Written answers
Thursday, 9 June 2016
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child Care Services Funding
12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address the funding crisis in Youngballymun; and her plans to roll out this model across the State. [14841/16]
- Preschool Services
13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans in regard to the Highscope model; and her further plans to roll out this model nationally. [14848/16]
- Child and Family Agency Funding
14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to further resource Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to address the heavy caseloads of social workers; and if she will make a...
- Child Care Services
15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she agrees that grandparents offer a valuable and often overlooked role in raising their grandchildren; the supports are available to...
- Child and Family Agency Remit
16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the circumstances in which she can instruct Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to alter its policy on any given issue under its remit; and...
- Garda Youth Diversion Projects
17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered advocating for the services of the Garda youth diversion projects to be extended in north inner city Dublin, as part...
- Ombudsman for Children Remit
18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider extending the mandate of the office of the Ombudsman for Children such that it could receive complaints from children...
- Youth Services Funding
19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the funding to youth services nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14851/16]
- Direct Provision System
20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the care of children in the direct provision system; if she will support the taking of all minors out of that system given the...
- Child Protection Services Provision
21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which, in the context of the programme for Government or otherwise, she intends to address the issue of vulnerable children...
- Departmental Functions
22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the desirability of her Department assuming responsibility for young adults in the judicial system, responsibility which...
- Homeless Accommodation Provision
23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the long-term effect of homelessness on children, their welfare and their educational attainment; the actions she has taken;...
- Detention Centres Provision
24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that young persons and staff at the Oberstown detention facility are guaranteed safety under the current policy and...
- Workplace Relations Commission
25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she proposes putting in place supports for parents who may no longer be able to avail of the traditional au pair role given the recent...
- Child Protection Services Provision
26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the child protection and welfare issues where the lack of availability of alternative housing is adding to the difficulties...
- Legislative Measures
28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she assessed the possible unforeseen effects of the Aftercare Bill 2014; her plans to amend this legislation in the near future; and if...
- Child Care Costs
29. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the provision of affordable child care; the role she sees for the private sector in child care provision; and if she will make...
- Legislative Measures
30. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to implement section 22 of the Adoption Act 2010 based on means to support those persons that wish to adopt but are unable to do...
- Preschool Services
31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware of an integrated preschool unit at a school (details supplied) and the possibility of expanding services of this nature to...
- Child and Family Agency Funding
32. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a guardian ad litem and rehabilitation centre (details supplied) in County Longford has not received significant funding owed to...
- Industrial Relations
33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to report on the industrial relations situation in Oberstown youth detention centre. [14846/16]
- Child Care Services Provision
34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are special procedures are in place for children residing in special care units whose first language is not English; and if she...
- Community Childcare Subvention Programme
35. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the strategy in place to extend the community childcare subvention programme those who are most in need of it; her plans to expand the...
- Child and Family Agency Funding
36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding contributors to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, can influence or direct its policy on any matter under its remit; and if she...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the fact that some providers of the early childhood care and education scheme (details supplied) have experienced a reduction...
- Adoption Legislation
38. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered amalgamating the proposed adoption information and tracing Bill with the current Adoption Amendment Bill 2016; if not,...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Proposed Legislation
39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the family leave Bill 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15155/16]
- Traveller Community
40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on giving recognition to Traveller ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15085/16]
- Visa Applications
41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite the issuing of a visa for a person (details supplied) which has already been approved but not yet issued. [15159/16]
- Proposed Legislation
42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Bills she will reinitiate relevant to her Department from the previous Dáil Éireann; the Bills she will introduce in the coming...
- Restorative Justice
43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if acceptance of the offer under the restorative justice scheme requires the person (details supplied) to acknowledge that the circumstances of...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
44. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised by introducing a sugar tax on sugary drinks, as proposed by the Irish Heart Foundation (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
45. To ask the Minister for Finance the number directly and indirectly employed in Irish companies and projects that the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has invested in by county in tabular...
- Tax Code
46. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the threshold for siblings in respect of capital acquisitions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15190/16]
- National Treasury Management Agency
47. To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund gives in making a commercial investment in a project (details supplied) including the amount and form...
- Film Industry Tax Reliefs
48. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of and the income generated for each €10 million increase of section 481 film industry tax relief each year; and the number of persons employed...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education Schemes
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend the conditions to the pilot support scheme which is aimed at making third level education accessible for young persons in the...
- Summer Works Scheme
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will publish the round 2 allocation under the summer works scheme 2016. [15211/16]
- School Funding
51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount he allocated to a school (details supplied) for capitation and axillary services, staff salary, school transport and so on; and if he...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15097/16]
- National Educational Psychological Service Data
53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children waiting and the average waiting time for a psychology assessment by the National Education Psychological Service by county;...
- School Staff
54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal by a school (details supplied). [15104/16]
- Schools Building Projects Status
55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of building projects proposed for schools (details supplied). [15112/16]
- Physical Education Facilities
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why his Department did not provide a physical education hall to a school (details supplied) from 1980 to 2012. [15113/16]
- School Patronage
57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for assigning the patronage of new primary and secondary schools; and how a body can apply to be assigned as a patron. [15114/16]
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reintroduce student grants for postgraduate students aged 23 years or over, as per discussions which took place between Fine Gael and...
- Access to Higher Education
59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide funding to the National University of Ireland Maynooth to ensure the continuance of the inclusive learning initiative through which...
- Proposed Legislation
60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Bills he will re-initiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming sessions; when he...
- Special Educational Needs
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he, in conjunction with the National Council for Special Education, will publish a plan on how the Education for Persons with Special...
- National Educational Psychological Service Expenditure
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department paid to psychologists and the number of children assessed under the scheme for psychological assessment in each of the...
- National Educational Psychological Service Staff
65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists employed under the National Educational Psychology Service in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will...
- Lansdowne Road Agreement
66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has a notice on his website advising teachers who he deems to be in repudiation of the public service stability agreement 2013-2016,...
- Higher Education Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places his Department reserved under the higher education access route scheme; if it filled all the reserved places; the average...
- Access to Higher Education
69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the target and target percentage in respect of the proportion of the student body to be comprised of the target groups, and the procedures in...
- Student Assistance Fund
70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department allocated under the student assistance fund by institution in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will...
- Access to Higher Education
71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the performance funding per third level institution that is allocated by the Higher Education Authority to higher education...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown per county of the number of children that are currently being taught in primary school classes of over 25 pupils; and if he...
- Teacher Data
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers and lecturers that are currently employed by his Department on less than 20 hours per week; the number of these that are on...
- National Educational Welfare Board Staff
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists that would be required under the National Educational Psychological Service to provide a psychologist to pupil ratio...
- Schools Building Projects Status
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the schools announced in his Department's capital school building programme earlier this year remain on that programme; and if the schools in...
- School Funding
76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15268/16]
- Teachers' Remuneration
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the salaries of newly qualified primary school teachers; the plans he has in place to review this; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Tax Code
78. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost and benefit of the equalisation of road tax, North and South. [15119/16]
- Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of increasing funding under the housing adaption grant scheme by 50%; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Farm Waste Disposal
80. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legislation and statutory instruments governing the process of local authority licensing renewals for industrial and...
- Departmental Funding
81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he provides social community funds to assist the resource centre (details supplied) that is in urgent need of funding to...
- Legislative Programme
82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil Éireann; the Bills he will...
- Foreshore Issues
83. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15209/16]
- Mortgage Data
84. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the home choice loan scheme; if it is operational all over the country; the levels of loans which have...
- Drainage Schemes
85. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have assessed the risk of bacteria, parasites, invasive alien...
- Department of Social Protection
- Farm Assist Scheme
88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the cost of providing broadband is not an allowable expense to a person under the farm assist payment scheme; if he will review this with...
- National Internship Scheme Placements
89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of teachers who have been employed on the JobBridge scheme per year, in tabular form, since the scheme came into operation; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of the widespread concerns of the Irish Postmasters Union in respect of recent correspondence issued by his Department regarding...
- Widow's Pension
91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to consider increasing the maximum rate of widow's pension. [15105/16]
- Treatment Benefit Scheme Data
92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring the six-monthly scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment benefit scheme. [15141/16]
- Carer's Allowance Applications
98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15168/16]
- Carer's Allowance Payments
99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) following a carer's allowance appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15176/16]
- Legislative Programme
101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming sessions; when he...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Staff Allowances
103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the rules as applied by PeoplePoint in his Department, in respect of limiting optical allowance for work usage purposes only...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not eligible for jobseeker's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15304/16]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Conflicts
105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to recognise the mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide. [15165/16]
- Legislative Programme
106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Bills relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil that he will reinitiate; the Bills he will introduce in the coming...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Sports Facilities Provision
107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department will restore the goalposts on the Dublin County Board's camogie pitches in the Phoenix Park in County Dublin;...
- Public Sector Pensions
108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will bring forward the planned dates for payment of the restored public service pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Legislative Programme
109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming sessions;...
- Teachers' Remuneration
110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the pay position for newly qualified primary school teachers; the plans in place to review this position; and if he...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Arts Funding
111. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given the figure currently being discussed in the media that Ireland spends 0.1% of gross domestic product on arts and culture by...
- Legislative Programme
113. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Bills relevant to her Department from the previous Dáil that she will reinitiate; the Bills she will introduce in the coming...
- Cultural Policy
114. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she explored other methods of incentivising investment into the cultural sector apart from direct State funding; and to provide...
- Arts Plan
115. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to develop a ten-year plan for the arts amid recent concerns regarding its downgrading; and if she will make a statement on...
- Cultural Policy
116. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on an all-party national cultural policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15300/16]
- Department of Health
- Self-Harm Prevention
117. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which assistance remains available for children deemed to be at risk of self-harm; the support available to their families; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
118. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which child psychiatric services remain adequate to meet modern challenges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15225/16]
- General Medical Services Scheme
119. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the general practitioner visiting card scheme. [15078/16]
- Medical Card Eligibility
120. To ask the Minister for Health why antibody blood tests costs for systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjorgen's syndrome and Wegener's disease are not covered under the medical card scheme...
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
121. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous parliamentary questions, his views on unequal pay for health care assistants (details supplied). [15082/16]
- Hospitals Building Programme
122. To ask the Minister for Health the evaluation that formed the basis for selecting the Connolly Hospital site for the replacement of the Rotunda Hospital in County Dublin. [15087/16]
- Departmental Properties
123. To ask the Minister for Health if he has established a plan for the Rotunda building in Dublin 1, once the services have been transferred to the new site; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Products
124. To ask the Minister for Health when he will begin new negotiations with the manufacturer to provide the Orkambi drug to cystic fibrosis sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Equipment
125. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive or the hospital group will santion a fixed cardiac catheterisation laboratory for the north west region; and if he will make...
- Hospitals Funding
126. To ask the Minister for Health if he has withdrawn funding for the new rehabilitation unit at Roscommon Hospital which was intended to be a ten-bed unit operating as a satellite centre for...
- Health Services Funding
127. To ask the Minister for Health the funding services (details supplied) in County Carlow received, given that is the third highest in national area by residence of suicide; and if he will...
- Hospitals Data
128. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic operations performed on persons from County Kerry in 2015; the number carried out on persons from County Cork in 2015 at the South...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
129. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently examine and to put in place adequate resources to improve the long orthopaedic waiting times, currently standing at 12 to 18 months for urgent...
- Health Services Funding
130. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing the number of nursing home beds to 3,800; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15106/16]
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
132. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of recruiting 621 additional midwives; the cost of recruiting 239 obstetricians and gynaecologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Primary Care Centres Data
133. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on primary care facilities in the constituency of Dublin South West, including those at pre-planning stage or those which have applied for...
- Prescriptions Charges
134. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing prescription charges by 50 cent, by prescription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15116/16]
- Medical Card Expenditure
136. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of extending a medical card to all children who are in receipt of a payment under the domiciliary care allowance scheme. [15120/16]
- Medicinal Products Expenditure
137. To ask the Minister for Health the full year savings of immediately setting the ex-factory price for new pharmaceuticals, subject to patent protection, at the price in the lowest priced...
- Health Services Staff Data
140. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten community physiotherapists and hospital physiotherapists at entry level, at the levels of five years experience and at ten...
- Hospital Staff Data
143. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten consultants averaged across the specialties and experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15128/16]
- Ambulance Service Data
144. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing and equipping one ambulance with its complement of personnel and support staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services Staff Data
145. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of ten suicide crisis assessment nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15130/16]
- Nursing Staff
146. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of employing ten liaison nurses in emergency departments in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15131/16]
- Medical Card Expenditure
150. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year average cost of granting a person a medical card including the care, services and medications that it entails on average; and if he will make a...
- Dental Services Waiting Lists
151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for dental assessment and screening between six and eight years and between nine and 11 years of age. [15137/16]
- Dental Services Expenditure
152. To ask the Minister for Health the annual expenditure on the public dental service in each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date. [15138/16]
- Orthodontic Services Data
153. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for orthodontic treatment by HSE area in 2008 and at present. [15139/16]
- Dental Services
154. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the vocational training scheme in dentistry which was paused in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15140/16]
- Dental Services Expenditure
157. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on the six-monthly scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme in 2009. [15149/16]
- General Medical Services Scheme Expenditure
160. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department’s estimate of the cost of introducing free general practitioner care for all citizens was between €330 million and €365...
- Health Services Access
161. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the waiting time for places in the national rehabilitation unit in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15153/16]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
163. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 642 of 31 May 2016 if he will prioritise a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Hospital Equipment
164. To ask the Minister for Health his views that two dual energy X-ray absorptiometry scanners at University Hospital Galway are not functioning due to staff shortages and cutbacks,...
- Cancer Services Provision
165. To ask the Minister for Health if he is taking action or implementing measures to tackle statistics outlined in the recent National Cancer Registry of Ireland report into cancer rates in...
- Respite Care Grant Applications
166. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the respite care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15163/16]
- Health Services Funding
167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will source additional funding for a specific service in County Cork, given the substantial number of persons in need of this service (details supplied)....
- Speech and Language Therapy Provision
168. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied), who has been on the waiting list for 19 months will receive an assessment for speech and language therapy; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
169. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an operation. [15169/16]
- Services for People with Disabilities
170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the services being provided to persons living with a specific issue (details supplied) with a view to putting the necessary services in...
- HSE Investigations
171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the investigation undertaken at Wexford General Hospital into misdiagnosed bowel cancer in patients who underwent colonoscopy procedures; and if...
- Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
175. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the physiotherapy registration board established under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. [15175/16]
- Health Services Staff
176. To ask the Minister for Health the status of low staff levels for a health care group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15177/16]
- Home Help Service
177. To ask the Minister for Health why he has not provided a replacement carer to a person (details supplied) under the home help scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services Data
178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents from County Donegal who were treated in adult mental health facilities in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
180. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide funding through the HSE for the establishment of a gold star initiative or task group in Kilkenny such as the one in Cashel, County...
- Legislative Programme
182. To ask the Minister for Health the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming sessions; when he will introduce...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
183. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for HSE equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15215/16]
- Services for People with Disabilities
184. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding persons in residential care overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15217/16]
- National Lottery Funding Applications
185. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm receipt of an application from a residential home (details supplied) under the national lottery grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services Funding
186. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative avenues of funding applicable to a residential home (details supplied), apart from the national lottery grant scheme; and if he will make a...
- Home Care Packages Provision
187. To ask the Minister for Health if the recently announced freeze on new home care packages for the elderly affect those supported by home care packages who need increased hours of home care...
- Hospital Services
190. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding stroke services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15254/16]
- Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
193. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding nursing homes (details supplied). [15265/16]
- Hospital Staff
194. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is not having their contract renewed, which is set to expire in three weeks; if a replacement consultant is being appointed,...
- Hospital Appointments Delays
198. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting a significant time for an operation; if the person will be scheduled for same as soon as possible; and if he...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Young Farmers Scheme
200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the national reserve and young farmers scheme; and if he will make a...
- Grocery Industry
201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to meet supermarket owners to discuss and ensure proper payments are made to farmers for their produce; and if he will make...
- Young Farmers Scheme
202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal under the national reserve and young farmers scheme by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the single farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- EU Funding
205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current procedure for notifying stakeholders of domestic and EU funding calls and if he will endeavour to contact all...
- Legislative Programme
206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming...
- Eurozone Issues
207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department performed an analysis of the economic impact on the agricultural sector here of a potential Brexit, and if so, to...
- GLAS Applications
209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a...
- Young Farmers Scheme
210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/16]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Legislative Programme
211. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will bring the inland fisheries (modernisation and consolidation) Bill before Dáil Éireann; and if he...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the renewable heat incentive, including supports for renewable heat and the bioenergy facility at a...
- Legislative Programme
213. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Safety
214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on implementing a driver awareness course similar to that in the UK which would facilitate the rescinding of penalty points for...
- Public Bike Schemes
215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the city bike scheme to the villages of south Dublin county, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown county and remaining...
- Road Projects Expenditure
216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of completing the N2 and A5 dual carriageway; and when this road will be completed. [15118/16]
- Road Projects
217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has carried out a feasibility or cost benefit analysis on the development of a Dundalk to Sligo road as a Border corridor. [15136/16]
- Road Projects Status
218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of road and drain works carried out on a road (details supplied) which may lead to flooding a property; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Programme
219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills he will introduce in the coming sessions;...
- Rail Network Safety
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek assurances from the chief executive officer of Iarnród Éireann that extra security will be provided during good...
- Road Tolls
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the revenues generated from the M50 toll in the years 2014 to date in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Work Permits Applications
222. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to review the application process for the general employment permit for businesses as the current practice is manual application only...
- Community Enterprise Centres
223. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason a centre (details supplied) did not receive funding under the community enterprise initiative; and if she will make a...
- Legislative Programme
224. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the Bills she will reinitiate relevant to her Department from the previous Dáil; the Bills she will introduce in the coming...
- Legislative Measures
225. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action she will take to legislate to introduce collective bargaining rights for freelance workers, in view of the Private Members'...
- Company Liquidations
226. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as to how or what financial set of accounts relevant period and so on the High Court looked at when giving permission to a company...
- Enterprise Ireland Funding
229. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding that will be allocated on a county per county basis under the local enterprise offices competitive fund, in...
- Airline Charges
231. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the recent hike in baggage fees by Irish airlines; her further views that the Competition and Consumer Protection...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
232. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contingencies her Department has in place should the United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union in the upcoming referendum...
- Credit Guarantee Scheme Data
233. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of drawdowns issued under the credit guarantee scheme on 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2015; the total value of...
- Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme Data
234. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of drawdowns issued under the microfinance scheme on 31 December 2014 and on 31 December 2015; the total value of...
- Local Enterprise Offices Data
235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of drawdowns issued by each local enterprise office, LEO, on 31 December 2014 and on 31 December 2015; the total value...
- Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications Data
236. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications received by the microenterprise loan fund in each year since its establishment, in tabular form; the number...
- Development Capital Scheme
237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take up of the development capital scheme in each year since its establishment; the number of jobs supported; and if she...
- Seed Capital Scheme
238. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take up of seed and venture capital scheme in each year since its establishment; the number of jobs supported; and if she...
- Innovation Fund Ireland
239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take up of the Innovation Fund Ireland in each year since its establishment, the number of jobs supported; and if she...
- Personal Injury Claims
240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to outline the timetable for the review of Book of Quantum by InjuriesBoard.ie; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15290/16]
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- HIQA Reports
241. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to HIQA's recent annual overview report on the inspection and regulation of children’s services in 2015, which found a...
- Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
242. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to fill the two vacant positions on the Board of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Programme
243. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the Bills relevant to her Department she will reinitiate from the previous Dáil Éireann; the Bills she will introduce in the...
- Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
244. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacant posts on the board of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; her plans to make appointments from the previous Public...
- Counselling Services Provision
245. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which adequate counselling remains available to vulnerable children and adolescents; if improvement is warranted and likely;...
- Child Protection Services Provision
246. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which statutory and voluntary child support services continue to have adequate resources available to them to meet their...
- Children in Care
247. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the welfare of children in State care or institutions continues to be monitored effectively; and if she will make a...
- Bullying in the Workplace
248. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to what extent support remains readily available and accessible to young persons who are victims of bullying in the workplace or other...
- Youth Services Funding
249. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she continues to support Kildare Youth Services; if she expects to be in a position to continue supports to the...
- Juvenile Offenders
250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which rehabilitative support services continue to be made available for juvenile offenders. [15224/16]
- Wards of Court
251. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children or young adults who have been made wards of court in the past ten years; the degree to which the process continues...
- Mental Health Awareness
252. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which research has been undertaken to identify the most common causes of concern and stress among young persons in modern...
- National Play and Recreation Policies
253. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs for details of funding available, to be administered via local authorities, from the capital grant funding scheme 2016; for details of any...
- Child and Family Agency Data
254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to provide a breakdown by county of the number of supervision orders applied for in the courts by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, since...
- Department of Defence
- Legislative Programme
255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the Bills he will reinitiate relevant to his Department from the previous Dáil Éireann; the Bills he will introduce in the coming...
