Written answers

Thursday, 19 April 2018

  • Department of Health
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      12. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the CHO's recruitment initiatives; and the steps being taken to improve recruitment, for example, acute units, community mental health adult...
    • Psychological Services
      15. To ask the Minister for Health the number of counselling and educational psychologists required to complete extensive in-service training in order to maintain eligibility for their own jobs;...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      16. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE fell short of its target for the establishment of children’s disability network teams in 2017. [17105/18]
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      17. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the restoration of pay to section 39 workers cannot be costed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13518/18]
    • Hospital Groups
      18. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need for investment in regional hospitals and in particular in the emergency department at Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services Administration
      19. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a national co-ordinated helpline and clearly publicised nationwide professional supports for persons with mental health issues; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      20. To ask the Minister for Health when the new 50 bed psychiatric unit at UHG will open; the number of beds that will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17113/18]
    • Hospital Services
      21. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of an endoscopy unit for Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17108/18]
    • Medicinal Products
      22. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make information available on the safety of Misoprostol and Mifepristone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17120/18]
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment
      23. To ask the Minister for Health the measures taken to tackle the appointment of non-specialist doctors as consultants; the steps he has taken to address this issue since it was first raised;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      24. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce waiting lists for ophthalmology treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17006/18]
    • General Practitioner Services
      25. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE undertook no public consultation on the closure of MIDOC services in Birr and Edenderry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      26. To ask the Minister for Health the range of health services that are available in the Kilcock primary health care facility; the number of general practitioners that are due to or that have...
    • Hospital Groups
      27. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the options appraisal in respect of the future acute hospital needs in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17114/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      28. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made in the negotiations between the HSE and a company (details supplied) to ensure that the 19 patients currently involved in the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      29. To ask the Minister for Health his views on falling general practitioner numbers; the steps he is taking to address to address the fall in numbers through the negotiation of a new general...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      30. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the further delays in relation to the extension and refurbishment works at Kanturk and Millstreet community hospitals; and if he will make a...
    • Psychological Services
      31. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Cork city and county accounts for 40% of overdue HSE assessments of need under the Disability Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      32. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of additional capacity in acute hospitals to alleviate high levels of bed occupancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Groups
      33. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the financial challenges facing the Saolta hospital group in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17077/18]
    • Hospital Services
      34. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the radiology unit for the Regional Hospital Mullingar as outlined in the Capital Plan 2016-2021 which will host the MRI scanner which was...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      35. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the delivery of a primary care centre (details supplied); the staffing and range of services to be provided at the centre; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      37. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate for endoscopy day beds in Connolly Hospital to be used to cope with emergency department overcrowding. [17096/18]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      38. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of ambulance services for the Connemara region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17112/18]
    • Home Help Service
      39. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Wicklow LHO experienced a reduction of 33,722 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17040/18]
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
      40. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the recent Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health's report on evaluating orphan drugs will be implemented; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      41. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied an association's (details supplied) guidelines are implemented in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17117/18]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      42. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that rural Ireland has sufficient general practitioner cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17092/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      43. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor available to all persons with...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      44. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 291 persons over 75 years of age waited more than 24 hours in the emergency department of University Hospital Limerick during the first two months of...
    • Mental Health Services
      45. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for clinical staffing levels for the community psychiatry of old age mental health services to reach the level recommended in A Vision for Change;...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      46. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a full-time cardiologist, respiratory consultant and an associate professor from UCC that agreed to be assigned to University Hospital Kerry have not...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      47. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he is satisfied that issues affecting long waiting lists in public hospitals, overcrowding at accident and emergency services and other...
    • Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
      48. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address long waiting times for both CAMHS and primary care psychology services for children in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Disease Management
      49. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement a similar practice to that in Germany for the detection and treatment of Lyme disease; his plans to improve follow-up care for persons...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      50. To ask the Minister for Health if new hospitals built in Dublin under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 will be located in areas of easy access for persons from the wider Leinster area;...
    • Health Services Reports
      52. To ask the Minister for Health when a Sláintecare implementation plan will be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17090/18]
    • Mental Health Services
      53. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the deficiencies in child and adolescent mental health services at primary, community and acute levels; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      54. To ask the Minister for Health if pre-exposure prophylaxis will be available at an affordable level through the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17121/18]
    • Psychological Services
      55. To ask the Minister for Health when the national psychology placement office will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17032/18]
    • Primary Care Centres
      56. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the move towards primary care; if additional staff will be provided for new primary care centres; if not, the centres that will not receive...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      57. To ask the Minister for Health if a request from a group (details supplied) that a separate sub-group for addiction be established to address the issue beyond a criminal and legal approach...
    • Primary Care Centres Administration
      58. To ask the Minister for Health the services that will be provided in the primary care centre, Summerhill, Dublin 1; and his plans for the health centres that will be made vacant by this new...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      59. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a neurorehabilitation unit in County Longford; the progress that has been made in relation to this matter in the past number of...
    • Health Services
      60. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); his views in relation to their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Staff Data
      61. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional appointments at national director, assistant national director, general manager or grade VIII level the HSE expects to make during the...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      62. To ask the Minister for Health when parent representatives will be included in the primary care steering group in view of a motion agreed by Seanad Éireann; his views on whether parents...
    • Home Help Service
      63. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Galway LHO experienced a reduction of 44,145 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17044/18]
    • Hospital Services
      64. To ask the Minister for Health if a fixed cath lab will be provided at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17075/18]
    • Health Services Reports
      65. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the finding of the health service capacity review that some 13,000 extra residential care beds are needed; the action being taken to address this;...
    • Organ Donation
      66. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce the opt-out process for organ donation; the process involved in the implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      67. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the appointment of a full time consultant for the sleep clinic in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8; when this appointment can be expected; and if he...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      68. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for capital investment in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [17110/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      69. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units in CHO5 to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17099/18]
    • Hospital Services
      70. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to examine a number of proposals to improve cardiac care in the south east including the deployment of a modular laboratory that will allow for...
    • Hospital Groups
      71. To ask the Minister for Health the groups and organisations he will meet on the consultation on Portlaoise General Hospital; and if he will meet a group (details supplied). [16239/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      73. To ask the Minister for Health if the Procysbi drug will be available for persons with cystinosis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17118/18]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      74. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce waiting times for primary care ophthalmology appointments in the north Lee local health area in which 2,382 children and young...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      75. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to recruit a new cardiologist at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17094/18]
    • Paediatric Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Health his views on waiting lists for children with scoliosis needing surgery; if new targets will be forthcoming for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service
      77. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Dublin south west and Dublin west LHO areas experienced a reduction of 70,567 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Strategies
      78. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources allocated to community based programmes aimed at healthy food and healthy living as contained in the Obesity Policy and Action Plan...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      79. To ask the Minister for Health if the new programme to promote community awareness of alcohol related harm from the last quarter of 2017 to the summer of 2018 will be fast tracked; if the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      80. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department monitors the number of general practitioner practices that are unable to take on new patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      81. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of a modular cath laboratory which would allow for the performance of PCI in addition to or to replace the mobile diagnostic unit at...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      83. To ask the Minister for Health if delayed ambulance response times will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16831/18]
    • Pharmacy Services
      84. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a scheme put forward by a union (details supplied) by which women could access contraception directly from their community pharmacist...
    • Emergency Departments
      85. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 26 September 2017, the position regarding the new emergency department in UHG; the timeframe for delivery; if the...
    • Hospital Services
      86. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new cystic fibrosis unit in Beaumont Hospital will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17107/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      87. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction programme for primary care centres through the National Development Plan 2018-2027, with specific reference to the Fingal area of...
    • Home Help Service
      88. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Dublin south east, south city and Dún Laoghaire LHO areas experienced a reduction of 36,236 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      89. To ask the Minister for Health when work will commence on the two new Dublin hospitals promised in the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      91. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to use a drug approval and reimbursement system for MS drugs similar to that in Germany (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      92. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the clinical staffing levels for the community psychiatry of old age mental health services in CHO7 compare to that recommended under A Vision...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      93. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 519 persons over 75 years of age waited more than 24 hours in the emergency departments of Beaumont and the Mater Hospitals during the first two...
    • Hospitals Funding
      94. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be forthcoming for a request for additional funding of €1.8 million from Letterkenny University Hospital to enable it to open an...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      95. To ask the Minister for Health the status of respite care service provision by HSE disability services in County Wexford; if he is satisfied that the needs of vulnerable families are being...
    • Primary Care Centres
      96. To ask the Minister for Health if the new primary care centre in Mullingar is now fully occupied; his plans for further primary care centres in counties Westmeath and Longford; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the general practitioner workforce can be increased by 1,000 as recommended by the Health Service Capacity Review; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      98. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of elective only hospitals as outlined in the National Development Plan 2018-2027; if the possibility of locating the elective...
    • Hospitals Funding
      99. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with the HSE and Saolta in relation to a request to make additional funding of €1.8 million available to Letterkenny University...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      100. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no provision was made in the 2018 HSE Service Plan for an increase in personal assistant hours for adults with a physical and or sensory disability;...
    • Medicinal Products
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the discussions regarding Kuvan; the timeframe for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16243/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      102. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for occupational therapy in the Dublin 7 and Dublin 15 areas. [17119/18]
    • Health Services
      103. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Connecting for Life local plans are progressing; and the number which have been and will be launched [16232/18]
    • Respite Care Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) plans to close a number of respite centres on bank holiday weekends in County Galway during 2018 due to a lack of funding and...
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      105. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to address problems regarding pay and pay equality for nurses in view of the recruitment and retention crisis for nursing and...
    • Home Care Packages
      107. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which home care packages are being made available to persons that may otherwise need hospitalisation; the number approved in each of the regions...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • EU Enlargement
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Serbia and Montenegro joining the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17141/18]
    • Human Rights Cases
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the trial of persons accused of killing a person (details supplied) will take place in June...
    • Freedom of Speech
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Polish Government has introduced a new law which criminalises persons that reference...
    • Human Rights
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the criminalisation of resistance to the installation of a dam (details supplied) in Mexico; and if he...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he plans to reinstate the free passport for old age pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17249/18]
    • Good Friday Agreement
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he discussed with the British Secretary of State the need to resume talks between the Irish and British Governments and the political...
  • Department of Finance
    • Fiscal Data
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 30 November 2017, if the portion of the Exchequer capital spending in 2019, 2020 and 2021 per Table 3.1 is in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce the vehicle scrappage scheme. [17169/18]
    • EU Budget Contribution
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) relating to an increase in the overall contribution to the EU budget as a percentage of GDP. [17278/18]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the policy of applying the Central Bank’s consumer protection code to personal contract plans (details supplied). [17316/18]
    • Stamp Duty
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address issues (details supplied) relating to the sale of land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17176/18]
    • Tax Agreements
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of discussions with the Brazilian authorities to remove Ireland from a blacklist of tax havens; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined a report (details supplied) on a group in the UK; his views on the report; his views on whether the report applies to all parts of the...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to inform the Houses of the Oireachtas of the way in which he will vote on the proposed deferred share bonus scheme in a bank (details supplied);...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for tax relief certificates under the employment and investment incentive scheme, EIIS, in each year since its creation and in each...
    • NAMA Property Construction
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of NAMA built residential properties in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018; the number of these properties that are...
    • Tax Rebates
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance if a refund of income tax is due and will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17383/18]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Grants Data
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in receipt of SUSI funding in each year since 2014, in tabular form. [17226/18]
    • Skills Shortages
      133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he is taking to combat the shortage of labour in the construction industry as outlined in a report (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Student Accommodation
      134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and the action he will take to ensure students and their families are not priced out of accommodation....
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a child (details supplied) diagnosed with autism and currently attending an interactive early intervention class in Skibbereen...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      137. 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. [17171/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to facilitate an additional specialised educational unit as a part of a campus (details supplied); if the existing units will be...
    • Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a cheadófar airgead chun síneadh a chur le scoil (sonraí tugtha) agus chun athchóiriú a dhéanamh...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have been identified and secured and permission granted for proposed new primary schools in areas (details supplied) in tabular form....
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a new building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17194/18]
    • Teacher Redeployment
      145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers transferred to alternative schools on health grounds in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17196/18]
    • Teacher Discipline
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of instances in which the procedures set out in circulars (details supplied) prior to their being superseded by Circular 0071/2014,...
    • Teagmháil na nÓg
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills ar iarr Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna na Gaillimhe agus Ros Comáin cead air deireadh a chur leis an aon ionad amháin de...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide further information on his announcement on 13 April 2018 of a new 16 classroom primary school for Carrigaline by 2020; if this...
    • School Funding
      149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will continue to be funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17223/18]
    • School Closures
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the events surrounding the closure of a school (details supplied); if there is provision for payment of...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that a purpose built school (details supplied) for pupils with a moderate, severe or profound general learning disability,...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied); if the project will be expedited; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an Educate Together school will be built in Whitehall, Dublin 9 (details supplied); if so, the timeframe for the building of the school; and...
    • School Patronage
      156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the patronage of the 26 new primary and 12 new secondary schools announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17259/18]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expand to a new shared apprenticeship scheme for the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17308/18]
    • Adult Education Provision
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the participation rate in lifelong learning in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, based on the latest data available; the EU...
    • Skills Development
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of persons in the labour force that have basic or above basic digital skills; the corresponding EU average rate based on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be established; the schedule for the delivery of the building programme; when the site location will be...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has had its application for additional accommodation...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; if a preferred site has been selected; and when...
    • School Patronage
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to proceed with the patronage of the recently announced new primary school for Dunshaughlin, County Meath; and if a...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location the new regional secondary school between Drogheda and Laytown school catchment areas is to be located in the context of the recent...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expand the parental leave process to further strengthen support for parents; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by persons (details supplied) for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Operations
      168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on An Garda Síochána's Operation Chain; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the...
    • Garda Data
      170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to the Garda R and J Districts in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rational for amalgamating local youth justice projects into one youth justice programme which will encompass six areas of...
    • Courts Service
      172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the reduction in the rate of interest payable on judgment debts from 8% to 2% enacted by SI 624 of 2016 is applicable to...
    • Deportation Orders
      173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement process for arranging flights to transport deportees from Ireland to their country of origin; and the airlines...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Data
      174. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of open cases with GSOC by the length of time they have been open, the stage of investigation and the average time...
    • Garda Deployment
      175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide more gardaí to Athy, County Kildare. [17192/18]
    • Garda Vetting
      176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform the Garda vetting process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17229/18]
    • Citizenship Applications
      177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the administration costs for an EU citizen to become an Irish citizen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17243/18]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for naturalisation that are between six months and 1 year, 1 year and 18 months, 18 months and 2...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of certificates of naturalisation issued in 2017 to persons that were born here. [17258/18]
    • Protected Disclosures
      180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 11 September 2017 and 329 of 27 February 2018, if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Legislative Reviews
      181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review Part 11 or Part 13 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 in relation to extending anti-social behaviour orders...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile good behaviour contracts issued in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will...
    • Residency Permits
      185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Immigration Status
      188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17365/18]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for family reunification will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Immigration Status
      193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if submissions have been received in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 temporary residency will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Status
      195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 status will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 residency status will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 or appropriate status will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Immigration Policy
      198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an upgrade of stamp 1 to stamp 4 will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Deportation Orders
      199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 15 February 2018, if the matter will be expedited (details supplied); and if he...
    • Immigration Status
      200. 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. [17380/18]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Legislative Reviews
      201. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to review the Consumer Protection Act 2007 to strengthen misleading information provisions in relation to the growth of...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      202. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits in each county in quarter 1 of 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • IDA Ireland Portfolio
      203. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 25 January 2018, the available IDA lands at the end of quarter 1 of 2018; the occupied...
    • Brexit Issues
      204. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the strategic communications unit in the Department the Taoiseach will co-ordinate a national Brexit preparedness public...
    • Skills Development
      205. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she is taking to enhance enterprise policy to upskill workers in employment; and the actions set out in the action plan...
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Data
      206. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of drawdowns issued under the credit guarantee scheme on 31 December 2016 and 31 December 2017; and the value of approvals...
    • Job Losses
      207. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied); the supports in place for employees that will be made...
    • Research and Development Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the most recent data for Ireland’s ranking in each international table for research and development; and the target originally...
    • Brexit Supports
      212. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if further Exchequer funding was allocated to the Brexit loan scheme and her views on whether it would reduce the interest rate...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      213. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the National Competitiveness Council's recommendation to undertake a benchmarking exercise comparing Ireland’s...
    • Joint Labour Committees
      214. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of the seven joint labour committees by the Labour Court. [17320/18]
    • Enterprise Ireland Investments
      215. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on Enterprise Ireland's capital investment initiative. [17322/18]
  • Department of Health
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      216. To ask the Minister for Health if reports from parents of children attending a school (details supplied) will be examined; the contractual changes that have taken place since 2017 that may...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      217. To ask the Minister for Health the action that has been taken on each of the recommendations from the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction; and his further plans in this regard. [17325/18]
    • Mental Health Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to improve CAMHS, for example, access, age-appropriate placements, waiting lists and standardised operating procedures. [16231/18]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      220. To ask the Minister for Health if a third paediatric consultant rheumatologist has been approved for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin as part of the 2018 service plan in view of the...
    • Medicinal Products
      221. To ask the Minister for Health when the national biosimilars strategy will be published; the reason for the delay in publishing same; the measures the strategy will contain to increase...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      222. To ask the Minister for Health when works will commence on the new hospital in Cork city promised in the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Help Service
      223. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Sligo, Leitrim and West Cavan LHO experienced a reduction of 26,713 home help hours in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17073/18]
    • Psychological Services
      224. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to alleviate the waiting list for child psychologists, particularly amongst persons under 15 years of age who make up 80% of the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      225. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the distress that delaying Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 has had on families in view of...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      226. To ask the Minister for Health his views on consultant psychiatrist numbers of 8 per 100,000 and the fact that Ireland ranks behind all other northern European countries; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each CHO waiting for an appointment with a psychiatry of old age community team; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a place in a care home for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17135/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      230. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help services for a person (details supplied) will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17136/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      231. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre device; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service Appeals
      232. To ask the Minister for Health if reconsideration will be given to home help for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17146/18]
    • Paediatric Services
      233. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the chronic shortage of paediatric rheumatologists in view of the fact that 900 children have been on waiting lists at Our...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      234. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of a position (details supplied); the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17151/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      235. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17161/18]
    • Hospitals Funding
      236. To ask the Minister for Health the capital funding provided for Connolly Hospital in 2017; and the capital funding allocated for projects (details supplied) during 2017, in tabular form....
    • Health Services Provision
      237. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in regard to juvenile arthritis will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17174/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      238. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17178/18]
    • Hospital Charges
      239. To ask the Minister for Health if the €80 charge imposed by certain hospital groups on persons with haemochromatosis requiring venesection will be removed as recommended by an...
    • Ambulance Service
      240. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to meet voluntary committees from Connemara that are concerned with the quality of the ambulance service in Connemara and that have requested a...
    • Health Services Provision
      241. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the lodgment of a new planning application by a day care centre (details supplied) in County Kildare. [17190/18]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      242. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary medical certificate will be issued to a person (details supplied). [17195/18]
    • Planning Issues
      243. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE will assess and monitor the risks to human health in view of the fact that An Bord Pleanála has approved a company's (details...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      244. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults on health care staff in hospitals across the State in each of the years 2008 to 2017, by number of assaults and the hospital in which...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of security staff, associated with an agency or directly employed, working in hospitals across the State in each of the years 2008 to 2017 by...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      246. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of primary care centres in Croom, Newcastle West, Kilmallock, Caherconlish and Castletroy, County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      247. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to a query made in correspondence (details supplied) regarding medicines for persons with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      248. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [17228/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      249. 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. [17239/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      250. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application by a person (details supplied) for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17262/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      251. To ask the Minister for Health the differences in the way in which persons with MS here access life changing medicines by comparison to other EU countries; the reason there is delay for new...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      252. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the regulation process relative to speech and language therapists trained abroad that now wish to have their qualifications registered...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      253. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the BreastCheck western unit is to withdraw its mobile unit from Sligo town and relocate to the village of Collooney; his views on whether this will...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      255. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled. [17337/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      256. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure new medicines are available to persons with MS; and if he...
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      257. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 29 March 2018, when discussions will commence with general practitioner representatives on contractual issues; and...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      258. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that in 2018 it was announced that Pembrolizumab would be licensed in April 2018 for NSCLC patients however his Department and the HSE...
    • Emergency Departments
      259. To ask the Minister for Health the most effective and immediate action that can be taken to alleviate overcrowding in emergency departments nationally; if an analysis has been carried out...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      260. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which speech and language therapy and mental health support exists for children in all areas throughout the country; if particular shortfalls...
    • Health Services Reform
      261. To ask the Minister for Health when a restructuring of the HSE will take place with a view to greater accountability and influence at regional level including representational status for...
    • Transport Support Scheme
      262. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determining the appropriate scheme to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels throughout the public health sector at all levels in hospitals and community care; the extent to which they have been augmented in recent...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      264. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund can be utilised to alleviate waiting lists at public hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17356/18]
    • General Practitioner Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners practising here; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in the past ten years; the extent to which demographic...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      267. To ask the Minister for Health if particular medicines are to be included in the discussions to reduce the cost with particular reference to innovative medicines and or generic medicines; if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      269. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of a medical card renewal in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      270. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17369/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      271. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which provision is being made to identify persons on long waiting lists for various treatment, with particular reference to those with the most...
    • HSE Funding
      272. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the health budget to meet the requirements in their entirety throughout 2018; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      273. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of nurses, doctors and consultants becoming available in 2018 is sufficient to meet the demand; his views on whether it is...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      274. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting lists for orthodontic treatment have been reduced for children at primary and second level; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the balancing payment of the 2017 sheep welfare scheme will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17152/18]
    • Monitoring of Food Safety Standards
      276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department will assess the risks to the food chain, consumer health and the value and reputation of Irish...
    • Veterinary Inspection Service Staff
      277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department fills vacancies that arise from a panel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications
      278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a late area of natural constraints application appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility
      279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if persons (details supplied) in County Kerry are eligible under the young farmers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Welfare
      280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the mobile plunge dipping of sheep (details supplied) is recognised here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17261/18]
    • Beef Exports
      281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeframe for finalising a veterinary health certificate with the general administration of quality, supervision and quarantine,...
    • Farm Data
      283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average age of a farmer in Ireland; the average EU age in this regard; and the number of farmers by age group (details supplied)...
    • GLAS Issues
      284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of GLAS 1, 2 and 3 that have received the 2017 balancing payment by county in tabular form; the...
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme Data
      285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of the sheep welfare scheme payment that have received the 2017 balancing payment by county in...
    • Farm Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of approved persons that have applied to the knowledge transfer group scheme in the beef, sheep, dairy, tillage, equine...
    • Horticulture Sector
      287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the reopening of the horticulture investment scheme; the amount of funding allocated; and the anticipated...
    • Fodder Crisis
      288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants in the fodder transport scheme to date by county in tabular from. [17274/18]
    • EU Directives
      289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the draft EU Directive COM(2018) 173; and if his Department has carried out an analysis of the proposal. [17275/18]
    • Environmental Schemes
      292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the schemes and initiatives in place to reduce ammonia and nitrogen emissions. [17279/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a budget will be allocated to his Department's early warning system that operates locally to provide assistance and support to...
    • Farm Inspections
      294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if flexibility will be shown to farmers regarding cross compliance inspections and Bord Bia audits (details supplied). [17281/18]
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the ongoing delays in issuing genotyping tags for the Beef Data and Genomics Programme and the difficulties for suckler...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      296. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter will be addressed regarding a trust (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Angling Sector
      297. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grants available for angling clubs to provide classes (details supplied); the details of same; the person or body...
    • Environmental Regulations
      298. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to deal with the legal and reputational consequences for Ireland should it breach its...
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      299. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the Environemental Protection Agency, EPA, plans to assess and monitor the risks to human health from...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      300. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the rollout of high speed broadband connectivity in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • North-South Interconnector
      301. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the two independent studies into the proposed North-South Interconnector will be received; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency funding to local authorities to undertake emergency repairs of road surfaces and footpaths damaged during recent extreme...
    • Bus Services
      303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact no buses serve Dublin Airport from Dublin 13; his plans to introduce new bus routes which...
    • Road Network
      304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he and his Department continue to assess the need for upgrade to facilitate extra traffic on the N4 Maynooth to...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received a request from Kildare County Council for extra funding to repair the damage to roads in the county...
    • Tourism Industry
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the remedial works being carried out in view of his Department's recent contact with boat operators that carry tourists to Inishmurray...
    • Cruinnithe an Aire
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuair sé iarratas ó Choiste Dhoire Fhearta ar an gCeathrú Rua i Mí na Márta nó le gairid á...
    • Rail Services
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the National Transport Authority to put a commuter daily rate ticket scheme in place for persons that avail of the...
    • Public Transport Data
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers that availed of student tickets on Irish Rail in each year since 2011, in tabular form. [17230/18]
    • Bus Éireann Services
      316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a commerciality review of all routes serviced by Bus Éireann's Expressway service has been conducted. [17329/18]
    • Noise Pollution
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the dates and purpose of meetings he has held with relevant stakeholders since his decision to award Fingal County Council the competent...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the financial allocation to local authorities for the non-national road network in view of the increasing costs of...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to the COSC review of the National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2010-2014 (details supplied), if her...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the first and full year cost of extending the early childhood care and education programme year by periods (details supplied). [17199/18]
    • Area Based Childhood Programme
      321. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the ABC programme for 2018; the number of centres this funding supports; and if she will make a statement...
    • Family Resource Centres
      322. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the family resource centre network in 2010; the number of centres that this supported; and if she will...
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility
      323. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the method used to determine the level of subsidy that a household is eligible for under the affordable childcare scheme. [17202/18]
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme Data
      324. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the households in receipt of subsidies under the affordable childcare scheme by gross income bracket (details supplied). [17203/18]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Library Services Funding
      325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to library services for Galway County Council in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the funding...
    • Departmental Funding
      327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of grant aid or funding that is available for voluntary or community groups that wish to establish a community and-or sports...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [17158/18]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied). [17160/18]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      330. 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. [17185/18]
    • Free Travel Scheme Data
      331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding her Department has provided to each transport company that participates in the free travel scheme since...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [17283/18]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not on the full rate of payment of invalidity pension; and if the claim will be...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the age for progress to disability allowance will remain at 18 years in view of the fact changes would have a significant...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on a review of an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the refusal to issue disability allowance through the person's bank in the case of a person (details...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which a reduced level of jobseeker's allowance is being paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Planning Issues
      338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to respond to concerns by a foreign direct investor (details supplied) that proposals to fast track...
    • Rent Controls
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which rent increase caps appear not to govern student accommodation (details supplied); and his plans for changes...
    • Fire Service
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be provided for Dublin Fire Brigade to purchase new ladders that can reach up to 42 metres in height; and if...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to open up the pyrite remediation scheme nationwide to assist homeowners that are adversely affected by same; and if...
    • Library Services Staff
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the staffing request by Galway County Council to appoint a branch librarian at Ballygar Library, County Galway, will be...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority houses or voluntary houses built in Galway city and county respectively in each year since...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding provided by his Department to Kildare County Council to repair houses has been returned; and if so, the amount....
    • Local Authority Housing
      345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme applications received to date by local authority area; the number of loans...
    • House Prices
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has examined a report by an organisation (details supplied); his views on the projected 10% increase on housing prices...
    • Rental Sector
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of units to be delivered in each of the pilot projects for a new cost rental scheme; the timeframe for...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase scheme units provided to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17298/18]
    • Thatching Grants Applications
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application for a thatching grant by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding that will be provided to Monaghan County Council for 2018 in respect of housing construction, purchase of...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if improvements will be introduced at an early date to the tenant purchase scheme to enable Part V tenants and tenants in...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Arts Funding
      353. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if special funding for a person (details supplied) will be granted; if a special funding scheme to support exceptionally talented...