Written answers

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

  • Department of An Taoiseach
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Rural Social Scheme
      59. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her policy on the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46339/17]
    • JobPath Data
      63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of additional jobs created by the JobPath programme; the cost of the programme to date; and if she will make a...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      67. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will be amended to provide protection for persons facing...
    • Public Services Card Data
      68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the results of a cost benefit analysis that has been undertaken in respect of the public services card, PSC; the number of...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on an independent review (details supplied) on the amendments to the one-parent family payment since 2012; and if...
    • Public Services Card Provision
      70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out a formal assessment regarding the risks of introducing a public services card; if her...
    • Maternity Leave
      71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine the possibility of extending maternity leave and benefit to mothers of premature babies that were on...
    • Carer's Allowance Data
      73. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which applications for carer's allowance are approved or disallowed in the first instance; the extent to which...
    • Living Wage Introduction
      74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to move to a policy of a living wage to ensure work pays for all those employed in view of the recent report on the...
    • Social Insurance Rates
      75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department received correspondence (details supplied) in respect of the classification of PRSI of Coillte workers; the...
    • Social Insurance Yield
      76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she is taking to tackle bogus self-employment in the interests of persons that are being left without basic...
    • insertheading
      77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis for withholding social welfare payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to such payments fails to...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role of the Pension Authority with regard to the financial and non-financial assumptions employed for the purposes of the...
    • Job Creation
      81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the unemployment blackspots in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46720/17]
    • Telephone Support Allowance
      82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to broaden the criteria for the new telephone support allowance by making it available to those persons in receipt...
    • Pensions Legislation
      83. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to limit the arbitrary powers of pension scheme corporate trustees; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have chosen to receive their fuel allowance payment in a lump sum and weekly, respectively; her...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Census of Population
      87. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to date on composing the next census; and his plans to update and or amend the questionnaire. [46973/17]
    • General Government Debt
      88. To ask the Taoiseach the estimates for the potential change to the general government deficit and debt of the reclassification of approved housing bodies from non-profit to general government...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      89. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times he has met the senior staff member of the strategic communications unit since it was set up. [46347/17]
    • European Council Meetings
      90. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the discussions at the October EU Council on the ongoing situation in Madrid following the referendum in Catalonia; if triggering Article 155 was...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      94. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to France on 23 October 2017; the meetings he attended and the issues that were discussed. [45689/17]
    • Civil Service Management Board
      96. To ask the Taoiseach when the subgroup of the civil service management board will be set up; and its membership finalised. [45691/17]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      98. To ask the Taoiseach the number of tenders his Department has active at the moment. [45694/17]
    • Employment Data
      100. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons classified as part-time underemployed as a percentage of the number employed in each country in the EU 28 based on the latest date available in...
    • Departmental Communications
      101. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of the research survey for the perceptions of government; the timeframe for the completion of the survey. [45851/17]
    • Departmental Equipment
      103. To ask the Taoiseach 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. [45968/17]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      107. To ask the Taoiseach the number of departmental staff in his press office; and the reporting relationship in operation. [46050/17]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      108. To ask the Taoiseach the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional development programmes and courses; the number of...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      109. To ask the Taoiseach the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the costs incurred to date in...
    • Departmental Funding
      110. To ask the Taoiseach the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details supplied)...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      111. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has engaged public relations companies in the past five years; if so, the areas they were working on; and the cost of each contract. [46208/17]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      117. To ask the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he has had with other European prime ministers and presidents, including the EU Council and EU Commission Presidents, since he took office as...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      119. To ask the Taoiseach the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his #Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the value of the contracts; the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      120. To ask the Taoiseach the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his #Department; the annual salary of each adviser; if...
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      125. To ask the Taoiseach if Cabinet Committee A (Economy) has met in October 2017. [46505/17]
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      126. To ask the Taoiseach the areas in which he is of the view savings will be made in his Department to fund the strategic communications unit. [46506/17]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      130. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of photography in his Department since January 2017. [46532/17]
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      131. To ask the Taoiseach the due diligence that took place in his Department before the strategic communications unit was set up; and the number of meetings that were held with the Department of...
    • Departmental Websites
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the audience sectors targeted by each of the sponsored posts (details supplied) which ran via the merrionstreet.ie account. [46723/17]
    • National Security Committee
      136. To ask the Taoiseach when the national security committee last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46958/17]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Research and Development Funding
      137. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding spent on the programme for research in third level institutions in each of the years 2002 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and...
    • Job Vacancies
      139. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contact details of an employer (details supplied) who announced jobs recently in County Clare. [45701/17]
    • Job Retention
      140. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) which was severely damaged by Storm Ophelia recently and saw...
    • Departmental Data
      141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the external company undertaking an audit of her departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      142. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by her Department and agency under the aegis of...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      143. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the meetings of the strategic communications unit she or her departmental officials attended; the date and location of each such...
    • Departmental Websites
      144. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the last time her Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if she or her departmental officials have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      146. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of departmental staff in her press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      147. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      148. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the public relations companies or agencies the services of which her Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017;...
    • Departmental Funding
      149. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Brexit Documents
      150. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in her Department or...
    • Company Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of company director restrictions in each year from 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [46312/17]
    • Crime Data
      157. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of prosecutions the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has brought in each year from 2007 to 2017; and the...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports
      158. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the report from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement into an investigation (details supplied) will be published....
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      159. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contracts her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries;...
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      160. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the Labour Court recommendation that a company (details supplied) pay enhanced redundancy to seven...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      161. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the names of the special advisers employed in her Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in her Department; the...
    • Research and Development Funding
      162. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding the Government contributes to medicines research and development annually; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      163. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits the IDA has made to counties Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Carlow in 2017, in view of the fact...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      164. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of photography in her Department since January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46535/17]
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      165. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of IDA visits to counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and throughout the country in 2015, 2016, and to date in 2017, in...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      166. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to entice foreign direct investment to the south eastern region especially County Wexford; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reviews
      167. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the terms of reference for the review into the Succeed in Ireland initiative. [46900/17]
    • Departmental Reports
      171. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reports that her Department has received in 2017 that have yet to be made public by title in tabular form; and the reason each...
    • IDA Ireland Data
      172. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 10 October 2017, if the figures will be provided for same. [46952/17]
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports
      173. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has received the advice she requested from the Attorney General regarding the publication of a report (details supplied); the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for a special tax break or incentive for persons that rent rooms in their homes to persons that are on the social housing waiting list and in need...
    • Property Tax Yield
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected through local property tax in each local authority in 2016 and to date in 2017 by local authority area or municipal district in each...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46556/17]
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Government cannot initiate a criminal investigation into the tracker mortgage scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46605/17]
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if a couple earning under €36,000 as a pension will not be subject to USC following new guidelines issued in budget 2018; and if this change will come...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination Data
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in County Clare that have been affected by the tracker mortgage scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46698/17]
    • Film Industry Tax Reliefs
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies that have availed of the section 481 tax scheme for the film industry since 2010; and the number of persons employed by those...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Staff
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacancies that remain to be filled in the Central Bank; the length of times these vacancies have been open; the different departments these...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45644/17]
    • Research and Development Data
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance when the inconsistency regarding the treatment of research and development in the State’s balance of payments, that is the way in which it is treated...
    • Economic Data
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected figures for net fiscal space in each of the years 2019 to 2023. [45681/17]
    • Research and Development Supports
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional cost to the Exchequer for a proposal (details supplied) over a full year based on the number of SME size firms availing of research and...
    • Pension Provisions
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for approval from the Revenue Commissioners for a legacy pension for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to be...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage accounts identified by a bank (details supplied) in which the customer has been wrongly denied a tracker rate; the number of mortgage...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of high standard variable rates was raised during his meeting with the banks in October 2017; the progress made by the State owned or other banks...
    • VAT Rate Application
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a 23% VAT rate on certain music and art schools; the reason for this change in VAT rules; the reason certain institutions are affected...
    • Departmental Websites
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if he will make a...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the instructions that have been given by the Central Bank to banks regarding tracker mortgages pre-2006; the parameters for review; if all persons that were...
    • Stamp Duty
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if contracts signed in respect of commercial property transactions on or before 10 October 2017 will be subject to the increased rate of 6% stamp duty as per...
    • Credit Availability
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request a bank (details supplied) to show discretion on a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45947/17]
    • Tax Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of commercial real estate transactions that occurred in the week preceding budget 2018; the way in which this figure compares to the average number...
    • State Aid Investigations
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if other countries have made claims to the moneys awarded to the State as a result of a court ruling (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his departmental officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Websites
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the last time his Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his departmental officials have been consulted regarding...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of departmental staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46043/17]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional development programmes and courses; the...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the costs incurred to...
    • Departmental Funding
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity...
    • VAT Rate Application
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible under EU VAT rules to apply selectively a reduction on the current rate of VAT to certain categories of house purchases, such as those...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all planning and research work under way on the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related State agencies; if...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to difficulties reported by persons in Dundalk accessing local Revenue Commissioners offices since the introduction of the...
    • Tax Collection
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual tax revenue collected, and the tax refunds relating to electronic relevant contracts tax, within the construction sector between the years 2014 and...
    • Tax Yield
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the break in the link between the exit tax and DIRT on savings products could result in a reduced intake between the two taxes overall;...
    • Tax Code
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the impact of the application of section 87B of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, as amended by section 18 of the Finance...
    • Tracker Mortgages
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether legislation should be introduced to stop repossession proceedings on tracker-related mortgages until all affected customers are redressed...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the value of the...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the conditions of the home renovation scheme to make it available to apartment owners, especially those carrying out repair work to remedy...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce relief from local property tax for house and apartment owners dealing with the consequences of defective construction; and if he will...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of court cases being taken against State-owned banks and other banks by persons appealing the compensation or redress they have been offered under...
    • EU Treaties
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if a move has been signalled by the EU Commission to use Article 48 of the Lisbon Treaty to move some taxation matters from unanimity to qualified majority...
    • Mortgage Data
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated or actual existing principal dwelling home mortgages by fixed rate, tracker rate and variable, managed variable or loan to value variable rate;...
    • Tax Code
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance if an interdepartmental committee is still in operation examining the possibility of taxing civil servants' car parking as a benefit in kind; the length of...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to Ministers of State in his Department; the annual salary of each...
    • Fiscal Policy
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the projections or forecasts his Department has made with regard to the impact of winding down of quantitative easing by the ECB; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Licence Applications
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are applications with the Central Bank for a banking licence for retail banking services; if so, the number of applications with the Central Bank;...
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will allocate additional staff to clear the backlog of applications received under the employment and investment incentive, EIIS, scheme in view of the...
    • Excise Duties
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans not to increase the excise fuel duty on the freight industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46577/17]
    • Banking Sector
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the downgrading a service (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46584/17]
    • Tracker Mortgages
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the recourse available to mortgage customers who were not offered the better value tracker mortgages by financial institutions when they took out mortgages;...
    • Emergency Services Personnel
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the hard work and immense effort put in by all the emergency services and crews that worked upwards of 100 hours per week...
    • Interest Rates
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason why interests rates are high here compared to other EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46699/17]
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason why community employment scheme workers are not liable for tax but those working for Tús are; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • VAT Exemptions
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if progress has been made in discussions at a European level to designate defibrillators at zero rate of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Compliance
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for Irish citizens living here that held property abroad (details supplied); if an amnesty is still available to such persons to...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason why persons who previously bought a home in another jurisdiction but not in Ireland are not regarded as first time buyers here for the purposes of...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the medical criteria as laid out in regulation 3 statutory instrument No. 353 of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax...
    • VAT Rate Reductions
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance how and when he will implement the budget decision to put in place a VAT refund scheme for charities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46870/17]
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of resolving the outstanding claims associated with a company (details supplied); the position on the liquidation of the company; the estimated...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if NAMA owns properties in an area (details supplied); if so, the details; if the agency has plans to dispose of these properties in the foreseeable future;...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the eligibility criteria for self-builds under the help to buy scheme; the reason why the market value of the home is used rather than the cost of building...
    • Proposed Legislation
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46955/17]
    • Bank Restructuring
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance what funds have been approved for the restructuring of a bank (details supplied) after the extraordinary general meeting on 3 November 2017; and if he will...
    • Tracker Mortgages
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons whose credit record has been affected by being wrongly denied a tracker mortgage rate or as a result of being on a less favourable tracker rate...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination Data
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the independent appeals panel established to examine tracker mortgage issues; the membership of the appeals panel; the number of cases dealt...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance the range of compensation as a percentage of redress available to persons affected for each of the 15 lenders included in the Central Bank's examination of...
    • Tracker Mortgage Data
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons estimated to have lost their property, private dwelling homes and buy-to-let as a result of being wrongly denied a tracker mortgage rate...
    • Tax Code
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy position in relation to the taxation treatment when a person wishes to pass on a non-farming business to adult children; and if he will make a...
    • Mortgage Applications Approvals
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks are permitted to rely on certain social welfare income in considering an application for a mortgage to purchase a principal dwelling house; and if he...
    • Banking Sector
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the banks in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017 whereby a hire purchase loan could be sold to vulture funds at a...
    • Credit Review Office Remit
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance the full procedure whereby a person that has been declined lending by a bank can get the Credit Review Office to review the decision of the bank; if the bank...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has received complaints or carried out investigations in relation to business loans in which the person is of the view they were wrongly...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the unfair loading of motor insurance premiums on the elderly with some quotes increasing over 50% from the previous year. [47047/17]
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to appoint two persons with a background and career experience in consumer protection to the board of banks that the State has a majority share in;...
    • Budget 2018
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the apportion out cost to the Exchequer of budget 2018 changes to the standard rate threshold and reduction in the USC rate between income tax cases below...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Properties
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is the owner of the site on which the Intreo office in Carrigaline, County Cork, is located; and if not, the owner of...
    • Civil Service Staff Data
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants on contracts post-1995 that have had their pay affected by the introduction of PeoplePoint and insisting...
    • Electric Vehicles
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mileage rate payable for 100% electric vehicles; if this rate is consistent with climate action goals; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Provision
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding measures that are available to help enable disability access for public and community buildings; and if he will make a...
    • Archaeological Sites
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to improve the facilities at a location (details supplied) in terms of extending the carpark; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Staff Training
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the shared model for Civil Service training and development includes suicide prevention training for Civil Service staff; if so, if...
    • Departmental Websites
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of his...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting;...
    • Departmental Websites
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the last time his Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his Department officials have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, on continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department has used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017;...
    • Public Spending Code
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Brexit Issues
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Transfer
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grounds on which a staff transfer as part of existing mobility initiatives within the Civil Service may be refused; the grounds...
    • Statutory Retirement Age
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the issue of changing the compulsory retirement age for public servants in view of the fact that the State...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the detail of the rules that came into effect regarding the change in the number of months a public servant can take by way of sick...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the...
    • Architectural Heritage
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if repair works to Ballymalis Castle, Beaufort, Killarney, County Kerry, include the provision of a viewing platform in view of the fact...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the opening hours of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 7; and his plans to increase the opening hours in order to promote more tourism in...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his Department; the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding his plans to unwind the FEMPI legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46763/17]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which a company (details supplied) has use of a building in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2; the reason for same; and if he...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the pension entitlements of community employment scheme supervisors in County Wexford and the implementation of...
    • Office of Public Works Staff
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if stonemasons are being recruited by the OPW; if so, the criteria for persons who wish to apply; and if there are vacancies for same....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the real per capita public capital expenditure by county; and the expenditure by NUTS 3 region, in tabular form. [47022/17]
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the additional funding arising from the mid-term capital review for infrastructure investment at heritage sites will enable the OPW...
    • Tree Remediation
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to organise the removal of a tree (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47103/17]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will contribute to the funding of a second sexual abuse and violence study, SAVI 2, here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Suicide Prevention
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all front-line staff, including but not exclusive of primary, secondary and third level education staff, receive suicide prevention training;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45673/17]
    • Teacher Training Provision
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if training will be provided to teachers in all school settings in first aid and the use of an epipen; and his plans for future training...
    • Springboard Programme
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for entry requirements to access Springboard+ courses; if there are courses specifically aimed at persons that are underemployed;...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a referral for a person (details supplied) by the Meath community care psychology service to the national education psychological service...
    • School Therapy Services
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for schools to provide art therapy to pupils in an effort to help them deal with bereavement as a result of road traffic...
    • Schools Relocation
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a school (details supplied) that was one of the three schools announced nationally in 2014 as part...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school (details supplied); the progression of this project since its inception; the proposed completion...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish or fund a new educate together school in Leixlip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45821/17]
    • Departmental Websites
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the construction of a permanent school building (details supplied); the annual cost of the school’s prefabs; and if...
    • Schools Establishment
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Swords area of County Dublin as announced in November 2015; if locations have been...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45884/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project for a school (details supplied); if plans for the project are at planning permission stage; the timeframe...
    • DEIS Applications
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) in relation to DEIS; if the matter has been reviewed; and if the decision will be reversed. [45910/17]
    • Teacher Secondment
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the retrospective nature of statutory instrument No. 394 of 2017 (details supplied) and the negative impact...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to open an educate together national school facility (details supplied) in County Cork. [45919/17]
    • School Transport Applications
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a school transport application by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45924/17]
    • Third Level Scholarships
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding or scholarship options available to persons that have been awarded a place to study at a university (details supplied) for one...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the main requirements for the establishment of English language schools; if there is a unit in his Department with responsibility for English...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the detailed proposal on staffing requirements as agreed by the board of Caranua on 26 July 2017 has been submitted to his Department; if so,...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that remains outstanding of the €110 million offered by the religious congregations following the publication of the Ryan...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place for the effective management of Caranua in view of the reported absence of the CEO; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Equipment
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of his...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46041/17]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional development programmes and...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a...
    • Teacher Secondment
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the management committee of a centre (details supplied) in relation to statutory...
    • Brexit Issues
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all planning and research work underway for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related State...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of three-teacher schools that have a special needs unit providing facilities for pre school, junior and senior infant pupils; and if...
    • National Training Fund
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and capital allocation made available for apprenticeship training from the national training fund and the Exchequer in each of the...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if person (details supplied) will have their registration with the Teaching Council completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Apprenticeship Data
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons enrolled in State funded traineeships; the number of traineeships projected to be in operation by employment sector and...
    • School Transport Applications
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a bus ticket for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [46165/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the delivery of a new primary school in Donabate, County Dublin in view of the requirement due to the increase in population;...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the process of site acquisition for a school (details supplied); when the process will be completed; and if he will make a...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of occasions on which SUSI has sought to recover overpayments which were made despite no fault on the part of the claimant; and if he...
    • School Transport Provision
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to update the arrangements between his Department and Bus Éireann to deliver school transport in view of the fact that the...
    • Health Professions Admission Test
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the five lowest in numerical order leaving certificate points and associated health profession admission test, HPAT scores of the persons...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's position on the refusal for a group (detail supplied) to be recognised as a distinct ethos by Bus...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the outstanding works will be completed on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46295/17]
    • School Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address issues with regard to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46305/17]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46330/17]
    • School Transport Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if transport sanctioned for a person (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46331/17]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of extending maintenance grants to all students at the current 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% rate and at the current special rate. [46334/17]
    • Third Level Funding
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a deadline will be set for the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Skills to make a recommendation on the future funding of higher...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of restoring SUSI grant rates and thresholds to pre-2011 levels; and the number of estimated additional students that would be eligible...
    • School Transport Administration
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take following the finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General that the accounting arrangements between his Department and...
    • Departmental Contracts
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the value of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new build for a school (details supplied); the timeframe for the build; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46399/17]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reverse pupil teacher thresholds to 2011/2012 levels; his further plans to ensure a campaign (details supplied) is commenced in...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed new national school in Kanturk, County Cork; the timeframe for the commencement and completion of this...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools with autism units in Dún Laoghaire; if these autism units are located in boys' schools, girls' schools or co-educational...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior Ministers in his Department; the annual...
    • Schools Facilities
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools by county in listed buildings that have no dedicated physical education hall and are maintained by the OPW; and if he will...
    • Professional Qualifications
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational requirements for registration and accreditation with an organisation (details supplied); and the body that regulates the...
    • State Examinations Commission
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will instruct the State Examinations Commission to issue its decisions earlier than in previous years on individual reasonable...
    • School Funding
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase funding to voluntary secondary schools to address the anomaly whereby the moneys received by these schools are comparable...
    • Autism Support Services
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to provide an ASD unit in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46551/17]
    • School Admissions
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available for a person (details supplied) going forward in education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46552/17]
    • Autism Support Services
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the NCSE to review again the need for an ASD unit at a school (details supplied). [46555/17]
    • Apprenticeship Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 25 October 2017, the new annual cost to the State of one apprentice. [46561/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be provided with a purpose-built school on Dominick Street; the length of time since his Department first...
    • School Funding
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) which is a six-teacher school and currently has no staff room or physical education or...
    • School Accommodation
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the highly unsuitable prefab accommodation for special educational needs provision in a school (details supplied) and ensure...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [46618/17]
    • Teacher Data
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on secondment to an association (details supplied) for the year 2017-18. [46630/17]
    • Teacher Secondment
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if seconded teachers to patron management bodies that have a religious ethos are restricted in their job descriptions to duties that do not...
    • School Accommodation
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application for an extension for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has twice been refused for a resource room and...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 25 October 2017, the number of children that applied to attend a special class in a mainstream...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure the current student teacher ratio at a school (details supplied) is maintained due to the high proportion of students at the...
    • Supervision and Substitution Scheme Expenditure
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount saved by his Department in the past five years by not spending on substitute teachers in primary education; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the problems in a school (details supplied) in respect of the allocation of resources applied to this school;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46688/17]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason, despite being offered second chance status and limited student contribution funding by SUSI, that a university is not in a position...
    • Student Support Schemes
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention at third level educational institutions; and if he will make a...
    • Institutes of Technology
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the delay affecting IT Carlow’s acquisition of a site in County Wexford for development of a new purpose built...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the significant statutory drop in income for those transferring from Youthreach to VTOS teaching posts with no...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals upheld in respect of special needs assistants in each of the past five years, by county, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • School Transport Applications
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the request by persons (details supplied) for school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46776/17]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI grants will be paid to all full-time students attending private colleges; if SUSI grants will be paid to the students and not to the...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons engaging with Caranua will be required to present a public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46840/17]
    • School Transport
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the school bus route servicing a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46844/17]
    • School Transport Review
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and Bus Éireann are accepting submissions for the detailed route analysis identifying the locations in which there will be...
    • School Transport Provision
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if operators of the school transport scheme are obligated to accept and admit ticket holders for carriage on later scheduled services but on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can be reassessed for a capital investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46888/17]
    • Teacher Secondment
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied). [46895/17]
    • Special Educational Needs
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available to students with learning disabilities who have special educational needs while attending third level...
    • Schools Designation
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) that has applied to become a community school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46947/17]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of site access negotiations for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46948/17]
    • School Transport Applications
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 did not qualify for a school bus in view of the fact that it was moved to a new site at a...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide additional teaching support on a temporary basis to help manage the high number of children with special educational...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow schools to appeal a decision to refuse an application for extra teaching resources on the grounds of the number of students...
    • Schools Healthy Living Strategies
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are departmental guidelines for the provision of snack and drink vending machines in primary and secondary schools; and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sanctioned the invitation of tenders for a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47049/17]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to locate a school (details supplied) on the site currently in the process of the completion of the conveyancing process for another...
    • Education Centre Network
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocations provided to a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form;...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      437. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the special envoy appointment to the USA; the meetings they have attended; the work that is ongoing; and the supports...
    • EU Issues
      438. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on discussions with his French counterpart on democratic conventions across the EU on the future of the EU. [46206/17]
    • Departmental Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department allocates money to the IIEA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45698/17]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      442. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his officials undergo continuous professional development; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45700/17]
    • Middle East Issues
      443. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will repot on Ireland's efforts as one of eight EU countries to receive compensation from Israel for the destruction and loss of EU...
    • eGovernment Services
      444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been consulted regarding the prospect of a single website being established for the Government; if such a move would entail the...
    • Passport Applications
      445. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the eligibility for an Irish passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45819/17]
    • Departmental Websites
      446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if he...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      447. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the adequacy of the international response to the situation regarding the Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar (details...
    • State Properties
      448. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of his...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      449. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      452. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of departmental staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      453. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      454. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      455. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      456. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related...
    • Middle East Issues
      457. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the crackdown on NGOs in Israel; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Israeli MPs have considered initiatives to...
    • Consular Services Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are schemes within his Department to financially support Irish families who are fighting legal cases in foreign countries due to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      459. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contracts his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his Department, have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      460. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the murder of a person (details supplied) in a rural area of Tumaco, Colombia; if his attention has been...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      462. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior Ministers in his Department; the...
    • EU Treaties
      463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46515/17]
    • Catalan Referendum
      464. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the declaration of independence by Catalonia. [46689/17]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      466. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to re-open the Irish office in Taipei, Taiwan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46816/17]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the railings at the front of the courthouse, Mullingar, County Westmeath will be removed in the context of the continued...
    • Property Registration
      468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter concerning a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46757/17]
    • Valuation Office
      470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Valuations Office has decided on a rateable value for ground mounted solar farms. [47023/17]
    • Sexual Offences Data
      471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will contribute to the funding of a second sexual abuse and violence study here, SAVI 2; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all front-line staff, including but not exclusive, to An Garda Síochána, prison staff, staff working within the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if family citizenship will be granted to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45669/17]
    • Garda Operations
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the success or otherwise of Operation Thor across the four policing districts of the Dublin north central Garda division...
    • Garda Stations
      476. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans he and the Garda Commissioner have to locate a new Garda station in Clonburris in which the SDZ plan is being...
    • Crime Data
      477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of weapons that were stolen from houses and vehicles in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Peace Commissioners Data
      478. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and names of peace commissioners in Fingal, County Dublin, by locality, in tabular form; the number of peace...
    • Garda Deployment
      480. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a Garda armed response unit based in Ennis, County Clare; if not, his plans to locate one there; and if he will...
    • Garda Data
      481. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí based in Ennis, County Clare in each of the years 2013 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form....
    • Gambling Legislation
      483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the progress of the Gambling Control Bill 2013; the timeframe for the progression of the bill; and if he...
    • Garda Stations
      485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons are obligated to report a suspected crime to their nearest Garda station regardless of the opening hours of that...
    • Garda Operations
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for a full review of the covert human intelligence sources, CHIS, system. [45787/17]
    • Garda Expenditure
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which the cost of the fingerprinting service provided by An Garda Síochána is arrived at; if the fee is...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the number of fatal road traffic collisions in each of the years 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017 in which...
    • Garda Data
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the number of road traffic collisions in each of the years 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017 in which there...
    • Stardust Fire
      490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report submitted by a person (details supplied) into evidence compiled by a committee on the Stardust tragedy of 1981...
    • Departmental Websites
      491. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion;...
    • Family Law Cases
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of mediation uptake in family law cases here; the way in which this compares with international practice; and if he...
    • Commercial Rates
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by quarry owners regrading the current review of commercial rates and...
    • Immigration Status
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when his Department will respond to the request from the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland seeking files in respect of the...
    • Criminal Law
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to implement specific penalties for those found to have damaged life-saving equipment such as defibrillators as...
    • Departmental Equipment
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such...
    • Departmental Websites
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the last time his Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his Department officials have...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January...
    • Charities Regulation
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the maximum penalty for engaging in a sex act with a child beyond the current sentence of five years; and...
    • Brexit Issues
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the planned refurbishment of a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Data Protection
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the privacy and data protection implications of a company requiring persons who hold accounts with them to provide...
    • Immigration Policy
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce a system of regulation of immigration consultants here, similar to the UK office of the immigration...
    • Family Reunification Data
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted family reunification under section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996, as amended in 2015, 2016 and 2017;...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to consider the provision of additional services for a town (details supplied) in County Kildare. [46168/17]
    • Wards of Court
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 24 October 2017, the reason families to date were not permitted to seek a summary...
    • Immigration Status
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for a person from Australia who is married to a person who has an Italian and English passport to live and work...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expedite a matter for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46216/17]
    • Courts Staff
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the pay scales for court ushers. [46226/17]
    • Penalty Points System Data
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the drop of 20% in penalty point notices issued to drivers in 2016 compared to 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Prisoner Health
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases of tuberculosis, TB, recorded in the prison system in the past ten years, by year and the prison that...
    • Garda Vetting Applications Data
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been Garda vetted annually since the process of Garda vetting was established. [46324/17]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its...
    • Immigration Status
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be reached in respect of de facto partner immigration permission in the case of a person (details...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Question No. 152 of 17 February 2017, the status of the new Garda youth diversion project service delivery model...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Data
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of investments made in the area of social and affordable housing by investors under the immigration...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to Ministers of State in his...
    • Garda Deployment
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed at each town in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46495/17]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the implementation schedule for the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; when the Act will be fully implemented; and...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and...
    • Garda Deployment
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if supervisory ranks at a station (details supplied) will be filled; the positions vacant at present; when they are likely to...
    • Domestic Violence
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for ratification of the Istanbul Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46662/17]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of consultation that a person (details supplied) had with his Department prior to giving instructions to their legal...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a person's request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46706/17]
    • Foreshore Issues
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if seaweed harvesters who have been cutting seaweed on a set area of State-owned foreshore and-or taking dislodged seaweed cast...
    • Home Repossessions
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of court orders issued in County Louth for repossession of homes as a result of mortgage distress in each of the...
    • Statutory Instruments
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of statutory instruments in respect of global valuations that have been issued; the reference numbers of such...
    • Garda Stations
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the re-opening of Rush Garda station which was announced by the Government a number of months ago; and...
    • Residency Permits
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46782/17]
    • Immigration Status
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46825/17]
    • Judicial Appointments
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judges appointed to the Court of Appeal; his views on whether this is sufficient; the status of the case backlog...
    • Prison Service Data
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff assigned to the prison service that on medical grounds have a long-term exclusion in the case of...
    • Garda Data
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff assigned to An Garda Síochána that on medical grounds have a long-term exclusion in the case of...
    • Public Services Card
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or officials in his Department have had discussions regarding the public services card; if so, the detail of those...
    • Citizenship Applications
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the spouse of a person can apply for Irish citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47046/17]
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 9 May 2017, the number of persons that paid a fixed charge notice for driving...
    • Garda Procedures
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 86 and 87 of 17 May 2017 and 528 of 26 July 2017, the number of those summonses not...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 88 of 24 May 2017, 726 of 20 June 2017 and 529 of 26 July 2017, the number of road...
    • Garda Data
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 751 of 20 June 2017 and 533 of 26 July 2017, the number of gardaí that completed...
    • Garda Reports
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 713 of 20 June 2017 and 548 of 26 July 2017, if the report is now available; when the...
    • Immigration Status
      572. 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 1999, as amended,...
    • Garda Training
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make contact with the management of An Garda Síochána to ensure that all future recruits are trained to...
    • Garda Operations
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provisions from Operation Thor will be made available in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal over the winter months in 2017...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Local Development Projects
      575. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to utilise the site and property of the old Dingle hospital to develop an innovation hub for Dingle and west County...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Funding
      576. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funds invested by Údarás na Gaeltachta in projects on Achill Island since 2011, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Departmental Websites
      577. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the external company undertaking an audit of her departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion....
    • Wildlife Conservation
      578. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the monitoring that has been carried out in respect of the Irish hare in the past ten years since the survey of 2006-07; the...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      579. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings of the strategic communications unit she or her departmental officials have attended; the date and location of each...
    • Departmental Websites
      580. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the last time her Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if she or her departmental officials have...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      582. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of departmental staff in her press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      583. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non civil servants to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      584. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public relations companies or agencies the services of which her Department used for information campaigns since 1 January...
    • Departmental Funding
      585. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the...
    • Brexit Issues
      586. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all planning and research work under way on the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in her Department or...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta
      587. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a chuirfear na sonraí chugam a gealladh i bhfreagra ar cheist pharlaiminteach (sonraí tugtha) a cuireadh...
    • Pension Provisions
      588. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the pension entitlements for employees of the former Bord Na Leabhar Gaeilge (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      589. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí sonraí a sholáthar maidir leis an bpleanáil do thonnchosc i Machaire Rabhartaigh i...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a request regarding a land designation (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commemorative Events
      591. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the various locations and the years in which the national Famine commemoration has been held in since its inception; and if she...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      592. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the contracts her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department have with a company (details supplied) or its...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      593. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the communications and meetings she and her Department have had in 2017 with the owners of a site (details supplied); and if she...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of the special advisers employed in her Department; the names of special advisers to Ministers of State in her...
    • Visa Applications
      595. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing difficulties in the animation industry with the recruitment and visa authorisation...
    • Film Industry
      596. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to support education and upskilling to facilitate persons entering the animation sector; and if she will...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      597. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide copies of each of the applications made to her Department seeking assistance and or wildlife licences in cases...
    • Wildlife Data
      599. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the statistics in each of the years 2000 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017 on gull numbers by urban and rural areas. [46613/17]
    • Departmental Reviews
      600. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 257, 258 and 264 of 17 October 2017, the population database that will be used in the...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      601. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to a report (details supplied), if she will provide a copy of the full application case made by a group to her Department...
    • Film Industry
      605. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the requirements regarding trainee recruitment under section 481 are enforced; the way in which the number of...
    • Departmental Reports
      606. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when annual derogation reports for the years post-2012 as required under article 9(3) of the birds directive will be submitted to...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      609. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the general system of protection in place here for breeding birds as is required under article 5 of the birds directive. [46786/17]
    • Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga
      610. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the qualifying criteria for the allocation of a language assistant as part of the cúntóir teanga scheme; and if she will...
    • Film Industry
      612. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 149 and 150 of 5 July 2017 and 245 and 246 of 26 September 2017, if the report is now to...
  • Department of Health
    • Legislative Measures
      613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will bring forward legislation to make it mandatory to provide a defibrillator in each public building; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Water Fluoridation
      614. To ask the Minister for Health further to a study published in October 2017 in a journal (details supplied), his plans to review the fluoridation of drinking water policy; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [46457/17]
    • Health Services Reports
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department took in relation to the findings of a report (details supplied); and if none, the action he plans to take. [46636/17]
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      618. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to examine the pay inequality that arises when public sector employees receive pay increases while employees of section 39 organisations such as an...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if his department will contribute to the funding of a second sexual abuse and violence study here, SAVI 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45634/17]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult the head of pharmacy at the HSE to provide Kuvan in view of the fact that Kuvan received EU regulatory approval in 2009 for use and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45641/17]
    • Vaccination Programme
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will investigate claims that the symptoms of some 650 persons who have received the HPV vaccine here fit in with a recently described...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made on the provision of an additional 20 beds for Kenmare hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45645/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      624. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is on pain medication for scoliosis and who was categorised by a consultant orthopaedic surgeon as urgent in February 2016...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for a person being transferred into the nursing home or fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45650/17]
    • Suicide Prevention
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if all front-line staff working the public health system and related voluntary agencies receive suicide prevention training such as the HSE's SafeTALK suicide...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      627. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for intensive physiotherapy at the Sacred Heart hospital, Carlow, in view of the fact that this was approved...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the details by project and location of the person or body his Department's 2017 capital budget of €454 million has been spent on or allocated towards;...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the amount provided for capital building works at Beaumont hospital in 2018; the specific amount allocated for a new emergency department; and if he will make...
    • Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the payments made by his Department and-or the surgical symphysiotomy ex gratia payment scheme on or after 22 November 2016 out of the €400,000 that was...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the details of efforts being made to minimise, in so far as possible, the number of "did not attends" in respect of scheduled outpatient hospital appointments...
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions his Department or HSE officials have met the Irish Medical Organisation as part of the talks on a new general practitioners' contract...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the consultancy contracts his Department and the HSE have entered into since 1 January 2016; and the details of reports arising from such consultancy contracts...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Rowlagh primary care centre, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; the status of project discussions with a college (details supplied) for a shared campus;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if a hip replacement procedure for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45711/17]
    • Court Orders
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, further to an order to require discovery in November 2016 by the High Court, his Department has not complied with this order as of 9 October 2017;...
    • Health Services Provision
      639. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 230 of 12 October 2016 and 372 of 17 October 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons suffering...
    • Suicide Prevention
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the level of suicide and mental health problems in the Traveller community in view of recent research (details supplied)...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      642. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recent report (details supplied) that persons under 20 years of age at Beaumont Hospital waited less than ten hours for admission while the wait...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      643. 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. [45741/17]
    • Freedom of Information
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request that Beaumont Hospital publishes a freedom of information disclosure log as per the Freedom of Information Act 2014 on its website; if he...
    • HSE Properties
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for the site and building of the old Dingle hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45752/17]
    • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
      646. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 17 January 2017, his views on the substantial increases in each of the years since 2007 in the number of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45755/17]
    • HSE Reports
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if the tendering document that resulted in a company (details supplied) being awarded a Health Service Executive contract to supply behaviour based cultural...
    • Primary Care Centres
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are provided in the primary care centre, Carnew, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45758/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45761/17]
    • Hospital Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that employ whole body neonatal cooling on site as treatment for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy; and if there are plans to extend...
    • Health Services Funding
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an increase in funding for drugs and alcohol task forces in budget 2018; and if so, the amount it will be increased by. [45781/17]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons engaging in mental health services that have complaints about service providers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      656. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation regarding surrogacy allowing persons to be recognised as a child’s legal parents; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency funds will be made available from the budget 2018 investment of over €640 million in health funding to be made available for the provision...
    • Vaccination Programme
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact the flu strain H3N2 component of the 2017 vaccine programme has been shown to have been less effective in...
    • Hospital Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for south Tipperary general hospital, Clonmel; his views on the impending hospital group transfer which may take place; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) can be referred for treatment to a specialist of neurology in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the funding source of the €2 million estimated cost for the additional fire safety measures for the national children's hospital (details supplied); and...
    • National Lottery Funding Data
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the drop in funding from the Health Service Executive national lottery grant scheme to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Websites
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if he will make a statement...
    • Respite Care Services Data
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of respite care for families in County Donegal with children that have life limiting conditions and high complex needs; and if he...
    • Disease Management
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45881/17]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a home care package for a person (details supplied); the details of this home care package; the reason the person's physiotherapy has...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation governing assisted human reproduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45896/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) [45905/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for the care of a person (details supplied) will be made available; the options of care being considered; and the timeframe for a final long...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the action taken to implement recommendations 30 to 39 of the national rare disease plan on access to medicines and technologies, in tabular form [45915/17]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      674. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question number 1031 of 2 May 2017, if he will provide a historical list of the products added to and removed from the long term...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the orphan drugs considered for reimbursement by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by the...
    • Health Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the National Review for Cardiac Services in Ireland; when this review will commence; if he has identified a...
    • Rare Diseases
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work of the technical review committee for orphan drugs; the date of the committee's establishment; the membership of same; the...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-establish the entitlement to free testing strips under the long term illness scheme for persons diagnosed with gestational diabetes during...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hip replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45938/17]
    • Medical Card Applications Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) [45942/17]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if a person can access the NTPF for an operation they have been waiting on for 18 months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Care Infrastructure Provision
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of purchase orders processed by purchase officers in County Mayo since January 2017 in logistics and inventory management in respect of health...
    • Health Services Provision
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if a case review will be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45956/17]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take regarding the unprecedented High Court appeal brought by a company (details supplied) against the HSE decision not to reimburse for...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in scheduling a date for a person (details supplied) to have a surgical procedure that was recommended by a consultant over two years...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health 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...
    • Medical Card Applications
      689. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question number 392 of 17 October 2017, if an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of departmental staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46045/17]
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the public relations companies or agencies whose services his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the costs incurred to date in...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations regarding a charity (details...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; the category of procedures; the...
    • Brexit Issues
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all planning and research work under way on the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related State agencies; if this...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to reply to Parliamentary Question No. 962 of 11 September 2017. [46133/17]
    • Mental Health Policy
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he and his officials are ensuring that the recommendation contained in the Mental Health Commission report, A Human Cost, relating to how...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with a consultant. [46158/17]
    • HSE Correspondence
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the reason correspondence sent to the HSE regarding matters relating to human resources (details supplied) has yet to be responded to or acknowledged; and if...
    • Disability Services Provision
      704. To ask the Minister for Health when day services for a person (details supplied) with disabilities will be transferred from a previous provider based in Dublin 9, in which this person used...
    • Dental Services Provision
      705. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their primary school dental appointment; his plans to review the matter; if this request will be...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      706. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [46183/17]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if a place in a specific facility can be expedited for a person (details supplied). [46189/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46191/17]
    • Pension Provisions
      709. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a lump sum payment query by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46193/17]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if the application for the second full-time and fully supported endocrinologist team at Letterkenny University Hospital has been approved by CAAC; and if these...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care unity beds in the health service in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Reports
      712. To ask the Minister for Health when the bed capacity review will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46221/17]
    • Dental Services Provision
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the status of dental services for primary school children in counties Offaly and Laois following a Topical Issue raised by this Deputy on the matter on 6 July...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment at University Hospital Kerry for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46227/17]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if the application for the second full-time and fully supported endocrinologist team has been approved by CAAC for Letterkenny University Hospital; if these...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the changes which were introduced in budget 2018 with respect to the fair deal scheme and the future treatment and possible discount on chargeable assets for...
    • Vaccination Programme
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the necessary treatment of HPV consisting of three separate gardasil injections for a person (details supplied) is not covered under their medical...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      718. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a primary health care centre in a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46298/17]
    • School Meals Programme
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to the school meals scheme (details supplied) whereby water will no longer qualify as a food item and an alternative food item such as...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) reported to the HSE by the Irish Prison Service in the past 10 years by year and the prison which reported cases' the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health when an occupational therapist be appointed to replace the person that recently left CAMHS in Waterford; when the therapist will be appointed; if the position...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the way the European Medicines Agency 2014 recommendation that sodium valproate should not be prescribed...
    • Health Services Provision
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the care pathways in place for children possibly impacted by sodium valproate; the process for getting a diagnosis; if his attention has been drawn to reports...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the extra allocation of funding approved in the estimates recently for the national ambulance service in 2018; the improvements that will arise in the service...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the value of the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      729. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this procedure; if the procedure can be...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Data
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of the long-term illness scheme card. [46418/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      734. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this procedure; if the person can undergo...
    • Hospitals Policy
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to roll out the winter initiative in County Wicklow; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      736. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46432/17]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 16 years of age waiting to see a paediatric rheumatologist in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the average...
    • Hospitals Funding
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if a third paediatric consultant rheumatologist and a multi disciplinary team at Our Ladies children's hospital, Crumlin will be funded in view of the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the special advisers employed in his department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his Department; the annual salary of each...
    • Health Research Board Funding
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding the Government contributes to medicines research and development annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46479/17]
    • Professional Ethics
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46482/17]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HSE and other agencies under the remit of his Department for the recruitment of staff in the area of health promotion; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to provide a comprehensive status report on plans for refurbishment, renovation and new building works at a...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the savings per treatment area which have been derived from an agreement (details supplied) to date and in respect of the 30% automatic reduction pertaining to...
    • Medicinal Products
      745. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to remove biosimilars from the non-interchangeable list of medicines...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the accommodation options available to adults with an intellectual disability in County Cavan and its wider hinterland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for 2016 for children's mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46499/17]
    • Hospitals Funding
      749. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by the HSE regarding a funding request by a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46527/17]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      750. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-stay bed for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be expedited. [46529/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46530/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46531/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for those with epidermolysis bullosa, EB; the efforts being made to highlight the need for additional permanent EB outreach nurses; and...
    • Occupational Therapy Staff
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional number of occupational therapists required to deal with a projected increase in the demand for public occupational therapy visits of...
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines that will be discontinued from the medical card scheme in the coming months; the reason Lidocaine patches are being removed from cover under the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [46565/17]
    • Transport Support Scheme
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the introduction of the new transport support scheme to replace the mobility allowance; the timeframe for the provision of same; and if...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements he has made for replacement mental health services to replace a facility (details supplied) for persons with mental health issues in Dublin;...
    • Health Services Provision
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the future status of a health centre (details supplied); the services currently provided by the health centre; the population which is served by the centre;...
    • Health Strategies
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the new information technology strategy for the health system as a whole published in 2014 by eHealth Ireland; the progress made on its...
    • HSE Expenditure
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) concerning expenditure by the HSE on transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46591/17]
    • Primary Care Centres
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46593/17]
    • General Practitioner Services
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the position with regard to recruiting a general practitioner to replace the general practitioner that is retiring in Waterville, County Kerry. [46596/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      765. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the refusal of the HSE to cover the cost of the administration of a drug (details supplied) in their homes to a cohort of persons; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Life Saving Equipment Bill 2017 which provides specific penalties for those found to have damaged life saving equipment such as...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      767. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide more support for persons living with Parkinson's disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46622/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) keeps having their follow-up appointments cancelled. [46625/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive treatment for cataracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46626/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46627/17]
    • Medical Conditions
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if steps will be taken to ascertain the number of persons affected by foetal anticonvulsant syndrome here; the clinical pathways for diagnosis and treatment...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to expedite orthodontic treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if hip replacement surgery can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46640/17]
    • Medical Consent
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the legal position in regard to unmarried cohabiting couples with respect to next of kin rights for consent to medical treatment; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is only one HSE appointed optician in County Kerry; the number of persons on the waiting list from four years of age onwards; the average...
    • Hospital Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 26 September 2017, the plan in place to deal with the closure of two operating theatres at Merlin Park hospital,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient and outpatient procedures, respectively, which are expected to be carried out in 2018 across the various hospital groupings; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      779. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made in relation to the reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46666/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      780. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for hip revision surgery for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46675/17]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if there are grants to help persons with the cost of mobility scooters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46682/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46692/17]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have registered for respite care in a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46694/17]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention at third level educational institutions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Psychological Services Waiting Lists
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for psychology services in each of the years 2011 to 2016, by CHO area, in tabular form. [46727/17]
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the length of dental waiting lists for persons with a medical card in each local health area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46731/17]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      790. To ask the Minister for Health whether he has plans to list chronic kidney disease as one of the medical conditions eligible for the long-term illness scheme in view of the fact that persons...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a case (details supplied); if the provision of home tuition funding for early intervention will be provided; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to upgrade Monaghan Hospital and reintroduce its accident and emergency department; his views on the concerns of the public due to the...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      794. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to address the ambulance response times in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the latest response times available; and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      795. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to deal with the lack of services for persons with disabilities over 18 years of age in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE insists on EU state pensioner medical card applications and renewals being subjected to means test...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      798. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure there will be no changes to the definition of temporary absence of a pharmacist in view of the fact that some proposed changes could have dramatic...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      799. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding a urology appointment at University Hospital Waterford for a person (details supplied); if this person qualifies for...
    • Health Services Funding
      800. To ask the Minister for Health if funds for equipment for organisations, such as a particular organisation (details supplied), that are community first-responders and are recognised and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      801. To ask the Minister for Health if surgery for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled. [46779/17]
    • Property Transfers
      803. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 18 May 2017 when a reply will issue. [46787/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment will be covered by the medical card in the case of a person (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46793/17]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      805. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46800/17]
    • Home Care Packages
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health in the home cover by a company (details supplied) is only available in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46817/17]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number, name and location of psychologists, counsellors and-or other mental health care professionals in each primary care centre by county, in tabular...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the date by which the roadmap for improved out-of-hours access to mental health services will be completed. [46822/17]
    • Question Heading for question(s) 819
      819. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health budget expenditure allocation, including the new or additional services that will be provided for in 2018 from the additional €15...
    • Hospital Procedures
      820. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of transvaginal mesh purchased by the HSE since it has been used in hospitals here, by year and hospital, in tabular form; if this data is...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which will be taken to have a person (details supplied) admitted to the cardiac unit of St James's Hospital for a procedure; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding persons with gardasil (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46886/17]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if section 28 (10)(a) of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2013 provides him with the authority to prohibit the sale of so-called combi-boxes which...
    • Primary Care Centres
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the inclusion of a foot bath at a centre (details supplied) the plans for which have been drawn up and submitted; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Provision
      826. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 220 to 225, inclusive, of 24 October 2017, if he will provide updated replies to all questions, in tabular form; and if...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be put in place to provide respite services for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46896/17]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hoax calls that were received by the County Clare ambulance service in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health if transport services can be arranged and funded by the HSE in order to bring persons from rural areas and towns such as Dundalk, Navan, Cavan and Monaghan to...
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      830. To ask the Minister for Health if the incremental credit due to be applied to nurses who graduated between 2011 and 2015 has been paid in full to all eligible nurses; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the cardiology wait times at University Hospital Waterford in each month in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46910/17]
    • Hospitals Data
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cardiac patients seen or treated in the mobile catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital, Waterford since it became operational, by week;...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the slow pace of recruitment for three positions for a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the steps that will be taken to expedite this...
    • European Medicines Agency
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Ireland's bid to host the European Medicines Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46959/17]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed implementation programme office for Sláintecare; the reason for the delay in the recruitment of a person to head up this office; and the...
    • Health Services Reform
      842. To ask the Minister for Health further to his proposals to carry out an impact assessment of the separation of public and private work in public hospitals in line with the Sláintecare...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      843. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will arrange for the recipients of Respreeza to receive their infusions in the same manner as they have always received them following the...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure when a device is reported to the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA; if the HPRA has the power to have a medical device removed from the...
    • Medical Products
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if transvaginal mesh devices underwent testing before coming onto the market here; the details and results respectively of the testing; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Training
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners will received additional training to identify mesh related complications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46981/17]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      853. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include Kabuki syndrome on the list of disabilities which will allow access to the range of services and supports provided by the HSE; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment in university hospital Kerry for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46993/17]
    • General Practitioner Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health if an alternative general practitioner can be arranged in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47011/17]
    • Home Care Packages
      857. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package can be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47012/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if vertebral body tethering for the treatment of scoliosis is available via the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47016/17]
    • Organ Donation
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the specific charges by HSE and voluntary public hospitals for bone marrow donors; if his attention has been further drawn...
    • Community Care Provision
      862. To ask the Minister for Health if the social care national office of the HSE has sanctioned the required €1 million refurbishment of the Maynooth community care unit in County...
    • Hospital Services
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency cardiac patients from the south east who were referred or transferred for treatment to hospitals in counties Dublin and Cork out of...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      865. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 2 June 2016, the estimated timeframe for completion of a new accident and emergency department at Beaumont...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      866. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 2 November 2016, the amount spent on external legal advice in each of the years from 2013 to 2015; the names of...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      867. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 14 February 2017, the number of these that are classified as urgent; the number of persons on the NTPF pre-planned...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47087/17]
    • Hospitals Policy
      869. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 17 October 2017, the sale prices, dates of sale and property descriptions for each of the completed transactions...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if Vimizim was discussed at the drugs committee meeting on 14 September 2017; if so, the contents of the conversation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from Dublin City Council's special committee for fire and ambulance services and emergency management regarding the need for...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Brexit Issues
      872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a pension for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46564/17]
    • Trade Agreements
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the provision that was agreed on the pending trade deal that would allow Mercosur to export 70,000 tonnes of...
    • EU Meetings
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with his European counterparts regarding agricultural issues, specifically Brexit, CAP reform, Mercosur...
    • Harness Racing Industry
      877. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he received a report (details supplied) into the potential of the harness racing industry; when he will publish...
    • Afforestation Programme
      878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to proposals by an organisation (details supplied) in the mid-term review of the forestry programme...
    • GLAS Payments
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in his Department's processing GLAS I payments for persons (details supplied); when payment can be expected;...
    • Transfer of Entitlements
      880. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 11 July 2017, the status of a case ( details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Afforestation Programme
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional cost to the Exchequer based on participation rates on implementing over a full year the proposal (details supplied) in...
    • Farm Sizes
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the minimum amount of land required to be classified as a farm in order and to claim on it; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the issuing of penalty points for fishermen prior to prosecution; his plans to sign a statutory instrument on...
    • Grocery Industry Data
      886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of deaths and injuries of greyhounds for each track held by the IGB here and by the ICC in Northern Ireland. [45742/17]
    • Fish Quotas
      887. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if concerns have been raised regarding the operation of Porcupine Bank nephrops fishing grounds and functional unit 16; and if he...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      888. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a review of the case of a person (details supplied); and the timeframe for its completion. [45810/17]
    • Stocking Densities
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposed requirement to keep animals for seven months instead of six months (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if flexibility will be allowed with regard to the administration of the BDGP scheme to allow a young farmer to change farming...
    • Forestry Sector
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the compensation funds and supports available to a business (details supplied) which was severely damaged by Storm Ophelia recently...
    • Departmental Websites
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what external company is undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion;...
    • Sea Lice Controls
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a closed containment of farm salmon agreement to try to eradicate sea lice between Norway and a...
    • TAMS Administration
      897. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the terms and conditions for the TAMS scheme for agricultural sheds are too onerous with regard to the required...
    • Brexit Data
      898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of all consultants commissioned by his Department since June 2016 to complete reports on Brexit; the cost of the reports;...
    • GLAS Applications
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an application under GLAS 3 submitted by persons (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agencies under the aegis...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his departmental officials have attended; the date and location of each such...
    • Departmental Websites
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department's website was last revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his departmental officials have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of departmental staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, at continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what public relations companies or agencies were used by his Department for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the costs...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that grant aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Agriculture Industry
      909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the smart farming initiative currently in operation (details supplied); the number of participating farmers; the...
    • GLAS Data
      910. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons approved into the green low carbon agri environment scheme to date; the average annual payment per person; and...
    • Brexit Documents
      911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of all planning and research work underway for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or...
    • GLAS Administration
      912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to re-open the GLAS scheme; if so, when this will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46145/17]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their ANC and BPS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46149/17]
    • Livestock Issues
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the speculation on the amount of lambs that are being brought here illegally and allegedly killed...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      921. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a single farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46194/17]
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to the sheep welfare programme; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of discussions he has had with his colleague in the Department of Health regarding changes to be introduced in 2018...
    • EU Issues
      924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of EU level developments regarding reauthorising glyphosate. [46239/17]
    • Transfer of Entitlements Application
      925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a transfer of entitlements application by a person (details supplied) will be fully assessed; the reason the application has not...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) regarding exclusion from the AEOS scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • TAMS Administration
      927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase substantially the expenditure limit for pigs and poultry units in relation to the upgrading or replacement of...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if persons (details supplied) will be allowed into the sheep welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46356/17]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries;...
    • GLAS Payments
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS 2016 payment will issue to a person (details supplied); the nature of information technology difficulties in this case;...
    • Forestry Sector
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the recourse available to a person that is not in a financial position to replant forestry after it was cut; if the time permitted to...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an aquaculture licence application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be processed; if a derogation will be...
    • Severe Weather Events
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the decision not to provide compensation for farmers that lost their potato and grain crops as a result of the flooding in County...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options that will be available to farmers that do not have Internet access for 2018 when applying for area aid in view of the...
    • Legislative Programme
      935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to bring all animal-related legislation under the responsibility of one department rather than three separate departments...
    • Legislative Measures
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce regulations under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to ban wild animal circuses; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his Department;...
    • Departmental Schemes
      938. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce CCTV and security grants for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46597/17]
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans by Coillte to upgrade a park (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46599/17]
    • Fisheries Protection
      940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46604/17]
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the debt recovery section of his Department is permitted to impose interest rate charges on moneys it is seeking to recoup...
    • Grocery Industry Regulation
      942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to intervene and establish strict regulations for greyhound owners with regard to exporting dogs to countries in which they...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 24 October 2017, if he will address the specific query regarding the progress of...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme Payments
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of compensation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46686/17]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep imported from the UK and Northern Ireland in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form;...
    • TAMS Data
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons still waiting on grant payments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46696/17]
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding a forestry payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal cost in respect of a case (details supplied) which concluded recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46718/17]
    • Animal Diseases
      951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if amoebic gill disease, pancreatic disease and cardiomyopathy was present at a farm (details supplied) in County Cork during the...
    • Fishing Industry Data
      952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of notifications of increased levels of mortalities on salmon farms in the past two years under SI 261 of 2008 (details...
    • Marine Institute
      953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has addressed the requirement of operators to comply with SI 261 of 2008. [46832/17]
    • Fisheries Protection
      954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Marine Institute with the assistance of the national risk assessment committee has addressed the presence of amoebic gill...
    • TAMS Administration
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason underpasses are not included for grant aid under TAMS; his plans to include it under the next tranche of TAMS; and if he...
    • Brexit Documents
      956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a study prepared for the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development regarding the potential...
    • TAMS Administration
      958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the TAMS scheme to include the funding of underpasses in cases in which persons have land banks on both sides of...
    • Compensation Schemes
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for a more enhanced tuberculosis compensation plan to reflect current market realities in view of the fact that the...
    • Food Industry Development
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has determined the location the national food innovation hub should be located; the process in identifying a location for the...
    • Fishing Industry
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47089/17]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      962. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the advanced mobile location scheme will be launched; if it will require a further financial contribution by...
    • Waste Management
      963. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the aftercare costs, some in excess of €35 million, facing some local...
    • National Postcode System
      965. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that a company (details supplied) sends data to a company for processing only every quarter; and if he will...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      966. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/17]
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme
      967. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that is paid per kilowatt per hour for solar power; if there is a tariff; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      968. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the planned roll-out of fibre broadband in County Monaghan will stop...
    • Departmental Websites
      969. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      970. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre optic high speed broadband will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Electricity Grid
      971. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost to the State of the upgrades to the electricity grid and transmission infrastructure necessary to...
    • Bord na Móna
      972. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that the business plan of Bord na Móna to diversify does not suggest practices that may...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      973. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under...
    • Departmental Meetings
      974. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      977. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      978. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      979. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1...
    • Departmental Funding
      980. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      981. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      982. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      983. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      984. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a recently published report (details supplied) on the national broadband plan which...
    • Bord na Móna
      988. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has discussed with the newly appointed chairman and secretary of Bord na Móna their plans to invest...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      989. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband services will be available in an area (details supplied). [46764/17]
    • Waste Management
      990. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a pay by weight scheme operated by waste collection firms; the assurances he can provide that...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      991. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure to date on the Wild Atlantic Way in County Mayo in terms of infrastructure and marketing; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      993. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the signature discovery point Achill Skywalk project at Moiteóg Head, Keem Bay, Achill, County Mayo; and if he will...
    • Taxi Data
      995. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department liaises regularly with Dublin city council, taxi drivers and operators and similar private providers of public...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Data
      997. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the statistics for collisions and accidents on the M50 to date in 2017; specifically between junction 11 and junction 13; the delays that...
    • Taxi Licences
      998. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason applicant taxi drivers that fail their theory and or knowledge tests must pay the full fee to repeat the exams; and his plans...
    • Rail Services Staff
      999. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of consultants engaged by Irish Rail to head up and or oversee internal departments at the company; the duration of their...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1001. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding status for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the amount budgeted for the project; the projected final completion...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      1002. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital budget in place to fund further development of the Wild Atlantic Way; if his attention has been drawn to complaints of...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1004. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, once the Fáilte Ireland talking statues scheme is rolled out nationwide Tralee, Listowel and Killarney will be considered for...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1005. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to consult with Bus Éireann regarding the 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Straffan to Dublin services in view of the fact that there...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      1006. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding which may be allocated to the Narrow Water Bridge project under the capital plan the Government has committed to; and if he...
    • Departmental Websites
      1007. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      1008. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART expansion to Hazelhatch and the LUAS to Lucan plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45873/17]
    • Railway Stations
      1009. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the opening of the Kishogue train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45874/17]
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      1010. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address queries raised by persons (details supplied) regarding a club; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45888/17]
    • Public Transport Provision
      1011. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to add additional services in towns (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45914/17]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1012. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a capital sports grant application by a club (details supplied); when an announcement of funds allocated is expected under...
    • Health and Safety
      1013. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of his...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1014. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting;...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1017. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of departmental staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1018. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1019. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1020. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      1021. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all planning and research work under wayfor the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or related...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1022. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the development of public transport infrastructure for the Donabate Portrane peninsula, County Dublin to support...
    • Public Transport
      1023. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific funding will be provided in 2018 to improve facilities at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rail Services Data
      1024. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if ticket sale figures for rail passengers are based solely on sales at the booking office and do not include tickets sold at the...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      1025. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of insuring an electric car. [46231/17]
    • Aer Lingus Sale
      1026. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department has used the moneys the State received from the sale of its stake in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1027. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the substantial cuts imposed on members of the IASS pension scheme in advance of the sale of the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1028. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will announce the 2017 sports capital grant allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46300/17]
    • Bus Services
      1029. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Lucan area of Dublin has been considered by the NTA as it makes final proposals for bus fleet acquisitions for 2018; and if he...
    • Haulage Industry
      1031. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking in respect of the implementation of statutory instrument number 413 of 2017 (details supplied) to amend the...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      1032. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the...
    • Tourism Revenue
      1033. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of retail spend to the economy from tourists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46395/17]
    • Tourism Ireland Funding
      1034. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated by his Department for Tourism Ireland in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      1035. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a club (details supplied) which had its training pitches destroyed in the recent floods in Inishowen;...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      1036. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date and costs of the partial construction of unfinished motorways (details supplied); if the proposed motorway service stations at...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      1037. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a pedestrian bridge from the Ashington estate, Dublin 7 across the Royal Canal towards Broombridge Luas station;...
    • Rail Services
      1038. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options for improving rail services and investing in rail infrastructure outside the greater Dublin area in view of the commitment...
    • Rail Services Data
      1039. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new train sets that are in storage at Inchicore, Dublin 8; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Services Provision
      1040. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that since late September 2017, Irish Rail has had to halve the size of trains travelling to...
    • Transport Policy
      1041. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 14 October 2017, his views on whether this demonstrates a disagreement with the draft...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      1042. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior Ministers in his Department; the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1043. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a club (details supplied) will be awarded sports capital funding in the current round; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1045. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions on which he has visited Brussels since his appointment; the purpose of each visit; and the meetings that...
    • Rail Services Data
      1046. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority has not yet published the results of the heavy rail census that was taken in November 2016;...
    • Transport of Animals
      1047. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if new restrictions have been introduced on the transport of animals; and if so, the reason therefor. [46521/17]
    • Road Projects Status
      1048. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the east west link road; his views on whether there is a need for such a vital piece of infrastructure from east to west;...
    • Road Projects
      1049. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if road funding will be increased for counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46583/17]
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      1050. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request a meeting with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to discuss issues in counties Cavan and Monaghan with this Deputy;...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      1051. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if secure bicycle parking at the Broombridge Luas station will be provided; if there will be 24-hour security bicycle parking at the...
    • Public Transport Data
      1052. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority holds a list of transport companies that have been licensed by it for the transport of persons to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1053. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) and issue a response to same. [46705/17]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1054. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the funding allocation to Wexford County Council for the community involvement scheme for the restoration and...
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      1056. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in having Quebec added to the reciprocal agreement for driving licence exchange; when he envisages it to be included;...
    • Rugby World Cup 2023
      1057. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken in view of the recent findings of the Rugby World Cup 2023 host selection process evaluation report ; and if he...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1058. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a sports capital grant will be awarded to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46792/17]
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1060. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason it can take up to 12 months for the NTA to make a decision on applications for a new route or a route change; and his views...
    • Public Transport Expenditure
      1061. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a multi-annual funding plan to all semi-State providers of public transport. [46848/17]
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1062. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a once-off capital input to improve conditions at Busáras. [46849/17]
    • Dublin Bus Services
      1063. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to roll out the policy of BusConnects nationally in view of the fact that BusConnects is the preferred future policy of Dublin...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1064. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding measures available for sports buildings in order to help enable disability access; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1066. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all sections of the Harbours Act 2015 are commenced; if not, when the remaining sections will be commenced; and if he will make a...
    • National Transport Authority
      1067. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial penalties the National Transport Authority has issued in the past five years to operators in circumstances in which the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1069. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce an incentive scheme for the provision of a greater amount of fully accessible taxi and hackney services; and if...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1070. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new buses purchased in 2016 and 2017 by Bus Éireann; the number of planned bus purchases by Bus Éireann in 2018;...
    • Railway Stations
      1073. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alter DART services (details supplied); and his views on the impact this change will have for wheelchair users, mobility...
    • Bus Services
      1076. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure the conversion of the national fleet of vehicles to electric and renewable fuel sources; and if he will make a...
    • Public Service Obligation Data
      1077. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the increase in the PSO for budget 2018 which will go towards tendered contracts, such as bus services (details...
    • Public Service Vehicles
      1079. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of new small public service vehicle licences provided in each of years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017 for the Dublin...
    • Parking Charges
      1080. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated difference between average annual steady-state cost of national roads, regional and local roads, heavy rail, Luas and...
    • National Car Test
      1083. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to engage with farming representative bodies regarding a proposed national car test to be introduced in 2018; if he has...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Domestic Violence Services Funding
      1084. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the departmental funding to each domestic violence refuge in each of the past five years. [46661/17]
    • School Discipline
      1085. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of post primary students that were placed on a reduced timetable in the 2016/2017 school year; the reason and duration...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      1087. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will produce an annual report on sexual violence statistics for 2016 in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      1088. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department will contribute to the funding of a second sexual abuse and violence study here, SAVI 2; and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1089. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is provision to extend the age band for participation on the early years care and education in exceptional circumstances; her...
    • Domestic Violence Incidence
      1090. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will request Tusla to collect figures for women and children using domestic violence refuges and step down accommodation on a...
    • Suicide Prevention
      1091. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if all frontline staff including but not exclusive to Tusla receive suicide prevention training, if suicide prevention training is...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      1092. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied) to publish statistics on rape and sexual assault for 2016 in view of...
    • Child and Family Agency Investigations
      1093. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 516 of 17 October 2017 and 183 of 27 September 2017, when a formal response will be issued; and if...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1094. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet with a group (details supplied) in view of the struggles many family resource centres are facing across the country and...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      1095. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No.r 505 of 17 October 2017, if the 35 member firms paid €12.6 million by Tusla in fees in 2016...
    • Rape Crisis Network Funding
      1097. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [45843/17]
    • Child Care Services
      1098. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to issues raised by a local authority (details supplied) in relation to child care; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Websites
      1099. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the external company undertaking an audit of her departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion [45854/17]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Data
      1100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of ECCE places available in each county as of September 2017 in tabular form. [45933/17]
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      1102. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 497 and 498 of 17 October 2017, if she has been provided with the reason the centre is operating at...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1103. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet with family resource centres to address concerns (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1104. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by her Department and agency under the aegis of her...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      1105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the meetings of the strategic communications unit she or her Department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting;...
    • Departmental Websites
      1106. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the last time her Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if she or her Department officials have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1108. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Department staff in her press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1109. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1110. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public relations companies or agencies the services of which her Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      1112. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in her Department or related...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      1113. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contracts her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the...
    • After-School Support Services
      1114. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress to date regarding the introduction of a new system to support and expand quality after-school care for school aged children...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1115. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of the special advisers employed in her Department; the names of special advisers to junior Ministers in her Department; the...
    • Child Care Services
      1116. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter regarding an application by a crèche (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1117. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of photography in her Department since January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46536/17]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      1118. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the person responsible for the review of the wrongful accusation of abuse against a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1119. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the supports her Department funds through Pobal; if funding is available for groups to fund resource centres; the way in which groups can...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      1120. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the penalties applied to child care providers found to be in breach of ECCE programme rules, in particular those relating to the return of...
    • Child Care Services Administration
      1121. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on a matter relating to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46595/17]
    • Child and Family Agency
      1122. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the appeals process that is in place within Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46616/17]
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      1123. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that are taken following the receipt of a complaint against Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46617/17]
    • Family Law Cases
      1124. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the rights of fathers who wish to take an active role in their children's upbringing. [46638/17]
    • School Discipline
      1125. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding engagement and progress between State agencies and a school (details supplied); the name of each agency; the number...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the family resource centres funded by her Department; the number of full-time equivalent staff in each centre; and the level of core...
    • Youth Services
      1135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the consideration that has been given to the inclusion of young persons from Gaeltacht areas as a target group in the value-for-money and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Library Services
      1136. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to roll out staffless libraries, by county, in tabular form. [46385/17]
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      1137. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding for Pobal will be increased in line with the increase in minimum wage, in view of the fact that Pobal-funded projects are...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      1138. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to the seniors alert scheme in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of successful...
    • Departmental Websites
      1141. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1142. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if transitional funding for a society (details supplied) will be provided in 2018; the sum that will be provided; and if he will make...
    • Redundancy Payments
      1143. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to provide funds in order to ensure that employees made redundant by a company (details supplied) will receive enhanced...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1144. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the aegis of...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1145. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such...
    • Departmental Websites
      1146. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the last time his Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his Department officials have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1148. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1149. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional development...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1150. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1151. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the revelations...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      1152. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department or...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      1153. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason his Department has excluded community development groups from installing social alarms under the new changes to the senior...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Applications
      1154. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application for funding for improvement works for a road (details supplied) submitted by Galway county council on 6...
    • CLÁR Programme
      1155. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding moneys spent in County Carlow under the CLÁR programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authority Funding
      1156. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of moneys pre paid by his Department for all schemes to local authorities towards the close of 2016 for work to be carried...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      1157. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount approved for projects under the Leader programme 2014-2020 to date; the amount paid out for projects to date, by local...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1158. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries;...
    • Dog Breeding Industry
      1159. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development following the public consultation which closed in February 2017, when the new guidelines associated with the Dog Breeding...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1160. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to Ministers of State in his Department;...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      1161. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be changes in the Leader criteria for funding; and his plans to make applications easier. [46516/17]
    • Leader Programmes
      1162. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the purchase of medical defibrillators qualifies for Leader programme funding by local area groups. [46547/17]
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      1163. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to introduce CCTV and security grants for persons residing in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • CLÁR Programme
      1164. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application for CLÁR funding by a group (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Insurance Payments
      1165. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is self-employed PRSI due on the self-employment income in the case of a single person on a community employment...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      1166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the case of a person of 62 years of age who has recently lost their job and has been invited to participate in...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      1167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the invalidity pension of a person (details supplied) has been stopped in view of the fact that their condition...
    • Employment Rights
      1168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice in the film industry of certain companies hiring unpaid runners; and if she...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45895/17]
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      1170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the support that can be provided to persons who are blind and registered with the National Council for the Blind but are in...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a case (details supplied); the reason the person did not qualify for disability allowance; if she will...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      1173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her enhancement plans (details supplied) for the JobsPlus scheme for the over 50s; the number of years will the subsidy of...
    • Suicide Prevention
      1174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all front-line staff receive suicide prevention training, if suicide prevention training is mandatory for front-line...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      1176. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the arrangement between her Department, JobPath, a company (details supplied) and Turas Nua; the mandate that these...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff by grade in the scope section of her Department; the details of these figures on a yearly basis in each...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      1178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for processing of claims relating to self-employment by scope section from submission of a claim to the issue...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      1179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person, (details supplied) will receive arrears of a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of contributory State pension being paid to persons (details supplied); and the date in each case on which the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility
      1181. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason changes were made to the guidelines on exceptional needs payments whereby the legislation refers to exceptional...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1182. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry for carer's benefit will issue; and if she...
    • Employment Rights
      1183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if concerns have been raised with her office in regard to working conditions at a company (details supplied) contracted for...
    • Public Services Card
      1184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a new rule has been issued which requires persons designated by pensioners to collect pensions from post offices to...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the PRSI on non-PAYE earnings of employed persons has been deemed as a new class K9 rather than class S which would...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      1190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing time for payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45824/17]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received in relation to the artist's social welfare pilot scheme; the number of persons in...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time it takes for a domiciliary carer's allowance application to be processed; the number of applications that...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons receiving jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit by age and gender in tabular form. [45838/17]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that has been done to date by her Department on the proposed total contributions approach for the State pension;...
    • State Pensions
      1196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered the introduction of a universal State pension; if so, the work that has been done on this; and if she...
    • Departmental Websites
      1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the external company undertaking an audit of her departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its...
    • Departmental Communications
      1200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the verification code sent to mobile phones as part of the MyGovID two-factor authentication scheme is SMS based; if she...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      1202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is standard practice for homeless persons units to restrict eligibility to register for their services to homeless...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      1203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the living alone allowance payment will be increased in view of the rising cost of living; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the qualified adult allowance rate in respect of social welfare payments has been increased in recent years; her plans to...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      1205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the meetings of the strategic communications unit she or her departmental officials attended; the date and location of each...
    • Departmental Websites
      1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the last time her Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if she or her Department officials have...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of departmental staff in her press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non-civil servants to continuing professional...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the public relations companies or agencies the services of which her Department used for information campaigns since 1...
    • Departmental Funding
      1211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the...
    • Community Services Programme
      1212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has invited a company (details supplied) to establish a new company and to apply for the community...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      1213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in her...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      1215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when discussions regarding pension contributions for those who took time out of their working lives previous to 1994 to...
    • Social Insurance
      1216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to ensure that all construction companies pay PRSI and social insurance contributions for all...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      1217. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason women who are suffering illness due to and during pregnancy cannot receive illness benefit; if a benefit for...
    • Public Services Card Data
      1218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the country and location that the mobile phone code verification numbers are sent from in the context of the public service...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1219. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department did not follow the established protocol of seeking an adjournment when a social welfare case for...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      1220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is not in receipt of a full State pension. [46167/17]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [46169/17]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Data
      1222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of a State pension (contributory) who qualified for payment since the changes were made to the...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      1223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to change the anomaly whereby a person who was in receipt of fuel allowance prior to participating in a community...
    • Carer's Benefit Payments
      1224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the substantial cuts imposed on members of the IASS pension scheme in advance of the sale...
    • JobPath Data
      1228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid to a company (details supplied) by her Department since the beginning of its contract in summer 2015; and if...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      1230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the contracts her Department or bodies under the aegis of her Department have with a company (details supplied) or its...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      1231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46386/17]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      1232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      1233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) ceased receiving credits on their PRSI record despite having received them for a...
    • Free Travel Scheme Data
      1234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of providing all persons in receipt of the long-term illness scheme card with a free travel pass. [46419/17]
    • Employment Support Services
      1235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the new youth employment support scheme will be aimed at young persons with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      1236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the implementation of the comprehensive employment strategy for persons with disabilities; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of the special advisers employed in her Department; the names of special advisers to Ministers of State in her...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the departmental review on the terms and conditions surrounding seasonal workers accessing social...
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      1241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes will be made regarding the terms and conditions for those in receipt of farm assist in the context of the Social...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of photography in her Department since January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46533/17]
    • State Pensions Payments
      1243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had a deduction in their pension payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      1252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for changes to the social welfare system which would provide greater rights to self-employed persons; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46643/17]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      1255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46654/17]
    • Maternity Benefit
      1256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to implement a review of maternity leave provisions for parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units that...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability benefit application by a person (details supplied); the estimated decision date; and if she will...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is being paid the full pension. [46759/17]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      1260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) for illness benefit will be processed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      1261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if adequate resources are in place to ensure minimum waiting times in respect of decisions on appeal with regard to various...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      1262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by those foster carers in receipt of jobseeker's...
    • Pension Provisions
      1263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a letter sent to her and copied to some members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; if a...
    • Employment Support Services
      1264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis that has been carried out in regard to the impact a company (details supplied) and Turas Nua has had on...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      1266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of all advertisements taken out in print media, online, television and radio highlighting the new PRSI benefits...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      1268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which entitlement to a contributory pension is calculated when a person has a combined Irish and EU record; the...
    • Zero-hour Contracts
      1269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions taken and progress made on each of the 14 recommendations in the University of Limerick study on the prevalence...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      1270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the provision of a pension for supervisors and assistant supervisors working for community employment...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Pension Provisions
      1272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects to make changes to the contributory State pension which will address the negative discrimination being...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      1273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to review the national fuel allowance scheme in respect of persons who are social welfare dependent and reside...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      1274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which State pension contributions will be enhanced in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      1275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the time that persons aged 62 years and over can spend on community employment schemes, in view of the...
    • Fire Service Staff
      1276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the entitlement of retained firefighters to jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Services Programme
      1277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a group (details supplied) receives feedback on its unsuccessful application for community service...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Delays
      1279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the appeals in respect of various decisions in regard to payments made by her Department are dealt with expeditiously; if...
    • Pension Provisions
      1280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she will review the current system used in the calculation to entitlement to contributory old age...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for the contributory old age pension, jobseeker's allowance and benefit,...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Data
      1283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the applications for various social welfare payments which are most commonly refused on application and referred to appeal...
    • Community Welfare Services Provision
      1285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which community welfare services remain readily accessible in all areas throughout County Kildare, with...
    • Unemployment Levels
      1287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she continues to monitor the age profile of persons who have been on the live register long term, with a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      1288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent support by county and local authority area; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      1291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department interprets cohabitation, having particular regard to the number of persons who deny...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • School Services Staff
      1292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a school's (details supplied) request for a traffic warden will be accommodated in view of the fact of the increased...
    • Vehicle Registration
      1293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the registered owner of a motor vehicle who has had a vehicle declared off the road can then have the car seized under...
    • Housing Policy
      1294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the housing launch on 26 October 2017. [46510/17]
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      1295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the €20 million threshold for mandatory cost-benefit analysis on...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include the number of women and children using domestic violence refuges and step-down accommodation in his...
    • Housing Grant Payments
      1297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will conduct a review of the terms and conditions of the housing grant scheme to allow local authorities to use...
    • Local Government Audit Service
      1298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of whole-time equivalents employed within the Local Government Audit Service. [45733/17]
    • Housing Policy
      1299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the working group that was established to review the 2005 rural housing guidelines, following engagement...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      1300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason purchasers of houses post-2013 cannot avail of the pyrite remediation scheme. [45765/17]
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a scheme to facilitate persons on the housing list in Dublin to move outside of Dublin and take vacant properties...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the resources available to support local groups seeking to meet their housing needs through the co-operative housing model;...
    • Housing Policy
      1303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reintroduce the key worker mortgage scheme, which was previously shelved before implementation; and if he will...
    • Planning Issues
      1304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the opinion of An Bord Pleanála (details supplied) that it is not clear on the way in which the data centre...
    • Departmental Websites
      1307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its...
    • Electoral Divisions Report
      1308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the boundary changes at local government level; and if there is an end date. [45902/17]
    • National Emergency Plan Implementation
      1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the attendees at each national emergency committee meeting from 13 to 18 October 2017; the number of meetings held; and if he...
    • Local Authority Functions
      1310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department encourages and facilitates town twinning; the role of local authorities in this regard; the procedures to...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      1311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of the provision of a defibrillator in each public building owned by his Department and agency under the...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      1312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his Department officials attended; the date and location of each such...
    • Departmental Websites
      1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the last time his Department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his Department officials have...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protocol for attendance by staff, both civil servants and political non-civil servants, to continuing professional...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      1317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his Department used for information campaigns since 1...
    • Departmental Funding
      1318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that grant-aided organisations are spending their moneys appropriately in view of the...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      1320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all planning and research work under way for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his Department...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
      1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 26 September 2017, the number of applications received by each local authority...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications
      1322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who applied for the mortgage to rent scheme in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of these...
    • Irish Water Data
      1324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of providing public water to domestic customers of Irish Water; the average cost of providing wastewater...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      1326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the contracts his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department have with a company (details supplied) or its...
    • Housing Policy
      1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend modular housing as a response to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46421/17]
    • Planning Guidelines
      1328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make changes to the planning regulations to allow persons have a greater input into the planning process...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
      1330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the statutory definition of overcrowded housing in legislation; the statutory standards that can be used; the standards that...
    • Housing Inspections
      1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of improvement notices, prohibitions orders and or fire safety notices there have been in each local authority or...
    • Housing Data
      1332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or a body under its aegis has statistics on the estimated number of overcrowded households in Dublin city...
    • National Planning Framework
      1333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 19 October 2017, if the definition of Dublin city and suburbs matches that of...
    • Ministerial Advisers
      1334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior Ministers in his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of photography in his Department since January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46534/17]
    • Postal Voting
      1338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is examining extending the eligibility to vote via postal vote to those persons with severe mental health...
    • Vacant Properties
      1340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish a new national vacant housing reuse strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46600/17]
    • Derelict Sites
      1341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme to deal with the number of derelict buildings on main streets in towns and villages in...
    • Construction Regulations
      1342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of funding currently being provided to aid the remedial work at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      1344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a participant on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, cannot transfer onto the HAP scheme. [46609/17]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he met recently with the credit union movement; the progress that has been made in progressing the proposal of the...
    • Fire Service
      1346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a report by an organisation (details attached) which found that island fire services are...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Data
      1347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who are registered as both a tenant and a landlord of a residential property; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reports
      1350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reports commissioned by his Department or its predecessor from the Housing Agency or other bodies in each of the years...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Administration
      1351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [46826/17]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has sanctioned funding to an association (details supplied) to fund the purchase of houses yet to be built...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      1354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 30 March 2017, the reason an estate (details supplied) is being omitted from the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in the purchase or acquisition of derelict and abandoned homes under compulsory purchase order...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
      1356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 728 and 734 of 10 October 2017, the number of persons who have been forced to pay...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      1358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of long term social housing voids returned to stock by each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and...
    • Planning Issues
      1359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason circular letter PL 10/2017 which was sent to planning authorities and stakeholders seeking guidance on planning...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the social housing PPP programme; the expected cost of this to the Exchequer in terms of availability payments;...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there is a risk that the finances of approved housing bodies could become classified under the general...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units that are targeted long-term lease arrangements of the 47,000 targeted in total...
    • National Planning Framework
      1365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the ESRI baseline model used for the regional population and jobs growth targets in the national...
    • Planning Issues
      1366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date by which he will make a decision to publish the Mulcahy report on certain planning matters in respect of Donegal...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      1369. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when a person (details supplied) will be called to serve in the Defence Forces. [45661/17]
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      1370. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 57 and 59 of 18 October 2017 and in view of the fact that 12 Defence Forces personnel have died by...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      1371. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the age of each naval vessel; when they are due to be retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45798/17]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1372. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external company undertaking an audit of his departmental website; the cost of the audit; the timeframe for its completion; and if he will...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1374. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the meetings of the strategic communications unit he or his department officials attended; the date and location of each such meeting; and if...
    • Departmental Websites
      1375. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the last time his department's website was revamped or remodelled; the cost of same; if he or his department officials have been consulted...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of department staff in his press office; the reporting relationship in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1378. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the protocol for attendance by staff both civil servants and political non civil servants to continuing professional development programmes and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1379. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the public relations companies or agencies the services of which his department used for information campaigns since 1 January 2017; and the...
    • Brexit Issues
      1381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of all planning and research work underway for the impact of the result of Brexit negotiations in his department or related State...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the contracts his department or bodies under the aegis of his department have with a company (details supplied) or its subsidiaries; the value...
    • Defence Forces
      1383. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the recent discovery at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel that gloves provided to personnel to protect them from toxic chemical...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the names of the special advisers employed in his department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers in his department; the annual...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      1385. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to retain Defence Forces personnel in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46496/17]
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      1386. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if 70% of persons that have applied recently to the Defence Forces through its targeted recruitment campaigns did not subsequently present...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      1387. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to parliamentary question number 59 of 13 December 2016, when the report of the working group on lariam will be published in view of...
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      1388. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the necessary funding will be provided to replace the roofing of the equitation stables at McKee barracks; and if he will make a statement...

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