Written answers

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Banking
      1. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      3. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department that entered the Civil Service via a route...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department for the...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12000/18]
    • Defence Forces Reserve Funding
      6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of personnel in the Reserve Defence Forces from 2,050 to 4,100; his plans to increase the...
    • Air Corps Equipment
      7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the replacement of Air Corps Cessna aircraft; the position regarding the replacement of CASA maritime patrol aircraft; and...
    • Protected Disclosures
      8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether protected disclosures in which it is alleged that health and safety inspection reports were destroyed as part of a cover-up...
    • Civil Defence Data
      9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Civil Defence personnel by county; the shortfall in numbers in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12260/18]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Forces can be better mobilised in the event of natural disasters, including flooding, in view of the need for...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the steps he is taking to respond to the matter of pay and conditions for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Properties
      12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the property and land and acreage of each owned by his Department in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12546/18]
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason members of the Defence Forces that have served the country for more than 31 years face a reduction in their pension entitlements when...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to provide overtime payments to members of the Defence Forces that recently worked in excess of their contracted hours during Storm...
    • Civil Defence Data
      17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of counties in which the Civil Defence was not deployed or partially deployed during Storm Emma due to lack of training or health and...
    • Civil Defence
      19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount allocated to each local authority over each of the past ten years for the provision of training for new Civil Defence recruits in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when his Department will respond to correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the service record of a former soldier; and if he will make...
    • National Development Plan Data
      21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the...
    • Army Barracks
      22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to engage consultants with a view to establishing a plan for future use of Columb Barracks, Mullingar. [12953/18]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • European Convention on Human Rights
      23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of occasions Ireland has been found by the European Court of Human Rights to be in contravention of Article 2 of the European...
    • Departmental Banking
      24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will make...
    • Passport Applications
      25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the requirement for persons to have a public services card to apply or renew their passport; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there will be an increase in the number of staff in his Department in 2018 particularly in the areas covering Brexit in Dublin and...
    • Northern Ireland
      28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the negotiations on reconvening the Northern Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11819/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department that entered the Civil Service via a...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      30. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department for...
    • Human Rights Cases
      31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been sentenced to prison for criticising the Bahraini...
    • UN Human Rights Council
      32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland’s participation in the 37th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to date; the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Israeli Prime Minister and bring to his attention that while he condemned Iran at the Munich Security Conference on 18...
    • Northern Ireland
      34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent discussions on appointing a United States special envoy to Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his Dutch counterpart regarding Brexit impacts; if he has met and fully discussed Brexit with all his EU Foreign Minister...
    • Trade Promotion
      36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport waiting lists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12200/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Moscow or Tehran which are in receipt of State funding or support; and his views on whether it...
    • Passport Applications Data
      39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting times for the various categories of passport applications. [12283/18]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the capital allocation for his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the areas in which this will be spent in each of these years, by...
    • Passport Services
      41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated to the delivery of the passport reform programme project in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated cost of...
    • Global Footprint Initiative
      42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated to the delivery of the doubling the global footprint initiative in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated cost...
    • Passport Applications Refusals
      43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to cases in which Irish citizens were leaving the State for the purposes of conversion or reparative...
    • Lobbying Data
      44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister, Gilad Erdan, has informed an Israeli newspaper (details...
    • Human Rights
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's contribution to attempting to halt the atrocities continuing to be committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar;...
    • Middle East Issues
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports that Israeli forces disguised as Palestinian students entered Birzeit University in the occupied...
    • Passport Services
      47. 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 Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and...
    • Passport Applications Data
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports awaiting processing through the An Post Passport Express system; the reason for the delays in the processing of...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the turnaround time for the An Post Passport Express applications is approximately two weeks...
    • Passport Applications Data
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting time for a passport applied for through the online renewal service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12701/18]
    • Passport Applications Administration
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking to ensure that the waiting time for a new passport is restored to ten working days wait time; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of new staff who have been employed by his Department in the past two years to deal with the increased volume of applications for...
    • Brexit Documents
      54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of the Government of Ireland: Brexit Communications online newsletter; the number of persons who input content and provide...
    • National Development Plan
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Financial Services Regulation
      56. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that insurance companies and lending institutions show empathy towards farmers in south-west County Cork who have experienced extreme...
    • Vehicle Registration
      57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a service in which persons can change their motor registration plate to their county of residence for a fee both as a possible stream of...
    • Brexit Issues
      58. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to examples in which a region of a third country was part of the EU customs territory; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an overview of the accelerated capital allowance scheme for crèches and gyms as published in the Action Plan for Jobs 2018 that has...
    • Departmental Banking
      61. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) regarding the use of section 110 tax relief in a location; his plans to address the matter on...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns from...
    • Property Tax Administration
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated yield from the review being undertaken of the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11796/18]
    • Tax Reliefs Abolition
      65. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce tax relief on trade union subscriptions; the estimated annual cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11849/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a route other than...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance the directions provided for the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department for the days during...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the shadow chancellor in London on 5 March 2018; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Supervision
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has directed all banks to apply a 20% discount on foreign currency earnings for the purposes of calculating qualifying income for a...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of regulating the financial sector in 2016 and 2017; the amount of regulatory fees collected by the Central Bank from each tier in the same period;...
    • Mortgage Data
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance if a buy-to-let mortgage which has been on interest only since its commencement by agreement between a bank and a borrower can be classified as a...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the reported closure of the Central Bank print facility; the way in which it was decided to close the facility; if a...
    • Tax Collection
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if inheritance tax must be paid before a house is sold in circumstances in which a house is willed to a person; and if so, the review that has been carried out...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Data
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance the average time taken by the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman to assess and determine complaints made regarding financial institutions; the number of...
    • Personal Contract Plans
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he and the Central Bank will take in response to the report by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on the car finance market; and if...
    • Stamp Duty
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance if the provision that permits stamp duty relief for land involving the sale and purchase of land by farmers, which facilitates such considerations and which...
    • Vehicle Registration
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 27 February 2018, the position regarding the matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance if a case in which persons (details supplied) have been refused the help-to-buy scheme by the Revenue Commissioners will be examined. [12255/18]
    • Wards of Court
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 6 March 2018, his plans to amend section 730GA of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to exempt wards of court...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); the mechanism by which persons will receive 100% of their claims; the timeframe involved in...
    • Tax Collection
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance if assistance will be made available to a person (details supplied) to pay outstanding PRSI and USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12375/18]
    • NAMA Expenditure
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid to each receiver appointed by NAMA since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12387/18]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the investigation into the findings of the Moriarty tribunal; if he is satisfied that the findings will be acted upon; and if he will make a...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who are blind can get VAT back on cars, in view of the fact they are disabled and require a driver to drive them; and the way in which the claim can...
    • Government Bonds
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which a bond owned by a person (details supplied) can be cashed. [12448/18]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the regulations for the disabled drivers scheme and eligibility for a primary medical certificate under this scheme to ensure that a person...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be an investigation of a bank (details supplied) removing from tracker mortgages customers seeking a top-up mortgage loan; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to utilise the credit union movement and its resources to develop new affordable housing financial products; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines that banks use when calculating the ability to pay of a person in mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12555/18]
    • Banking Sector
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance if a bank (details supplied) or other State-backed banks have been lobbied or communicated with by Israel or other foreign states regarding their management of...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank has investigated issues regarding failure to comply with provision 3.11 of the consumer protection code relating to the transfer of...
    • Tax Data
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of all tax appeals with the Revenue Commissioners that are awaiting a hearing or judgement, by liability type; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Appeals Commission
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance the average length of time an appeal case takes to be heard by the Tax Appeals Commission; the average time to receive a judgment; and if he will make a...
    • Credit Union Regulation
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons that entered draws in credit unions suspected of not being run in a transparent way will be refunded their entry fees in view of a Central Bank...
    • Vehicle Registration
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance when the policy regarding VRT refunds under the VRT export repayment scheme was changed (details supplied); the date this policy change was implemented; and...
    • VAT Rate Application
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance if a case (details supplied) will be examined in relation to the calculation of VAT on a VRT calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12637/18]
    • VAT Yield
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT received from the sale of print newspapers in 2017; the VAT received from online newspapers in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Data
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the latest employment projections for the 2018 to 2022 period at national and regional level in tabular form. [12741/18]
    • Prize Bonds
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure for prize bond draws; the location they take place; the regularity with which they are run; the person or body that conducts the draw; if they...
    • EU Directives
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to sign the statutory instrument for the transposition of the Insurance Distribution Directive, specifically in relation to Articles 22.3 and...
    • Excise Duties Collection
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to investigate with the Revenue Commissioners the efforts they are making in order to increase their patrol of goods and products entering the...
    • Tracker Mortgage Data
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of homes or buy-to-lets lost after the Central Bank wrote to the lenders in December 2015, respectively, by lender, as a result of the tracker...
    • Tax Reliefs Abolition
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce tax relief for trade union members on union subscriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12816/18]
    • Departmental Schemes
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received proposals from other Departments for a scheme similar to the home renovation incentive scheme to incentivise the refurbishment of derelict...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the regulations on the disabled drivers' and passengers' scheme to allow drivers of cars bought through a PCP to avail of the scheme. [12928/18]
    • Tax Code
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend income tax relief to routine dental expenses, such as fillings and extractions, in view of the introduction of the sugar tax; and if he...
    • European Central Bank
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed bribery allegations against a Latvian ECB board member with his EU colleagues or with the ECB; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Development Plan Data
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the estimated...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • National Lottery Data
      119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of all unclaimed lottery prizes for each of the five years before the sale of the lottery licence in 2014; if all unclaimed...
    • Public Sector Pay
      120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the report on the costings of pay equality as called for in an amendment to section 11 of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act...
    • Departmental Properties
      121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a property (details supplied) is for sale; if so, the point of contact for inquiries regarding same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Banking
      122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • Shared Services
      124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have been overpaid as a result of errors within the National Shared Services Office; the highest overpayment...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons in the Civil Service at the grade of principal officer or higher who entered the service other than through an...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the design stage for proposed flood protection plans for Buncrana and Luddan, County Donegal under the north western Neagh Bann...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if temporary contractors within the Civil Service will be paid for work hours missed during Storm Emma; and if he will make a statement...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress to date in respect of drainage and flood prevention works associated with the Morrell River, County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the flood protection works that the Office of Public Works will undertake to protect homes and businesses flooded in August 2017 at a...
    • Public Appointments Service
      137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if guidelines to be followed by State bodies in running a recruitment process for CEOs are produced by his Department; and if so, if he...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Enniscorthy flood relief scheme; the status of works to control and eradicate invasive species of vegetation...
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding works to consolidate the Revenue Commissioners' customs terminal accommodation in Rosslare Harbour, County...
    • State Properties
      145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding refitting Government buildings in Enniscorthy to enable consolidation of Department of Employment Affairs and...
    • Coast Guard Services
      146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the construction of a new Coast Guard station at Kilmore Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Government Procurement
      147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mechanisms in place to monitor the performance of the Office of Government Procurement and of the impact of its decisions on small...
    • Departmental Reports
      148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish reports (details supplied). [12472/18]
    • Office of Government Procurement
      149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish the report of the independent external review of the tender advisory service of the Office of Government...
    • Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Applications
      152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a decision has been made on a minor flooding and costal protection works scheme grant application (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Data
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the applications submitted to the Office of Public Works by a local authority (details supplied) in each of the past three years to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      156. 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 the work will...
    • Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of homeowners who have applied for the VHR scheme by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Labour Employer Economic Forum
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of the Labour Employer Economic Forum since it was established; the annual running cost in each year...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Government Procurement was involved with the procurement process for a company (details supplied) in regard to the...
    • Civil Service Staff Data
      160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the performance review for Secretaries General and assistant secretaries general which was set to be implemented...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works plans to upgrade the monument building and surrounding grounds at the Casino in Marino, Dublin 9; if...
    • National Development Plan Data
      162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 which come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts made by his Department to ensure that there will be the required number of construction workers to enable the Rebuilding Ireland...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of the seven settlements made by the State Claims Agency to date as part of the ex-gratia scheme set up following a judgement...
    • Garda Vetting Legislation
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Garda vetting clearance for a person (details supplied) can be transferable between schools similar to the arrangement in place for teachers...
    • Education and Training Provision
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of employed persons aged 16 years of age and over in training related to professional activity here, according to the latest...
    • Departmental Banking
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe to end the pay inequality for teachers in view of the publication of the pay review; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness...
    • School Curriculum
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools in counties Sligo and Leitrim were not included in his Department's pilot scheme for physical education for the leaving...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide post-primary schools for an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11798/18]
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a route...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department for the...
    • School Staff
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for another teacher will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11888/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation. [11909/18]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of securing a permanent site for a school (details supplied) in the Castleknock and Carpenterstown area; and if he will make a...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers who teach abroad in private schools cannot be included in the incremental credit scheme operated by his Department in view of...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for the provision of six additional classrooms; if these facilities...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 28 February 2018, the nature and number of consultations in 2016 referred to in his reply; and if...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Payments
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will receive funding that was approved via the emergency works scheme three years ago; and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12063/18]
    • Service Level Agreements
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a service level agreement or other oversight arrangement in place between his Department and An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by a company (details supplied) to broadband service providers, by provider for services in 2017; the amount paid by service type...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SUSI grants will be paid to all full-time students attending private colleges (details supplied); the estimated amount it would cost to extend...
    • School Staff
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is dissatisfaction amongst school secretaries with their terms and conditions (details...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on an application for an exceptional teaching post, ETP, position for a school (details supplied) will be made; and if he will...
    • School Patronage
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for a demographic exercise when the five schools targeted by this measure have been providing his Department with pre-enrolment...
    • School Transport Applications
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in the provision of school transport for a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [12140/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he last met formally with the CEO and Chairperson of Caranua; the issues discussed; when he will next meet the CEO and Chairperson; and if...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the emergency works application by a school (details supplied) will be examined; if a decision will be expedited on this application in view...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 20 February 2018, if all overpayments have been written off. [12166/18]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a fire outbreak in a school (details supplied) in March 2018; if additional resources to ensure that this work...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an extra year on the ECCE scheme will be awarded to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12198/18]
    • Seirbhísí Leathanbhanda
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad chuige nach bhfuil ach luas íoslódála 2 Mheigighiotán sa soicind (Mbps) ar fáil i scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall...
    • Departmental Funding
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nature of his Department's relationship with an event (details supplied); if it makes a financial contribution to the event; if his...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will overturn the decision relating to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12270/18]
    • School Placement
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will have a place in a secondary school which caters for their special needs in September 2018; and if he will...
    • Teaching Contracts
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when changes affecting the amount of substitution work a teacher can complete while serving a career break will come into effect; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when building work will commence on a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Limerick.; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Administration
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rules and guidelines for school boards of management and parents associations in relation to a matter (details supplied) when the facility...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) had its application turned down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12314/18]
    • Schools Building Projects
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of parents regarding the safety implications of the outstanding work to remove derelict...
    • School Accommodation
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for accommodation for a school (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12349/18]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 21 May 2017, if the summer works scheme will be reopened to new applications in view of the fact...
    • School Admissions
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a school is allowed to withdraw an offer of a school place to a child (details supplied) on learning that the child has a disability....
    • School Transport
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are changes planned to a bus route (details supplied); if this bus route will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a tender will be approved for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Wexford [12399/18]
    • Schools Building Contractors
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his contingency plans for students impacted by the collapse of a company (details supplied); if this contingency plan will be cognisant of...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is advice or assistance for schools on clearing snow following extreme weather events such as storm Emma; if there are guidelines for...
    • Education and Training Boards
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agreed contracts to provide educational courses through ETBs that have been awarded to an organisation (details supplied) since its...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Data
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of late applications for a SUSI grant for the 2017/2018 academic year; the number that were accepted and not accepted, respectively;...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policies that govern the placements of secondary school students during transition year or other work experience placements; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the State Examinations Commission to revise the qualifying criteria for the RACE scheme to allow special arrangements for...
    • School Accommodation
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of discussions with a school (details supplied) regarding a move to another premises; and if sanction will be forthcoming for such a...
    • Capitation Grants
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cuts that have occurred to the capitation fund for primary schools since 2008; the cost in monetary terms of these cuts to the primary school...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building project (details supplied) in County Cork; the next steps and timeframe for the completion of the project; if...
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary schools newly occupied since July 2016 or due to be open by December 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12580/18]
    • School Admissions
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the progression of the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12610/18]
    • School Staff Appeals Mechanism
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal submitted by a school (details supplied) will be successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12614/18]
    • DEIS Status
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS status will be awarded to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12623/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for funding to upgrade toilets, heating and windows in the school building; and if he...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Data
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational psychologists; the number of vacancies that are unfilled by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the summer works scheme will be reopened for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12705/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12725/18]
    • Teacher Recruitment
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding teacher supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12727/18]
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 8 March 2018, the amount expended in each of the years 2014 to 2017 for initiatives (details...
    • Schools Establishment
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the provision of a new primary school for Swords in view of the fact the existing primary schools are at capacity; and if he will...
    • School Curriculum
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the social, personal and health education courses at senior cycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make changes to the terms and conditions of service of primary school principals that would encourage them to defer retirement; and...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a SNA application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12841/18]
    • Third Level Charges
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on charges for resitting examinations in universities; his plans to prevent the practice; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for the relocation of a school (details supplied); the funding which has been allocated for this project; the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special circumstances of persons (details supplied) will be accepted relative to their applications for a student grant which are now...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school bundle 5; the completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12877/18]
    • Educational Supports
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance can be provided to a group (details supplied) in County Louth that is providing language supports to Lithuanian students preparing...
    • School Discipline
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to prevent vandalism and anti-social behaviour in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Department or organisation that has responsibility for monitoring the effects of over-exposure to EMF radiation on schoolchildren from...
    • Capitation Grants
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the primary school capitation grant will be restored to the 2008 level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12920/18]
    • School Funding
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the increasing levels of fundraising parents must engage in to facilitate the running of primary schools; his views on whether this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department advises schools on the percentage of children with complex special educational needs such as autism spectrum disorder that is...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs unit in a school (details supplied) will open in September 2018; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress with regard to the permanent location for a school (details supplied); if a technical report has been submitted; the stage...
    • School Funding
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for capital funding by a school (details supplied). [12968/18]
    • Autism Support Services
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD unit. [12969/18]
    • National Development Plan Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Funding
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding his Department has provided to a centre (details supplied). [11951/18]
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a consultation of young persons has taken place in regard to the proposed changes to the provision of youth diversion...
    • Maternity Leave
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the age limits for parents to take maternity leave (details supplied); the details of the differing...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he plans to implement to assist persons with disabilities following the ratification of the UN Convention on the...
    • Departmental Banking
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • International Terrorism
      296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether there are persons within An Garda Síochána and his Department that are qualified in the field of...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if RIA has a fit and proper persons' test for organisations or persons that run direct provision centres on behalf of RIA....
    • Garda Transport Data
      300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of four wheel drive Garda vehicles in each district in the Dublin metropolitan region; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the transport that was available to gardaí to carry out their duties during the inclement weather during the week of 28...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Appeals
      303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11845/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department that entered the Civil...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the directions for the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department...
    • Peace Commissioners Data
      306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of acting peace commissioners and notaries public in County Carlow. [11919/18]
    • Internet Safety
      307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the transfer of the Office of Internet Safety to the Department for Children and Youth Affairs as recommended by the...
    • Garda Resources
      308. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when increased Garda resources will be made available for the Edgeworthstown sub-district; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the construction of the planned family law courts complex at Hammond Lane, Dublin 7 will commence; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each county in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and...
    • Crime Data
      312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents reported to An Garda Síochána at each Garda station in County Donegal for each of the years...
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations in County Donegal which were open to the public on a 24 hour basis in each of the years 2008 to 2017, in...
    • Garda Transport Data
      317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda cars and marked Garda motorcycles attached to the Garda Traffic Corps as of 31 December...
    • Crime Data
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mobile phones reported stolen to An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Garda Operations
      319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 28 November 2017, the position regarding the promised liaison between his...
    • Garda Equipment
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances of Garda firearms and less than lethal weapons being discharged in the past ten years, categorised by...
    • Garda Training
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that undertook each level of public order training in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Migrant Integration
      322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the local authorities that have and have not active migrant integration strategies in place, respectively; and if he will make...
    • Legal Aid Service Data
      323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a cap on the legal aid a barrister or solicitor and their firms can make in divorce cases; if there is a...
    • Youth Justice Strategy
      327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements that will be in place in terms of transfer of undertakings and protection of employment for staff and in terms...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process in place for a person that is of the view that An Garda Síochána has failed to investigate a potentially...
    • Garda Operations
      329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which An Garda Síochána protocols during national emergencies could be improved to provide more prompt...
    • Immigration Status
      330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in relation to their application for a residence card under the European...
    • Crime Data
      331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 13 February 2018, if he has satisfied himself with the assurance provided to him...
    • Garda Oversight
      333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a statutory responsibility on the part of An Garda Síochána and his Department to make...
    • Legal Aid Service Expenditure
      334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a cap on the amount a legal aid solicitor or barrister working in legal aid can make; if there have been cases in...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Department employees that were unable to access transport to work on 28 February 2018 due to the...
    • Garda Data
      336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of trained gardaí dealing with child sex offence cases. [12322/18]
    • Immigration Status
      337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of applications for residency status in the case of persons (details supplied). [12325/18]
    • Refugee Data
      338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been welcomed into the State under the refugee protection programme; and if he will make a...
    • Travel Documents
      339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person that has been granted leave to remain here can apply for a travel document. [12354/18]
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
      340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a hearing will take place in relation to an application to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal (details supplied);...
    • Crime Data
      341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) is one of those cases that may have been classified incorrectly on the Garda PULSE...
    • Garda Recruitment
      342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda recruits that have had their final interview will be called for a medical examination; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Transport
      343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangement in place to provide transport or limousine services to the State Pathologist and Deputy State Pathologists; the...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Ireland will opt into the optional protocol in relation to the UNCRPD; the reason it was not declared at the time of...
    • Wards of Court
      346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 8 March 2018 and in view of the fact that it has taken the Office of Wards of...
    • Garda Compensation
      348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and amounts paid out for compensation and injury claims by members of An Garda Síochána each year since...
    • Driver Licences
      350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which An Garda Síochána can determine whether a driver licence is a full or learner permit if the driver...
    • Irish Prison Service
      351. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure that there is a doctor on call 24-7 in Castlerea Prison, County Roscommon; and if he will make...
    • Garda Deployment
      352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda inspectors in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the vacancies in this regard; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wards of Court
      355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Exchequer is obliged to make up the shortfall in circumstances in which there is a loss to the funds of Wards of Court....
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Data
      357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigrant investor programme applications per annum since 2012; the value under each investment option; his plans...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be ratified; and if...
    • Firearms and Ammunition Security
      359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12783/18]
    • Visa Applications
      360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for an entry visa; and when they can expect a decision on their...
    • Immigration Status
      361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12847/18]
    • Visa Applications
      367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied); if another procedure other than family reunification...
    • Immigration Status
      368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when stamp 4 will be updated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12854/18]
    • Irish Prison Service
      371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the pension levy is applied to each hour a prison officer works; if hours worked as overtime are considered as pensionable;...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received to date under the community CCTV scheme; the number approved; the funding approved to date;...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration
      374. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the INIS website has ever been subject to a user experience, UX, audit; and if so, the results of the audit. [12930/18]
    • National Development Plan Data
      376. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Industrial Relations
      377. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason an association (details supplied) would not be afforded protections under the Industrial Relations Act 1990 if it engaged...
    • Trade Missions Data
      378. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the destinations of each trade mission undertaken in each of the years 2014 to 2017; the Ministers who travelled on each trade...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      382. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and if she...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      383. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations
      384. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the account of the investigative failures will be identified in an investigation (details supplied) by the Office of the Director...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      385. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department that entered the Civil Service...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      386. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of her Department...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
      387. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the effectiveness of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. [11903/18]
    • Employment Rights
      388. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is a scheme that provides assistance to employers who must pay their employees when absent from work when there is a red...
    • Legislative Programme
      389. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the publication of the Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Reports
      390. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has engaged or had correspondence with a person (details supplied) in her preparation of her report into the investigative...
    • Work Permits Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for employment permits from asylum seekers that have been made in the past month; and the number of...
    • Casual Trading Regulations
      392. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she will take to regulate car boot sales; the licensing of traders at such sales; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      393. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the detail of each specific EU Competitiveness Council ministers meeting in which she or her predecessors made the case for the need...
    • Work Permits Applications
      396. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application by a person (details supplied) under the critical skills permit. [12329/18]
    • Industrial Relations
      397. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 16 November 2017, her views on a situation in which a complainant is left without a...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      399. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department or agencies under its aegis have received reports or representations in respect of the impact on small and...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      401. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits conducted by IDA Ireland in counties Cavan and Monaghan in each of the past three years; and the number of...
    • IDA Ireland Data
      403. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland supported jobs at the end of each year from 2013 to 2017, by county; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ticket Touting
      405. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the company representatives her Department has met with regarding ticket touting and ticket touting legislation since the beginning of...
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      406. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if meetings have taken place between her departmental officials and advisers and State agencies under her remit with the strategic...
    • Employment Data
      408. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the target of having 2.3 million persons in employment by 2020 means attaining this figure at 1 January 2020 or before the end of...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      409. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason page 41 of Enterprise 2025 Renewed ranks Ireland number six of the most competitive small countries in the world using the...
    • Employment Data
      411. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the revised employment targets for each year up to 2020 and for the remainder of Enterprise 2025, in tabular form. [12737/18]
    • Enterprise Ireland Investments
      412. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide an overview of Enterprise Ireland’s capital investment initiative; and the number of small and medium...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      413. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide an overview of Enterprise Ireland’s Prepare For Brexit campaign; and the annual budget allocated in each...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Reports
      414. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the report by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission into the use of personal contract plans in the car...
    • Trade Agreements
      415. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a European Court judgment (details supplied); if this judgment relating to bilateral investment treaties between European...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      416. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she last met formally with the chief executive and chairperson of Enterprise Ireland; when she will next meet formally with the...
    • National Development Plan Data
      417. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under its aegis;...
  • Department of Health
    • Abortion Legislation
      418. To ask the Minister for Health if a doctor has been convicted for terminating a pregnancy in a case in which they thought that the life of the mother was threatened. [12823/18]
    • Departmental Banking
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns from...
    • Gender Recognition
      425. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a requirement of a psychiatric diagnosis for persons when seeking hormone replacement therapy; and if so, the reason this is deemed necessary....
    • Health Services Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO that are waiting for hormone replacement therapy; and the number waiting less than one year, one to two years and more than...
    • General Practitioner Training
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioner education on transgender healthcare will be rolled out nationwide. [11784/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      431. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the medicine supply and affordability issues highlighted in correspondence (details supplied); the reason the medicines in question cannot...
    • Disability Services Provision
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) did not continue to receive an equivalent monthly payment following the withdrawal of the mobility allowance and...
    • Home Help Service Data
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if a delay in awarding home help hours to a person (details supplied) will be investigated; if a decision on the awarding of these hours will be expedited; and...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the elements of the National Rare Disease Plan 2014 that have been implemented; and his plans to protect children with rare diseases here. [11822/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      435. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11826/18]
    • Hospital Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the reason University Hospital Waterford is excluded from the list of available locations in which it is possible to have procedures completed under the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      437. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the level of funding for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11829/18]
    • Hospital Records
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry can obtain records of their late mother's admission, stay and discharge from a hospital in County Kerry; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for both inpatient and day case procedures in St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a route other than...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service who fall under the direction of his Department for the days during Storm...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and-or the HSE are accepting applications for national lottery grants administered by his Department and the HSE; and his plans in this...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      443. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available to all persons with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness card based on clinical need and not on age;...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11895/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if a situation in which a person (details supplied) was turned away from the Roscommon County Hospital urgent care centre will be investigated in view of the...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions have been made to ensure that non-HSE staff, including agency staff and section 39 workers working in public hospitals, receive the same...
    • HSE Investigations
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of trust in care investigations initiated by the HSE, or HSE-funded and part-funded agencies, following complaints of abuse by staff of vulnerable...
    • Asylum Support Services
      449. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency, RIA, regarding the need for health care...
    • Health Services Provision
      450. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 25 May 2017, if a person (details supplied) will receive BHE treatment for the month previously given; and if he...
    • Vaccination Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Gardasil HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11929/18]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      452. To ask the Minister for Health if the requirement for a doubling of the number of IBD and gastro nurses is reflected in his Department and the HSE's plans to recruit 120 specialist nurse...
    • Midwifery Services
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be taken to enforce and embed the evidence based practice midwives have worked to master to make the retention of graduating midwives a...
    • HSE Reports
      455. To ask the Minister for Health when the report on perinatal deaths in Portiuncula Hospital will be published in view of the fact that the original review of perinatal deaths in the hospital...
    • Maternity Services
      456. To ask the Minister for Health when the title of the National Clinical Programme for Obstetrics and Gynaecology will be changed to reflect the fact that the reality is that the majority of...
    • HSE Properties
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the value of the existing new extension to the north east of a health centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11962/18]
    • Disability Services Funding
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11966/18]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed upgrade of the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11978/18]
    • Home Care Packages
      460. To ask the Minister for Health if a statutory regulatory structure for home care packages exists within the public and private sectors to protect users of the service. [11999/18]
    • HSE Properties
      461. To ask the Minister for Health when a premises (details supplied) will be offered for sale on the open market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12010/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12015/18]
    • Medical Card Data
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children between zero and 15 years of age that held a medical card at the end of each of the years 2011 to November 2017, by local health...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if a weekly home care package will be reinstated in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason it was not provided in view of the fact that the...
    • Legislative Measures
      469. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 470 of 27 February 2018, the technical and legal issues which require clarification to allow Parts 2 and 3 of the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12039/18]
    • Health Services Data
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who required a lower limb amputation in each of the years 2014 to 2016, by county in tabular form. [12045/18]
    • Vaccination Programme
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the exclusion of the patient information leaflet in the patient information pack for the HPV vaccination administered in schools. [12047/18]
    • Hospital Admissions
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a place for a person (details supplied). [12051/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the podiatrist and chiropodist service in south County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12066/18]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      477. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to intervene in the ongoing critical staff shortages in a service (details supplied) in view of the fact that these issues have remained unresolved...
    • Health Services Data
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential care places in County Mayo; the number of persons on the waiting list for residential care in the county; the estimated waiting time...
    • Residential Care
      479. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to create new places for residential care in County Mayo; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12102/18]
    • Medicinal Products Data
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appeals that have been lodged due to the removal of the Versatis pain patch as a pain treatment for certain persons; the number of these appeals...
    • Medical Conditions
      481. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that internationally, March is endometriosis awareness month; if it is recognised here; if not, the reason...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts filled in 2016 and 2017; the number of posts that remain vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12118/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12126/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has never been offered respite care; the reason routine hours are being changed by carers visiting the house each day;...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      492. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic treatment. [12141/18]
    • Medicinal Products Data
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the annual expenditure by the HSE on providing nicotine replacement therapies through the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic treatment. [12156/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a full-time bed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12158/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      498. 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. [12160/18]
    • Ambulance Service Funding
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of increased resources for the ambulance service in County Roscommon to allow for the full operation of the ambulance base at...
    • Health Services Provision
      500. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put the relevant supports and pathway to care in place for persons with a condition (details supplied); the timeframe for same; his further plans...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      501. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investment that will be provided in order to ensure long-stay bed numbers will continue to be maintained at hospitals (details supplied) in County...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which persons under 18 years of age received mental health treatment abroad in each of the past four years; the amount the HSE has...
    • Mental Health Services
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if the circumstances in which a HSE hostel in Athleague, County Roscommon was closed without prior notice or consultation with the residents will be...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      505. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in relation the fair deal scheme will be investigated. [12182/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12193/18]
    • Paediatric Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there were cuts to a service (details supplied); if the possibility of reinstating will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and the number available. [12208/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the average stay at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire. [12209/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      510. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire. [12210/18]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds taken up in regional hospitals due to the fact a space is not available in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire. [12211/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12215/18]
    • Health Promotion
      513. To ask the Minister for Health his views on support funding for the reintroduction of campaigns here in view of the comments of the HSE clinical lead for stroke on the need to reintroduce...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Health when the urgent care satellite unit for children at Connolly Hospital will be open; if a staffing plan has been put in place to ensure it will work at capacity...
    • Health Insurance Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance by age group (details supplied) [12228/18]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      517. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take to tackle the staffing deficits in neurology services nationally; his plans for long term investment to develop specialist services...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      519. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 28 February 2018, if the treatment purchase fund will be used to expedite surgery for a person (details supplied);...
    • Vaccination Programme Data
      520. To ask the Minister for Health the recorded cases of vasculitis following HPV immunisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12243/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      521. To ask the Minister for Health if a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital will be made available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12249/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      522. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of Respreeza for alpha 1 patients; his plans to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12250/18]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12253/18]
    • Patient Transfers
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if a request by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford for a hospital transfer will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12272/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      525. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12273/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for an appointment for the orthopaedic registrar in Tallaght Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Health his views on proposal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12316/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      529. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an outpatient clinic appointment at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Staff Data
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the number of professionals who have applied to return to work in the HSE in 2017 and 2018; and the areas of expertise and geographical location. [12330/18]
    • HSE Staff
      531. To ask the Minister for Health the employment status of a person (details supplied) who returned to work here; and the measures taken by the HSE to ensure the smooth transition of qualified...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      532. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12332/18]
    • Health Services
      534. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide additional services nationwide (details supplied); if funding has been provided to the HSE to initiate such services in 2018; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      535. To ask the Minister for Health when a procedure will be scheduled for a person (details supplied). [12342/18]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the resignations, employee exit transfers and other staff departures which have occurred at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal in 2016, 2017, and...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in his Department who work in the mental health section; the grades at which each person is employed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      538. To ask the Minister for Health if a HSE tender for the supply of medicine for a specific therapy area will preclude the HSE from reimbursing newly launched medicines for that therapy...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      541. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12350/18]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments
      543. To ask the Minister for Health if a reimbursement to be issued to a person (details supplied) will be arranged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12356/18]
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the process used by his Department in the past of bringing different bodies under CORU; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Internet Safety
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department will engage with the development of the action plan on Internet safety, particularly on the issue of advertising and marketing...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dedicated beds for neurology here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12381/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the status of proposed amendments to the fair deal scheme in view of concerns among the farming and business communities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative speech and language services that will be made available for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of ongoing service disruption...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12389/18]
    • Minor Ailments Scheme
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken on foot of the evaluation report of the minor ailment pilot scheme which was carried out for the HSE in 19 pharmacies in four...
    • Gender Recognition
      554. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the requirement of a psychiatric diagnosis for a person (details supplied) when seeking hormone replacement therapy; and if he will make a...
    • Eating Disorders
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children between 12 and 18 years of age discharged from hospital with a principal diagnosis of anorexia or bulimia in each of the years 2005 to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      559. 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. [12408/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      560. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their medical card application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12409/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      562. To ask the Minister for Health if a temporary home-care package will issue to a person (details supplied). [12415/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12418/18]
    • Home Help Service Eligibility
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for further home-help hours for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12419/18]
    • Patient Data
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of girls and boys between 12 and 18 years of age who died under the care of the HSE from a principal diagnosis of anorexia or bulimia in each of the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if the granting of medical cards to all persons who have been diagnosed with serious cancer while they are receiving treatment will be reconsidered; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      569. To ask the Minister for Health when mepacrine will be reinstated for persons with medical cards who rely on it for treatment of skin disease in view of the fact that it can cost €200...
    • Health Insurance Cover
      571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12433/18]
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a complaint by a person (details supplied) submitted to the HSE in March 2017. [12437/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12442/18]
    • Disability Support Services
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address deficiencies in view of a HSE memo (details supplied) highlighting deficiencies in service provision for school leavers and...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he expects local drug task forces to meet the commitment made in the Programme for Partnership Government to extend the services of local and...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to provide work placements for psychotherapy students in the HSE in line with other health care students; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to recognise a grade for psychotherapists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12478/18]
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      578. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      579. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase resources to the Health Service Executive in north Dublin city and county assessment of needs section to resolve the long waiting times;...
    • Dental Services
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been told that they will now have to pay for a child's dental work; and if he...
    • Health Services Provision
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is monitoring adherence to the guidelines by an organisation (details supplied) for transgender healthcare; the reason...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to expedite hospital treatment for persons waiting longer than 12 months; the waiting targets for key procedures with long wait times;...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      587. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure his Department makes adequate funding available to the HSE to provide a replacement public health nurse (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if the assessment process to include a device (details supplied) for testing blood glucose levels for listing under reimbursable items for persons with...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      589. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have cancelled surgery in St. Vincent's University Hospital rescheduled. [12519/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      590. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this appointment; the reason the appointment...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for a full-time home care package for a person (details supplied) who wishes to move home from a nursing home; and if he will make a statement...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours in February 2018; and the hospital...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal fusion patients waiting less than four months, four to eight months and more than eight months for treatment in hospitals (details...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided in each LHO area. [12531/18]
    • Medical Card Data
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons covered by medical cards as of 1 March 2018. [12533/18]
    • Health Services Data
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each CHO area waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting zero to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in January 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than of 20...
    • Hospitals Data
      600. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled or postponed in each public hospital in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service Data
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided in each LHO area in 2017. [12539/18]
    • HSE Staff Data
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 March 2018 or...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 9 March 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      605. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment with the early intervention team; his plans to address wait times and staff shortages in this...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      606. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to sign and ratify the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are awaiting orthodontic treatment under the HSE; and the way in which he plans to address these waiting lists. [12554/18]
    • Home Help Service
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if extra home help hours will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12561/18]
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding general practitioners charging a person (details supplied) for blood tests. [12581/18]
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      610. To ask the Minister for Health when a physiotherapy appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Galway will issue in view of the fact this person has been waiting for an...
    • Vaccination Programme
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the differing public health standards here in contrast to Northern Ireland, in which a procurement model will purchase quadrivalent...
    • Medical Qualifications
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if the Medical Council excluded doctors trained in Nigeria from availing of further training here; if so, the reason therefor; when the Medical Practitioners...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to provide additional home help hours to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12599/18]
    • Hospital Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of urologist consultants in each of the RCSI hospitals in 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of consultant urology hours provided in each...
    • Primary Care Centres
      619. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the HSE's decision not to progress with the primary health care centre for Drimnagh (details supplied); if a reassessment of the criteria for...
    • Midwifery Services
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to the community midwifery services in each of the years 2010 to 2017; his plans to increase funding to this area of maternity...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for spinal surgery in Tallaght Hospital; and the procedures that are on hold through lack of funding for the HSE winter initiatives scheme...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      622. To ask the Minister for Health when the introduction of the FreeStyle Libre device will be made available on the long-term illness scheme to all type 1 diabetes patients based on clinical...
    • Health Services Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that some day care centres for persons with dementia and or Alzheimer's disease are reducing their operational hours; if his Department...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a home care support package by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12667/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons supported by the fair deal scheme and residing in a nursing home by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child and adolescent mental health service, CAHMS, hours of service available by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Orthodontic Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the long waiting times for funding for orthodontics to be approved by the HSE for persons with disabilities in counties...
    • Psychological Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a primary care psychology appointment in counties Cavan and Monaghan more than three, six, 12, 18, 24 and more than 36 months,...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of day places available for training young persons with disabilities by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12673/18]
    • Home Help Service Data
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for home help hours in each county by new applicants and those waiting for additional hours; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Community Care
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of short-term beds in each area in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the funding available to each area for service arrangements and grant aid agreements...
    • Health Services Data
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public day care places available for persons with dementia and or Alzheimer's disease in 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018, by county; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the occasions on which a pharmaceutical company has successfully sought to increase the price charged to the HSE for a product by more than 20% in each of the...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who left or took early retirement at Clontarf Hospital in each of the years 2015 to 2017 by grade and occupation; the length of service of...
    • Labour Court Awards
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in which Clontarf Hospital has been listed for appearance at the Work Place Relations Commission or the Labour Court; the cases which were...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      638. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to classify haemochromatosis as a long-term illness on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12694/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      639. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment from Beaumount Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12695/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      640. To ask the Minister for Health when he will meet with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12696/18]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      641. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical certificate for a person (details supplied) will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12706/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      642. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a person (details supplied) in CUH will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12708/18]
    • Paediatric Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the public waiting list for paediatric optometrist consultants in County Meath; the number of children on the list; and the actions being...
    • Hospital Equipment
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if a requested hospital bed and equipment will be facilitated for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12766/18]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of ambulance resources (details supplied) has been conducted; if it has been completed; the outcome of the review; and if he will make a statement...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress of the interdepartmental group on the ancillary recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an outpatient appointment in St. James's Hospital, Dublin; if an appointment can be arranged for an early date;...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Closure
      649. To ask the Minister for Health when the motorised transport grant scheme will be replaced with a new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12774/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      650. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an outpatient clinic appointment at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Departments Closures
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultation being carried out by his Department in respect of the report submitted by the HSE in respect of the future of the...
    • Health Services Provision
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the location a person (details supplied) will attend to receive continuing care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12807/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review correspondence (details supplied); the reason the HSE has not met with the drug company in question; the position regarding this drug; the...
    • HSE Funding
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the releasing of funding from a section of the HSE to purchase equipment for those on the priority list and in the case of a person...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has been diagnosed with Degos disease is being refused medication based on financial costs. [12818/18]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      658. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reimburse medication under the long-term illness scheme for medical CBD and THC for persons granted licences for the medication to treat epilepsy;...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Data
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in categories (details supplied) that are availing of speech and language therapy in each area in County Donegal; the number on a waiting...
    • Health Services Provision
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if alternative accommodation can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12856/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12857/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of an adult narcolepsy centre in St. James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12860/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided at Beaumount Hospital for a person (details supplied). [12881/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if an appointment will be scheduled sooner than December 2018; and if...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the interim report from the HSE on pay restoration for section 39 organisations; the next steps for his Department in this regard; when...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the approval process for the drug Kuvan for persons with phenylketonuria; when persons will be informed of the HSE's decision; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a person (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the waiting...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if a MRI for an person (details supplied) will be arranged based on correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12910/18]
    • Departmental Meetings
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the minutes of a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12911/18]
    • Hospital Admissions
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons admitted to accident and emergency departments in each month in 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of the persons subsequently admitted...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      674. To ask the Minister for Health when the new hospital for County Galway will proceed to planning; when construction will commence; when the hospital will open; and if he will make a statement...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be placed in respite care in a hospital. [12950/18]
    • National Development Plan Data
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and the estimated...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fishing Licences
      677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to issue new commercial licences to pick cockles (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11827/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has satisfied himself that there is adequate legislation in place to protect the welfare of exotic animals and pets; if a...
    • Departmental Banking
      679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he...
    • GLAS Payments
      680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 451 of 23 January 2018, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the basic payment and areas of natural constraints scheme and associated schemes will be paid to a farmer...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the compensation that will be made available to farmers who have been impacted as a result of the adverse weather conditions,...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications Data
      684. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 534 of 27 February 2018, if further details regarding the one new licence application for the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive 2016 GLAS and organics balancing payments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to restrict bottom trawling fishing within six miles of the shoreline; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data
      688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of hectares per county for which an application for the ANC scheme for 2017 was received in tabular form. [11823/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
      689. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farm payment appeal by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      692. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a beef genomics payment for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11920/18]
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS, ANC and knowledge transfer payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      694. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will reconsider the approach taken with regard to an agri-environment options scheme, AEOS penalty in case of a...
    • GLAS Payments
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment which was due in November 2017; the reason this has not been issued; and...
    • Organic Farming Scheme Payments
      696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive an organics payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11952/18]
    • Livestock Issues
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the engagement between his Department and meat factories and other stakeholders in recent weeks with regard to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Eligibility
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11974/18]
    • GLAS Data
      699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in west County Cork waiting for GLAS payments; when the payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Control of Horses
      700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter (details supplied) under the Control of Horses Act 1996 will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bord Bia
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler farmers that are quality assured. [12054/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received GLAS payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12120/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the number of open greenfield programmes involving milk production operating here; his views on...
    • GLAS Payments
      704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive outstanding GLAS payments. [12134/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      705. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has sought a report from Teagasc in relation to its participation and role in the greenfield programme which leaves animals...
    • Fishing Vessel Licences
      706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the option of issuing P licences to fishermen that have UK registered boats but would have fished the inshore six mile zone...
    • GLAS Payments
      707. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied) will issue; the reason for the delay to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Severe Weather Events
      708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and or grant aid that will be available to farmers and horticulturists whose property was damaged during Storm Emma; and...
    • State Aid
      709. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he requested the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation to submit proposals for changing the state aid thresholds at EU...
    • GLAS Payments
      712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payment under the 2017 GLAS scheme has not issued to a farmer (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme
      713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans with regard to the suckler industry here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12326/18]
    • TAMS Expenditure
      714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 8 March 2018, the expected budgeted spend for the TAMS scheme in 2016 and 2017; and if...
    • Public Sector Staff
      715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the delays that are occurring in recruitment and placement of technical agricultural officers in the eastern region; the reasons for...
    • GLAS Payments
      716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when GLAS training course payments will issue to farmers and their advisers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      721. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications made to his Department by farmers in County Mayo for the fodder transport scheme; the number of...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      722. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the bad weather that recently hit Leinster and Munster has affected the fodder transport scheme; if so, the way in which it has...
    • GLAS Payments
      723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) will receive an outstanding GLAS and GLAS plus payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Welfare
      726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which a dog (details supplied) has been found in China; if he will order the return of this dog; the steps he is taking to...
    • National Stud Data
      728. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of owners in each of the stallions standing at the Irish National Stud to date by percentage of ownership by a National...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies
      730. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure there are no common agricultural policy, CAP, budget cuts in view of Commissioner Oettinger's comments to the...
    • National Stud
      731. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is the policy of the Irish National Stud to encourage members of the board of the...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      732. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next round of payments under the beef data genomics scheme will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12553/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Penalties
      733. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding penalties on farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bord Iascaigh Mhara Data
      734. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of Bord Iascaigh Mhara grants received by a group of companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2000 to 2011; and if...
    • Bord Iascaigh Mhara
      735. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of legal or other actions taken by Bord Iascaigh Mhara to recoup grants awarded to companies in each of the past 15 years;...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      736. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale behind changes announced to the eligibility criteria for the national reserve under the new entrants category to those...
    • Severe Weather Events
      738. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide financial assistance to farmers in County Wexford whose property sustained damage during Storm Emma; if not, the...
    • GLAS Payments
      739. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments to farmers will be expedited in line with the terms of GLAS in view of the fact that over 700 farmers in County Galway...
    • TAMS Eligibility
      740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on problems arising with targeted agricultural modernisation schemes, TAMS II, whereby ownership, lease and hire purchase...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      741. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications under the fodder transport scheme that have been received from counties Cavan and Monaghan; and the number...
    • GLAS Data
      742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan waiting for GLAS payments; the number of part payments issued; and his plans to...
    • Brexit Supports
      744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to offset the impact of Brexit on farmers in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      745. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if EU CAP regulations mandate that all basic payment and ANC scheme applications in 2018 must be submitted online; and if he has...
    • Nitrates Action Programme Implementation
      746. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns expressed by farmer representative organisations regarding the practicality of meeting the obligation to ensure...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      747. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on comments by Commissioner Oettinger (details supplied) that cuts of at least 5% to 10% are on the way in the next CAP;...
    • European Council Meetings
      748. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position Ireland took at the recent EU Agriculture Ministers meeting regarding voluntary coupled support; and his views on such...
    • TAMS Data
      749. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding funding approved for works in TAMS II applications that have yet to be drawn down which will expire by the end...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      750. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 8 March 2018, the estimated number of young farmers concerned if the first part of the...
    • EU Regulations
      751. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 8 March 2018, the regulatory provision that would have to be changed to permit the use...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      752. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 8 March 2018, the exact deadline given by the EU Commission for member states to submit...
    • EU Regulations
      753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Ireland will be implementing a new sector specific income stabilisation tool as provided under EU Regulation 2017/2393. [12756/18]
    • Teagasc Courses
      754. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding the green certificate course; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • GLAS Payments
      755. 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. [12821/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal regarding cross compliance by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • TAMS Payments
      757. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a TAMS II payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12838/18]
    • Greyhound Industry Data
      758. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department maintains statistics on the wastage rate in the greyhound racing industry regarding the number of dogs every year...
    • GLAS Payments
      759. 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. [12862/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      760. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a BPS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12863/18]
    • TAMS Eligibility
      761. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to raise the ceiling on TAMS investment to greater than €80,000; his views on whether this ceiling is very low when...
    • GLAS Appeals
      762. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a GLAS payment will be reviewed and expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Horse Racing Industry
      763. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to allegations of wrongdoing in the horse racing industry which have been referred to An Garda...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      764. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive BPS and area of natural constraint payments for 2017; and if he will make a statement...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      765. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if information (details supplied) will be provided in relation to land eligibility and the basic payment scheme by county in each of...
    • Farm Inspections
      768. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the cross-compliance breaches in 2016 and 2017 by the thirteen different statutory management requirements and seven...
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      769. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of penalties recouped by county in each of the years 2016 and 2017 by scheme (details supplied) in tabular form. [12977/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      770. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an island of Ireland GI approved at EU level in operation on the last day of the transition period must be recognised in UK law...
    • National Development Plan Data
      772. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Banking
      773. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      774. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising...
    • Inland Fisheries
      775. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the pike fishing review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11807/18]
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      776. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the lack of phone coverage in the Kilfinane and Kilmallock areas of County Limerick;...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      777. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the envisaged expenditure of the small-scale solar energy generation scheme due for launch in 2018; if it is capped;...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      779. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      780. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the directions provided on the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service who fall under the direction of...
    • Mobile Telephony Use
      781. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to make it mandatory for persons to produce photo identification in order to buy a SIM card for a mobile...
    • Waste Management
      782. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding his Department has provided to local authorities in each of the past five years to deal with remedial work...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      787. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 20 February 2018, the reason an area (details supplied) appears to be the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      789. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans in co-operation with the ESB through the eCars programme to increase and replace the charging points which...
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      790. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the Department that has the lead role in devising and co-ordinating Internet content policy, as recommended by the...
    • Noise Pollution
      792. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps a person can take that is of the view that the noise levels emanating from their neighbour's residential...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      793. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high speed broadband will be available to businesses in an area (details supplied); the alternative options...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      794. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether it is appropriate to support new investment in natural gas pipelines, fuelling facilities, LNG...
    • Internet Safety
      795. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the development of the action plan on internet safety; the timeframe for same; the processes that will be...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      796. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband service will be available under the national broadband plan at a location (details supplied). [12439/18]
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      797. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at least one waste collector (details supplied) is now charging per...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility
      799. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the better energy grants scheme no longer provides assistance for boiler upgrades; and if he will make a...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      800. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the uptake of the trading online voucher scheme both in 2017 and since the scheme’s introduction by county; if...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      801. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for full implementation of the national broadband plan in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will...
    • North-South Interconnector
      802. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the North-South Interconnector project; if a constructive assessment has taken place in this regard; and...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      803. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high speed broadband will be rolled out in a location (details supplies); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan Data
      804. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises within the blue areas of the national broadband map that cannot access a high speed broadband...
    • National Development Plan Data
      807. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Children First Guidelines
      808. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if section 11 of the Children First Act 2015 and the Child Protection Procedures for Primary and Post Primary Schools 2017 and a risk...
    • Rights of Way
      809. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative basis upon which a right of way can be extinguished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12372/18]
    • Coast Guard Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the processes and timeframes for the construction of a permanent Coast Guard station at Greystones, County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Aviation Industry Regulations
      811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the security measures in place to ensure that regional airports and aerodromes comply with EU law in relation to the common rules in...
    • Departmental Banking
      813. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he will...
    • Driver Licence Data
      814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of valid learner permits by first, second, third, fourth, fifth and over; the age breakdown for each of those categories; and...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      815. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
      816. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the M50 Dublin Port south access project contained in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027; the proposed route,...
    • Public Transport
      817. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had discussions with the Minister for Justice and Equality or RIA, regarding the need for additional public transport provision...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      818. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART underground as distinct from the Metro and Luas with specific reference to the planning for the project; the...
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the conversion of Irish driver licences in Boston and the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      820. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via a...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      821. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      822. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected waiting times and number of those waiting for a practical driver test by county in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test Centres
      823. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to reduce the waiting time for a practical driver test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/18]
    • Commercial Vehicle Testing
      824. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs associated with introducing a statutory instrument to test wheeled tractors of the T5 category with a maximum design speed...
    • Driver Licences
      826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if asylum seekers are entitled to driver licences; and the legal basis for this decision. [11964/18]
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      827. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the section of legislation that allows the National Driver Licensing Service to make public services cards compulsory for persons seeking...
    • Taxi Data
      828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the pass rate for taxi licence tests in County Louth in each of the past five years. [11979/18]
    • National Vehicle and Driver File Data
      833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles within the entertainment sector that are registered with vehicle registration tax by county in tabular form. [12023/18]
    • Driver Test
      835. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 17 October 2017, the status of plans to introduce a more streamlined and shorter...
    • Airlines Regulations
      836. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) raised in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the appeals process relating to unsuccessful applicants in the latest round of sports capital grants; when they will...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Bus Éireann route (details supplied) that serviced Rooskey, County Roscommon will be reinstated; and if he will make a...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount invested in the Ireland's Ancient East initiative to date in terms of overall online and offline marketing and promotion by...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      840. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 22 February 2018, if runway 16/34 at Dublin Airport will continue to be used for aircraft...
    • Traffic Data
      841. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a comparative analysis of congestion on main commuter routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12183/18]
    • Road Signage
      844. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to update the traffic signs manual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12186/18]
    • Road Network
      846. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed. [12212/18]
    • Driver Licences
      847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if asylum seekers are allowed to hold an Irish driver licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12227/18]
    • Public Transport Fares
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will review the matter of taxsaver passes for public transport in view of the delays and overcrowding on the Luas line;...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      850. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will be accepting applications for the sports capital grants programme in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann and TII will be informed regarding the dangers at a bus stop (details supplied); if this will be reviewed; and if he...
    • Motor Insurance
      852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to acquire a motor dealer identity number in advance of securing a premises for their...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he has met officials from Cork City Council and Cork County Council on traffic volumes and solutions on the south...
    • Tourism Promotion
      854. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific targets and actions he has set to address the tourist number decline from the UK in 2018; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      855. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the road classification being proposed for the A5-N2 road project (details supplied); if this route will consist of a type 2 dual...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      857. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of commercial vehicle motor tax collected in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the amount paid online and over the counter in a...
    • Bus Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the privatising of bus routes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12613/18]
    • Road Signage
      859. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review the traffic signs manual as published by his Department to ensure that Ireland West Airport Knock is included on all...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      860. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons on waiting lists for driver tests in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Service Vehicles
      862. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received for the purchase of wheelchair accessible vehicles; and the number of grants paid for same in each...
    • Driver Test Data
      863. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting period for driver tests in each of the driver test centres; his plans to reduce the average waiting period for these...
    • Public Service Vehicles
      864. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a company (details supplied) for an operator's licence; when same will be processed; and if he will make...
    • Traffic Management
      865. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the upgrade of the interchange at the Jack Lynch tunnel; and if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing traffic...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      866. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address ongoing insurance price increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12721/18]
    • Exchequer Payments
      867. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 8 March 2018, the reason six of the seven projects have no Exchequer funding allocation; and...
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      868. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sports capital grants in an area (details supplied) in the past two years. [12775/18]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      870. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has provided funding support in the past ten years to local authorities in which an event (details supplied) was...
    • Traffic Management
      872. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent assessment of inter urban journey times by road across all NRA routes. [12869/18]
    • Transport Policy
      873. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if data are available to demonstrate the impact the transfer of freight from rail to road has had over the past five to ten years on...
    • Ports Development
      875. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement that has taken place between his Department and the Port of Waterford Company over the past year with a view to generating...
    • Hotel Accommodation
      876. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of hotel and guesthouse bedrooms available in each county; and the projected demand for hotel and guesthouse bed nights in...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      877. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he met his EU counterparts formally in the past six months to discuss transport related issues post-Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      878. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12932/18]
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      879. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the State supports and sponsorships, including funding, provided to the organisers of an event (details supplied) in each of the years...
    • Sports Events
      880. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria used to select the golf course on which an event (details supplied) is played each year; the degree of involvement he has in...
    • Public Transport Provision
      881. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the capacity and frequency of Luas services; if more trams will be purchased in addition to the 73 that will be in...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      882. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann recently made changes to its timetable (details supplied) for the express services from Donegal Town to Dublin from...
    • National Development Plan Data
      883. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis;...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child and Family Agency Data
      884. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that all files associated with Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in County Cork are being held...
    • Departmental Banking
      885. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and if she will...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      886. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      887. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department that entered the Civil Service via a...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      888. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of her Department for...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      889. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if an overage exemption will be granted. [11910/18]
    • Child and Family Agency
      890. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 6 February 2018, if a substantive response from Tusla is likely to be forthcoming soon. [11994/18]
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      891. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available to develop youth café initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12013/18]
    • Family Resource Centres
      892. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that was provided to each family resource centre in each of the years 2015 to 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [12037/18]
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      893. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of sending a youth in care to a residential home in England; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12048/18]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      894. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the work and cost of a unit (details supplied) in County Kildare. [12049/18]
    • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      896. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Ireland will ratify the second optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. [12323/18]
    • School Curriculum
      897. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cross-departmental work she undertakes with the Department of Education and Skills regarding work experience placements of secondary...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      898. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs an dtabharfaidh sí léiriú ar chumas a Roinne an réimse seirbhísí a sholáthraíonn siad a sheachadadh...
    • Youth Work Projects Data
      899. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of youth workers funded in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the way in which this number compares proportionally with the number of...
    • Family Resource Centres
      900. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that was provided to each family resource centre in each of the years 2014 to 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and...
    • School Completion Programme
      901. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual funding to each of the 124 school completion programme clusters in each of the years 2011 to 2017, and to date in 2018; the per...
    • DEIS Scheme
      902. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the percentage of pupils in non-DEIS schools that have come from DEIS feeder schools will be considered when changes or future funding...
    • School Completion Programme
      903. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reduce the number of co-ordinators allocated to the schools completion programme; if so, the number; and the way in which...
    • National Development Plan Data
      904. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under its aegis; and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Banking
      905. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and if he...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • Community Development Projects
      907. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on the local community development programme in each of the years 2007 to 2017 by county in tabular form. [11821/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      908. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department who entered the Civil Service via...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      909. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his Department...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Administration
      910. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the rationale for the decision to remove approval authority from local authorities for local improvement scheme, LIS, road funding;...
    • Leader Programmes Data
      911. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount that has been spent from Leader on projects in County Carlow; the number of projects pending; and if he will make a...
    • CLÁR Programme
      912. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application for CLÁR funding submitted by an association (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
    • Scéim na Siúlóidí
      913. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén uair atá sé i gceist aige cur le líon na mbealaí siúlóide a n-íoctar táille...
    • Walks Scheme
      914. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the walkway scheme will be expanded to include farmers' properties in Gurteen, County Sligo to include the Bera Breifne Walkway;...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants available through his Department and Pobal to support community centres; if there are specific supports to pay for a...
    • Leader Programmes Data
      916. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to Leader programmes in counties Cavan and Monaghan in 2017; the level of funding to be provided for these...
    • Community Services Programme
      917. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a group (details supplied) can reapply for CSP funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12780/18]
    • Library Services Provision
      919. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for the provision of a new public library in Stillorgan, County Dublin as included as a project in the...
    • National Development Plan Data
      920. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its aegis;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Definitions
      921. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if endometriosis is recognised by her Department as a medical condition that may result in some form of disability; and if...
    • Social Insurance Data
      922. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount which would be raised if employer PRSI was increased by 0.5%. [12858/18]
    • Departmental Banking
      924. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      925. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and...
    • Training Support Grant
      926. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situations in which training courses are funded (details supplied); the follow through that is done with the insurance...
    • Legislative Measures
      927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will proceed to Committee Stage. [11806/18]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the new procedure for calculation of the State pension (contributory) entitlement with particular reference to self employed...
    • Working Family Payment Applications
      929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for family income supplement by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Services Card Authentication
      930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria when applying for a social services card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      931. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department who entered the Civil...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      932. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service who fall under the direction of her...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a payment of benefit has been approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [11886/18]
    • Court Judgments
      934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the outcome of the High Court case which found her Department to be acting illegally in sanctioning persons for...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      935. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the closure of a company's (details supplied) defined benefit pension scheme; her plans to take action on same;...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      937. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location from which a HAP applicant can redeem the full cost of rent which they have had to borrow in order to pay the...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      938. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a living alone allowance by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a...
    • Public Services Card Data
      939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce public services cards with the ability to store biometric data; and if so, the legislation...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      940. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      941. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of post offices that did not have sufficient funds to make payments to social welfare recipients during Storm...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      942. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding supports for carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sick Pay Scheme
      943. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an employee who is on sick leave and under their contract of employment is entitled to full pay for six months; if an...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      944. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of the rate of partial capacity benefit awarded to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      945. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the attention of all staff in Intreo offices will be drawn to the fact that spouses of critical skills work permit holders...
    • Citizen Information Services
      946. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the reorganisation of MABS and CIS; her further views on whether the concerns of those that have expressed grave...
    • Departmental Bodies
      947. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department is refusing to negotiate with an organisation (details supplied) in view of her Department's...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      948. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties persons are having making contact with the illness benefit section of her...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      949. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the outcome of the review in respect of eligibility for an exceptional needs payment in the case of a person (details...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12248/18]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      951. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person's (details supplied) certificates were not submitted; if the case will be reviewed; the benefits the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      952. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for widow's, widower's, survivor's contributory and non-contributory pension that have been...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      953. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      955. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to bring forward a pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors; the actions that have been taken to...
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      956. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review of older persons that are 62 years of age and over participating in community employment schemes will be...
    • JobPath Programme
      957. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person has a right to refuse a place on JobPath in favour of a place on a community employment scheme; if there is a...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      958. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have participated in community employment schemes in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      959. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who worked for Coillte and made stamp D contributions qualifies for the dental benefits...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      960. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional supports for persons that have completed training (details supplied) will be provided; and if she will make a...
    • Fuel Allowance Payments
      961. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the additional fuel allowance payment for the recent period of heavy snow is available to those that receive their fuel...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      962. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      963. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been hired by her Department from the Public Appointments Service panels in counties Sligo and...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      968. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of a pension entitlement in the case of a person (details supplied) will be carried out; and if she will make a...
    • JobPath Programme
      969. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the contract to run the JobPath programme by Seetec will cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12566/18]
    • Child Benefit Data
      970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of qualified child increases by scheme type for those aged 18 to 22 years in full-time education; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      971. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of one-parent family payment and the related number of children who are also in receipt of...
    • Public Services Card Data
      972. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 8 March 2018, the way in which and with whom a person might authenticate his or...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      974. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a rent supplement payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      975. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      976. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is an alternative in place for those who would seek financial support under mortgage interest supplement but can no...
    • Unemployment Levels
      977. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the above average unemployment levels that persist in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of adult dependants in receipt of a social welfare claim by county in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Labour Activation Programmes Data
      979. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of adult dependants on a social welfare labour activation scheme by county in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • JobPath Data
      980. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons on JobPath in counties Cavan and Monaghan as of 1 February 2018; the number of persons who were on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      981. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct rate of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason for a deduction in the...
    • Activation and Family Support Programme
      982. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department's internal audit into the activation and family support programme will be published; if not, the reason...
    • Activation and Family Support Programme Data
      985. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made under the activation and family support programme since its introduction; the percentage of...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Data
      986. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 8 March 2018, the number of persons in receipt of the State pension...
    • Labour Activation Programmes Data
      987. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons directed from Intreo to the community employment, Tús and JobPath schemes in the past 12 months;...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance
      988. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial assistance that will be given to older persons who are not in receipt of fuel allowance to help towards the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      989. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason contributions made in good faith from 2002 and 2004 towards a pension were returned and not used for the purposes...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      990. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • New Communities Unit
      991. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of homeless non-Irish citizens from the European Economic Area or a country outside Europe that have been...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      992. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which an overpayment will be recouped in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Tús Programme
      993. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 572 and 580 of 8 March 2018, if she will address the specific issue on whether her...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      994. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of State pension payable in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Reviews
      995. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015. [12865/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      996. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      997. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in receipt of carer's allowance who were self-employed at the time...
    • JobPath Programme
      998. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to emails from a person (details supplied) regarding JobPath and a sanction applied to their...
    • National Development Plan Data
      999. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the projects mentioned in the national development plan 2018 to 2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Environmental Protection Agency Licences
      1000. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the EPA will issue licences to remove and relocate material and rock dredged from a pier (details supplied) in County...
    • Migrant Integration
      1001. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that have and have not appointed an officer with responsibility for migrant integration, respectively;...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      1002. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that have and have not appointed an officer with responsibility for social inclusion, respectively; and...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1003. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the Dominick Street regeneration project has been delayed; when the work is likely to commence; and when it will...
    • Departmental Banking
      1004. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to his Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under his aegis; and...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
      1005. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successfully completed mortgage to rents completed in each of the past five years, by local authority MTRs and...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      1006. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the adequacy of resources at individual local authority level will be considered in the post-extreme weather review; if...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      1007. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and...
    • Fire Service
      1008. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Fire Service resources are deemed adequate in County Kildare to cope with a major emergency; if a review will take place...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1009. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding which will be allocated to the Rebuilding Ireland programme over the duration of its lifetime by county; and if...
    • Housing Provision
      1010. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key historic reasons for the difficulties being experienced in relation to the provision of housing here; and if he will...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1011. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department spent on advertising the consultation process for the various stages of the National Planning...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1013. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in his Department that entered the civil...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      1014. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service that fall under the direction of his...
    • National Planning Framework
      1016. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new guidelines his Department is issuing in regard to local housing assessments needs in each local authority under the...
    • Housing Regeneration
      1017. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the vacant homes strategy will be published. [11915/18]
    • Irish Water Funding
      1018. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the installation of water meters and or water boxes is funded; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Members' Remuneration
      1020. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 27 February 2018, the estimated cost to the Exchequer in a full financial year...
    • Housing Issues
      1021. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the definition of the term effective in correspondence (details supplied). [12002/18]
    • Local Government Reform
      1022. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government commitments in respect of local...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      1023. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place to allocate funding to local authorities to replace storage heating systems in social housing which are...
    • Housing Provision
      1024. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that Dublin City Council has the necessary resources to advance plans for the construction of 640...
    • Housing Loans
      1026. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an unsuccessful application to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by persons (details supplied) will be examined; if...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      1027. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a contractor engaged by the Housing Agency to provide samples of underfloor...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1028. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of submissions made to his Department from each local authority as part of the recently announced affordable...
    • Local Authority Housing Funding
      1031. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); if funds will be provided to allow local authorities to complete...
    • Mayoral Election
      1032. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed powers of a directly elected mayor of Cork city; and when he expects a plebiscite on the matter. [12241/18]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      1033. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if SI 679/2011 - Housing (Tenant Purchase of Apartments) Regulations 2011 is still active and available to local authorities...
    • Water Charges Data
      1034. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of commercial water charges debt that has been written off as bad debt by Irish Water or local councils since...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1035. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 27 February 2018, the amount that has been drawn down and spent; and the amount...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      1036. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); his further views on whether consideration can be given by local authorities to...
    • Water Supply
      1039. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income from extraction charges for bottled water companies that extract spring water from the ground and sell it for...
    • Commercial Rates
      1040. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to create a commercial rates rebate scheme for areas in which significant traffic disruption has taken place due to...
    • Local Elections
      1041. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a commission to examine local electoral boundaries in Cork City and County for the 2019 local...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      1043. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been received for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number of these...
    • Emergency Planning
      1045. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that there is clarity regarding the colour-coded weather warnings system used during times of extreme...
    • Vacant Properties Data
      1047. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to each local authority to refurbish a vacant property in order for it to return to housing stock, by local...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      1051. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties in Dublin being used for a service (details supplied); the number of these properties are used...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1053. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct local authorities in Dublin to report monthly and quarterly on the pipeline of social housing they are...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      1054. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to not to include FIS in the calculation of income to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Code
      1055. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an incentive, tax or other, for persons to downsize their homes (details supplied). [12662/18]
    • Vacant Properties Data
      1056. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have taken up the vacant housing repair and lease scheme by county in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1058. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for further social housing projects in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [12684/18]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1059. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the updated wind farm planning guidelines; if the tip height required in such guidelines has been...
    • Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
      1060. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of his Department's advice to homeowners who have homes which have mica defective concrete blocks which require...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      1061. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); his further views on the fact that those in receipt of the housing assistance...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      1062. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes built by each local authority; the number built for use as public housing by other bodies and various...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      1063. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report on the boundaries for the local election wards will be published. [12864/18]
    • Vacant Properties Data
      1064. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant or derelict hotel and guest house properties in each county. [12866/18]
    • Fire Service
      1065. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the existing fire-based EMS system will be provided funding and fully retained to enable the members of Dublin Fire...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1066. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is Government policy to encourage city and county councils to apply for European Investment Bank loans which are...
    • National Development Plan Data
      1068. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under his Department's remit or bodies under its...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Heritage Sites
      1069. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to enhance the management and visitor services at the ruined windmill at Vinegar Hill, Enniscorthy, County Wexford; and...
    • Departmental Banking
      1070. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost to her Department of negative interest rates on deposits held; the details of same for agencies under her aegis; and if...
    • Offshore Islands
      1071. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cathain a chuirfear bád farantóireachta nua ar fáil do mhuintir Thoraí mar a ghealltar sa Phlean Forbartha...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      1072. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public...
    • National Parks
      1073. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will investigate the possibility of purchasing available lands at a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1074. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons holding Civil Service positions above clerical officer grade in her Department who entered the Civil...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      1075. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the directions provided to the payment of staff in the public sector and Civil Service who fall under the direction of her...
    • Creative Ireland Programme
      1076. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the financial provisions in place to enable local authorities to action the culture and creativity plans put in place under...
    • Irish Language
      1077. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of language support packs that have been issued to families for each year since the introduction of the family...
    • Creative Ireland Programme
      1078. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the planned Creative Ireland forum conference; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12032/18]
    • Heritage Council Staff
      1080. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available to local authorities from her Department or the Heritage Council to fund the cost of hiring a heritage...
    • Heritage Council Funding
      1081. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding the Heritage Council provides to local authorities; the purpose of the funding; the conditions attached to the...
    • Heritage Council Staff
      1082. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is an obligation, statutory or otherwise, on a local authority to employ a heritage officer; and if she will make a...
    • Commemorative Plaques
      1083. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce commemorative plaques for sites connected with the Famine; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      1084. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad chuige nár tháinig aon mhéadú ar an deontas reáchtála a íocadh le comharchumann i gContae...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1085. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the capital allocation for her Department in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas in which this will be spent in each of...
    • Public Sector Pensions Data
      1086. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the pension packages received by individual staff members at principal officer grade and above in her Department and the agencies...
    • Cruinniú na Cásca
      1087. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons that attended the Cruinniú na Cásca event in Dublin on Easter Monday 2017; and if she will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1090. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided to each local authority to host an event as part of the 2017 Cruinniú na Cásca festival; and if...
    • Cruinniú na Cásca
      1091. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the decision not to run the Cruinniú na Cásca festival in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      1092. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the possibility of the State purchasing a site (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be examined; and if she will make a...
    • Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta
      1093. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cathain go díreach a bhunófar ionad Gaeilge agus cultúir i lár chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath mar atá...
    • Work Permits Data
      1094. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of visas granted to non-EU workers on film and television productions in receipt of State funding in each of the years...
    • Departmental Staff
      1095. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department is responsible for the staffing arrangements at a centre (details supplied); if there are plans to open the...
    • Archaeological Sites
      1096. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of preliminary reports and final reports for archaeological investigations on peatland sites received by her...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1098. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made since the 2013 Review of Archaeological Survey and Mitigation Policy relating to Bord na...
    • National Development Plan Data
      1102. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects mentioned in the National Development Plan 2018-2027 that come under her Department's remit or bodies under its...

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