Written answers

Tuesday, 21 June 2016

  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of ensuring that workers in his Department recruited post-2011 are paid the pre-2011 salary rate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the future of Gormanston Camp in County Meath. [16861/16]
    • Departmental Staff Allowances
      28. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of reintroducing public sector allowances for workers in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16652/16]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of aid-to-the-civil-power duties the Defence Forces carried out at Shannon Airport in County Clare and at Dublin Airport in County...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the division of responsibilities between him and the Minister for State in his Department. [15600/16]
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to continue prescribing Lariam for members of the Defence Forces; the alternative medications available and used; the number of members...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he will take to address the attrition rate and identify the cause of premature departures and the loss of highly trained and skilled...
    • EU Battle Groups
      34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of military exercises involving Irish soldiers and European Union battle groups; and other joint military exercises that have taken...
    • Overseas Missions Data
      35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of overseas missions on which Irish soldiers are serving; the number of these that only involve troops from European Union States or...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he will take to address the low number of female personnel in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16900/16]
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of a recruitment drive to the Reserve Defence Forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16896/16]
    • Naval Service
      38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the operations of the Naval headquarters in County Cork and the impact of the planned waste incinerator currently in the planning permission...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is making progress in negotiations with residents in the Curragh Camp in County Kildare who have been threatened with eviction; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      40. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to restore the three brigade structure to the Army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16892/16]
    • Defence Forces Training
      41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the development of a new institute for leadership and peacekeeping studies at the Defence Forces Training Centre; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the weapons and equipment his Department or the Defence Forces purchased in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; that they plan to purchase in...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Properties
      43. To ask the Taoiseach the properties Department or agencies under its remit leased; the number it leased on upward-only rents; the number of the lessors that are involved with the National...
    • Employment Data
      44. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on the national minimum wage and their percentage of the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16537/16]
    • Zero-hour Contracts
      45. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on zero-hour contracts and their percentage of the workforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16538/16]
    • Cross-Border Projects
      47. To ask the Taoiseach his role in working with the Northern Ireland Executive in agreeing and implementing cross-Border projects that can benefit from European Union funding, as per the...
    • Overseas Visits
      49. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for overseas visits for the remainder of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14515/16]
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      50. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union following the referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016 with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David...
    • Departmental Staff
      59. To ask the Taoiseach the changes to staffing and to the salaries of advisers in his Department since 1 March 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14510/16]
    • Citizens Assembly
      61. To ask the Taoiseach when he will issue the tender for a polling company to source members of the citizens' assembly; and his plans to publish full details of the call for tender, given the...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      62. To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referendums he will hold in the next 12 months. [15849/16]
    • Child Care Services Staff
      63. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage for child care workers; how this compares to European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures. [14721/16]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      64. To ask the Taoiseach the elements of the programme for Government for which he is responsible. [15843/16]
    • Employment Data
      67. To ask the Taoiseach , further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 22 March 2016, the additional cost of producing detailed county estimates of the number of persons at work; the increase in...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures British citizens living here will have to take in relation to Irish citizenship in the event of Britain leaving the European Union...
    • Mental Health Policy
      69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will appoint the director of decision support services in line with the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; the extent of the...
    • Pension Provisions
      70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the pension to which a retired garda who served between 1966 and 1974 is entitled; the criteria for qualifying for a pension; the application...
    • Spent Convictions
      71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the convictions incurred by a person (details supplied) qualify as spent convictions under the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain...
    • Equality Issues
      72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is illegal under the Equality Act 2015 or other legislation for private emergency accommodation, such as bed and breakfasts or hotels, to...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding she is making available to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority as provided for in the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015; and if...
    • Garda Deployment
      74. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána in west County Dublin in each of the years from 2012 to May 2016. [16764/16]
    • Garda Stations
      76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the location of the new building acquired by the Office of Public Works for the new Garda station in Bailieborough, County Cavan; if funding...
    • Firearms Licences
      77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a reply will issue from her office to a query submitted on 23 May 2016 (details supplied). [16809/16]
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
      78. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will appoint the criminal injuries compensation tribunal and when it will hear appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prison Service
      79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has evaluated or plans to privatise part of the operations of the Prison Service. [17006/16]
    • Prison Accommodation
      80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the policy document and latest information on the implementation of the cell-share risk assessment tool proposed as part of...
    • Prison Service
      81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a dignity at work charter in the Prison Service, including when she will publish information on it; if she has...
    • Prison Service Strategies
      82. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the strategies for older prisoners, young prisoners, sex offenders and prisoners requiring protection; when these strategies...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide better protection to victims of domestic violence by ratifying and implementing the Istanbul Convention; and if she will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce stalking legislation to cover traditional, online and digital stalking in their direct and indirect forms; and if she will...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      87. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the family reunification scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Station Closures
      88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will review the Garda stations that were closed under the previous Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17081/16]
    • Public Sector Pay
      89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount saved by having a lower level of pay for new recruits in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13012/16]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she received the O'Higgin's report from the commission of investigation into certain matters relative to the Cavan and Monaghan division of...
    • Mortgage Debt
      91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of interest applying to a judgment mortgage; if a judgment mortgage lapses after a period of time; the steps the creditor may take to...
    • Parole Boards
      92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names of members of the Parole Board since 2011. [17175/16]
    • Equality Legislation
      93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the prohibitions in place to prevent public officials or public authorities from imposing certain requirements contrary to the religious beliefs...
    • Voluntary Euthanasia
      94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of assisted suicide and euthanasia; her plans for changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17225/16]
    • Garda Resources
      95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the resources of An Garda Síochána in County Clare and to end the moratorium on recruitment of clerical staff; and...
    • Home Repossessions
      96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will urgently legislate for a moratorium on family home evictions until such time as a reasoned solution to the family housing crisis is...
    • Garda Training
      97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality what the training programme entails for a recruit to An Garda Síochána and if a group of trainee gardaí has ever been allowed to...
    • Garda Transport Data
      98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new vehicles supplied to Garda Síochána stations in the Waterford, Dungarvan and Tramore divisional districts of County...
    • Community Policing
      99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who are community gardaí in each of the districts in Waterford city and county; and if...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the high level of anti-social behaviour in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 15 including but not limited to drug dealing,...
    • Immigration Status
      101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her proposals to introduce an administrative scheme for migrants who wish to regularise their undocumented status; and if she will make a...
    • Refugee Data
      102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the backlog in processing applications by migrants seeking humanitarian leave to remain; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17331/16]
    • Migrant Integration
      104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the office for the promotion of migrant integration within her Department still operates; the work it has carried out in the past two years;...
    • Visa Applications
      106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider to the exceptional humanitarian circumstances and take measures to ensure the safe passage of persons (details supplied) to...
  • Department of Finance
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is permissible for an insurance company not to insure a person (details supplied), given that each of the persons have a card approved by a general...
    • Insurance Costs
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tackle the extraordinary hike in car insurance premiums following the Private Members' business motion on this issue last week. [17002/16]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application by a person (details supplied) who was declined a certificate under the primary care medical scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance why the car insurance industry will not honour driving experience overseas for emigrants who are returning home (details supplied). [17312/16]
    • IBRC Staff
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has agreed to pay four weeks redundancy for each year worked to former employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will treat this as a...
    • VAT Rate Application
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance to ensure that the 9% value added tax rate is retained for the hospitality sector to safeguard tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16718/16]
    • Departmental Schemes
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies which participated in the research and development tax credit scheme, the amounts they claimed and the number of jobs they created...
    • Universal Social Charge
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the statement in the document, Minister's Brief 2016, given its significance in revenue raising, that changes to the universal social charge would...
    • Pension Provisions
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the statement in the document, Minister's Brief 2016, about work his Department is doing in relation to pensions, work on developing and...
    • EU Meetings
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the Bilderberg meeting held recently in Germany including who attended, what was discussed, the minutes of the meeting and if he attended on...
    • Tax Settlements
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of settlements the Revenue Commissioners reached in 2014 and 2015 with high nett worth persons which contained a clause guaranteeing that the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of prosecutions which have been brought against lenders for irresponsible lending in breach of Article 8(1) of the credit agreements for consumers'...
    • Tax Relief Eligibility
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding tax relief on social housing loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16816/16]
    • Tax Code
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he still intends to appeal the decision in the event of the European Union ruling that a company (details supplied) should repay tax to Ireland; and if he...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has analysed the impact on gross domestic product of a British withdrawal from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16839/16]
    • Inflation Rate
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the effects of a longer period of very low inflation on debt profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16840/16]
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will report on the proposal to tackle the difficulty in some cases of acquiring flood insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16841/16]
    • Financial Transactions Tax
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the financial transaction tax including why he is opposed to it; if this position is open to review; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Banking Sector
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the options he is considering regarding his shares in Permanent TSB and the overall strategy for the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Reviews
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to simplify and consolidate financial consumer protection legislation. [16846/16]
    • Consumer Protection
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16847/16]
    • Financial Services Sector
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the incorrect valuation of loan assets is enriching wealthy hedge funds at the expense of small business owners, given that according to the...
    • EU Regulations
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the European Union has indicated to this Deputy that it is possible to update a regulation by a later directive and that it has used this...
    • Credit Register Establishment
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance when the central credit register will come into operation and will operate it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16938/16]
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to place the code of conduct on mortgage arrears on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16939/16]
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend section 33AK of the Central Bank Act 1942 in line with the banking inquiry’s recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid to a firm (details supplied) to date and the expected final costs in repect of work on the Central Bank Consolidation Bill; and if he will...
    • Promissory Notes
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the planned disposal of the floating bonds held by the Central Bank related to the promissory notes; his plans to alter this strategy; the...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Reports
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if the figures given in the Central Bank's published insurance statistics are provided by the industry or if they are audited by the Central Bank before...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the legal opinion of a company (details supplied) mentioned in the KPMG progress report on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation issued to...
    • Tax Code
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the availability of agricultural relief from capital acquisitions tax, where the farming land that is the subject of the relief has an already commissioned...
    • Motor Insurance
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the motor insurance crisis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17080/16]
    • Tax Code
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increases to thresholds of inheritance tax to take account of different types of family units, including those who wish to pass on family...
    • Tax Credits
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) on low income is paying a higher proportion of tax; if he will review this case to ascertain additional credits are or...
    • Tax Code
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered reducing capital gains tax on the transfer of assets, including shares to children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17242/16]
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints the Financial Services Ombudsman received, and the number upheld, regarding the sale of whole-of-life insurance policies in each of...
    • Property Tax Administration
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance under section 13 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 whereby home owners are responsible for the local property tax for their property for the whole...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank have a record of the number of commercial loans that have been sold on by the original underwriter; the details of this...
    • NAMA Communications
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the National Asset Management Agency is obliged to take should it come to its attention that a person has lobbied it regarding a transaction on...
    • Tax Code
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if the legislation on close company professional service surcharge (details supplied), section 441 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, distorts competition;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Provision
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will work with Bus Éireann to provide a school bus from Cluain Dara, Derrinturn, County Kildare, to Oakland secondary school in...
    • Preschool Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 301 of 17 May 2016, to expedite an application by a school (details supplied) for a naíonra as a...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional hours to a person (details supplied) under the special needs assistance scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Bus Éireann
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 26 May 2016, if he monitors payments to Bus Éireann under state aid rules; if Bus Éireann...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of meetings between his Department officials and representatives of the Wake Up SUSI campaign who are seeking grants for low-income...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he is putting in place to create equal supplementary panel rights for regulation 2 and regulation 3 teachers (details supplied); and if...
    • School Curriculum
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the removal of rule 68 from the Rules for National Schools; the progress he hopes to make in amending the rules to reflect the...
    • Preschool Services
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current policy towards the opening and facilitation of preschools in existing primary schools where there is adequate space to provide a...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will appoint a new chair of the Higher Education Authority as a matter of urgency given that the authority has been without a chair since...
    • University Governance
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of universities that currently provide a residence for their president; if he is aware of any universities in the process of...
    • School Transport Provision
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport service will be provided to a primary school (details supplied); if he will ensure that a scheme is put in place given the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he did not put in place proper individual education and care plans and make provision for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and...
    • Torthaí Scoile
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na torthaí atá ar fáil ó na cineálacha éagsúla scoileanna iar-bhunoideachais sa chóras oideachais...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of permanent buildings for schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16827/16]
    • Teacher Training Places
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of difficulties being experienced by students of post-primary teaching qualification courses in finding suitable work experience...
    • School Accommodation
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider co-location as an option to resolve the situation whereby parents in north County Dublin cannot access a school through the medium of...
    • Irish Language
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will carry out a projection of the future demand among parents for the provision of education through the medium of the Irish language; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he provides any type of grant towards the costs of courses in the Gaeltacht for students who attend them; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently have no special needs unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16918/16]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently being taught in classes that have fewer than 25 pupils, have between 25 and 28 pupils, and have over 28 pupils,...
    • EU Funding
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the closing date for the submission of final claims and documentation for the 2007-2013 Human Capital Investment Operational Programme; if he...
    • Literacy Programmes
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money he has allocated for each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date for the provision of adult literacy services; and if he will make...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money he has allocated for each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date under the student assistance fund; and if he will make a...
    • Fund for Students with Disabilities
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money he has allocated for each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date under the fund for students with disabilities; and if he will...
    • School Inspection Reports
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will carry out an independent review of the operation of the community national school model; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will finalise and publish the Gaeltacht education policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16925/16]
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why his Department had to refund €19.8 million under the programme for employability, inclusion and learning; the impact of this on the...
    • Education Policy
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the science, technology, engineering and maths report will be published and referred to the Oireachtas committee; and if he will make a...
    • Access to Higher Education
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the independent examination of the supports and barriers to accessing higher education for lone parents, as referred to in the programme for...
    • Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been allocated over each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date to the delivering equality of opportunity in schools (DEIS)...
    • Third Level Staff
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will implement the recommendations of the Cush report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16930/16]
    • Technological Universities
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he remains of the view that the merger of institutes of technology is a pre-requisite for the application for, as opposed to the granting of,...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Data
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils currently awaiting assessment by a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist, by county; the number that have...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in granting permission for a new walkway between a school (details supplied) and the local shopping centre; and if he...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for the summer works scheme by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16934/16]
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the construction skills certification scheme, quarry skills certification scheme and safe pass...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with special needs in mainstream classes at primary and post-primary level in the school years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, in...
    • Third Level Fees
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if third level institutions in receipt of considerable State funding, should be allowed to discriminate against Irish citizens, in the matter of...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction a building project at a school (details supplied) to enable it to open another class for children with autism; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications from schools he received for special educational needs posts in 2016 and the number of applications by county. [17019/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the July provision should be provided for children with special needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when he will provide funding to a school (details supplied) under the emergency works given the urgent and substantial works required; and...
    • School Expulsions
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can challenge an overturning by third parties directly affected with regard to the expulsion of a student from a secondary school and the...
    • Student Support Schemes
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the €407 million he allocated for the purposes of student support and related expenses, that is paid to education...
    • School Services Staff
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) which wishes to receive a second caretaker in the school; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an emergency works application by a school (details supplied); if the application will be successful, given that funding is vital...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) under the capital works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17065/16]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is additional student grant financial support available to students who are living in isolated rural areas; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Establishment
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he will meet the growing demand for school places in the Harold's Cross and Terenure areas, including current demand for primary school...
    • School Transport Provision
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide school transport to a school (details supplied), given that it has more than the required number of pupils who meet the...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make funding available to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17187/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse a decision regarding the supply of the July provision for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of an anomalous situation whereby a SUSI maintenance grant is not payable to a person (details supplied) who is on a work...
    • Schools Building Projects
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the architect or architectural firm which designed a school (details supplied); the name of the builder who, or building company...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of carrying out repairs to faulty roofs in newly built schools in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Grievance Procedures
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why he has not introduced an adequate school complaints procedure despite calls for reform from the Ombudsman for Children and the National...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the identification and acquisition of sites for the two new secondary schools to serve the communities of Malahide, Portmarnock and...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take in relation to a school (details supply) which urgently requires funding for a new floor in the physical education hall;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take about the requirement for the replacement of the K block in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with the Irish National Teachers Organisation since his appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17274/16]
    • Technological Universities
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dialogue he has had with the Teachers Union of Ireland regarding technological universities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cearta Painéal Mhúinteoirí Scoile
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cathain a bheidh duine i nDún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil) curtha ar phainéal forlíontach na Roinne; agus an...
    • Home School Community Liaison Scheme
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accede to the request from the principals of schools (details supplied) who share a home school liaison community co-ordinator...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite a decision on an application for funding under the schools capital appraisal scheme for urgent refurbishment work in a school...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) raised in correspondence regarding teachers. [17340/16]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Property Tax Yield
      228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding collected from the property tax charges in County Kerry in 2015; the amount of this funding provided...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allowance exemption he will provide given to households with medical needs and in respect of the upcoming...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase the 500 m setback distance proposed in the 2013 targeted revision to the Wind Energy Development...
    • Water Quality
      231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken in relation to the do not swim notices which have been repeatedly issued in June 2016 in...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      232. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority mortgagees, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16734/16]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants
      233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase the grants payable under the group water scheme to ensure schemes are sufficiently maintained, given...
    • Local Authority Housing Funding
      234. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding Kerry County Council requested for housing in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Planning Issues
      236. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of one-off houses built in each local authority area in each year from 2011 to 2016 to date, in tabular form....
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of extra staff that have been employed in local authorities and to which authorities, to support the housing...
    • Local Authority Staff
      239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he received a request from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for extra staff to facilitate the roll out of the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide copies of memos, instructions and directives to local authorities or individual communications to particular...
    • Housing Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow all persons in emergency homeless situations to self-accommodate; his further plans to cease to limit...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      242. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if different local authorities can derive different interpretations from the implementation of the incremental purchase...
    • Air Quality
      244. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if and to what extent his Department or any agency under its remit monitors the level of nitrogen dioxide in the...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      245. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of capital assistance scheme housing authority properties in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to respond to complaints from persons that waste collection companies are charging fees that far exceed the existing...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funds for emergency accommodation in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown to prevent the relocation of homeless...
    • Land Ownership
      249. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a query regarding the ownership of a piece of land by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      250. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the plan to build 24 homes adjacent to Pinewood Estate in Balbriggan; his plans to provide funding to...
    • Scheme to Support National Organisations
      251. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why he refused SSNO funding to an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that it adhered to a Pobal request...
    • Planning Issues
      252. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce the submission of planning applications and comments electronically by e-mail with reference to...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he provided to local authorities for homeless services and its percentage of the total local Government...
    • Waste Disposal
      255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that there are sufficient top soil disposal locations to service the construction sector in the greater...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      257. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the €200 million earmarked for infrastructural investment is used for the building of two...
    • Proposed Legislation
      258. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation to halt evictions from family homes until solutions to the housing crisis are...
    • Building Regulations
      260. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that over the past number of years, a clerk of works has not been mandatory on site, and if he will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      261. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for decisions on the national taking-in-charge initiative measure 2 schemes recently submitted by local...
    • Regeneration Projects Expenditure
      262. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the urban regeneration scheme in Ballymun, Dublin 11. [17259/16]
    • Regeneration Projects
      263. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and status of urban regeneration schemes. [17260/16]
    • Environmental Policy
      265. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy on urban regeneration. [17262/16]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      266. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will expedite a social housing development which has being ongoing over seven years (details supplied); why this...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      269. 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. [16792/16]
    • Training Support Grant
      271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the State supports available by way of training under FÁS or any other avenues that can be explored, to provide necessary training for a person...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      272. 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. [16656/16]
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will permit all persons on community employment schemes who are over 60 years of age, where desired, to continue on the scheme until they...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 30 September 2015, if he will take steps to address the anomaly in how PRSI contributions are calculated...
    • Community Employment Schemes Administration
      275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money being spent by community employment schemes on mandatory health and safety training, which in many instances can absorb the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the report and review on the impact of the reduced jobseeker payment rates for jobseekers 18 to 25 years of age, as committed to in the Pathways...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the domiciliary care scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16702/16]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      278. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the case of a person (details supplied) regarding payments from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      279. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme. [16775/16]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused payment under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      282. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      283. 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. [16808/16]
    • Social Welfare Offices
      285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the future of the social welfare office in Swinford, County Mayo; if he can assure people in east County Mayo that there are no plans...
    • Training Support Grant
      286. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional funding he will make available under the training support grant when a person's retraining costs exceed €500; and if he will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      287. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider extending child benefit to students who are in full-time secondary education even though they have reached 18 years of age,...
    • Pensions Reform
      290. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the retirement age for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16905/16]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      291. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the invalidity pension scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      292. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) was awarded the jobseeker's allowance from December 2015, rather than the date of application, which was September...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      293. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting times of processing all social protection applications at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16951/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      294. 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. [16956/16]
    • Community Employment Schemes Funding
      295. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to reverse the cuts to the community employment scheme at a community programme (details supplied) introduced in 2012 in relation to the training...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the Carer's Allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16987/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why he has refused a person's (details supplied) request to have a carer's allowance payment backdated to the date that the caring commenced; and if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      298. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of allowing lone parents in employment whose children are between seven and 14 years of age to receive the jobseeker's transition payment...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      300. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he has implemented the comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; the resources he has allocated to it; and...
    • Fit for Work Programme
      301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the nature of any work competency assessment in relation to the Fit for Work programme, including by whom such assessments will be carried out; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will issue correspondence confirming the payment rate to a person (details supplied) under the carer's allowance scheme; and if he will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for Carer's Allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17051/16]
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) who has been offered a job on a community employment scheme is unable to accept it; and if he will make a statement...
    • Community Services Programme
      310. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has invited any organisations to make an application to the community services programme; if not, when he expects to do so; and if he will...
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      311. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his proposals to reverse the changes to the farm assist scheme that were introduced in budgets 2012 and 2013; if he is aware that these changes have...
    • Pension Provisions
      312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the Waterford Crystal pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights Issues
      313. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he will take to highlight the situation of the Rohingya people, displaced from their homeland in Myanmar; and if he will make a...
    • Trade Fairs
      314. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the next upcoming trade fair in China, including the date and venue, the areas of expertise specifically dealt...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      315. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ascertain whether the sharp increase in military aircraft of the US landing and overflying Shannon Airport in...
    • Passport Service Staff
      317. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will assign additional staff to the Passport Office during the peak holiday season or between May and September in order that...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      318. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of addressing the undocumented Irish in the US; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17078/16]
    • Consular Services Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consular assistance he is providing to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17226/16]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Monuments
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to close Saint Laurence's Gate in Drogheda, County Louth, to vehicular traffic to protect and preserve the structure of this...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the type of flood defence works as carried out by South Dublin County Council in Bohernabreena, Dublin 24 following...
    • EU Funding
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of his recent correspondence to the President of the European Commission regarding European Union rules posing a significant...
    • Census of Population Staff
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of a requirement for temporary staff recruited for Census 2016 to be under 70 years of age; if he will ensure that this...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will complete and implement the recommendations of the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, study; and if he...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to clear blockages from the Gweestin river, County Kerry, to prevent homes from being flooded; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the various measures in relation to pay and pensions introduced as part of financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI,...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from the General Secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (details...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 14 June 2016; and if he will make a statement...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Office of Public Works deemed an area as a flood area (details supplied), given that it has never experienced floods; and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address the local flooding in Killarney (details supplied) and potential dredging solutions to prevent future flooding; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will allocate moneys for the remediation works at Haulbowline island in Cobh, County Cork of which €40 million is required...
    • Coastal Erosion
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the funding he sanctioned for coastal erosion works at a location (details supplied) in County Mayo, and the works that were...
    • Public Sector Pensions Data
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the net effect of the imposition of the public service pension reduction which commenced on 1 January 2011, the legislation,...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Architectural Heritage
      335. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the grants available from her Department for renovating a thatched roof (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      336. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a first-refusal option to purchase in the event of land being placed for sale on a lease entered into by her Department...
    • National Parks Projects
      337. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the State will acquire land (details supplied) as part of an expanded Wicklow Mountains National Park. [16697/16]
    • Wildlife Protection
      338. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to clarify the position regarding the issue of hedge cutting and burning; if she will maintain the current closed period and the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      339. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline his views on the National Parks and Wildlife Service statements to the Office of Public Works relating to recent storm...
    • Arts Funding
      340. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline her views on the necessity to ensure that funding for the arts is distributed equally across the regions and whether...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding
      341. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the funding and supports in place for a person (details supplied) who wishes to establish a business in the Gaeltacht area...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      342. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out the number of persons who are paid a salary from her Department's budget, either directly or indirectly, through funding...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Services Provision
      343. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps he will take to ensure the vocational training department in a school (details supplied) will continue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Closure
      344. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the motorised transport grant and, if so, the timeframe for its reinstatement. [16688/16]
    • Substance Misuse
      345. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a survey carried out by an inter-agency group to identify gaps in services for persons under 18 years of age experiencing substance abuse in...
    • Suicide Prevention
      346. To ask the Minister for Health further to a Dáil Éireann adjournment debate on 31 May 2016 (details supplied), the amount of this funding that the services in County Carlow...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      347. To ask the Minister for Health if and when he will meet a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17282/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      348. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the nursing homes support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17289/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      349. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16654/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      350. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 899 of 17 May 2016 why a person (details supplied) did not receive a reply from the Health Service Executive. [16663/16]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      351. To ask the Minister for Health when he will lift the embargo on midwives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16672/16]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      352. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to restore an allowance for diet supplements to persons diagnosed with a medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the intervention services available for a person (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder; in particular, to confirm whether any...
    • Medical Products
      354. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of funding for a medical device for a person (details supplied). [16679/16]
    • HSE Agency Staff Data
      355. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the conversion of agency staff posts to permanent positions; the number of posts converted in the past six, 12 and 18 months; the...
    • Hospital Services
      356. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that MRI scans are not currently carried out at Cork University Hospital on weekends; the rationale for this; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      357. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time and the number of persons on the waiting list for computed tomography, CT, scans in the Louth hospital in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he...
    • Health Services
      358. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the physiology assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16735/16]
    • Hospital Services
      359. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16752/16]
    • Nursing Home Services
      360. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) is not allowed to return home where there are qualified persons to provide adequate care. [16753/16]
    • Ambulance Service
      361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide adequate funding for the ambulance service in County Kerry as it is clearly evident that emergency time targets are not being met; and if he...
    • Health Services
      362. To ask the Minister for Health when patients with type 1 diabetes will be able to avail of dose adjustment for normal eating courses or any carbohydrate counting courses in Waterford city...
    • Health Services Data
      363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diabetes adult dieticians employed at University Hospital Waterford; his plans to make new posts available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      366. To ask the Minister for Health if a nurse is permitted to discharge a person from psychiatric care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16779/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      367. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16791/16]
    • HSE Reports
      368. To ask the Minister for Health why there has been a delay in publishing the report on the ophthalmic clinical development programme; his plans for same and his views in respect of this...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      369. To ask the Minister for Health based on the Health Products Regulatory Authority adverse reactions database, the ten worst drugs for suicide related reactions, that is, suicidal ideation,...
    • Health Services
      371. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to set up a dedicated clinic for diagnosis and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      372. To ask the Minister for Health the amount he invests in the research of myalgic encephalomyelitis-chronic fatigue syndrome; his plans to provide an increased investment in research; if so,...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      373. To ask the Minister for Health why he has not ensured the provision of physiotherapy, occupational therapy as well as speech and language therapy for students regarding a school (details...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      374. To ask the Minister for Health to arrange an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied). [16823/16]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      375. To ask the Minister for Health the financial exemptions available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16848/16]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      376. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the location of the new children's hospital; the criteria his Department used in the decision process; the evidence and criteria it used to...
    • National Children's Hospital
      378. To ask the Minister for Health the consultation his Department undertook with parents' groups, patient advocacy groups, staff and other stakeholders in respect of the location of the new...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      379. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a person (details supplied) who was left to wait almost two hours for an ambulance in extreme pain and discomfort after suffering a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      380. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) was not placed on a waiting list for a hip replacement procedure until 13 May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prescriptions Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the figures released indicating that 16% of medical card holders are being prescribed anti-depressants are in line with international norms; if...
    • Health Strategies
      382. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that 80% of blindness incidence is preventable and that five persons per week became blind here in the years 2013 to 2016; if he agrees that...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      383. To ask the Minister for Health to release the required funding to the Health Service Executive for extra home help for a person (details supplied). [16908/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the completion date of the review of the primary eye care services review group; when he will publicly comment on the outcome of the review; if he will act on...
    • Hospital Facilities
      385. To ask the Minister for Health if broadband Internet access is available to patients for each public hospital, in tabular form; if this service is available to patients on a majority of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      386. 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. [16945/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      390. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a manual wheelchair to a person (details supplied). [16967/16]
    • HSE Staff
      391. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any work placement or internship schemes available within the Health Service Executive for recently qualified psychologists to assist them in...
    • Health Services Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding previous parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16975/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      393. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16976/16]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      394. To ask the Minister for Health to restore and ensure that there are appropriate emergency beds available in St. Mary’s, Drumcar, for service users who would otherwise need to leave...
    • Health Services Provision
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in an institution (details supplied); if this is the full complement of staff required for the number of residents in this...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the Health Service Executive on receiving transport vehicles (details supplied) that have been sponsored by charitable organisations; and if...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialist nurses he will assign to support the newly appointed paediatric urologist and he will hire; the number which currently exist in the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the number and hospital locations of the specialist paediatric urology nurses that are to be appointed and the date of commencement of their contracts, in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      400. To ask the Minister for Health to address the concerns of parents whose children, they believe, developed side effects from the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine, Gardasil. [16988/16]
    • Air Pollution
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a recent report in a publication (details supplied) that has linked air pollution to increased mental illness in children; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16998/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse huge cuts to services made by the Health Service Executive, which will affect a school (details supplied) in County Dublin as there is...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when he will allocate a home care package to a person (details supplied) in order to facilitate a return home; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      405. 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. [17031/16]
    • Hospital Groups
      406. To ask the Minister for Health when he proposes to establish a board for the South-South West group of hospitals. [17043/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      407. 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. [17045/16]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      409. To ask the Minister for Health why medical card patients are charged an individual charge for differing strengths of warfarin, that is, if a person is on two warfarin tablets of differing...
    • Medical Card Applications
      410. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17050/16]
    • Hospital Admissions
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an admission date for a person (details supplied). [17057/16]
    • Health Services
      412. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the plan to build 24 rapid-build homes adjacent to Pinewood Estate in Balbriggan, County Dublin, and the plan to locate a small community...
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff, by grade, that will be employed in the new primary care centre in Balbriggan, and the services they will provide; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build a primary care centre in Swords, County Dublin; the timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17064/16]
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      415. To ask the Minister for Health to outline all engagements between the Health Service Executive and an organisation (details supplied) since March 2008; if the HSE received a sum of money in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      417. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17079/16]
    • Medical Card Applications Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card applications he has granted and refused to persons in County Kerry in 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      419. To ask the Minister for Health the processing time of medical applications and the number of applications being dealt with at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17084/16]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      421. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the availability of the anti-epilepsy drug Epidiolex here; the arrangements for facilitating access by children with Dravet syndrome and...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      422. To ask the Minister for Health when he will complete and publish the new national drugs strategy and the reason for the delay. [17170/16]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make available support services from an organisation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17171/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      424. To ask the Minister for Health when he will allocate a date for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17178/16]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the allocation of psychiatric services (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17181/16]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if Part 2 of the 2005 Disability Act has been fully commenced. [17183/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      428. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [17184/16]
    • Human Rights Issues
      433. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a person (details supplied) with adequate compensation and to make available any needed psychological treatment, as per the recommendation...
    • Counselling Services Provision
      434. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that counselling is available for all women who terminate pregnancies, irrespective of reason, cause or circumstance; the costs associated...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      435. To ask the Minister for Health if he has secured additional funding for more residential care units; if so, the regions that will benefit from the additional units; and to supply a...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that addiction services for persons under 18 years of age are not available in County Donegal; the arrangements he has put in place to deal with...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      437. To ask the Minister for Health when he will provide treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17198/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will schedule an operation date for a person (details supplied). [17199/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for an injury grant by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17200/16]
    • Primary Care Centres Expenditure
      441. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 25 May 2016, when he will request the Health Service Executive to consider the most appropriate locations for...
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      442. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of primary care centres, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17212/16]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons waiting for appointments in the child and adolescent mental health services by Health Service Executive region, by...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children's disability services, by service, including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, by Health...
    • Medical Card Data
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17218/16]
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      449. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of primary school dental services by Health Service Executive region, with particular reference to the waiting times and...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      451. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include a certain condition (details supplied) on the list of conditions qualifying under the long-term illness card scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      452. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) has been in St. Vincent's Hospital for eight months waiting for a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and when the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if a new battery for a power-chair will be provided to a person (details supplied). [17270/16]
    • Medical Conditions
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of unidentified adolescent syndrome from 1980 to 2015, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17271/16]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a group (details supplied); if he will provide details of the date and time of this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      457. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17308/16]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide adequate home help and a home care package to a person (details supplied). [17314/16]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his role in the implementation of Food Harvest 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16970/16]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment for the Scottish derogation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • GLAS Applications
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • TAMS Applications
      465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16744/16]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) under the farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • GLAS Applications
      468. 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...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the Scottish derrogation scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • TAMS Applications
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2; and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16749/16]
    • TAMS Administration
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the lead time for inspections for applications for new shed grants under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme; the measures...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will make a payment to a person (details supplied) under the single farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is in the process of revising the regulations surrounding land eligibility under the basic payment scheme. [16810/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Administration
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are internal discussions ongoing regarding recategorising certain types of land which were deemed to be scrub in the past....
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 14 April 2016, if he will appoint an independent person from outside his Department to...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 97 of 27 January 2016 and 181 of 14 April 2016, when he will complete the examination of...
    • Milk Supply
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put in place a scheme under delegated regulation C(2016)2122 via the urgency procedure authorising agreements and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a final year payment under the agri-environment options scheme. [16958/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue a payment for 2015 to a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Greyhound Industry
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish the Morris report on greyhound racing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16990/16]
    • Afforestation Programme
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17022/16]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that contracts are being terminated where soil sample analyses are late even by a few days, even though soil sample...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment under a specific scheme for 2014 and 2015 to a person (details supplied). [17042/16]
    • Beef Data Programme
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue payment under a specific scheme to a person (details supplied). [17044/16]
    • TAMS Applications
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give full approval under TAMS II for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17066/16]
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of 14 April 2016, when he will issue payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the land designation assigned to agricultural lands that have a commissioned solar farm installation under the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17189/16]
    • Forestry Grants
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a forestry reinstatement grant to persons (details supplied) whose forestry was damaged in a storm in February...
    • TAMS Applications Data
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved, part-approved and unapproved applications, and when the part-approved applicants will be paid, under the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why there has been a delay in payment being issued to a person (details supplied) under the agri-environment options scheme; and if...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if aquaculturalists who are outside the remit of Natura 2000 areas and are fully compliant and awaiting his determination on a...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Departmental Contracts
      497. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware that the company awarded a public contract for delivering the emergency call answering service is not a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on an issue (details supplied) regarding fishing. [17160/16]
    • Post Office Network
      499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of times the post office service hubs working group has met since it was set up earlier in 2016; when pilot...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Increase
      501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of the plan to increase the public service obligation levy by nearly 36% in each of the years 2016 and...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme
      502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of the €5 million pilot scheme under the warmer homes scheme whereby persons that have a medical...
    • Energy Prices
      503. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the efforts he is making to bring about a reduction of electricity prices having regard to the decreasing price of oil...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      504. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to conduct a review of public access to broadband within State-owned public hospitals, primary care centres, public...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the support for the roll-out of Eirgrid's policy for the south-east region Grid Link project; and if he...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme
      507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the total, per month and per county, in megawatt and connection values, of solar farm developments...
    • Radio Spectrum Management
      508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that it is important for Raidió Teilifís Éireann to retain its longwave radio service to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of broadband access in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17235/16]
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the national broadband plan with reference to Derrymore East, Tralee, County Kerry (details supplied)....
    • Better Energy Communities Programme
      511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware that Waterford City and County Council have made an application to the Sustainable Energy Authority...
    • Postal Codes
      512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the process in place to allow householders correct the description on their Eircode, where it carries misspellings or...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the additional efforts and focus being provided to insure the speedy roll-out of high-speed broadband to businesses,...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a protocol in place in relation to British driving licences being recognised in the State or if they will have to be replaced...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      515. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding he has allocated to Tipperary County Council for road upgrades in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; if he will increase...
    • Bus Éireann Staff
      516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why an inspector (details supplied) is not going to be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/16]
    • Regional Airports
      517. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the continuance of passenger flight operations to and from Waterford Airport following the recent announcement that a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make electric vehicle car usage easier by providing free parking, access to bus lanes, removal of purchase taxes, lower road...
    • Road Projects
      519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to upgrade the N4 road between Mullingar, County Westmeath and County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regional Road Network
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to make provisions to keep deer off the road infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16716/16]
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding for traffic calming and public lighting at Poulgorm Junction where the R569 meets the N22; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to reduce the speed limit on the N22 at Glenflesk Village to 50km/h and from Lissivigeen roundabout to the bottom of the Pike Hill; and...
    • Rail Network Maintenance
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding to repair the railway crossing at Minish in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to immediately provide funding for the commencement of the local improvement schemes in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Public Transport Provision
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Bus Éireann to have the Limerick city to County Kerry bus service wait for the Galway city connection to arrive,...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider the design of a scheme to provide funding for the ongoing maintenance of roads that have been reconstituted under the...
    • Road Projects Status
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the year of the six year investment programme that he will provide funding for the proposed Macroom bypass; and if he will make a...
    • Road Tolls
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of variable operational payments paid by the National Roads Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of under...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide funding for the national secondary road from Blackwater Bridge to Sneem as two medium or large vehicles cannot pass on many...
    • Road Projects
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide proper funding for the Ring of Kerry road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16769/16]
    • Tourism Project Funding
      532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application for funding for works at Altamont House and Gardens, in County Carlow, following a submission made in...
    • Tourism Industry
      533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual spend for training in the hospitality sector since the Council for Education, Recruitment and Training was merged into...
    • Road Projects
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that the funds promised in the capital spend programme 2015 for the urgently needed Laytown-Bettystown link road (R150) are...
    • Tourism Promotion
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why only 130 post offices out of the 180 post offices along the Wild Atlantic Way received a franchise to sell Wild Atlantic Way...
    • Road Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to widen Carah Bridge, Ballinahulla Bridge and Kells Bridge at the Viaduct on the Ring of Kerry Road (detaisls suplied); and if...
    • Traffic Management
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to restrict the access of higher goods vehicles and other large vehicles from St. Laurence's Gate in Drogheda, County Louth...
    • Tourism Promotion
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the inclusion of St. Laurence's Gate, in Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland's Ancient East; and if he will identify...
    • Air Traffic Control Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position on the Single European Sky (SES) initiative at the European Union; the level of engagement he has had with European...
    • Sports Events
      542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the remit of the National Horse Arena in Abbotstown and to whom it is accountable, with particular reference to where income...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will accept applications for sports capital grants; the opening date and the deadline; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Penalty Points System
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reform the legislation which allows for the imposition of penalty points; his views on whether it is reasonable to double...
    • Irish Olympic Team Selection
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been excluded from the Irish Olympic team; and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can obtain an exemption from section 87 of the Road Traffic Act in order to complete...
    • Bus Services
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Dublin Bus and Fingal County Council to ensure residents in Knocksedan Estate in Swords, County Dublin, are...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Employment Rights
      551. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current status of au pairs here; their responsibilities associated with this work; the full suite of employment legislation...
    • EU Directives
      552. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she intends to transpose the European Union audit directive by the deadline of 17 June 2016; and the practical consequences of not...
    • Job Creation
      553. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her strategy for job creation on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal; how Inishowen can benefit from the designation of...
    • IDA Site Visits
      555. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits organised by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, for potential investors, by county, in each of the years...
    • EU Directives
      557. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to implement the European Union Directive 97/81/EC to protect part-time workers here. [16877/16]
    • Industrial Disputes
      558. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the actions of management at an organisation (details supplied). [16977/16]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will restore funding to the Women's Aid organisation and to the extension of its national freefone helpline to a 24 hour, seven day...
    • Domestic Violence Services Funding
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will restore and increase funding to domestic violence services so they can meet demand and increase refuge provision to meet...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the number of women's refuges of which Ireland has 21, with places for 141 families, which represents only 31% of...
    • Foster Care Policy
      565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to direct Tusla, the Child and Family Agency to review the application of its policy which states there must be no more than 40 years in...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how much it costs per year and per unit, for each of the years from 2012 to 2016 to date, to fund the 141 family accommodation units...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      567. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the schemes she provides for subsidised child care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17074/16]
    • Adoption Data
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoptions into Ireland from China, for each of the past ten years; when adoptions will resume; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      569. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why he has not published the Dunbar report into suicide in the Defence Forces; if he will issue a copy to this Deputy. [16670/16]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      570. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he shares the sentiments of his counterpart in Finland, the Finnish Defence Minister, Jussi Niinistö, who recently stated that...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      572. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the responsibilities of the Minister of State at the Department of Defence who is based in the Department of the Taoiseach; and if...
    • Livestock Issues
      573. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures the Curragh forum is taking to ensure the safety of livestock legally grazing on the Curragh plains in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      574. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will respond to allegations that some members of the Defence Forces serving on missions, such as Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean,...
    • Overseas Missions
      575. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of operations the Defence Forces are involved in abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17053/16]
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      576. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the Defence Forces use the anti-malaria drug Larium, despite its known side-effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/16]
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      578. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of the presence of the Defence Forces at Shannon Airport, protecting civilian troop carriers and military planes of the United States...
    • Overseas Missions
      579. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he had discussions regarding discontinuing the Irish participation in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force mission in the Golan...
    • Military Neutrality
      580. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence with regard to the Government's White Paper on Defence, if he will consider a change to the State's policy and definition of military...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      581. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the next recruitment campaign for the Permanent Defence Force will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17209/16]
    • Employment Support Services
      582. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consultation which took place with the Defence Forces, on the commitment in the new programme for Government, for a pilot employment support...
    • Naval Service Operations
      583. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to update Dáil Éireann on the continued role of Irish Navy personnel, in assisting with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean; how...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      584. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether the Army Ranger Wing is to double in size, due to current concerns regarding the threat of international terrorism; when this will...
    • EU Battle Groups
      587. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a report on the recent decision for Ireland to participate in an European Union United Kingdom-led battle group; how the new United...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      588. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the comments made by Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative Association, that Irish soldiers should be given a choice...
    • Defence Forces Representative Organisations
      590. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the Labour Party’s proposals to facilitate Irish Congress of Trade Union membership for Defence Forces representative...
    • White Paper on Defence
      591. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the implementation of the White Paper on the Defence Forces; the measures that have been implemented and the timeline for the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      593. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views that there should be an increase in defence expenditure in budget 2017, given that the current expenditure of around 0.5% of gross...
    • Overseas Missions
      594. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the recent appointment of a person (details supplied) as the head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Interim...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      595. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his proposals to increase numbers in the Reserve Defence Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17316/16]
    • Defence Forces Training
      597. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which Army, Navy and Air Corps training continues to be in line with modern and international best practice; if any particular...
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      598. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which military equipment including transport, communications and procedures in the Army continues to be upgraded and improved; and...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      601. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total strength of the Defence Forces including Reserves, Army, Navy and Air Corps; the number of women in each branch of the services; the...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      603. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which membership of the local Defence Forces continues to be maintained at a required level; the extent to which ongoing training...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      604. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces are adequately equipped to deal with emergencies, in respect of which they might be called upon; and if...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      607. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which young unemployed persons have been able to join the Defence Forces; if a specific programme exists in this regard; and if he...

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