Written answers

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Banking Sector Reform
      28. To ask the Taoiseach if banking reform was discussed at his meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [4563/18]
    • Departmental Budgets
      34. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's budget for social media. [4304/18]
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      38. To ask the Taoiseach if Cabinet Committee F - national security - has met recently. [4306/18]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has satisfied himself that the €500 to €1,000 fee to be paid by asylum seekers or their employers fully...
    • Departmental Reform
      58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeframe for the conclusion of the work to be carried out by the independent and change implementation group in...
    • Child Protection
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to protect against social media platforms being used by sexual predators to target children (details...
    • Organised Crime
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to concerns of residents in the north inner city relating to the ongoing feud which has claimed...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the constitutional referenda scheduled for 2018. [1836/18]
    • Garda Data
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior Garda appointments made by the Policing Authority at each rank in the past six months; if he has satisfied...
    • National LGBTI Strategy
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the publication of the LGBT inclusion strategy announced by his Department; the details of the strategy; and...
    • Garda Data
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address the continuing failure of An Garda Síochána to publish the review that was due in June 2017 into...
    • Insurance Fraud
      65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the establishment of a fully functioning integrated insurance fraud database; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an examination of the implementation of the recommendations of a person's (details supplied) audit of the exercise by An...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of monthly arrests of persons that have tested positive for drugs at mandatory intoxicant testing checkpoints...
    • Crime Data
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has satisfied himself that the recording of statistics relating to the incidence of domestic burglaries as reported to An...
    • Policing Authority
      69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the consultations he has had with the Policing Authority regarding the development of the policing plan and related performance...
    • Garda Reports
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to discuss the report into the Jobstown protest given to him by An Garda Síochána on 26 July 2017 with the...
    • Garda Expenditure
      73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the November 2017 report of the Policing Authority on matters arising at the Garda training...
    • Garda Civilian Staff Recruitment
      74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the number of civilians in An Garda Síochána to more than 500 to address the capacity and...
    • Garda Reports
      75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has requested a report from the Garda Commissioner into payments to a company (details supplied) which breached public...
    • Legislative Measures
      76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to produce legislation to make the distribution of revenge porn an offence; and his views on the Law Reform Commission...
    • Garda Operations
      77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the resources provided to winter phase of Operation Thor; the way in which it can help to address rural crime in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an international letter of request received by his Department and acknowledged in August 2017...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the Information Commissioner's recent rulings (details supplied) in favour of an organisation against his...
    • Garda Strength
      80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí allocated to each Garda station in the Kildare north district in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to...
    • Organised Crime
      81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to making membership of organised criminal gangs illegal with a view to putting such members off...
    • Immigration Policy
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking to address the inadequacies and loopholes which exist in legislation governing the immigration system;...
    • Garda Deployment
      84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the need to provide additional Garda personnel and resources to the Cavan and Monaghan Garda...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the investigation into the alleged involvement of Garda personnel in the drugs trade in the midlands region first...
    • Garda Strength
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the number of gardaí along the Border areas in County Donegal to deal with the increase in criminal...
    • Independent Review Mechanism
      88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the section of each report relative to each case will be released to the families and complainants concerned regarding the...
    • Garda Deployment
      89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request the Garda Commissioner to consider allocating additional gardaí to Rathfarnham Garda station,...
    • Garda Remuneration
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address the failure to ensure that the Garda pay deal applies to all sections of the force, including superintendents...
    • Garda Data
      91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the methodologies used by An Garda Síochána to accurately measure the number of...
    • Organised Crime
      92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has satisfied himself that An Garda Síochána has enough resources and overtime to de-escalate the ongoing...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there has been more than several dozen boxes of documentation provided to the Charleton tribunal by his Department...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the progress of family reunification for refugees from Syria here as part of resettlement and relocation...
    • Garda Data
      96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior Garda appointments made by the Policing Authority at each rank; if he has satisfied himself with the manner...
    • Garda Deployment
      97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Garda consideration of recent census data for County Wexford within the personnel allocation model; and...
    • Immigration Policy
      98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons applying for naturalisation that are not decided upon within the six-month guideline will be provided with a detailed...
    • Garda Data
      102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff nationally involved in accessing material on mobile phones and computers relating to child sexual offences;...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff
      103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action he has taken to deal with the complaint from GSOC that it does not have sufficient resources to deal with protected...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the assistance given to refugees from Syria here as part of resettlement and relocation programmes to...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Unemployment Data
      106. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobless households, by county, in tabular form. [5859/18]
    • Youth Unemployment Data
      107. To ask the Taoiseach the rate of youth unemployment in each region in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5861/18]
    • Apprenticeship Data
      108. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons enrolled in apprenticeships in his Department and State agencies under his remit, by gender, in tabular form; and the detail of each such...
    • Internal Audits
      109. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has completed an external quality assurance assessment of its internal audit function as required by the Institute of Internal Auditor standards that...
    • Departmental Reviews
      110. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the senior counsel review of the way in which the Department of Justice and Equality dealt with document requests from the disclosures tribunal;...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      111. To ask the Taoiseach the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5841/18]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      112. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 16 January 2018, the qualifications of the medical experts consulted as part of the work of the...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      113. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the pay scales of all ranks in the Defence Forces. [5731/18]
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      116. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of serving Defence Forces personnel from County Wexford. [5734/18]
    • Defence Forces Funding
      117. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the defence budget for 2018; and the amount that is being spent on improving living conditions and pay. [5735/18]
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      118. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if each of the Defence Forces medical officers involved in the use of malaria chemoprophylaxis hold additional qualifications in tropical...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      119. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5832/18]
    • Industrial Relations
      120. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he will take to have the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill brought forward for discussion to ensure that the staff representation...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the request to establish a passport office in County Monaghan as discussed at the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he informed the European negotiating team that he was in favour of a transition period; the length of time proposed; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5835/18]
    • Middle East Peace Process
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which Ireland and the EU continue to maintain a positive influence in the Israeli Palestine peace process with particular...
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates Data
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of appeals lodged by persons refused a primary medical certificate to the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal in the past five years, by county; the...
    • Household Debt Statistics
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance if figures are available that measure the level of credit card debt to household income; if so, the detail of same in each of the years 2011 to 2017, in...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) will receive their rebate from the Revenue Commissioners regarding the help-to-buy scheme. [5332/18]
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to expand the NARPS model to increase the supply of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5335/18]
    • Commercial Property
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the reliance since 2012 of commercial mortgage backed securities, CMBS, by some property investment funds operating here; and if his Department...
    • Brexit Issues
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated impact on Ireland of the reduction of economic growth in the United Kingdom by 5% for the next 15 years (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Tax Code
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on the planned introduction of a tax on sugar sweetened drinks as set out in the Finance Act 2017; when he plans to bring this tax into...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if lenders subject to the tracker review have indicated to the Central Bank that they will reduce the number they are of the view are impacted by the tracker...
    • European Central Bank
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance if the banks here or the Central Bank have engaged with the ECB requesting supervisory guidance on the appropriate use of non-performing mortgage splitting;...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking or has taken to ensure returning emigrants are not disadvantaged in areas such as, but not limited to, the provision of motor...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has received a copy of the Financial Conduct Authority's report into the actions of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce a tax incentive scheme similar to the section 23 scheme to increase housing supply and promote urban renewal; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Insurance
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he raised with the insurance industry the practice of refusing of insurance cover to drivers of cars over ten years of age even though the vehicle has a...
    • Revenue Commissioners Staff
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself that the Revenue Commissioners customs staff have adequate resources to intercept the packages coming from non-EU countries with...
    • VAT Rate Application
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if the European Union proposal to ensure certain products always attract a VAT rate of 15% will require changes in an Irish context such as on gambling; and...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has restrictions on the length of mortgages provided to different age cohorts of persons; if similar restrictions exist within the...
    • Mortgage Applications Data
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank collects data on mortgage refusals by mortgage lenders here; if so, the most recent data for same by the reason for the rejection; and if...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate or legislate to ensure that it would be illegal to load van and car insurances solely based on a person being 70 years of age or over;...
    • VAT Rate Application
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current EU proposal on VAT rates and bands six is compatible with Ireland's existing rates and bands; if not, the way in which it is incompatible; and...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulations regarding the securitisation of home loans; the statutory underpinning of these regulations; the obligation that is required on the part of...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the sterling to euro exchange rate applicable to the declaration of foreign salary received by a person on 23 October 2017 for the purposes of completing the...
    • Tax Code
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if fully vouched employment expenses payable on production of receipts amounting to £336.59 (details supplied) to an Irish citizen domiciled here by a UK...
    • VAT Rebates
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make provisions in legislation to ensure that persons suffering from a wide range of illnesses here but that do not qualify for a long term...
    • Banking Sector Data
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been revived for banking licences in each of the past five years; the number of licences granted; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Lottery Funding Data
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual return to the exchequer from the national lottery in each of the years 2008 to 2017; the payout to charities and other...
    • Garda Stations
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the reopening of Rush Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5981/18]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the provision of pension entitlements to employees such as community employment personnel that have their entire...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Departments that had an underspend for 2015, 2016 and 2017; the amount of the underspend; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when information requested from PeoplePoint relating to a person's (details supplied) contribution record will be provided to the...
    • Garda Stations
      161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of negotiations to provide a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5428/18]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
      162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if flood alleviation funding will be made available for flood prevention works in Ballybay, County Monaghan; when he expects work to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 16 January 2018, the status of the independent review under way; if the review has been...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public contracts a company (details supplied) holds here; and if, following the recent experience with the collapse of...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in relation to a flood alleviation project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of secondees from companies (details supplied)who are working in his Department. [5839/18]
    • Departmental Properties
      169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of properties (details supplied) that remain in public ownership; if there are plans for their sale on the open market; and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Direct Provision System
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether funding is available for persons in direct provision who wish to take part in courses in Killarney, County Kerry. [5408/18]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if contracts for projects recently announced as part of the €200 million public private partnership (PPP) programme for higher education...
    • Education and Training Boards
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5816/18]
    • Schools Property
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the former school at Rolestown, County Dublin is in the ownership of the State; and his plans in relation to the building. [5324/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child with epilepsy is being denied an SNA from September 2018. [5328/18]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tuition is available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5330/18]
    • State Examinations
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of the Examinations Commission in rounding up percentage results, for example, if a student gets 29.83%; and if he will make a...
    • State Examinations Commission
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pass mark in the leaving certificate maths exam is expressed in percentage terms. [5341/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Data
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in County Wexford that do not have a NEPS psychologist assigned to them in tabular form. [5352/18]
    • Education and Training Boards
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the head office of LMETB will be based in Drogheda, County Louth; the reason for the delay in the development of the head office facility in...
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of LMETB head office staff involved in finance, human resources, information and communications technology, corporate and education...
    • School Patronage
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the forward planning section of his Department has written to schools (details supplied) to...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the plans for development at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be given to an application for a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on an application for a resource classroom, external cladding and new internal fire doors for a school (details supplied). [5470/18]
    • Schools Property
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the old secondary school building in Longwood, County Meath; and if it will be used for community groups looking for space. [5477/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the funding application for a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 22; when the project will progress to the next stage...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a decision (details supplied) by the Workplace Relations Commission that SOLAS discriminated on the grounds of age against one...
    • School Inspection Reports
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the fire safety remedial works at schools (details supplied) in Dublin 13 are complete; if all the issues identified in the fire safety audits...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the due diligence that was performed prior to awarding a company (details supplied) a PPP contract to construct a number of schools; and if he...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if capital funding streams are available to a centre (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5572/18]
    • Third Level Fees
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines in place in third level institutions for children of returning emigrants; if they are required to pay international fees; if so,...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works are likely to commence at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5594/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for additional accommodation was refused; if a mechanism...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a SUSI grant application submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be re-examined on the grounds of the exceptional...
    • Legislative Measures
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 which have not been commenced; the reason these sections have...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 26 September 2017, the status of an appeal by a school (details supplied) in respect of the...
    • Health and Safety
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5640/18]
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 16 January 2018, if his attention has been dawn to the fact that an education and training board...
    • School Accommodation
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for capital funding by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has been considered; when a decision will issue; and if he...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to list the 40 schools that are under the first phase of the introduction of computer science as a new leaving certificate subject; and if he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if a grant is available for the reason outlined; and if he will make a...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the position on an application for assistance towards the refurbishment of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Junior Cycle Reform
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the junior certificate English examination; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Meath will be connected with broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5821/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) who are working in his Department. [5833/18]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the timeframe for ending the pay inequality in the teaching sector in view of the fact that this situation has been ongoing for over...
    • Oideachas Gaeilge
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a fhoilseofar an dlúthdhiosca a bhaineann leis an scéim “Mar a Déarfá”; agus cén chúis...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the conveyancing process for the acquisition of a site for schools (details supplied) has been completed; if the site is now in public...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for a project (details supplied); the closing date for receipt of tenders; if they have been invited; when...
    • School Staff
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process for the recruitment of a principal for a school (details supplied) will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that progress on the construction of a project (details supplied) is proceeding and a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been invited for a project (details supplied); if the closing date for receipt of tenders is available; when construction of the...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials will meet with the parents and teachers of a school (details supplied) to discuss the crisis in facilities and capacity...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the need for additional parking facilities and resurfacing works at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value that was attached to a building that was handed over by an organisation (details supplied) as part of the redress scheme; the way in...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Property Services Regulation
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend legislation to ensure that landlords that are also estate agents and are renting their own houses through...
    • Wards of Court
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ward of court inpatients are frequently kept in acute hospitals rather than...
    • Crime Data
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken by An Garda Síochána to enable the resumption of publication by the Central Statistics Office,...
    • Courts Service Data
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of court hearings that took place on a monthly basis throughout each Circuit Court regarding house repossessions in...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 19 October 2017, if An Garda Síochána has concluded its comprehensive...
    • Legal Aid Service
      237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review of legal aid services will be carried out in order to ensure that repeat offenders do not continue to make use of...
    • National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan
      238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific roles given to each Department under the national disability inclusion strategy 2017 to 2021; the status of the...
    • Disability Statistics
      239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recommendations that have been implemented further to the report of the make work pay group published in April 2017; the...
    • Disabilities Data
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the oversight implementation group tasked with monitoring the progress of the comprehensive employment...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in relation to a new pre-school facility that is being proposed at a centre (details supplied)...
    • Asylum Applications Data
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons brought here under the EU relocation programme in 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form. [5510/18]
    • Citizenship Applications
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Office for Internet Safety
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that work in the Office for Internet Safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5531/18]
    • Gambling Sector
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the enforcement role An Garda Síochána has in regard to unlicenced gaming activities and the availability of gaming...
    • Garda Support Services
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports in place for front line staff in An Garda Síochána that deal with extremely stressful and difficult...
    • Family Reunification
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has satisfied himself with the one year time limit for applications of family reunification under the International...
    • Crime Data
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of seizures and arrests made since the enactment of the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act 2016; and if he will make a...
    • Child Abuse
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on reports by various NGOs in regions in which sex tourism is prevalent that Irish and other European sex offenders...
    • Garda Resources
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations that cannot use the PULSE system due to lack of broadband in their area, by county, in tabular form; and if...
    • Rural Crime
      257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda resources he plans to use to tackle rural crime; the position regarding Operation Thor; the way in which it is...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Data
      258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all contracts awarded for the supply of the Garda National Immigration Bureau card; the names of the contracts;...
    • Garda Recruitment
      260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the number of new Garda recruits in An Garda Síochána to more than 800 per year over the next...
    • Garda Resources
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of per capita Garda divisional figures here in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5722/18]
    • Spent Convictions Legislation
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to alter the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016 to allow a person who was under 18...
    • Courts Service Administration
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the ongoing delays in the issuing of grants of probate and administrations from the Courts Service in...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contact his Department has had with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in respect of reviewing the...
    • Immigration Status
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a changed marital status has been updated on the file of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) who are working in his Department. [5838/18]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention was drawn to problems by persons in his Department which were highlighted to them by the Ombudsman regarding...
    • Legal Aid Service
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if entitlement to legal aid exists for a person (details supplied) imprisoned in Turkey on a minor issue; and if he will make a...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for legislative change to put the use of community and local authority CCTV schemes on a solid legal footing; and if...
    • Gangland Crime
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the ongoing gangland wars can be immobilised in one way or another; if specific emergency legislation is...
    • Bail Law
      273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the extension of the bail laws has affected the degree to which An Garda Síochána can effectively...
    • Refugee Data
      275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented persons that have been here for more than seven years; the extent to...
    • Immigration Data
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for residency status by persons living here for more than ten years which have been refused in each...
    • Garda Strength
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí available for duty throughout the country in each of the past ten years to date; the extent by which...
    • Garda Training
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which garda training here remains on par with best international practice; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Equipment
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate provision continues to be made to ensure the availability of the most sophisticated technology to...
    • Organised Crime
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which Interpol or Europol continue to be utilised in the context of combatting serious organised crime; and if he...
    • Recidivism Rate
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of occasions on which crimes have been committed by prisoners while on early release, day release and compassionate...
    • Irish Prison Service
      284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to ensure first-time offenders in prison are segregated during recreation or rehabilitative training from...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits the IDA Ireland has made to counties Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Carlow in 2017; and if she...
    • Brexit Issues
      287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to minimise the impact of Brexit in County Donegal; the engagement she has had with IDA Ireland to ensure it secures new...
    • Trade Agreements
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the ratification procedure at EU and member state level for ratification of European trade agreements relating to market access and...
    • Enterprise Ireland Data
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland exporting client companies that have availed of be prepared grants up to 31 January 2017, by county,...
    • Brexit Data
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Brexit readiness vouchers from InterTradeIreland that have been availed of up to 31 January 2017, by county; and the...
    • Work Permits Applications
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date in the determination of a work permit application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Staff
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of vacant positions in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; and the length of time each position has been...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding allocation to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in 2017 and 2018. [5554/18]
    • Work Permits Applications
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an employment permit application by a person (details supplied); and when a decision will be made. [5648/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in her Department. [5828/18]
    • Industrial Relations
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to bring the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill forward as priority legislation; the steps she will take to...
    • Brexit Issues
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific programmes that will be introduced to assist enterprises and businesses that are heavily or totally dependent on the...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the IDA last visited counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number of new jobs that have been created by the IDA in the past 12 months;...
    • IDA Ireland Jobs Data
      302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA jobs created per county here in 2017 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6045/18]
    • Employment Rights
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts she is making to protect all stable staff involved in horse racing under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997; and if...
  • Department of Health
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      305. To ask the Minister for Health if a situation relating to transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be investigated. [6081/18]
    • Medicinal Products
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department has not recommended a suspension of the use of transvaginal mesh in hospitals pending the completion of the Chief Medical Officer's...
    • Health Services Provision
      307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of extra care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5299/18]
    • Hospital Services
      308. To ask the Minister for Health when repairs will be complete in the operating theatre of Merlin Park hospital, Galway to allow the theatre to reopen. [5304/18]
    • HSE Staff Training
      309. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that HSE staff workshops (details supplied) have found that there is fundamental misunderstanding as to the meaning...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      310. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5312/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      311. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of persons from County Tipperary who are inpatients in the department of psychiatry, St. Luke’s Hospital, County Kilkenny. [5313/18]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      312. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a person (details supplied) regarding CAMHS procedures will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5316/18]
    • Hospital Facilities
      313. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a renal unit at Tallaght hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5322/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      314. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5343/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      315. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an orthopaedic assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      316. To ask the Minister for Health the counties without 24-7 mental health supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5349/18]
    • Mental Health Services Expenditure
      317. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure incurred in agency fees in 2017 by the HSE in the provision of mental health services. [5350/18]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional mental health staff recruited in 2017; and the nature of the positions filled. [5351/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      319. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS teams that offer an out-of-hours service by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5353/18]
    • Health Services Staff Training
      321. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of the term "meaningful intervention" in order for a patient contact to be considered valid for the purposes of the continuous professional...
    • Professional Qualifications
      322. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who successfully completed their NQEMT examinations at emergency medical technician level in March 2017 and was duly entered onto the PHECC...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      323. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which a person (details supplied) will have surgery carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5357/18]
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      324. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will introduce to make general practice more attractive to young doctors; his plans to review the FEMPI legislation; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Properties
      325. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE capital and property steering group will next meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5366/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      326. To ask the Minister for Health when care workers for a signed-off care package can be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
      327. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reinstate the respite care grant of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5375/18]
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      328. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency department waiting times greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age in 2017; if the targets were met; if not, the number of persons...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      330. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be considered for additional respite care hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5380/18]
    • HSE Expenditure
      331. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by the HSE to each of the EU states in each of the years 2015 to 2017 in respect of treatments provided in those states under the E111 scheme;...
    • Newborn Screening Cards
      333. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made to date on a decision on how to proceed following a report that was produced after a forum hosted by his Department in October 2016...
    • Health Services Provision
      334. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the approval of the model of care for rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders; the timeframe for its approval; and if he will make...
    • Paediatric Services
      335. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of future adult and paediatric rheumatology services in view of the difficulties accessing both services; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      336. 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. [5397/18]
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      337. To ask the Minister for Health if additional transitional funding for a respite bed for a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5399/18]
    • First Aid Training
      338. To ask the Minister for Health if the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is proposing to implement a ban on advertising first-aid training courses by self-employed instructors who are not...
    • Maternity Services Provision
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the introduction of anomaly scans at Cavan General Hospital; when the unit will open; the number of women who have accessed the service...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      340. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in St. Patrick's community hospital, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, whereby there has been no speech and...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by the speech and language therapist in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5432/18]
    • Tax Code
      342. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to propose income tax reliefs for medical school graduates in respect of loans they obtained to cover their tuition; his views on whether this would...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      343. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE and his Department are discriminating against adults with type 1 diabetes by excluding them in the FreeStyle Libre reimbursement scheme; and...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      344. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a response from the HSE on a cross-border directive application; and if he will make a statement...
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to reduce the waiting times for the paediatric occupational therapy waiting list in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5444/18]
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      347. To ask the Minister for Health the status of physiotherapy services in Erris, County Mayo; when a full-time physiotherapist will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staff Data
      348. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended number of full-time HSE physiotherapists for County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5462/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      352. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5475/18]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE does not operate a single foi@hse.ie email address for FOI requests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5476/18]
    • HSE Data
      354. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons from each county that accessed treatment under the cross-border directive since 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5481/18]
    • EU Directives
      355. To ask the Minister for Health the groups and professions that will be newly prohibited from either referring or carrying out radiological tests following the transposition of the medical...
    • Health Reports
      356. To ask the Minister for Health when the cross-divisional lymphoedema working group will finalise its report; if it will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) to review;...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      358. To ask the Minister for Health if a response to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the services available in the HSE mid-east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5502/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      359. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5503/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      360. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised scooter will be provided for a person (details supplied). [5504/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      361. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reconsider the conditions of reimbursement attached to the freestyle libre glucose sensor for diabetes type 1 (details supplied); if he will...
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recently published external review of a case (details supplied) at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
      367. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5523/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      368. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5525/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Staff
      369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who will be employed at the primary care centre in Claremorris, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5527/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      370. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5537/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      371. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the closure of a swimming pool which provides instruction to children with disabilities and is housed at a facility (details...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      372. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting over two years for an appointment at Beaumont Hospital [5546/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      373. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the five-year waiting list in the ENT department at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      374. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand availability of Naloxone to persons who use drugs as stated in the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017 to...
    • Drugs-related Deaths
      375. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to warn drug users regarding the dangers of a drug (details supplied); the number of drug overdose cases in which this drug has been...
    • Medical Card Applications
      376. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was denied a discretionary medical card. [5579/18]
    • Suicide Prevention
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the National Office for Suicide Prevention’s decision to cut funding to a mental health charity (details supplied); and if he...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      378. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of persons from Ennis who are inpatients in the department of psychiatry at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. [5588/18]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      379. To ask the Minister for Health if a third ANP post has been approved for the emergency department at a hospital (details supplied); if so, when this post is expected to be filled; and if he...
    • Suicide Prevention
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Office for Suicide Prevention is no longer providing funding to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that are currently in possession of a primary medical certificate, nationally and by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      382. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessity for a change of pessary will be included in the GMS to compensate general practitioners for carrying out this procedure in an effort to reduce...
    • Health Services Provision
      383. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve service provision at Swords Health Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5634/18]
    • Non-Acute and Community Agencies Funding
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the annual funding provided to section 39 organisations each year since 2011; and the allocation to same for 2018. [5641/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      385. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [5654/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      386. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make the freestyle libre glucose monitoring system for persons with diabetes available under the general medical scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the position of a person (details supplied) on the waiting list at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5687/18]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      388. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement registered general nurse, RGN, will be put in place in a health centre (details supplied); if the centre will be employing another public...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      389. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for orthodontic work. [5716/18]
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlement of a person (details supplied) to accessing morphine patches under the medical card scheme. [5720/18]
    • Data Protection
      391. To ask the Minister for Health if he was consulted on the introduction of a digital age of consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5721/18]
    • Mental Health Policy
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which young persons will be considered in the development and implementation of legislation, policy and services for youth as per recommendation one...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      393. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the transfer of medium and low support mental health residences here to local authorities to manage the rollout of the tenancy sustainment...
    • Hospital Procedures
      394. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 341, 342, 346, 347 and 348 of 30 January 2018, if his attention has been drawn to a scientific study of 92,246 first...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      395. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have ear surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5771/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been attending hospital for treatment for three years for an issue with their ankle; and if there is a scheme that...
    • HSE Properties
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for a project (details supplied) for the purchase of a new building in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      398. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an operation in University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5780/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medicine has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) [5787/18]
    • State Claims Agency Data
      401. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 418 of 30 January 2018, if the State Claims Agency maintains records in different formats of confidential settlements...
    • Health Insurance Community Rating
      402. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the lifetime community rating scheme to make credits available to persons on low incomes who qualified for medical cards from 2008 and to...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to increase home care packages and home help hours to older persons to resolve overcrowding in hospitals; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary care centre in Clondalkin village, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5803/18]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for refusing persons with MS to be recognised as having a debilitating illness and so receive needed support such as a medical card. [5820/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5836/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      410. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a procedure carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5853/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include persons with Parkinson's disease on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5862/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the cost per year of caring for a person with acute locked-in syndrome in an institutional setting. [5863/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for direct referral for oncology patients to the oncology ward to be implemented in Cork University Hospital [5865/18]
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      415. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 920 of 13 July 2017, the position regarding the registration and regulation of complementary therapists, including...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      416. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide increased funding for an organisation (details supplied) in 2018 in view of its requirement for extra funding; and if he will make a...
    • Statutory Retirement Age
      417. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to continue in employment for another year after reaching 65 years of age in March 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the FreeStyle Libre device being added to the medical card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5893/18]
    • HSE Planning
      419. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 961 of 16 January 2018, the estimated timeline for consideration by HSE estates at the HSE national capital and property...
    • Obesity Strategy
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the priority action under step 3 of the obesity policy and action plan, OPAP (details supplied); the quarter of 2018 in which this will be...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      422. To ask the Minister for Health if the national policy and strategy for the provision of neurorehabilitation services in Ireland will include stroke or make provision for services to stroke...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      425. To ask the Minister for Health further to the referred reply received from the HSE to Parliamentary Question No. 418 of 23 January 2018, the position regarding the business case submitted by...
    • Dental Services Provision
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) can be reviewed and the details of their entitlements provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5916/18]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation of mental health funding for 2017, by CHO; the spend on mental health by CHO; and the status of underspent mental health funding by CHO. [5917/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5922/18]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding projects (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5933/18]
    • Psychological Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to ensure that sufficient psychological support is provided to children in view of the increase in reporting after the introduction...
    • Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited with an organisation in view of the fact the person has been on the waiting list for two...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5948/18]
    • Respite Care Services Data
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children nationally that require respite care services, by CHO area, in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5951/18]
    • Home Care Packages Data
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with complex needs who are in receipt of paediatric home-care packages nationally, by CHO area, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to have a decision reviewed to refuse an application for a primary medical certificate by a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Hospital Facilities
      437. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to contract additional theatre facilities in part of replacement for theatre facilities at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the demonstration project pilot sites to establish collaborative care pathways for persons with complex neuro-rehabilitation needs; and if he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      444. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 383, 384, 385, 410, 411 and 412 of 30 January 2018, the person or body that made the decision to provide a trivalent...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and-or the HSE have in the past seven years entered into contracts with charitable organisations whereby these contracts included a clause...
    • Departmental Contracts
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and-or the HSE have in the past seven years entered into contracts with section 38 and or section 39 organisations whereby these contracts...
    • Vaccination Programme
      448. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the administration of the Gardasil vaccine to persons who develop types of auto antibodies that were not present before the vaccine was...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has discontinued waiting-list targets set in 2017; the number of persons who will be affected; the number of complex cases that are still...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason primary care centres (details supplied) will not be provided with additional new staff hires; the way in which these centres will now be staffed; if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      455. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding an application for an emergency medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [6079/18]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • GLAS Applications
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5302/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Applications
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the national reserve; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fodder Crisis
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the application form and full details of the transport scheme as announced to ease the farm fodder crisis will be published; and...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme Data
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that undertook each of the various welfare measures of the sheep welfare scheme. [5358/18]
    • Livestock Issues
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which fluke alerts were issued in 2017. [5359/18]
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Eligibility
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional funding is available to young farmers in addition to the 60% grant for those that are in partnership with their parents...
    • GLAS Data
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons enrolled in GLAS 1, 2 and 3 who have submitted their nutrient management plans to date; and the number that...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of 2017 basic payment scheme applicants by county; the number who received payments; the expenditure in payments in 2017,...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5460/18]
    • Commonage Management Plans
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commonage farmers who have completed a commonage management plan, CMP, by county, in tabular form; the number who have...
    • Farmers Charter
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the farmers' charter between his Department and farming organisations agreed on payment dates for RDP schemes in 2017 and 2018; if...
    • Departmental Investigations
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an ongoing investigation into a company (details supplied) regarding the fraudulent processing of AEOS paperwork and...
    • Afforestation Programme
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the land area in County Leitrim available for afforestation or agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5642/18]
    • Forestry Data
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for licences for forestry nationally in each of the years 2010 to 2016; the percentage of these...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to change the rate of premium payments for afforestation to ensure that full-time farmers receive a higher rate payment...
    • GLAS Applications
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a GLAS payment; the date on which the application was received; if further...
    • GLAS Payments
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5740/18]
    • Forestry Sector
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of loans that have been approved for the purchase of land; the county in which the land is to be purchased under the low...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5827/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of GLAS payments outstanding for persons in County Cork. [5867/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the EU regulation that requires that a person must have an agricultural qualification to qualify for entitlements under the national...
    • Lost at Sea Scheme
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that benefitted from the lost at sea scheme; his plans to allow these persons to sell or transfer to third...
    • Forestry Data
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry road grants and felling licences that were applied for and granted to companies and persons in County Leitrim...
    • Environmental Impact Statements
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of environmental impact assessments that were carried out on the planting of forestry, by county, in each of the years...
    • GLAS Payments
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5915/18]
    • Beef Industry
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to protect and further the interests of the beef industry in CAP negotiations, particularly those relating...
    • Food Imports
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures which can be taken to stifle the importation of Brazilian beef in view of its questionable sources and harm to the beef...
    • TAMS Applications
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of an application for a TAMS grant by a partnership (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the BGDP and suckle payment will be issued to a person (details supplied); if the payments can be expedited; and if he will make...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an AEOS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6046/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a GLAS and organic payment scheme payment for 2017; and if he will make...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Fishing Communities
      498. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to protect and promote small coastal fishing communities in particular those persons that did not avail of...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      499. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the new household waste collection charging arrangements will be in place; the way in which the annual support of...
    • Litter Pollution
      500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on awareness, warnings and so on to prevent dog fouling, by county. [5314/18]
    • Natural Gas Grid
      502. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to further develop the natural gas distribution and transmission networks in the north west region; the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      503. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of ecar power points planned and available to the public in each local authority area, in tabular form; and...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme
      505. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 410 of 12 December 2017, if he will devise a mechanism that will allow the...
    • Commission for Communications Regulation Investigations
      506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ComReg's broadband market review has yet to be published; if he has...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      507. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the change in ownership of a company (details supplied) subject to approval by the Competition and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the reduction of the intervention area for the national broadband plan by 300,000 homes will lead to savings to the...
    • National Broadband Plan Data
      509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes in the amber areas of the national broadband map as of January 2018, by county, in tabular form....
    • North-South Interconnector
      511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if An Bord Pleanála’s planning conditions in relation to the North-South interconnector have to be adhered...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5830/18]
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan; when this scheme is scheduled to start; the timeframe for its completion;...
    • Broadband Service Charges
      514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which wholesale prices of broadband here compare to other EU countries; his plans for policy initiatives to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there have been discussions between eir and his Department in relation to invoking clause 6.3 of the agreement...
    • National Broadband Plan Administration
      516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to date in the tendering process for the national broadband scheme; the timeframe to sign contracts...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implications of a company's (details supplied) withdrawal from the rendering process of the national broadband plan...
    • Online Business Voucher Scheme
      521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that is spent online each hour by persons; if he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on measures to...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding available through his Department for small and medium businesses that wish to opt for recyclable packaging,...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Motor Tax Yield
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected in motor tax by each respective county council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [5627/18]
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount allocated for road maintenance to each respective county council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 in tabular form. [5628/18]
    • Motor Tax Collection
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cars taxed which were registered in each of the years 2000 to July 2008; the number of non-vintage cars registered before...
    • Roads Maintenance
      526. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the imminent collapse of a bridge wall (details supplied) will be investigated and rebuilt; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed the funding of the CIÉ defined benefit pension scheme with the senior management of CIÉ. [5360/18]
    • Tourism Ireland Expenditure
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of the Tourism Ireland budget that is allocated for the promotion of retail here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding defined benefit pension schemes in Coras Iompar Éireann (details supplied);...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of oversight by his Department on the way in which local authorities allocate funds received under the regional and local grant...
    • Roads Maintenance
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the aspects of Bunbeg footbridge that will be upgraded as part of the €40,000 allocated to the project from the specific...
    • Rail Services Data
      533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times the Limerick to Ennis train line was closed due to flooding in each of the years 2014 to 2017; and his plans to...
    • Noise Pollution
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has satisfied himself that, further to the appointment of Fingal County Council as the new independent airport noise regulator for...
    • Consumer Protection
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason car rental companies seek a doctor's note when leasing a car to a person aged over 75 years of age (details supplied); his...
    • Road Tolls
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with TII to ensure that motorists are given greater notification regarding the toll charges along the M50 motorway...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has satisfied himself that SI 323/2000, SI 205/2010 and SI 353/1951 in respect of pension arrangements within an entity (details...
    • Light Rail Projects
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a regular shuttle bus service to operate between Broombridge Luas station and the Dublin west area in order that...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Remit
      539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the N22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5635/18]
    • National Car Test
      540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5688/18]
    • Rail Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the upgrade and or replacement of next stop announcements on DART services will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a number of recent High Court cases in regard to the legality of reducing employees' entitlements...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in his Department. [5842/18]
    • Rail Network Expansion
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent costing for the construction and provision of phase 2 of the Navan to Dublin rail line; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mountain Rescue Service
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the objective criteria used to allocate funding to mountain rescue teams here; if there is a published scheme outlining these criteria;...
    • Road Projects Status
      548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed upgrade of Tinker's cross junction in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5900/18]
    • Child Safety
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures taken to prevent and identify potential abuse on Ireland's athletic teams in view of recent events surrounding a person...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 551
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to further encourage the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into sport teams throughout Ireland...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if sufficient provisions have been set aside for the fixing of roads in need of repair in view of the upcoming British-Irish...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public transport provision will be expanded to cater for the requirements of persons in a school (details supplied). [6036/18]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services
      554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the request by a resource centre (details supplied) in County Clare that the licence for childcare services be removed from a...
    • Education Welfare Service
      555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the guidelines provided to educational welfare officers in Tusla in relation to the point at which a family is brought before the court to...
    • Child Care Services Administration
      556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention was drawn to concerns in counties Laois and Offaly social work service by Tusla management in the two years prior to May...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if copies of all communications and or emails from a person (details supplied) in regard to a matter will be provided; and the responses...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in her Department. [5829/18]
    • Departmental Data
      561. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the postal and printing services outsourced to the private sector in 2017 by her Department; the purpose of the service; the cost involved;...
    • Child Care Services Data
      562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adolescent residential beds in Munster both private and public in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      563. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role played by his Department in ensuring that local authorities adhere to appropriate procurement procedures in tendering for dog...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      564. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason persons living in the rural areas of Galway city and Cork city councils were not eligible to lodge applications under the...
    • Rural Transport Programme
      565. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the concerns among operators regarding the proposed transfer of local link services provided under...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      566. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) who are working in his Department. [5840/18]
    • Mountain Rescue Service
      567. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to fund a capital programme to develop suitable bases for mountain rescue teams in locations in which none exists in view of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Working Family Payment Data
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Defence Forces personnel who are availing of family income supplement, in tabular form. [5730/18]
    • School Meals Programme
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schools that qualify for the school meals scheme under the DEIS and non-DEIS criteria respectively, by county. [6035/18]
    • Bereavement Grant
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a death grant will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5300/18]
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Applications
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) for a non-contributory pension; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time for decisions on carer's allowance and domiciliary care allowance payments; the number of persons...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action being taken to provide pension equality for those who were historically penalised for being stay-at-home parents;...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a review of a decision not to grant disability allowance; and...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an oral hearing has not been arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby farmers on reaching pension age do not receive the benefit of the earnings disregard...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the closure of the social welfare office in Castlepollard, County Westmeath will be reconsidered (details supplied). [5430/18]
    • Training Support Grant
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount provided in training support grant in each of the years 2015 to 2017, by amount paid, to each supplier of...
    • JobPath Data
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the first steps programme who have been referred to JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the implication of recent court decisions in respect of Seetec and Turas Nua deducting payments from persons in receipt of...
    • JobPath Data
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on the JobPath scheme who have availed of the training support grant; and if she will make a statement...
    • Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) did not qualify for the back-to-work enterprise allowance. [5547/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that new applications for carer's allowance are taking at least 17 weeks to...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Applications
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a further review will be carried out on a person's (details supplied) application for further backdating of their old age...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the circumstances in the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [5600/18]
    • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the waiting period of six days for illness benefit; the estimated day-by-day reduction costs; and if she...
    • Citizen Information Services Funding
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided to the CIB in 2017 and 2018 to fund MABS and CIS; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 17 January 2018, her plans to ensure that the MABS national management forum...
    • Parental Leave
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing an additional 12 weeks of paid maternity leave and an additional 12 weeks of paid paternity...
    • Labour Activation Programmes
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a company engaged in employing a person through JobBridge, JobPath, community employment, Tús or a similar scheme is...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in her Department. [5834/18]
    • State Pensions
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the differences that exist between long-term unemployment and long-term disability payments in respect of opting for credits...
    • State Pensions Reform
      598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put in place protection for persons due to retire in the period 2020-30 to ensure they are not financially...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Payments
      599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which and when she plans to unwind cuts made to lone parents' payments during the recession as reported recently;...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the 20 year home caring credits announced recently will apply to qualifying pensioners after the total contributions...
    • JobPath Data
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have had their jobseeker's payments stopped due to the fact they did not engage with Jobpath; if...
    • Labour Activation Programmes
      602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the time a person can remain on the Tús scheme from one year to three years in view of the circular...
    • Child Benefit Data
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the continuation of a payment of child benefit for all children that have reached 18 years of age but that remain in full...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for exceptional needs payment by a person (details supplied) will receive a reply; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Housing Finance Agency
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the €200 million raised by the Housing Finance Agency for the purposes of the newly announced local authority loan...
    • Disability Support Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons with visual impairments will be facilitated to vote independently by secret ballot in the upcoming referendum; if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing current expenditure programme, SCHEP, tenancies in which properties are owned by private...
    • Housing Loans
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons that were legally divorced or separated and that have legally discharged their interest in the family home are...
    • Housing Data
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding housing in County Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5398/18]
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce the new incremental purchase scheme for local authority houses. [5479/18]
    • Development Contributions
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount raised in development levy contributions in each of the years 2001 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Water Charges
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his department will remove from its website all references to having to have paid water charges to avail of certain schemes...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review undertaken by his Department in respect of a framework for harmonisation approach by local...
    • Housing Policy
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the framework document on housing for older persons currently being developed by his Department; the number of...
    • Fire Service
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of projects (details supplied); the stages they are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5595/18]
    • European Parliament Elections
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the stage at which negotiations at European Union level on the reallocation of seats in the European Parliament following the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if information (details supplied) will be provided in relation to each local authority for 2016 and 2017; and if he will make...
    • Local Authority Funding
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Westmeath County Council will be advised of its 2018 homeless provision budget in the context of its role as head local...
    • Water Charges Administration
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legal position for homeowners who wish to sell their homes and who have not paid the domestic water charge, in view of the...
    • NSAI Inspections
      624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the National Standards Authority of Ireland, NSAI, arrangements for the supervision of erectors...
    • Fire Safety
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the interim report of the high level task force that was established after the Grenfell Tower fire under...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the agency responsible for taking action against a landlord who discriminates against a person on the basis of refusing to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1771 of 16 January 2018, the specific number of new builds finished; and if he will make...
    • Rental Accommodation Standards
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections carried out in the rental sector in each Dublin local authority in each of the years from 2015 to...
    • Housing Agency
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the appointment of the chair of the Housing Agency will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the enforcement activity undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board to confirm that a 4% rent cap is...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) who are working in his Department. [5837/18]
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding for the housing adaptation grants for people with a disability will issue to each local authority in respect of...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Grants
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if arrangements have been made to retrospectively increase the house water grant to group water schemes to ensure these...
    • Construction Costs
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the independent audit of residential construction costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5923/18]
    • Foreshore Issues
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the sale of a piece of land (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5946/18]
    • Planning Issues
      639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the interpretation of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 that all houses with four or fewer bedrooms...
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there is a need to regulate short-term lettings in houses with four or fewer bedrooms; and if he will...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a municipal district council can have more than two electoral areas under the terms of reference for local electoral...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Rebuilding Ireland home loan will be available to persons who are housed by voluntary housing agencies but want to buy...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Staff Data
      659. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) who are working in her Department. [5831/18]
    • Cuanta agus Céanna
      660. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le pleanáil chun feabhas a chur ar na céibheanna ar Inis Meáin...

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What are Written Answers?

The parliamentary question is a great way for TDs to discover information which the government may not wish to reveal. Ministers reply via written answers, a list of which gets published daily.

We let you vote on whether or not the answer given is adequate.