Written answers

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Light Rail Projects Status
      62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress and completion date of the Luas cross-city project; and when it will come into operation. [15619/16]
    • National Transport Authority Data
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the report the National Transport Authority carried out in the past 12 months on traffic congestion and possible solutions thereto in...
    • Public Transport Provision
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities on public transport services; and the resources he will put in place to...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support the provision of specific Fáilte Ireland offices in tourism hubs which are not in close proximity to the...
    • EU Membership
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he met or will meet with his counterparts in the Northern Ireland Assembly and in the British Parliament to discuss the fall-out from a...
    • National Transport Authority Administration
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the tendering process for public bus routes will take account of the record of a company in upholding labour law, in its...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Funding
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to allocate capital funding for the projects outlined in the capital plan; and when each of these projects will...
    • Road Projects
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the A5 and his recent engagement with his Northern Ireland counterparts in relation to it; his funding commitment and that...
    • Light Rail Projects Provision
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider the provision of a light rail transport system to serve the west County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Industrial Relations
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the justification of the pay claim of Irish Rail workers, given the industrial norms and the pay freeze they have experienced...
    • Harbours and Piers
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a delegation of different interest groups from the greater Dún Laoghaire area to discuss plans for the future...
    • Public Transport
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to invest further in public transport through the State subvention to Córas Iompar Éireann and other means in order to...
    • State Airports
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the environmental impact study which was carried out for plans for an additional runway at Dublin Airport is...
    • Industrial Disputes
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the settlement of the Luas dispute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15627/16]
    • Public Transport Provision
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can continue to facilitate efficient commuter transport by the use of co-ordination between the road and rail network in such a way...
    • Air Services Provision
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps the Irish regulatory authorities will take to control and oversee an airline's (detailed supplied) operations particularly in...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Legislative Programme
      84. To ask the Taoiseach the Bills relevant to his Department he intends to re-initiate from the previous Dáil Éireann; the Bills his Department is anticipating to introduce in the...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      85. To ask the Taoiseach cé na dátaí a chas an fochoiste ar an Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge 2010 – 2030 le chéile le bliain anuas. [15332/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      86. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15423/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      88. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff working in his Department's human resources section. [15455/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      89. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15471/16]
    • EU Membership
      91. To ask the Taoiseach the preparations he is making to deal with a British exit from the European Union; the issues he needs to address; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/16]
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Data
      92. To ask the Taoiseach the number of chief executive officers in semi-State companies under the aegis of his Department who are employed or not employed on a Hay contract. [15679/16]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to expedite a short term visa for persons (details supplied). [15401/16]
    • Proposed Legislation
      94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will progress the Family Leave Bill, given that young parents are anxious that the two weeks paid paternity leave will be introduced as...
    • Parental Leave
      95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will award extra days under the parental leave scheme to parents with children who have special needs given the many hospital and other...
    • Prisoner Health
      96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to conduct a review of health care in prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15711/16]
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland
      97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she makes any provision for home rent costs in a bankruptcy process. [15882/16]
    • Drugs Crime
      98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been an increase of 25% in the number of drugs supply detention cases in 2016 based on 2008 figures, as targeted in the national...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if 20 local policing fora have been established and are in operation, as targeted in the national drugs strategy; and if she will make a...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be necessary to produce statutory instruments prior to commencement with respect to legal services regulation; when she will complete...
    • Garda Operations
      103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 68 and 69 of 24 May 2016 on permits and checks for heavy goods vehicles, the number of the 3,763...
    • Garda Vetting Applications Data
      104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána clearance applications received in each of the years 2014 to 31 May 2016, by number received from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money her Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15452/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for her. [15468/16]
    • Company Law
      110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rules that apply to the charging of fees by receivers appointed under land and conveyancing legislation; the qualifications that are...
    • Data Protection
      111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 138 and 140 of 2 June 2016, if a borrower is entitled to a copy of the original loan documentation and...
    • Garda Operations
      112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the plans by a group (details supplied) to organise a meeting in Limerick in June 2016; and her plans to counteract such hate...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice she will provide in the circumstances of a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15555/16]
    • Visa Applications
      114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the de facto visa scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Deployment
      115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to consider increasing Garda Síochána numbers at Edgeworthstown Garda station, County Longford (details supplied). [15587/16]
    • Garda Confidential Recipient
      116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of confidential reports made under the Garda Síochána (Corruption or Malpractice) Regulations 2007 in each of the years 2010...
    • Policing Authority
      120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to instruct the Garda Síochána to cease promotions until she enables the relevant sections of the Garda Síochána (Policing...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will return the original birth certificates submitted by a person (details supplied) along with applications for naturalisation status as...
    • Overseas Students Data
      122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received correspondence (details supplied) highlighting difficulties for non-European Union and European Economic Area students...
    • Immigration Policy
      124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a business permission holder who wishes to start a new business in place of the one for which permission was granted,...
    • Criminal Records Data
      125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal convictions, custodial sentences and suspended sentences, by court, in each of the years 2011 to 2015. [15749/16]
    • Coroners Service
      126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inquests which Ministers have ordered under section 23 of the Coroners Act 1962 since the introduction of that legislation; and the...
    • Garda Resources
      127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will allocate additional manpower, vehicles and resources to Tallaght Garda Síochána station; and when she will begin the long...
    • Northern Ireland
      128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of re-establishing Border security if the United Kingdom exits the European Union and if so, the...
    • Residency Permits
      129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure a person (details supplied) must follow to update residency status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15944/16]
    • Direct Provision System
      130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the working group on improvement to the protection process including the direct...
    • Garda Transport Data
      131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new vehicles supplied to Garda Síochána stations in the Naas divisional district in the past 24 months; if and when she...
    • Equality Legislation
      132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why discrimination cases arising from provisions of social protection legislation are excluded from the remit of the cases that may be...
    • Garda Recruitment
      133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of recruits to An Garda Síochána and the number of recruits who dropped out, by district and by station, in 2015 and in 2016...
    • Garda Resources
      134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will fill the post of inspector in Bailieborough Garda Síochána station in County Cavan following the relocation of a senior...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda Commissioner's group will conclude a review of the youth diversion programme; the group's members and terms of reference; and when...
    • Traveller Projects Funding
      139. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 31 May 2016, the officials within her Department tasked with undertaking a review of the funding in...
    • Departmental Reviews
      140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of review groups and working groups operating in her Department; the number of reviews they are engaged in and the subjects of these...
    • Irish Prison Service
      142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 31 May 2016, for further details on the ongoing consideration of the governance arrangements and...
    • Garda Resources
      143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources allocated to the money laundering investigation unit of the Garda Síochána Bureau of Fraud Investigation; and the number...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic offences related to alcohol, by Garda Síochána division, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Resources
      146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel attached to the Garda Síochána national drugs unit at a national, regional and divisional level; and if she...
    • Prison Security
      150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of security screening in prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16081/16]
  • Department of Finance
    • VAT Rebates
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) will receive a value-added tax rebate in respect of a work van; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15331/16]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the protection available for persons who have loans with non-banking financial companies based outside Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) can transfer funds from an approved minimum retirement fund to an approved retirement fund; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Motor Insurance
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank is examining how it presents insurance statistics and data related to the insurance sector and in particular to the motor insurance...
    • Insurance Costs
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance when the working group examining the framework for insurance policy will report; if he will publish its report without delay; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15448/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15464/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15480/16]
    • Motor Insurance
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is considering to tackle the spiralling costs of car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15514/16]
    • VAT Rebates
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of value-added tax refunds over €3,000 still outstanding in the Thurles tax district in County Tipperary; why it is taking so long to refund...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person or organisation buying a commercial loan must be a regulated entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15549/16]
    • Tax Avoidance
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of annual prosecutions and corresponding tax, interest and penalties levied as a result of the general anti-avoidance rule since it was introduced...
    • Motor Insurance
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which motor insurance companies use telematics in determining premiums; if his review of the cost of insurance is examing how telematics could...
    • Universal Social Charge Data
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing the universal social charge on all income up to €80,000 per year and applying it only to the amount above that. [15625/16]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to recommend to the Central Bank a change in mortgage rules, specifically in relation to the ratio of 3.5:1 that is set between borrowing and...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to develop additional models for estimating medium-term potential growth to ensure signs of overheating are detected, as per the fiscal council's...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance his involvement and interaction with the fiscal council. [15602/16]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes to legislation surrounding approved minimum retirement fund investments in each of the years 2013 and 2014; his plans to alter the legislation;...
    • Eurozone Issues
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance when the European Union Commission will issue a decision on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15902/16]
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the administration, consultancy and actuarial services to the Central Remedial Clinic pension plan were all provided by the same...
    • VAT Exemptions
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) and his plans to introduce legislation concerning this. [15999/16]
    • Banking Sector
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will insist that a bank and its subsidiary (details supplied) which are in majority State ownership desist from seeking repossession of family homes...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Extension
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to end or change the tax relief scheme for mortgage interest paid on a home loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16041/16]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of services provided by a group (details supplied) which include services for persons with special needs and counselling services for...
    • School Accommodation
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to intervene in the decision to terminate the licence of a local development and community group to operate from a school (details supplied),...
    • School Transport
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to introduce legislation to provide appropriate funding in order to have alarms fitted on all school buses that will notify the driver when a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to specifically target young persons in any new national apprenticeship scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16034/16]
    • Cóiríocht Scoile
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil sé ar an eolas faoin drochstaid ina bhfuil foirgneamh scoile i gcontae Dhún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil) agus...
    • School Accommodation
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will grant additional accommodation to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15364/16]
    • School Patronage
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of taking over the patronage of the primary school system, based on the cost per pupil of running the model schools. [15383/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15446/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15462/16]
    • School Funding
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant and funding schemes available to assist the board of management of a school (details supplied) to purchase adjoining land for the...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why window replacement in schools is afforded low priority for funding as set down in the criteria under the summer works grant scheme; and if he...
    • Public Sector Pay
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will examine and end the pay inequality for teachers who qualified after 2011, given that it is now five years since these measures came...
    • School Staff
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the refusal by the Primary Staffing Appeals Board for an additional teacher outside the allocation for a school (details...
    • School Enrolments
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a secondary school placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéid cúrsaí trí Ghaeilge atá ann san earnáil oideachais tríú leibhéal; cé mhéid...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will implement Part 5 of the Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015. [15648/16]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an extension of a school (details supplied); when he will provide funding for this to proceed, given that it is included in the...
    • School Patronage
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to proceed with divesting primary schools and giving due regard to the problems associated with religious patronage. [15699/16]
    • Arts in Education Charter
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to promote arts education in schools; if he will implement the Arts in Education Charter; and if he will make a...
    • School Transport Administration
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if paragraph 11.5 of the 1975 agreed accounting arrangements for school transport means that either he or Bus Éireann can...
    • Education Funding
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the rate per pupil under the capitation grant scheme for primary level in the short term; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has not replied to persons (details supplied) regarding a query sent to his Department on 5 April 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Transport Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible and concessionary pupils in County Louth availing of school bus transport. [15872/16]
    • School Closures
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an examination into the closure of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15884/16]
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has not funded the extension to a school (details supplied) despite instruction from a previous Minister for Education and Skills that...
    • Education and Training Boards
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and timescale for a senior college on Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire; if these plans are contingent on funding from his...
    • School Patronage
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that national schools of all patronages, when seeking State recognition and thereby State funding, legally commit themselves to be bona...
    • School Enrolments
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on national schools in receipt of public funds discriminating on religious grounds in their admission policies, in some instances...
    • School Patronage
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will continue the practice of his recent predecessors in not signing deeds of variation for national schools; and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received complete documentation allowing him to make a decision on an application by a school (details supplied) under the...
    • School Transport Administration
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the changes were made to the charging system for maintenance charges for school transport buses for Bus Éireann from the apportioned...
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a Labour Court recommendation (details supplied) including the steps he is taking to ensure it is fully implemented. [15998/16]
    • Religious Discrimination
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he supports the separation of children on religious lines in different primary schools; or if he supports the integration of children of all...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can qualify for the old pay scale having previously worked as a teacher here prior to the introduction of the 2011...
    • School Staff
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider cutting the tenth mainstream class teacher from a school (details supplied) due to a shortfall of one class pupil; if he...
    • School Patronage
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why there is no Gaelscoil for Ballyfermot, Dublin 10; and if the catchment area for Lucan, Clondalkin or Inchicore will be expanded to include...
    • Direct Provision Data
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in direct provision centres who are sitting the junior certificate and the leaving certificate examinations in 2016. [16043/16]
    • School Transport Review
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish Ireland’s correspondence with the European Union Commission on the negotiations of the appropriate measures to be...
    • School Transport Data
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has informed the European Commission in the course of the investigation C-31/07 that the system of calculating Bus Éireann’s...
    • School Staff
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve and expedite the appointment of an extra teacher for a school (details supplied). [16061/16]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a transfer application for a foreshore licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the pollution of beaches and bays from raw sewerage seepage such as that at Doldrum...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is willing to annul statutory instrument no. 24 of 2016 and the recent amendment made to it regarding the...
    • Water Charges Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Uisce Éireann has provided him with details of the administrative costs of the billing and collection of water...
    • Water Pollution
      232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the competent agencies and authorities responsible for water quality monitoring are routinely testing water samples for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15447/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15463/16]
    • Planning Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his role in preventing temporary encampments at beach locations during the summer of 2016; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fire Stations Upgrade
      239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will grant funding to redevelop the old and outdated Ballyshannon fire station, given that this is a priority for...
    • Waste Management
      240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how it is that the polluter-pays principle, under which fees to collect household waste are to be charged under the Waste...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how he will monitor the compliance of waste companies with the Metrology Act 1996, and with the technical specifications...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the inspections each local authority carried out on building sites, specifying the type of site in each case, in each of...
    • Building Regulations
      247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the inspection for once-off housing; why this cost is so high; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Waste Management
      250. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the level of information provided by private waste collection companies to residential customers...
    • Shared Ownership Scheme
      251. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the recent changes to the shared ownership scheme to address previous issues around affordability and rent...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to initiate a change in tenancy laws so that a tenants are still allowed to complete their lease, even if the...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to give the National Asset Management Agency a legal role to address infrastructural problems with land under...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls
      254. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to link rent increases and decreases to the consumer price index; given this, his plans to take account of...
    • Waste Management
      255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to grant waivers or other forms of relief to family, single and older person household users under the...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      256. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the national rents framework and when he will commence and complete the review of differential rent schemes,...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
      257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications received and approved under the mortgage-to-rent scheme, by county, in each of the years 2013...
    • Local Government Reform
      258. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the savings to his Department following the abolition of town and borough councils under the Local Government Reform Act...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social houses built, by county, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; his plans for...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of housing, planning and...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue collected from the payment of development levies, by county council, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      262. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff recruited by local authorities to deliver more social housing units under the social housing strategy...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will remain responsible for Leader, the social inclusion and community activation programme and the scheme to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      264. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the affordable housing schemes in place; if an affordable purchase price will be a significant part of the policy soon to...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application by Leitrim County Council for funding for a sewerage scheme for Drumshanbo, County Leitrim,...
    • Housing Policy
      266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are incorporated into future housing policies,...
    • Local Government Fund
      269. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will offer compensation from the local government fund in 2017, as was offered in 2016; the amount he will offer, by...
    • Water Quality
      270. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he has or will put in place to tackle excessive lime levels in residential water supplies which can damage...
    • Local Authority Management
      272. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the executive of Sligo County Council, in a report to councillors dated 1 June 2016, stated that...
    • Tax Collection
      273. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a revenue audit held on 30 March 2016 at the offices of Sligo County Council resulted in a liability...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      274. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses Galway City Council approved for construction and approved for persons with a disability in the past...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
      276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to recommend the restoration of mortgage interest supplement to the Department of Finance or to the budget oversight committee in the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to recommend the restoration of rent supplement to the Minister for Finance or to the budget oversight committee in the Houses of the...
    • Unemployment Levels
      280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to address the issue of the long-term unemployed, of which there now are 100,000 persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to address the issue of youth unemployment which now stands at 15%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16034/16]
    • Water Conservation Grant Administration
      282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of administering the 2015 water conservation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15322/16]
    • Disability Activation Projects
      283. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 301 and 330 of 24 May 2016, the average waiting time for a person with a disability to meet a job coach in...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      284. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why persons who are long-time on JobPath with private companies and have not succeeded in getting employment are ineligible under the Tús...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) cannot be released from JobPath to pursue a child care course through a community employment scheme; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15361/16]
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he has suspended a payment to a person (details supplied) under the family income supplement scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15454/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      293. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15470/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15486/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15515/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15516/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15517/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      299. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will process an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15528/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      300. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/16]
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of social protection payments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15539/16]
    • National Internship Scheme Review
      302. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans regarding the JobBridge scheme and to stop new entrants to the scheme in September 2016; if any scheme which is introduced will continue...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      304. 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...
    • Public Services Card Authentication
      305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the procedure for activating public service cards which is based on a telephone call, given that this is not appropriate for deaf...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme, including when his Department will issue a final...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will include persons who are participating in part-time study courses under the back to education allowance scheme. [15682/16]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the body which will assess the capacity of persons in receipt of payment under the illness benefit scheme and the disability allowance scheme to be...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      314. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when his Department will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will publish the report on the impact of reduced payment rates to persons from 18 to 25 years of age under the jobseeker's scheme; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered increasing income thresholds for eligibility for social protection payments given the commitment in the programme for...
    • Disability Activation Projects
      319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the imminent closure of the WALK PEER programme in County Louth and the provisions he will put in place to provide alternative projects...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will approve an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer’s allowance scheme; if he will examine the medical evidence...
    • Respite Care Grant Payments
      321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the respite care grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15922/16]
    • 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...
    • Respite Care Grant Applications
      323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the respite care grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when his Department will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      325. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a payment his Department recently awarded to a person (details supplied) was only backdated to March 2016, given that the person applied in...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pensions
      328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the supplementary State transition pension payment scheme; and if he has established an interdepartmental group to examine this...
    • Departmental Payment Options
      329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he continues to issue letters to recipients of social protection payments requesting that they change their chosen payment method to a...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider extending the placement period on Tús – work placement initiative from 12 to 18 or 24 months for those who wish to...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the carer’s allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • International Election Monitoring
      335. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the number of Irish overseas election observers has fallen in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date. [15367/16]
    • Human Rights Issues
      338. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the latest torture allegations that a person (details supplied) has made including details of gruesome treatment being...
    • International Agreements
      339. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the planned signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Development Community, SADC, and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      340. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      342. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15449/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      343. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15465/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15481/16]
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      345. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 31 May 2016, if he has an obligation to carry out an audit of compliance with the conditions on...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will highlight the death threats to social leaders in Colombia, where 28 social campaigners and trade unionists were murdered and a...
    • Commemorative Events
      348. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has requested the British Government to permit a commemoration of the centenary of the execution of Roger Casement at Pentoville...
    • European Council Meetings
      349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his most recent Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15586/16]
    • International Agreements
      350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps necessary to ratify the UN optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. [15697/16]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review correspondence from a person (details supplied) to determine if he can meet and provide assistance and information to...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a military aircraft (details supplied) of the US was at Shannon Airport on 1 June 2016; and the implications for our neutrality....
    • Sports Events
      356. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has implemented to support, assist and safeguard Irish citizens travelling abroad in summer 2016 to sporting and other...
    • International Agreements
      357. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the impact of the EU-Turkey migration deal negotiated in March 2016; the mechanisms that have been put in place to ensure the...
    • Official Apology
      358. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why a Minister retracted an apology on 27 November 2007 which had been given by a Minister on 9 August 2004 (details supplied); if the...
    • Departmental Funding
      359. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a reprint publication is eligible for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16049/16]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Foreshore Issues
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a plot of land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15495/16]
    • Stability Programme Data
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that medium-term projections such as those in the stability programme update do not understate likely...
    • Office of Public Works Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reinstate the critically important role of dedicated manager at Ionad an Bhlascaoid, Dún Chaoin, Contae Chiarraí...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15453/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15469/16]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15489/16]
    • EU Directives
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has incorporated all elements of the public authorities contracts directive, 2014/24/EU, and the utilities directive, 2014/25/EU,...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to extend the existing cover way on Sceilig Mhichíl, Contae Chiarraí to protect walkers from falling stones as a precautionary...
    • Departmental Reports
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the Civil Service Arbitration Board's report; if he will accept its findings; and if he will link disciplinary...
    • Semi-State Bodies Data
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of chief executive officers in semi-State companies, under the aegis of his Department, who are employed or who are not...
    • Public Sector Staff
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will recommence pre-retirement courses for civil servants in Departments and State bodies. [15881/16]
    • Drainage Schemes
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform why the Office of Public Works will not engage in a clean-up of the River Deel, including the river bank, silt on the river bed and do...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports
      375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has seen the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report of June 2016; his assessment of the report as it relates to new spending...
    • Drainage Schemes
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will arrange to have works carried out at a specific location (details supplied). [15904/16]
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Hedge Cutting Season
      377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the agricultural hedge cutting date restrictions in place for farmers and others; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Scéimeanna Teanga
      378. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén idirphlé a bhí ann idir a Roinn agus an Roinn Oideachais agus Scileanna go dtí seo maidir le dréacht de...
    • Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna
      379. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist ag a Roinn a iarraidh ar Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe cead pleanála a lorg do Chuid 3...
    • Cuanta agus Céanna
      380. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil an cúram maidir le maoiniú forbairt na cé in Inis Oírr le haistriú ón Roinn Comhshaoil,...
    • Inland Waterways Development
      381. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has corresponded with Waterways Ireland on the disposal of the Grand Canal graving docks in the Grand Canal Basin; her...
    • Commemorative Events
      382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has discussed the option of selecting a fixed Sunday in the year for the National Famine Commemoration Day with the National...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of money her Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      385. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15442/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of current and capital provisions for 2016 under the Decade of the Centenaries 1912 to 1922 subhead that she has spent to...
    • Arts Funding
      389. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding for the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15702/16]
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      390. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of positions on the boards of bodies and agencies under the aegis of her Department; the number of vacant positions; when...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      391. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in relation to the River Deel in County Mayo; its engagements with the Office of...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      392. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of leases the National Parks and Wildlife Service entered into, given the decision by a landowner to sell relevant lands...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Activation Projects
      393. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 301 and 330 of 24 May 2016, the number of school leavers from special education to whom the Health Service Executive...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child and adolescent mental health service's beds required to end the practice of children being treated in adult mental health facilities; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15663/16]
    • Health Services
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15664/16]
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      399. To ask the Minister for Health if he consulted with the Central Remedial Clinic or had any notification prior to it winding up its pension and death benefit plan. [15959/16]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the average delay between approval under the nursing home subvention scheme and payment commencing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15323/16]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of designated inpatient beds and the overall occupancy rates at Killybegs Community Hospital, County Donegal, by month, in 2016 to date, in tabular...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances which operate out of County Mayo, by ambulance station, by hour, by day; and the level of service in County Mayo. [15363/16]
    • HSE National Service Plan
      403. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 959 of 17 May 2016, the timeframe for the process; and when the new centre will be operational. [15366/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15372/16]
    • HSE Properties
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a facility (details supplied) leased by the Health Service Executive. [15373/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      406. To ask the Minister for Health the funding he has allocated to disability services for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15378/16]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for Health Service Executive orthodontic treatment for children in County Carlow; his plans to alleviate this; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      410. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recently published study entitled Meeting Older People's Preference for Care (details supplied). [15400/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      411. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15450/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15466/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15482/16]
    • Hospital Equipment
      416. To ask the Minister for Health when the magnetic resonance imaging machine at University Hospital Kerry will be in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15493/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      417. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15500/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [15504/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the status of providing medical equipment from the Health Service Executive to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      422. 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. [15521/16]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available to persons (details supplied) to meet the cost of alcohol rehabilitation in rehabilitation centres; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Equipment
      424. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide extra spinal cord stimulators to St. Vincent's hospital, Dublin 4, to facilitate the 80 plus patients who are suffering from chronic pain...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the factors in his decision not to recommend the Orkambi drug for cystic fibrosis patients. [15543/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      426. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 5 May 2016, the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15557/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) including when the person will receive an appointment. [15567/16]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      430. To ask the Minister for Health why he did not provide assistance to a person (details supplied) under the home help scheme; why no hours are available for applicants in Dublin 8, 10 and 12;...
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently intervene to restore funding for home care packages given that some areas, such as the Beaumont Hospital local catchment area in Dublin 9,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical device; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15595/16]
    • National Drugs Strategy
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the membership of the steering group tasked to develop the new national drug strategy. [15652/16]
    • Drugs-related Deaths
      434. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 1 June 2016, when he and the Health Service Executive will complete the evaluation of the demonstration project on...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      435. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied) for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15700/16]
    • Prisoner Health
      437. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 31 May 2016, the reason the Health Information and Quality Authority will not conduct a review of health care...
    • HSE Staff
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if the panel of applicants for the position of groundsman with the Health Service Executive in Castlebar, County Mayo, established in 2015 is exhausted. [15713/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      439. To ask the Minister for Health when he will schedule an appointment for a person (details supplied). [15715/16]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      440. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 2 June 2016, the types of cancer that are suitable for treatment using the combined nivolumab-ipilimumab therapy;...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the vacant posts in community health organisation area 1 in the past six months; if these posts remain vacant; if not, the date on which he filled each post;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      442. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [15731/16]
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      444. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding through the South Western Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force to assist in the valuable work carried out by a group (details...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
      445. To ask the Minister for Health his role in formulating a cross-government policy on drugs. [15314/16]
    • HSE Investigations
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if he met with the Health Service Executive regarding the deaths of two babies at Cavan General Hospital in May 2016; when these investigations will be...
    • HSE Funding
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will fund a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15879/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a medical device to a person (details supplied) without delay. [15897/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise and arrange an early date for surgery for a person (details supplied); and the reason the surgery was not conducted at another hospital....
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the business case regarding Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, pensions which the CRC submitted on 1 June 2016; the case put therein; and if he...
    • Hospitals Data
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hazard, incident and near-miss reports indicating stress as a cause of the issuing of reports that were submitted, by hospital, in each of the...
    • HSE Data
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals the management of the Health Service Executive made on behalf of the staff of its occupational health department and its employee...
    • HSE Expenditure
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of maintaining the Health Service Executive’s occupational health department and employee assistance and staff counselling service in each of...
    • Health Services Funding
      455. To ask the Minister for Health how an adult support group (details supplied) can apply for and receive an annual grant for operating purposes similar to other comparable support groups; to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      456. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reduce the waiting list for rehabilitation beds in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, given the significant waiting list for...
    • Disability Services Funding
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cessation of funding to the WALK PEER programme; if he will meet with the WALK PEER team to discuss the situation and to re-evaluate the...
    • Community Care Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently reinstate the provision of 24-hour community care for a person (details supplied), given additional funding to the Health Service...
    • Hospital Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the status of maternity services in Tralee General Hospital in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15926/16]
    • Hospital Procedures
      460. 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. [15929/16]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements he has in place to supplement the work of the speech and language therapists based in the speech therapy services in County Kilkenny should...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the amount his Department spent on providing individual medicines (details supplied) to patients, the price paid for each medicine and the dispensing fees paid...
    • Health Services Staff
      465. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the register of qualified mastectomy brassiere fitters with a view to putting a contract out for tender for County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received an appointment. [15954/16]
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the rules and legislation which formed the basis for him and the Health Service Executive advising representatives from the Central Remedial Clinic at the end...
    • Health Services Reports
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the reason substantial portions of appendix 16 of the report of the interim administrator appointed by the Health Service Executive to the Central Remedial...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      470. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the unregulated sale of false treatments for autism spectrum disorder and cancer over the Internet; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      471. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a person (details supplied) with traditional respite care through the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      472. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the methadone treatment list data for the Kildare and west Wicklow local health office. [15973/16]
    • Health Services
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in opening the new health centre in Mullagh, Cavan town; when he will open it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15979/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays experienced by children and their families in assessing early intervention services for children with autism spectrum disorder in County...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      479. 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. [16001/16]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of abortions carried out in 2015 under the provisions of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      481. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the nursing home support, fair deal, scheme will be finalised; when the outcome of same will be revealed to the general public; and if he...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      482. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on using a community-based model for the development and improvement of eye care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      483. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work of the steering committee set up to oversee the development of the new national drugs strategy; the names of the members and...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of opiate users in County Dublin has decreased over the lifetime of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Hazardous Waste Sites
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet the financial commitments made by the last Government in respect of the clean-up on the site of the former Irish...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received clarification on getting farm land under solar farm installations recognised as an agricultural activity and,...
    • Food Safety Authority of Ireland Inspections
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of the investigation of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and his Department into elevated polybrominated...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason he has not provided a conclusive answer to a query - apart from two interim responses - which was lodged for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15441/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set down the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15457/16]
    • Departmental Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15473/16]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2; and if...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive pig sector crisis funding. [15497/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has fined a person (details supplied) and reduced the person's payment under the basic payment scheme. [15498/16]
    • TAMS Applications
      504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by persons (details supplied) under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2; when he will...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 26 April 2016, the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 26 April 2016, when he will issue a payment to a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 14 April 2016, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 14 April 2016, the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the basic...
    • GLAS Applications
      509. 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 Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Eligibility
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 14 April 2016, the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to request the European Union Commissioner, Mr. Phil Hogan, to review the basic payment scheme and greening rules (details supplied)....
    • Herd Number Applications
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) regarding a herd number; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a fishing licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a year 5 payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Semi-State Bodies Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of chief executive officers in semi-State companies under the aegis of his Department who are employed or who are not...
    • Departmental Staff
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if staff in the cattle movement and monitoring system of his Department complained of intimidation, harassment and bullying (details...
    • Marine Tourism Promotion
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to transfer responsibility for marine leisure development to the proposed new Department of rural and regional affairs,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of the planned remediation works at Haulbowline Island, County Cork ; the cost of the plan to develop a public park and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Herd Number Applications
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department facilitated a herd transfer without due scrutiny of its legality (details supplied). [15949/16]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the AEOS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15955/16]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a payment recently issued to a person (details supplied). [15961/16]
    • Harbours and Piers
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the recent introduction of restricted access hours for those requiring the use of a syncrolift operated by his...
    • Greyhound Industry
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees with the policy of publicly funded greyhound stadiums being managed in such a way that they can be closed for private...
    • Afforestation Programme
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the appropriate grant aid and finance will be available to allow persons who have been approved for participation in the new...
    • EU Directives
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the system of fines for breach of the nitrates directive (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to recruit for the position of agricultural technical officer; the number of new staff he will recruit; where he will base...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      529. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will publish the 2016 to 2021 corporate plan of Inland Fisheries Ireland (details supplied); if he will examine...
    • Postal Codes (1 comment)
      530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the departmental spend on setting up Eircode; the original budget; the spend on ongoing maintenance costs since it was...
    • Energy Schemes
      535. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to consider introducing an opt-in provision for customers in the national smart metering programme; and if he will make a...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
      538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has analysed the potential reputational damage for Ireland as a green tourism and agrifood country, given the...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Eligibility
      539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the renewable energy feed in tariff pricing for solar power; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15444/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15460/16]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15491/16]
    • Electrical Contractors
      546. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will request the Commission for Energy Regulation to engage with the Registered Electrical Contractors of Ireland...
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      547. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the mobile telephone coverage taskforce; the extent of public consultation it will employ; the timeline for...
    • Semi-State Bodies Data
      548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of chief executive officers in semi-State companies, under the aegis of his Department, that are employed or...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      549. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 835 of 31 May 2016, if he will address a matter (details supplied). [15932/16]
    • Climate Change Policy
      550. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to establish a national dialogue on climate change including the format, scale and methodology he...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the fibre broadband capacity in Brittas, County Kilkenny; the provisions in place to improve this; the status of its...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Córas Faisnéise Dhátheangach
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil sé i gceist aige maoiniú a chur ar fáil d’Iarnród Éireann le gur féidir leo dul ar aghaidh...
    • Road Safety
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances under the Road Traffic Acts or regulations in which young children are allowed to cycle on footpaths due to the danger...
    • Aviation Policy
      555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assumptions in relation to global action to reduce greenhouse gases he has relayed to the Dublin Airport Authority in predicting...
    • Road Network
      557. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a bypass for a town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15393/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15456/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15472/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15488/16]
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the problems persons (details supplied) living along the Border and whose general practitioner is based in Northern...
    • Aviation Licences Provision
      564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of and the countries which made requests under the Air Navigation and Transport Act (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and...
    • Transport Policy
      566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to reduce car dependency and usage and to incentivise greener modes of transport; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Insurance
      567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his discussions with the Department of Finance on the recent hike in car insurance prices; the measures he is planning to take; and if he...
    • Sports Organisations
      568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to investigate the selection criteria used to pick the marathon team that will represent Ireland in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de...
    • Driver Test Centres
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Mallow driver test centre will remain open on a permanent basis, given that the most recent census states that County Cork has the...
    • Greenways Development
      570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has carried out a feasibility study into developing a heritage greenway along the River Boyne linking the heritage sites of Trim...
    • Semi-State Bodies Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of chief executive officers in semi-State companies under the aegis of his Department who are employed on Hay contracts and...
    • Public Transport Subsidies
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 13 cent State subsidy for each €1 in fares collected by Bus Éireann compares unfavourably with other EU 15 countries...
    • Public Transport
      573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to open a significant proportion of Dublin Bus routes to tender and if he accepts that private companies will try to...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the opposition of Dublin City Council's elected members to the concept of an eastern bypass in the city, as manifested at...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of vacancies on the board of the Port of Cork Company, including the process for filling vacancies; and if he will make a...
    • Parking Charges
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 882 of 31 May 2016, if he will introduce yearly set-fee parking discs to tax-abiding tradespersons...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reinstate the local improvement scheme for non-county roads as per the programme for Government; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish the criteria his Department used to evaluate which roads building projects to include in its submission to the Department of...
    • Rail Services Provision
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will introduce to address overcrowding on train carriages on the Dublin to Maynooth line; and if he will make a statement...
    • Industrial Relations
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the pay claims by Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann workers, given that they have not received a pay rise in eight years....
    • Regional Airports
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to support Waterford Airport following the ending by an airline (details supplied) of its Waterford to Luton...
    • Road Projects
      582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how Transport Infrastructure Ireland maintains the grass and embankments on the roads under its control. [15916/16]
    • Rail Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Phoenix Park tunnel link on the Kildare rail line will open and be operational; the new services to be provided, including a...
    • Road Projects
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the trilogy of roads projects in the greater Naas area in County Kildare, specifically the Sallins bypass, widening the M7...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed Narrow Water Bridge project following the meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council; and if he will make...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to reinstate the local improvement scheme in the interest of persons and businesses in rural areas of counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if...
    • Road Projects
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to increase funding for roads in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15981/16]
    • Tourism Industry
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop the tourism sector equally across the country, in particular utilising natural assets, scenery and tours to national...
    • Hotel Accommodation
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he monitors the adequate availability of hotel and guest accommodation and of the ability of the sector to meet demand; the locations...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if interest will grow in activity sports and recreation over the next five years; his plans for an initiative in this regard; and if he...
    • Sports Funding
      593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will identify the need for sporting and recreational facilities and continue his policy of allocating capital grants to such...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to identify areas which require investment in the road and rail network; to restore projects set aside during the economic...
    • Road Safety
      596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed dangerous bridges or other accident black spots in order to prioritise and to set specific targets over the lifetime...
    • Roads Maintenance
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Kildare County Council to identify dangerous and inadequate bridges in the county and to initiate a programme to...
    • Regional Airports
      600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to enhance and develop regional airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16014/16]
    • Swimming Pool Programme Funding
      601. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide capital funding for swimming pools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16015/16]
    • Road Safety
      603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations in place to ensure that passengers on school buses wear their safety belts for the duration of the journey to and from...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • State Bodies Data
      604. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of forensic accountants employed by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the dates on which they...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      605. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in formulating research and innovation policy at Government level. [15313/16]
    • National Minimum Wage
      606. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the process involved for using the exemption under section 41(1) of the National Minimum Wage Act 2000; the number of times this...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      608. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount the Injuries Board paid in legal fees in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      610. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to review the Personal Injuries Assessment Board legislation; and the public consultations she will include. [15394/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      613. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money her Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times Magazine in 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15451/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      616. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for her. [15467/16]
    • Appointment of Receivers
      618. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the qualifications that are necessary for a person to act as a receiver; the circumstances in which receivers are appointed and...
    • Semi-State Bodies Data
      619. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of chief executive officers in Semi-State companies under the aegis of her Department who are employed or who are not...
    • IDA Site Visits
      620. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland organised to County Donegal in each of the years...
    • Departmental Funding
      621. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding his Department provided to a company (details supplied) or to its parent company; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Competition Law
      622. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in place to prevent so-called predatory pricing and the elimination of competition with the various sectors of the...
    • Enterprise Support Services Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the most recent engagement his Department has had with a company (details supplied) particularly in respect of its...
    • Departmental Funding
      624. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding support his Department offered to small businesses in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a...
    • Business Regulation
      625. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he is taking to safeguard business by tackling existing administrative burdens caused by regulation and legislation; the...
    • Trade Agreements
      626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Commission's plan to reinvigorate the Mercorsor talks; if Ireland has an official position on these; and if she will make...
    • Zero-hour Contracts
      628. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to introduce legislation to implement the recommendations of the University of Limerick study, A Study of the Prevalence of...
    • Gender Balance
      629. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she intends to take to increase female participation in the labour market and to deal with the issue of part-time...
    • Job Creation Data
      630. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to provide a detailed breakdown by sector, employment status in terms of post, rate of pay, full-time and part-time, of the 3,500 new...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance she will provide to a person (details supplied) to obtain documents from the State; and if she will meet the person to...
    • Child and Family Agency Data
      632. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing refuge spaces for women to 1.7 per 10,000 population. [16055/16]
    • HIQA Reports
      633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she is taking in relation to Health Information and Quality Authority's Annual Overview Report on the Inspection and Regulation...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the ratio of social workers to cases by county in each of the years 2013 to 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15357/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      636. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money her Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      638. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff working in her human resources section. [15443/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      639. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for her. [15459/16]
    • Child Care Services Provision
      641. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware of the potential closure of a company (details supplied); if she will assist in averting its closure; her responsibility...
    • Departmental Funding
      642. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual funding that was previously provided for a centre (details supplied) which has since been withdrawn; and the cost of reinstating...
    • Adoption Records Provision
      643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance she can provide to a person (details supplied) in obtaining records on adoptions; if she will review certain correspondence;...
    • Employment Rights
      644. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce guidelines to protect child care workers in sporadic employment. [14842/16]
    • Company Closures
      645. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware that the rehabilitation facility in County Kilkenny is to close on 30 June 2016; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware of the community child care facilities in County Clare that closed without notice in February 2016; the compensation...
    • Child and Family Agency
      647. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 684 of 8 June 2016, to provide the salary and remuneration packages of the Board of Tusla - the Child...
  • Department of Defence
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      648. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason for the long delays in Garda Síochána clearance of persons (details supplied); the progress of these applications; and when...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      649. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications to join the Reserve Defence Force; the number who completed the fitness test; the number of those who passed the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      650. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      652. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15445/16]
    • Ministerial Staff
      653. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15461/16]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      654. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15477/16]
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      655. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 2 June 2016, the reason he cannot obtain the information sought from the Health Protection...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      656. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will accept applications in his recruitment to the Defence Forces from students who have not completed their studies but who wish to do so...

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