Written answers

Friday, 16 September 2016

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Property Valuations
      1. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rateable valuation and calculation method applied to solar panels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24447/16]
    • Owners Management Companies
      2. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to cases whereby management companies are uncommunicative with homeowners with whom they have a management...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      3. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will facilitate persons who are currently employed in the public service and are applying for a job at a higher grade in the same area but...
    • Property Valuations
      4. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding child care owners here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25402/16]
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      5. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects Ireland will ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; the...
    • Visa Applications
      7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24877/16]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      8. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a courthouse service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24328/16]
    • Refugee Status Applications
      9. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24343/16]
    • Residency Permits
      10. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24344/16]
    • Wards of Court
      11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have become wards of court in each of the years 2011 to 2015, by county, in tabular form; and the number that are male,...
    • Deportation Orders Data
      12. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportations carried out for each of the past three years; the reasons for same; her plans to amend existing legislation in this...
    • Prisoner Releases
      13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are eligible for early release from prison in 2016; if she is satisfied that existing prison capacity is sufficient; and...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to strengthen enforcement of speeding and drink driving laws in view of the increase in fatalities on roads in 2016 to date; and if she...
    • Boundary Disputes
      15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 27 January 2016, if she is aware of research related to increasing property boundary...
    • Garda Data
      16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in each county broken down in ranks, in tabular form; the number of Garda cars and motorbikes in County...
    • Crime Data
      17. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests made for prostitution offences between each of the years 2008 and to date in 2016, by offence type, county, gender and age...
    • Garda Data
      18. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number, rank, title and job of members of An Garda Síochána who are assigned to the Cavan-Monaghan Garda division; the number of new...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a statutory inquiry will be held with regard to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prisoner Transfers
      20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the guidelines in place for gardaí and members of the Irish Prison Service transferring prisoners to court; the length of time a prisoner can...
    • Departmental Reviews
      21. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the recommendations of a person (details supplied) on the changes which might be needed to the powers of gardaí, the...
    • Garda Expenditure
      22. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if details are available for the precise costing in respect of the visit of a person (details supplied) in view of the unavailability of such...
    • Policing Co-operation
      23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 19 July 2016, if her attention has been drawn to a German Government request that the...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      30. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Legal Services Regulatory Authority will have a role in the drafting of the new criminal legal aid legislation she is proposing; if the...
    • Courts Service Administration
      31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the persons tasked with providing expert child welfare and safety assessments to the courts in family law matters to assist the courts in making...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her proposals to reduce the fee charged for a naturalisation application; the total fees applicable should an applicant be successful; and if she...
    • Legal Aid
      33. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is permissible for a solicitor who is acting for a defendant in a criminal case under the free legal aid scheme to charge the defendant...
    • Immigration Policy
      34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that when documents are being handed in at the Immigration Office that the person receives a receipt for those documents. [24604/16]
    • Garda Data
      35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of enforcement actions taken by An Garda Síochána pursuant to the Protection of Children's Health (Tobacco Smoke in...
    • Charities Regulation
      36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether section 8 of the Charities Act 2009 is functioning as intended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24616/16]
    • Crime Prevention
      37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her view on concerns regarding the old and vulnerable (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24659/16]
    • Family Law Cases
      38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the plan to rezone part of the site of the Hammond Lane, Smithfield, Dublin will cause delays in the development of the Family and Child Court...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in her Department; the amount spent on credit cards by her Department in 2014...
    • Crime Prevention
      42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that can be taken to prevent online purchase or selling of illegal substances on websites available here; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Station Closures
      43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of recent census data, the decision to close Whitehall Garda station will be reviewed; if spare capacity within the building or on the...
    • Garda Data
      44. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of newly recruited gardaí who have resigned in the past 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24805/16]
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the necessary funding to the Courts Service in Tralee, County Kerry, to carry out the necessary refurbishment and upgrade...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      46. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps the Irish Central Authority have taken to enforce an order of the Circuit Family Court granting a lump sum order to a person (details...
    • Irish Prison Service
      47. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates based in Loughan House open prison in Blacklion, County Cavan; the offences they have committed; the capacity of the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      49. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24829/16]
    • Residency Permits
      50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24830/16]
    • International Terrorism
      51. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures in place to monitor, detect and prevent the public dissemination of extreme Islamist ideologies (details supplied); her proposals to...
    • Residency Permits
      52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24833/16]
    • Courts Service
      53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to legislate to change the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court following the judgment in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      54. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24835/16]
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her statement of 22 September 2015 on the migration crisis following an emergency meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, the...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      56. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24844/16]
    • Residency Permits
      57. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24849/16]
    • Visa Applications
      58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a family visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24853/16]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 to provide a complete breakdown of the way and to whom the receipts generated from the road safety...
    • Departmental Contracts
      60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that member companies of a consortium (details supplied) have allegedly been involved in serious financial fraud; and if she will...
    • Residency Permits
      62. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24858/16]
    • Deportation Orders
      64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24871/16]
    • Residency Permits
      65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24872/16]
    • Deportation Orders
      70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Contracts
      71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for her Department's decision to award the contract for the State's privatised speed camera system to a company (details supplied), in...
    • Deportation Orders
      72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Deportation Orders Re-examination
      73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      74. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); if all requested...
    • Irish Prison Service
      77. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the scoring structure used in assessing applications for recruitment to chief officer 2 - work and training in the Irish Prison Service. [24969/16]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      78. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • EU Directives
      79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a new EU deactivation regulation on firearms; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of forensic accountants currently employed by her Department of under her aegis or under the aegis of the State; and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to regularise the status in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding persons who require Garda Síochána vetting who have lived or worked in the USA for some years and the ability of...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Expenditure
      89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the detail relating to the funding of contractors and employees working for GSOC for each of the years 2005 to 2016 to date; and if she will make...
    • Court Judgments
      90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the meaning that will apply regarding requests under the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners, especially those...
    • Prison Medical Service
      91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of medical posts unfilled across the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25032/16]
    • Irish Prison Service
      92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the production of a code of ethics for the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25033/16]
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the publication of the audit and evaluation of the prisoner complaint procedure by the Inspector of Prisons; and if she will make a...
    • Prison Staff
      94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to appoint a director of prison health care services as required by the Care and Rehabilitation Directorate under...
    • Irish Prison Service
      95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken in relation to relocating the Irish Prison Service headquarters from Longford in order to improve the organisation of the...
    • Prisoner Data
      96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 21 April 2016, if she will provide information outlining the length of each sentence, such information...
    • Family Law Cases
      98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the need for a specialist family court to be established nationally where specialist judges are assigned to...
    • Courts Service
      99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the number of cases before the family courts and the waiting times for hearings in family law cases; and if...
    • Courts Service Administration
      102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Dublin Circuit Family Court on 17 June 2016 the fixing of hearings list before the County...
    • Garda Reserve
      103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda reserves in Counties Cavan and Monaghan in tabular form; the way they are being utilised given the shortage of gardaí in...
    • Prison Service Strategies
      104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views regarding initiatives she has taken in relation to the possibility of converting some of the countries prisons to low security status,...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is recourse open to a person who is in an insolvency arrangement and who now feels they have been unfairly treated by their main...
    • Immigration Status
      106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in progressing an application for change of status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding visas and citizenship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25065/16]
    • Immigration Status
      108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Remuneration
      109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda that earn between €10,000 and €100,000 per year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of the application fees for citizenship; if there is a reduction for EU citizens who wish to take up Irish...
    • Garda Data
      113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests made by An Garda Síochána for each of the past two years for driving without insurance; and if she will make a...
    • Child Abduction
      114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Status
      115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in respect of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Student Visas Applications
      117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will facilitate a student visa extension until November 2016 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Leave to Remain
      118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will use her discretion to grant Leave to Remain in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Student Visas Eligibility
      119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will facilitate a visa extension until the end of 2017 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Cumas Gaeilge sa Gharda Síochána
      120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality cén líon comhaltaí nua le Gaeilge a tugadh isteach sa Gharda Síochána i ngach babhta earcaíochta ó 2012 i...
    • Stáisiúin Gharda
      121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality cén líon stáisiún Garda Síochána atá lonnaithe sa Ghaeltacht; cén líon Gardaí atá...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed in order to regularise a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25228/16]
    • Garda Resources
      123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that the Garda in Ballymun, Dublin 11, has adequate manpower and resources, including patrol cars, to deal with the crime...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for naturalisation status; if all required documentation has been submitted; when she...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the figures are available for the number of personal injury cases which required court proceedings; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • EU Directives
      126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland has transposed and implemented into Irish law the Council Framework Decision 2008/919/JHA of 28 November 2008 amending Framework...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine an application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25377/16]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate a commission of investigation into the case of a person (details supplied). [25390/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the landlords to which her Department or bodies under its aegis paid rent in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25421/16]
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects that Ireland will ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the legislative measures that need to be...
    • Equality Legislation
      132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the implications of the ruling on 9 February 2016 by the High Court of Northern Ireland (details supplied); her plans to amend Irish...
    • Law Reform Proposals
      133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to update and amend the Succession Act 1965. [25473/16]
    • Garda Resources
      134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount allocated to An Garda Síochána for personnel, resources and vehicles, including details of all increases or decreases for...
    • Garda Deployment
      135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí allocated to the Limerick division currently; if there has been a reduction in these numbers in 2016; if she will...
    • Direct Provision Data
      136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently in direct provision for periods of three years and beyond; her plans to end this treatment of refugees and asylum...
    • Firearms and Ammunition Security
      137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if firearms dealers will continue to be permitted to deactivate firearms here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25557/16]
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Staff
      138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a significant additional workload has been placed on the operations of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, since the...
    • Visa Data
      141. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of visas to enter Ireland that have been granted per year in the past five years under the headings, business, employment, join...
    • Garda Overtime
      143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overtime cost for garda rank only in the Sligo and Leitrim Garda division for 2015 and 2016; the reason there was such a large decrease in...
    • Prison Service Strategies
      144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is no published strategy for young adults in prison despite commitments by the Irish Prison Service that this would be in place...
    • Prison Service
      145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will remove the present basic regime standard operating in prisons here and place all young adults on the enhanced accommodation standard...
    • Child Detention Centres
      146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of boys detained each month on remand in St. Patrick's Institution since the enactment of the Children (Amendment) Bill 2015, giving...
    • Prisoner Data
      147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of young adults between 18 and 20 years of age detained in prisons with adults, for each prison, in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to...
    • Prison Service
      148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of each prison population detained in shared-cell accommodation for each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date. [25654/16]
    • Sentencing Policy
      152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to undertake a study of the possibility of introducing house or community house arrest or secure detention as an alternative to...
    • Prison Service Strategies
      153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the consideration that has been given by her Department to the development of out-of-cell time of at least 14.5 hours per day for young adults in...
    • Garda Equipment
      154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if every Garda regional divisional headquarters here has access to biohazard protection suits, gloves and masks for its garda rank members that...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive a Garda vetting certificate; if there is a direct contact for teachers with Garda vetting who find...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has issued a reply to persons (details supplied); if she will provide the definition sought; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Stations
      158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the OPW and An Garda Síochána have identified the location for the new regional Garda station in Sligo town; when this project will...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the provisions implementing sections149 to161, inclusive, of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 will be brought into effect; and if she...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action she will take to ensure schools and teachers are made fully aware of the Garda vetting procedures in place for teachers taking up new...
    • Postal Codes
      162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts her Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if she will...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in resettling refugees here under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme in the context of the EU Agreement on this...
    • Courts Service Data
      165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of probate officers in the State and the locations they are based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25936/16]
    • Courts Service Administration
      166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the current wait time for the probate officer to deal with a non-contentious will is between six and seven months; if the wait time...
    • Direct Provision Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently accommodated in direct provision, and those who have been for more than one, two, three and five years,...
    • DNA Database
      168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of samples from persons that are on the national DNA database to date since its establishment; the number of convictions secured based...
    • Proposed Legislation
      169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the gambling control Bill; if this Bill will have provision to deal with the issue of excessive advertising and promotion...
    • Fines Data
      170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the fines that were issued in 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date to persons for abandoning pets. [25959/16]
    • Surveillance Operations
      171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Irish law requires telecommunications companies to establish the capability to intercept messages transmitted by the company; if so, the legal...
    • Garda Deployment
      173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will increase the level of personnel in the Garda traffic corps in view of the recent rise in road traffic fatalities and the significant...
    • Departmental Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the position with regard to an employee in her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26071/16]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date they became vacant, for...
    • Budget 2017
      177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the projects her Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26130/16]
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      179. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the hours and times of operation for each of the Garda stations in County Donegal for each day during the period 1 June 2016 to 31 August 2016 in...
    • Wards of Court
      180. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the changes in legislation or management of the funds held on behalf of wards of court she will introduce; if she will commence an examination of...
    • Garda Stations
      181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when considering suitable stations for reopening on a pilot basis, if the Garda Commissioner and policing forum will consider the 2016 census...
    • Garda Recruitment
      182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the 3,200 new members of An Garda Síochána to be recruited on a phased basis over the next four years that will be...
    • Garda Deployment
      183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in each of the Garda stations on Dublin's northside at 1 September 2016, 1 March 2016 and 1 September 2015....
    • Asylum Applications
      184. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in supplying a person (details supplied) with necessary documentation; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Reserve
      186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the full year cost of increasing the Garda Reserve by 300. [26319/16]
    • Garda Stations
      187. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; the likely timescale for the tendering process and the estimated cost; and if...
    • Garda Compensation
      188. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a Garda compensation claim for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26357/16]
    • Garda Civilian Staff Recruitment
      190. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of recruiting 200 civilian staff in order to free up a comparable number of gardaí for front-line duty; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Recruitment
      191. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of increasing Garda numbers by 100 in a given year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26364/16]
    • Community Policing
      192. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently assigned to community policing initiatives; the cost of increasing this number by 100 in any given year; and...
    • Garda Transport Expenditure
      193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been spent on Garda vehicles during 2016; the anticipated spend in this area for the full year 2016; and if she will make a...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the cross-Border crime agency; the total number of staff involved, agencies engaged and annual budget; and if she will make a...
    • EU Issues
      195. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the EU ESTA proposal; if she has discussed it with her UK counterpart; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26400/16]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Forms
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of small farmers making tax returns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24566/16]
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is to start a solar farm, does the land that the solar farm is on still qualify for agricultural relief on transfer or inheritance; and if he will...
    • Budget 2017
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person, a first-time buyer who purchased a house for €260,000 in the person's sole name, will qualify to apply for first-time buyer's assistance...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to deal with the increase in the cost of car insurance; if he will introduce awards for injury similar to that which operates in other...
    • Tax Yield
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue collected by the State as a result of the introduction of a charge for licences for betting intermediaries and for remote betting licences;...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered tax breaks for persons or families renting their unoccupied properties to a person or family with an identified social housing need or...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure a more favourable deployment of Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, capital supports across counties Donegal, Cavan and...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a growing number of developers and speculators are using special purpose vehicles, including section 110...
    • Revenue Commissioners Staff
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff within the Revenue Commissioners who have an accountancy qualification; and the proportion of staff who have an accountancy qualification...
    • Property Tax Data
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons expressed in ordinary numbers who are in the category of owning 201 plus properties for the purpose of local property tax. [24453/16]
    • Tax Credits
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance to review the single person child carer credit, SPCCC, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24585/16]
    • VAT Rate Application
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the standard rate of VAT applies to dog grooming services; if this matter is under review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24607/16]
    • Tax Code
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the taxation treatment of the compensation amounts received by persons here in respect of the collapse of a company (details supplied) in the UK; and if he...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Bank first became aware of issues at a company (details supplied) and the steps it took from that date to protect Irish consumers. [24613/16]
    • Charities Regulation
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether section 8 of the Charities Act 2009 is functioning as intended in preventing the abuse of charity status by special purpose vehicles; and...
    • Insurance Coverage
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the engagement he has had with the Insurance Ireland regarding the situation in East Wall, Dublin 3, and the failure of insurance companies to...
    • Tax Reliefs Costs
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has made an estimate of the revenue forgone each year as a result of lenders claiming mortgage interest relief on interest charges rather...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of insurers that will take part in the EIOPA stress tests in 2016; the percentage of the market the partaking companies account for and the sectors...
    • EU Directives
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether lenders here that offer standard variable rate mortgages are complying with the letter and spirit of the directive on credit agreements...
    • Tax Reliefs Costs
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners did not include the various provisions of section 110 in the published list of tax expenditures published on their...
    • Banking Operations
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has a policy on whether bank ATM machines should dispense €50 notes to customers instead of the €20 note; the practice of...
    • Tax Code
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the excise and licensing regime for cider, including removing the upper excise band for cider sales and distribution; and if he will make a...
    • Illicit Trade
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the third illicit trade report produced by Grant Thornton; and his views on the findings regarding alcohol, fuel, pharmaceuticals, tobacco...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department in 2014 and in...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit cards issued to staff working in each State agency funded by his Department, in tabular form; the number of cards per funded agency; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit cards issued to staff working in any third party agency funded by his Department, in tabular form; the number of cards per funded agency;...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has yet made a decision to amend section 54BX(3)(b) of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004 in order that customers who...
    • Universal Social Charge Data
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who paid and the amount of revenue raised regarding the 5% USC surcharge on property reliefs in each year since its introduction; and if...
    • Tax Collection
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding underpayment of tax and arrangements for collection for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 21 July 2016, his plans to lower the VAT rate on specifically organic products (details supplied) that have no...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacancies at assistant principal level or higher that have existed in each of the past five years or are currently vacant in his Department; the...
    • General Government Debt
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the figures for total government income for each year from 2000 to 2015; the figures for general government debt for each year from 2000 to 2015; the figures...
    • Economic Data
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the other indicators that investors are looking at in terms of the Irish economy, as highlighted by a person (details supplied) when appearing before the...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the NTMA when deciding to fund projects via the Strategic Innovation Fund; the peer comparisons used by the NTMA when reaching its...
    • Public Private Partnerships Cost
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Comptroller and Auditor General does not have the resources that would allow it give the Committee of...
    • Tax Code
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect on gross domestic product or likely effect of the move by a company (details supplied) to domicile here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Corporation Tax
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the corporation tax overpayments announced to date in 2016 his Department expects will be reclaimed later in 2016; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Collection
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the total service charge for the Revenue Commissioners on credit card payments, that is, persons who paid the Revenue Commissioners money due by using credit...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons availing of mortgage interest relief in each of the following categories and the number of persons who exceed the ceilings in each of...
    • Tax Collection
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax earned from the taxation of pensioners' Christmas bonuses each year. [25063/16]
    • Personal Debt
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to ability of financial institutions to provide credit to a person who is in an insolvency arrangement; if banks have discretion in...
    • Motor Insurance
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a review of regulations regarding motor insurance in view of the practice of many motor insurance companies denying coverage to cars over...
    • Economic Data
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the EU Commission should adopt a four-year potential output forecast horizon for reasons outlined in documents (details supplied); if...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the State's policy regarding the remaining bailout funds and the possibility of exchanging or rolling these debts over to maximise the advantage of the...
    • Tax Code
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the risk assessment process that was carried out prior to section 110 of the Tax Consolidation Acts being introduced and establishing the level of assessment...
    • Budget Consultation Process
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Disability Federation of Ireland pre-budget submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Data
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a comparative table showing tax take, expenditure and investment that is capital spend as a percentage of gross domestic product, GDP,...
    • Tracker Mortgage Data
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide for each bank the State has a share in, the number of cases being investigated by the bank as part of its review into the sale of tracker...
    • Motor Fuels
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding reports of future equalising of fuel here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25297/16]
    • Tax Code
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm all categories of industry, business and arts that are exempt from Income Tax. [25303/16]
    • VAT Rate Application
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by applying the standard rate of VAT of 23% to financial services. [25340/16]
    • Tax Code
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by applying a financial Activities Tax as proposed by the IMF. [25341/16]
    • Universal Social Charge Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of USC that was raised annually for each year since its introduction from employees' wages, self-employed income,...
    • Tax Collection
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised by increasing Corporation Tax to 20%, the standard rate of PAYE for workers. [25343/16]
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the annual cost since 2008 of the tax reliefs and exemptions available to property developers. [25349/16]
    • National Debt
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the projected total cost of the general Government debt in 2016, including interest payments and repayments of principal....
    • Tax Code
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised from imposing a 2% public health levy on the profits of private human health and pharmaceutical companies here, including...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25417/16]
    • Insurance Costs
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made in determining the causes of the increase in insurance costs in 2016, as most premiums have increased significantly (details...
    • Fiscal Data
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the revised figures for fiscal space in each of the years 2017 to 2021, in view of the European Commission's ruling...
    • State Aid Investigations
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal costs and other costs to date incurred by his Department in relation to the EU Commission investigation into a company (details supplied) and state...
    • Central Statistics Office Reports
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he has taken to address the recent Central Statistics Office figures for the economy; his views on whether this is a serious reputational issue for...
    • State Aid Investigations
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions, formal and informal, he and his Department had with national and European institutions regarding the tax affairs of a company (details...
    • Tax Code
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding inheritance law here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25535/16]
    • State Claims Agency
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance if the State Claims Agency, when settling cases on behalf of the State including the HSE of medical negligence and agreeing a compensation payment, takes into...
    • Fuel Laundering
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a resurgence in the practice of diesel washing around the Border counties; his views on the continued effectiveness of the...
    • Tax Code
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the proposed sugar tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25603/16]
    • Tax Collection
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the Revenue Commissioners authorised the sheriff to go after a tax payer following a final demand for arrears in each of the years 2012 to...
    • Fiscal Policy
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the savings of €140 million anticipated by the Department of Health in the calendar year 2017 under the new framework agreement with the...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts expended on legal fees and associated costs to date on providing a legal team to observe the European Commission's case against a bank (details...
    • Tax Code
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times that the section 110 clause has been amended since it was put in place; the degree of lobbying that was involved relating to the last...
    • Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Revenue Commissioners opinions or rulings similar to those offered to a company (details supplied) which have been made by the Revenue...
    • Tax Credits
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that corporation tax paid by multinationals can be reduced or even turned into a negative number by refundable research and...
    • Property Tax Deferrals
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the fact that those who cannot afford to pay the local property tax have interest levies imposed to claim a deferral, essentially placing...
    • Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding immunity from prosecution for auditors who notified the Revenue Commissioners of suspected wrongdoing in an organisation where they are...
    • Budget Submissions
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a submission (details supplied) on the forthcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25769/16]
    • Fiscal Policy
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on the available fiscal space for 2017 of the suspension of water charges. [25837/16]
    • Departmental Communications
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make a...
    • Property Tax Application
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons in north County Dublin whose homes have been rendered effectively worthless due to the fact...
    • EU Investigations
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the failure of the European Commission to publish the report on its decision in the case of a company (details supplied); if he will engage with...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the criteria as cited by the Ombudsman for Children (details supplied) in regard to the medical criteria for the primary medical...
    • Tax Data
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance the total annual number of persons who availed of each of the CAT group B and group C thresholds in each of the years from 2010 to 2014, in tabular form; the...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out a clear and definite time line for the working group on motor insurance (details supplied) to complete its work and present its findings;...
    • Tax Code
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax obligations relative to vulture fund companies buying investments and property here; if there are approved tax schemes in place which benefit such...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance the value and weight of Ireland's gold reserves; if this gold is present here at all times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26003/16]
    • Living City Initiative
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applicants and the number of successful applicants, by city, under the living city initiative in tabular form; the division between commercial...
    • Tax Code
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in addition to increasing the inheritance tax threshold for children in budget 2017, he will increase the threshold for siblings, which is currently at...
    • Revenue Commissioners Powers
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are refusing to issue cheques and are requiring those who seek a refund for overpayment of taxes to open...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the impact the repayment of an AIB contingent capital note of over €1.7 billion will have on the public finances for 2016 and...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the scope that exists within the fiscal rules for additional expenditure in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26052/16]
    • Economic Data
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish updated forecasts of growth and fiscal space in advance of budget 2017 in light of the significant economic events of the summer; and if...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on the potential fiscal space arising from a greater national contribution to the EU arising from the upwards revision of Ireland’s GDP-GNI;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date it became vacant, for State boards or...
    • Cross-Border Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance the position of his Department regarding any EU funded cross-Border projects once Article 50 is enacted by the Government of the United Kingdom. [26109/16]
    • Tax Collection Forecasts
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated yield to the Exchequer from the introduction of a third rate of income tax at 48% on incomes of over €100,000; and if he will make a...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance when Ireland became a net contributor to the European Union; if he will outline the net beneficiary figures for Ireland from 1973; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to introducing a site value tax and its possible yield; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26120/16]
    • Mortgage Lending
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being taken to assist first time buyers into the housing market; if his Department has made a submission to the Central Bank to reform the macro...
    • Tax Code
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to assist accidental landlords, owners of one or two properties who may have been affected by negative equity mortgages and are...
    • VAT Rate Application
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing the threshold on VAT for self-employed service providers from €37,500, in view of the fact that the...
    • Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners or any other State body has been contacted by any person offering to sell information related to the Panama papers leak; and if...
    • Property Ownership
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance the types of residential property sales that are included as cash purchases in figures released by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Costs
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance the potential cost of extending the capital gains tax restructuring relief beyond 31 December. [26237/16]
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Management
      344. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline of the ISIF investment strategy review planned for the second half of 2016; when the review will commence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the criteria for the primary medical certificate; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the Ombudsman about the...
    • Budget Targets
      346. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected fiscal space on which he is basing budget 2017. [26336/16]
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of each of the working streams in respect of addressing the cost of insurance. [26339/16]
    • Tax Data
      348. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of indexing the entry point to the 49.5% marginal rate of tax to wage growth for every 1% increase in wage growth. [26343/16]
    • Stamp Duty
      350. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the age of the stamp duty exemption for young farmers from 35 years of age to 40 years of age, in line with the recent changes in the...
    • Tax Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of farmers who availed of the various tax reliefs, specifically in the income tax, stamp duty, capital gains tax and inheritance tax codes for...
    • Tax Code
      352. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the feasibility of simplifying the tax code in order that farmers whose gross income from farm payments and sales is less than...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      354. To ask the Minister for Finance the total estimated EU contribution in 2015 arising from the CSO growth revision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26396/16]
    • Gross National Income
      355. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions which have been taken by his Department in conjunction with the CSO and EUROSTAT regarding the calculation of gross national income; and if he...
    • Departmental Operations
      356. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department's work on behavioural economic insights analysis with the ERSI on the issue and any actions arising; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the renewal of the terms of members of the Fiscal Advisory Council at the end of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26404/16]
    • Departmental Reviews
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department's review of income averaging for the artist's exemption will be completed; the actions arising from the review; and if he will make a...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      360. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department has taken arising from the review of Central Bank funding for its financial regulation; the timeframe for its implementation; and...
    • Bank Levy
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review of the bank levy calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26408/16]
    • European Banking Union
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department's work on the ad hoc working group on the European deposit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26409/16]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated timeframe for the Government's appeal of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26410/16]
    • EU Issues
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of EU proposals on a common consolidated corporate tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26412/16]
    • EU Directives
      366. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeframe for the implementation of the anti-tax avoidance directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26413/16]
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with his counterparts from other EU member states regarding the State appeal on a case (details supplied); if he has received indications that...
    • NAMA Code of Conduct
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with NAMA officials regarding recent revelations around Project Eagle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26415/16]
    • Tax Treaties
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance the Government's position on Action 15 of the BEPS action plan, developing a multilateral instrument to modify bilateral tax treaties; when he anticipates the...
    • Tax Code
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations, transfer pricing guidelines, (details...
    • Corporation Tax
      371. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department will publish its analysis of the reason corporation tax receipts increased by €2.3 billion above forecasts; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance if and when the (details supplied) state aid recovery fee will be placed in an escrow account; the total estimated amount due including interest; if the...
    • Tax Credits
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce an employer pay related social insurance tax credit for new hires for micro-businesses, in order to increase employment; and if he will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Funding
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is in a position to provide further funding for the Ballymun Music Programme, an initiative co-funded by DIT; and if he will...
    • Pensions Data
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of serving and retired Deputies and Senators in receipt of a teacher's pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25074/16]
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for home tuition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25283/16]
    • Education and Training Boards Funding
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the main scheme non-pay allocation to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire education board which has been capped at 2012 levels; if he...
    • School Transport Data
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received under the post-primary school transport scheme from counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2014 and 2015 in tabular...
    • School Transport Applications
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for a bus escort will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24388/16]
    • School Transport Provision
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been informed that the bus route for a school (details supplied) is to be withdrawn in September 2016; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Catchment Areas
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the temporary location for a school (details supplied) is outside the catchment area of the school; the temporary location options...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request that Student Universal Support Ireland reverses the recent decision to employ a company (details supplied) to calculate the distance...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will continue to be designated as having disadvantaged status; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Educational Disadvantage
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will announce the terms of reference for the review into DEIS; if there will be an interim report; the level of consultation with...
    • Third Level Facilities
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the current situation at DIT whereby the governing body has failed to sign funding agreements with the Students' Union leaving...
    • School Curriculum
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is committed to have Mandarin Chinese as a leaving certificate examination subject and the estimated timeframe for this; and if he will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to amend the residency rule relating to accessing Student Universal Support Ireland supports to allow for Irish citizens who emigrated...
    • Weight of Schoolbags
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding school bags. [24524/16]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has identified a site for a school (details supplied); if he has agreed a sale with any landowners in connection with any site...
    • School Accommodation
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the preliminary census results for Fingal county showing above trend population growth, he plans to review the current and future...
    • Further Education and Training Colleges
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of any developments regarding the establishment of a college of further education in the Swords area of north County Dublin, given...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific provision made for children with autistic spectrum disorders and the number of places available in autistic spectrum disorder units...
    • School Closures
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has closed its doors in summer 2016 and is no longer in operation;...
    • School Transport Applications
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene and allow for concessionary school transport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when moneys will be granted to a school (details supplied) as works need to be completed by the start of the academic year in September 2016; and...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for an emergency works grant for urgent works on a school (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to provide a school (details supplied) with a new school building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24724/16]
    • School Transport Availability
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will honour the commitment made by the Minister of State in his Department that all concessionary students will be accommodated on school...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department in...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of credit cards issued to staff working in each State agency funded by his Department, in tabular form; the number of cards per funded...
    • Schools Establishment
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of recent census data, the decision to refuse a new primary level non-denominational Gaelscoil for the north side of Dublin will be...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuair sé an comhfhreagras, an suirbhé innealtóireachta agus na grianghraif a sheol scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 20 November 2014, if the review of the operation of the fund referred to in the reply and in...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 23 June 2016, if a leaving certificate is sufficient for consideration by the admissions office at...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 17 May 2016, if he will approve a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied). [24952/16]
    • School Staff Appeals Mechanism
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider an appeal made by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24965/16]
    • Early Start Programme
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 13 July 2016, if he will provide additional staff in cases of children who require one-to-one care...
    • Schools Establishment
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/16]
    • Special Educational Needs
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the pilot programme commenced by his predecessor on the implementation of the National Council for Special Education, NCSE...
    • Comhlachtaí Aistriúcháin
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na coinníollacha a bhaineann leis an gcaighdeán Gaeilge i ndáil le tairiscintí a lorgaítear ó...
    • School Transport
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bus transport for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25252/16]
    • School Transport Data
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of concessionary bus tickets available to students for each of the academic years 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 as part of the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the policy of not permitting special needs assistants, SNAs, who took redundancy prior to 1 May 2014 to be employed in...
    • School Funding
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the serious funding and resources shortfall at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of restoring grants for postgraduate education and paying the equivalent of the back to education allowance as maintenance to...
    • Third Level Fees
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of abolishing undergraduate and postgraduate fees, bearing in mind the reduction in tax relief on tuition fees. [25366/16]
    • Schools Building Projects
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed upgrade to a school (details supplied), including any reviews or studies of suitable sites that may have been...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review recent changes to the home tuition grant affecting children with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, between 2.5 and 3 years of age;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the correct procedure for parents who seek the support of a special needs assistant for their son or daughter in primary school. [25391/16]
    • School Transport
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the distress the nearest school rule is causing to families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25392/16]
    • Lease Agreements
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the landlords to whom his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25415/16]
    • School Transport Appeals
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the School Transport Appeals Board sits only once a month to make decisions on appeals; and the steps he will take to reform the...
    • Teacher Training Places
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on separate religion-based entry for the primary teacher training course in Dublin City University (details supplied); if he will be...
    • Nursing Education
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on separate religion-based entry for the degree in general nursing in the University of Dublin (details supplied); if he will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence written on behalf of a person (details supplied); the reason requested supports for the person to whom this...
    • Schools Building Projects
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will commence the urgently required work on the rebuilding of a school (details supplied), which is now more urgent in the...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of spend on schools building projects, schools extensions and additional accommodation provision, with detail of increases and...
    • School Transport Administration
      440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on how his Department has determined that Quin Village, County Clare is closer to Ennis than to a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the new primary school in Julianstown, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25502/16]
    • School Transport
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding school bus services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25506/16]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25508/16]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support an application for the summer works scheme 2016-2017 in respect of a school (details supplied). [25511/16]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when eTenders will issue to schools (details supplied) in County Wexford for the schools broadband scheme; the criteria for the approved list of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25536/16]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by his Department and the National Council for Special Education to ensure that a child (details supplied) has an...
    • School Transport Applications Data
      457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of children who applied for a school bus from Quin, County Clare to Tulla, County Clare, including any children who were refused...
    • School Funding
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of funding for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25630/16]
    • State Examinations
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a reader in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25631/16]
    • School Transport Applications
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a special needs transport grant in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons (details supplied) in County Kerry who failed to secure a seat on the school transport bus service will be permitted to use the Bus...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is financial assistance available to a person (details supplied). [25710/16]
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to providing non-union teachers the opportunity to opt into the Lansdowne Road Agreement in the context of any...
    • State Examinations Appeals
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of exam papers which have been sent by a person (details supplied) to be rechecked; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Services Staff
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the employer responsible for persons who are employed as cooks in schools and paid by the board of management; if these employees are subject to...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next phase of development for Lusk Community College is expected to be completed; the details on the facilities which will be delivered...
    • Departmental Communications
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an immediate decision will be made by the curriculum and policy section of his Department on the case of a person (details supplied); and the...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will be paid by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25790/16]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has recently been informed that funding is not available to commence its building project even though the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a special needs assistant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25846/16]
    • Third Level Data
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 665 of 14 April 2016, if he will provide a final response. [25848/16]
    • Third Level Staff
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to replace retiring technical officers in the National University of Ireland, Galway (details supplied). [25863/16]
    • Postal Codes
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI application process whereby an applicant who is 26 years of age also needs to provide details of his or her parents'...
    • School Transport
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the exceptional circumstances that pertain to persons (details supplied) with regard to a concessionary bus...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site meeting involving departmental officials took place at a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if so, the outcome of the meeting;...
    • Departmental Budgets
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department’s budget for 2016 for the major school building projects list was allocated; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools constructed in the past ten years that have sought funding from his Department to carry out structural repair works...
    • Employment Rights
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers are allowed to count their lunch breaks as part of their working day and special needs assistants are not; and his views on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school project (details supplied) will be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25908/16]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commitment given three months ago, in reply to Parliamentary Question Number 96 of 15 June 2016, to liaise with a school...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassess an application for a second new classroom by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available in class and in school generally and through the National Council for Special Education for a child who was first...
    • School Accommodation
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s regulations on overcrowding in schools, with particular reference to best practice regarding pupil numbers per building...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his position on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Lansdowne Road Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25999/16]
    • Minor Works Scheme
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if minor works grants will be paid to primary schools in autumn 2016; if there is a specific budget line in budget 2016 to cover the cost of...
    • School Curriculum
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application in respect of a person (details supplied) for an exemption from Irish will be assessed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Digital Strategy for Schools
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when grants will be paid to secondary schools for the procurement of new equipment and the updating of existing equipment as part of the digital...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the progress of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26035/16]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list all vacancies on State boards or governing bodies under his control that existed on 26 February 2016 and all vacancies that have arisen...
    • Costs of Education
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the costs of primary, secondary and third level education for families and students here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Budget 2017
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26114/16]
    • School Transport
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why persons (details supplied) are being denied school transport; why their special educational needs and the impact that uprooting them from...
    • School Curriculum
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the inclusion of physical education as a leaving certificate exam subject. [26153/16]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation to alleviate serious overcrowding in...
    • School Transport
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the number of pupils who had school transport to a school (details supplied) and who have now been refused school transport;...
    • Student Data
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who completed the leaving certificate in a school (details supplied) in 2016; and the number who went on to further...
    • School Costs
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the joint Oireachtas committee report on tackling school costs published in 2013 to be implemented by his...
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated each year since 2006 to the school book rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26209/16]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital spend for 2015 and to date in 2016 in areas (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26211/16]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student grant assistance is currently provided to students at some private third level institutions; if so, the names of the institutions...
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been provided each year since 2006 for the provision of special educational needs organisers and senior special educational...
    • Departmental Policy Reviews
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report on science, technology, engineering and maths, STEM, has been completed; when he intends to publish same; and if he will make a...
    • Access to Higher Education
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the report commissioned by his Department on barriers to education for lone parents has been completed; when he will publish same; and if he...
    • Student Accommodation
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding recommendations of the report completed by the Higher Education Authority in respect of student accommodation in September 2015...
    • School Uniforms
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on uniform policy and specifically on the provision of generic school uniforms; and if he...
    • School Costs
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has ever issued guidelines to schools on the issue of voluntary contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will establish clear guidelines with SUSI on the issue of estrangement for the purposes of the student grant; and if he will make a...
    • Legal Proceedings
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school sex abuse litigants his Department has written to in respect of an offer to not seek costs if the litigants take no further...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount which has been allocated by his Department to demographic pressures over each of the next five years for each budget in capital and...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the number of apprenticeship places with ESB has reduced; the reasons for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26222/16]
    • Education Data
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the lifeskills survey 2016 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26223/16]
    • Adult Education Provision
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been allocated each year since 2006 for adult numeracy and literacy initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • First Aid Training
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider establishing a pilot programme for the roll-out of first aid training in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Circulars
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the provisions of circular F 55/85; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26227/16]
    • Schools Building Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a new build programme at a school (details supplied); the contacts made with the school in respect of the matter; and if he will...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that funding will be found to provide for the necessary works sought by the board of management of a school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed building programme for a school (details supplied), including the schedule now being followed; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to address the shortage of ASD special classes at post-primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation Provision
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of new premises for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26280/16]
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on the dental nursing programme and SUSI grant classification; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that qualification...
    • School Transport
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons (details supplied) who held a concessionary ticket through the school transport scheme for the past two years lost a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction is due to commence on a new school (details supplied). [26327/16]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the purchase of land at Charlesland, Greystones, County Wicklow for the provision of a new community national school; the size of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when construction will commence and be completed; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26348/16]
    • School Transport Provision
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend the current legislation governing the school transport scheme which states that routes will not be extended or altered,...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total spend on apprenticeship training and a breakdown between the total number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
    • Local Authority Rates
      539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is reviewing the way in which rural public houses are being charged for their commercial rates, particularly...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Data
      541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government [24860/16]
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding that was announced under the Limerick regeneration and its hinterland and...
    • Vehicle Registration
      543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) the new rules for declaring a vehicle off the road; and if he will make a...
    • Pyrite Issues
      544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of Green Certificates issued for houses inspected for pyrite in Fingal by district, excluding homes that...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there is a cut-off point for inclusion in the pyrite remediation scheme; his views on whether persons who are...
    • Vacant Sites Levy
      549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the yield if the vacant site levy introduced by the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 was implemented in 2017...
    • Local Authority Rates
      550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the potential cost to the Exchequer of allowing new business start-ups to receive an exemption from rates for an...
    • Water Services Data
      551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding will be allocated which has been approved under the Rural Water Multi-Annual Funding Programme 2016-2018...
    • Departmental Contracts
      552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he or his Department carried out a report or a review on awarding procurement contracts (details supplied) where...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the downgrading of the turnover requirements for construction companies tendering for house building...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason persons applying for the tenant (increment) purchase scheme 2016 must have an income level of...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the housing assistance payment is not payable from the date of application rather than the date of...
    • Housing Estates
      559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of unfinished housing estates in each county, with malfunctioning private sewerage treatment plants; and...
    • Animal Welfare
      560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 12 July 2016, if dogs seized on welfare rather than control grounds...
    • Local Authority Functions
      562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on city status for the greater Drogheda area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24699/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the communications he has had with the Department of Health in respect of increasing the provision of rental...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will amend the pyrite remediation scheme to reflect the present situation for homeowners trying to source...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
      565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason mortgage lenders are not obligated to offer the mortgage to rent scheme to distressed borrowers who are...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of the publication of the revised wind energy guidelines in 2016, he will outline the international best...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme
      567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if pre-2011 RAS tenants can be precluded from consideration for social housing where household income has changed....
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress of the Pyrite Remediation Scheme; the number of applications received to date, by category; the number...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit...
    • Fire Safety
      572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his responsibilities with regard to ensuring that fire safety certificates are issued and up to date; if a fire...
    • Local Authority Functions
      573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will explain the role of a community warden; the way county councils can avail of this position; if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the action his Department takes to ensure that the housing conditions for elderly persons is of a suitable standard...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been budgeted for the work of the Expert Commission on Water Charges; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the decision was made to cease the funding for the Ballymun social regeneration fund by 2017; if he is...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if housing assistance payment tenancies will be extended to more than two years, which is a very short period of...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will examine and expand the council housing loan scheme, to include persons whom during the recession have...
    • Septic Tank Grants
      583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a grant scheme for septic tank owners who need to upgrade their systems without being inspected...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on changes relating to the HAP scheme whereby persons are now being asked to forfeit their place on local...
    • Earcaíocht san Earnáil Phoiblí
      585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government ar eisíodh treoir chuig na húdaráis áitiúla á chur in iúl dóibh nach bhfuil...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of a sewerage scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24994/16]
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to extend the exemption from motor tax to Blood Bike vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number and category of housing applicants for each local authority as notified to his Department by location...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of family units who are recipients of the housing assistance payment, HAP, within each local authority...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will increase the income limits for persons to be eligible to be included as applicants for social housing as...
    • Water Meters
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding replacing water meters; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release the funds necessary to complete the work on the road at the back of an estate (details supplied);...
    • Illegal Dumping
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if advice has yet been received from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor in relation to the illegal dumping that...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a person who is under the long-term housing leasing scheme is eligible for mortgage allowance towards their...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total amounts spent or budgeted for homeless services in 2015 and 2016. [25369/16]
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way the discrepancy between the approximately €122 million outturn for the rental accommodation scheme in...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of local authority direct builds, housing association direct builds,...
    • Property Tax
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of local property tax which was allocated to Dublin City Council in 2015 and 2016; if he has satisfied...
    • Lease Agreements
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new posts that have been sanctioned by his Department in 2016 to facilitate local authorities to...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of approvals that have been given to local authorities under the streamlining process for funding whereby...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he commenced the audit of vacant houses and apartments as announced in the Action Plan for Housing and...
    • Housing Issues
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has completed research and his views on the effect of the activities of an organisation (details...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of car tax collected from pre-2008 registered cars in 2015; the amount of tax collected regarding cars...
    • Constituency Boundaries
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to establish an electoral boundary commission in order to review the local authority electoral boundaries...
    • Electoral Commission Establishment
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government ;the status of the establishment of the new constituency commission. [20906/16]
    • Housing Assistance Payments Applications
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is aware that there are long delays in processing HAP applications in Sligo County Council due to staff...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total amount of spending on the provision of social and affordable housing units, including details of all...
    • Redundancy Payments
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if progress has been made regarding enhanced redundancy for persons (details supplied). [25605/16]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position and timeframe regarding the provision of 20 social housing units in Killarney (details supplied); and...
    • Licence Applications
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide details as to the intentions of an application (details supplied) and the expected benefits to...
    • Water Charges
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total cost in 2017 and full year cost of abolishing water charges. [25719/16]
    • An Bord Pleanála
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of organisations entitled to claim an exemption from An Bord Pleanála planning appeal fees; the...
    • Motor Tax
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25728/16]
    • Irish Water
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is bringing forward any plans to facilitate the entry by Irish Water employees or their agents to private...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the moneys allocated to all local authorities for the purpose of housing adaptation grants and mobility aid grants...
    • Housing Issues
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the work of the expert panel set up to examine the Mica issue; when the panel will report its findings...
    • Freedom of Information Legislation
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the expert water commission is covered by the Freedom of Information Acts. [25858/16]
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason there is a delay in paying the €17 million owed to Dublin City Council for Ballymun regeneration...
    • Postal Codes
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households...
    • Rental Accommodation Standards
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the strict living requirements set out for private landlords and local authorities has led to an increase in...
    • Household Means Policy
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will assess the position of a person (details supplied) and respond to their query on the Household Means...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason there has been a reduction in the 2015 group water scheme funding in respect of a scheme (details...
    • Irish Water Funding
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the composition of the €533 million, including the portion that is expected to come from Exchequer funding...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the release of further funding for specific schemes (details supplied): and if is attention...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that Travellers are not evicted from Traveller specific sites until alternative...
    • Animal Welfare
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release the inspection records in relation to a case (details supplied) from Cavan County Council to the...
    • Water Charges Yield
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the value, individually, of the ten highest commercial water charges for each of the past ten years; and if he will...
    • Control of Dogs
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the targeting of dog breeds following the advice of Veterinary Ireland to end the targeting of dog...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if applicants will only be deemed eligible for the housing adaption grant scheme administered by local...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if improvements will be introduced to the tenant purchase scheme to enable Part V tenants that...
    • Planning Issues
      643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will request that powers be conferred upon the Inspector of the Street Furniture Unit of local authorities to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since including the...
    • Budget 2017
      645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26140/16]
    • Cross-Border Projects
      646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position of his Department in relation to any EU funded cross Border protects once Article 50 is enacted by...
    • Local Authority Housing
      647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the location and status of the 720 identified sites for local authority social housing in the Rebuilding Ireland...
    • Planning Issues
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing development and one off housing planning permissions granted, refused, and withdrawn by local...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of professional and or trained human resources personnel in each local authority by year since 2007, in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the timeframes involved in each of the revised four stage social housing approval process as outlined in Rebuilding...
    • Local Authority Management
      653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if elected Cathaoirlaigh or Mayors of local authorities are permitted to attend management team meetings of their...
    • Building Energy Rating Compliance
      654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure buildings (details supplied) do not breach a requirement; and his further plans to ensure such...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that cooling energy demand and overheating risk are quantified in Irish building regulations for...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme Applications
      656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority capital housing scheme applications lodged with his Department including their current...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of personnel employed in the housing and planning sections of each local authority area by year since...
    • Housing Estates
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the funding promised under the National Taking in Charge Initiative will be available. [26258/16]
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement
      659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to change regulations under the Residential Tenancies Act to enable enforcement proceedings to...
    • Proposed Legislation
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to amend planning regulations in respect of afforestation; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the changes in the operation of the HAP scheme and the rent supplement scheme; if he will consider extending the...
    • Commissioner of Valuation
      662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department will provide funding to address the shortfall from the re-evaluation of rates payable carried out...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of NAMA units offered to the local authority in tabular form on a county by county basis; and the...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Tax Code
      664. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will explore the option of temporarily reducing the lower rate of employer PRSI from 8.5% to 4.25%; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      665. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools in counties Cavan and Monaghan involved in the meals programme in the past school year; the way this compares to the previous...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      666. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the process whereby private landlords are asked to sign welfare forms for tenants giving them undue control over on individual...
    • State Pensions
      667. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/16]
    • Employment Rights
      668. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he has taken to deal with a company (details supplied) and its treatment of its workers in terms of holiday pay and redundancy payments;...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      672. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will clarify the changes introduced to the back to education allowance scheme for the 2016-2017 school year and the reasons for same; and if...
    • Redundancy Payments
      674. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied); if he and his Government colleagues will ensure workers are able to claim...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      676. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [24356/16]
    • Carer's Support Grant
      677. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's support grant by a person (details supplied). [24357/16]
    • Pensions Legislation
      678. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the fact that the introduction of the total contributions approach acknowledges that the previous system threw up unfair anomalies...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Payments
      679. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the farm assist payment to the levels prior to the cuts made to the scheme three years ago as part of budget 2017. [24370/16]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      680. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have applied for domiciliary care allowance over the past four years; the number of people refused this allowance over...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      681. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed. [24477/16]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      682. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in processing an application for domiciliary care allowance which was lodged at the end of April 2016 for a person (details...
    • Bereavement Grant
      683. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reinstate the bereavement grant payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24545/16]
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      684. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if students of the Masters in Translation Studies course offered at DCU are eligible to apply for the back to education allowance; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      685. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will set social protection payments at the poverty line as part of his plans to reform the system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      686. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has received a letter from the Local Social Protection Office advising that they participate in a training...
    • Youth Guarantee
      687. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the youth guarantee pilot project was not rolled out nationally after its success in Ballymun, Dublin 11. [24600/16]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      688. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Question No. 514 of 31 May 2016, the average length of stay for families housed in the 148 emergency accommodation units in use by the...
    • Emergency Accommodation Provision
      689. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a record of the number of families that have been moved into private rented accommodation or other homeless services from new...
    • Disability Allowance
      691. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 12 July 2016, the reason certain compensation awards are exempted when others are not; the criteria...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      692. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he declined an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; the reason moneys that were awarded to...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      693. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to persons on carer's allowance receiving PRSI credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24656/16]
    • Live Register Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to address the problem of persons who are not counted among the live register figures and who do not have access to education, training...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      695. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a claim for Disability Allowance was registered with his Department in May 2015 in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      696. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department in 2014...
    • Paternity Leave Scheme
      699. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date of commencement for fathers to avail of Paternity Leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24818/16]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      700. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for Domiciliary Care Allowance in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      701. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal for Invalidity Pension by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24832/16]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      702. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position or procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) whose One Parent Family Payment is due to cease on 24 August, 2016; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      703. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused Disability Allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24918/16]
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      704. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase Back to School Allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24960/16]
    • Back to Education Allowance
      705. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to increase Back to Education Allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24961/16]
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      708. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he has given further consideration to approving Child Benefit for students who are in full-time education even though they have reached 18 years...
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments
      709. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was denied access to the insolvency pension fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/16]
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility
      710. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the review to establish the action that can be taken to help persons whose former employers ceased trading without entering...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      711. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears owed in respect of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      712. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the free travel alternatives that exist within his Department to accommodate a person (details supplied) who is not permitted to drive by the State...
    • Pension Provisions
      713. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the changes to the contributory old age pension system whereby persons who have a very large number of paid contributions for...
    • State Pensions Reform
      714. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to abolish the compulsory retirement age of 65; the options of financial support available to people who retire at 65 years of age but do...
    • State Pensions
      715. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to continue with the community employment pilot scheme launched in December 2015, whereby people who are 62 years of age and over will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
      716. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount he has spent on rent supplement to date in 2016; the number of households assisted and the average monthly rent supplement paid per...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      717. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25159/16]
    • Guardian's Payment
      718. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when he plans to publish the expenditure review of the orphan's payment; his plans on reforming this payment to bring it in line with the foster...
    • Pension Provisions
      719. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding public and private sector pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25201/16]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      720. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore the payment of benefit to a person (details supplied). [25213/16]
    • Data Protection
      721. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he had correspondence with the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the ability of a Minister or a Department to comment on an individual case;...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      722. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reassess an unsuccessful domiciliary care allowance application (details supplied); if he will reconsider this application; and if he...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      723. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) whose application for the back to education allowance was rejected; if he will make...
    • Paternity Leave Scheme
      724. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider relevant parents of babies born before 1 September 2016 for inclusion under the provisions of the Paternity Leave and Benefit...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      725. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be reached on a carer’s allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied). [25281/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      726. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated with regard to a carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      727. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      728. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason employees of a community employment scheme project (details supplied) in County Donegal were transferred to placements supported by a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      729. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way contributions are considered when a person applies for a social protection payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      730. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an exceptional needs payment will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25339/16]
    • Tax Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount that has been raised from PRSI on rental income since its introduction. [25367/16]
    • Tax Yield
      732. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount that could be raised from increasing employers’ PRSI towards the EU effective average rate of 20% that is by increasing the...
    • JobPath Implementation
      733. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will investigate the practices of a company (details supplied) which has been engaged by the State to work on the JobPath scheme. [25406/16]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      737. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25423/16]
    • Jobs Initiative
      738. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who wishes to continue on the Gateway scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      739. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review and amend the situation regarding entitlements for bereaved partners in cohabiting couples in view of the Northern Ireland High...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      741. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the spending on social protection payments, including details of all increases or decreases by payment, on an annual basis for each of the years...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      742. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25495/16]
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
      743. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will receive a supplementary welfare allowance for assistance with funeral expenses; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      744. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address inequalities in the pension system following on from the increase in the required number of contributions needed to qualify,...
    • Social Welfare Code
      745. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions in place whereby a person has received a large compensation payment from the State as a result of medical negligence by the State; if...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      746. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason there is a delay in processing the appeal of the rejection of an application by a person (details supplied) for a carer's allowance....
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      747. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme; the name of their employer and place of work; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Family Income Supplement Applications
      749. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will pay the family income supplement to a person (details supplied) as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25568/16]
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      750. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if approval will be given to a person (details supplied) to take up a place on a community employment scheme. [25598/16]
    • JobPath Implementation
      751. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of participants in the JobPath scheme who have been placed in permanent employment by each of the operators of the scheme, namely,...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      755. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on whether the new regulations regarding part-time work during the 2016-17 academic year for those in receipt of the back to education...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      756. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will expedite a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Diagnoses
      757. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitment for a fit for work scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      758. 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...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      760. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for an increase on a payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      761. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Income Supplement Payments
      766. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a family income supplement payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [25688/16]
    • JobPath Implementation
      767. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the live register who are currently contracted to SEETEC; the hourly rate paid to SEETEC for providing assessment and...
    • General Register Office
      768. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the case of persons (details supplied) who are waiting for documentation from the General Register Office; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      769. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of social protection support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25733/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      770. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports available for a person caring for a family member for three days each week, thus leaving the person unable to sign for the jobseeker's...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      771. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25765/16]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      773. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the waiting times for social protection applications; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Reviews
      774. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of a review of a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      775. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a request to backdate a domiciliary care allowance award in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      777. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will commit to reinstating the telephone allowance in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25787/16]
    • Fuel Allowance Payments
      778. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will commit to reversing the cuts to the fuel allowance in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25788/16]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      779. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will be expedited relative to an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied). [25832/16]
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      780. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will review his Department's request for repayment of benefit paid to the person on...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      781. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any exceptions to the maximum time available to participants in the community employment scheme, that is, three years; and if he will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      782. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25853/16]
    • National Postcode System Implementation
      783. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Websites
      784. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is satisfied with the Intreo website (details supplied); the purpose of the website; when it will be fully operational; and if he will make a...
    • Paternity Leave Scheme
      785. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the section of the Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 that allows provision for a father to take paternity leave in the event of a stillbirth or...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      786. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied). [25927/16]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      787. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied). [25928/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      789. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied). [25932/16]
    • Departmental Offices
      790. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will re-examine a decision made by his Department not to open and establish a social protection office in Lucan, County Dublin (details...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      791. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will examine the situation where a person (details supplied) has been penalised for returning to education; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      792. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme which is under appeal. [25976/16]
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      793. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a disability allowance is not being paid in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite this case. [25978/16]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      794. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme will be approved immediately. [25979/16]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      795. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26007/16]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      796. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26010/16]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      797. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of a PPSN number to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26016/16]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      799. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the practice of moneys owed being refunded through electronic payments on a system that is not capable of transferring to post office...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      800. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since included the date it became vacant for State...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      801. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of disability allowance received a review form from his Department despite the fact this...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Data
      803. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants who received for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance in 2016 to date; the total number granted or refused...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      804. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time in 2016 for a decision in respect of all social protection payments in tabular form; the average waiting time for appeal...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      805. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans, if any, to extend the homemaker scheme prior to 1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26106/16]
    • Departmental Reports
      806. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the report by a person (details supplied) regarding lone parent households and commissioned by his Department will be released; the date the...
    • Youth Unemployment Data
      807. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the youth unemployment rate here; the way in which this figure compares to the European average; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      808. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients and cost to the Exchequer of the one-parent family payment, jobseeker's transition payment and family income supplement in...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Expenditure
      810. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer to reform the homemakers scheme to make it more equitable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26128/16]
    • Budget 2017
      811. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the projects his Department is prioritising in Budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26129/16]
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      812. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) to ensure their claim for disability allowance continues to be paid. [26154/16]
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      813. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the proactive measures his Department is taking to encouraging diversity in the workplace specifically with regard to the employment of persons with...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      814. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that his Department is centrally involved and formally represented in each Local Drugs Task Force given the key role his...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      815. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been reached with regards to where the Macroom office for the Department of Social Protection will be situated. [26253/16]
    • Pension Provisions
      816. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to grant all qualified adults in receipt of a pension an additional €10 on turning 80 years of age; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      817. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26267/16]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Administration
      818. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his proposals to reverse the changes to farm assist that were introduced in budgets 2012 and 2013; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      819. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of amending the home-maker scheme by disregarding up to 200 pre-1994 A1 PRSI payments for the purpose of calculating a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      822. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer if eligibility criteria were altered to allow lone parents in employment whose children are between seven and 14 years of...
    • Personal Micro Credit Scheme
      823. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current scope of the personal micro-credit initiative. [26342/16]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Applications
      824. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person must produce their birth certificate when having a passport application form stamped in a Garda station when they have lost a...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      825. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of revenue collected in respect of Irish passport applications for each of the past 12 months. [26179/16]
    • Human Rights
      826. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the detail of representations he has made on behalf of practitioners (details supplied) to the Government of the People's Republic of China;...
    • Pension Provisions
      827. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied). [24394/16]
    • Good Friday Agreement
      828. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the re-establishment of the civic forum as provided for in the Good Friday Agreement; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Human Rights
      829. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to political developments in Turkey; his views on the Turkish Government's crackdown on civil society since...
    • Human Rights Cases
      830. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if he will condemn the Israeli military's continued fatal attacks on...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      831. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Number 488 of 19 July 2016, the locations from where the US military aircraft in question were coming and...
    • Middle East Issues
      833. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will heed the call for action in Palestine's Call, the open letter recently sent to all Oireachtas Members from Palestine civil and...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      834. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he has created new commercial attaché posts in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Romania; the cities in which these...
    • Middle East Issues
      835. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the amendment to legislation passed recently by the Israeli Parliament (details supplied); and his views...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      836. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      839. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will introduce a reduced rate for passport applications in relation to old age pensioners who are on low incomes, as the current rate...
    • Passport Applications Data
      840. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports that were applied for by persons separately living in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland in June...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      841. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person responsible for tracking the implementation of the sustainable development goals; his plans to support the implementation of the...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      842. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department allowed the elderly to be issued a three year passport for a lower fee; if he will consider reintroducing this for those...
    • Human Rights Cases
      843. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the hunger strike of a person (details supplied) in detention in Israel; if he will report on any representations on the matter...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      817. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26267/16]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Administration
      818. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his proposals to reverse the changes to farm assist that were introduced in budgets 2012 and 2013; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      819. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of amending the home-maker scheme by disregarding up to 200 pre-1994 A1 PRSI payments for the purpose of calculating a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      822. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer if eligibility criteria were altered to allow lone parents in employment whose children are between seven and 14 years of...
    • Personal Micro Credit Scheme
      823. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current scope of the personal micro-credit initiative. [26342/16]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Applications
      824. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person must produce their birth certificate when having a passport application form stamped in a Garda station when they have lost a...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      825. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of revenue collected in respect of Irish passport applications for each of the past 12 months. [26179/16]
    • Human Rights
      826. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      845. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      846. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether it is proposed to hold the North-South Ministerial Council on a more regular basis in view of the result of the UK referendum on EU...
    • Irish Aid
      847. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set down the amount donated to the Clinton Foundation for each of the years from 2008 to 2016 to date. [25658/16]
    • Consular Services Provision
      848. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his views on the detention of a person (details supplied) in Iran; the representations he or his Department have made to the...
    • National Postcode System Implementation
      849. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      850. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set down the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date any...
    • Departmental Budgets
      851. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26141/16]
    • Cross-Border Projects
      852. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the position of his Department on any EU-funded cross-border projects once Article 50 is enacted by the Government of the United...
    • Middle East Issues
      853. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the steps he will take to contribute to making the recommendations of a recent report (details supplied); if his attention has...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      854. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the cost to the Exchequer to maintain the target of 0.7% GDP on overseas development aid; and the cost to the Exchequer of...
    • Middle East Issues
      855. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his views on Turkey's recent military incursion into Syria; his views on the fact that although the action is supposedly to...
    • International Relations
      858. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the demands of Kurdish political leaders, who have called on the Turkish Government to grant a family...
    • EU Issues
      860. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the extraordinary public demonstrations in Catalonia on 11 September 2016, when up to a million persons...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      861. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he is aware that a person (details supplied) has been barred from seeking election to the Basque Parliament in upcoming elections in...
    • Consular Services Provision
      862. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has formally discussed the Government's decision to back an appeal for a person's (details supplied) release by presidential decree...
    • Prisoner Welfare
      863. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the growing international campaign for the release of a person (details supplied); and his views on the...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      864. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent unrest and violence in Ethiopia, a partner country of Irish Aid, and the Human Rights Watch...
    • Foreign Policy
      865. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to political developments in Brazil, including how the former President, Ms Dilma Rousseff, was...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      866. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that over 3,000 persons have been killed in the Philippines since President Duterte came to...
    • Foreign Policy
      867. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports regarding the brutal conditions faced by asylum seekers held in Australia's care on Nauru and...
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      868. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any further discussions with the UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland or with the British Foreign Secretary on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      869. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the status of the implementation of part 5 of the Disability Act 2005, specifically as it relates to a person (details...
    • Flood Risk Management
      870. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24682/16]
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      871. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has appointed a building contractor with regard to the new Greystones Coast Guard station; if a timeframe...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      872. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the statement of the Comptroller and Auditor General at a meeting of the Committe of Public Accounts on 21 July 2016 (details...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      873. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a river eroding land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25097/16]
    • Flood Risk Management
      874. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details on the relocation scheme announced for houses in flood zone areas. [25755/16]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      875. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the reason there has been such a drastic cut to the OPW lease contract for a premises (details supplied). [26252/16]
    • Office of Public Works Expenditure
      876. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set down the amount of money that has been spent on maintaining the scaffolding for Ardara Bridge, County Offaly; and if he will make...
    • Flood Risk Management
      877. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in light of recent significant flooding events and the need for a focused and co-ordinated response, he will designate the OPW as...
    • Garda Remuneration
      878. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the reason all public service pensions are to be paid on the first working day of each month from January 2016, compared to...
    • Public Sector Staff
      879. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a limit to the number of consecutive years an employee can work in the public sector as an outsourced member of staff; and...
    • EU Funding
      880. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the current INTERREG programme funding of approximately €258 million and the current PEACE programme funding of €250...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      881. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his plans to introduce a grant aid scheme following flooding that occurred in south County Mayo in December 2015; and if he...
    • Flood Risk Management
      882. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24588/16]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      883. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has guidelines on State advertising and the procurement process; and, if not, whether his Department has plans to...
    • EU Funding
      884. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline when his Department became aware of the need to install a national computerised accounting and information system for EU...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      885. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his plans to review the spouses' and children's pension payment, specifically the mandatory nature of payment into the scheme...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      887. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Data
      890. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set down the number of State contracts allocated to a financial service company (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2016...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      891. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will explain the contradiction between his statement to Dáil Éireann on 12 July 2016 that non-unionised public service...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      892. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the details of all the meetings and persons who attended the community sector high-level forum which was reconvened by his...
    • Prison Staff
      893. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the way a request for an injury warrant in respect of prison officers is assessed by his Department, taking into account the...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      894. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set down the amount being paid per month on a lease of the building within which Harcourt Square Garda headquarters is contained;...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      896. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware that a prison administration and support officer III with two increments and over three years' public service, has been...
    • Pensions Reform
      897. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the introduction of a State sponsored mandatory pension scheme in the private sector where the employer, employee...
    • Public Sector Allowances Review
      898. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the public service allowances and premium payments that were abolished as a result of the outcome of the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      901. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will enforce the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 to protect a property (details supplied) in County Kerry which is at risk of...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      902. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the guidelines on contracts for CEOs in commercial semi-State bodies were last updated; and the number of times they have been...
    • Driving Test
      905. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made by the OPW in securing a site for a driving test centre in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will...
    • Flooding Data
      906. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Number 456 of 12 July 2016, if the tree management package works scheduled to begin on 1 September...
    • Public Inquiries
      909. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process whereby staff are recruited to work on non-statutory inquiries. [25326/16]
    • Public Service Contracts
      910. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the widespread use of agencies to staff Government projects, in particular the low rates of pay and overtime often offered...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      911. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each...
    • Comhlachtaí Aistriúcháin
      912. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cé na coinníollacha a bhaineann leis an gcaighdeán Gaeilge i ndáil le tairiscintí a lorgaítear ó...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      913. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when work will commence on the Kiltiernan/Ballinderreen Flood Relief Project. [25515/16]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Data
      914. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the minor works flood relief projects for County Galway which have been sanctioned by the OPW since January 2016 to date; and the amount...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      915. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that Galway County Council has sufficient resources in terms of funds and staff, to design all of the flood relief...
    • Flood Risk Management
      916. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the creation of a County Galway flood forum, consisting of representatives from Galway County Council, the OPW, the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      917. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his visit to Crossmolina, County Mayo in July 2016, if he will provide the details of the planned flooding prevention works...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      918. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the OPW have for Westgate House (details supplied) in Drogheda which was acquired by the OPW in Drogheda and is now in a very...
    • National Monuments
      919. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of funding for Carrigafoyle Castle, Ballylongford, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Risk Management
      920. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed at lands in Ardcanaught, Castlemaine, County Kerry following previous works to address...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      921. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the OPW is not taking responsibility for the River Erne in the constituency of Cavan/Monaghan; the funding measures that can...
    • Postal Codes
      922. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      923. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [25961/16]
    • Fiscal Policy
      924. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional revenue will be available to supplement the fiscal space from live register savings in 2016; when he will announce any...
    • Public Sector Pay
      925. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe of the Public Service Pay Commission, with particular reference to addressing the pay inequality issue for teachers, some...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      926. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since including the date it became vacant...
    • Departmental Staff
      927. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a staffing issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26092/16]
    • Local Authority Management
      928. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration is being given to further performance management measures for local authorities in areas such as social housing,...
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      929. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy in relation to persons at a senior level in the public service taking early retirement in different strands of the public...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      930. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects Annesgrove Gardens in north Cork will officially open to the public. [26230/16]
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      931. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the recent concerns expressed by the Finance Minister of the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the provision of EU...
    • Departmental Appointments
      932. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the holders of the position of Government Chief Information Officer, their dates of employment and vacancy periods from...
    • Departmental Operations
      933. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to develop behavioural economic insights analysis in his Department; if his Department has met with the ERSI on...
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision
      934. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood insurance models report developed by the OPW; when the report will be published; the timeline for actions...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Hen Harriers Threat Response Plan
      935. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeline given for the rapid threat response plan to be finished for the hen harrier and the exact date given; and if she will...
    • Rural Development Programme Projects
      936. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding allocated to the walks scheme over the past three years; her proposals to increase funding in this regard; and if...
    • Deer Culls
      937. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address the challenges associated with managing the wild deer population; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      938. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of Leader funding granted within each electoral area, since 2011 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Parks
      939. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Number 253 of 25 June 2015, her views on the issue raised (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Harbours and Piers Development
      940. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the avenues available to local community development associations to apply for funding to develop a harbour; and if she will make a...
    • National Parks
      941. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the case of a person (details supplied) who has an issue with trees overgrowing into their property; and if she will...
    • Postal Services Provision
      942. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the centralisation of An Post sorting offices from rural post offices to central locations; if a detailed study was...
    • Departmental Reviews
      943. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the case of a person (details supplied) regarding an incident that took place in September 2016; and if she will make a...
    • Wildlife Protection
      944. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which a group could apply for a licence to carry out a seal cull in an area where the population may be out of control;...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      945. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the additional funding that will be made available by the Government to assist Galway to prepare for its role as European City of...
    • Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas
      946. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of money spent on Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas projects, by county, in each year from 2014 to...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      947. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of restoring Leader funding to the level that was originally allocated under the 2007 to 2013 Rural Development Programme,...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      948. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the basis for the hooded grey crow and the magpie being individually identified as a threat to public health as declared under...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      949. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in her Department; the amount spent on credit cards by her...
    • Architectural Heritage
      952. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of any plans to restore St. Felim's Workhouse in Cullies in Cavan Town, the former St. Felim's Hospital, which is a...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Properties
      953. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the case of a person (details supplied) who wishes to purchase land; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Monuments
      954. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Monument at 14 to 17 Moore Street, Dublin 1. [24813/16]
    • Departmental Funding
      955. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available to carry out repairs to a bridge (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Heritage Council
      956. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider creating a vision and learning structure at primary school level to ensure that every child is exposed to...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      957. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will set benchmarks for investments in culture and heritage that put Ireland alongside our European counterparts; and if she...
    • Digital Archiving
      959. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider creating an enabling environment for digitisation of archives and records across all levels in the State,...
    • Arts Funding
      960. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to deliver policies and incentives to engage the private and business sector in supporting culture, through philanthropic...
    • Rural Development Programme
      961. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding allocated to Kilkenny County Council under the €30,000,000 fund announced in 2015 under the town and...
    • Inland Fisheries
      963. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when it is proposed to bring a joint proposal to Government along with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      964. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for road works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25088/16]
    • Commemorative Events
      965. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos 873 and 874 of 14 April 2016, if she will confirm that the inaugural official National Famine...
    • Wildlife Protection
      966. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will respond to the serious concerns raised by a number of organisations (details supplied) with respect to proposed changes...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      967. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when Pobal will invite applications for the social enterprise measure under the Dormant Accounts Fund; and if she will make a...
    • National Parks
      968. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Park in Killarney, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      970. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25396/16]
    • Lease Agreements
      971. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the landlords that her Department or bodies under her aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each...
    • Arts Funding
      972. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase the total arts budget of 0.11% of national GDP to the EU average of 0.6%; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Heritage Sites
      974. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the condition of the roads and walkways in Killarney National Park (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Waterways Ireland
      975. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure that the works that are required in rural County Kildare on the canal at Rathangan will be completed as soon as...
    • Architectural Heritage
      976. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant aid is available to renovate a listed building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25597/16]
    • Rural Enterprise Development Zones
      977. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding funding for an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25644/16]
    • Arts Funding
      978. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the assessment process used to judge the grant applications by Culture Ireland for the Supporting Irish Culture on the World Stage...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      979. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding farmers who are being issued letters from her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Postal Codes
      980. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts her Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and...
    • Shooting Rights
      981. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the case of a person (details supplied) regarding shooting rights on land; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      982. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since included the date it became...
    • Budget 2017
      983. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects her Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26142/16]
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      984. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will confirm the public funds originally allocated to each local action group, LAG, for the Leader 2007-2013 programme; the...
    • National Concert Hall
      985. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she supports the National Concert Hall in its key strategic objective between now and 2020 to ensure the complete refurbishment of...
    • National Monuments
      987. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has given consent to progress the works at Ardara Bridge, County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26313/16]
  • Department of Health
    • Misuse of Drugs
      988. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative provision under which a person may be prosecuted under for possession of a drug testing kit (details supplied). [24494/16]
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      989. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill has been notified to the World Trade Organization under the technical barriers to trade agreement as a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      990. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who has applied for, but has not yet received, a medical card and is placed on JobPath while the application is still being processed, will still...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      991. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the increase number of refusals made with respect to applications received by HSE Donegal for additional preschool supports for children with...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision
      992. To ask the Minister for Health when the provisions of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 dealing with donor assisted human reproduction will commence; the timeframe he envisages...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      993. To ask the Minister for Health the work that has been undertaken to deliver well resourced custodial drug treatment centres that could provide an alternative to standard custodial sanctions...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      994. To ask the Minister for Health the frequency of elective surgery in the ear, nose and throat hospitals; the waiting lists for ear, nose and throat operations; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline a person has to be working with the HSE until they will be entitled to a contract of indefinite duration or permanency; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      997. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a cut in an allowance for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24330/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      998. 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. [24342/16]
    • Health Services
      999. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for treatment by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24347/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health to allow the release of properties for rent where the properties are held over in respect of capital to underpin fair deal investment; his plans to review the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting for corrective surgery due to a medical condition; if he is aware...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [24376/16]
    • Prescriptions Data
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 65 years of age who were prescribed Olanzapine, Quetiapine Fumarate or Risperidone in 2014, 2015 and 2016 to date; the number of...
    • Autism Support Services
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been cuts in the provision of psychological review for children who are six to 18 years of age with autism; if he is aware that such information...
    • Health Services Data
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to outline the reason a person (details supplied) was told there are minimal case notes available in his or her case; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting almost a year and will not have an appointment until later in the year. [24389/16]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no HSE emergency respite bed in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24393/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a child (details supplied) currently on the waiting list for 13 weeks for an operation. [24402/16]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide approval under the GMS scheme for dental work in respect of a person (details supplied) who has a pre-existing health condition; and...
    • Health Services Provision
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the diagnostic assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24405/16]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 18 May 2016, the reason for the delay in the opening of the new theatre in Crumlin hospital; and if he will make...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding the shortage of the BCG tuberculosis vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24410/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24415/16]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service ran a temporary competition to fill two operations resource manager positions in the north Leinster area without recourse to...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 21 April 2016, if the National Ambulance Service can provide the exact dates that the six vacant officer positions...
    • Health Services Data
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recruitment panels for all grades in the HSE currently being used by the HSE national recruitment service that are over four years in existence...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health if the Public Appointments Service notified the National Ambulance Service that its grade 6 panels for ambulance officers could no longer be drawn from and...
    • Data Protection
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the steps and procedures being taken in the transfer of Console clients' files to ensure the protection of confidentiality and consent of clients; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health the number of call outs the ambulance service made which did not meet the national standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24431/16]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to changes to the display of alcohol products on business premises contained within the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill, to indicate the evidence...
    • Ambulance Service Accommodation
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed construction of the ambulance stations for Gorey and Enniscorthy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24434/16]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health when a full-time psychiatrist will be appointed to a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24435/16]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Data
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the value of drugs under the control of the HSE but the whereabouts of which are unknown, missing or unaccounted for at the end of each of the years 2013 to...
    • Primary Care Strategy
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recently published paper (details supplied); the actions he will take to promote the appropriate early detection and management of malnutrition...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health if dietetic services will be made available in all new primary care centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24444/16]
    • HIQA Reports
      1029. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Health Information Quality Authority report of the review of nutrition and hydration care in public acute hospitals; the actions he will take...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to end discrimination suffered by couples over 70 years of age in terms of the limit allowance set on 1 January 2014 (details supplied); the amount...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health to provide transport for a person (details supplied) to attend work in a placement in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24451/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment. [24458/16]
    • Disability Services Provision
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health if accommodation will be provided to a person (details supplied) to participate on a course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24460/16]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive the home help hours that had been allocated to him or her; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Organ Donation
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the process for organ donation to provide for those who do not wish to donate organs to be added to a non-donor registry allowing for all...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding which has been allocated to mental health in the Cavan Monaghan Hospital Group for 2016; the new services planned for introduction; and...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health if there is provision for financial assistance for a person (details supplied) [24472/16]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      1040. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary respite supports will be provided to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24473/16]
    • Respite Care Services
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding for additional residential respite care services to meet the requirements for the Health Information and Quality Authority, most...
    • Blood Donations
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health his new policy and the revised criteria for donating blood; and the date upon which gay persons can present themselves to blood transfusion services in order...
    • Nursing Home Services
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some nursing homes are now adding a weekly surcharge to nursing home fees, which must be paid in addition to...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health when budgetary provision will be made available to meet the demand for home help hours (details supplied). [24495/16]
    • Mobility Allowance
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the position in regard to the formulation and introduction of a new motorised transportation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24496/16]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists currently on HSE panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24506/16]
    • Health Strategies
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work and composition of the National Advisory Committee on Bioethics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24507/16]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health if he has made a decision with respect to the provision of public funding for AHR in conjunction with the introduction of the planned legislation; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the funding or support his Department has given to the pursuit of research related to induced pluripotent stem cells and their medical applications; and if he...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify proposals to automatically grant medical cards to families in receipt of a domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation governing assisted human reproduction; the areas which will be covered by such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any legislation defining a human embryo or human foetus; if legislation is planned in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1054. 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. [24518/16]
    • Autism Support Services
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for a full diagnostic assessment for autism in University Hospital Waterford; the composition of the team; if all the...
    • Organ Donation
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the legalisation for the organ donation op-out system; the publicity programme which would be put in place to explain the op-out...
    • Respite Care Services
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the level of funding to the Brothers of Charity to improve the levels of respite services for adults in County Tipperary; the current...
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the most recent cost estimate for the new national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24543/16]
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 20 July 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided to agencies for the provision...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed under the treatment abroad scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24548/16]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a full-time general practitioner service in Rathmore, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the funding allocation for new wheelchairs in the Dublin North West area (details supplied). [24562/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24570/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the children's outpatient trauma service in Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the mechanics, cost and detail required by manufacturers of vaping products that do not contain tobacco and are not cigarettes to comply with the...
    • Dental Services
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health if titanium chrome dentures are included in the dental treatment service scheme; if not, his plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Funding
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be restored for the provision of prescribed compression garments for persons with primary lymphoedema in the HSE west area; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1068. 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. [24589/16]
    • Home Help Service
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for the provision of home help services in County Mayo for each of the years 2014 to 2015 and in 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a referral for an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24595/16]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1075. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card review forms are issued to medical card holders who have been granted medical cards under EU entitlement and who are in receipt of a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for transfer to the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing assisted transportation to a person (details supplied) to enable the person to have a short-term stay with family members; and...
    • HSE Data
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of workplace inspections carried out by the environmental health officers since 2015 to date; the total number of hours worked by the environmental...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the number of ambulances in County Wicklow for patients who have to travel to St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, for accident and...
    • Dental Services
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a dental appointment by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24610/16]
    • Medical Records
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person's medical records (details supplied) have not been transferred from Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12, to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1082. 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. [24615/16]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include MoviPrep laxative solution in the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24619/16]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the drugs payment scheme threshold from €144 per month to €100 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24620/16]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 14 April 2016, the outcome of the recruitment process for a rehabilitation consultant post for the Louth-Meath...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an appointment has been postponed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24626/16]
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not recruited a person for the role of task force co-ordinator with the Canal Communities local drugs task force following the...
    • Health Services
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is not approving continuous monitors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24629/16]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the Alcohol Marketing Communications Monitoring Body has reported to him or his Department with respect to compliance on a voluntary code...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns regarding the old and vulnerable (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24649/16]
    • Hospitals Data
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled or postponed in each public hospital to date in 2016 in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be seen for a medical procedure to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24652/16]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health when an advanced nurse practitioner will be appointed at Kerry University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24657/16]
    • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24666/16]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment contained in the programme for Government to remove discrimination against small businesses and family farms under the fair deal...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for each HSE region for access to the fair deal nursing home scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24688/16]
    • Hospital Charges
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of hospital accommodation per patient per night; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24712/16]
    • Home Care Packages Expenditure
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of care provided under the home care package per patient per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24713/16]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to increase the amount of care provided under the home care package to allow patients, in cases where it is appropriate, to receive...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further support community-based organisations (details supplied) that provide important services for persons with learning disabilities; his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his Department in 2014 and in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment in Kerry University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24819/16]
    • Dental Services
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for dental treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24821/16]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health to request that the HSE allow Kerry University Hospital to re-advertise the position of rheumatology nurse at the grade of advanced nurse specialist in order...
    • Respite Care Services
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health the provision in County Louth for adults and children with intellectual disabilities who need emergency respite care; the number and location of emergency...
    • Health Services Provision
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate an inquiry into the provision of respite care at St. John of God North East Services, Saint Mary's, Drumcar. [24840/16]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to fund the FreeStyle Libre monitor which monitors the blood sugars of persons who suffer from diabetes. [24847/16]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Sativex is not available to persons who suffer from multiple sclerosis despite the former Minister of State for primary care signing a...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government has been contacted by the tobacco industry or any of its representatives on the possibility of a joint agreement on the joint use of the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff, by grade, who will be employed in each of the new 14 primary care centres announced earlier in 2016 under the PPP scheme; the services...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost of the drugs payment scheme; if costings can be made available for the effect of reducing the current maximum payment threshold from...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue currently being generated from prescription charges; the number of persons who would benefit and the cost of abolishing prescription charges for...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health the reason elderly persons on pensions who have been in receipt of a medical card for over ten years are having their medical cards renewed for only six...
    • Bereavement Counselling Services Provision
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no institutionalised referral pathways from Irish hospitals to the specialist counselling and information services provided by the IFPA...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's recruitment policy, particularly in County Kerry, for the hiring of emporary mental health nurses who have been employed over the past number of...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding mental health staffing issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24886/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24889/16]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding waiting times for orthodontic care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24895/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24926/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the primary school optical scheme for children in fifth and sixth class until such time as he has implemented and introduced reform...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24932/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 14 July 2016, if he will take steps in order that a staff member from St. Joseph's Service in Portrane, County...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a programme of rehabilitation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24936/16]
    • Nursing Home Services
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of State-run facilities that provide nursing home care; the number of staff in each of these facilities; the number of residents in each of these...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health his views in regard to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been told by the Mater Hospital that they will have to wait 16 months for laser eye...
    • Mental Health Services
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health when the report of the independent external review group on the quality, safety and governance of mental health services in County Roscommon, which was...
    • Health Services Funding
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health the detail on cuts that have been imposed at a day care centre (details supplied); the reason these cuts have taken place; if staff were notified of the...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to tackle the issue of persons overpaying for prescription charges (details supplied). [24979/16]
    • HSE Properties
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all buildings owned by the Health Service Executive, including corresponding addresses for each building; if each...
    • Health Services Provision
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place to replace the primary school children optical scheme that was recently cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health the public services that are now available in County Clare to assist a person (details supplied) since the cutting of funding to Disabled People of Clare and...
    • Psychological Services
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the Dublin north city and county child and adolescent mental health service lacks any primary care psychology service to which...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25006/16]
    • Health Services
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a road accident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25009/16]
    • HSE Funding
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 19 July 2016, the reason the HSE compliance unit is not able to provide a more definitive answer to the question...
    • Hospital Services
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25023/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1154. 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. [25053/16]
    • Disease Awareness
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by the HSE in relation to encouraging awareness, prevention and treatment of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times experienced by persons who had a procedure in 2015 and during the first half of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25059/16]
    • Ambulance Service
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the moneys being spent on private ambulance services in the State in each of the past five years; the moneys being spent on private...
    • Hospital Staff
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the shortage of anaesthetists in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and Louth County Hospital; the impact in terms of...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health the position in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, regarding the concerns or requests raised or made by patients or their families or hospital staff...
    • Maternity Services
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied) and the ongoing issue involving a review of their case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Data
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances at each of the 29 hospitals that offered emergency department services on a 24/7 basis in 2015 and the number to date up to the end...
    • Hospital Charges
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health if medical card cover in respect of a person (details suppled) will be backdated to cover the costs of a hospital stay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses that earn between €10,000 and €100,000 per year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25083/16]
    • Mental Health Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding mental health day care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25087/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the status of persons (details supplied) waiting to see a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25089/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in receiving an appointment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25093/16]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a full medical card here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25095/16]
    • Free Travel Scheme
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health if there are provisions due to be implemented within his Department to accommodate persons that are not permitted by the State to drive due to a sight...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding pharmaceutical pricing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25108/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy; and if he will make a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the waiting list for counties Louth and Meath for speech and language therapy assessment and intervention for each of the past three...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1174. 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. [25115/16]
    • Ambulance Service
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding ambulances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25121/16]
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount billed to publicly funded hospitals, including section 38 providers, by external communications and public relations firms for work...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in communications in the HSE; if he will include those working in communications roles in individual hospitals, in...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general practitioners are unable to refer public patients for MRI scans in public hospitals; if will review this process given the fact it is...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health if essential orthodontic treatment is covered by a parent's medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been put an a further nine-month waiting list after initially being referred since March 2015 for a procedure in...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a dental appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25177/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25186/16]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of residential and inpatient detoxification beds available for the purpose of treatment for drug and alcohol misuse in the State; the number...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for surgery at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 633 of 19 July 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of all expenditure to date by the CRC on outside consultancy...
    • Health Services
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate details provided in correspondence (details supplied); the action taken in response by the HSE to this issue; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1190. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25208/16]
    • Home Care Packages Data
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of allocation of the €20 million allocated to maintain home help hours and home care packages by county; and if he will...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for two full-time placements in respect of persons (details supplied); if further funding will be provided for transport for them;...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health if and when medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25216/16]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a critical illness payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25217/16]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an orthodontic appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25218/16]
    • Orthodontic Services
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25219/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be taken into hospital for essential eye treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25223/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 12 July 2016, if he will provide a further and full breakdown of the €31,869,951.00 HSE funding which was...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health the reason it is taking so long for those MS sufferers to be reimbursed for the drug Fampyra after the announcement was made that the responders to the drug...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided a date for a hospital appointment. [25226/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if, as part of the extension of services at Roscommon University Hospital, he will put in place a dialysis machine to reduce the travel local patients have to...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is no longer eligible to have treatment carried out in Belfast children's hospital under the cross-Border health care...
    • Orthodontic Services
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to have orthodontic treatment carried out; the length of time this person is on the waiting list;...
    • Health Services
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) who has been awarded an injury grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25243/16]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of respite care beds available for elderly persons in County Kildare; the number available for the years 2014 and 2015; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the status of general practitioner services in Rathmore, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25257/16]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the rheumatologist position in Tralee University Hospital, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25258/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25259/16]
    • Medical Card Applications
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25263/16]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a road traffic incident (details supplied) which occurred in County Louth; if he is aware that the ambulance did not arrive at the scene of...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25275/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is on a waiting list to see a consultant will be given an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for extra personal assistant hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25280/16]
    • Dental Services Provision
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child whose parents have a medical card and requires dental fillings is put on a waiting list which can take several years whereas an adult in a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment to be seen in Crumlin hospital, Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25288/16]
    • Hospice Services Provision
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to each facility in the State which provides hospice care for adults for each of the years 2013 to date in 2016 in tabular...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 17 December 2015, and for which a reply was subsequently issued by the HSE in which it was stated that paperwork...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the restoration of the National Treatment Purchase Fund as per the minority Government facilitation agreement between Fianna Fáil and...
    • Health Services
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an eye test in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25296/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide appropriate funds to Cork University Hospital to open the operating theatres and end rolling closures; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and grants available for clubs supporting persons with special needs; the funding available to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25331/16]
    • Health Services Funding
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health the amount and percentage of funding of HSE-funded health services including hospitals, public and voluntary derived from charitable contributions [25359/16]
    • Health Services
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health the total amounts spent and budgeted for homeless services by the HSE and any other agencies under his remit in 2015 and 2016 [25361/16]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the information available on the estimated annual cost of offering a full-range of reproductive services to women via the HSE free at the point of use,...
    • Health Services Provision
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of restoring HSE medical, nursing, care and home help staff to 2008 levels. [25363/16]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health the financial benefits that would accrue to the drinks industry from the introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Health Policy
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health further to the recommendations contained in the British Government’s report on antimicrobial resistance (details supplied) his plans to enact the key...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation where some persons claim that a vaccine (details supplied) has had an adverse affect on their health; if he...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      1242. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be assessed for a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25393/16]
    • Maternity Services
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the lack of scanning services for pregnant women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25397/16]
    • Maternity Services Provision
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which services at Mullingar Midlands Regional Hospital compare to those at Portlaoise, Wexford and Kilkenny hospitals in relation to number of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) is waiting over nine months for an in-patient orthopaedic procedure as a result...
    • Departmental Properties
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each case. [25419/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to 56 cases in which persons have been on waiting lists for either day case or in-patient treatment at Letterkenny University...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1248. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [25435/16]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to approve the Abbot's Libre monitoring system for blood glucose monitoring of diabetes patients; if so, the time line; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health when there will be an outcome to the full system analysis review into the circumstances surrounding an incident (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health the reason targets for monthly home help hours are not being met in County Kerry; the action he will take to ensure that this issue is addressed; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health the respective roles of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and Irish Platform for Patients' Organisations in Science and Industry in making decisions...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in progressing the previous Government's plans for a 100-bed unit at Connolly hospital for older and infirm patients; if he is...
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      1256. To ask the Minister for Health the financial allocation of the €40 million extra allocated to home care services in June 2016; the number of home help extra hours achieved by this...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1257. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is continuing to wait on an assessment when it states in correspondence that the HSE is in breach of its own...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1258. To ask the Minister for Health the total spending by his Department, including details of all increases or decreases on an annual basis for each of the years 2013 to date in 2016, in...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a dental appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25488/16]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health the number of part time general practitioners and the number of full time general practitioners practising in County Kildare, for each of the years 2011 to...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts made by his Department to date to secure a general practitioner for a health centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners employed the HSE approaching 60 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25493/16]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts his Department have made to recruit new general practitioners with particular focus on rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Occupational Therapy
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the number and geographical location of privately contracted occupational therapists by the HSE by county from 2013 to 2016 to date. [25499/16]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for speech therapy in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25503/16]
    • Health Services
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 13 July 2016, when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with an appointment; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for HSE equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25505/16]
    • Maternity Services
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the national maternity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25513/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1272. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Kerry University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25534/16]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      1273. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to resolve the issue of general practitioners charging GMS patients for routine blood tests that has been tabled at HSE national level...
    • Psychological Services
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a position of assistant psychologist on the HSE's pay scale, given that over 50% of early career psychologists are employed in a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct an independent review of the Gardasil HPV vaccine. [25551/16]
    • Medical Goods Regulation
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health his views on potential conflicts of interest in relation to the Irish Cancer Society holding public talks supporting the use of certain drugs while at the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health if there are different policies regarding the funding of wheelchairs and other OT services from county to county (details supplied); and if so, the details of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred to University College Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25570/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is on a waiting list will receive the hospital treatment they require. [25571/16]
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the primary care reimbursement service to accept a means assessment from the Department of Social Protection as evidence of...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      1281. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for braces in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25585/16]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding waiting lists for orthodontic treatment in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25587/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for hearing aids in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25588/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an operation at Cappagh Hospital; if due to the urgency of the case, the operation will be sooner...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the arranging of an appointment for a person (details supplied) who has been waiting a considerable period. [25593/16]
    • National Counselling Service
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 26 May 2016, if he will provide details of staff vacancies within the National Counselling Service; the number of...
    • Counselling Services Provision
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 26 May 2016, the programme for Government funding that has or will be committed in 2016 to address priority long...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the excessively high number of patients awaiting surgery to remove eye cataracts; if he is aware of the number of patients already...
    • Dietician Service Provision
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health when the recruitment of a community-based senior dietitian for persons with diabetes living in County Donegal will be completed; when it is anticipated that...
    • Maternity Services Provision
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the second inquiry into an incident (details supplied) is at; if the second report is completed; if it has been provided to the parents; if the...
    • Health Services Provision
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25604/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25611/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the waiting time for an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25621/16]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism or body that exists in County Donegal for determining ambulance provision in the county; the way a decision is reached with respect to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1297. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25628/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in publishing the report on the future of services at Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise; and when the report is likely to be...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1301. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a specific item made available to a person (details supplied) at the earliest date possible. [25638/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1302. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been waiting for two years to be admitted to hospital for urgent surgery; if he will assist...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1303. 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. [25640/16]
    • Dental Services
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding dentists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25641/16]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1305. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the re-opening of the Sonas ward at St. Patrick's Community Hospital, Fermoy, which was closed on a temporary basis until the end of...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health if he will facilitate a transfer within a service in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25670/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1308. 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. [25671/16]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the drug Respreeza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25674/16]
    • Nursing Staff
      1310. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make resources available to allow the HSE provide a full-time permanent nurse for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff
      1311. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has considered or would consider the establishment of family care co-ordinator positions in hospitals to assist families diagnosed...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in Cork University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25687/16]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1313. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for residents of a facility (details supplied) in County Cork if the housing units being prepared for them will not be available for occupation by...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      1315. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is on the orthodontic waiting list for referral to Cork can instead avail of treatment in Limerick. [25701/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1316. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a situation (details supplied) at University Hospital Kerry; the measures being taken to prevent such an outcome; and if...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      1317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that applied for the home care package in County Wexford in 2016; the number that have been processed; the number that have been...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1318. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25704/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1319. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is on a waiting list will receive the hospital treatment they require. [25705/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1320. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is on a waiting list will receive the hospital treatment they require. [25706/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the medical items they require; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25712/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1323. 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. [25713/16]
    • Patient Data
      1324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital bed days required by the number of patients undergoing full and partial lower limb amputation procedures in 2014 and 2015 by county;...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 21 June 2016, if a letter dated 4 May 2009 from an organisation (details supplied) was received by a HSE...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25730/16]
    • Home Help Service Data
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are wait listed for home help by health centres in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25732/16]
    • Home Help Service Oversight
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment plans for home help in counties Laois and Offaly in view of the fact that a number of home help personnel are scheduled to retire in the near...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health if the lack of provision of home help services to elderly persons who are in serious need of home help is considered elder abuse by the State; and if he will...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the provision of a primary care centre for Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25740/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were waiting for access to an ICU bed during June 2016; the duration of these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are different terms set out for accepting or declining an expression of interest in positions in the HSE advertised by the National...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      1336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds closed in County Sligo since 2013; his plans to provide additional respite beds in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      1337. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25762/16]
    • Health Services Data
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish citizens who have been placed in care outside the State for medical, special nursing and long-term care and whose care is being funded by...
    • Hospital Services
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the provision of rehabilitation services with a view to developing another centre of excellence, in view of the recent news that waiting...
    • Home Help Service Oversight
      1342. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to re-orienting the funding stream for home care packages and home help hours to a demand-led model as opposed to the current...
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff by grade that will be employed in the new primary care centre in Derrybeg-Bunbeg, County Donegal; the services which will be provided; the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a fair deal scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25840/16]
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has ceased for patients from the Republic of Ireland to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25843/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      1379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in scheduling surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25845/16]
    • Medical Card Applications
      1380. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for a medical card considering that the application has been ongoing since March...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for specially fitted shoes in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25852/16]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      1382. To ask the Minister for Health when further psychiatric nursing positions will be recruited at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25854/16]
    • National Postcode System Implementation
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      1384. To ask the Minister for Health if he will accept the values that persons have for the local property tax as the valuation of houses for the fair deal scheme rather than spending taxpayers'...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25888/16]
    • General Practitioner Data
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 21 July 2016, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of figures supplied by the HSE (details supplied). [25900/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1387. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25905/16]
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      1388. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow a person (details supplied) to access the drug Stelazine on the medical card scheme as they cannot afford to pay for it privately. [25907/16]
    • Site Acquisitions
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the search for another premises in view of the recent refusal for planning permission for a kidney dialysis unit in Wexford town. [25918/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he proposes to introduce to deal with the overcrowding in the emergency department, operation cancellations, deferred surgeries and growing...
    • Maternity Services
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with a person (details supplied) regarding issues on maternity services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25922/16]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1393. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns by a person (details supplied) regarding the availability of vaccinations for children at present here; if a catch-up programme is...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1394. 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. [25925/16]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health if a consultant psychiatrist position (details supplied) is to become vacant; when it is expected that this vacancy will arise; the date on which authorities...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      1396. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to identify alternative sites for the provision of a primary care centre either by direct provision or by public private...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health the consultative process being undertaken with regard to the development of a new national drugs strategy; the consultative meetings to date; the progress to...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1398. To ask the Minister for Health if the approval sought by CHO7 management within the context of the pay bill management framework has been granted to fill four vacant dental posts in a...
    • HSE Funding
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for funding made by an organisation (details supplied) in Lucan, County Dublin to the HSE will be processed; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not being provided with the home help they require; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25957/16]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the speech and language therapist is being taken from a child and adolescent mental health service (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1402. To ask the Minister for Health if he will continue to make funds available to a person (details supplied) in order that their child with special needs can continue to avail of a place in a...
    • Medical Card Data
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on disability allowance that have a medical card; the number of persons on disability allowance on means that have a medical card; and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25972/16]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request Beaumont Hospital to complete all of the necessary paperwork to allow a person (details supplied) access to the drug Fampridine on their...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a second operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); if it is a lack of funding from the National Treatment...
    • HSE Reports
      1408. To ask the Minister for Health the action taken by the HSE arising from a report into the death of a person (details supplied); if the ligature points mentioned in the report were removed...
    • HSE Investigations
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health if he received complaints from families who have family members in care at a hospital (details supplied); if an investigation has been carried out to date...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Payments
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners charge medical card holders for blood tests whilst the general medical services...
    • HIQA Standards
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken arising from a presentation made to the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people by a group...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the patient confidentiality clause in respect of a person's mental illness in view of the fact many persons who are adults have health...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help weekend hours will be allocated to a person (details supplied) following assessment and approval of same by a home help services...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26011/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26012/16]
    • HSE Funding
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided to open a new 40-bed hospital in County Kerry (details supplied). [26025/16]
    • Legislative Programme
      1417. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of international public funding models for fertility treatment; when the general scheme of legislative provisions dealing with...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an MRI scan in Temple Street Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26028/16]
    • Audiology Services Data
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for an appointment for community audiology services in County Donegal; the number of persons that have been waiting for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of HSE equipment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26031/16]
    • Parliamentary Questions Data
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of parliamentary questions for written answer put to the Minister for Health in each of the past five years; the number of parliamentary questions...
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there have been such drastic cuts to home care packages in the Roscommon-Galway area in recent times; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a vital home care package in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26044/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a new blood test metering system known as FreeStyle Libre which has very significant benefits in terms of blood sugar monitoring and control for...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
      1427. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is eligible for the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26069/16]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since included the date it became vacant for State boards or...
    • HSE Properties
      1429. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the approved process whereby lands owned by the HSE are to be sold or leased to companies which have charitable status. [26096/16]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to clear the patients on trolleys across Ireland and reduce the maximum wait time on a trolley to six to eight hours; and if he will make a...
    • Autism Support Services
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide sufficient places for all school leavers on the autism spectrum each year up to 2021; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      1436. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has examined the possibility of setting up community-based interventions similar to those in the UK to treat drunk persons in a setting...
    • Budget 2017
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health the projects his Department is prioritising in Budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26135/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange and expedite an early date for operations in respect of a person (details supplied). [26155/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health if dialysis will be provided in Kilkenny city rather than Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1441. To ask the Minister for Health the status and future of services at Sunbeam House Services in Arklow and Bray following recent HIQA reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      1442. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed Primary Care Centre for Finglas; if the HSE has identified sites and begun to draw up plans for this centre; if the provision of...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the rebuild of the Radiation Department at Letterkenny University Hospital; when it will be commissioned; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to provide a cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Letterkenny University Hospital; if he will provide the necessary funds for the...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Headway facility located at a location (details supplied) has ceased taking patients for respite...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health if a third consultant rheumatologist has been appointed to Sligo General Hospital; and when the outreach rheumatology clinic will be reinstated in Letterkenny...
    • Health Insurance Cover
      1447. To ask the Minister for Health the advice he would give to a person (details supplied) who cannot obtain affordable insurance given the particular anomalies of their situation under the...
    • Home Help Service
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE is reviewing the manner in which hours are banked in respect of home helps; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this...
    • HSE Staff
      1449. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the current situation at University Hospital Kerry, the advanced nurse practitioner post and the resignation of a person (details...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue raised from prescription charges in 2015 and to date in 2016. [26199/16]
    • Hospital Admissions
      1451. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances under which a person (details supplied) has remained in St. Vincent’s Hospital; the reason the hospital has refused to engage with...
    • Cancer Services Provision
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that cancer patients admitted to University Hospital Limerick on weekends and bank holidays do not have access to...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a medical procedure as requested by their GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Properties
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the sale of a HSE building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26247/16]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Autoimmune Hepatitis is not on the long-term illness scheme. [26254/16]
    • Health Services Provision
      1459. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of a person's case (details supplied) can take place to regularise treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26261/16]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in supplying a replacement wheelchair for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26262/16]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of a surgical procedure date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26263/16]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health when the new paediatric palliative care nurse will be appointed at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26268/16]
    • Hospital Services
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary resources will be allocated to the Mater Hospital, Dublin to enable the extension of a service which cares for patients throughout most of...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide new accommodation and facilities at a hospital (details supplied), given the large number of patients attending; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health when the staffing complement will be increased at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26271/16]
    • Hospitals Data
      1466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations that were carried out in 2014 and 2015 by county; the number of these persons who had diabetes by...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment from Tallaght Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26286/16]
    • Hospitals Data
      1469. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient appointments, inpatient appointments and elective surgery procedures cancelled at Tallaght Hospital, by appointment type, on a...
    • Medical Card Data
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 September 2016 or the latest date available; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for...
    • Home Help Service Data
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in each local health office area in June, July and August 2016 in tabular form; and the way it compares against target...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme for each local health area in tabular form; and the length of time waiting in...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health if the Vimizim drug will be approved for use by the HSE in view of the fact it has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and is available in Britain...
    • Hospitals Funding
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation for 2016 for each public and voluntary hospital detailing for each month to date in 2016 the profiled expenditure and the outturn in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for a wheelchair; the waiting times for children to receive wheelchairs; the funding provided annually since 2010 for...
    • Departmental Functions
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health the Department which is responsible for the provision of nursing hours to enable disabled children to attend primary school; and the age at which a child with...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) at an early date. [26431/16]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horse Racing Ireland Staff
      1478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a five-year contract extension of the current CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will correct the record of Dáil Éireann in regard to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 12 July 2016, in...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a subsidy is still in existence for the installation of electricity in slatted sheds and farm out offices; and if he will make a...
    • Horse Racing Ireland Staff
      1482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are legislatively required term limits for the position of CEO of Horse Racing Ireland and if so, his views on the way...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the consultations he undertook when he reappointed the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; if these consultations...
    • Horse Racing Ireland Staff
      1484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland is employed on a contract of Indefinite duration; and if so, the financial implications of this...
    • Horse Racing Ireland Funding
      1486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the State funding that has been provided to Horse Racing Ireland each year for the past five years. [25173/16]
    • Horse Racing Ireland Staff
      1487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current remuneration of the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; the remuneration package that has been attributed to this position each...
    • Horse Racing Ireland Expenditure
      1488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to, and if he agreed with, the board of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) which sanctioned for the CEO of...
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      1489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department, or a body under its aegis, has any concerns regarding the introduction of flupyradifurone insecticide on bees or...
    • Horse Racing Ireland Staff
      1490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconcile his answer to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 12 July 2016 regarding the reappointment of the chief executive...
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Eligibility
      1491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the young farmer capital investment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that all public appointments that come within the remit of his responsibilities have followed Government...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      1496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 682 of 12 July 2016, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Beef Data Programme
      1497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider re-opening the suckler cow scheme to new entrants for the coming year to facilitate those not already...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      1498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek to have included in budget 2017 the €25 million areas of natural constraint scheme disadvantaged areas...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payments to farmers who have been approved for TAMS, for tranches 1 and 2, and if he will consider...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      1500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment under the agricultural environment options scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      1501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application under the basic payment scheme by a person (details supplied). [24412/16]
    • GLAS Payments
      1502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 14 July 2016, when a person (details supplied) will receive payment under the 2015...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      1503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make payments as soon as possible from the producer organisation funding due to the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      1504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the farming sectors the EU aid package worth €11.1 million is open to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24515/16]
    • Climate Change Policy
      1505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his assessment of the challenges facing the farming sector following the recent report on climate smart agriculture; and if he will...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      1506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a fishing licence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fish Quotas
      1507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of the sentinel herring fish quota that was left at 31 December 2015 (details supplied). [24567/16]
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      1510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the traceability of animals and authentication of the various documents relating...
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      1511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has sought a meeting or is planning to seek a meeting with the person who has been appointed chief negotiator for Brexit on...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will increase the current grant aid ceiling for the pigmeat sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24690/16]
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      1513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review all penalties imposed on farmers during 2010 to 2015 in view of a High Court decision (details supplied); and if...
    • Farm Inspections
      1514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections that were carried out in County Tipperary between 2010 and 2015 in tabular form; the percentage of these...
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      1515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Tipperary that were penalised during 2010 to 2015 who appealed the decision; the percentage of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his...
    • Installation Aid Scheme Applications
      1519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an installation aid scheme payment will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      1522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of payments made or due to a person (details supplied) under his Department's schemes for 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      1523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amounts repaid relating to over-claiming on the AEOS for 2015 by a person (details supplied); if there is an appeals procedure...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      1524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be entered into GLAS taking into account they were refused entry to GLAS 2 as his...
    • GLAS Appeals
      1525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their appeal against the refusal to allow their entry to the GLAS due to...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      1526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their appeal against the refusal to allow their entry to the young...
    • Forestry Sector
      1527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a forestry rule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24989/16]
    • Agriculture Appeals Board
      1528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in appointing a director to the Agriculture Appeals Office; when a director will be appointed to this...
    • GLAS Issues
      1529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of the locally led agri-environment schemes (details given) run in conjunction with the broader GLAS; if he will...
    • Farm Inspections
      1530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding sheep inspections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/16]
    • Agricultural Colleges Courses
      1531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding farm courses for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2015 BPS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who has had entitlements transferred to them and land leased; and...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the agency or body that is tasked with the responsibility for a harbour (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers Expenditure
      1535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm details of the most recent capital investment plan announced by his Department to facilitate local authority...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      1536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current length of service of the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; if there is regulation concerning the maximum length of service of...
    • Harbours and Piers Expenditure
      1541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figure for the annual capital spend on the development and upgrading of harbours for fisheries listed by harbour and year for...
    • Equine Passports
      1545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the conditions that apply to the grant given in 2016 to the Connemara Pony Breeders Society regarding the testing of ponies; if his...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      1546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 491 of 28 June 2016, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has penalised a person (details supplied) on the grounds of an administrative error carried out by the...
    • Afforestation Programme
      1548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the afforestation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • TAMS Applications
      1549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with regard to an application for TAMS 1; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      1550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding hedges on roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/16]
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      1552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the compensation paid to farmers who have had tuberculosis reactors in their herd; if he will review in particular...
    • Animal Welfare
      1553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will continue to monitor the situation regarding the impending closure of a company (details supplied) with a view...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the landlords to whom his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each...
    • Forestry Grants
      1555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when forestry payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25457/16]
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      1556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply farmers with the exact results of gamma blood tests on cattle rather than just a positive or negative result....
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      1557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding farmers who are requested to BVD all new born calves; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      1558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 21 June 2016, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      1559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who were affected in 2015 by the ceiling of the basic payment scheme of €150,000; the number of these...
    • GLAS Data
      1561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total payments made to date under GLAS; the total number of participants; when it is anticipated that all remaining payments for...
    • Beef Genomics Scheme
      1562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers currently in the beef data and genomics scheme, broken down by the number of eligible cows the farmer has in...
    • Forestry Sector
      1564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons employed in the forestry sector here; and the number of those persons...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a funding request for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25614/16]
    • Departmental Submissions
      1566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a submission to his Department by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • GLAS Applications
      1567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25618/16]
    • Transfer of Entitlements Application
      1568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25637/16]
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      1569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a new scheme or create more places on the current scheme for new organic farmers; and if he will make a...
    • Food Labelling
      1570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to undertake research into the introduction of warning packaging for meat products or warnings in all areas that meat is...
    • Bord na gCon Funding
      1571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of State funding provided to Bord na gCon for each of the past five years; and the numbers employed and amount of this...
    • GLAS Payments
      1573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25716/16]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      1574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25731/16]
    • Land Issues
      1576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the files, documents and maps relating to the Land Commission are available for public inspection; the location at which all of...
    • GLAS Payments
      1577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a second GLAS payment will issue to persons (details supplied). [25784/16]
    • Forestry Grants
      1578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available to replant damaged forestry plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25791/16]
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      1579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the organic farming scheme will open again for applications for new entrants and for existing producers and manufacturers....
    • TAMS Applications
      1580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a farm building grant. [25851/16]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put a grant aid scheme in place in conjunction with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment...
    • Transfer of Entitlements Application
      1582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an application for transfer of entitlements submitted by a person (details supplied); the reason for...
    • Postal Codes
      1583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      1584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a scheme to assist sheep farmers particularly those working on hills and commonages throughout the west of...
    • EU Directives
      1585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position with regard to glyphosate following recent decisions in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25939/16]
    • Dairy Sector
      1586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he considered a request from an organisation (details supplied) on the urgent need to provide financial assistance to dairy...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      1587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.193 of 19 May 2016 regarding an AEOS payment on behalf of a person (details supplied), if an...
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      1588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application will be processed for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26033/16]
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      1589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26034/16]
    • Bord na gCon Funding
      1591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will refuse any further State funding to the Irish Greyhound Board and the greyhound industry (details supplied). [26047/16]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date it became...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26143/16]
    • Fishing Industry Data
      1594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Irish fishing boats docked in Irish ports for longer than six months per port, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility
      1595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) has now qualified under a specific scheme. [26151/16]
    • GLAS Applications
      1596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS application for a person (details supplied); if the commonage of the GLAS element of the application will be...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      1597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a single farm payment application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to an interim response (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26173/16]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his recent meeting with the Irish Greyhound Owners and Breeders Federation; his plans for this industry; if his...
    • Tax Code
      1601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the potential cost to the Exchequer of introducing an income volatility management tool modelled on the Australian farm management...
    • GLAS Administration
      1603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when GLAS 3 will be open; and the timeframe that approvals under GLAS will be implemented. [26241/16]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payments being issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      1606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason funding is being provided for only 2000 ha under the windblown reconstitution scheme when it is estimated that 8,000 ha...
    • Fish Imports
      1608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total annual quantity of north American lobsters imported here both live and frozen whether directly through Irish BIPS or...
    • Fish Quotas
      1609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the herring quota allocation and the request from his Department for an additional 1,000 tonnes from the European...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment will be made to a person (details supplied) under the pig compensation scheme; if he will ensure that no further delay...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received and approvals issued to date under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme II in Cavan...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will commence under the basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraints scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Mushroom Industry
      1614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide financial assistance to a sector (details supplied) due to difficulties that have arisen due to the weakening of...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when decisions will be returned on all applications received under tranche 3 of the TAMS II young farmer capital investment scheme;...
    • Beef Data Programme
      1616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the potential cost to the Exchequer of reopening the beef data and genomic scheme in 2016. [26361/16]
    • Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
      1617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of meetings of the Food Harvest 2020 high level implementation group in the period 2011 to 2016; the number of...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Data
      1618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants under the suckler welfare scheme in each year of existence on a county basis, in tabular form; the total...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received, in total, under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 on a county basis in tabular...
    • Food Imports
      1620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the beef import quotas and other food quotas agreed from Canada to the EU under the CETA trade agreement; if Irish farming interests...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the immediate steps being taken to safeguard Irish agrifood jobs in light of several closures recently attributed to the currency...
    • Beef Exports
      1622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of Irish beef sales to the USA on a month by month basis in 2015 and 2016; the original targets set out; if he is...
    • EU Funding
      1623. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that farmers will be able to avail of to drawdown funding under the €11 million EU conditional aid package; when...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      1624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a TAMS II application made in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fish Farming
      1628. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Inland Fisheries Ireland announced its intention to cease all IFI fish farm operations in April 2016 without...
    • End of Life Vehicles Certification
      1630. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify that under regulations parts from end of life vehicles have to be certified by qualified mechanics in...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      1632. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding bin charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tourism Industry
      1634. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the severe problem posed by illegal dumping at a specific site (details supplied)....
    • Sports Organisations
      1639. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of angling clubs here; the number of members each have; their location; the initiatives in place to support...
    • Departmental Funding
      1640. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount Inland Fisheries Ireland receives from the Government every year; and if it allocates the moneys on a river...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      1641. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will review correspondence regarding concerns on a waste company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Nuclear Safety
      1642. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will meet with his counterpart in the UK as a matter of urgency to discuss serious safety issues arising from a...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      1643. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress he and his Department are making with waste collection companies with regard to the new proposed...
    • Energy Resources
      1644. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the value and volume of Ireland's oil reserves; if this oil is present here at all times; the owners of the storage...
    • Statutory Instruments
      1645. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to provide the list of statutory undertakers under the Electricity (Supply) Act 1927 and any statutory instruments...
    • Loughs Agency
      1646. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the powers the Loughs Agency has to protect moorings on Lough Foyle; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Aquaculture Licences
      1647. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if licensing of aquaculture on Lough Foyle can take place without an appropriate assessment or having had conservation...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1648. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will investigate the broadband blackspot that is being experienced by a company (details supplied); and if he will...
    • National Broadband Plan
      1649. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if upgrade works on the national broadband scheme will take place in Kilmessan, County Meath. [24678/16]
    • Communications Market Regulation
      1654. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to end the use of 1890 and 1850 numbers for contacting State agencies and other public bodies,...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1655. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date for the roll-out of high speed broadband for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      1656. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been interaction between his Department and the Department of Health in respect of the Public Health...
    • Departmental Funding
      1657. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the working relationship between his Department and the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland; if State funding is...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme Eligibility
      1661. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a flat roof that would traditionally need improved insulation is not covered under the better energy warmer...
    • Air Quality
      1662. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the levels of vehicle emissions originating here over the past decade; the way in which vehicle emissions are monitored...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme
      1663. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are grants available for the installation of biodigesters as the economic and organic waste management benefit...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1664. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1667. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of wind farms located in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in tabular form; the number of turbines these farms...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      1669. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the 10% mandatory news coverage protection here is to be maintained; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Television Licence Fee Yield
      1670. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount of moneys given to RTÉ by the State for each year since 2008, in tabular form. [24955/16]
    • Broadcasting Sector
      1671. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his strategy, if any, for Ireland’s creative industry in broadcasting; if none exists, if one will be...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1672. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an upgrade will take place in the broadband in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1673. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25042/16]
    • Mining Industry
      1674. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a new application to mine coal (details supplied); when this matter will be dealt with; and if he...
    • Inland Fisheries Stocks
      1675. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current systems in place to measure the volume of salmon in the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir; if the most recently...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1678. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of broadband in areas (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Communications
      1679. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the HSE and other Government bodies are using telephone numbers which are not free phone or low call that is...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1688. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when high speed broadband will be extended to Bracken Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18; the length of time this will take; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1689. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Applications
      1691. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to correspondence (details supplied) when a final reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Agreements
      1694. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the Government intends to ratify the Paris climate change agreement; if the matter will be debated in Dáil...
    • Mobile Telephony Use
      1695. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by the European Commission, upon the abolition of roaming charges across...
    • Postal Codes
      1696. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the State agencies, if any, which are using Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if he will make...
    • Competition Authority Investigations
      1698. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the proposed purchase of a company (details supplied) has been referred to the Competition Authority for review; if...
    • Postal Services Provision
      1699. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he has taken with the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance to ensure that repayments...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1700. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date...
    • Carbon Budget
      1701. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated annual costs to the Exchequer to implement the changes needed across all Departments to ensure that...
    • Waste Disposal
      1702. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department is making an examination on placing waste collection and disposal back in the remit of the local...
    • Budget 2017
      1703. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the projects his Department is prioritising in Budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26112/16]
    • Television Licence Fee
      1704. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that all householders with a television set are paying the licence fee; if not, the steps he is...
    • Building Energy Rating Compliance
      1707. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will publish the analysis of the consultation on minimum thermal efficiency standards in rental properties; and if...
    • Forestry Sector
      1708. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the State engages in the procurement of carbon credits from private forestries; if so, the reason for same; and if he...
    • Better Energy Communities Programme
      1709. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of projects approved per county under the better energy communities scheme in each of the years 2014 to 2016...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Expenditure
      1710. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated cost of increasing grant aid for every measure available under the better energy homes scheme divided...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1712. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown in €/MWh of the current cost of renewable energy support in each such renewable...
    • Energy Policy
      1713. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline Ireland’s obligations under EU 2030 energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Disabled Drivers Permits
      1714. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the eligibility criteria for the disabled parking permit will be reviewed to allow persons without the use of their arms be included;...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      1715. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if An Garda Síochána will provide accident statistics at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry for the past ten years;...
    • Community Involvement Scheme
      1716. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the timeframe for reintroducing the community involvement scheme, CIS, for Louth County Council; and if he will make a...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      1717. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 542 and 543 of June 2016, if pay as you go public hire, as envisaged by Horse Sport Ireland in...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
      1718. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding distributed by his Department for reconstruction and repair works following recent flood damage, by county, in tabular form;...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      1719. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce legislation or regulations to ensure that garages do not store vehicles for sale on public streets as is the case...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1720. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that public transport does not currently provide a route to St. Vincent's Hospital from Bray, County Wicklow; the...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      1721. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason his Department has removed the derogation that allowed five-axle articulated vehicles to operate at 42 tonnes; and if he will...
    • Road Safety Authority Funding
      1722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the resources provided to the Road Safety Authority for the promotion of road safety in view of the increase in fatalities on roads in...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      1723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered requiring drivers convicted of certain offences where appropriate to retake the driving test; and if he will make a...
    • Fáilte Ireland Budget
      1724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of a budget allocated to Fáilte Ireland for 2016 and the way it is intended to be spent. [24399/16]
    • Tourism Promotion
      1725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of funding for the Destination Dublin promotion; the value of the contribution from each of the four local authorities,...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      1727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a case (details supplied). [24414/16]
    • Ports Development
      1728. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Rosslare Europort cannot get separate funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24437/16]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1734. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he envisages granting a sports capital programme for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24446/16]
    • Road Projects
      1735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he envisages the commencement of the Oylegate bypass near Enniscorthy, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Openings
      1736. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected that the M17 - M18 Gort to Tuam road scheme will be open for traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Travel Trade Sector
      1737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he intends to take to protect consumers from losing their money if a travel agents goes out of business such is the case...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      1740. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 19 July 2016, if the 25,890 US soldiers that passed through Shannon Airport on civilian...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      1744. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a dedicated, separately funded local improvement scheme will be restored to county councils; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Applications
      1745. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the project at Lehenagh More and Lehenagh Beg, Togher, County Cork for inclusion in the next round of grants under...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      1747. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding under the specific improvement scheme to Cork County Council in the forthcoming budget; if not, when he...
    • Rail Network Safety
      1748. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install a railway bridge crossing to replace the level crossing near a school (details supplied) in County Cork given the...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      1749. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make funding available to alleviate safety concerns in relation to traffic volume on a road (details supplied) following...
    • Airport Development Projects
      1750. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an environmental impact assessment was conducted by the Dublin Airport Authority in relation to the maintenance work on a runway at...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      1751. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the policy of the driving test centres not to reimburse the application fees of those who are not permitted to take the...
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      1752. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant aid available to community groups that wish to construct a cycle lane to encourage tourists to explore different parts of...
    • Regional Road Network
      1754. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for a bog road scheme for the repair of roads for turf cutters who are struggling to access their bogs to cut...
    • Light Rail Projects Status
      1755. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART extension project to bring services to Balbriggan; the timeline and costing projections for the project; and if...
    • Light Rail Projects
      1756. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new Metro North project; the expenditure on the project to date; the expected and projected timeline for the...
    • Road Safety Authority Campaigns
      1757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investment which has been made in recent years in public awareness campaigns to increase road safety; if he will consider increasing...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of credit cards issued to Ministers and officials working in his Department; the amount spent on credit cards by his...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      1759. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of credit cards issued to staff working in each State agency funded by his Department, in tabular form; the number of cards...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      1761. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in view of major infrastructural works taking place in the North West of Dublin, specifically the ambitious €230 million...
    • Sports Funding
      1762. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the proposed spending by the GAA, €2.4 million, IRFU, €2.36 million and FAI, €2.7...
    • Sports Organisations
      1764. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the high costs involved in coaching education by national sports bodies (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      1765. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person responsible for tracking the implementation of the sustainable development goals; his plan to support the implementation of...
    • Rail Services
      1767. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of resident level crossing keepers appointed to permanent positions by Iarnród Éireann in each of the years from...
    • Rail Services Provision
      1771. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding trains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25030/16]
    • Private Bus Operators
      1772. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views in relation to the reason no action has been taken by the NTA regarding allegations that a company (details supplied) uses bus...
    • Bus Services
      1773. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a bus stop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25075/16]
    • Road Projects Status
      1774. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25114/16]
    • Cross-Border Projects
      1775. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date on the Narrow Water Bridge, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25152/16]
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      1776. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 812 of 21 July 2016, the status of the delivery of a bus rapid transit, BRT, service along the...
    • Marine Tourism Promotion
      1777. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the all-Ireland cruise strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25187/16]
    • Rail Network
      1778. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a report prepared by a company (details supplied) on the rail system here has been received by his Department for consideration; when...
    • Olympic Council of Ireland
      1779. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that the Olympic Council of Ireland has a constitution; and if he will provide a copy of this constitution. [25215/16]
    • Disabled Drivers Permits
      1780. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that exist for drivers and passengers who have a disability and who do not own a car that is tax exempt under the disabled...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1781. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the southern trail into north County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      1789. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines in relation to haulage licences; the waiting time from application to issue of same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications Data
      1791. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sports capital grant applications received and funding awarded, by county, for each of the years 2011 to 2016, in tabular...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      1793. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be prioritised for a road (details supplied) in County Kerry to ease traffic congestion; and if he will make a statement...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1794. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to correspondence which he received relating to safety concerns on a bus route (details supplied), the measures being taken to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1795. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the landlords that his Department or bodies under his aegis paid rent to in each of the past three years; and the sums paid in each...
    • Road Projects Status
      1796. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the finishing of the Dingle relief road, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Funding
      1797. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the allocation of funding to South Dublin County Council to allow for repair works to be carried out on the...
    • Road Projects Status
      1799. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that €4 million funding is provided to Transport Infrastructure Ireland to fund for phase 4 of...
    • National Car Test
      1800. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a national car test; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      1801. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the conversion of Irish driver licences in British Columbia in Canada; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Funding
      1802. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of recent reports, that football clubs (details supplied) will be ground sharing a redeveloped Dalymount Park under the...
    • Road Projects
      1803. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland to investigate the possibility of planning an additional slip lane at the roundabout...
    • Greenways Development
      1805. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Dodder greenway project will go ahead; the start and completion dates for the different parts of the project; if funding from the...
    • Road Tolls
      1806. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons who drive cars registered in the North have to pay higher toll and toll penalty rates than persons who drive cars registered...
    • Taxi Licences
      1810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that taxi drivers have been experiencing with taxi licences when they choose to use...
    • Bus Éireann Fleet
      1811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and detail of CIÉ bus routes that have been deemed to be wheelchair accessible by Bus Éireann. [25775/16]
    • Driving Test Waiting Lists
      1812. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average amount of time that persons have to wait between applying for a driving test and being allocated a date for the test, by...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      1813. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he is taking to ensure roads in Dublin and elsewhere here are a safe environment for all road users and which encourage...
    • Postal Codes
      1814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts his Department and agencies under its remit have made to use Eircode when communicating with households via An Post; and if...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1815. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed date for the opening of the Phoenix Park tunnel; and the expected number of passengers who will use this facility. [25882/16]
    • Transport Policy
      1818. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the next ports capital grant allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25953/16]
    • Motor Insurance
      1819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress he and his Department are making in the establishment of a properly functioning motor insurance database with the insurance...
    • Transport Policy
      1820. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will instigate a full review of public transport policy as proposed in the programme for Government; the format this review will...
    • Road Network
      1821. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a road (details supplied) in County Kerry will be recategorised as a national road in view of the fact that it is the main artery...
    • Rural Transport Services
      1822. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the future and status of Nifti, the rural transport operator in Fingal, in view of invitations being sent for a rural...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      1825. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the maximum allowable fee for releasing a clamp from a vehicle in a private car park; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to proposed changes or the removal of Bus Éireann services from Galway county, in particular...
    • National Transport Authority Expenditure
      1830. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount annually since its formation that the NTA has spent on outside consultants, by department or section within the NTA. [26060/16]
    • National Transport Authority Staff
      1832. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new staff members recruited by the NTA since 2011 to date in 2016; and the number of vacancies which have been filled...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the process of examining transport service provision for young persons with a disability as outlined in the programme for...
    • Rail Services Provision
      1835. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he expects, that under Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1836. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the funding request for the Boyneside trail (details supplied) under Fáilte Ireland and the National Transport...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the list of all vacancies that existed on 26 February 2016 and all positions that have arisen since, including the date it became...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      1840. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any consultations with Dublin City Council with regard to the funding for an expansion of the Dublin Bikes scheme; and if...
    • Departmental Projects
      1841. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26144/16]
    • Tourism Promotion
      1842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include Passage East within Ireland's Ancient East, in view of the strong maritime history of the town and the important role...
    • Ferry Services
      1844. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the ferry in Valentia Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26249/16]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that funding is provided in 2017 towards the provision of necessary road improvement works on a national route...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken by his Department to promote the Lakelands brand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26315/16]
    • Road Projects Status
      1848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Bonagee link road in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26346/16]
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      1851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a national policy to accommodate commuters who avail of car pooling or ride sharing, which includes a long-term...
    • Cross-Border Projects
      1852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the available options for the completion of the Narrow Water Bridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26398/16]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • National Minimum Wage
      1853. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will give due consideration to exceeding the recommended 1% increase in the minimum wage as set out by the Low Pay Commission,...

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