Written answers

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Infrastructure
      46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials have had meetings or discussions with executives from a company (details supplied) regarding the...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address the fact that the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has refused to play a role in the...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the proposal by EirGrid to construct the North-South interconnector; and if he will make a...
    • Climate Change Policy
      49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the Citizens' Assembly's recommendations on climate change; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the national broadband plan and the measures contained to ensure equality in the roll-out of broadband...
    • National Broadband Plan
      52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department first announced plans to introduce the national broadband plan; the dates on which various Ministers...
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding his efforts to improve mobile telephone signals; the progress made to date in terms of the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans with regard to the future charging network following a recent decision by the regulator on the future...
    • RTÉ Staff
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his Department has had discussions with the RTÉ authority or other Government Departments regarding the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he is taking to facilitate the development of solar energy in a well managed and sustainable manner; the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make changes to the national mitigation plan to introduce binding targets in view of research presented by...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scale of offshore wind energy he expects could be developed in the Irish Sea by 2030; and the role his Department...
    • Fisheries Protection
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding has been allocated in budget 2018 for an eel fisheries hardship scheme; and if so, if a proposed scheme has...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the Government's commitment to provide high speed broadband to every house and business in County Donegal;...
    • National Mitigation Plan Implementation
      63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to effect the removal of subsidies on peat extraction in view of the State's emissions reduction...
    • Bord na Móna
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department must approve the proposed purchase of a wood pellet plant in the US state of Georgia by Bord na...
    • National Mitigation Plan
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a discussion in Dáil Éireann on the national mitigation plan will be arranged; and the way in which this...
    • Climate Change Policy
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the scientific consensus on the need to leave 80% of proven reserves of fossil fuel in the ground; the way...
    • Renewable Heat Incentive
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there will be the creation of a renewable heat incentive under proposals in budget 2018; the long-term role of this...
    • Exploration Licences Applications
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on all applications for exploration licences that have been received by his Department; the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost-benefit analysis that has been conducted with regard to the cost to the State of not meeting its emissions...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan to properties in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Prices
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has the power to issue a policy direction to the regulator under the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; and if he...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if under the current waste management framework or otherwise consideration has been given to mandating that the waste...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the arrangements agreed with the waste management companies on the introduction of the pay-by-weight...
    • Post Office Network
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he plans to implement to support the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Efficiency
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his Department continues to primarily fund shallow retrofits for homes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Offshore Exploration
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 8 November 2017, if the environmental impact assessment carried out prior...
    • Energy Efficiency
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the funding of the energy efficiency programmes was spent between residential, commercial and public...
    • Inland Fisheries
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the 2018 fishing season on the river Slaney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48679/17]
    • Bord na Móna
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received reports on the developments of the horticultural sector of Bord na Móna. [49007/17]
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether rural communities and rural houses are being pitted against each other as a result of the way in...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Seanad Reform
      91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's statement of strategy on implementing in full the Manning report on Seanad Éireann; and the status of same. [48744/17]
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      92. To ask the Taoiseach the detail the director and staff in the strategic communications unit sought and were provided with when they consulted with their counterparts in the UK and the...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      95. To ask the Taoiseach the status of an inquiry (details supplied). [48750/17]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      96. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in 2017, by cost per year,...
    • Departmental Contracts
      97. To ask the Taoiseach the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecoms and-or communications masts from his Department; the income received for each of the past five years...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      98. To ask the Taoiseach the gender balance on each of the State boards under his remit, in tabular form. [48887/17]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      99. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Chancellor Merkel since the election in Germany in September 2017. [48888/17]
    • RTÉ Revenue
      102. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office included the debts of RTÉ on the State balance sheet in view of the fact that the majority of income in RTÉ is received from...
    • Central Statistics Office
      103. To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office examined the accounts of each of the commercial semi-State organisations and other semi-State bodies that are in receipt of significant...
    • Departmental Communications
      104. To ask the Taoiseach the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49061/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      105. To ask the Taoiseach the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions. [49131/17]
    • Exports Data
      106. To ask the Taoiseach the number of businesses exporting to Britain; the number of persons employed by these businesses; and the value of this trade in 2015, in tabular form. [48517/17]
    • State Aid
      107. To ask the Taoiseach the number of organisations in the State in receipt of State funding that have expended resources seeking the repeal of the eighth amendment; the amount of funding these...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the former Taoiseach's statement in September 2016, the detail of the 11 areas of responsibility of the Minister of State,...
    • International Treaties
      109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to ratify the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances in the future; if there is a timeframe for doing so; and if she...
    • Retail Sector
      110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 22 November 2016, if she has had updates from or engagement with the groups the former...
    • Brexit Issues
      111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the preparations made in her Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in her Department over the past five years and...
    • Departmental Functions
      113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the social partners or employment policy experts were consulted before the decision was made to transfer labour affairs functions...
    • Brexit Issues
      114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the preparations her Department is making in the event of there being a hard Brexit, in particular following Michel Barnier's comments...
    • Severe Weather Events
      115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the health and safety Acts need to be amended after Storm Ophelia in order that accidents commuting to and from...
    • Job Creation
      116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of a project (details supplied); the number of jobs that will be created as a result; the services that will be provided by...
    • IDA Ireland
      117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will engage with the IDA with regard to a site (details supplied) as a location for the construction of a major data centre;...
    • Work Permits Applications
      118. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a work permit delay (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49034/17]
    • Departmental Communications
      119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the domain names registered to or owned by her Department or through a third party company. [49063/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if she will make a statement...
    • Employment Data
      121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated value of the augmented reality and virtual reality industries here; the estimated levels of employment involved in these...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      122. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has reported yet on the operation of the household waste collection market; her...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Data
      123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the 248 public complaints received by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, in 2016 that resulted...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports
      124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a report (details supplied) will be made public in view of the receipt of advice from the Attorney General on same. [49407/17]
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Expenditure
      125. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason over €2.2 million was surrendered back to the State by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in 2016,...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
      126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of times she has met the Director of Corporate Enforcement since coming to office; if she has confidence in the director in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance if people purchasing a second-hand house can be considered under the help-to-buy scheme; if they must pay property tax in the first year in view of the fact...
    • Carbon Tax Yield
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that has been raised by the carbon tax since its introduction; the number of departmental staff who are tasked with enforcement in this...
    • Energy Prices
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department monitors the economic impact of energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49451/17]
    • Stamp Duty
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is liable to full charge (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48682/17]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 7 November 2017 and without disclosing any information pertaining to any individual institution, if the Central...
    • Tax Treaties
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to commission a report on the way in which the State's tax policies and treaties affect developing countries; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance his views and those of the Central Bank on whether the policy of a bank (details supplied) of charging an extra 1 percentage point interest rate on all...
    • Tax Code
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the date which the tax on sugar sweetened drinks will commence in April 2018. [48732/17]
    • Carbon Tax Implementation
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of studies that his Department has commissioned or conducted into the impacts of carbon taxes. [48754/17]
    • Brexit Issues
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the terms of the UK's...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in 2017, by cost...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce an exemption for old age pensioners for the payment of local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48817/17]
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Data
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the change in mortgage interest relief that reduces the amount of relief on a sliding scale to the year 2021 by 25% per year; his plans to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the income received for each...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the section 110 tax status availed of by qualifying companies operating as non-bank loan originators in the...
    • State Aid Investigations
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications of the European Commission's recent ruling that a company (details supplied) has to pay €250 million to...
    • Money Laundering
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of letters issued in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by banks (details supplied) to political representatives, their families or...
    • Departmental Reports
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance when the report of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of rental accommodation providers, expected to be submitted to him in July...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for a tax clearance certificate by the estate a person (details supplied). [48934/17]
    • Central Bank of Ireland Supervision
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance how the Central Bank regulates the Irish Credit Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48935/17]
    • Credit Register Administration
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the functions carried out by the Irish Credit Bureau which is owned and run by the financial institutions in the State would better serve...
    • Pension Provisions
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if the pension being paid to a person (details supplied) is the correct amount; if the tax deductions are correct; and if an examination of the matter will be...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has raised the issue at EU level of an EU reform fund being established to help countries and regions most exposed to Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Costs
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that have been taken over the past 18 months to reduce the exorbitant cost of insurance on private and commercial vehicles; the further steps...
    • Departmental Communications
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49062/17]
    • Tax Code
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance the annualised interest rate applied on late payment and filing of P30 returns; the equivalent rate of interest applied in the UK and in other EU and OECD...
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49124/17]
    • Paradise Papers.
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deal with those revealed to be involved in the Paradise Papers, particularly with regard to construction companies which continue to trade; and...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax relief for student fees paid outside the EU for one year of study exists in the case of a person who has lived and worked in Ireland in the years...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Administration
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning the help-to-buy scheme. [49267/17]
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons claiming tax relief on third level tuition fees; the cost of the relief for each complete tax year since 2010, in tabular form; and if...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Data
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been received under the help-to-buy scheme to date in 2017; the number of these applications that have been processed;...
    • Tax Code
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in circumstances when the payment of inheritance tax becomes due by a person living here who is benefitting from an inheritance in respect of the...
    • Tax Avoidance
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of his planned anti-avoidance measures to deal with the avoidance of stamp duty on the purchase of commercial property through buying...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if costs (details supplied) are deductible for REITs when computing their annual property income in view of the fact that one of the qualifying criteria...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • eGovernment Services
      168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the unit within his Department that is responsible for implementing the eGovernment strategy 2017 to 2020. [48749/17]
    • Pension Provisions
      169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated number of persons in the single pension scheme for public servants; the number under each Department for the latest...
    • Superannuation Schemes
      170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of both civil and public servants who retired and-or received their relevant Civil Service or public sector pension in...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will fully fund the upgrading project for Ballinasloe Garda station; if so, the amount of funding being committed to this...
    • Brexit Issues
      173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the...
    • Departmental Communications
      177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [48943/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Pension Provisions
      179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in publishing regulations regarding the augmentation of single scheme benefits for public servants in the post...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be available for flood defence measures for south Louth and Drogheda to upgrade coastal flood defence measures; and if...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the former Taoiseach's statement in September 2016, the detail of the 11 areas of responsibility of Minister of State, Deputy John...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49060/17]
    • Island Communities
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reinstate the island allowance for teachers to encourage suitably qualified persons to take such positions on the islands in view of...
    • School Placement
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to parents to secure a school placement in cases in which a child is not offered a place in a school of their choice; and...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a unit for children with autism at a school (details supplied); the reason work on this development has...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to granting administrative status to a person (details supplied) in a special school; if he will request the NCSE...
    • Institutes of Technology
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the working group established to examine the future of the Mayo campus of GMIT. [48733/17]
    • Third Level Fees
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria and number of years residency required for students to access the payment of fees when entering third level...
    • Brexit Issues
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the terms...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to arrange for a technical engineer from his Department to visit a school (details supplied) with a view to allocating the necessary...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the provision of a permanent building for a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Excellence Fund
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no DEIS schools in County Donegal were included as part of the new school excellence fund launched recently; the criteria used to...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in...
    • School Placement
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be enough primary school places specifically for junior infants in Balbriggan, County Dublin, for September 2018; and if he will...
    • Departmental Operations
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the income...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the tender for construction of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48853/17]
    • State Examinations
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to introducing compulsory oral testing for junior certificate students who study a foreign language (details...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the income received by his Department from the renting to companies of space to use and-or take fixings from telecommunications and-or...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if progress has been made to increase the number of second level places for students with special needs in south County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48907/17]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of schools (details supplied); the expenditure to date on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education Schemes
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the education services provided for children in the emergency response and orientation centre in Ballaghadereen; if such services involve...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been briefed by Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, on proposals for its future use of the public services card in its work; and...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the SUSI grant scheme whereby it does not allow for a change of personal circumstances for the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48966/17]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will receive administrative status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49019/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all post primary schools on the capital investment plan 1 January 2016 to 2021 for counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary and...
    • Further Education and Training Colleges
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all alternative further educations facilities in the capital investment plan 1 January 2016 to 2021 in counties Galway, Mayo,...
    • Schools Administration
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the course of action taken if practices of a school board of management contradict his Department directives to all schools and circulars...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the request by the Teaching Council for professional release time from full-time work for the chairperson of the Teaching Council,...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some applicants for the redress scheme governed by Caranua have had children born after the...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if his Department will sanction the necessary funds for an increase in vehicle size...
    • Departmental Communications
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49069/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Property
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school buildings owned by an organisation (details supplied) or other patron bodies that are vacant and no longer in use as schools...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 of school buildings in Dublin city and county handed over under this scheme...
    • Pension Provisions
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person who is officially retired from his Department having completed the necessary 40 years’ service for pension purposes...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the need for repairs to a leaking roof that is letting water seep into the controls of an elevator at a school (details...
    • Defibrillators in Schools Provision
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a defibrillator in each primary, secondary and higher education institution in the country. [49190/17]
    • School Accommodation
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nature and terms of arrangements or agreements with each of the three schools occupying a site (details supplied). [49215/17]
    • Departmental Properties
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the release of green space lands owned by his Department at Killegland in Ashbourne. [49245/17]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be assisted with transport issues by his Department to attend a course; and if he will make a statement on...
    • DEIS Administration
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the further expansion of the DEIS programme in 2018; his further plans to reopen the programme for those schools which did not...
    • Student Data
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students attending courses at third level colleges who qualify for tax relief on tuition fees in each year since 2010; the number...
    • Irish Language
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to set up an Irish language immersion pilot scheme to teach designated subjects though Irish in primary schools as outlined in the 20...
    • Minor Works Scheme
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and the immediate steps he will take to address same. [49373/17]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); if his Department is treating this project with the utmost...
    • Offshore Islands
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the secondary schools on the islands do not have small school status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49383/17]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to introduce powers to revoke passports in circumstances in which a person is charged with paedophilia offences here; and if he...
    • Brexit Issues
      236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the comments on 12 November 2017 by Michel Barnier regarding preparing for a hard Brexit. [48892/17]
    • Syrian Conflict
      238. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to make representations to have the 54 Syrian Shia children (details supplied) who were kidnapped following the suicide bomb...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      240. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to...
    • Departmental Communications
      242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [48944/17]
    • Public Services Card
      243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for incorporating the use of the public services card within his Department; the services that it will be used for; and if he will...
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he is planning to ensure no emergence of regulatory divergence from those rules of the Internal Market and the customs union...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the ongoing conflict in Yemen; the efforts being made at national, EU and international level to find a peaceful...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      248. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the situation of the Rohingya people; the efforts being made at national, EU and international level to protect the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      249. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the current situation in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/17]
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      250. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a case (details supplied) and the level of engagement with the person concerned by the consular services. [49266/17]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Property Registration
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 469 of 7 November 2017, the status of the query in view of the fact it has not been...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislation that may need to be passed, as indicated by An Taoiseach recently, before the UN Convention on the Rights of...
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if officials in his Department were asked for or gave permission to the legal team for the former Garda Commissioner in respect...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the reasons for the delays to...
    • Garda Deployment
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 4 July 2017, his plans to fill the vacant Garda posts in the Edgeworthstown...
    • Brexit Issues
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to have CCTV cameras erected on motorways in an effort to counter the activities of roaming criminal...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five...
    • Data Protection
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if public and semi-State bodies are obliged to comply with the general data protection regulation which will pass into EU law...
    • Departmental Contracts
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department;...
    • Money Laundering
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds on which established bank customers in the State can be deemed subject to section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act...
    • Garda Deployment
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí deployed at each station in a Garda district (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Communications
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [48947/17]
    • Defence of the Dwelling
      273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend the law to allow persons to hold products or items in their own homes which could be used for the purposes...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for Ireland's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the reason for the...
    • Coroners Service
      275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason local authorities pay for coroners in view of the fact the office of the coroner is under the remit of his...
    • Domestic Violence
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being take to provide mandatory training on gender-based and domestic violence for gardaí and other law...
    • Residency Permits
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a residency visa will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to the Donegal Garda division as of 1 January 2017 and 1 November 2017; and if he will make...
    • Proposed Legislation
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to bring forward the passenger name record Bill 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49211/17]
    • Immigration Controls
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 29 June 2016, the steps his Department has taken regarding same; and if he will...
    • Garda Deployment
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to a station (details supplied); his plans to increase the number of gardaí in this...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the meeting of all interested parties to find effective solutions to the problem of young persons with scramblers and quad...
    • Garda Deployment
      285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in central Dublin in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in...
    • Garda Transport Data
      286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles assigned to each Garda station in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular...
    • Garda Station Closures
      288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Fitzgibbon Street Garda station will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49361/17]
    • Garda Deployment
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the new Garda special crime task force has been established as recommended by the Mulvey report recommendations for the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when section 14C of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, as inserted by section 36 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017,...
    • Leave to Remain
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for permission to remain that are held up in his Department awaiting a decision in the Luximon v....
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Funding
      292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a grant application in relation to a project (details supplied); the amount sought; the timeframe for...
    • Departmental Contracts
      293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which her Department arrived at the decision to give a group (details supplied) the sole power to administer the hunter...
    • Hare Coursing Regulation
      294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 8 November 2017, her views on the statement that there is no requirement for coursing...
    • Brexit Issues
      296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the preparations made in her Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in her Department over the past five years...
    • Departmental Contracts
      298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from her Department;...
    • Departmental Communications
      300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the domain names registered to or owned by her Department or through a third party company. [49068/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if she will make a...
    • Commemorative Events
      302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the west of Ireland was not chosen to host the national Famine memorial day 2018 (details supplied); the reason Munster...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      303. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht de bhun ceist pharlaiminteach uimhir 392 an 23 Bealtaine 2017 agus ceist pharlaiminteach uimhir 359 an 20 Meán Fómhair...
    • Creative Ireland Programme
      304. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria used by her for the selection of festivals that were granted State funding under the Creative Ireland budget. [49265/17]
  • Department of Health
    • Island Communities
      305. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the island allowance for nurses to encourage suitably qualified persons to take such positions on the islands in view of the extra cost...
    • Hospital Services
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who requested admission to acute hospital care but returned home due to the fact that the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles,...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      307. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help services for a person (details supplied) will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48699/17]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      308. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for the pain clinic at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      310. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision regarding a review of their medical card application; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      311. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be called for an orthopaedic procedure in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      312. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) to improve and streamline the process for persons with a disability to access certain supports and services; and...
    • Psychological Services
      313. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding child psychology services in south Tipperary; the number of approved psychology posts; the number of posts filled; the number of posts...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      314. To ask the Minister for Health if a former HSE employee in receipt of a public service pension is entitled to return to work for the HSE through an agency without affecting their pension;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      315. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [48725/17]
    • Mental Health Services
      316. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has failed to secure an independent living placement for a person (details supplied) who has been detained in a mental health facility for...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      317. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied) at the Mater hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48727/17]
    • Vaccination Programme
      318. To ask the Minister for Health the details of research undertaken to date by his Department to ensure the safety of the Gardasil vaccine; his plans to engage with the advocacy groups and...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Health the services that can be made available by the HSE to a person (details supplied) in view of the mental health concerns expressed by their general...
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive funding for their home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48737/17]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      321. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on spending in respect of the service reform fund; the amount that has been drawn down from this fund to date; the specific services that...
    • General Practitioner Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Health if it is permissible for general practitioners to charge small fees to persons with medical cards for certain services or weekend visits; if not, the way in...
    • Mental Health Services
      323. To ask the Minister for Health when the 24-7 crisis mental health service will be launched as announced in February 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48757/17]
    • Brexit Issues
      324. To ask the Minister for Health the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the terms of the UK's...
    • Health Insurance Data
      325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age groups (details supplied). [48788/17]
    • Vaccination Programme
      326. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the alleged inclusion of thiomersal in the influenza vaccine being administered by the HSE; if his Department and the HSE are studying...
    • Hospital Procedures
      328. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times primary percutaneous coronary intervention emergency procedures were carried out at University Hospital Waterford outside the normal hours...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      329. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the 96 bed extension to University Hospital Limerick and the transfer of the university maternity hospital to the Dooradoyle campus; and...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      330. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in 2017, by cost...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      331. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce the necessary primary legislation to increase the gross income per week to €1,000 in order for persons over 70 years of age to...
    • Primary Care Centres
      332. To ask the Minister for Health the range of services provided at primary care centres (details supplied) in County Mayo; if physiotherapy services will be provided; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      333. To ask the Minister for Health if kuvan,the only medical treatment available for phenylketonuria, will be made available to persons with this rare genetic disorder; and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      334. To ask the Minister for Health if there are grants available to assist a group (details supplied) in its work. [48829/17]
    • HSE Properties
      335. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to make urgent repairs to a health centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48854/17]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      336. To ask the Minister for Health if all ambulance shifts in the north-east region have been covered for the months of September, October and November 2017; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the amount and percentage of the mental health budget spent on staffing and non-staffing expenditure, respectively, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Health his views on mental health patients who have to receive treatment at locations outside of their community health care organisation some distance from their...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting an initial assessment as part of child and adolescent mental health services for three months, six months, nine months, 12...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      347. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the care provided to a person (details supplied). [48921/17]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      349. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48927/17]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48953/17]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      352. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents waiting for an appointment for child and adolescent mental health services in CHO1 at the end of October 2017; and if he...
    • Outreach Clinics
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of outreach clinics in circumstances in which persons living in regional areas who suffer from juvenile idiopathic...
    • Health Services Provision
      354. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the shortage of health care professionals including registrars, physiotherapists, psychologists and ophthalmologists in paediatric rheumatology...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated funding allocation can be made available to the HSE locally for increased levels of respite care in counties Sligo and Leitrim CHO1 region in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      358. To ask the Minister for Health if an outpatient appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be expedited. [48965/17]
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vulnerable persons who are reliant on HSE funded home care services left without all or partial care hours on 18 October 2017 due to Storm...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      361. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for an operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied). [48988/17]
    • Emergency Departments Data
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of attendances at each accident and emergency department in 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48996/17]
    • HSE Regional Service Plans
      363. To ask the Minister for Health if the chief medical officer or a body in the HSE has recommended the implementation of the Portlaoise action plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      364. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that will be provided in 2018 for the drugs task forces; the details of the allocation of that funding between the different task forces; and if he...
    • Patient Data
      365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons remaining in institutional settings, that is, hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, care homes, nursing homes and so on, longer than their...
    • Departmental Communications
      366. To ask the Minister for Health the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third-party company. [49067/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49126/17]
    • Health Services Provision
      368. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the continued lack of a rehabilitation unit for persons with a neurological disability in the south of the country despite the recommendations...
    • Legislative Process
      369. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contact between his Department and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in respect of the Public Health...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      370. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will fund a surgical procedure carried out in a private setting for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services Funding
      371. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which personalised budgets or individualised funding is administered through the HSE in circumstances in which a person has a disability (details...
    • Health Services Provision
      372. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve dementia services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49159/17]
    • Mental Health Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE has addressed local clinical governance issues within Roscommon’s mental health services; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electronic Health Records
      374. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE plans to develop a patient-based information technology system on a national basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      375. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the national forensic mental health capital project’s second phase will decide on the location of new regional intensive care...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      376. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 13 July 2017, the number of new whole-time equivalent positions the €15 million in funding for mental...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €15 million in new funding for mental health in 2017 that has been expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49164/17]
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 17 October 2017, when it is expected that the draft regulations to designate the professions to establish the...
    • Health Services Provision
      379. To ask the Minister for Health if suitable services will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49180/17]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      380. To ask the Minister for Health if an incident (details supplied) will be investigated; the efforts to ensure this will not occur again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49181/17]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      381. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to facilitate the commencement of sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; the timeframe for full enactment; if his...
    • National Children's Hospital
      382. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to proposals to name the new national children's hospital in honour of Dr. Kathleen Lynn (details supplied); and his views on...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      383. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49209/17]
    • Home Care Packages Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an extra 100 intensive home care packages in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49212/17]
    • Home Help Service Expenditure
      385. To ask the Minister for Health the expected budget increase for home help services nationally for the year 2018; if an increase in this budget will result in more positions available for...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of both in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists in the Dublin south city LHO; and the number of these accessible by...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of both in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent social workers in the Dublin south city LHO; and the number of these accessible by persons in the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners in the Dublin south city LHO who have signed up to the free general practitioner service for the under sixes scheme; and...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children aged under 18 years of age for speech and language assessment in the Dublin south city LHO; and the number of these within the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the number of both in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists in the Cork south Lee LHO; and the number of these accessible by...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      393. To ask the Minister for Health the number of both in-post and vacant whole-time equivalent social workers in the Cork south Lee LHO; and the number of these accessible by persons in the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners the Cork south Lee LHO who have signed up to the free general practitioner service for the under sixes scheme; and the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children under 18 years of age for speech and language assessment in the Cork south Lee LHO; and the number of these within the catchment...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      398. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the flash glucose monitoring system for diabetics in the general medical services scheme through the HSE; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services Provision
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the school leaver's process and respite services for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49260/17]
    • HSE Reports
      400. To ask the Minister for Health given the recent publication in the media (details supplied) of the action plan for Portlaoise hospital report, the reason it has not yet been made public by...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the management of child mental health and child protection emergencies in the Portlaoise hospital catchment area; the level of consultation there...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the recruitment and appointment of a consultant (details supplied) to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      404. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package can be facilitated prior to Christmas 2017 in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services
      405. To ask the Minister for Health if the Dentist Act 1985 will be amended to allow dental hygienists direct access to persons in view of recent changes to the dental treatment benefit scheme...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      406. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to HSE managed and run disability and respite services in each of the community health organisation, CHO, areas in 2016; the...
    • Respite Care Services
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the reason access to respite care in County Monaghan has been refused to persons who availed of this option previously; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Funding
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocation for the gay men's health service, GMHS, for each of the past five years; the regional allocation of the funding for same; and if he...
    • Health Services
      410. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1309 of 20 June 2017, the proposed relocation of the gay men's health service located at the clinic; and his plans to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled. [49307/17]
    • Health Services
      412. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the loco parentis rule that restricts the nature of the HSE home care provided to sick children by agency nurses who are forbidden to allow...
    • Health Services Funding
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an additional funding application under section 39 for a facility (details supplied) which provides a comprehensive service; and if he will make...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      414. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to use the National Treatment Purchase Fund for certain urology procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49312/17]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a primary care centre in Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49314/17]
    • Home Care Packages
      417. To ask the Minister for Health if home care packages as provided for in budget 2018 will be prioritised for persons with dementia, in view of the absence of community supports; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of locums compared with the number of HSE staff by professional medical discipline at each hospital under the aegis of the HSE each month from...
    • Palliative Care for Children
      419. To ask the Minister for Health if, following the recent launch of the palliative care services three year development framework 2017 to 2019 document, he plans to publish a framework...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency funding will be provided to find a permanent care facility for the four adults with profound intellectual and physical disabilities currently...
    • Health Services Funding
      422. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide extra funding under the section 39 grants heading to the community health care organisation, CHO, area 2 in view of the need to fund an...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      423. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1004 to 1006, inclusive, of 26 July 2017 and 94 of 15 November 2017, if he will clarify which of the statements is...
    • Hospitals Discharges
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective discharges in each public and-or voluntary hospital in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of which were...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a common outpatient waiting list as per the consultants contract 2008. [49403/17]
    • Hospital Charges
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue raised from charges for private patients in public beds; the number of procedures in each hospital which has treated private patients in public...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Herd Number Applications
      428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for a herd number by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fodder Crisis
      429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of fodder in western counties including in County Mayo; the steps he is taking to...
    • Herd Number Applications
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a herd number after they lodged the relevant application and documentation;...
    • Brexit Issues
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and...
    • EU Programmes
      433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if recent reports are correct that the 2018 intervention for skimmed milk powder will be via tender at prices below current...
    • GLAS Data
      434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the length of all contracts for GLAS 1, 2 and 3 persons; the year that contracts commenced and will end for GLAS 1, 2 and 3 persons,...
    • Fishing Industry
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to protect Irish fishing interests at EU level; the latest discussions; and if he will report on bilateral...
    • Trade Agreements
      436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if market access for Irish meat and dairy product is contingent on agreement at EU level as opposed to bilaterally with Japan and...
    • Fodder Crisis
      437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation and actual expenditure on the imported fodder transport scheme in 2013; the number of persons who participated...
    • EU Programmes
      439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on plans by the European Commission to limit the amount of skimmed milk powder that it buys in public intervention in 2018;...
    • Farmers Charter
      440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the farmers' charter between his Department and farming organisations has agreed on payment dates for RDP schemes in 2017 and...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal by the agriculture appeals office for a person (detailed supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry
      442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding fishing with micro-nets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48941/17]
    • Trade Agreements
      444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of recent discussions he has had with the EU agriculture and trade Commissioners regarding the need to protect the beef...
    • Departmental Communications
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49066/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49199/17]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 14 November 2017, if the listing of animals for stocking is determined at national level...
    • GLAS Issues
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to re-open the GLAS scheme for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49236/17]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49274/17]
    • Forestry Grants
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an afforestation licence application (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Functions
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 14 November 2017, if his Department will now request the removal of the claim to...
    • Fishing Vessel Licences
      453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in the instance of the proposed penalty points being attached to a vessel owner's licence, they would remain attached to his or...
    • Fish Quotas
      454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the initial draft proposals issued from the European Commission regarding the TACs and quota for fishing for 2018; the...
    • GLAS Payments
      455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment will be made to a person (details supplied) for commonage the person owns under the GLAS scheme; if not, the rule under...
    • Rural Development Programme Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money paid out under the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 under the REPS and AEOS schemes to date; the estimated...
    • GLAS Expenditure
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actual expenditure under GLAS in each year to 2016 and to date in 2017; the estimated expenditure for 2017; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Funding
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that his Department awards to an institute (details supplied). [48681/17]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when persons (details supplied) will receive broadband. [48723/17]
    • Brexit Issues
      460. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      461. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      462. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual fines that Ireland will incur due to missing renewable energy targets by 2020; the way in which he...
    • Prospecting Licences
      463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of proposed prospecting (details supplied) in the Kilbricken-Quin area of County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Communications
      464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [48949/17]
    • Fishing Licences
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to protect and promote small coastal fishing communities, in particular those fishermen who did not avail of...
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will...
    • Sustainable Development Goals
      467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department has in the implementation of the sustainable development goals. [43768/17]
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the calls for higher European renewable energy targets and higher efficiency targets in the new clean...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans, in terms of infrastructure and timescale, for rolling out high speed broadband to Boyle and its rural...
    • Legislative Programme
      472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to bring forward the cyber security Bill 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49213/17]
    • Recycling Data
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the recycling charge paid when purchasing a new vehicle covers car tyres; if not, the items covered in this...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he has examined the feasibility of putting in place a contract to supply those areas currently...
    • Electricity Generation
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which various alternatives for generation of electricity can contribute to a reduction in greenhouse...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which Ireland compares with other EU countries in terms of meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets with...
    • Air Quality
      483. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which air quality has deteriorated arising from data collected at various locations throughout the...
    • Environmental Policy
      484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he plans to reduce the use of plastic and its replacement with a biodegradable product; and if he...
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to develop the communications sector with a view to ready access to state of the art technology, including...
    • Postal Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his vision for the utilisation of postal services, counter services and the postal network generally through the...
    • Electricity Generation
      491. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will express as a percentage of daily electricity requirements the amount of electricity now being generated from...
    • Landfill Sites
      493. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which reliance on landfill waste disposal facilities continues to be monitored with particular reference...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      495. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps that can be taken to speed up the provision of broadband services by way of fibre optics throughout County...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Disabled Drivers Permits
      496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding adding autism as a qualifying factor for the disabled parking pass; and if he...
    • Driver Test Regulations
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person applying for the national theory test through the Road Safety Authority, RSA, is now required to have a public...
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding his Department secured in budget 2018 to promote cycling; and when the target of 10% of commuting by bike as set out in the...
    • Driver Test
      499. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an earlier date for a driving test for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be arranged; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1816 of 20 June 2017, if he has signed an order under the Road Traffic Act; and if he will make a...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate the drainage problem on a national route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48735/17]
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department’s plans regarding the proposed national velodrome and badminton centre at Abbotstown; the status of the project to...
    • National Transport Authority Administration
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the direction he has given to the National Transport Authority regarding liaising with taxi drivers in Dublin in view of the changes to...
    • Brexit Issues
      504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      505. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      506. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when legislation will be in place for the Irish Aviation Authority to become the noise regulator for the State's airports; and if he will...
    • Cycling Policy
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the interaction or meetings his Department has undertaken in both 2016 and to date in 2017 with either the Department of Health or the...
    • Rail Passengers Data
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of rail commuters using the Kildare line at Hazelhatch, Celbridge, Naas and Sallins in 2017 compared to the number of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given consideration to the establishment of a subsidiary company under Irish Rail to operate Rosslare Europort to ensure...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital grant allocations for 2018 for County Kildare will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sources of State funding relevant to capital funding for sports facilities and campuses encompassing multiple sports; and if he will...
    • National Planning Framework
      516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a group (details supplied) campaigning for a greater share of infrastructural capital investment in County Donegal;...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      517. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grants available for a club (details supplied); if supports are available for the development of other clubs; and if he will make a...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons with sleep apnoea who have registered their condition with the national driver licence service as required under...
    • Departmental Communications
      519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49071/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rail Network
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the ownership of the line and land surrounding the proposed western rail corridor is fully within one of the CIÉ holding...
    • Roads Maintenance
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure under the regional roads programme in 2016 and to date in 2017; the expenditure of each project in terms of actual...
    • Driver Test
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of theory test attendees who have been refused access to sit their booked theory test due to the detail of their middle name...
    • Road Projects
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, to reassess the need for a link (details supplied) to progress in view of...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the full details of the allocations under the 2017 round of the sports capital programme will be announced; and if he will make a...
    • Road Network
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for improving Fintra bridge on the R263 in County Donegal; the timeframe for the delivery of the project; the estimated cost of...
    • Road Projects
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for improving the N56 between Inver bridge and Killybegs in County Donegal; the interim measures for improving the surface of...
    • Dublin Bus Fleet
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA and advise the number of additional buses that will be made available to Dublin Bus to meet increasing...
    • Bus Éireann
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the insolvency of a semi-State company such as Bus Éireann might occur; if such declaration is a function of his,...
    • Rail Services Provision
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of proposed augmentation and investment in rail services over the next five years with particular reference to the extent that...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Children in Care
      532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time children in Dublin south city LHO and the catchment areas of Rathmines, Terenure and Rathfarnham are waiting to be...
    • Brexit Issues
      534. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations made in her Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      535. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in her Department over the past five years and to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      536. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from her Department; the income...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      538. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report of the expert technical group dealing with the site of the former mother and baby home at Tuam, County Galway, will be...
    • Adoption Legislation
      539. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 will progress; and when it is likely to reach Dáil Éireann; and if she will...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget allocated to the access and inclusion model of early education and child care provision under each of the levels four to seven...
    • Psychological Assessments
      541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which a court order relating to psychological assessments will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Communications
      542. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the domain names registered to or owned by her department or through a third party company. [49065/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Children in Care
      544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a premises owned and operated by Tusla or planned by Tusla in the Seanacloc Tower area of County Cork;...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      545. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role her Department will play in the implementation of the access and inclusion model of supports for children with disabilities; the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Brexit Issues
      546. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      547. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      548. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is will request Pobal to run at least one of the upcoming information events regarding the operation of the new seniors alerts...
    • Departmental Contracts
      549. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the...
    • Communities Facilities Scheme
      551. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is provision for the building of a new community centre in Kilbarrack in north Dublin; the sites that have been identified...
    • Departmental Communications
      552. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49070/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      553. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      554. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the surcharge applied by each local authority in respect of the LIS scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      555. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of uncommitted funds held under the dormant accounts legislation; the amount of these that form part of the statutory...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had their invalidity pension ceased, in view of the fact that their inability to...
    • Social Insurance
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding self-employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Pension (Contributory) Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a State contributory pension by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their appeal for a disability entitlement; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a final decision on their application for a disability allowance. [48697/17]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a person (details supplied) who submitted an appeal in August 2017 in respect of their...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Rights
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to make changes in legislation that would give rights to employees (details supplied) in cases in which there is a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons under 18 years of age with severe physical disabilities and living in their family home whose family...
    • Brexit Issues
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the preparations made in her Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost per year of providing external coaching or training services, or both, for staff development in her Department over...
    • Departmental Functions
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the social partners or employment policy experts were consulted before the decision was made to transfer labour affairs...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will award a carer's allowance to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48831/17]
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reintroduce child benefit for 18 year olds attending secondary education in view of the unfairness inherent in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance or, in its absence, invalidity pension will be considered in the case of a person (details...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer’s allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Communications
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the domain names registered to or owned by her Department or through a third party company. [48948/17]
    • Public Services Card
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an adopted person must supply their adoption certificate when applying for a public services card; and if she will...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which her Department is addressing the shortfall in pension payments to women retiring since 2012 after changes...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (detail supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the recent finding (details supplied) that the minimum essential standard of living cost...
    • State Pensions Payments
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pension being paid to a person (details supplied) is the correct amount; if the tax deductions are correct; and if an...
    • Fire Service Staff
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of retained firefighters who are in receipt of jobseeker's payments. [49000/17]
    • Maternity Leave
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for maternity leave for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49023/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person who is officially retired from the Department of Education and Skills, having completed the necessary 40...
    • Community Services Programme
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of community services programmes generating traded income of 30% or more; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a self-employed person who is paying class S PRSI and who is now incapable of working will be able to apply for...
    • Dental Services
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to give dental hygienists a dental treatment benefit contract in order to allow persons avail...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will indicate eligibility for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial assistance can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) who wishes to undertake a carer's...
    • Departmental Staff
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that clerical officers within her Department have had to take on extra responsibilities in 2017; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the business object model implementation, BOMi, system within her Department is sufficiently accurate in...
    • JobPath Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints made about participation in or interaction with the JobPath programme, by county, in tabular form;...
    • JobPath Programme
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which €71.2 million was allocated to and-or payments were made to contractors in the context of the JobPath...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      597. 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. [49327/17]
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the savings to the State annually when access to a sick leave payment changed from three days to six days; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain the reason a person's actual PRSI contributions in the year the person reaches 66 years of age are excluded in the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the position regarding the provision of a pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors; when she...
    • Public Services Card Data
      602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of private companies that have access to social protection personal files and-or records of citizens in...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a payment will issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49390/17]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49391/17]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in respect of a disability allowance application; and if she will make...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to state the expected start date of the public consultation process on wind energy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of persons under 18 years of age with severe physical disabilities who are living in the family home in...
    • Septic Tank Grants
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of applicants to date for the domestic wastewater treatment scheme for domestic septic tanks, as...
    • Planning Issues
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to amend legislation on planning applications for companies that have been shown to engage in tax...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the national rent scheme will be introduced to County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48739/17]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans for the introduction of a new affordable housing scheme to assist those on modest incomes to buy a home;...
    • Residential Tenancies Board Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out by county the number of persons registered under the Residential Tenancies Board. [48759/17]
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the level of funding from the Residential Tenancies Board to Wicklow County Council in each of the years 2010 to...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the purpose of bodies (details supplied); the reason each local authority is required to pay funds to these...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a bibliography of all sources used to arrive at the conclusion that homeless figures here are low by...
    • Housing Data
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017 to housing authorities and local authorities for the...
    • Departmental Communications
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [48946/17]
    • Rents Data
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimate for the various rent supports - RAS, HAP, rent assistance and so on - in each of the years from 2018 to 2021; if...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the prior assessment carried out when allocating LIHAF in respect of ensuring that housing is affordable; the definition of...
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the screening reports for the environmental impact assessment for planning applications (details...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provisions in place to ensure that increases in rent that will occur during the year are met; the way in which the topping...
    • Water Charges Administration
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the restriction regarding persons having to produce evidence that they have paid their water charges bill, notwithstanding...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Expenditure
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of discretionary enhanced payments each month in each county since HAP was established and which are used to top up...
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a...
    • Building Regulations
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Irish Agrément Certificate 04/0198 which was issued initially in 2004 and updated in 2007 with respect to...
    • Local Area Plans
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to proposed developments at St. Catherine's Park, Leixlip, County Kildare; if directions have...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2016 and to date in...
    • Building Regulations
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the requirements that are imposed on hotels and other accommodation providers in relation to the installation and upkeep of...
    • Judicial Reviews
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support available under the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 to fund a defence for a named party in a...
    • Planning Issues
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which a person can claim compensation under section 261 of the Planning and Development Act 2010 in respect of a...
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the expert group to develop plans for a cost rental model for housing has been established; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Policy
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the review of Rebuilding Ireland has been completed; if so, if the findings of the review will be published; and if he will...
    • Housing Data
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social houses built and occupied in each local authority area for the year to date in 2017, in tabular form; and...
    • Vacant Sites Levy
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites registered for the vacant site levy; the number of those which are under appeal with An Bord Pleanála...
    • Land Availability
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 514 of 14 of November 2017, the local authorities that have submitted plans for...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Properties
      646. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the circumstances in which a non-Defence Forces organisation can record a film or video, etc., on a property or asset belonging to the Defence...
    • Brexit Issues
      647. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the preparations made in his Department in the event of no agreement being reached between the United Kingdom and the European Union on the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      648. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of providing external coaching and-or training services for staff development in his Department over the past five years and to date in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      649. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the names of the companies renting a fixing and-or space on telecommunications and-or communications masts from his Department; the income...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      651. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason electricity bills have not been issued to some residents in the Defence Force building for the past six months; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      652. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the pension being paid to a person (details supplied) is the correct amount; if the tax deductions are correct; and if an examination of the...
    • Irish Red Cross Funding
      653. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding for flood damage restoration and repair for a public amenity (details supplied) will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Communications
      655. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the domain names registered to or owned by his Department or through a third party company. [49064/17]
    • Parliamentary Questions Costs
      656. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Museums
      657. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost and budget from which the accommodation, laundry and breakfast costs, including costs of Defence Forces personnel carrying out catering...
    • Army Barracks
      658. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consideration given to making available unused barracks accommodation in order to assist in the homeless crisis. [49369/17]

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