Written answers

Tuesday, 30 January 2018

  • Department of An Taoiseach
  • Department of Finance
    • Insurance Costs
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the legislative steps planned to tackle the ongoing high cost of insurance, especially motor insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4312/18]
    • European Central Bank
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to put forward candidates for president and board members of the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3996/18]
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the report on the cost of insurance working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4299/18]
    • State Aid Investigations
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had contact with the American Inland Revenue Service with regard to the recent state-aid judgment against a company (details supplied). [4314/18]
    • Legal Proceedings
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the legal proceedings following the service of a plenary summons (details supplied) of 8 December 2017; if a statement of claim has been served;...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals he will make to the European Council and Commission on the possible €14 billion gap in the EU budget following Brexit; the way in which...
    • Budget Measures
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made regarding the development of a VAT compensation scheme for charities as announced in budget 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce measures to restore pension benefits in the semi-State sectors to levels that would have been established but for the introduction of...
    • Tax Code
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 12 December 2017, his views on the recent cases of persons openly and publicly utilising marriage equality...
    • Rental Sector
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance if the debt levels of the State's largest landlords and other large property funds operating here will be examined to determine the risk to the property market...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of regularity breaches or potential breaches reported to the Central Bank by lenders in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      95. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review has taken place in terms of the personal injury claims paid out by the State Claims Agency; the legal costs associated with the claims paid out;...
    • Wealth Audit
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his plans to address the over concentration of wealth in a small number of persons; and if he...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to address the ongoing tracker mortgage controversy; the number of mortgage holders affected; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance the work ongoing in his Department on the corporation tax model following the Coffey report of indicating the sustainability of receipts until 2020 [4297/18]
    • Personal Contract Plans
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance the investigations and plans his Department has in respect of the regulation of personal contract plans and ensuring persons have adequate information on the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking regarding the refusal of some insurance companies to insure vehicles that are over ten years old; if he has been in contact with the...
    • Consumer Protection
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the operation of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015; his views on whether unregulated loans...
    • Housing Provision
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking through tax and credit policy to encourage the supply of rather than the demand for housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Aid Investigations
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the escrow account for all of the fines levied by the European Commission against a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Costs
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the second phase of the cost of insurance working group on employer liability and public liability; when the working group will come forward...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions his Department plans to take on foot of the significant protected disclosures by bank staff to the Central Bank regarding the tracker mortgage...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that Ireland's 12.5% corporation profits tax remains intact in view of its importance to the economy particularly...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Unemployment Data
      111. To ask the Taoiseach the number of long-term unemployed persons in County Wexford at the end of June 2016, December 2016, June 2017 and December 2017 respectively. [4093/18]
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      113. To ask the Taoiseach if Cabinet Committee F (National Security) has met recently. [4327/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      114. To ask the Taoiseach the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; and the nature...
    • World Economic Forum
      115. To ask the Taoiseach if he met Irish business owners while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos; and if so, the issues that were discussed. [4588/18]
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      123. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the Dublin inner city forum. [4599/18]
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      124. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon...
  • Department of Defence
    • Curragh Plains Representative Forum
      125. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the significant challenges facing the conservation of the Curragh, County Kildare; the measures he is...
    • Military Records
      126. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 527 of 14 November 2017 and 542 of 5 December 2017, the person that issued the certificate of service;...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 26 October 2017, the estimated cost of the additional multi-role vessel that is proposed for...
    • Legal Costs
      128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legal costs to the State in respect of a case (details supplied) relating to the anti-malaria drug Lariam; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in counties...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Military Neutrality
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on US Vice President Mike Pence's recent meeting with American soldiers en route to Kuwait at Shannon Airport; the way in which...
    • Middle East Issues
      132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to raise the detention of a person (details supplied) in an Israeli prison; the steps taken to advocate for their...
    • Irish Aid
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Irish Aid’s programme in Sierra Leone; and his further views on whether this programme is vital and should be sustained...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the First Secretary post will be filled at the Irish Permanent Representation to OECD and UNESCO; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and the reason for the delay in finalising the application. [4318/18]
    • Passport Applications
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications by persons (details supplied) will be processed in time for intended travel; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the public private partnerships his Department is engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties...
    • Data Protection
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of development of plans to protect data held by cross-Border bodies in the event of a hard Brexit; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Tax Data
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which the local property tax surcharge of 10% was applied; the portion and value of the 2017 local property tax receipts that have come...
    • Tax Compliance
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of whole-time equivalent district officers with responsibility for ensuring gaming machine licensing compliance employed in each district in each...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on broadening the focus of the industry-led forum for consumer and business issues as recommended in the cost of insurance working group report....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of secondees from businesses (details supplied) working in his Department and each other Department. [4141/18]
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the growing frustration of motorists who, despite the working group on motor insurance, have seen premiums continue to...
    • Insurance Coverage
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions recently with a group (details supplied) regarding continued difficulties faced by persons in Dublin 3 obtaining home insurance due...
    • Banking Sector
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the public banking investigation undertaken by his Department in conjunction with the Department of Rural and Community Development; and if he...
    • Consumer Protection
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to bring forward legislation to ensure stronger protection for customers of banks and punishment for bankers misleading and lying to their...
    • Public Interest Directors
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the process for appointing State nominees to sit on the boards of the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4157/18]
    • Property Tax Administration
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his Department’s review of the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4158/18]
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the operations of Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI, and diversify the range of on lenders by SBCI; and if he will make a...
    • Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Negotiations
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he has undertaken to oppose harmonisation of the EU corporate tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4161/18]
    • European Council Meetings
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of ECOFIN’s work in respect of the completion of the European banking and capital markets union; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are provisions in place for persons who previously have entered into a rent to buy scheme and who now want to purchase their home but the property is...
    • Tax Rebates
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax refund for the past number of years. [4197/18]
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if insurance companies are permitted to remove a no claims bonus from a person's motor insurance policy in situations in which an incident has been reported...
    • VAT Payments
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who are registered for VAT and pay their VAT to the Revenue Commissioners by credit card should now not incur a surcharge for this payment; and if...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the nature and status of the enforcement proceedings under way against the main banks in the tracker mortgage scandal; the date on which the enforcement...
    • Protected Disclosures
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend whistleblower legislation to allow whistleblowers in financial institutions to benefit financially from their whistleblowing; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the comments by An Taoiseach at a meeting of an organisation (details supplied) regarding changes to the tax regime for...
    • Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he has undertaken to oppose harmonisation of the EU corporate tax base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4308/18]
    • Housing Issues
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in HBFI funded developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/17]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the...
    • European Financial Forum
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has had discussions with his counterparts at EU level with a view to preventing an economic crash in the future. [4631/18]
    • Economic Growth
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which Ireland's economic indicators remain positive; if particular issues here have emerged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4632/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which new economic options are likely to become available here after Brexit. [4634/18]
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in counties Galway, Mayo,...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Garda Stations
      181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date the Office of Public Works will enter Stepaside Garda station to commence assessment on the re-opening of the station; and if...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      182. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to make an allowance for women who took time out of work from the Civil Service on Civil Service approved schemes to raise...
    • Coastal Protection
      183. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the stalled construction of a seawall at Bunnafolly, Doohoma, County Mayo. [4110/18]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      184. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on Ireland spending considerably less per capita on infrastructure than other European countries; his plans to place more...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      185. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take at the conclusion of the pay review to address the inequality in teachers pay for those entering the profession...
    • Garda Station Closures
      187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Garda stations closed in counties Longford and Westmeath in each of the years 2007 to 2017; the sale price listed for each...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid by each delegated State authority into the State Claims Agency in each of the years 2010 to 2017; the methodology used...
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangement and future plans to allow public servants to continue to work after their retirement; if they will be put at a financial...
    • EU Funding
      190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outcome of discussions to date with the European Commission on cohesion funding post 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Planning Framework
      191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if structural funds post 2020 will be aligned with priorities identified in the national planning framework and regional and spatial...
    • Coastal Protection
      192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of overtopping the Office of Public Works has carried out along the coastline; the amount of overtopping that has been...
    • National Monuments
      193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 250 of 11 September 2017 and 90 of 11 October 2017, if the Skellig Michael season will be...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has ensured that the ongoing flood risk to persons in a location (details supplied) that have been out of...
    • Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme
      196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to address the flooding concerns for the Cappamore area in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the assistance which can be provided to persons (details supplied) following a recent flooding event; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Agencies Reports
      198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland's...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the body responsible for the enforcement of breaches of public procurement guidelines and EU directives regarding the tendering and...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the flood improvement works which will be carried out by location in County Louth; when the list of all areas...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the areas that will be included in flood defences in a location (details supplied) in County Limerick; the indicative timeframe for the...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Civil Service employees who have applied for an employment transfer prior to the formal introduction of the new Civil Service...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Redundancy Payments
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a statutory redundancy payment plus the enhanced package as agreed through a union will be issued to persons (details supplied). [4188/18]
    • Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé mhéad duine atá ar Bhoird COGG; an mó folúntas atá ann faoi láthair; cad é an plean agus an clár...
    • School Accommodation
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his Department will meet the representatives of a school (details supplied). [3982/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department provides further supports for students who are travelling to Northern Ireland for their studies; if his attention has been...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed construction of a new school building (details supplied); and when building works will commence. [4018/18]
    • Departmental Reviews
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the members of the expert steering group on the review of career guidance. [4027/18]
    • School Patronage
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied); the process for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Boards
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when instructions will be finalised and issued to ETBI and ETBs regarding the proposed BTEI conversion process; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reports
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s Competitiveness...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available from his Department for resurfacing of a primary school car park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4073/18]
    • Psychological Services
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial assistance to trainee educational psychologists will be provided, in line with the financial support provided to their counterparts...
    • School Curriculum
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the selection process for schools that were selected to teach the new leaving certificate computer science subject; the number of schools that...
    • Institutes of Technology
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4102/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4116/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the growing crisis in secondary school places in County Kildare; and his plans to solve this growing problem...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the provision of special needs places and the provision of ASD units at secondary school level in County Kildare (details...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 12 April 2017, the status of the provision of new accommodation at a school (details supplied); when...
    • School Uniforms
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has set out a tendering process for schools in respect of the supply of school uniforms; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to recruit an extra ten full-time special needs organisers; the estimated cost of this recruitment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Child Abuse
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure reparations for victims of child sexual abuse for the abuse they suffered in day schools (details supplied); and...
    • School Accommodation
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional school accommodation in respect of a primary school (details supplied) has been received; and if so, the date on...
    • School Enrolments
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available for the family of a person (details supplied) that wishes to study the leaving certificate applied; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 450 of 16 January 2018, the five bodies under the remit of his Department that did not report a 3% or...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the site acquisition process in respect of a national school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to meet the temporary accommodation requirements of a national school (details supplied) in County Cork for the...
    • School Accommodation
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements being made to accommodate up to 20 pupils that have applied and have been refused places at a school (details supplied); if the...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the works to provide a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in addition to the associated refurbishment works...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and the timeframe for pay restoration for primary and secondary teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4330/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the liquidation of a company (details supplied) will delay the opening of two new schools in County Wicklow; the action his Department is...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when full broadband service will be restored in a primary school (details supplied). [4375/18]
    • National Planning Framework
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has made a submission on the national planning framework; and if so, if he will provide a copy of same. [4408/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is in discussions with Meath County Council regarding school provision in the county particularly in areas in which house...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties...
    • Early School Leavers
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the examination of additional supports to groups working with early school leavers that has taken place; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Discipline
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ban the use of smartphones in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4504/18]
    • Mental Health Services
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department liaises with the Department of Health to ensure that teachers are equipped to identify schoolchildren who may...
    • Self-Harm Prevention
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps in place for schools to deal with incidents of self-harm among pupils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4516/18]
    • Pension Provisions
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is eligible to purchase additional pensionable years; if so, the conditions or options for such purchase; if they...
    • Equality Legislation
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 149 to 151, inclusive, of 14 November 2017, if he has received further clarity from the bodies involved...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for emergency works by a school (details supplied); when it will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Internet Safety
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his Department's progress in implementing the recommendations of the Internet content governance advisory group. [4629/18]
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in counties...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Citizenship Applications
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reduce the fee for citizenship for all persons who have been ordinarily resident here for more than ten years and...
    • Data Protection
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide information to businesses regarding data protection and the implications for data held by companies...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who arrived here as unaccompanied or separated children who had successful applications for family...
    • Asylum Support Services
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the fees for work permits under the Employment Permits Act 2003 will be waived for IPO applicants in advance of...
    • Asylum Applications
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in the single procedure application system under the International Protection Act 2015; the number...
    • Proposed Legislation
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date on replacing the Communications Retention of Data Act 2011; if it will be assigned to the relevant...
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 18 January 2018, if it is policy that it is a condition of naturalisation that a...
    • Asylum Applications
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of asylum for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3988/18]
    • Graduate Support Schemes
      287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s...
    • Garda Strength
      288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in the Garda Wexford division as of 31 December in each of the years 2015 to 2017...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the application by a person (details supplied) for family reunification will be expedited; and if he will make a statement...
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the ratification by Ireland of the UN's Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture; and the...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motorists who have tested positive for drugs at mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints nationally during 2017;...
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints which took place nationally during 2017; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motorists who have tested positive for drugs at mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints by county during 2017,...
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the types of drugs being detected during mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Child Protection
      298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for setting the digital age of consent at 13 rather than the EU default digital age of consent of 16; and if he will...
    • Courts Service Administration
      299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the poor box allocation received by each organisation from each of the 23 districts separately (details...
    • Organised Crime
      300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Operation Thistle; the amount of drugs seized; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the...
    • Garda Deployment
      301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda money laundering investigation unit in each of the years 2015 to 2017...
    • Garda Data
      304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving members of An Garda Síochána who are currently on sick leave for longer than three months. [4201/18]
    • Proposed Legislation
      305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if mechanisms will be included in the forthcoming coroners (amendment) Bill to allow for challenges to the scope of an...
    • Crime Data
      310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which annual policy plans are to be constructed in the absence of CSO figures on crime statistics; the data that...
    • Garda Civilian Staff Data
      311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff employed in An Garda Síochána at the end of each of the years 2010 to 2017, in tabular...
    • Garda Reserve
      314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the recruitment of persons to the Garda Reserve. [4364/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the sections of the Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 that have yet to be...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Data
      317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria for applying to the immigrant investor programme; the amount of annual funding allocated to the programme; the...
    • Garda Deployment
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí serving in counties Longford and Westmeath in each of the years 2012 to 2017, in tabular form. [4464/18]
    • Community Policing
      319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dedicated community gardaí in the service of An Garda Síochána in each of the past seven years;...
    • Garda Data
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda patrol cars, vans, motorcycles, bicycles and other vehicles in each County Cork Garda division in each of...
    • Divorce Process
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to undertake a review of the domiciliary clause which prohibits the recognition of pre-1986 divorces which were...
    • Garda Reserve
      322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Reserve members as at the end of 2017; the percentage that completed the minimum of 208 annual hours per...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire on age grounds in the next...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Quarrying Sector
      324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding blasting of rock with explosives in quarries; the guidelines issued to the relevant persons in relation to...
    • Brexit Issues
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which she expects Ireland's trade with other countries to increase post-Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount drawn down by Ireland from the Horizon 2020 fund to date; and the areas to which the funds have been allocated. [3993/18]
    • Research Funding Data
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated spend on basic research nationally in a given year. [3994/18]
    • Economic Competitiveness
      328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the latest National Competitiveness Council report,...
    • Science Foundation Ireland Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of research centres funded by Science Foundation Ireland in each of the years 2010 to 2017 in tabular form; the annual...
    • Departmental Strategies
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the national policy statement on entrepreneurship; the number of actions completed and not completed...
    • Co-operative Sector
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of co-operatives operational; the number of persons employed in these co-ops; her plans to support and grow the co-op...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      334. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the list of highly skilled and ineligible categories that applies to work permit applicants for asylum seekers will be reviewed in...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits that have taken place in each county over the past five years; the confirmed visits to take place in...
    • Departmental Funding
      336. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of Exchequer funding expended on a project (details supplied); the details of the expenditure; and the number of staff...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      337. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the public private partnerships her department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
    • Brexit Issues
      338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if contingency planning has started for the implications of Brexit on data held by InterTradeIreland; and if she will make a statement...
    • Trade Union Recognition
      339. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) in County Limerick that is in receipt of public funds is...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the details of her expenses have not been uploaded to her Department’s website since July 2017; and her plans to...
    • Job Creation Data
      342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide the figures raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4542/18]
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      343. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of her Department due to retire in the next six months due to age...
  • Department of Health
    • Transport Support Scheme
      344. To ask the Minister for Health when the alterative scheme to the mobility allowance and the transport support scheme will be introduced. [3942/18]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the options open to a person (details supplied) for speech and language therapy. [4127/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      346. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to institute a ban on the use of transvaginal mesh in view of the permanent and debilitating side effects of same and in further view of full or...
    • EU Directives
      350. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include chiropractors in new guidelines for X-ray referral; his further plans to extend and or re-open the consultation phase regarding the new...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      351. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused authorisation for medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3951/18]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      353. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) will be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3962/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      354. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of the FreeStyle Libre system under the long-term illness scheme for persons with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3985/18]
    • Dental Services Staff
      358. To ask the Minister for Health the dental nursing positions available in CHO 8; if there will be additional positions available in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      359. To ask the Minister for Health if an earlier appointment will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3991/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      360. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can have an appointment and procedure scheduled and arranged under the NTPF in view of the fact they have been waiting over 18...
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      361. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the loco parentis rule whereby agency nurses working HSE home care day hours cannot permit parents to leave the home unless another adult is...
    • Mental Health Policy
      363. To ask the Minister for Health if individual general practitioners or general practitioner representative bodies have been or will be consulted as part of the review of the child and...
    • Hospital Services
      364. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 4 April 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the situation at St. Anne’s day hospital,...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      365. To ask the Minister for Health when reimbursement of FreeStyle Libre will be extended to persons with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4014/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4017/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      369. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed in which a request has been made to increase home help hours. [4020/18]
    • Mental Health Services
      370. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE psychiatric health services based in Green Road , Mullingar, will move to new premises in the primary care service building at Harbour Street,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      371. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4032/18]
    • Health Services Staff
      372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address an issue (details supplied) regarding annual leave for health care assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4060/18]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      373. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a house (details supplied) in County Wexford which is adapted for disability living and lies vacant most of the week; if the HSE plans...
    • Health Services Access
      376. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can access services in Fermoy, County Cork. [4069/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      377. To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement scheme for the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system will be extended to adults with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Promotion
      378. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred by Healthy Ireland on advertising for each year since its launch; and the funding allocated for such purposes in 2018. [4077/18]
    • HSE Staff Data
      379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff in County Mayo in the community and primary care section, including but not limited to speech and language therapy, physiotherapy,...
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment policies, including if there is maintenance of panels of suitable candidates, for temporary staff to cover long-term absences of Health Service...
    • Respite Care Services Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who qualify for adult respite care in County Mayo; the criteria used to determine if a person qualifies for respite care; the way in...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the longest length of time a child has spent in an adult psychiatric ward; the age of the child in question; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      383. To ask the Minister for Health the steps will he will take to ensure that the winter 'flu vaccine serves as the optimal vaccination protection in view of the recent 'flu epidemic; and if he...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      386. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for home help by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4103/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical procedure for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [4113/18]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech therapy for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4114/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of including products to treat head lice on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4115/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied). [4118/18]
    • Health Services Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the annual figure for the throughput of the minor injuries units in hospitals; the peak times for attendances; and the weekend attendance figures. [4119/18]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the funding being allocated to recruit an additional full-time speech and language therapist for CHO area 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4123/18]
    • HSE Investigations
      394. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 26 October 2017, when a reply from the Health Service Executive will issue. [4124/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied). [4126/18]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      397. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to diabetes patients of all ages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4129/18]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the licence to use medicinal cannabis since the scheme was established; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
      401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1116 of 16 January 2018, his views on whether the actions of the Health and Safety Authority and of the Pre-Hospital...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of recruiting an extra 1,500 nurses; the full year cost of recruiting an extra 300 hospital consultants; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons persons with type 1 diabetes are being excluded from the reimbursement of the FreeStyle Libre electronic diabetes blood monitor under the long-term...
    • Mental Health Services
      405. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 810 of 13 July 2017, if the HSE achieved implementation of seven over seven mental health supports across all community...
    • Health Strategies
      406. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 810 of 13 July 2017, if an updated briefing plan is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4205/18]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of multidisciplinary community mental health teams working at weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4206/18]
    • Medical Inquiries
      413. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the gardasil HPV vaccine containing thiaminase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4216/18]
    • Death Certificates
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in releasing a death certificate from Ballinasloe hospital (details supplied.). [4226/18]
    • Care Services Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the home care waiting list in County Mayo; the number of these persons who are in a hospital, nursing home or respite facility; the...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1018 and 1019 of 17 January 2018, if the State Claims Agency keeps a record of confidential settlements; and if so, the...
    • Health Care Policy
      419. To ask the Minister for Health when St Luke's hospital, Kilkenny fully implemented the HSE IOG clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and management of severe pre-eclampsia and...
    • Voluntary Sector Remuneration
      420. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions on section 39 organisations. [4242/18]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per treatment to a person who suffers from Crohn's disease for regular iron infusions on an outpatient basis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      422. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 26 September 2017, the status of the completion of the pre-planning survey of the proposed primary care centre for...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      425. To ask the Minister for Health when the initial contract was signed with a company (details supplied); the nature, duration and value of the contract; the moneys received by the company to...
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the adult psychology service at the primary care centre in Doughiska, Galway; the number and age of persons seen; the number of staff and the...
    • Medical Card Administration
      429. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations which are provided to persons who suffer from Crohn's disease in applying for a medical card (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      430. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the fact that the post of consultant orthodontist has been vacant within CHO 8 for some time; the length of time this post has been vacant;...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times as a result of a vacancy for the post of consultant orthodontist in CHO 8 in comparison with all other areas of the health service; and if he...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is booked in for respite care will be facilitated. [4276/18]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      433. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the immediate shortfall in isolation beds across the South/South West hospital group, in particular University Hospital Kerry; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [4359/18]
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      437. To ask the Minister for Health if the hormone-based treatment drug Primodos was ever licensed or dispensed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4360/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      438. 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. [4367/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      439. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the Freestyle Libre device under the current drugs payment scheme in circumstances in which it is more convenient for diabetics in view of...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if a person's (details supplied) procedures can be covered by the treatment abroad scheme when the procedure is not available here; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 165 to 167, inclusive, of 23 November 2017, if translabial ultrasound is available to persons suffering complications...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      444. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation can be carried out for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4415/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      448. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the FreeStyle Libre reimbursement scheme to persons with type 1 diabetes; and if not, the reason therefore. [4448/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to secure accommodation in a facility that provides living accommodation with...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a cataract operation at University Hospital Waterford longer than six, 12, 14 and 18 months, respectively, in tabular form;...
    • Departmental Reports
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the publication of the lymphoedema working group report; his plans for the implementation of the report's recommendations; and if funding...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registered general practitioners in counties Longford and Westmeath; the waiting times for occupational therapy, psychology services and mental...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      453. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cut funding for addiction treatment services in counties Kildare and Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4476/18]
    • Hospital Investigations
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if the case surrounding the need for a person (details supplied) to have surgical treatment which has been delayed as a result of a disputed administrative...
    • Health Promotion
      456. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to promote alternative diet advice, including food pyramids, to cater for persons who choose a plant-based diet, vegan-based diet or...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if Kuvan has been approved for persons with phenylketonuria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4497/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary health care centre in Drimnagh which was due to start in 2014; when the primary health care centre will be delivered; and when work...
    • Mental Health Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has examined possible links between eating disorders and self-harm and young persons' use of social media apps; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Policy
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to implement the recommendations set out in the national youth mental health task force report for 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Obesity Strategy
      463. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to encourage young persons to limit screen time spent on smartphones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4512/18]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE deals with young persons accessing mental health care in a sensitive, transparent and helpful manner; and if he will make a statement...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      465. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has noted possible links between the need for speech therapy and increased usage of smartphones among children; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the HSE's use of dialectical behaviour therapy to address instances of self-harm and suicide; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult, child and adolescent patients per annum that require mental health external placements; the locations of these placements; the services...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a staffing recruitment and retention plan for mental health services in CHO2, in view of the significant whole time equivalent gaps for community...
    • Hospital Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the introduction of free Wi-Fi for the use of patients will be made available to inpatients and outpatients at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital, Drogheda; the...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds allocated for the treatment of anorexia nervosa nationally; the plans under the national development plan or bed capacity review to increase...
    • Medical Indemnity Cover
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the programme for Government commitment to establish an expert group to ...
    • Patient Safety
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recommendations of a commission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4606/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      474. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a device (details supplied) under the long-term illness scheme for type 1 diabetes; if his attention has been drawn to the device and...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if an additional emergency ambulance fleet will be allocated in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; the extra funding that will be provided to the ambulance...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken to his other EU colleagues regarding CAP post 2020. [4598/18]
    • Grant Payments
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a €200 subsidy for suckler cows in view of the lack of profitability and the drop in suckler cow...
    • Afforestation Programme
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an archaeology report will issue regarding a proposed forestry plantation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a case in which a person (details supplied) has been left with an outstanding bill to his Department through no fault of their own...
    • GLAS Payments
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for delays in GLAS and beef genomics scheme payments; the number of persons affected by these delays in County Donegal;...
    • Forestry Data
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares of new forestry that were planted in County Leitrim in each of the years 2013 to 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the refusal to grant a farm payment to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • GLAS Administration
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to relax the rules for persons who have applied for GLAS that have the low emission slurry spreading as their option in...
    • GLAS Payments
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of payments for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3977/18]
    • EU Meetings
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there have been discussions at the European Agriculture and Fisheries Council on the need to have fertiliser costs reduced; and if...
    • Fallen Animal Collection Scheme
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grants or subsidies are available to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4004/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in processing an application for a GLAS payment by a person (details supplied); and if the process will be...
    • Brexit Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report, Ireland’s...
    • Live Exports
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the spaces that will be available from 1 February 2018 on ferries for live exports in comparison with 1 February 2017; and if he will...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal under the beef data and genomics programme by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Nitrates Usage
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding Ireland’s nitrates derogation, which seeks to ensure that 50% of slurries be spread before mid-June; if...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase the level of support under the TAMS scheme to reflect the need for farmers in County Wexford to purchase low...
    • Fur Farming
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to ban the practice of fur farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4191/18]
    • Beef Imports
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount in tonnage of non-national beef which was processed and labelled as Irish here in 2016 and 2017 by county, in tabular...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for a national reserve for young farmers in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4321/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in the payment issuing; and if he will make a...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Eligibility
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are concessions to the stocking density for ANC payment for cases in which tuberculosis has been identified and herds...
    • Transfer of Entitlements Application
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a transfer of entitlements in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the reducing number of lambs in scanned ewes resulting in a drop in sheep farmers' incomes; and if...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme
      502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend the existing suckler cow scheme to incentivise farmers and consolidate herds with a payment similar to the French...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Emergency Planning
      504. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans of the Office for Emergency Planning for the creation of an emergency alert text messaging system for users...
    • Inland Fisheries
      505. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his Department is involved in regarding the maintenance of the weir on the Munster Blackwater, Fermoy,...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Craoltóirí Seirbhíse Poiblí
      506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cé mhéad duine atá ar Bhoird TG4; an mó folúntas atá ann faoi láthair; cad é an...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Motor Industry
      507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ban hybrid cars by 2030; if research has been carried out on the way in which this will affect those...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the planned renewable energy types that will be used to generate electricity to 2020, 2025 and 2030; and if he will...
    • Electric Vehicles
      509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans which have been put in place following the Commission for Regulation of Utilities decision in October 2017...
    • Energy Schemes
      510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grants available for businesses for heating and window insulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Economic Competitiveness
      511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the latest National Competitiveness Council report,...
    • Energy Efficiency
      512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the recently announced energy efficiency scheme for those in receipt of turf-cutting compensation; the...
    • Illegal Dumping
      513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to ensure that illegal dumping of vehicle tyres, particularly the persistence of cross-Border...
    • Electric Vehicles
      515. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to install an electric car charging point at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the roll-out of fibre broadband in an area (details supplied); and if this work will be carried out...
    • Postal Codes
      517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that certain telecommunications companies require an Eircode for a...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      519. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the roll out of at least 30 Mb broadband speeds to a location (details supplied) in County Donegal as...
    • Television Licence Fee
      521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his position on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4395/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      523. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of e-fibre to a location (details supplied) in County Kerry. [4452/18]
    • Advertising Regulation
      524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a ban on advertising on smartphones that is aimed at children; and if he will make a statement...
    • Internet Safety
      525. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the creation of a digital safety commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadband Service Provision
      526. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the remaining areas of the Glenasmole valley and Bohernabreena will be covered by broadband; the reason these...
    • Internet Safety
      527. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his Department's progress in implementing the recommendations of the Internet content governance advisory...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      528. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Bus Services
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the next five years for the privatisation of bus routes that are currently run by Bus Éireann; his plans to...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish an online system for persons temporarily outside the State to renew their driving licences. [4013/18]
    • Climate Change Policy
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report Ireland’s...
    • Rail Services Provision
      532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail will increase the number of carriages from three to four on the 1.35 p.m. train service from Dublin Connolly to Wexford in...
    • Coast Guard Services
      533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the location of each of the 58 coastguard stations that are operational; if they have Internet, running water and bathroom facilities;...
    • Road Safety
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional funding for road safety measures in 2017 requested by east County Cork municipal district and Cork County Council; the...
    • Motor Insurance
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some insurance companies are refusing to quote persons if they are unemployed; his plans...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Funding
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of funding provided to TII towards the maintenance of the Luas network in each of the years 2013 to 2018. [4142/18]
    • Light Rail Projects
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transdev contributes to his Department or TII to maintain the Luas network; and, if so, the figures for each of the years 2013 to...
    • Road Safety Authority
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Road Safety Authority prosecutions regarding commercial vehicles in each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will...
    • Driver Test Data
      539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests carried out at each testing location in 2017; the success and failure rate at each location; and if he will...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress under the Road Safety Strategy 2013 to 2020 in regard to point No. 95 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Funding
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of his Department's budget allocation for 2017 allocated to the local authority swimming pool grant. [4264/18]
    • Road Tolls
      543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to arrange with Transport Infrastructure Ireland and a company (details supplied) for the temporary lifting of the secondary...
    • Driver Licences
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) who is as an asylum seeker is entitled to apply for a driving licence; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 501 of 23 January 2018, the amount of motor tax collected in each of the years 2015 to 2017 by...
    • Road Safety
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns relating to poor surface traction on the County Tipperary portion of the N7 Limerick to Dublin road; and if...
    • Road Tolls
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the temporary removal of the tolls at Drogheda will be facilitated for the duration of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann; and if he will...
    • Road Network
      548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the road category and road mileage each local authority is responsible for (details supplied); the allowance made for road usage in...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
    • EU Funding
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his Department's talks with the EU on the commitment in the programme for Government that, in the first three...
    • Road Projects
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned extension of the M17 from Tuam to Claremorris; if the project will be included in the forthcoming NDP; the...
    • Parking Provision
      552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the parking infrastructure planned for Newbridge train station to match the increase in service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will support the redevelopment of a stadium (details supplied) from the capital fund of €50 million for stadiums...
    • Tourism Promotion
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop tourism in the Lee Valley area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4493/18]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Advertising Regulation
      555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the increasing use of children and minors to advertise commercial products through television, radio and online. [3990/18]
    • Community Childcare Subvention Programme
      556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in not being paid on band A of the child care eligibility criteria for their child; and if approval...
    • Child Support Payments
      557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a subsidy paid for children in a crèche; if so, the amount per child; and if it varies if the crèche is private or...
    • Child Care Services Staff
      558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if pay restoration which may apply in future for workers in section 39 agencies will apply to those workers that were previously employed...
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility
      559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if under the affordable childcare scheme low-income parents that are not working or in training will be eligible for a maximum 15 hours...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public private partnerships her Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Data
      561. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the demand for places under the early childhood care and education scheme in County Cork; the way in which deficits are being made up in...
    • Child Safety
      562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to encourage young persons to limit screen time spent on smartphones; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4513/18]
    • Area Based Childhood Programme
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to expand the family intervention programme, Preparing for Life, to other parts of the country; and if she will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Policy
      565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department’s mental health services working group involving the HSE, the Department of Health and Tusla will examine the...
    • Child Care Services Data
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding each CCC has received in each of the years 2008 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, inclusive of the administration of the...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      567. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of her Department due to retire in the next six months due to age in...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      568. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the town and village programme allocations for 2017; and if he plans to continue with the scheme in 2018. [4088/18]
    • Walks Scheme
      569. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the Hymany Way will be included in the walk scheme for 2018; if landowners along this 100 km route will be allowed to avail of walk...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Administration
      570. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the person within his Department who sought the legal advice on the number of lots required to deliver the SICAP programme; the reason...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      571. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the public private partnerships his Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
    • Community Services Programme
      572. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a financial package is available for a resource centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4447/18]
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      573. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of his Department due to retire in the next six months due to age...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Civil Registration Legislation
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to allow notaries public to solemnise marriages; if new legislation is necessary to provide for this change in view...
    • National Minimum Wage
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons paid below the national minimum wage of €9.25 due to the exceptions for an employee in the first...
    • Public Services Card Provision (1 comment)
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy regarding the issuing of the public services card and persons who are adopted (details supplied); if only certain...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the consultation process to find a resolution to the inequities in the averaging system for the State...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 578
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of gender recognition certificates issued in each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. [3961/18]
    • Question Heading for question(s) 579
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3966/18]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the record of contributions in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason they are not in receipt of a full...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her views on each recommendation (details supplied) as contained in the National Competitiveness Council report,...
    • Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of weeks persons are waiting for a decision to be made for carer's allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of weeks persons are waiting for a decision to be made for disability allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of weeks persons are currently waiting for a decision to be made for an appeal to social welfare...
    • Tús Programme
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of Tús supervisors being laid off; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4095/18]
    • JobPath Programme
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the annual remuneration of the two JobPath providers (details supplied) to deliver the programme nationwide; and...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the restructuring of MABS; the rationale for this restructuring; the number of redundancies that will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement that transferred to HAP per annum in each of the years 2013 to...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the status of a domiciliary care allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her policy with regard to her Department's employees who are approaching their 65th birthday and seek to extend...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Eligibility
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her plans to make the back to school clothing and footwear allowance available to families of children that...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Data
      598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to set out the estimated number of persons due to retire in coming years that will be in receipt of a reduced contributory...
    • Social Insurance
      599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline her plans to recognise the plight of persons that were paying a public service stamp for a significant part of...
    • Social Welfare Code
      600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new Scottish commission on social security that will scrutinise...
    • Community Welfare Services Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the changes planned in respect to the amalgamation of community welfare services in the Dunboyne and Maynooth...
    • Job Assist Scheme
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the way in which a person is dealt with by her Department in circumstances in which a service user engaged in a...
    • Departmental Customer Charters
      604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure in her Department for investigating complaints by service users; the timeframe within which it must respond to...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who is receiving maternity benefit and who incurred an overpayment on their claim is...
    • Departmental Contracts
      606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to her comments regarding payment of the State pension (details supplied), if public procurement guidelines have been...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4388/18]
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the public private partnerships her Department is engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private...
    • Pensions Reform
      611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons negatively affected by changes introduced to the contributory pension in 2012; the number of persons...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county who have been subject to sanctions in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Working Family Payment Data
      615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families claiming family income supplement in counties Westmeath and Longford in 2016 and 2017, by month, in...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be assessed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Data
      617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the exceptional needs payments allocated in 2017, by county. [4500/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding assistance to repair an alarm system; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of her Department who are due to retire in the next six...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Water Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to ensure that health authorities intervene with householders when private sewage pipes...
    • Housing Agency Data
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 17 January 2018, the status of each plot of land listed by terms (details...
    • Housing Estates
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a report in relation to the national taking in charge initiative; his plans to help estates that had valid...
    • Mortgage Lending
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanism for approving loans under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the body that will be underwriting the loans;...
    • Departmental Funding
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that has been paid in grants to Galway and Mayo County Councils in each of the years 2009 to 2017 in respect of...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority first-time buyer loans issued in 2017; and the value of these loans. [3975/18]
    • Fines Data
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in parking fines in 2016 and 2017 by local authority and municipality in tabular form; the way in which...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided to 68 houses from two housing estates (details supplied) in County Kildare that are without...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the difference in the tenancy rights of a tenant in a local authority property, a tenant in a housing association property and...
    • Planning Guidelines
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the planning laws to force local authorities to abide by the EU treaty and end the locals only restriction...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed or completed roll-out of the housing assistance payment in each local authority by county and date; and if he...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum number of municipal district members for each municipal district under the terms of reference for local electoral...
    • Mortgage Lending
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the first-time buyers scheme is in addition to the existing council home loan or replacing it; if so, the new deposit...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons that wish to make a submission in relation to local electoral area boundaries in Cork city and county should submit...
    • River Basin Management Plans
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of submissions received in relation to the river basin management plan; if a submission was received from an...
    • Pyrite Issues
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the developments that have taken place in respect of the establishment of a redress scheme for homeowners affected by pyrite...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord must register a tenancy with the Residential Tenancies Board in circumstances in which the tenant is the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new projects for delivering social housing which were approved by the clearing house process in 2015 that his Department...
    • Irish Water
      642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Irish Water will issue a discharge licence to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the public private partnerships his department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all...
    • Local Authority Funding
      644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual general funding allocation paid to Longford and Westmeath county councils in each of the years 2012 to 2017, in...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons claiming HAP in counties Westmeath and Longford. [4466/18]
    • Local Authority Housing
      646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department maintains contact with the various local authorities operating the choice-based letting system regarding the...
    • Deposit Protection Scheme Establishment
      647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to prioritise the introduction of a deposit protection scheme for the private rental sector; the reason...
    • Rental Sector
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with a national representative body (details supplied), in view of his comments in Dáil Éireann that...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided for new group water schemes (details supplied) connected to a scheme from a private source; the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Hen Harriers Threat Response Plan
      650. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the threat response plan with respect to forestry and the hen harrier. [3923/18]
    • Heritage Promotion
      651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available from her Department to local heritage festivals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3935/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      652. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if application forms are available for community groups applying for the community and language support programme Clár...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      653. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht i gcomhthéacs mholtaí Chomhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus na nOileán, an dtabharfaidh sí gealltanas go...
    • Road Projects Status
      654. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has approved work method statements received from Galway County Council on 19 January and 12 April 2016...
    • Hare Coursing
      655. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she granted permission to a club (details supplied) to hold a second day of hare coursing trials at a location in January 2018;...
    • Hare Coursing Data
      656. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the purpose of hare coursing trials; the monitoring of such trials that are taking place; if participants are paying a fee to take...
    • Hare Coursing Regulation
      657. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the consequences of coursing clubs not adhering to their licence conditions; the number of such breaches recorded in 2016 and...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Appeals
      658. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will issue on a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4105/18]
    • Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga
      659. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfear Cuntóir Teanga ar fáil do scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil); agus an...
    • Clár Éire Ildánach
      660. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht conas atá an Ghaeilge á cur chun cinn ag Creative Ireland; an bhfuil maoiniú faoi leith ar fáil i dtaobh...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      661. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public private partnerships her Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      662. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad duine atá ar Bhoird Údarás na Gaeltachta; an mó folúntas atá ann faoi...
    • Commemorative Medals
      663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason some personnel who participated in the 1916 centenary commemorations were not recipients of commemorative medals in...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      665. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons at assistant principal level under the aegis of her Department due to retire in the next six months due to...

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