Written answers
Thursday, 25 May 2017
- Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
- Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to his comments (details supplied) in April 2017, the local authorities that have received commitments with...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the considerable delays in accelerating and expanding the rapid build housing programme listed in...
- Private Rented Accommodation Provision
16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding his commitment to develop and roll out an affordable rental model; the model of affordable...
- Local Authority Housing Mortgages
17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase income limits for local authority house loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether one of the main barriers holding back the provision of social housing is the inability of local...
- Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of social and affordable housing that is required for developers availing of the local infrastructure...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review
20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the administrative boundary between counties Waterford and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered the proposals from a group (details supplied) which proposes municipal led mixed income public...
- Diaspora Issues
22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the diaspora voting in future presidential elections. [17993/17]
- Housing Policy
23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to set up a national housing company...
- Planning Issues
24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether national planning standards should be set to increase the height of apartment buildings, in view...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the local authorities immediately adjoining Dublin city and County are in a position to...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of house building projects and the number of units involved in those projects that are in the process of...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regrading the pilot mortgage to rent scheme involving private equity firms including the lease...
- Alternative Energy Projects
28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has reviewed the planning guidelines to be put in place for the construction of solar energy farms;...
- Community Development Initiatives
29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funds in place for county councils for the development of community centres and other social facilities in...
- Housing Data
30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the accuracy of official figures for housing completion here; the reason for the disparity...
- Local Authority Housing Eligibility
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase income limits for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24803/17]
- Private Rented Accommodation Costs
32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the policies of his Department could be contributing to rises in rents in view of the CSO's...
- Housing Policy
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for a policy to assist persons who are paying rent in excess of an average mortgage for a similar property...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which under the new land bank plan it is ensured that there will be a significant dividend for social...
- Housing Provision
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if large scale housing funding projects proposed to his Department by local authorities, approved housing bodies or...
- Private Rented Accommodation
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to advertisements for accommodation in which sex is being sought in lieu or in...
- Approved Housing Bodies
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has engaged with the housing associations and local authorities in ensuring that there will be drug-free...
- Housing Data
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the disparity between his Department's official figure of 15,951 housing completions during the past...
- Rent Controls
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review of the provisions in the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 that...
- Emergency Accommodation Data
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation as of 20 May 2017; the number of persons...
- Departmental Reports
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the findings of the expert panel set up to review the mica issue; the details of those findings; the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the definition of affordable housing; the nature of the affordable housing; if affordable housing will...
- Planning Issues
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the obligations on Irish Rail to seek planning permissions for the maintenance, development and improvement of the...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase the income limits for the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of developments that have been approved by his Department under which local authorities built 15, or...
- Homeless Accommodation Provision
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the planned timeframe for the existence of homeless hubs for homeless persons; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Assistance Payments Data
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance payment, HAP, who are 18 to 24 years of age by county, in 2016 and...
- State Properties Data
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of publicly owned land in each local authority area that is under consideration to offer to developers for...
- Housing Policy
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if further legislative provisions are required in order to ensure a more rapid response to the housing crisis...
- Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure
53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the limits for costs associated with the pyrite remediation scheme such as alternative...
- An Bord Pleanála
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the arrangements and additional staff that have been put in place in An Bord Pleanála in view of the Planning...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the terms and conditions of the mortgage to rent scheme to include local authorities as part of the...
- Animal Breeding Regulations
56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the dog breeding establishment guideline review; his views on the submissions; and if he will make a...
- Traveller Accommodation
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure allocated funding is spent in order that quality accommodation is available to...
- Emergency Accommodation Provision
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the actions he will take to assist persons following a fire at a development (details supplied); his plans for...
- National Spatial Strategy
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to review the Dublin and mid-east regional planning guidelines in advance of the new national spatial...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce affordable housing schemes of the type suspended in 2012 for owner-occupiers and or renters...
- Homeless Accommodation Provision
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the plan to move homeless persons from hotels to industrial premises; the reason these...
- Land Transfers
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of residential zoned land in the ownership of Galway City Council and Galway County Council and/or...
- Housing Data
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the recent figures released by the CSO with regard to housing in the context of the Rebuilding Ireland...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Deployment
66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel in An Garda Síochána who have long-term arrangements with restricted lighter station duties or...
- Citizenship Applications
67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter regarding a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25099/17]
- Naturalisation Applications
68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if documentation required in the case of a person (details supplied) has been received by the relevant section of her Department...
- Immigration Status
69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 11 May 2017, if the case of a person (details supplied) can be reviewed with a view...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff
70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the two investigators seconded to the Charleton tribunal from GSOC have been covered by alternative recruitment; if not, the...
- Courts Staff
71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the secondment of two researchers from the Supreme Court to the Charleton inquiry will cause administrative problems for the...
- Independent Review Mechanism
72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to consider the cases that went before the independent review mechanism due to the fact that the process was...
- Road Traffic Offences Data
73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 15 November 2016 (details supplied) the progress reports of this working group which...
- Department of Finance
- Help-To-Buy Scheme Assessment
74. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which existing incentives for first-time house buyers is assisting those who are eligible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25150/17]
- Tax Rebates
75. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide an annual rebate similar to the med 1 on toll fees paid by persons commuting to and from work; the estimated upfront cost to the Exchequer...
- State Banking Sector
76. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans regarding the proceeds of the sale of shares of a bank (details supplied); and if he will use those proceeds for public investment rather than debt...
- State Aid
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps Ireland has taken to collect the sum specified by the European Commission in its state aid ruling regarding a company (details supplied); and if he...
- State Banking Sector
81. To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards he will put in place to protect the rights and conditions, including pension entitlements of persons (details supplied) or other State backed...
- Tax Data
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised from tobacco product tax by product type in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017 in tabular form. [25089/17]
- Insurance Industry Regulation
84. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding taxi insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25091/17]
- Illicit Trade in Fuel and Tobacco Products
85. To ask the Minister for Finance if additional measures will be introduced to deal with the problem of fuel smuggling and trading in illicit diesel products due to recent dumping of sludge...
- Tax Credits
86. To ask the Minister for Finance the updated entitlement in terms of tax credits or allowances in the case of a person (details supplied); the extent of adjustment in the past five years; and...
- Property Tax
90. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the Thornhill report on local property tax; his plans for the further review of the local property tax; and if he will make...
- Revenue Commissioners Resources
92. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff resources allocated to tax audit and investigation activities as announced in budget 2017; the extra amount spent on information technology...
- Excise Duties Yield
93. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of extra excise duties received in 2016 and to date in 2017 on cigarettes as a result of the increase of 50 cent in excise announced in budget 2017;...
- Tax Yield
94. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax revenue received as a result of the section 110 and other fund changes made as part of budget 2017; the amount he currently expects to...
- Banking Sector
95. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the main banks are making adequate resources available to facilitate the urgently required house building programme; and if he will...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Equipment
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a piece of equipment will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry. [25056/17]
- Departmental Properties
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department received a valuation report for the Harold's Cross greyhound stadium site prior to purchasing it; if the amount paid matches the...
- Pharmacy Regulations
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the policy change regarding payment to fifth year pharmacy students on work placement; his plans to intervene to reinstate payments...
- Departmental Records
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to secure and audit all files and documents in its possession relating to the treatment of children detained in...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve class sizes pupil-teacher ratios at primary level for the 2017-2018 school year; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will prioritise funding for primary education in his 2018 Estimates discussions with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and...
- Schools Building Projects Data
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools announced as new builds in 2012 that are still in temporary accommodation; and if he will make a...
- Institutes of Technology
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for a proposed third level campus on a 35 acre site on the outskirts of Wexford town; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects Status
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be approved for the new purpose school at a school (details supplied); when the project will move to stage one of the process;...
- Departmental Staff Retirements
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that exist for Department employees such as special needs assistants to continue to work beyond the age of 65 years of age if they...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he received the Teaching Council report on teacher supply; the reason he has not published the report to date; when he will do so; if his...
- Minor Works Scheme Data
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants for school improvements which are made available to school boards on an annual basis; the reason in some cases schools are uncertain...
- Schools Inspections
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post-primary schools in which departmental inspectors carry out inspections on a yearly basis; the nature of such...
- Teachers' Remuneration
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end pay inequality between teachers appointed after 2010 and those appointed earlier specifically by reversing the decision of 2010...
- Apprenticeship Data
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 16 May 2017, if the ten new apprenticeships planned to commence in 2017 are the first apprenticeship...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the circumstances raised in correspondence about a person (details supplied) have been considered under the review of the student grant...
- Schools Refurbishment
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason refurbishments to a school (details supplied) in Trim, County Meath, have been delayed; the expected start date for these...
- Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he expects the submission for funding for the Aghancon and Clareen group water scheme in County Offaly to take...
- Pyrite Remediation Programme
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding for the pyrite remediation scheme to cover the remediation of pyrite damaged homes for each year since...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the degree to which he expects to meet the imminent demand in respect of housing following the displacement of...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the degree to which he continues to have discussions with the various local authorities adjacent to Dublin with a...
- Housing Data
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of houses and new housing starts in each of the counties immediately adjacent to Dublin city and county...
- Urban Development
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which progress is ongoing in regard to the resolution of issues affecting stalled development at Naas...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of the urgent need to meet public housing demand throughout the country, all efforts might concentrate...
- Housing Provision
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which facilities are available to meet the housing needs of the indigenous rural population throughout...
- Local Authority Housing Mortgages
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will urgently examine the need to install a robust local authority housing loan system, similar to that...
- Local Authority Housing Data
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses directly under construction by the local authorities to date in 2017; and if he...
- Local Authority Housing
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that adequate suitable and serviced building lands remain available in each local authority area...
- NAMA Social Housing Provision
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA may again be approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the pressing needs...
- Private Rented Accommodation
129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to establish a rental property price register run by the Residential Tenancies Board, as recommended by a...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason there have been so few Part V social housing units delivered in 2016. [25186/17]
- Planning Issues
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities are making it a stipulation of planning in rural areas that septic tank systems be...
- Department of Social Protection
- Jobs Data
132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of internships in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; if there is data available regarding the average internship period; and if he will make...
- Pensions Insolvency Payments Scheme
133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for payment of compensation for unpurchased pension service for persons at a company (details supplied); the details of such compensation;...
- Community Employment Schemes Administration
135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for a derogation from the requirement of a 60% progression rate for participants of community employment schemes in rural areas; and if he...
- Disability Allowance Applications
137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an allowance for a person (details supplied). [25072/17]
- JobPath Implementation
138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the method of calculation used by the Jobpath providers (details supplied) in calculating the amount of money paid to persons who claim travel costs...
- Departmental Staff Recruitment
139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding clerical positions in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25087/17]
- Disability Allowance Applications
141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all arrears in respect of their disability allowance have been paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position with regard to an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Illness Benefit Applications
143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a disability benefit allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25132/17]
- Social Welfare Overpayments
144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of entitlement and current payment in the case of a person (details supplied); the extent to which a previous alleged overpayment...
- Widow's Pension
145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) currently on widow’s pension can qualify for a higher level of payment, such as an invalidity pension...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if rent support was restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25136/17]
- Carer's Allowance Applications
147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their review for carer's allowance. [25152/17]
- Pensions Reform
149. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for an auto enrolment pension system; the progress made to date on developing such a system; the cost implications of same; and if he will...
- Pension Provisions
150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to develop a pension tracing system; the preparatory work required to develop such a system; the cost implications of implementing such a...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing jobseeker's allowance for those from 18 to 24 years of age from its current rate of €102.70 to...
- School Meals Programme
153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current expenditure on the school meals programme in 2017; the full year cost of increasing expenditure on this programme by 5%, 10%, 15% and...
- Social Welfare Offices
154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all Intreo offices are fully accessible to persons with a disability; if not, the estimated cost of making all offices accessible; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the schemes and payments that fall under his Department's remit in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25246/17]
- Departmental Staff Data
157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons working in the social welfare appeals office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25248/17]
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing each rate of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €10.00, €20.00,...
- Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to revise the farm income threshold for persons wishing to take part in the rural social scheme; if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the means by which a person (details supplied) can get the required permission from the father of their child in view of the fact their...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Pensions
161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to update the Civil Service pension scheme for new entrants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Sector Staff Retirements
162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to extend participation in the public service up to and including the current and planned age of entitlement to the...
- Flood Risk Assessments
163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an address (details supplied) is mapped as a flood risk area; his views on the situation whereby persons cannot get insurance for a...
- Department of Health
- Public Sector Staff Retirements
164. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) working in the public sector can have their contract of employment extended beyond 65 years of age; and if he will make a...
- Disease Awareness
165. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that will be taken by his Department to raise awareness of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25061/17]
- Disease Management (1 comment)
166. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons diagnosed with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25062/17]
- Speech and Language Therapy Provision
169. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech and language therapy for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/17]
- Hospital Staff Recruitment
170. To ask the Minister for Health when additional orthopaedic surgeons will be recruited to Croom Hospital, County Limerick, in view of the required number in place and the fact that half the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
171. 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. [25075/17]
- Treatment Abroad Scheme
172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a treatment abroad scheme application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25084/17]
- Hospital Appointments Status
173. 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. [25085/17]
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
176. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by a group (details supplied) regarding an appointment at consultant level; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
177. 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. [25107/17]
- National Lottery Funding Data
178. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that was provided to community and voluntary groups from his Department's national lottery discretionary fund in each of the years 2008 to 2016 in...
- Hospital Equipment
179. To ask the Minister for Health when the nuclear imaging equipment at University Hospital Limerick will be functioning (details supplied) again in order to save the round trip cost for...
- Medicinal Products
180. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug translarna was reviewed at the last drugs committee meeting on 18 May 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25125/17]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for aids and appliances in County Limerick; the amount of time they have been waiting; the details of the waiting lists for each...
- Medical Card Applications
182. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25195/17]
- Tobacco Control Measures
183. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address the use of disposable tins by tobacco companies to bypass upcoming plain packaging laws; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Communications
185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of media notifications issued by his Department's press office since 6 May 2016; and the number issued in the year to 5 May 2017. [25215/17]
- Obesity Strategy
186. To ask the Minister for Health further to comments made at an event (details supplied) the detail of the commitments made for the reduction of sugar in still and carbonated soft drinks...
- Services for People with Disabilities
190. To ask the Minister for Health the situation regarding a residential home (details supplied) as a result of issues identified relating to safeguarding and governance by HIQA; and if he will...
- HIQA Inspections
192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will obtain an extension on the closure order to allow staff of an organisation (details supplied) sufficient time to ensure all requirements are met as...
- Services for People with Disabilities
193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the environment in which persons with profound disabilities and very challenging behaviours are able to live, based on community living in...
- HIQA Inspections
194. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the issues relating to a facility (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact...
- Nursing Home Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the financial situation in a rest home (details supplied) with 37 persons in Lismore, County Waterford, with a view to allaying the fears...
- Medicinal Products Supply
198. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the situation whereby persons who were receiving Respreeza for alpha 1 on a monthly basis will now only receive it on a weekly basis; and...
- Services for People with Disabilities
199. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the financial proposal in County Louth which will see the care of 30 persons with disabilities being cared for by a group (details supplied); the...
- European Health Insurance Card
200. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 30 March 2017, the timeframe for a response from the HSE on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
201. To ask the Minister for Health when a consultant specialising in headache and migraine pain management will be appointed to Beaumont Hospital in view of the fact that there are approximately...
- Health Services Provision
202. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive BHE treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25257/17]
- Medicinal Products Supply
203. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a contingency plan in place in order that smaller hospitals that do not have compounding capabilities and do not run out of chemotherapy drugs; and...
- Prescriptions Charges
205. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing the prescription charge on a phased basis over five years, beginning in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25263/17]
- Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
207. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme reimbursement threshold on a phased annual basis from €144 per month to €132 per month,...
- Medicinal Products Expenditure
208. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the programme for Government commitment to reduce the cost of medicines by reducing the annual required co-payment on the drugs payment...
- Hospital Charges
209. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing statutory public inpatient charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25267/17]
- Health Promotion
210. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and Healthy Ireland will implement the WHO international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes in full (details supplied); and if he...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Aquaculture Licence Applications
211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for an aquaculture licence by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [25073/17]
- GLAS Payments
212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25082/17]
- TAMS Payments
213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a grant payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25088/17]
- GLAS Payments
214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/17]
- TAMS Payments
215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a TAMS grant payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an AEOS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25103/17]
- Control of Horses
219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the local authorities which have been in discussions with his Department regarding the implementation of by-laws by local authorities...
- GLAS Applications
220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision to reject a GLAS application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed in view of the...
- GLAS Data
221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of GLAS 1 and GLAS 2 who have received 85% of their total 2016 payment by county in tabular form;...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data
222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who applied for AEOS that have received their total 2016 payment by county in tabular form; the number of...
- Teagasc Research
225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent report by Teagasc, Competitiveness of Irish Agriculture. [25158/17]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a map indicating the areas classified and the various designations of mountain, more severely and less severely...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding
227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Government's commitment to increase the funding allocation for ANCs for the 2018 scheme. [25160/17]
- Rural Development Programme
228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to make a proposal to amend aspects of the RDP as part of the annual amendment. [25161/17]
- Brexit Issues
229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of full and part-time staff respectively hired since 1 January 2017 to work directly on Brexit related issues on a...
- Basic Payment Scheme Administration
233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to ensure innocent victims of illegal burning will not be subjected to penalties on their 2017 BPS...
- Beef Exports
234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume and value of beef exports to Northern Ireland in 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017. [25167/17]
- Aquaculture Development
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 9 May 2017, if compliance by the operator with local authority requirements on fresh...
- Aquaculture Licences
239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 9 May 2017, if his Department or the operator pay the organic control body for...
- Live Exports
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a response will issue to an interim reply (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25218/17]
- Basic Payment Scheme Administration
243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if illegally burnt land must be withdrawn from 2017 basic payment scheme applications in the event that the farmer of the land is not...
- Knowledge Transfer Programme
244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the deadline for submission of applications for the knowledge transfer scheme as has been requested by agricultural...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Waste Disposal Charges
245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on bin collection companies introducing a pay by weight system on waste over a certain weight; and if this been...
- Waste Management Regulations
246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the records to be held by persons or companies engaged in waste activities as required under section 18(3)(b) of the...
- Broadband Service Provision
247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the requirements in order to obtain high speed broadband in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Brexit Issues
248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has corresponded with the European Commission with regard to the potential impact of Brexit on the upcoming...
- Renewable Energy Generation Targets
249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to ensure that Ireland will meet its commitments to provide 40% of its electricity from renewable...
- Alternative Energy Projects
250. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason no coherent Government strategy or guidelines on the development of solar energy farms have been provided; and...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Noise Pollution
251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make a statement regarding his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 10 May 2017, when he stated that he would be happy to...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a capital sports grant application by a club (details supplied); when an announcement of funds allocated is expected under...
- National Car Test
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce the NCT test for tractors from 2018; the criteria in this regard; the details of the penalties as set out; and if...
- Driver Test
254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driving test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25093/17]
- Brexit Issues
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to assist the haulage sector regarding the challenges that will arise from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Haulage Industry
256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to designate the licensed haulage sector as a special category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25121/17]
- National Driver Licensing Service
257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the renewal of the contract for the driving licence service centres in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
- Railway Stations Upgrade
258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Bray DART station refurbishment plan and the funding for same; if a call for tender has been issued; and if he will...
- Regional Airports
259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek funding from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to invest in Waterford Airport (details supplied); and if he...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Brexit Issues
261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding allocated to State agencies in 2017 to hire additional staff as a result of Brexit; the number of staff that will be hired...
- Action Plan for Jobs
263. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of progress on the development of the M1 digital payments fin tech corridor, as recommended under the regional Action Plan...
- Brexit Issues
264. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an additional €3 million has been allocated by her Department in 2017 to the evolving Brexit scenario; the number of...
- European Fund for Strategic Investments
265. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies greater than and fewer than 250 employees that have drawn down EFSI funding to date; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Funding
266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the 2017 budget allocation for InterTradeIreland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25208/17]
- Employment Rights
267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the regulation of persons employed in the gig economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25210/17]
- Research and Development Funding
268. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the latest findings by the EU’s research and innovation observatory (details supplied) which indicates that...
