Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2016
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to elaborate on plans to extend social protection benefits to local councillors who are currently not entitled to claim social protection benefits...
- Youth Unemployment Measures
16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to tackle youth unemployment in 2016 given that this group is experiencing approximately 15% unemployment; and if he will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Schemes
17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider further rolling out the gateway scheme in a non-compulsory capacity to offer placements to unemployed persons in schools,...
- Employment Support Services
18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether it is appropriate for his Department to insist persons who are unemployed are sent on training courses to an organisation...
- Social Welfare Benefits
21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to address the adequacy of social protection rates given that a recent report by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice which found...
- Rural Social Scheme
22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to expand and improve the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18705/16]
- Farm Assist Scheme
23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the changes made to farm assist with respect to income disregards given that it has had a serious negative affect on the income...
- One-Parent Family Payment
24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is satisfied that the one-parent family payment scheme is adequate to meet the needs of recipients, particularly given recent figures from the...
- Programme for Government Initiatives
25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will implement the fit-to-work scheme contained in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18794/16]
- Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the fact that persons applying for carer’s allowance are waiting 19 weeks before their application is examined; the measures he...
- State Pension (Contributory)
27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he might be in a position in the context of the programme for Government or otherwise, to examine the extent to which women for...
- Community Services Programme
28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to accept new proposals to the community services programme; the criteria that would be used to select new proposals; if he has a...
- Live Register Data
29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a breakdown of live register figures for persons living the Castleisland area in respect of his Department's Office in Tralee, as...
- Pension Provisions
30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his priorities regarding pension payments for the remaining six months of 2016; if he is reviewing pension entitlements for women who worked in the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the lower social protection payment discrimination against young adults under 25 years of age given that those under 25 years of...
- Exceptional Needs Payments
33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will introduce a payment to cover the additional costs for families in emergency accommodation such as travel and food; and if he will make a...
- One-Parent Family Payment
34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status issue of determination orders which were not catered for in the jobseeker's transition legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce the working family payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18761/16]
- Labour Activation Measures
36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the contracts awarded to United Kingdom companies for labour market activation schemes, such as JobsPlus and other private schemes...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why he is continuing to issue correspondence urging recipients under the jobseeker's benefit scheme to use financial institutions instead of using...
- Community Services Programme
39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has increased the contribution to the community services programme in line with the increase in the national minimum wage; if the programmes...
- Bereavement Grant
40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the bereavement grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18759/16]
- Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the ongoing delay in determining eligibility for some means-tested payments and appeals; if there has been a reduction in resources or...
- One-Parent Family Payment
42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reverse the changes made in 2015 to the one-parent family payment scheme which have considerably increased the financial burden on...
- Community Employment Schemes Operation
44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide the details of recent developments at the Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed community employment scheme including the efforts he...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will raise the maximum rent supplement level to the levels recommended by the Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness. [18773/16]
- Child Poverty
48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to end child poverty as committed to by the Government under the national social target for poverty reduction now that the target has been...
- Community Employment Schemes Operation
49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to address the high cost of insurance for companies delivering community employment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Rates
50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore social protection payments to pre-austerity levels adjusted for inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18804/16]
- Carer's Allowance Payments
51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish means testing for the carer's allowance, increase the respite care grant and replace the mobility allowance that ceased in 2013;...
- Work Placement Programmes
52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to consider the possibility of introducing more flexibility to the Tús work placement initiative scheme, including considering extending the...
- Pensions Reform
53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to reform and improve pension governance, given several high profile pension scandals, including the abrupt winding up of the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Maternity Leave
54. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review policies regarding maternity leave in unique circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schengen Agreement
55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the possible impact on Ireland’s opt-out from the Schengen Agreement when Britain completes its departure from the European Union; and if...
- Naturalisation Applications
56. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures to be followed to facilitate extended residency and preparation for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
- Residency Permits
60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to indicate the correct procedure to be followed to regularise the situation in the case of a person (details supplied); the procedures to be...
- Deportation Orders
64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will use her discretion to re-examine and review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of schemes to assist local authorities in providing closed circuit television for areas where there is anti-social behaviour and...
- Garda Expenditure
66. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a company (details supplied) tendered for the contract for towing services for Dublin region gardaí in March 2016; and if the 36 month...
- Garda Recruitment
70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her estimate of the number of new gardaí that will need to be recruited over the next five years to bring the force to a strength of 15,000,...
- Department of Finance
- Customs and Excise Controls
71. To ask the Minister for Finance why military personnel who disembarked from a plane of the United States of America (details supplied) on 26 June 2016 at Shannon Airport with military...
- Property Tax Exemptions
72. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of local property tax for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18821/16]
- Tax Rebates
73. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will issue a tax rebate to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18914/16]
- Insurance Industry
74. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the ongoing review of insurance policy in his Department if he will set out the consideration he is affording to the massive premia hikes faced by...
- Budget Targets
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the revised fiscal space in net terms for each of the years from 2017 to 2021 arising from the British referendum outcome; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
76. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) can receive a statement confirming that the person has no tax liabilities for the purpose of the processing of a medical card...
- Budget Measures
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact the recent decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union will have on funding allocations in budget 2017 with respect to incentivising...
- Economic Statements
78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release an updated version of the summer statement, given Britain voting to leave the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Stock Exchange
80. To ask the Minister for Finance the change in the value of each of the Irish bank shares the State owns from the opening of markets on 24 June 2016, when the impact of the British referendum...
- Eurozone Issues
81. To ask the Minister for Finance the United Kingdom financial institutions who passport their services into Ireland under European Economic Area rules; the potential implications for these...
- Banking Operations
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for Allied Irish Banks' activities in the United Kingdom if that country is outside the European Economic Area; the proportion of Allied Irish...
- Banking Sector
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for Bank of Ireland’s activities in the United Kingdom, if that country is outside the European Economic Area; the proportion of Bank...
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
85. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland can accelerate its lending activities, focusing in particular on assisting small and medium-sized enterprises...
- Tax Collection Forecasts
86. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected change in tax revenue in 2018 and 2019 arising from the British referendum result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19012/16]
- IFSC Clearing House Group
87. To ask the Minister for Finance if the International Financial Services Centre has the necessary physical infrastructure and other resources to benefit from any re-location of financial...
- Pensions Data
88. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of approved retirement funds in operation; the value of funds held in these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/16]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a new action plan will affect a school from applying for Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools status under proposals from his...
- Summer Works Scheme Applications
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when category 3 mechanical works will be approved for a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- Teaching Contracts
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to create equal supplementary panel rights for fully qualified regulation three teachers with Teaching Council numbers (details...
- Special Educational Needs
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria for special needs assistants, SNA, so that children with high functioning autism who may have difficulty with...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full time special needs assistant can be provided to a person (details supplied) for September 2016 onwards in view of their need for help;...
- Schools Building Projects
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for the construction of a school sports assembly hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18864/16]
- Technological Universities
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to upgrade AIT Athlone to university status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18867/16]
- School Accommodation
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the former Mullingar Army site with a view to using same for institutional educational purposes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects Status
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to allow a school (details supplied) which has completed the stage 2(b) (detailed design) process to proceed to stage 3 tender action as this...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a teaching post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18912/16]
- Emergency Works Scheme Applications
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 21 June 2016, no emergency works scheme application had been submitted by a school...
- Schools Property
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a vacant school (details supplied); if he will put this property on the open market; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Council for Special Education
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that special needs assistants in County Meath are losing contracted hours and jobs without any prior warning and with the...
- Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is not in full DEIS status; the way this school would go about applyig for full DEIS status; and if he...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide proper panel rights to special needs assistants. [18972/16]
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has undertaken any contingency planning for the effects of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union; and the areas in which this...
- Third Level Data
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of British and Northern Irish citizens who are registered as students in higher education institutes here; and the number of Irish...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Motor Tax
110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the categorisation of vehicles in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board
111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a query by a person (details supplied) regarding the effectiveness of the Private Residential Tenancies...
- Motor Tax Collection
112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce regular direct debit payments for motor tax, given that paying several lump sums a year causes...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme
114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the tenant purchase scheme will be amended (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18907/16]
- Fire Stations Provision
115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a new fire station (details supplied) including the stage it is at and when construction will begin; and if...
- Water Charges
116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the policy of Meath County Council of withholding housing from those on the housing waiting list who have not...
- Motor Tax
117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider reviewing the motor taxation system with a view to looking at other models of payment such as...
- Waste Disposal Charges
118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the agreement he reached with the waste collection companies on price freezes will also apply to new customers. [18946/16]
- Departmental Legal Costs
119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs to the State to date and the likely final costs of a court case (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Graduate Support Schemes
120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to address concerns related to the local authority graduate programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
121. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has undertaken any contingency planning for the effects of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union; and the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Agriculture Schemes
122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the review of the farm assist and rural social scheme will commence as pledged in the programme for Government; if the income and child...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he expects to be in a position to expedite the process of appeals with particular reference to those pending in respect of...
- State Pension (Contributory)
124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he expects to be in a position to review entitlements of the spouses of self-employed who may have worked in a partnership in...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Data
126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker's allowance has fluctuated in the course of the past six years; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which addictions, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, are deemed to be conditions capable of qualifying for disability allowance or...
- One-Parent Family Payment
128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he monitors the situation in regard to lone parents with a view to ascertaining the availability to them of adequate resources...
- Departmental Expenditure
129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which he sees a requirement for adjustments in the Social Protection budget to cater for any changes in the economic situation; and if...
- Youth Unemployment Measures
130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the various schemes available to his Department are making positive and beneficial impact on the numbers of young persons who...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the procedures for examination of all applications for Social Protection payments can be standardised and streamlined to...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when he will arrange an increase to full rent support in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Allowance
133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which a person (details supplied) can expect a seamless transfer through existing or other relevant payment given their acceptance in...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of rent support applicable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18890/16]
- Exceptional Needs Payment Appeals
135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when the long standing dispute between a person (details supplied) and his Department can be brought to a conclusion in respect of the...
- Community Employment Schemes Operation
136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the minimum amount of public liability insurance cover that community employment schemes are required to have; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Overpayments
137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way an overpayment occurred in the case of a person (details supplied); if he will pay in full the amount due to them relative to their carer's...
- Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he will reach a decision on an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the farm assist scheme. [18993/16]
- Child Benefit Applications
139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application form in respect of a claim for child benefit has been received from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Military Aircraft Landings
140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why a plane of the United States of America (details supplied) was given permission to land at Shannon Airport in County Clare on 26 June...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- EU Funding
142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the European Union funding specifically for North-South projects; the amount of co-funding provided by the Irish State to these...
- Drainage Schemes Status
143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of planned works at Rahoonagh Strand, Ballybunion, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Office of Public Works Properties
144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a full list of current vacant properties owned by the Office of Public Works in the Dundalk region; and if he will make a...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Rights of Way Provision
145. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to consider legislating to allow for local authorities to lease rights of way from landowners who wish to facilitate the...
- Fisheries Protection
146. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the KerryLIFE programme and its impact on farmers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
147. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a lorgófar tairiscintí le haghaidh na seirbhíse farantóireachta chuig Toraigh; an mbeidh sé...
- Wildlife Regulations
148. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has concerns about the large number of herring gulls in coastal towns in north County Dublin and her plans to deal with them...
- Rural Development Programme
149. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if and when she finalised and signed off on the procedures manual for the rural development programme. [19050/16]
- Department of Health
- Hospital Appointments Status
153. 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. [18820/16]
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a commitment to expedite the recruitment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's...
- Hospital Appointments Status
165. 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. [18840/16]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for inpatient and day case treatment at Letterkenny University Hospital, per specialty and in tabular form, and who have...
- Hospital Appointments Status
196. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18930/16]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
201. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a procedure in the South Infirmary Hospital, Cork for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Applications
202. To ask the Minister for Health when he will complete a review of a medical card application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18938/16]
- Accident and Emergency Departments Data
203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of visits to each accident and emergency department in each hospital throughout the country; the number of such visits that happened during the...
- Prescriptions Charges
204. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 412 of 27 January 2015, 120 of 2 December 2015 and 334 of 2 February 2016, the status of the response by the Health...
- Hospital Appointments Status
205. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
210. 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. [18964/16]
- Hospital Appointments Status
211. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18965/16]
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
216. To ask the Minister for Health the status of providing a hospital bed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18979/16]
- Hospital Appointments Status
217. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) on a waiting list. [18998/16]
- Medical Card Applications
218. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19000/16]
- HSE Funding
219. To ask the Minister for Health the registered charities the Health Service Executive supports and the funding it has allocated to them in each of the years 2015 and 2016 to date; and if...
- Health Strategies
220. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he proposes to put in place to offset the challenges which Irish health care patients who had planned to travel to the United Kingdom under the...
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
221. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of recruiting and employing an additional 100 full-time hospital consultants in 2017; and his estimate of ancillary costs involved. [19032/16]
- Home Help Service Provision
222. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of providing an additional one million Home Help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19033/16]
- Disability Services Provision
224. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of providing an additional 500,000 personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Care of the Elderly Provision
225. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of providing an additional 200 intensive home care packages for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19036/16]
- Medical Card Expenditure
226. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of providing a medical card for all children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance. [19037/16]
- Prescriptions Charges
227. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 of a €1 reduction in prescription charges. [19038/16]
- Hospital Appointments Status
229. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19047/16]
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
230. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to secure a pancreatic surgeon to replace the former surgeon who was involved in this vital area and if such an appointment is imminent;...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Departmental Funding
231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding is available to farmers who wish to construct an underpass for cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
232. 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...
- GLAS Applications
233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue a payment to a person (details supplied) under tranche 1 of the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; and if...
- Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) for a farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18920/16]
- TAMS Applications
235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in approving targeted agricultural modernisation scheme applications under tranche 2 for the low emission...
- Agriculture Industry
236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the possible withdrawal of approval for glyphosate by the European Union; if he supported this in the European Union...
- Organic Farming Scheme Eligibility
237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason some organic farmers cannot receive payments under various categories under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme;...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information technology system that was put in place to deal with the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme; if he is fully...
- Pigmeat Sector
239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a forum for the pig industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18943/16]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2; and if...
- Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Eligibility
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will make a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the young farmers investment scheme; and if he...
- Forestry Grants
243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) for a forest road grant; and if he will make a statement...
- Seaweed Harvesting Licences
244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a query (details supplied); to outline the correct application process with regard to grant aid for a...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 555 of 24 May 2016 when a targeted agricultural modernisation scheme II payment will be made to...
- Agrifood Sector
247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the immediate contingency steps he will take to safeguard the interests of the Irish agrifood sector following the...
- Beef Exports
248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the immediate contingency steps he will take to safeguard Irish beef exports, including the live cattle trade, given the...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the first meeting of the consultative committee of stakeholders will take place following the decision by voters in the United...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out by county to date in 2016 the number of applications received to date under tranches 1, 2 and 3 of the targeted...
- TB Eradication Scheme
251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he will take to protect the health and welfare of farm animals given the current deer population and associated...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services Provision
252. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his concerns that a company disconnected a person's (details supplied) telephone landline without prior notice and that...
- National Broadband Plan Data
253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the stage the mapping process is at for rural broadband for County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Greenways Funding
254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schemes he funded under smarter travel 2015 and 2016 in counties Longford and Westmeath; if he will consider funding both greenway...
- Public Transport Provision
256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority will conclude the process of separating the corridor of two distinct service patterns for commuters...
- Sports Capital Programme Administration
257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be a sports capital programme opened in 2016; if not, if he anticipates such a programme in 2017; and if he will make a...
- Local Improvement Scheme Funding
258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make funding available to local authorities in 2016 under the 80:20 local improvement scheme; and if he will make a...
- Transport Infrastructure Provision
259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request CIE to arrange for a bus to stop at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Transport Provision
261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the tenders for Dublin Bus orbital routes and when new transport providers will be operating on these routes. [18976/16]
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has undertaken any contingency planning for the effects of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union; and the areas in which...
- Vehicle Testing
263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or a body under its aegis has undertaken, or plans to undertake, an investigation into the levels of health damaging...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Insurance Costs
264. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action she is taking to address the escalation in the cost base of small and medium-sized enterprises associated with soaring...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
265. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the immediate contingency steps she will take following the recent decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union; and if...
- Trade Agreements
271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the ratification process she envisages for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact the recent decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union will have on policy decisions pertaining to...
- IDA Data
273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of United Kingdom companies which are IDA Ireland assisted; the number of jobs these firms provide; the proportion of...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Childhood Care and Education
274. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the changes she has made to the schemes applied by her Department whereby from August 2016 a group (details supplied) will not be able to...
