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an emergency grant from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if she will sanction this necessary grant;...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Number 573 of 17 December 2015, the cost of reducing the average class size, that is, the number of students...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to ensure that a construction company which has a number of school building contracts (details supplied) will ensure all...
    • Irish Language
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of implementing the recommendation on page 12 of the 20 year strategy on the Irish language 2010-30 on offering partial immersion...
    • State Examinations Reviews
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of implementing the junior cycle reform package to date and the estimated final cost, by item, such as teacher training costs,...
    • School Enrolments
      801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 10 December 2015 regarding the religious criteria for admission to...
    • School Accommodation
      802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give approval to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 for an extension, including two classrooms, a staircase and a special needs...
    • Teacher Fee Refund Scheme
      803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the issue of teachers paying registration fees to the Teaching Council prior to 2014; how a person (details supplied) can obtain a...
    • School Accommodation
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of prefabricated units which are no longer required by a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many new primary school teachers will have to be employed in each of the next five years, from 2016-2017 to 2021-2022, to maintain the 27:1...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional expenditure her Department will need to incur from 2017 to 2022 to deal with demographic pressures, with a breakdown of...
    • School Funding
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding she provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 in 2014 and 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      809. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the tendering process has been completed and contract documents prepared in respect of two schools (details supplied) in...
    • School Accommodation
      810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be prioritised due to the...
    • Legal Costs
      811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason University College Dublin did not submit for taxation the costs it was awarded by the Circuit Court and High Court (details supplied)...
    • Education and Training Provision
      812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which discussions continue to take place regarding the provision of facilities for life-long education, as put forward by Kildare...
    • Education and Training Boards Administration
      813. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which progress continues in the acquisition of payroll and administration facilities for Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      814. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the component of capital investment spent in the past five years and the component to be spent in the next five years on Gaelscoileanna. [1286/16]
    • Schools Building Contractors
      815. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the details of the agreement she has reached with a developer to provide a sports hall for a secondary school (details supplied) in...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will supply further information to Cork County Council to allow for a planning application for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • School Equipment
      817. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the annual spend on Irish medium classroom materials. [1313/16]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      818. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when construction will commence and be completed; and...
    • Languages Programme
      819. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the changes that have been made to eligibility criteria and the allocation model for the language support programme since 2010. [1357/16]
    • Living Wage
      820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the discussions her Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to her Department or to agencies of her Department to...
    • School Transport Availability
      822. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a substantive reply has not issued to this Deputy on a case acknowledged by a Minister of State (details supplied) on 8 September 2015. [1416/16]
    • Schools Data
      824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to supply the opening date of a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1470/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive approval in writing for a two-classroom autism unit. [1478/16]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the qualifications required for teaching home economics at secondary school level; the institutions persons can attend to gain these...
    • Road Safety
      827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her views on special speed limits in the vicinity of schools and primary schools in particular; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      828. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will exempt a charitable organisation (details supplied) from motor tax given the service it is supplying to the...
    • Community Development Projects
      830. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason funding was provided to a community transport service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      831. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline his plans to recoup the €100 water conservation grant from recipients who have not paid the water...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      832. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set down the expenditure from the overseas development aid budget spent on the green climate fund in 2014 and in 2015;...
    • Local Authority Funding
      833. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the categories and amounts of funding his Department provided to Cork City Council in each of the years 2011 to...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      835. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why the number of lots that any given company could apply for in the Telecare tender, either individually or as part of a...
    • Climate Change Policy
      839. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the status of climate change legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46563/15]
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      840. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out, by county, the number of newly-built social housing units completed in 2015; and if he will make a statement...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      844. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 576 of 8 December 2015, if he will clarify a matter on behalf of a person (details...
    • Architectural Qualifications
      845. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to issues (details supplied) in relation to the registration of architects; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Issues
      846. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to support a matter (details supplied) regarding housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46633/15]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      847. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out of pocket expenses,...
    • Planning Issues
      848. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the findings of the preliminary MacCabe Durney Barnes report into the performance of planning functions in respect of six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      850. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      852. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio...
    • Planning Issues
      853. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new national planning framework will be finished and implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      854. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 permits the breeding of dogs for the purpose of experimentation; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      855. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why a two-year exclusion exists for businesses who miss tendering deadlines for local government contracts, if there are...
    • Planning Issues
      856. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the rate of invalidation of planning applications for west Cork being 61%, his views on this and if he accepts...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      858. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the regulations governing local authority mortgages whereby only first-time buyers or builds are...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      859. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail all North-South planning, investment and development that currently exists or is planned for regarding water and...
    • Foreshore Issues
      860. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when legal advice was sought initially on how to best deal with the foreshore issues arising at an area (details supplied)...
    • Planning Issues
      861. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the 2011 consultation document on spatial strategies on the island of Ireland being prepared by his Department and the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      862. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of households on local authority housing lists in receipt of rent supplement, by local authority area. [1055/16]
    • House Prices
      863. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the report (details supplied) indicating an 8.5% increase in house prices in 2015 and the measures he will...
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      864. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the €5 million emergency funding being disbursed by Red Cross has been recouped. [1105/16]
    • Planning Issues
      865. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has any concerns about the proposed construction of the northern distributor road in the Clare County Council...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      866. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of private cars paying motor tax in 2015 by year of registration, for cars registered in the years 1995 to...
    • Building Regulations
      868. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the establishment of an expert technical group to investigate the problems that have emerged in the concrete...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      869. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money he has allocated under the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme in each of the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      875. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of funding for Kerry County Council following recent storm damage (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing
      876. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he continues to liaise with the local authorities with a view to monitoring the full extent of the...
    • Planning Issues
      877. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his reply to a Topical Issue debate on 11 November 2015, the extent to which the arbitration process has...
    • Derelict Sites
      878. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which derelict or semi-derelict gaps in the streetscape of cities, towns and villages remain a concern, with...
    • Local Authority Housing
      879. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he expects housing accommodation to become available to the local authorities through National Asset...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      880. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 15 January 2015, when he will give favourable consideration to approval and...
    • Rural Development Programme
      881. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications his Department received under the rural development programme in 2015; the number of these...
    • Living Wage
      882. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or to agencies of his...
    • Local Authority Funding
      883. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding he provided directly to Donegal County Council in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      884. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has plans for the construction of social houses in the Lanesboro area of County Longford. [1461/16]
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      885. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why an application (details supplied) under the dormant accounts scheme was refused; when will the scheme be re-opened;...
    • Local Authority Functions
      886. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of statutory responsibility each local authority has for removing fallen leaves and ensuring that footpaths and...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      887. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of flooding issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46432/15]
    • Energy Resources
      888. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of future oil-refining requirements here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46709/15]
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      890. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out of pocket expenses,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      891. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      893. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television, radio and...
    • Inland Fisheries
      894. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to issues outlined in a communication received from a group (details supplied) in County Louth; and if...
    • Post Office Network
      895. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the report by Mr. Bobby Kerr into the future of the post office structure will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme Data
      896. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the Warmer Homes Scheme administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland which provides for the...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      897. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of providing broadband to all persons who is still waiting for basic broadband in their area further to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the provision of efibre broadband to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Implementation
      900. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the changes envisaged in the Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff in 2016 in order to meet the targets contained in the...
    • Living Wage
      901. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to hisDepartment or to agencies of his...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      902. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the roll-out of rural Broadband (details supplied) in West County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      903. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the incentives available to promote solar energy, and how he will encourage greater participation by companies and...
    • Strategy for Renewable Energy
      904. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to recruit specialists and technical experts to implement the targets set in the White Paper on Ireland's...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      905. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate a specific funding given the successful improvement works carried out in rural areas in the past for Local...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      906. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the law in relation to persons driving with no insurance as the current average fines are well below the average...
    • Road Projects
      907. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the proposed construction of the Northern Distributor Road in the Clare County Council Development Plan, given the extensive...
    • Tourism Industry
      908. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent on the Ireland's Ancient East initiative and the consultation with historians and historical organisations in...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      909. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action he will take to ensure equality of allocation of funding towards the repair of roads in Lower Ormond in North County...
    • Local Authority Funding
      910. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the categories and amounts of funding his Department provided to Cork City Council in each of the years 2011 to date; and if he will make...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      912. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following the recent Government announcement of an additional investment of €29 million in buses and services for 2016, if he will...
    • Coras Iompair Éireann
      913. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of school bus drivers being unable to avail of equal access to the Córas Iompair Éireann pension scheme despite an...
    • Road Projects
      914. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will revert to this Deputy on a matter (details supplied) regarding the proposed works for the M20; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      916. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans for more investment in indoor sports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46606/15]
    • National Transport Authority
      917. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assist with a report (details supplied) commissioned by the National Transport Authority. [46615/15]
    • Public Transport
      918. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to ensure that signalling systems along the Dublin Area Rapid Transit line are modernised in-line with any increases in frequency as per...
    • Sports Organisations
      919. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Sports Campus Development Authority/Sport Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      920. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of the persons he has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out of pocket expenses, on commissions,...
    • Road Projects
      921. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding for the maintenance and upkeep of Local Improvement Scheme roads subsequent to major restoration under the grant...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      922. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to parliamentary Question No. 626 of 24 February 2015, if Dublin City Council has submitted a regulatory impact assessment on the...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      923. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to erect speed limits at an early date on the N72 road at approaches to Beaufort...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      924. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups his Department has, including the cost and details. [46732/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      926. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual cost to his Department of advertisements placed on its behalf in newspapers, magazines, television and radio and social media....
    • Environmental Regulations
      927. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why he did not release documents under the access to information on the environment regulations to a named person (details supplied) in...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      928. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of correspondence (details supplied) in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 622 of 1 December 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      929. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the Santry River greenway project has not been included in the National Transport Agency's 2016 works programme; if...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Expenditure
      930. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of capital spending on transport infrastructure, by county, in each of the years 2010 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • National Car Test
      931. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a review of the national car test policy for vintage cars and trucks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1095/16]
    • Taxi Regulations
      932. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 611 of 29 September 2015, if he will change the nine-year rule for cars and increase the period of...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      933. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of adapting the entire Bus Éireann fleet to being fully wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      934. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of access for residents in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1221/16]
    • Road Tolls
      935. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual average daily traffic count for each of the 12 toll road points, including the percentage that is heavy goods vehicle traffic,...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      936. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of negotiations between his Department, Kildare County Council, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the local...
    • Road Projects Status
      937. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if testing will be carried out on the N22 Killarney to Cork road to find a way to reduce the noise level affecting residents in an area...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Status
      938. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish a programme of funding for swimming pools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1295/16]
    • Rail Services
      939. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will respond to a query (details supplied) regarding changes to the train timetable and their effect on Mullingar commuters. [1298/16]
    • Road Toll Operators
      940. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in annual subsidies and other payments to the company responsible for the new N7 motorway in County Laois in each of the...
    • Driver Licences
      941. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1346/16]
    • Living Wage
      942. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions his Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to his Department or agencies of his Department to ensure...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      943. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average cost per square metre incurred by each local authority outside of Dublin for road resurfacing of regional roads in each of...
    • Road Safety
      944. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or Transport Infrastructure Ireland intend to engage with the Irish Deer Management Forum to ensure safety measures including...
    • Rail Services
      945. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Iarnród Éireann to increase the number of carriages on the 5 p.m. service from Greystones in County Wicklow...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff
      946. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of jobs (details supplied) in the National Parks and Wildlife Service in Killarney, County Kerry (details supplied); and...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      947. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Údarás na Gaeltachta-supported jobs, by county, at 1 January 2015 and at 31 December 2015, in tabular form;...
    • Invasive Plant Species
      948. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to eradicate or control Japanese knotweed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1343/16]
    • Departmental Funding
      949. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reconsider favourably a request for funding by the Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen, County Monaghan to help defray...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding
      950. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided by her Department or agencies of her Department to Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc in County Donegal; and if she...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      951. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of the persons she has nominated to serve in positions carrying remuneration, other than out of pocket expenses, on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      952. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of annual subscriptions to external membership bodies and groups her Department has, including the cost and details....
    • Heritage Sites
      955. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide funding to help with the cost of preserving the 7th century ruins of Saint Feichin’s Church and Holy Well...
    • Comóradh 1916
      956. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the €28.8 million capital budget under the Decade of Centenaries Programme will be spent in 2016, in tabular form. [46878/15]
    • Wildlife Protection
      957. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the concerns raised by Bird Watch Ireland regarding her decision on 23 December 2015 to allow greater flexibility...
    • Genealogical Services
      960. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what records are available to historians in relation to births, deaths and marriages over the last century in County Cork; and if she...
    • Living Wage
      962. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the discussions her Department has had with suppliers or service contractors to her Department or to agencies of her Department to...

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