Written answers

Tuesday, 3 October 2017

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Industry
      45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the information he can provide as to the accuracy of reports that the EU is preparing to offer a tariff rate quota of 85,000 tonnes of...
    • Food Exports
      46. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has identified new opportunities for the export of beef, dairy, lamb and pigmeat; if there are particular...
    • TAMS Funding
      47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation in the rural development plan for the TAMS scheme 2014-2020; the amount of funds approved to date for projects since...
    • Milk Prices
      48. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a floor milk price margin or a floor ceiling milk margin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41666/17]
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      49. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place to support young farmers; his plans to improve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41652/17]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the ongoing information technology problems and delays in relation to GLAS and AEOS payments will be resolved; the reason the...
    • Gorse Burning
      51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the inter-agency gorse fire group has been established; the specific objectives and term of the group; the number of times the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Review
      52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has put forward at EU level in relation to the need to protect the CAP budget; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Industry
      53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure viable suckler and tillage sectors into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41658/17]
    • Beef Exports
      54. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position the Government will take in relation to suggestions that the EU Commission will offer significant tariff rate quota...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) in particular the recommendation that Horse Racing Ireland should have...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility
      56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to introduce income averaging over three years when...
    • Brexit Issues
      57. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to combat the problems Brexit poses for the fisheries sector; the actions he has carried out to date to ensure that the...
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      59. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the progress of the knowledge transfer programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41665/17]
    • Forest Fires
      60. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the overall cost of the fire at Cloosh Valley, County Galway; the value of the timber lost and the reconstitution costs, bogland lost...
    • GLAS Data
      61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the GLAS scheme to date; the average annual payment per participant; the total paid out to date under...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persistently infected bovines with BVD here; his plans for same; the number of herds currently restricted due to BVD;...
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the bovine TB eradication, badger vaccine trial which was reported to have taken place in County Kilkenny; and...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the ongoing review of his Department's regional veterinary laboratories, including the Sligo laboratory; and if...
    • Greyhound Industry
      65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will revise the requirement for greyhound owners to register with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme
      66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for another phase of low cost loans for farmers in view of the success of the previous scheme; and if he will make a...
    • State Aid
      67. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has formally submitted an application to the European Commission for EU state aid to help the agricultural sector...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be provided in the budget 2018 Estimates for his Department to enable the dredging of Howth fishery harbour in 2018;...
    • Live Exports
      69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to assist getting more cattle exported live especially in view of doubts regarding whether Turkish demands for weanlings...
    • Greyhound Industry
      70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to deal with the cases of illegal doping of dogs, particularly greyhounds; and his plans to apply...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers in receipt of sheep welfare scheme payments will receive their next due payments. [41625/17]
    • Live Exports
      73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he can address the animal welfare issues apparent in the live transportation of animals, especially the export to...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has sought or received information from an organisation (details supplied) on its work with the Workplace Relations Commission...
    • Dairy Sector
      75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of the EU commission's plans on 360,000 tonnes of SMP for intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Land Issues
      76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the pieces of legislation that enforce the protection of soils, in terms of the introduction of dangerous substances on or in the...
    • Food Exports
      77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to engage in the identification of alternative markets for Irish food and food products within the EU...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding
      78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the programme for Government commitment to increase ANC funding by €25 million in 2018; and if increased...
    • Beef Industry
      79. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the latest Mercosur talks at EU level; and the steps he is taking to protect Irish beef farmers by ensuring that beef...
    • Greyhound Industry
      80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing mandatory drug testing for all competing greyhounds (details supplied); if he will introduce heavier...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Trade Strategy
      81. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's role in delivering his commitments on Global Footprint 2025. [41634/17]
    • Departmental Communications
      82. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent tenders issued by his Department for research. [41253/17]
    • Departmental Websites
      90. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department's website is being updated; the cost of same; the last time it was reviewed and updated; and the cost of same at the time. [41263/17]
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      91. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the Dublin-Monaghan bombings with Prime Minister May. [41265/17]
    • Taoiseach's Communications
      92. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or written to Chancellor Merkel regarding her re-election. [41266/17]
    • Departmental Reports
      93. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 20 September 2017, if the funding for the implementation of the Mulvey independent report on the north-east inner city has...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
      94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has given consideration to the setting up of a local enterprise office in Drogheda (details supplied) as part of a collective...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has examined empowering the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to issue civil fines for anti-competitive...
    • Ticket Touting
      97. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislative and non-legislative proposals being considered by her Department to strengthen the regulation of the resale of tickets...
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when an order to effect the terms of the Labour Court recommendation on construction workers' pay, as provided for in the Industrial...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to correct the anomaly that prevents persons with intellectual disabilities applying for the primary medical certificate; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if the earned income tax credit will be increased to the same level as the PAYE credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41822/17]
    • EU Directives
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the transposition of the Insurance Distribution Directive; if it will be transposed on or before the EU deadline of 23 February 2018;...
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider in his pre-budget deliberations with regard to the USC, the correction of the anomaly that sees pre-1995 public sector pensioners pay the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance the detail of the Central Bank inquiry into a building society (details supplied) currently under way; the work that has been done to date; the costs incurred...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Assessment
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a query raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the help-to-buy scheme. [41315/17]
    • Tax Code
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress in discussions with the Brazilian authorities to remove the State from a blacklist of tax havens; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Programme
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance the items listed in the legislative programme for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41413/17]
    • Banking Sector
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance the fees paid by banks in which he holds shares to solicitors and barristers with regard to mortgage arrears cases, by legal professional; the fees paid to...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the eligibility time for the cycle to work scheme from five years to three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41496/17]
    • Fuel Prices
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the difference between the price of diesel and petrol for private motor cars in view of the implications for air pollution and carbon...
    • Vehicle Registration
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners are refusing to register used and already registered vehicles as N1 vehicles with two or more rows of seats, having been...
    • NAMA Debtor Agreements
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance the sum advanced to developers by NAMA in loans; the percentage of this sum currently repaid; the quantum of loans in arrears; and the percentage of loans in...
    • Insurance Costs
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach...
    • Tax Code
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent speech by the French President (details supplied) in which he called for access to structural funds to be linked with co-operation on...
    • Disabled Drivers Grant Appeals
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of primary medical certificate applications received by the disabled drivers medical board of appeal from persons in County Donegal that were...
    • Excise Duties
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is examining the possibility of introducing an excise duty rebate of 50% on legally made poitín in the coming budget in order to stimulate this...
    • Legislative Programme
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to bring forward the national claims information database Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41612/17]
    • Tax Exemptions
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax exemptions are available to international artists who perform here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41686/17]
    • Tax Code
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if an issue relating to a PPS number for a person (details supplied) has been resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41754/17]
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance when the State is required to achieve its medium-term budgetary objective of a structural deficit of not greater than 0.5% under the domestic and EU fiscal...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of his Department; and if he...
    • Fiscal Data
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the fiscal space that would be available in each of the years 2018 to 2021 over and above the level in the summer economic statement if 2015 potential growth...
    • Budget 2018
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the rate of inheritance tax in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41934/17]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works rents car parking spaces to other organisations at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks,...
    • Public Sector Staff Expenses
      125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mileage rate that is payable for 100% electric vehicles; if this rate is consistent with climate action goals; and if he will make a...
    • Gender Equality
      126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on adopting gender budgeting for the departmental budget process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41819/17]
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the construction of a suitable building in Turoe, Bullaun, Loughrea, County Galway for the protection and display of the...
    • National Botanic Gardens
      128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be provided to the OPW to complete renovation works to the cactus house and the giant waterlily house in the National...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reverse the decision to close off large areas of the local Oldbridge House grounds in Drogheda, County Meath, for the...
    • Legislative Programme
      130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the items listed in the legislative programme for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41414/17]
    • Heritage Centres Funding
      131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding invested in a heritage centre (details supplied); the reason the centre was closed in 2016 although still marketed...
    • Budget 2018
      132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected additional fiscal space for budget 2018 from savings on the live register; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works
      134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will respond to a person (details supplied); if this event can take place in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the river C1-37-10 in County Westmeath could be lowered by the OPW; if the OPW will liaise with a person (details supplied) on the...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the requirements his Department has placed on the Department of Health or the Health Service Executive to either notify it or seek its...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to Caranua has been refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if English classes are provided to Syrian refugees residing in accommodation centres under the scope of his Department's resettlement programme;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new development for a school (details supplied); if a timeframe from tender has been set out; when site works will commence;...
    • DEIS Eligibility
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) did not qualify for DEIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41308/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a sports hall will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41309/17]
    • School Management
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 313 of 26 July 2017, when a proposal in respect of the management of a facility (details supplied) was...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department expects a project (details supplied) to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41332/17]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with regard to the educational needs of a child. [41336/17]
    • School Placement
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new secondary school for the Castleknock and Carpenterstown areas in Dublin 15; the location of same; and if he will...
    • SOLAS Administration
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SOLAS still owns the property on Shanliss road, Santry, which was used as a FÁS centre; if so, if it has plans for the property; and if...
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that have been made through the merger of Tipperary north and south vocational education committees, VECs, into Tipperary Education...
    • Education and Training Boards Expenditure
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017 of the rent of the Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, sub-office in...
    • Education and Training Boards Administration
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, was offered the use of the old Thurles town council offices for training purposes; and if so, the...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job advertisements and job specifications in Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, since 2013, by date. [41356/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Administration
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a copy of the Tipperary Education and Training Board, ETB, policy on expenses in place currently. [41358/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times Tipperary ETB has been unable to fill positions internally and has had to advertise externally; the details of those posts;...
    • Education and Training Boards
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a copy of the plans and drawings for the Tipperary ETB training centres and offices in Nenagh, Thurles and Clonmel. [41362/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Expenditure
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure on room rental and conference facilities by Tipperary ETB in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [41363/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts that have changed location in Tipperary ETB in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the details of these...
    • Education and Training Boards Administration
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the processes and procedures in place for the way in which teaching allocations are distributed in Tipperary ETB. [41365/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason different leave entitlements continue to be in operation for staff in Tipperary ETB which means workers on the same grade have...
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment figures for 2015, 2016 and 2017 across all schools under the domain of Tipperary ETB. [41368/17]
    • SOLAS Expenditure
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital expenditure by SOLAS in County Tipperary in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by location and date. [41370/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Administration
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the financial or professional management of ETBs. [41372/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the job specification that was advertised for the first chief executive of Tipperary ETB. [41373/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Funding
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the ETBI is funded. [41375/17]
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation for ETB schools in each of the years 2013 to 2017. [41376/17]
    • School Management
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a complaint (details supplied) was not followed through the prescribed channels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41389/17]
    • School Uniforms
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the survey on school uniforms that was carried out in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41460/17]
    • School Textbooks
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered alternative measures to reduce school book costs via businesses such as a company (details supplied) or other practical...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of a proposed new school (details supplied); the reason for the long delay; the amount of rent which continues...
    • School Services Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated to enable a school (details supplied) for children with a diagnosis of autism in Kilbarrack hire new cleaners and...
    • School Accommodation
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the condition of buildings being used by a school (details supplied) for children with a diagnosis of autism in Kilbarrack; and if...
    • School Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staffing levels at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal will be reduced for the 2017-2018 academic year; if his attention has been...
    • School Services Staff
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department decided to change the way it paid school secretaries; the reason it has decided to stop the 1978-79 scheme; if his...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position with regard to the proposed Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, KWETB, Education Together school in Celbridge, County...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2018 of recruiting an extra 30 full-time education psychologists for the national education psychologist services; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) can be expedited. [41655/17]
    • Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú maidir le stádas an iarratais atá déanta ag scoil (sonraí tugtha), go...
    • Schools Building Projects
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide funding for the development of a car park at a school (details supplied). [41725/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the commencement of building a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the timeframe for planning permission to be...
    • Education Data
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has assessed the demand for secondary school places in Dublin 7, with particular reference to the new Scribblestown and...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made regarding locating a permanent site for a school (details supplied); if he has directed Dublin City Council to...
    • Statutory Instruments
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine SI No. 394 of 2017, Education Support Centres (Appointment and Secondment of Directors) Regulations 2017, in view of the fact...
    • School Transport
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who is enrolled in a school has not been given a timeframe for when their school bus service will begin;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report for a school (details supplied); the options being considered for the new school building; the timeframe for...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the refusal of Caranua to provide funeral expenses for a person (details supplied) who was a survivor of a residential institution...
    • School Transport
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a transport grant payment will be made to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41916/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in County Kildare that were built in the rapid build period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41917/17]
    • Schools Health and Safety
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department is working to alleviate the fire risk in newly built schools that have been found at risk; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Emigrant Support Services
      205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken by his Department to facilitate Irish persons living abroad return here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Diaspora Issues
      206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the detail of the report that has been commissioned by the Government to examine barriers experienced by persons who emigrated and wish to...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the travel advice for Irish citizens wishing to travel to Kenya around the time of the planned elections there on 26 October 2017; and if he...
    • International Relations
      208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by the Government, including at EU level, to aid organisations offering essential medical and psycho social support in...
    • Middle East Issues
      209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Bedouin villagers from Khan Al Amar and Susiya in the occupied West Bank are urgently...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cost of applying for a passport is discouraging some persons from applying; his plans...
    • Conflict Resolution
      213. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar with that country’s diplomatic representatives and at European...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the UK Government is part funding an election observation mission to Somaliland to observe...
    • Human Rights
      215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to raise concerns with regard to the human rights of civilians in Biafra with the Nigerian Government in relation to the ongoing...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the timeframe for ratification...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Staff
      217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and grade of staff at the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS; the number and grade of vacancies; his...
    • Valuation Office
      218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 56% of retail shops in County Westmeath have experienced an increase in rates...
    • Courts Service
      219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has given consideration to the creation of a new regional family law judge position for the north west in view of the...
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the location a person can get a post nuptial certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41247/17]
    • Garda Stations
      221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay with acquiring the new building for the new Garda station for the Bailieborough district; and if he...
    • Garda Divisional Headquarters
      222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the opening of the new Garda regional and divisional headquarters in Galway city; the stage the development...
    • Visa Data
      223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of open applications for stamp 4 being processed; the average waiting time for a decision to be made on the granting...
    • Asylum Applications
      224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the asylum application of a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the case of persons (details supplied) who have applied for naturalisation and due to circumstances outside...
    • Garda Equipment
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars and vans that are Bluetooth enabled; the number that are connected to the central information...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees now relocated or resettled here under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme established in September...
    • Direct Provision Data
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision in each direct provision centre for one year or less, one to two years, two to three...
    • Human Trafficking
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detail of his Department's engagement with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41480/17]
    • Employment Rights
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names and positions of the members of the inter-departmental taskforce established to examine the implications of the NVH...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 16 February 2017, the number of unaccompanied minors that have arrived here to...
    • Migrant Integration
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the integration strategy for refugees and asylum seekers who arrive here; if he will provide a copy of the strategy; and if he...
    • Garda Procedures
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place when a member of the public is arrested and taken into Garda custody; and if a person in custody...
    • Garda Strength
      236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda recruits assigned to each Garda division since recruitment resumed in 2014, in tabular form; the reason the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the safe passage campaign by an organisation (details supplied) for the introduction of a humanitarian admission...
    • Garda Warrants
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrest warrants, bench warrants and penal warrants outstanding as of 1 September 2017 or the nearest available...
    • Garda Data
      242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and civilians by rank and job title working in the Garda financial intelligence unit in each of the...
    • Garda Powers
      243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has powers to seize quad bikes and or scramblers in public parks and open spaces; and if he will...
    • Law Reform Commission Reports
      244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to legislate for the full implementation of the Law Reform Commission Report LR67/2002 and in particular the...
    • Garda Compensation
      245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has satisfied himself with the operation of the Garda compensation scheme; if his attention has been drawn to delays in...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report into the legislation regulating access by GSOC to journalists' phones, which was delivered by a person (details...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations
      247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a report by a person (details supplied) in regard to serious allegations of visa fraud and...
    • Pension Provisions
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of awarding pensions to 20 living gardaí who left the force for any reason before 1 October 1976 having served...
    • Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Youth Strategy
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the proposed timeframe for and the details of the LGBT inclusion strategy announced by his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy and proposed legislation emanating from same. [41748/17]
    • Direct Provision System
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if books are provided to Syrian refugees residing in accommodation centres under the scope of his Department's resettlement...
    • Immigration Policy
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has examined community sponsorship models such as the UN community sponsorship initiative as a format that...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of extra funding being allocated to local authorities in advance of the Syrian resettlement programme; the areas to...
    • Migrant Integration
      258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has discussed refugee integration as an aspect of rural development policy with the Departments of Housing,...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of extra funding and resources being allocated to his Department in preparation for the Syrian resettlement...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Appeals
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application pursuant to section 3(6) of the Immigration Act by a person...
    • Proposed Legislation
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the introduction of new sexual offences legislation and the drafting of a domestic violence bill; and if he will...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Administration
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names and titles of the members of the Immigrant Investor Programme Committee; the criteria used by the committee for the...
    • Garda Accommodation
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in upgrading the Donegal town Garda barracks; the options being considered as part of the overall improvement...
    • Garda Resources
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí allocated to the Donegal division in each of the years 2014 to 2016; the number of...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Hare Coursing
      269. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide for mandatory inspection and monitoring by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, of pre-coursing...
    • Hare Coursing Regulation
      270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the oversight mechanisms that are in place to ensure that hares used at coursing meetings are not recaptured after their release...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons that participated in the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, farm plan scheme; and the funding...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta aici chun bád farantóireachta úr toiscdhéanta a choimisiúnú...
  • Department of Health
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      274. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend legislation to ensure there is a provision under social and affordable housing to allow for the provision of respite housing should there be...
    • Mobility Allowance Eligibility
      275. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the mobility allowance was stopped for new applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41549/17]
    • Mobility Allowance
      276. To ask the Minister for Health when a payment similar to the mobility allowance will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41550/17]
    • Departmental Contracts
      277. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is unfair that employees of section 39 organisations had their pay cut in line with the financial emergency measures in the public...
    • Medical Card Applications
      278. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41758/17]
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      279. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the gender proofing of all health policies and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41819/17]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      280. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the fair deal scheme will be increased to remove discrimination against farming and other small business assets; and if he will make a statement...
    • Food Labelling
      281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of breaches of labelling that have been identified throughout the food sector in the past 12 months in respect of imports and home produced product;...
    • Health Services Funding
      282. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is considering a proposal from a private provider (details supplied) in respect of the provision of respite services for persons with...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      285. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of both spinal consultants who are employed in Tallaght hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41239/17]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      287. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement consultant has been found to replace a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41241/17]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      288. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed that the person's general practitioner card has been withdrawn for a period; and if he will make a...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      289. To ask the Minister for Health if the medicinal cannabis compassionate access programme to be launched soon will allow consultants to prescribe cannabis oil with THC content; and if the...
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      290. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the waiting lists for occupational therapy and psychology appointments for children aged 0 to 18 years of age, by county, in tabular form....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      291. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital; the estimated timeframe for admission; and if he will...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      292. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the long waiting times for the psychology assessments needed by children to access speech and language and other early intervention...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      293. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41271/17]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      296. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow women to access long-acting reversible contraception under the medical card scheme. [41276/17]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      297. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied); if he will reconsider this decision not to fund Translarna; if he will address the points made by the persons...
    • Home Help Service Data
      298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been placed on a panel in respect of the recent application for the post of home help for CHO Area 8; the expected number to be...
    • Maternity Services Provision
      299. To ask the Minister for Health when sonographers will be in place to provide anomaly scans at Cavan General Hospital; if he has set out a timeline for the provision of this scan on site at...
    • Respite Care Services
      300. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering a proposal from a private provider (details supplied) in respect of the provision of respite services for persons with disabilities in...
    • Hospital Services
      301. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for rehab care in the Scared Heart hospital, Carlow. [41296/17]
    • Counselling Services Provision
      303. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1077 of 11 September 2017, the anticipated role and function of the existing professional bodies for counselling and...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      304. To ask the Minister for Health if versatis medicated plasters will remain as a reimbursable item under the medical card or drugs payment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      305. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is cost effective to place a person (details supplied) in a nursing home when a home care package would suffice in meeting their care...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that have been received in the past year by the HSE from persons seeking a licence to use medicinal cannabis products here; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      307. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied); if so, the date for this appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41307/17]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      308. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug prembrolizumab will be licensed for use in the treatment of fine cell neuroendocrine rectal cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Administration
      310. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); if the application has been registered; if further documentation is outstanding; and...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      311. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1202 of 11 September 2017, if the onus is on the manufacturer of the drug to initiate the process of having it added to...
    • Stroke Care
      312. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place to support persons that suffer strokes; if his attention has been drawn to the recommendations by an organisation (details supplied) for...
    • Respite Care Services Availability
      313. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care can be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [41333/17]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      314. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports or transport schemes available for a person (details supplied) that has severe spinal injuries and requires access to a car to maintain...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      316. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare that urgently needs an operation will receive an appointment for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of director of nursing in child and adolescence in a mental health service in Cork city will be filled in view of the fact that it has been...
    • Hospital Charges
      320. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the decision on the reintroduction of day case charges for haemochromatosis patients attending the Louth county venesection clinic; his...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      322. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding for mental health services and facilities that has been returned unspent from each CHO in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres that provide mental health services; the number of centres in each CHO; the number of staff providing services at each...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health nurses graduating in 2016 and 2017 respectively; the number of these graduates offered permanent contracts, in tabular form; and if...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      326. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage CAMHS received in funding from the mental health budget for each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement...
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children qualified for children’s physiotherapy services in County Wexford; the number of children on a waiting list to receive the...
    • Hospital Services
      331. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the restoration of a clinic (details supplied) at a hospital; the business case being prepared to develop a service at this hospital; and if...
    • Hospital Charges
      332. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with haemochromatosis (details supplied) who have to attend hospital on a regular basis will continue to have their attendance at hospitals regarded...
    • Hospital Services
      333. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist in County Meath will be made available in budget 2018; and the reason for the sudden increase in the number of persons with...
    • Mobility Allowance
      334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the mobility allowance payable to persons who have a disability; the reason for the delay in making a decision in relation to this...
    • Health Services Funding
      335. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide funding for a treatment centre (details supplied). [41426/17]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Data
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists in CHO area 7 and in the Dublin south west LHO; the number of these that...
    • Social Workers Register
      337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent social workers in CHO area 7 and Dublin south west LHO; the number of these that persons in the...
    • Nursing Staff Data
      338. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent public health nurses in CHO area 7 and Dublin south west LHO; the number of these that persons in the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners, both in-post and vacant, in CHO area 7 that have signed up to the free general practitioner service for the under sixes...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged 0 to 18 years of age for a speech and language assessment in CHO area 7 and Dublin south west LHO; the number of these...
    • General Practitioner Data
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners both in post and vacant in community health care organisation, CHO, area 8 who have signed up to the free general...
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      357. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners in community health care organisation, CHO, area 3 who have signed up to the free general practitioner service for the...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the drug ocrelizumab for the treatment of multiple sclerosis; if the drug is being assessed by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE;...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
      361. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new 100-bed unit at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41462/17]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      362. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available under the long-term illness, LTI, scheme for persons with diabetes; if availability will not be...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      363. To ask the Minister for Health if a permanent residential place can be provided for a person (details supplied). [41470/17]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) trying to access child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff
      365. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available in the upcoming budget for a further podiatrist in County Donegal; if his attention has been drawn to the sudden increase in...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
      366. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays for allied health professionals returning from abroad registering with the Health and Social Care...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts while allied health professionals are awaiting registration with the Health and Social Care Professional Council, CORU; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      369. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist to provide diabetes podiatry services to persons living in County Donegal will be made available; if so, when it is likely...
    • Medical Card Applications
      370. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision from the medical card department regarding an application for a discretionary...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of centre-based respite nights provided to persons with disabilities to date in 2017; the way in which this compares against target; and if he will...
    • Health and Safety
      372. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the new HSE policy on manual handling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41490/17]
    • Health Services Staff
      373. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist in County Meath will be made available in view of the fact that County Meath has had the largest year-on-year increase in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      374. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect the delivery of a special cushion which was ordered in July 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
      375. To ask the Minister for Health if a bed for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath can be expedited. [41503/17]
    • Health Services Staff
      376. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of podiatrists in County Limerick due to the increasing number of persons needing treatment for diabetic foot ulceration in...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE's position regarding the promotion of vaping as a means to achieve the State's goal of becoming smoke free (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      378. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding in budget 2018 for a facility (details supplied) to ensure it can open on a full-time basis from spring 2018; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      380. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41529/17]
    • Counselling Services Provision
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for persons that have been approved for counselling under the counselling in primary care, CIPC, in County Meath; and the number of persons...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [41537/17]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      383. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided in budget 2018 for an additional podiatrist for Galway, in view of the fact that Galway has one of the largest year-on-year...
    • Health Services Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41551/17]
    • Motorised Transport Grant Eligibility
      386. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised scooter can be provided to a person (details supplied); the correct procedure to be followed to obtain such required equipment; and if he will...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      387. To ask the Minister for Health if the outcomes and recommendations of a quality assurance review of in-home care packages and respite care for children with complex needs and life-limiting...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      391. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist in County Louth will be made available in the upcoming budget; and the reason for the sudden increase in County Louth in...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons from County Donegal who applied for the primary medical certificate, who were awarded the primary medical certificate and who were...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if home tuition funding will be provided for early intervention for a person (details supplied) to assist their parents in making this person's life easier; if...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has examined the need for a specialist clinician in the Dublin region to treat Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      395. To ask the Minister for Health if Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is provided for within the National Rare Disease Plan for Ireland 2014-2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41576/17]
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the promised refurbishment of Millstreet hospital. [41578/17]
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      398. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide extra funding for home care and home help packages in 2018 in view of the fact that the demand for these services far outstrips supply;...
    • Hospital Groups
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been put in place for the possible removal of South Tipperary General Hospital from the South/South West Hospital Group with a possible...
    • Departmental Reviews
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date to expedite a national review of cardiology services; the preparatory works that have taken place during the summer by...
    • Ambulance Service
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent arrangement in County Cavan whereby the National Ambulance Service can deploy the fire and rescue service in the county to act as first...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      402. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 398 of 26 September 2017, the reason his Department rejected the application from Letterkenny University Hospital for two advanced...
    • Respite Care Services Data
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for an initial assessment for respite services in CHO area 9; the number of those persons who have been waiting for three months,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system available to persons with type 1 diabetes in view of the fact it is now available to UK...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries, by type, on the elective waiting lists that have been cancelled in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the reason the...
    • Emergency Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet persons (details supplied) to discuss their recent experience with the emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41715/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      410. To ask the Minister for Health if an application will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [41716/17]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, cardiac care waiting list; the average waiting time; and the longest time that a person must wait....
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      412. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to place the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system for the treatment of diabetes on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Education
      413. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to introducing a postgraduate programme that would allow nurses from other fields to study and train to become general nurses...
    • Dental Services Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41740/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that has been given to the use of email, text and so on to notify persons of appointments in circumstances in which it is possible in an...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate in budget 2018 the required moneys for the provision of the pilot project for Prader-Willi syndrome providing respite; and if he will make...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      417. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available under the long-term illness scheme for persons with diabetes; if availability will not be restricted to...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      418. To ask the Minister for Health if necessary supports will be allocated to a drug rehabilitation and drugs prevention programme (details supplied) in Dublin. [41756/17]
    • Hospitals Data
      419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who required in-hospital treatment for diabetes-related foot complications and lower limb loss attending University Hospital Waterford...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the FreeStyle Libre blood monitor is not available through the medical card or long-term illness card in view of the fact that the NHS has recently...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the long term policy and funding strategy for the care of adults with intellectual disabilities particularly in scenarios in which close relatives are no...
    • Mental Health Services
      423. To ask the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself with the quality of record keeping, archiving and recording of case histories at a facility (details supplied); if he has further...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) will not be considered under the HSE treatment abroad scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41784/17]
    • Health Services Reports
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date and future changes envisaged in the context of three monthly reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      426. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hip replacement operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41787/17]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) who is in need of urgent orthodontic treatment and who does not qualify for such treatment under...
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      428. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 15 June 2016, the reason the person concerned was not seen by an occupational therapist in February 2017 as...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that County Galway had one of the largest yearly increases in the number of persons with diabetes requiring in...
    • Medical Qualifications
      430. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of Irish doctors taking up permanent positions abroad following qualification; the reason for this; the steps he will take to deal with...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of counterfeit medication that has been confiscated annually since 2011; the types of counterfeit medication involved; and if he will make a...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of legislation dealing with assisted human reproduction; the areas which will be covered under such legislation; and if he will...
    • Emergency Departments Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the dangerous levels of overcrowding at the emergency department of Tallaght hospital in the week of 25 September 2017; if...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      434. To ask the Minister for Health if he has the authority to prohibit the sale of so-called combi boxes which contain rolling tobacco, papers and filters under the Public Health Tobacco Acts,...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      435. To ask the Minister for Health if persons currently using respreeza will not be denied access to this medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41869/17]
    • General Practitioner Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he plans to implement to ensure the retention of newly qualified doctors in the health system in view of shortages at general practitioner level;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      437. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive the next lidocaine infusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41873/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      439. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a knee operation in Limerick following numerous cancellations of same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      440. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's business priorities for each of the past five years; the way in which scoliosis surgeries have been a part of these plans for each of the past...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review and reverse the decision of the HSE not to approve the use of the drug Kuvan for persons with phenylketonuria, PKU, and accept the request by...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      444. To ask the Minister for Health if the inpatient unit at Linn Dara, Cherry Orchard, Dublin 10, which was partially closed in May 2017, has been fully reopened. [41914/17]
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which savings from the State’s agreement with an organisation (details supplied) in 2016 have been applied towards the funding of new...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      447. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [41920/17]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring forward legislation making it mandatory to make a defibrillator available in each public building; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Funding
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a further podiatrist in County Wexford will be included in budget 2018. [41929/17]
    • Health Services Data
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the increase in the number of persons from County Wexford with diabetes requiring a lower limb amputation which is preventable; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the drugs group meeting on 14 September 2017 following its review of Vimizim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41932/17]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      452. To ask the Minister for Health when the freestyle libre system will be made available to persons with diabetes type 1 and 2 on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given to a new general practitioner contract in order to increase general practitioner capacity to cater for chronic diseases such as...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he will ensure that the high cost of preventive medication will not be a barrier in effectively controlling asthma under the long-term illness...
    • Hospital Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the masterplan for South Tipperary General Hospital; if he will provide a copy of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fisheries Protection
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections carried out in the 2016 to 2017 season of vessels pair trawling inshore within Irish coastal waters inside...
    • Greyhound Industry
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds exported to the United Kingdom for sales and trials between 2010 to 2016; the number returned here; and if...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons applying for ANC, areas of natural constraint, payments in 2017 that have not to date received a payment in...
    • TAMS Data
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the 2017 budget allocation for TAMS 2; and the expenditure to date on same. [41406/17]
    • Farm Safety
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether a year of tragedy on farms means the message of farm safety is not getting through; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Grants
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a forestry reconstitution grant application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Agriculture Industry
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulatory environment that is applicable under his Department's remit regarding agricultural vehicles of all types, including...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme Eligibility
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer participating on a farm retirement scheme would be in breach of the criteria of this scheme if they engaged in hobby...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has satisfied himself with the performance of Horse Racing Ireland and the Turf Club regarding the disclosure of funds in the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 26 September 2017, if he will clarify the position that, contrary to the implication in...
    • Agriculture Industry
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of a notification issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41697/17]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of farm payments for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41724/17]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      469. 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. [41727/17]
    • Fisheries Protection
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on pair trawling in view of the quantities of sprat that are removed from the sea during this process and the request from...
    • Food Exports
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he can assist those exporters in the food sector that have been negatively affected by issues associated with...
    • Fishing Industry
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which provisions can be put in place to protect the fishing industry with particular reference to threats arising from...
    • Fisheries Protection
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which fish conservation policies have benefited fish stocks in the seas around Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Poultry Industry
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which markets for Irish poultry at home and abroad have developed or are likely to develop if imports from EU or third...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which fish processing facilities here remain adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41947/17]
    • Cereal Sector
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the cereal sector remains strong and sufficient to meet current requirements and challenges; and if he will make...
    • Dairy Sector
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the dairy industry has stabilised and expanded following the abolition of quotas; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Industry
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the future development of the agrifood sector notwithstanding Brexit or other challenges; and if he will make a...
    • Food Industry Data
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent of deer farming, domestic and or export markets for venison; the extent to which the industry can grow; and if he will...
    • Poultry Industry
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he and his Department continue to monitor the poultry sector with particular reference to threats to the...
    • Food Industry Development
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has satisfied himself regarding the future development of the pigmeat sector with consequent export opportunities; if...
    • Food Industry Exports
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which unimpeded markets continue to exist for lamb exports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41954/17]
    • Food Industry Data
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strength of the national beef, dairy and pig herd and the sheep flock; the extent to which numbers have fluctuated over the past...
    • Beef Industry
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he anticipates ongoing growth in the beef sector with particular reference to Food Harvest 2020 and Food Wise...
    • Agriculture Industry
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which his Department monitors the costs of farm inputs such as fertilisers; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Illegal Dumping
      491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether legislation is sufficiently robust to enable local authorities to combat illegal dumping such as...
    • Air Quality
      493. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the implementation of a nationwide network of real time air quality monitoring stations; and if he will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      494. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41248/17]
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      495. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for broadband services to be available under the national broadband scheme at Gillstown, Garlow Cross,...
    • Energy Schemes Data
      496. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the success or otherwise of the warmth and wellbeing pilot programme that commenced in 2016 and...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Reports
      497. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 711 of 11 April 2017, if he will provide a copy of the report on the outstanding...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a company (details supplied) reneged on its commitment to provide high speed broadband facilities to...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) plans to extend its networks to facilitate connection threats for towns and villages...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband services will be available under the national broadband scheme at a person's (details supplied) home....
    • North-South Interconnector
      501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will review correspondence (details supplied); his views on the concerns outlined by the group; the status of...
    • Climate Change Policy
      503. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sectoral adaptation plans adopted in accordance with the national climate change adaptation framework since the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      504. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to put in place an electric vehicle charging point in Leinster House. [41781/17]
    • Electricity Grid
      505. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the length of the waiting list for solar farms to connect to the grid; if shovel ready projects with planning...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the townlands in County Meath in which there will be State intervention under the national broadband plan. [41856/17]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Ministerial Meetings
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the meetings he held in respect of the Rugby World Cup bid. [41380/17]
    • Consumer Protection
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consumer protection rights and compensation available to persons at national and EU level following the cancellation of thousands of...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a renewed driving licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth now displays a change to data in respect...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to announce the allocations under the 2017 sports capital grant programme. [41279/17]
    • Traffic Management
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans for a ring road or outer city bypass for Galway; the involvement his department has in this area and other efforts to...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a report on the further development of the western rail corridor has been commissioned by his Department; if so, the person or body...
    • Road Safety Authority
      513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if the person has been replaced in the interim; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test Data
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times to sit a driving test for the first nine months of 2017 (details supplied) for counties Cavan and Monaghan in tabular...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      515. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made to his Department for exemptions for the transportation of munitions or weapons of war through Shannon...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      517. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given consideration to include funding for the Drogheda northern port access route in the forthcoming capital plan review; and...
    • Road Tolls
      518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is reviewing the operation of the secondary toll on the M1 at Drogheda; if he has had formal engagement with the toll operator in...
    • Sports Organisations
      519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on his call for an organisation (details supplied) to implement measures still outstanding from the 2002 Genesis report; and...
    • Vehicle Testing
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41391/17]
    • Driver Test Regulations
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) with a driving licence can avoid the obligation of taking a number of driving lessons before sitting a...
    • Road Safety
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for a safety review of a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41419/17]
    • Railway Stations
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if remedial work will be undertaken at the entrance to Castleknock Railway Station which is in poor condition and a safety concern due to...
    • Transport Policy
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Smarter Travel: a New Transport Policy for Ireland 2009-2020 is still the policy of his Department; the person within his Department...
    • Taxi Regulations
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost for taxi drivers to recalibrate meters when fares are increased by the NTA. [41519/17]
    • Bus Éireann Staff
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of redundancies, voluntary or otherwise, of Bus Éireann drivers in the past 12 months; the actions he has taken to ensure...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the implementation of recommendation 105 of the road safety strategy 2013 to 2020; if the recommendation has been...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he has not commenced the section of the Road Traffic Act 2016 which seeks to regulate rickshaws; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the documentation between his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the 2018 Estimates....
    • Sports Events
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the bid for Rugby World Cup 2023 is successful, the departmental Vote from which the funding for the actual bid will come. [41602/17]
    • Rail Network
      533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41629/17]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a sports capital grant application by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41750/17]
    • Transport Policy
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for proposals put to his Department by Galway city and county councils for the provision of a park and ride...
    • Road Safety
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on altering the rules of the road to reflect the advice provided to drivers in the Netherlands (details supplied). [41776/17]
    • Rail Network
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans for Irish Rail to close a crossing (details supplied); if the crossing is part of a general scheme being considered...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to bring forward legislation to make it compulsory to wear a high-visibility top and reflective clothing on unlit roads after...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Protection
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time children in CHO area 7, Dublin south west LHO and the catchment area of Tallaght are waiting to be allocated a social...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location of a burial ground for an institution (details supplied); and if there are records of those that died while resident in that...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      546. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childminders that have registered with Tusla from September 2016 to date in 2017. [41294/17]
    • Youth Services Provision
      547. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of reporting that has been sought by the city of City of Dublin Youth Service Board from a club (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in...
    • Family Resource Centres
      548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding and resources will be increased for the family resource network; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41411/17]
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility
      549. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the levels of entitlement stated in the affordable childcare scheme; the entitlements for persons who do not work regular hours or shift...
    • Family Resource Centres
      550. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to anomalies in the funding of family resource centres by Tusla in which some centres are funded for two...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      551. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla has agreed to the provision of a day to day support worker to assist with the needs of persons (details supplied). [41595/17]
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme
      552. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the cap for parental contribution will be maintained when TEC schemes are abolished and replaced with a new affordable childcare scheme....
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation
      553. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and percentage of child-care providers nationally who have signed up for the affordable childcare scheme; the number and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      555. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the local improvement scheme has officially been reinstated basis; if it will be on a yearly basis; the funding that can be...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      556. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an organisation (details supplied) is not registered as a charitable organisation, if it can accept gifts. [41408/17]
    • Dog Breeding Industry
      557. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to conduct a review of the breed restrictions in the Control of Dogs Act 1998 regulations in view of a group's (details...
    • Departmental Budgets
      558. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budget he has received to operate his Department for 2017; the expected budget for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      559. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff employed by his Department; the number in Dublin and Ballina, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      560. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount his Department has spent since being established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41424/17]
    • Information and Communications Technology
      561. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the information technology system in his Department will be upgraded to prevent the issue which occurred with the release of the...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      563. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the actual spend to date on the Leader programme under the rural development programme 2014 to 2020 in County Cork by animation,...
    • CLÁR Programme
      564. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the funding process for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41654/17]
    • RAPID Programme
      565. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budget allocation for each urban community scheme in operation over the 2010 to 2017 period on an annual basis, in tabular form....
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing child benefit and the domiciliary care allowance by €5 in 2018; and if she will make...
    • Social Insurance
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the PRSI credit to €15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41330/17]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing a Christmas bonus at 100% and 85% respectively to all long term social welfare recipients;...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is unavailable for work for two days a month and those two days one of which is a Saturday are being used to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [41457/17]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a domiciliary carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that are on the wage subsidy scheme but that are no longer in receipt of the disability allowance and that apply...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Data
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount recovered under sections 345 and 346(1) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 for each of the past ten...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to retrospectively apply the homemaker's scheme to 1973 in order to ensure equitable...
    • Pensions Reform
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the introduction of a universal pension scheme; her plans to phase in same over a number of budgets; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to consider applying the homemaker’s scheme respectively in order to ensure equitable access to the State...
    • Carer's Allowance Data
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have been refused carer's allowance in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41613/17]
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the social welfare inspector who retired in Portlaoise some months ago will be replaced in view of the fact that the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in registering an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied); if a supplementary payment can...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41728/17]
    • Public Services Card
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if legislation is required in respect of the identification card that is being rolled out, particularly in relation to the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41737/17]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied). [41742/17]
    • Rural Social Scheme Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of the additional 500 rural social scheme posts announced in budget 2017 by the former Minister for Social...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to cap the amount of hours to eight, ten or 12 hours which BTEA (details supplied) recipients can work without...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) whose social welfare appeal in respect of refusal of an application for disability allowance...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Fire Stations Provision
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when construction is due to commence on the new extension to Drumshanbo fire station, County Leitrim; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the fees payable by persons (details supplied); the rules in place regarding development charges on farm buildings; and if he...
    • Nitrates Usage
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the time period in which farmers are allowed to spread slurry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of completed tenant purchase scheme applications by each local authority since its introduction in 2016; and if he...
    • Emergency Accommodation Data
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing and family hubs in Dublin to date in 2017; the location of each; the number of housing and family hubs...
    • Housing Provision
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of elderly persons' apartments unoccupied in complexes for elderly...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations on the allocation of council houses on medical grounds; the regulations on the prioritisation of persons with...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to introduce affordable housing in order to allow persons on middle incomes the prospect of gaining...
    • Vacant Properties
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether reconstituting derelict public buildings as apartments such as the former Our Lady's Hospital in Ennis...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dispute resolution procedures undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board in each of the past five years, in tabular...
    • Local Authority Housing Applications
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the hardship experienced by non-Irish local authority housing applicants in cases in which...
    • Vacant Properties
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to provide incentives for the conversion of commercial properties into residential accommodation...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the €5 billion set aside for the financing of the construction of social homes that has been spent since...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the regulation of referendum spending in view of the advent of online advertising in which money can be spent...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the final allocation of moneys will be made available to Limerick city and county council in relation to large project...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests within his Department from both Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council seeking approval for...
    • Commercial Rates
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will implement to reform the commercial rates system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41615/17]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to implement to ensure equitable treatment of householders on group water schemes and householders on...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider disregarding an increase for qualified child payments in calculating local authority and housing...
    • Housing Regeneration
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units that have been constructed as part of plans (details supplied) since the original Limerick...
    • Local Authority Funding
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to release funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the refurbishment of a group of maisonettes...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the significant amount of bureaucracy confronting local authorities that wish to construct...
    • Migrant Integration
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has requested local authorities to develop their own migrant integration strategies as envisaged by the national migrant...
    • Local Authority Funding
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the significant inequity that exists in his departmental funding of local authorities (details supplied); and...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that tenants of Part 5 houses are not discriminated against in engaging in utilising the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that have been taken on the provision of an affordable housing scheme for the Poolbeg SDZ as agreed by his...
    • Local Authority Functions
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the authority that polices council by-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41829/17]
    • Planning Issues
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the 2005 rural planning guidelines will be completed; if it will take cognisance of the European Court...

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