Written answers

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Water Services
      35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the disparity whereby households are responsible and bear the full financial costs for the unblocking and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to allocate additional moneys to local authorities to allow for the re-introduction of a housing aid for the elderly scheme...
    • Housing Issues
      38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he will identify the most urgent and pressing issues contributing to the housing crisis; how, through the local...
    • Planning Issues
      39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will follow good planning practices to ensure the provision of good quality housing alongside adequate services and...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has liaised with the housing agencies responsible for the implementation of the pyrite remediation process regarding...
    • Local Authority Housing
      41. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to immediately provide resources for local authorities to allow them to put emergency tenancy action teams in place that...
    • Pyrite Issues
      42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the analysis his Department has conducted on the number of properties with pyrite which do not reach a damage condition...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to report to Dáil Éireann on the meetings he has had with the chief executives and housing managers of local...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      44. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to expand the tenant purchase scheme to other buyers, given that it is restricted to local authority tenants with an income...
    • Water Services
      45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the river basin management plan, including if he will amend it to reflect the fact that the majority of those...
    • Local Government Reform
      46. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to review local government with a view to re-establishing town councils in some towns; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Land Issues
      47. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss enacting compulsory purchase orders to recover property from investment funds which may be land-banking sites...
    • Irish Water Data
      49. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to request Irish Water to publicise its payment figures for water charges for the past two billing periods. [11570/16]
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      50. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to discuss immediately transferring land from the National Asset Management Agency to local authorities to increase the...
    • Transport Policy
      51. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the adoption of the transport strategy for the greater Dublin area national 2016 to 2035 in April 2016 and...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      52. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why responsibility for delivering 80% of social housing, as outlined in Social Housing Strategy 2020, is being handed over...
    • Waste Disposal
      53. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to immediately revise the statutory instrument that introduced payment for green bin charges and ensure that, in the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      54. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to direct local authorities to accept social housing applications from victims of domestic violence who have fled their...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      55. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his progress in ending involuntary long-term homelessness by the end of 2016, as committed to in the Government's February...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      56. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to fully review the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme including the criteria for inclusion under it. [11180/16]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      57. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department has taken to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius, as agreed at the 2015 United Nations...
    • Building Regulations
      58. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the additional regulatory costs of construction that have been imposed since the introduction of the new...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Properties
      59. To ask the Taoiseach the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11427/16]
    • Programme for Government
      60. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the new Department configurations proposed in the programme for Government. [11439/16]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      61. To ask the Taoiseach to bring all environmental functions including nature, wildlife, water protection, waste and pollution control together under one Department of the environment, climate...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Traveller Projects Funding
      64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of increasing funding for Traveller initiatives for 2017 in tabular form. [11512/16]
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding and resources she will ring-fence in budget 2017 to ensure the full implementation of the Istanbul Convention, the second national...
    • Legal Aid Applications Data
      66. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for civil legal aid received, approved, pending and refused in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if she will...
    • HGV Management Strategy
      68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the heavy goods vehicle permit system for Dublin city, including the number of permits issued in 2014 to 2016 to date; and if she...
    • Garda Stations
      70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda Síochána stations she will re-open as per the programme for Government; if Rush Garda Síochána station will be among...
    • Family Reunification
      71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that persons who have residency rights, but who have family members who would qualify for refugee status, are precluded from...
    • Insurance Industry
      72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the actions of insurers since the passing of the spent convictions legislation; if it will continue to be acceptable for...
    • Citizenship Status
      73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to update the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 to allow for members of the Irish diaspora to apply for citizenship as in the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      74. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 14 April 2016, if and when she will issue a birth affidavit to a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Garda Operations
      75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that all ranks in An Garda Síochána are diligent in taking proper units, and that unit sergeants regularly monitor...
    • Visa Applications
      76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11408/16]
    • Departmental Properties
      77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of her Department. [11424/16]
    • Legislative Programme
      78. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to draft and implement hate-crime legislation, given the recent recommendations contained in Ireland's United Nations' universal...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by person (details supplied) for naturalisation status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11451/16]
    • Legislative Measures
      80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will bring the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11497/16]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for naturalisation status; if all required documentation has been submitted; when she...
    • Garda Reserve
      83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when further training will commence for applicants to An Garda Síochána Reserve [11606/16]
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify the requirement of Garda Síochána vetting for community responders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11625/16]
    • Direct Provision System
      85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her response to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 17 May 2016, the status of the 173 recommendations including if they have been...
    • Garda Stations
      86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to request the Garda Commissioner to re-open Cloughjordan Garda Síochána station in County Tipperary, on a 24-hour, seven-day basis, as...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to investigate and expedite a Garda Síochána clearance query (details supplied). [11699/16]
    • Garda Deployment
      88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the deployment of members of An Garda Síochána by region, division and district; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11770/16]
    • Garda Training
      89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been trained to conduct specialist child interviews as part of the joint protocol...
    • Garda Transport Data
      90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the Garda Síochána vehicle fleet including manufacturer, model and current distribution of vehicles by district and...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile offenders, the programmes under her remit to combat juvenile crime and the number of Garda Síochána juvenile...
    • Garda Deployment
      92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who were transferred to a new division in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; the extent...
    • Garda Remuneration
      93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of restoring all previous allowances to members of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Finance
    • Rural Transport Programme
      95. To ask the Minister for Finance for the purpose of promoting rural public transport, to introduce tax incentives and legislate for the provision of a 100% capital tax allowance for the...
    • Stamp Duty
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance to request the Revenue Commissioners to release stamp duty records (details supplied) from 1999 onwards, which are already compiled but unreleased, in...
    • Credit Union Data
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the nature and extent of the tax expenditures in favour of credit unions which his Department's tax strategy group recommended be continued in March 2011...
    • Tax Yield
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of excise duty and value added tax collected from the sale of petrol and diesel in 2015 excluding agriculture. [11200/16]
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if families in County Donegal with homes affected by mica defective blocks are exempt from paying the property tax as indicated by the previous Government;...
    • State Banking Sector
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify the commitment in the programme for Government not to sell more than 25% of any bank before the end of 2018 plus any small additional shareholding...
    • Private Bus Operators
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to private bus operators (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11336/16]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance to extend the qualifying rules for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme to accommodate people who suffer severe stroke for a period of up to...
    • Tax Exemptions
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners provide an exemption to persons letting land for farming purposes when they have leased long-term for the planting of Christmas...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the advisory opinions sought from the European Central Bank because domestic legislation affected the workings of the Central Bank; the length of time from...
    • Tax Code
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to reduce the tax burden on so-called accidental landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11442/16]
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance to introduce legislation to direct Ireland's strategic investment fund to invest only in carbon neutral and carbon negative energy funds and to ban its future...
    • Tax Code
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of agricultural relief, business relief, favoured nephew status and dwelling house relief against capital acquisitions tax, and the number of claims...
    • VAT Rate Application
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance to change the value added tax status on bus transport operators to a zero rate rather than an exempt status to enable them to reclaim value added tax...
    • VAT Rebates
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a refund of value added tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11581/16]
    • Banking Sector
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his statement in Dáil Éireann during Private Members' Time on 17 May 2016 that Irish bank shares went down by 10% across the line on the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 17 May 2016 and his reference to Government investment in gross fixed capital formation, GFCF, if he can average...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of homes that the National Asset Management Agency owns in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11660/16]
    • Tax Code
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of agricultural land used or leased out for the production of renewable energies in respect of capital acquisition tax in the future; and if he...
    • Tax Credits
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance why the incapacitated child tax allowance is not automatically awarded to eligible taxpayers; if there is a provision for backdating this allowance; and if he...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a payment to the Revenue Commissioners by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11702/16]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance if, and why no, criminal prosecution may be brought if the administrative sanctions procedure under Part IIIC of the 1942 Central Bank Act leads to the...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the cycle to work scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11779/16]
    • GDP-GNP Levels
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the gross fixed capital formation for investment in aircraft for leasing and intangibles; for core investment excluding investment in aircraft for leasing and...
    • NAMA Operations
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect on the fiscal space of a windfall gain following the wind-up of the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of lands suitable for development that are under the control of the National Asset Management Agency including map format but excluding completed...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Broadband Service Provision
      125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand the provision of high-quality broadband to all primary schools, as is currently the case for secondary schools. [11340/16]
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Allowances
      126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of re-instating the SOLAS training allowance for 2017 in tabular form. [11504/16]
    • Scoileanna Gaeltachta
      127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le scoil nua atá beartaithe do Ghaelscoil na gCeithre Máistrí, Baile Dhún...
    • School Funding
      128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has approved an application for a grant from a school (details supplied); if he will issue formal notification; if not, the reason for the...
    • School Accommodation
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will issue a decision on an application for additional accommodation by a primary school in west County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • School Guidance Counsellors
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the report on the findings of the 2015-2016 national audit of guidance counselling practice in second level schools and colleges of...
    • School Transport Administration
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific or verification-based monitoring he has in place to ensure that State aid or payments to Bus Éireann for school transport are...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accept an appeal by a person (details supplied) who never received a notice of determination from Student Universal Support Ireland;...
    • Visiting Teacher Service
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review into the visiting teacher service, including when he will publish it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Institutes of Technology
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of institutes of technology which are running a deficit in tabular form. [11227/16]
    • Institutes of Technology Expenditure
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of its budget that Waterford Institute of Technology spends on salaries. [11228/16]
    • School Accommodation
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the technical examination his Department carried out on the site of a school (details supplied) showed that the best option to facilitate the...
    • Education Funding
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the planned course of action in relation to the Cassells report on higher education funding, which was presented to his Department...
    • School Guidance Counsellors
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent findings of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, particularly the finding that since the 2011-2012 school year, in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in mainstream education who have Down's syndrome; if he is aware of the implications for future resource provision and...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a special needs assistant. [11259/16]
    • Technological Universities
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reintroduce the Technological Universities Bill; the number of technological universities that will be created as a result of this...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of two schools (details supplied) which wish to amalgamate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11291/16]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) which is awaiting a grant for an extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11297/16]
    • Foirne Scoile
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé sásta faomhadh a thabhairt láithreach do scoil chun cúntóir riachtanas speisialta a fhostú...
    • School Funding
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to sanction the ancillary funding a school (details supplied) has requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11334/16]
    • School Guidance Counsellors
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of guidance counsellors employed in secondary schools in each of the years 2012 to 2016 to date; when he will reverse the cuts...
    • School Staff
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the request made by a school (details supplied) to appoint an additional teacher in September 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of the replacement new school buildings for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Institutes of Technology
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the staff retention levels in Waterford Institute of Technology; his plans and timescale for completing the engineering block on its grounds; and...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why his Department declined an application by a school (details supplied) for a pathways to literacy course; if he is aware that this school has...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider an application by a school (details supplied) to upgrade out-of-date science laboratories; if he will fund it under the summer works...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 17 June 2015, if he has made a decision on a matter; if not, when he will; and if he will make a...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to approve an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/16]
    • Summer Works Scheme Data
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department provided funding for playgrounds under the recently announced summer works scheme; if not, if he will provide funding for this...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 23 September 2015, the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Properties
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11418/16]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of grant assistance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11446/16]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end pay discrimination against newly qualified teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11448/16]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite and grant an application by a school (details supplied) for funding for an additional classroom as a matter of urgency, given that...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will carry out maintenance works on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11476/16]
    • School Staff
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the appeal of a decision by a school (details supplied) regarding an extra teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Physical Education Facilities
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to support and expedite the provision of a physical education hall in a school (details supplied). [11487/16]
    • National Council for Special Education
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs to date associated with the various reports the National Council of Special Education has published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ombudsman's Remit
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential remit of an ombudsman for education, as committed to under the programme for Government; when he will establish this office; if its...
    • Teachers' Professional Development
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of mandatory continuous professional development required for teachers in relation to the education of children with special...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours of resource teaching or special needs assistant supports requested by schools, but not granted, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Third Level Data
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level graduates with level 8, level 9 and level 10 qualifications who are currently unemployed in tabular form; the number of...
    • Education Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to invest in single sex schools or if his future emphasis is on co-educational schools; the statistics he uses to forecast the need for...
    • Ministerial Priorities
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his priority legislation for the coming year, as outlined to the Chief Whip in response to her recent correspondence; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has begun work on his Department's new three-year strategy; when he will announce it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11624/16]
    • Pension Provisions
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired staff from his Department who are deemed to be overpaid due to the payment of a supplementary pension in the past five...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a school (details supplied); for the development of the building which is no longer fit for purpose, and for staffing from 2017...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will inform a school (details supplied) of a location, given that it is outgrowing its current location; and if he will make a statement...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plan of action for training for apprenticeships for trades, given the urgent need for certain skills and to build houses in the next number...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allocate a special needs assistant to a person (details supplied). [11669/16]
    • Energy Efficiency
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider installing solar panels in schools as a form of energy for heating and water and as a potential cost saving; and if he will make a...
    • State Examinations
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has declined a reader to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11706/16]
    • Education and Training Boards
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to revert to this Deputy on a matter regarding a secondary school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11716/16]
    • Third Level Institutions
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a staff member at the National University of Ireland, Galway has sought protection under the whistleblower legislation after...
    • School Transport Availability
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a school bus service is not available for a school (details supplied) with delivering equality of opportunity in schools status, given that...
    • School Placement
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sufficient school places are available to accommodate all the students who are to start junior infants in Greystones in September 2016; the...
    • School Funding
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to issue the final letter of terms and conditions to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to facilitate getting the works under way....
    • School Transport
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a parliamentary reply in which the Bus Éireann auditors stated "the statement of account has been prepared, in all material...
    • State Examinations
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he is ensuring that students sitting State examinations are treated in a fair and equitable manner with regard to reasonable accommodations;...
    • Schools Provision
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review the data on demographics in south County Kildare on the requirement for an additional secondary level school there; and if he will make...
    • School Curriculum
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation education in the junior certificate curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/16]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his role in ensuring an adequate supply of social housing is available to approved social housing applicants; and if he...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he can assist landlords involved in the rental accommodation scheme (details supplied) who are having difficulties in...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated to spend on Traveller accommodation in 2016. [12026/16]
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where he will locate the sections currently located in the environment section of the Department of the Environment,...
    • Local Authority Housing
      210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has assessed the effect on subsequent local authority housing output of the disposal by the State of the...
    • Planning Issues
      211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reverse the decision of his predecessor to reduce minimum apartment sizes; if smaller apartments are especially...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rate per kilogram that will be charged for the black bin, the green bin and the brown bin, given the new pay-by-weight...
    • Pyrite Issues
      215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied), which is investigating problems in...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
      220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the criteria for the mortgage-to-rent scheme, given that applicants are being rejected based on family...
    • Planning Issues
      221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the mechanism in place to ensure that the Dublin Airport Authority abides by all the conditions laid out by An Bord...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release funds for phase 2 insulation in Ballymun, Larkhill and Whitehall in County Dublin. [11299/16]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of planning applications and of units included in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 that have been delayed due...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time the procurement and tendering process took for each of the social housing projects included in Social...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to alter the structure of the delivery of the Leader programme and the local partnership arrangements and to...
    • Water Quality
      226. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to address a matter regarding water quality testing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Library Projects
      227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to sanction a new building for a library with regard to the Sligo County library headquarters in Sligo town, due to the...
    • Departmental Properties
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11419/16]
    • Housing Finance Agency
      229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why funds are lent to Dublin City Council from the Housing Finance Agency for home loans but not for the building of...
    • Local Authority Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will work with Dublin City Council to build a small-scale shopping centre, given the difficulties in finding a...
    • Waste Management
      231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria for the proposed pay-by-weight charges including if he will provide concessions for families who generate...
    • Departmental Funding
      233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for disability grants, mobility grants and adaptation grants, and the amount drawn...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Data
      236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported under the housing...
    • Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme
      237. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for long-term leasing accommodation, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies...
    • Departmental Funding
      238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for accommodation provided by approved housing bodies, the amount drawn down and the...
    • Animal Welfare
      241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to request Cavan County Council to release its inspection reports of a so-called 'puppy farm' in County Cavan, recently...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants available through the local social inclusion project to support arts and disability projects that are...
    • Local Government Reform Expenditure
      243. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform local government and plans for funding extra services; his approach to the high level of commercial...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if residents of Part V housing are allowed under legislation to purchase their houses under a housing purchase scheme from...
    • Land Reclassification
      245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Cabinet will make a decision on the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend in Dublin 2; if the project will proceed...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to reintroduce the financial contribution scheme for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11673/16]
    • Departmental Funding
      247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funds provided to Galway City Council and Galway County Council for the construction and purchase of social housing;...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person's (details supplied) rent contribution has been increased by almost half when the person's means has...
    • Commercial Rates
      249. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the reduction in revenue from commercial rates for Limerick City and County Council, Waterford City and...
    • Local Authority Funding
      250. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will make a decision on a submission for funding for an extension for local authority housing by Galway City...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a tenant (details supplied) of Sligo County Council on the recommendation of the occupational therapy...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the take-over of group water schemes by Irish Water and given that his Department has apparently been...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      254. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if approved housing bodies have an obligation to register their tenancies with the Private Residential Tenancies Board;...
    • Planning Issues
      255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that rural dwellers have a reasonable opportunity of providing a home in their own environment through...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments Data
      256. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his progress in completing unfinished housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11859/16]
    • Housing Provision
      257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has identified serviced or serviceable and zoned or unzoned lands adjacent to towns and villages in local authority...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he can accelerate access to available or potentially available housing units for families in emergency accommodation;...
    • Shared Ownership Scheme
      260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the operation of shared ownership housing schemes which, as currently constructed, cause severe hardship...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      262. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if adequate funding is available for housing adaptation grants, particularly for those local authorities facing the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      264. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has examined the number of group water schemes in place or pending in all areas with a view to...
    • Planning Issues
      265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress achieved in resolving outstanding issues of planning compliance or otherwise determining outstanding matters...
    • Air Quality
      266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he monitors and identifies air pollutants; if they are increasing; the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      267. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the average of cost of one, two, three, and four bed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      268. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 35,000 social housing units outlined in the social housing strategy 2020 by tenancy type, including...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
      269. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if jobseeker's benefit is an eligible payment under the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11177/16]
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused permission to accept a position within a community employment scheme while participating in...
    • Redundancy Payments
      271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 28 January 2016, to review the decision announced in budget 2013 to abolish the redundancy rebate, given...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how his Department assessed the means of persons (details supplied); and if he will review this case. [11204/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department declined an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; if the will review the case;...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if students availing of the back to education allowance are permitted to work during the summer period when not in college; if, by doing so, they...
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a review for a person (details supplied) under the family income supplement scheme, including if he will consider the clarification in...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent allowance is not allowed for victims of domestic violence who have had to leave their private home because of a crime on their...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not in receipt of any social protection payment and as a result does not receive a medical card. [11304/16]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will make a decision in respect of a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance scheme. [11306/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a half-rate payment to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme. [11310/16]
    • State Pensions Payments
      280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to clarify that there were 53 weekly payments of the State (contributory) pension for the tax year 2015 and not 52 as previously indicated by his...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme, given that the person originally applied for a payment...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is considering measures to provide financial assistance to applicants for social welfare payments who are currently required to provide a...
    • State Pensions
      286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider lowering the starting age for the State pension to 65 years of age to bring it in line with the general age of retirement; if...
    • National Internship Scheme
      288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish the JobBridge scheme and replace it with targeted programmes aimed at specific groups, as advocated for by groups such as Impact;...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will allow casual workers to receive their social welfare payments at a post office, following changes to the way payments will be made; and...
    • Community Services Programme
      290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to link allocation amounts paid to community groups through the community services programme to the minimum wage rate in order to subvent...
    • Social Welfare Code
      291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the family income supplement scheme by 10% for 2017 in tabular form. [11498/16]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Data
      294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of raising the allowance cut-off under the one-parent family scheme to 12 years of age for the child and of increasing the earnings...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the EmployAbility services to support an extra 1,000 persons in tabular form. [11502/16]
    • Back to Education Allowance Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the back to education allowance scheme for persons under 26 years of age to €188 per month for 2017 in tabular form....
    • Fuel Allowance Data
      297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the fuel allowance by three weeks for 2017 in tabular form. [11505/16]
    • Disability Support Services
      299. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the spend in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date under the reasonable accommodation fund scheme in tabular form. [11507/16]
    • Disability Activation Projects
      301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of securing and replicating the WALK PEER programme for 2017 in tabular form. [11509/16]
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      302. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the farm assist scheme for 2017 in tabular form. [11510/16]
    • Rural Social Scheme
      303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of providing an additional 500 places for 2017 under the rural social scheme in tabular form. [11511/16]
    • Disability Allowance
      304. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing funding under the national disability allowance scheme for 2017 in tabular form. [11513/16]
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the supplementary welfare allowance scheme for persons under 26 years of age in 2017 in tabular form. [11516/16]
    • State Pensions
      308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the pension band rates to pre-September 2012 rates in 2017 in tabular form. [11517/16]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      311. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will make a decision on an application submitted in September 2015 under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Family Income Supplement
      312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in a full year of making the family income supplement payable with the jobseekers transitional payment to eligible persons; and if he will...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in a full year of increasing the earnings disregard under the one-parent family payment scheme to €146.50 per week; and if he will...
    • Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
      314. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in a full year of increasing the earnings disregard under the jobseekers transitional payment scheme to €146.50 per week; and if he...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in a full year of paying the one-parent family payment until the youngest child in a family reaches 14 years of age; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of making jobseeker's transitional payment and the Student Universal Support Ireland maintenance grant payable to eligible lone parents who...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of making the Student Universal Support Ireland maintenance grant payable with the back to education allowance for lone parents; and if he...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11627/16]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11688/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme. [11691/16]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme. [11704/16]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to permit older persons who accommodate immediate family members who would otherwise be homeless to retain the household benefits package given the...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      325. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to back pay for a certain period under the illness benefit scheme; why this person's payment was recently...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme; when he will make a decision on it; and if...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      327. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to examine the adequacy of social protection rates, given that the deprivation rate for those who are unemployed is 53.4% while the consistent...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when he will consolidate all means-testing under a single national body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11755/16]
    • JobPath Participants
      331. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to assure those in receipt of a payment under the jobseeker's allowance scheme or any other payment who are eligible for supported...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      332. To ask the Minister for Social Protection how he is alleviating the difficulties facing persons in west County Wicklow accessing his Department's services, officials and payments since the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the legislation he will introduce in this term of Dáil Éireann. [11822/16]
    • Departmental Reports
      335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reports his Department has commissioned at present; the stage they are at; and when he will complete and publish them. [11823/16]
    • Public Services Card
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his progress in completing the roll-out of the social security card. [11824/16]
    • National Internship Scheme Eligibility
      337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the position of first whipper in of an association (details supplied) is suitable as an internship for JobBridge. [11825/16]
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress of the JobsPlus scheme since its initiation. [11827/16]
    • JobPath Implementation
      340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that the contract to outsource jobseeker's to private JobPath contractors is causing problems for local employment services and to...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the waiting time for processing applications by social protection payment. [11829/16]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe for social protection appeals to date in 2016 in comparison with each of the years 2011 to 2015. [11830/16]
    • Departmental Staff
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has addressed the issue of medical assessors for social protection applications or appeals; and, if not, the reason. [11831/16]
    • Family Income Supplement Applications
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the family income supplement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a backdated payment to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and to issue the payment...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) who was in receipt of disability allowance cannot access any other form of payment or a medical card and if the...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will complete the review of an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of granting Irish passports to persons born to parents from outside the European Economic Area after 2005, 2007 and 2011; and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11421/16]
    • Passport Applications
      351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting times for issuing renewals and new applications for passports; how he is ensuring they are kept within the published guidelines;...
    • Human Rights Issues
      352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) being held in an orphanage in south-east Turkey, far from the person's remaining...
    • Passport Applications
      353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in passport applications on the grounds that applicants have not submitted a public services card, although they...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      354. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland's development assistance committee's contributions to official development assistance for the years 2011 to 2016 to...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      355. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the efforts of the European Union in influencing a peaceful outcome in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if new arrangements have been made for the undocumented Irish following meetings with the US President, Mr. Barack Obama, and US Vice...
    • Human Rights Issues
      357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is doing enough to combat the refugee crisis in Syria and although Irish Aid has distributed humanitarian aid if more vocal and...
    • Northern Ireland
      358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had discussions on the outstanding issues in Maghaberry Prison in County Antrim and the implementation of the report; and if he...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 17 May 2016 the impact of the €4 billion cumulative capital spend in the gross and...
    • Pension Provisions
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the interdepartmental group that was to be established to examine the position of persons who are forced to retire at 65...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the issues surrounding pensions for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/16]
    • Public Sector Pay
      362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 to 2013 that are to be unwound or are in the process...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the successive rulings by the Information Commissioner against the Arts Council with regard to records concerning the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of each measure in each commitment relevant to his Department in the programme for Government and how he will finance these,...
    • Departmental Properties
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11425/16]
    • Public Sector Pay
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of additional unpaid hours which have been provided by civil and public servants under all public sector collective...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to stop rolling one-year contracts in the public sector whereby employees do not receive the same benefits as their...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood relief works which have been carried out on the River Clare in County Galway as part of the Clare river (Claregalway) drainage...
    • Flood Risk Management
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to revert to this Deputy on a matter regarding planned works on a river (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to revert to this Deputy on a matter regarding flood relief works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pay
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will end the pay inequality to which teachers who qualified after 2011 have been subject for the past five years; when he will...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on his meetings with the national co-ordination group for response to flooding and with those agencies responsible for the...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Architectural Heritage
      379. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if legislation exists that prevents listed and protected structures in local authorities' development plans from being protected by...
    • Departmental Functions
      380. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will merge the natural heritage and the national parks and wildlife sections from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the...
    • Forbairt na Gaeilge
      382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil iarratas faighte aici ar dheontas le forbairt a dhéanamh ar chultúrlann Ghaeilge i dTamhlacht; cén uair a...
    • Departmental Properties
      383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of her Department. [11414/16]
    • Fisheries Protection
      384. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how and when he will eradicate the ongoing infestation of Asian clam along the hot water stretch of the River Shannon (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      385. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide the employment details and social insurance record of a person (details supplied) to the state pension (contributory)...
  • Department of Health
    • Disabilities Assessments
      386. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the clinical assessment of a person (details supplied) given that the person's age and the current waiting time will mean the person will be too...
    • HSE Expenditure
      387. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the findings of the Committee on Public Accounts which were forwarded to him in respect of the HSE not discharging an artist ration award to...
    • Medical Card Expenditure
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reintroducing the medical card for persons over 70 years of age to pre-2013 levels. [11590/16]
    • State Claims Agency
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases and the average value of these cases in the past year where the State Claims Agency settled relating to healthcare associated infection,...
    • Legislative Measures
      390. To ask the Minister for Health when he will commence sections 20 to 23, inclusive, of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11852/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11171/16]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11174/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      393. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions on behalf of persons (details supplied), given that they have ceased dealing with the HSE due to the continuing lack of...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      394. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure three vacant posts created to support the implementation of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care initiative in the Dublin West and County Kildare area...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the status of persons on waiting lists for operations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11203/16]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      397. To ask the Minister for Health why the new position in the laboratory of Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, County Meath, which was advertised and interviewed for, was not filled; and the status...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if the full range of psychiatric supports are being made available to a person (details supplied). [11206/16]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      399. To ask the Minister for Health when a sanctioned health care professional (details supplied) will commence a posting in Dublin North West. [11213/16]
    • Patient Transport Expenditure
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the contractors who provide transport services for persons on dialysis; the rate per kilometre paid in respect of each contractor, by county, in...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the basic pay scales for non-paramedic personnel who drive and provide transport services for patients in HSE vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Patient Transport Expenditure
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts awarded for the transfer of patients for dialysis, the amounts agreed per kilometre, and the amounts paid to the previous holders of the...
    • Hospital Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when he will conclude the report and publish the recommendations on the future provision of services at Portlaoise Hospital in County Laois [11233/16]
    • Home Help Service Data
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a package under the home help scheme by local health office area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      407. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is unable to receive the required treatment due to no funding being available from the Health Service Executive. [11239/16]
    • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
      408. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, he will grant clinical indemnity to the North West Neurological Institute which aims, in parallel with the Health Service Executive, to augment...
    • Drug Refund Scheme
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the difference in the amount of refund received by a person (details supplied) for the same drugs each month under the drug refund scheme; and...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      410. To ask the Minister for Health to provide additional funding for public service agreement hours (details supplied); if he is aware of the continued concern and distress of parents who have...
    • HSE Contracts
      413. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive last reviewed the contract for transporting patients on dialysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11256/16]
    • Disease Incidence
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if he is peer-reviewing the recent report on a suspected cluster of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the Duleek area of County Meath and if he must report it to...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      415. To ask the Minister for Health to amend the prescription charges for medical card holders and impose a maximum amount for the payment of these charges so that charges which exceed this...
    • Parking Charges
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of car parking charges at primary care centres including if they are an unacceptable burden to patients, particularly for persons with medical...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      417. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from the ear, nose and throat department in Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal; and...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      421. To ask the Minister for Health to review the procedure whereby prescriptions for Warfarin tablets are charged for separately, that is €2.50 each for brown, blue and pink tablets; if a...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      422. To ask the Minister for Health when the interdepartmental group reviewing the fair deal scheme will report; its progress to date; and if he has consulted or if he will meet with the Irish...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a hearing aid by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11290/16]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      424. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, he will reduce the €2.50 prescription charge for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11307/16]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      425. To ask the Minister for Health when he will release funding for the regional hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath to employ another paediatrician to allow the hospital to raise the...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      426. To ask the Minister for Health when he will release the €23 million (details supplied) development funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11316/16]
    • Mental Health Services
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an independent mechanism for persons to complain if they have had a negative or adverse experience of Health Service Executive mental...
    • Suicide Prevention
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the interdepartmental group which launched the Connecting for Life suicide strategy has met since its launch in June 2015; if he has an...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite care for persons with special needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11323/16]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the eligibility of a person (details supplied) under the medical card scheme, including when he will issue a decision; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies which have been filled by hiring agency staff in the Health Service Executive and in organisations it funds, including voluntary...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [11335/16]
    • Hospital Facilities
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on the provision of a dedicated obstetrics theatre at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11376/16]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being undertaken to ensure bed availability for the significant cohort of the population that will require nursing home care in coming years; and...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of criticisms levelled at the nursing home support scheme funding model by Nursing Homes Ireland, the representative body for private and...
    • National Children's Hospital Location
      442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the location of the National Children's Hospital at the St. James's Hospital site; if he will review the decision and the decision-making process;...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      443. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect the occupational therapist to carry out a report for Donegal County Council relating to the housing adaptation...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      444. To ask the Minister for Health for a status update on the recruitment of a second permanent consultant neurologist for the north-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Help Service Oversight
      445. To ask the Minister for Health why the Health Information and Quality Authority has instructed all those who use the services of home help providers to have key lock boxes installed outside...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      446. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the cross-border directive, CBD, if he will outline the way the total cost of comparable treatment in another jurisdiction versus the costs incurred...
    • Medical Products
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the savings to the Exchequer from a 2% reduction in branded medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11391/16]
    • Licensing of Medicines
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered a scheme of compulsory licensing for medicines; if not, if he will consider compulsory licensing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given a date to have a medical procedure scheduled. [11399/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      451. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11400/16]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      452. To ask the Minister for Health to add the condition Motor Neuron to the list of qualifying medical conditions for the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Properties
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11422/16]
    • Disability Support Services
      454. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the unacceptable waiting list for children to access a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11444/16]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided to persons in County Clare in each of the years 2010 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11454/16]
    • Psychological Assessments
      456. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) may expect to have an assessment carried out by a child psychologist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11464/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for a for a procedure (details supplied) in a hospital in Dublin 1; the steps are being taken to reduce the waiting times; and if he...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      458. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation to introduce plain packaging on tobacco products will be brought before the House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11479/16]
    • Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for children to be assessed by a child psychologist in County Donegal; the total number of persons waiting for up to three months,...
    • HSE Staff
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff members of the Health Service Executive currently on extended leave, not including holiday or sick leave, with full or partial pay. [11490/16]
    • Medical Card Data
      461. To ask the Minister for Health why families where one person only in the household has a medical card have to pay the €25 prescription charges for the medical card holder, in addition...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      462. To ask the Minister for Health why a medication (details supplied) which is available on prescription only does not have a code and is not covered under the drugs payment scheme. [11528/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      463. To ask the Minister for Health to consider changing the fair deal scheme to ensure family farms are not eroded and rendered non-viable due to dilution of the farm asset scheme; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even though they are requested to do so...
    • Health Services
      465. To ask the Minister for Health why the intermediary care vehicles in County Kerry are not fully staffed; the number of these vehicles which are parked, because of the lack of paramedics to...
    • HSE Funding
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by the Health Service Executive to homeless organisations here for each year from 2008 to 2015 and to date in 2016 in tabular form. [11534/16]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      467. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that a social worker is recruited at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11550/16]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to recruit a consultant oncologist who is due to retire (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11551/16]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans to meet the staff shortage at Birr community nursing unit, which has resulted in the suspension of day care services and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11586/16]
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      472. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the evidence for the efficacy of cannabidiol medical marijuana in treating the symptoms of Dravet syndrome; if he will license it for this...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for speech and language therapy assessment for less than four months, for four months plus to 12 and for 12 plus months...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      474. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate why a person (details supplied) is waiting for additional home help hours granted by disability services in January 2016. [11608/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11617/16]
    • General Practitioner Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 846 and 847 of 17 May 2016, the costs of introducing free general practitioner care to all citizens based on the current...
    • Medical Card Administration
      477. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 951 of 17 May 2016, when the clinical advisory group will report on the development framework for assessment and...
    • Health Services Provision
      478. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the services provided at St. Joseph's day care centre, Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; if the services provided there will continue; and...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs to the north Connemara area in 2015 and 2016 to date, and the time from the call-out to the arrival at the patient; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      480. To ask the Minister for Health when he will allocate an additional ambulance and personnel to the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, as requested by the local community, following a number...
    • Ambulance Service
      481. To ask the Minister for Health to commence discussions with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on a memorandum of understanding to ensure that fire and rescue...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      483. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the three-out-one-in hiring rule adopted by hospital groups within the Health Service Executive in December 2015, as reported in The Irish Times on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if the person is on the waiting list for a procedure; and when the procedure will be carried out....
    • Ambulance Service Data
      486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance call-outs to the Leenane area of Connemara, County Galway; the date, the duration between the call being made and the ambulance being...
    • General Practitioner Data
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practice surgeries; the towns and villages where they are located in County Meath currently participating under the rural practice...
    • Home Care Packages
      491. To ask the Minister for Health why he is providing different levels of packages under the home care scheme in counties Kerry and Cork; to urgently review this; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      492. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11718/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied) including when the person will receive a decision. [11719/16]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      494. To ask the Minister for Health to recruit extra staff and provide extra resources for the national ambulance service; his views on the recommendations made in the national ambulance service...
    • Ambulance Service
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to act on the recommendations of the published National Ambulance Service emergency service baseline and capacity review; when he will...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 752 staff for the national ambulance service, including the Dublin Fire Brigade, and the cost of providing the 461 posts...
    • Ambulance Service
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 72 vehicles for the national ambulance service, including the Dublin Fire Brigade, further to the findings of the National...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing the additional 548 staff for the national ambulance service, excluding the Dublin Fire Brigade, and the cost of providing the 400 posts...
    • Ambulance Service
      500. To ask the Minister for Health where additional staff and vehicles are needed, and those areas he will support for additional staffing and vehicles, in tabular form, further to the findings...
    • Health Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an audiology appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11738/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied) including when the person will receive an appointment. [11743/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      505. To ask the Minister for Health to immediately publish the up-to-date fees paid to the Health Service Executive's nursing homes for nursing home care; the reason private and voluntary nursing...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      506. To ask the Minister for Health to hire two clinical nurses for the Finglas addiction support team which has had two applications pending since 2014, despite funding being agreed; and if he...
    • Medical Negligence Claims
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on legal fees connected to medical negligence since the introduction of the open disclosure programme, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      508. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) has not received a reimbursement payment due since March 2016 under the cross-border health care directive scheme; and if he...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which he will reimburse persons availing of the cross-border health care directive scheme under the rules of the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      510. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical card under the European Union entitlement; and if he will...
    • Care Services Provision
      511. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied) and increase their carer's hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11818/16]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      512. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a three-to-one system of replacement in operation for nurses in the Health Service Executive; if he has issued an instruction to the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      514. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11870/16]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • State Aid
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he is making on the European Union Council of Ministers decision to allow for the drawing down of state aid by farmers...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants waiting for payment, the maximum period they are waiting, under the targeted agricultural modernisation...
    • Superlevy Fine
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of engagement his Department has had with representatives of farming organisations and the European Union Commission in...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he has yet to complete an application under the natural reserve, the young farmers and the areas of natural constraint schemes...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a herd number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11187/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue a payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11240/16]
    • Beef Genomics Scheme
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he declined payment to a person (details supplied) under the 2014 beef data genomics programme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11257/16]
    • Farm Inspections
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a mechanism within his Department to request a second review following a farm inspection and subsequent reduction in...
    • Live Exports
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress which has been made to grant live cattle exporters access to the Turkish market; if the requisite health certificate to...
    • Milk Prices
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to tackle the falling milk prices, as they have been continuously falling for 24 months and have now reached around 24c per...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when details of a milking parlour grant payment process will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • State Aid
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will initiate a scheme of state aid funded loan relief as authorised by the European Union for dairy farmers suffering from...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11349/16]
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to address the animal welfare breaches at a puppy farm (details supplied); and if he will take immediate steps...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of a 40% capital investment in a slatted shed under the targeted...
    • Departmental Properties
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11413/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2015 basic payment scheme balancing payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Superlevy Fine
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will facilitate a repayment suspension for the superlevy for dairy farmers, considering the severe cash flow challenges in the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under a specific scheme. [11564/16]
    • GLAS Payments
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied) under the green low carbon agri-environment scheme for 2015; and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of the entitlements of a person (details supplied); if the person who is a herd owner is due a final payment for 2015; and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11615/16]
    • Dairy Sector
      541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with the serious cash flow issues in the dairy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11620/16]
    • GLAS Administration
      542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to extend the entrance date for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme for a further two weeks, given the late spring in 2016;...
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an inspection of a milk processing plant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • TAMS Eligibility
      544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant assistance available to persons wishing to avail of rain harvesting systems on their farms. [11663/16]
    • GLAS Applications
      545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to review an application by a person (details supplied) under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reports
      546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the agricultural appeals office report of 30 April 2014 on the Keelderry commonage in County Galway appears to...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the evidence he requires from an applicant under the basic payment scheme to show that land previously deemed ineligible for what his...
    • Departmental Reports
      548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he accepts that the report prepared by his official (details supplied) on 2 November 2013 on the Keelderry commonage in County...
    • Land Issues
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the precise qualification held by two persons (details supplied) to determine the nature of lands, including use, constitution,...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the young farmers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effect of the number of solar energy companies seeking to lease lands for energy production on the basic payment scheme in the...
    • Horse Racing Industry Funding
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to immediately suspend the Irish foal levy which was introduced in 2000 which is based on the advertised nomination fee of the foal's...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will have an inspection carried out for a person (details supplied) under the pig and poultry investment scheme, targeted...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Departmental Functions
      556. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the sections, and the Departments in which they are currently based, he will subsume into the new climate change section...
    • Inland Fisheries
      557. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of an issue regarding the removal of a weir (details supplied). [11654/16]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      558. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the funding of €75 million that is committed through the European Regional Development Fund, in relation to the...
    • Inland Fisheries
      561. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the compensation procedure for eel fishers given that eel fishing has ceased permanently; and if compensation is...
    • Post Office Network
      562. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his discussions with the Department of Social Protection on halting the changeover from cash to electronic welfare...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      563. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to list all current procurement contracts that his Department has awarded, which are operational, if each such contract...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      564. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available for solar farms instead of windmills and the location of the closest grid connection to Broadford,...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      565. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, with regard to the establishment of a taskforce on mobile telephones and broadband, he will ensure that the task...
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to evaluate the State funding required per metropolitan area network, MAN, to complete the business cases for the...
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to conduct a once-off national drive test measurement of the State's coverage under the mobile telephone network in lieu...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      568. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will launch a process to measure actual provision of broadband to patients in hospitals and to publish the results....
    • Departmental Properties
      571. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11416/16]
    • Electric Vehicles
      572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline his views on whether the introduction of a usage based charge for electric car charge points by the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      573. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the effect of the number of solar energy companies seeking to lease lands for energy production on the basic...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Signage
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the status of signage on a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11195/16]
    • Railway Stations
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his plans for the development of a train station at Crusheen in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Coras Iompair Éireann
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the net amount of fuel tax, excise duty and value added tax Córas Iompair Éireann paid in 2015. [11202/16]
    • Railway Stations
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his plans to open the Kishogue railway station, Lucan, County Dublin, given the ever-increasing traffic congestion in the...
    • Road Network
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the appropriate funding in 2016 to support the completion of the Gort road and Tulla road northern inner relief road link in...
    • Cycling Policy
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will continue with the phased introduction of fixed charge penalties for dangerous cycling on footpaths, the resources available...
    • Public Transport Provision
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact Dublin Bus to raise the lack of provision of wheelchair accessible buses and the frequency of wheelchair accessible...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that Dublin Airport Authority engages fully with local communities impacted by the proposed new runway in Dublin...
    • Bus Services
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to give a definitive answer on the bus rapid transit project as a number of important infrastructure projects along the Swords Road are...
    • Road Network
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to name the body responsible for deciding the locations at which double yellow lines are installed and the locations at which bollards...
    • Railway Stations
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the opening of Killucan train station to serve the commuters in the area; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Greenways Funding
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve funding for the completion of the greenway along the Royal Canal, County Longford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Properties
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11428/16]
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his proposals to compensate the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme pensioners for the extraordinary...
    • Rural Transport Programme Expenditure
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the money already spent, the planned expenditure, including where that money has been allocated, and the current estimate for...
    • Coras Iompair Éireann
      590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the estimate for the total State subvention to Córas Iompair Éireann in 2016 by each Córas Iompair...
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he expects specific savings or changes in the public service obligation funding as a result of the introduction of open tendering and...
    • Public Transport Provision
      593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to the State of making all existing public transport completely wheelchair accessible. [11459/16]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funds pledged and the funds that have been ring-fenced in the capital spending plan for the completion of the A5 dual carriageway,...
    • Swimming Pool Programme
      596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, all upgrades and developments of swimming pools funded by his Department, in the past two years; the...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a nationwide introduction of 30 km/h speed limits outside schools during school terms; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider deferring the drawdown of a sports capitation grant issued to a club (details supplied). [11478/16]
    • Bus Éireann
      600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to request Bus Éireann to stop providing services that amount to below cost selling where private bus operators are providing a...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the necessity for urgent repairs to the bridge at Ardfinnan in Clonmel, County Tipperary; if he will provide funds to...
    • Vehicle Registration Data
      605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1158 of 17 May 2016, the number of vehicles recorded on the national vehicle and driver file and...
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1146 of 17 May 2016, if an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is residing indefinitely in...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Status
      607. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will provide funding for phase 2 of the Samuel Beckett civic campus in Ballyogan, Dublin 18. [11727/16]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Funding
      608. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to re-instate the N14 Letterkenny to Strabane road project as part of a balanced approach to transport infrastructure...
    • Rail Network
      610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the western rail corridor from Derry to Letterkenny, Sligo and Galway, thereby creating a Derry to Cork western rail...
    • Harbours and Piers
      611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the decision his Department has made or that is pending on the governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour under the Harbours Bill 2015; and...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Waste Management Regulations
      613. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned that a company (details supplied) will now only accept payment of invoices for bin charges through an online...
    • Departmental Properties
      614. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of her Department. [11423/16]
    • Employment Rights
      615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to update employment laws to properly regulate the employment of au pairs in line with best international practice; and if...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      616. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of potential foreign direct investment clients that the Industrial Development Agency Ireland has attracted to the Shannon...
    • Regional Development Initiatives
      617. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the advance facility project in County Carlow, given that the advance facility in County Waterford is full and that...
    • Green Enterprise
      618. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grant assistance available to businesses wishing to avail of rain harvesting systems on their premises. [11664/16]
    • Workplace Relations Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation why County Waterford is not chosen as one of the adjudication centres for the Workplace Relations Commission, if she will relocate a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will issue a decision on applications for capital funding under the early childhood care and education scheme; if a positive...
    • Adoption Data
      622. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to request Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to establish a task force to process retrospective cases so that persons seeking information...
    • Foster Care Policy
      623. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the requirements for an Irish couple to foster a Syrian child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11278/16]
    • City and County Child Care Committees
      624. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the policy on the configuration of county child care boards; if there is a requirement, in terms of governance, regarding who sits on a...
    • Departmental Properties
      625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of her Department. [11415/16]
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Data
      626. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, staff currently on leave, not including holiday or sick leave, with full or partial pay....
    • Children and Family Services Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on ensuring the provision of a comprehensive range of services for families throughout a child's life by Tusla, the Child and...
    • Children in Care
      628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an explanation for the recent closure of a children and young person's residential care unit (details supplied) in...
    • Youth Services Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to increase funding for Foróige, following reductions imposed on it over the past number of years; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Children in Care
      630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Irish children who have been or who are in care in other countries for whatever reason, including psychological and medical...
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide funding for a youth café (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11848/16]
  • Department of Defence
    • Army Barracks
      632. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the future use of Columb Barracks (details supplied) in Mullingar, County Westmeath. [11282/16]
    • Departmental Properties
      633. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the annual rental value of each vacant property and land holding of his Department. [11417/16]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      634. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel who are serving overseas by services, by rank and by gender; and if he will make a statement on the...

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What are Written Answers?

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

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