Written answers

Tuesday, 24 April 2018

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • EU Funding
      34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions held to date at national and EU level on the possibility of having cohesion funding post 2020 provided for road...
    • Rail Services Data
      35. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the reliability of the route profitability figures published in the rail review 2016; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Tourism Policy
      36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop the tourism potential of the east coast and south-east coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17605/18]
    • Children First Guidelines
      37. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement his Department has had with sports clubs regarding responsibilities under Children First; and the organisations he has met...
    • Light Rail Projects
      38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings he has had regarding the Luas cross city project; the dates of the meetings; the person or bodies with which he has...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when action No. 33 of the RSA Road Safety Strategy 2013-2020 (details supplied) will be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Harbour Authorities
      40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed the risk assessment report and the due diligence report into Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company received by Dún...
    • Harbour Authorities Staff
      41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the pay, conditions and pensions of the staff of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company will not be undermined in the course of the...
    • Tourism Industry
      42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the outlook for tourism in 2018; the performance to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17757/18]
    • Road Signage
      43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the extent of incorrect spelling (details supplied) on national road signs related to town names and...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      44. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next round of sports capital grants will open for sports organisations; if changes will be made to the scheme in 2018; and if he...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned metro north for Swords; if problems have been identified; the way in which he plans to conduct the consultation...
    • Ferry Services Provision
      46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve direct ferry links to Europe in view of the imminence of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects Status
      47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the east-west link road for the local economy of east County Cavan and the surrounding areas will be progressed. [17782/18]
    • Bus Services
      48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the new bus lanes and bus corridors that have been identified in Dublin as part of the BusConnects project; the next steps and process to...
    • Greenways Development
      49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding and delivery of the greenway project for Naas, Sallins and Ardclough to the Dublin section; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects Status
      50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of the A5; the details of his engagement with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on this project; the funding...
    • Tourism Promotion
      51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of efforts to capitalise on the exposure of Ireland following the release of the latest movie in a franchise (details...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his vision for the role of sport in promoting positive mental health and well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17737/18]
    • Road Projects Status
      53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Bonagee link road project in County Donegal; when the project will commence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to upgrade deficiencies in road, rail, air and sea transport systems with a view to identifying possible delays which may impact...
    • Greenways Development
      56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the greenway strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17758/18]
    • Rail Network Expansion
      57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress on the Kildare route project to provide an additional train line to County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rebates available to sports clubs in respect of donations made to them by private citizens; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Noise Pollution Legislation
      59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe regarding planned legislation to establish the competent authority under EU 598/2014. [17723/18]
    • Harbour Authorities Staff
      60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract of a person (details supplied) was recently renewed; if so, the duration of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for investment in recreational infrastructure such as swimming pools, community centres and other sporting facilities; the...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the benefits that will arise for areas such as the Lee Valley from the plans to further develop the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will make...
    • Rail Services Provision
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase capacity levels on Irish Rail commuter trains; and the expenditure allocated for the purchase of new rolling stock...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 15 February 2018, if the internal review by his Department of the Air Navigation (Carriage of...
    • Dublin Bus Fleet
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the capacity shortages that exist across the Dublin Bus system and the lengthy lead-in times that exist for the...
    • Tourism Industry
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address difficulties being experienced regarding boat access for tourists to Inishmurray, County Sligo. [17712/18]
    • Pension Provisions
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the ongoing pensions issue at CIÉ involving approximately 16,700 members; and the steps he is taking to address same....
    • Greenways Development
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the roll-out of a strategy for the future development of greenways and rural cycling; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Harbour Authorities
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to meet with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to discuss the transfer of Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he...
    • Sports Organisations
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support cricket here. [17763/18]
    • Ports Policy
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to overcome ownership issues at Rosslare Europort following advice from a company (details supplied), other consultants and the...
    • EU Funding
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions that have been held with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the European Commission in relation to having...
    • Light Rail Projects
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans that have been put into operation to resolve the ongoing problems with regard to the introduction of the Luas cross city...
    • Sports Capital Programme Review
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on an independent review of the sports capital programme with a view to creating additional guidelines or rules to ensure that...
    • Public Transport
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the setting up of a forum for public transport as committed to in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Funding
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the large-scale sport infrastructure fund that was announced as part of budget 2018 and the National Development Plan...
    • Tourism Promotion
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which counties Offaly and Laois will benefit from continued development of the Hidden Heartlands and Ancient East experiences;...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of invalid applications in the 2017 sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17759/18]
    • Harbour Authorities
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the motion that was passed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council at a meeting on 6 March 2018 requesting that he make...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding for the repair of rural roads will be provided in view of recent bad weather and stretched council resources; and if he will...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the effectiveness of the "Wonders of the Wild Atlantic Way" marketing campaign. [17771/18]
    • Taxi Regulations
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend section 15 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 to ensure that taxi drivers are required to nominate a person to continue to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the inclusion of persons with disabilities on the boards of public transport companies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Airport Policy
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 28 March 2018, his views on the appropriateness of appointing Fingal County Council as the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      90. To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied with the progress of the Mulvey report; and if he will report on the progress of the implementation of same. [17521/18]
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      91. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 101, 104, 107, 108 and 117 of 17 April 2018, if the details which relate to the €756,119 total amount indicated will be...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      92. To ask the Taoiseach the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17913/18]
    • Overseas Missions
      94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the published number of Defence Forces members serving on overseas missions (details supplied) in each relevant year in which the missions...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is his policy to record phone calls from lobbyists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17986/18]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • European Council Meetings
      99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17447/18]
    • Syrian Conflict
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the outcome of discussions on Syria at the most recent meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a...
    • Brexit Staff
      101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a recruitment process in place in Northern Ireland for 18 new customs officers; if...
    • European Council Meetings
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on discussions at the recent EU Foreign Affairs Council on the prospects for the Iran nuclear deal in the event that the...
    • Foreign Policy
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the situation in Venezuela; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17591/18]
    • EU Issues
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on judicial reforms in Poland and efforts by the EU to address these reforms; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Diplomatic Passports
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomatic passports issued; the criteria for such passports being issued; the number of such passports issued to spouses; the...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the steps taken to replace the election observation roster established in 2013; the details of the application process for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 17 April 2018, the information he referred to from the OPCW investigation that had relevance to...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and if he...
    • Northern Ireland
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the events he attended for the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement; if he attended meetings surrounding...
  • Department of Finance
    • Brexit Issues
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registered hauliers that meet criteria as AEOs; and the measures and supports that have been put in place to increase the number in preparation...
    • Tax Reliefs Abolition
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax relief on union subscriptions which was withdrawn in 2011 and failed to be reviewed in 2016 will be restored; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Stamp Duty
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance when a relief from stamp duty will be available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17499/18]
    • Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and nature of investigations the Central Bank has carried out with regard to overpricing or overcharging on commercial loans in the past ten years;...
    • Tax Data
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of penalty payments received by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years 2011 to 2017, by source in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Budget 2018
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual carry forward for 2019 and beyond for tax measures and expenditure measures, respectively, announced in budget 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Fiscal Data
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance if a convergence margin will apply in the calculation of net fiscal space for 2019 as a result of Ireland potentially not meeting its MTO in 2018 as stated in...
    • Stability Programme Data
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the risk of harmonised European corporation tax and harmonised European digital tax has not been specifically included in the Table 19 fiscal risk...
    • Inflation Rate
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if the consumer price index has been broken down by composition (details supplied); if the price changes have been tracked along those lines; the result of...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received for the home building finance Ireland scheme; the number of successful applicants; the amount issued to date; the interest...
    • Fiscal Data
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials have made on examining the impact of the EUROSTAT reclassification of tier 3 AHBs to become part of the local government...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17906/18]
    • European Investment Bank Loans
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the average interest rate applying to EIB loans initiated in each of the years 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for principal private residence relief in respect of the sale of a property. [17954/18]
    • VAT Rate Application
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the application of VAT to a product (details supplied); and if a reduced rate or zero rate of VAT can be applied to the product without...
    • Economic and Monetary Union
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the discussions at EU level regarding the European Monetary Fund; and his views regarding Chancellor Merkel's comments on same. [17683/18]
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 353 of 27 February 2018, the status of the project; when revised tenders will issue for the...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the financial control procedures, procurement protocols and Civil Service rules on the use of public resources allow Departments...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will meet with community employment supervisors and their trade union representatives to resolve the ongoing issues regarding...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans of the Office of Public Works to carry out conservation and restoration works at a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Applications
      141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 596 of 22 March 2018, if an application has been lodged under the OPW minor flood mitigation works...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specifications of the glass blocks used in cells and holding cells in buildings (details supplied); his views on whether the glass...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital funding that has been signed off by him, his Department or bodies under its aegis for projects in Waterford City and County...
    • Public Expenditure Data
      144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish a schedule of those instances, other than the restructuring of Citizens Information services and MABS by the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been scheduled for a meeting to discuss with unions the outcome of the high level forum in respect of providing a pension...
    • Coastal Erosion
      148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if necessary financial assistance will be provided to Fingal County Council to tackle the alarming rate of coastal erosion that is...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to address the issue of flooding at the R551 road at Ballyheigue, County Kerry (details supplied). [17833/18]
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process of establishing a framework under which service providers provide a range of third party investigations and recipient...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in...
    • Public Sector Pensions Data
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the schedule to fully restore the pensions of retired public servants having regard to previous deductions under FEMPI legislation; and...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the provision of a pension scheme for community employment scheme...
    • Recreational Facilities Provision
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to upgrade the 15 acres sports pitches in the Phoenix Park and the adjacent car park. [17934/18]
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when legislation will be passed to facilitate the extension of the retirement age by choice for persons working in the public sector;...
    • Garda Accommodation
      159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of houses used as official accommodation by An Garda Síochána that are within the remit of the OPW by county and...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish the reports proposed and finalised by his Department in November 2017 dealing with the potential costs of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Institutes of Technology Funding
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding has been approved for the construction of an engineering building at Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT; and if he will make a...
    • School Transport Applications
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a person (details supplied) under the school transport scheme will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of temporary or prefabricated class rooms and schools in use by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Refurbishment
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school extensions carried out in the past two years by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied); if the project will go to construction in 2019; if the funding required will be ring-fenced in...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      171. 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. [17415/18]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in the form of one school with junior and senior schools will be reconsidered in view of the...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that will be carried out to an Scrúdú le haghaidh Cáilíochta sa Ghaeilge for entry into primary school teaching;...
    • Springboard Programme
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 641 of 16 January 2017, the further proposals that will be in place for Springboard in September 2018; and...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a person is placed on a supplementary special needs panel (details supplied). [17439/18]
    • School Staff
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the preparation allowance is only paid to persons who held this entitlement prior to February...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) regarding a contractor entering into examinership and the consequences for a...
    • School Curriculum
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to introduce a new mathematics curriculum just as teachers have become used to the old one (details supplied); if his...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant support available to a board of management of a secondary school in need of substantial refurbishment and housed in a protected...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [17468/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will issue to a school (details supplied) in County Meath in respect of its application for additional school accommodation; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the delivery of the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been devolved to Kildare and Wicklow Education and...
    • Site Acquisitions
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the conveyancing process relating to the acquisition of a site for a new college and school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been...
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tenders received by the closing date of 16 April 2018 for the construction of a four classroom extension to a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 22 March 2018, if the minor issues that needed to be addressed by the design team have been dealt...
    • Schools Data
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes being accommodated in prefabricated classrooms; the number that have been using prefabricated classrooms for two, three,...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed extension at a school (details supplied); the way in which a proposed new second level school in the area will affect...
    • School Accommodation
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied); the timeframe for progression of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the State Examinations Commission to revise the qualifying criteria for the reasonable accommodation at the certificate...
    • DEIS Eligibility
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be included in the upcoming DEIS programme; and the criteria which a school must meet in order to qualify for...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17559/18]
    • School Accommodation
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal in respect of a school (details supplied) will be upheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17568/18]
    • School Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to resource a school (details supplied) to enable it to obtain three extra teachers to alleviate issues with overcrowded classrooms....
    • Schools Building Projects
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the eight schools at project brief stage to progress to the next stage on the school buildings programme in County Wicklow; and...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received a proposal from a school (details supplied) for an upgrade of the school buildings; and the position regarding the proposal....
    • School Closures
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the closure of a school (details supplied) has been sanctioned; the reason for this decision; his views on whether this will have a...
    • Schools Property
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application to sell a property (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17599/18]
    • Special Educational Needs
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be placed in school from September 2018; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that home tuition will...
    • Technological Universities
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application from Waterford Institute of Technology and Carlow IT to become a technological university; the stage the process is...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for an extension to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17669/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in County Tipperary that have applications with his Department for refurbishments, extensions, construction of ASD units or another...
    • School Enrolments Data
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary students attending schools in County Tipperary on 30 September 2014 to 2017, inclusive in tabular form; and...
    • Teacher Data
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed by his Department, Tipperary ETB or other schools in receipt of State funding in County Tipperary on 1 January...
    • Institutes of Technology
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses on offer at Limerick Institute of Technology, Thurles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17688/18]
    • Student Support Schemes
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant options or financial assistance available from his Department for a person (details supplied) working as a special needs assistant for...
    • Third Level Institutions
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of capital funding for a college (details supplied) in view of significantly increasing student numbers on home economics teacher...
    • Schools Building Projects
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe from when a site is identified and purchased for a new school or an existing school to be transferred to a new site, built and...
    • State Examinations Commission
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the level of wages paid to cleaning personnel and others working in the State examinations centre of his Department will be expedited; if he...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for works to be carried out on car parking facilities at a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a...
    • Student Support Schemes
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are supports offered to assist a person (details supplied) with the cost of an online masters degree which will be accredited by an...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teachers recruited in each of the years 2005 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [17834/18]
    • Residential Institutions
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the requested consultation talks with survivors of residential industrial schools to facilitate a survivor-led strategy...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the eligibility review for Caranua will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17874/18]
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board members of Caranua who recently resigned have been replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17876/18]
    • Teacher Retirements
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding teachers who are coming up to retirement age but want to continue teaching; the pay arrangements in place in such...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school sites which have been agreed in principle and-or announced as having been agreed which have not been fully conveyed, transferred or...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of improvement works and extension plans required at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17933/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an ASD unit and additional accommodation; if the remaining stages of the...
    • School Accommodation
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the rapid projected increase in student numbers for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; his plans...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the project delivery; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school extension and improvement plan for a school (details supplied); the timeframe for delivery of the project; and if he will...
    • Departmental Contracts
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the work contracted by his Department at a club (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will resume. [17950/18]
    • Special Educational Needs
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Offaly has been refused funding for the central activity space element in its funding...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and if he will...
    • School Transport Appeals
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus ticket application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if a bus ticket will be granted in view of the circumstances;...
    • Apprenticeship Data
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of male and female apprentices in training by each employment sector and subsector at 31 March 2018, for craft based and consortia led...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the assessment by the Apprenticeship Council regarding the 77 proposals received in the second call for new apprenticeship...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status and timeline of the legislation to increase parental leave to 26 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he has taken to avoid further underspending of EU integration funding; if he has acted on advice from the EU...
    • Garda Deployment
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda numbers for the Cork city Garda division in 2007 and 2011; the current strength in this regard; and if he will make a...
    • Community Return Programme
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the community return programme is open to prisoners serving a five-year sentence but statutorily barred; the process for...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 23 January 2018 the number of other persons who were killed in the road traffic...
    • Garda Resources
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of dogs assigned to each Garda division in each of the years 2010 to 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Data
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out in tabular form the motor vehicles disposed of in 2017 that had been seized by An Garda Síochána; when the...
    • Visa Applications
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of applications for visitors visas and long-term visas that have been decided upon since 1 January 2018;...
    • Prison Service Data
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out in tabular form the compensation payments made by the Irish Prison Service to inmates and persons on remand in 2016...
    • Schengen Agreement
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Schengen visa waiver for Ukrainians will be extended to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17547/18]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report in tabular form on the commitments made on refugees; the timeline for accommodating same; the number of...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the extent to which the circumstances surrounding the death of the son of a person (details supplied) have been...
    • Garda Recruitment
      275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the post of head of training and development within An Garda Síochána will be filled; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Retirements
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of retirements in An Garda Síochána from the rank of superintendent up to Commissioner since 1...
    • Migrant Integration
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the closure of a centre (details supplied) as a result of his Department withdrawing...
    • Registration of Title
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has examined the possible effects of measures in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 that make it necessary for...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will include a review of domestic and sexual violence data collection and analysis by State services in the SAVI II...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his views on a media report that An Garda Síochána overstated the number of sexual offences reported in...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the timeframe for the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Ombudsman’s report on an...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of new vehicles scheduled to be delivered to An Garda Síochána during 2018; the number due to...
    • Garda Reserve
      283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplies) will be admitted as a Garda Reserve having completed the application process; and if he will...
    • Garda Data
      284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in the Cork west division in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and...
    • Garda Retirements
      285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have retired in each Garda station in the Cork west division in each of the years 2014 to 2017...
    • Immigration Status
      287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 will be awarded to a person (details supplied); if their stamp 4 eligibility can be considered on compassionate...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount collected by the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2017 and to date in 2018; the purpose these funds were used for when...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to...
    • Immigration Status
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a 12 month work visa stamp 1G; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the provision of additional funds to the Courts Service to facilitate the completion of planned capital investment in county...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision in respect of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in view of the...
    • Garda Station Closures
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the reopening of Rush Garda station which was announced in 2016; the date it will be reopened; and if he will...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his...
    • Prison Service Data
      295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prison officers subjected to an assault while on duty in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and...
    • Garda Vetting
      296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under new vetting procedures gardaí are no longer vetting all staff and...
    • Garda Transport Data
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles that support plain-clothes gardaí in each of the Dublin metropolitan regions; his plans to roll out...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Enterprise Ireland Funding
      319. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocated to the Be Prepared grant for Brexit; the number of client companies that have applied for and been awarded same,...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that have availed of the LEO Brexit Mentor Programme by local enterprise office in tabular form; and if she will...
    • Industrial Development
      322. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a replacement industry for a location (details supplied) in County Kildare has been identified; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      323. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to her Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017,...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, under the lobbyist register, it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in her Department; and...
    • Jobs Initiative
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocation and the number of participants for Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur in 2017 and 2018. [18004/18]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of the 70,000 emigrants that have been facilitated to return here to date in 2018 as outlined in A Programme for a...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Staff
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in each of the years since it was established and to date...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations
      328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of investigations ongoing being conducted by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. [18072/18]
    • State Aid
      329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the remit of the State Aid Modernisation Working Group; her plans for the group meeting which takes place here in April 2018; and if...
  • Department of Health
    • General Practitioner Services
      330. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend general practitioner cards to all carers in receipt of the respite care support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17871/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      331. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 18 April 2018, the nature of the technical drafting issue that has come to light in relation to Parts 2 and 3 of...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      332. To ask the Minister for Health if Versatis patches will be reinstated and made available to persons with medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17394/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      335. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17398/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) [17419/18]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      337. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of operations and procedures carried out under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in each of the past three years by specialty; the...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of operations and procedures carried out under the cross border directive in each of the past three years by specialty; the estimated cost...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      341. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will secure an appointment for knee surgery at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital. [17431/18]
    • Health Services
      342. To ask the Minister for Health if services will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17433/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      343. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an ophthalmology appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17434/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      344. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be scheduled for back surgery. [17436/18]
    • Mental Health Services
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has had no follow-up appointment with CAMHS on a matter. [17438/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person's (details supplied) knee replacement surgeries were cancelled with short notice on two separate occasions in April 2018; and if he will...
    • Health Promotion
      347. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ban the sale of energy drinks to those under 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17446/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births that took place in 2017 or the most recent year for which figures can be obtained in each of the three Dublin maternity hospitals; the...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      349. To ask the Minister for Health if funding was approved for a new replacement dialysis unit in Tallaght Hospital in June 2017; if the funding was cancelled on 5 January 2018; the reason...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      350. 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; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      351. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding being spent by Tallaght Hospital on dialysis services provided by a private hospital (details supplied). [17466/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      352. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17472/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of persons on colonoscopy waiting lists in each month of 2017 who are waiting for a colonoscopy as part of surveillance after screening,...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      355. To ask the Minister for Health if dental treatment for a person (details supplied) was listed when the person was attending primary school. [17475/18]
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      356. To ask the Minister for Health when a design team will be put in place to carry out the tender process for the new endoscopy unit, physical medicine unit, physical therapy unit, oncology...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be made available to the HSE to reduce the waiting list and waiting time for home support in view of the fact that at the end of...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      358. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17502/18]
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      359. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to a charity (details supplied) for each of the past seven years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17515/18]
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency staff in the health service in each of the years 1997 to 2010, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17525/18]
    • Medicinal Products
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure faster access to new medicines for persons diagnosed with...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      365. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reimbursement scheme and the fact that it can take over four years for new medication to be covered by same. [17530/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      366. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/18]
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the funding in place for home care packages in south-west areas of County Dublin; if there is a freeze on home care packages in these areas; if so, when it...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      368. To ask the Minister for Health when the fair deal scheme will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17537/18]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults that have been recorded against front line staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, ambulance staff and other health...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      372. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to the mother of a drug addict who is in receipt of a methadone treatment in terms of sheltered structured accommodation for the person;...
    • Hospital Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Health the status of services for venesection for persons with haemochromatosis; if the issue of the €80 fee that these persons must pay when they attend...
    • Disability Services Provision
      374. To ask the Minister for Health if waiting lists, lack of services and funding for persons with a disability will be addressed; the rationale for not including the optional protocol in the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      375. 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. [17581/18]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      376. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is allowing medical card holders to be charged for the taking of bloods; if the cost of such a procedure is covered under the medical card scheme;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [17583/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application will be reopened for persons (details supplied) to facilitate the provision of a letter in the format requested; and if he will...
    • Minor Ailments Scheme
      379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the minor ailments scheme piloted in Kells, Roscommon, Macroom and Edenderry will not be extended and rolled out to other areas; when the report on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      380. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for orthopaedic surgery at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot qualify under the HSE criteria for the provision of Pembrolizumab to be covered by private health insurance; his...
    • Hospital Equipment
      382. To ask the Minister for Health if University Hospital Limerick is running out of trolleys to cater for waiting patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) to ensure new medicines are available to persons with MS as soon as possible; his views on the fact...
    • Disability Services Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17635/18]
    • Hospital Services
      386. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a modular laboratory at UHW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17649/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      387. To ask the Minister for Health if an item of equipment will be provided to a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [17651/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatients and outpatients who did not attend at Beaumont Hospital in 2016, 2017, and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Regulation
      389. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will consider replicating the FDA black box warning regarding cautionary use by persons under 18 years of age on antidepressants such as...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      390. To ask the Minister for Health if funding and resources will be allocated to child psychological services to reduce the waiting lists for access to these services; and his views on the fact...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      391. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17672/18]
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a group (details supplied) for producing the health service capacity review report. [17699/18]
    • Patient Transport Data
      393. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patient transport taskings being provided to private operators and the HSE's intermediate care service to and from each of the Saolta hospital...
    • Disability Services Provision
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if the process for children with intellectual disabilities transitioning out of second level education will be reassessed; his views on new measures to...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17729/18]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who received treatment in the first quarter of 2018 under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Infectious Diseases
      398. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for improvements in the diagnostic testing and treatment for Lyme disease here; and his further plans to meet with representatives of the...
    • Health Service Capacity Review
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the reason workforce planning and assessment was excluded from the health service capacity review 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17794/18]
    • Health Services Staff
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the workforce planning reports being undertaken for the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17795/18]
    • Health Service Capacity Review
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the data which were provided to a company (details supplied) in carrying out the health service capacity review 2018. [17796/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      403. 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. [17805/18]
    • Civil Registration Service
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the closure of the Dundalk civil registration office; the length of time the office has been closed; the steps he is taking to reopen the...
    • Psychological Assessments
      405. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued with a date for a psychologist assessment; the reason for the delay in issuing a date for this appointment; and...
    • Civil Defence
      406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the exclusion of the Civil Defence from the joint voluntary control centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      407. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to review its new policy of in loco parentis and the need for a competent adult to be in the home at all times in cases in which a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for outpatient rheumatology appointments; the number of adults and children waiting, respectively; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time consultant paediatric rheumatology posts in the health service; his views on whether this is an adequate number of such posts to...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of a dermatologist to Mullingar general hospital; when the appointment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      413. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 259 of 8 March 2018 and 246 of 21 March 2018, the reason a response has yet to issue from the HSE; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if physiotherapy services will continue at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      415. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17884/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      416. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will make a decision on the reimbursement for a second line lung cancer drug (details supplied); his views on the delays in the drug reimbursement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      417. To ask the Minister for Health the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017, in tabular form. [17908/18]
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      418. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) regarding the cross border initiative will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17915/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      419. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17916/18]
    • Vaccination Programme
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding vaccine safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17920/18]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
      421. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter raised in correspondence relating to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17926/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied) at UHW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17927/18]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      423. To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the means allowance for a single person and a couple over 70 years of age for medical cards; his plans to increase the limits to the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      424. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated electronic braces for lower limbs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17929/18]
    • Health Services Funding
      425. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17980/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited with an organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17982/18]
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Symphysiotomy Reports
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if the sum of €6,600 paid to a person (details supplied) in respect of the Symphysiotomy and Pubiotomy Review - An Imaging Perspective, which was...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) under the knowledge transfer scheme. [17397/18]
    • GLAS Applications
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17406/18]
    • Environmental Regulations
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the concern in the communities of Burt, Bridgend, Burnfoot and Inch Island in the Inishowen...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for bringing in new operators (details supplied) in Kilmakilloge Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • TAMS Payments
      433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a TAMS 2 payment will be awarded to a person (details supplied) following a review of the application; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing 2017 GLAS and organic payments to a person (details supplied); and when payment will issue. [17457/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17458/18]
    • Tillage Sector
      438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person can avail of the benefit or process granted by the European Commission recently allowing a derogation on the three crop...
    • Afforestation Programme
      439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules regarding the distance trees are planted from persons' houses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Farm Inspections
      440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if inspections on farms in County Clare will be suspended for the duration of the fodder crisis as a contribution to ameliorating the...
    • GLAS Payments
      441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 398 of 8 March 2018, when a person (details supplied) will receive a GLAS payment; and if he...
    • Organic Farming Scheme Payments
      442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 8 March 2018, when a person (details supplied) will receive an organics payment; and if...
    • Animal Diseases
      443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a marked increase in the number of cattle dying in County Clare, mainly of diseases related to...
    • Animal Welfare
      444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on ensuring that Ireland does not export greyhounds to countries in which the welfare standards are poor; and if he will...
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the knowledge transfer dairy programme in view of the fact that this...
    • Fodder Crisis
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if root crops in addition to forage crops will be covered under the transportation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding his Department's recruitment practices in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the organic farm grants will be reinstated; if so, the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17856/18]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years from 2007 to...
    • GLAS Administration
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if GLAS flexibilities to low input permanent pasture will be extended in view of the fact that saturation on these land parcels is at...
    • Farm Inspections
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the exceptional circumstances related to weather during inspections in 2018 will be taken into account; and if he will make a...
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments have issued to participants in the knowledge transfer dairy programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be brought to The Bower, Balbriggan; the reason for the difficulty in delivering broadband in view...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      456. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he will take to ensure that all licensed household waste collection companies display full and up to date...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when all areas will receive high quality broadband in view of the decision by the EIB to refinance the NBP. [17514/18]
    • Broadcasting Charge
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the public service contribution of local media in County Clare and elsewhere in the ongoing review of the...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility
      466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person who is in receipt of a disability allowance and the fuel allowance is eligible for the SEAI warmer homes...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the decision of An Bord Pleanála to grant permission to a company (details supplied) to burn...
    • Mining Licences
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years...
    • Media Mergers
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the contents of a report were communicated to a company (details supplied) or its representatives before the report...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made in the past year in County Donegal in the provision of rural broadband services; the timeframe for...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is now the practice in...
    • Environmental Policy
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the negative impact on the environment through overuse of plastic packaging; his plans to implement...
    • UN Conventions
      475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason Ireland's third biennial report to the UNFCCC was three months late. [18100/18]
    • Citizens Assembly
      476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to respond to the Citizens' Assembly report on climate; and if he will seek to establish a...
    • National Broadband Plan
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that the interests of consumers of broadband in the State have been protected in the procurement...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Network
      478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the unsuitability of road conditions (details supplied) for HGVs; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the PSO funding provided to Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and other operators in 2017, in tabular form. [17388/18]
    • Bus Éireann Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the profitability of the Navan to Dublin Bus Éireann NX route in comparison with other routes. [17407/18]
    • Driver Test Data
      483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations in which the records of driver tests and licences granted are kept; if these records can be accessed if required; the...
    • Brexit Expenditure
      484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant aid being made available to agencies under his remit to assist with necessary infrastructure improvements to help mitigate...
    • Noise Pollution
      485. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether there may be a reluctance by Fingal County Council to make necessary preliminary arrangements in order that it will...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      486. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget Fáilte Ireland sought to establish and promote the new Hidden Heartlands brand. [17507/18]
    • Brexit Supports
      487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that has been taken to increase marketing to help mitigate against the effects of Brexit and diversify into other markets....
    • Public Transport
      488. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the list of pinch points or amended signalling as identified by public transport operators; if this list has been costed; and the...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann will be allowed use the hard shoulder at restricted speeds to enable the avoidance of traffic congestion; and his...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the situation in which CIÉ owns all properties used for the provision of public transport but does not maintain them (details...
    • Public Transport Expenditure
      491. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if multi-annual budgets for public transport service providers will be introduced in order that companies can better plan (details...
    • Pension Provisions
      492. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to the members of the two CIÉ pension schemes for independent legal advice; if an independent...
    • National Car Test Fees
      493. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to alleged overcharging at NCT centres (details supplied); if the issue will be examined; and the reason...
    • Tourism Industry
      494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reinstate a staffed community tourist office in conjunction with Fáilte Ireland at Shannon Airport; and if he will make...
    • Park and Ride Facilities
      495. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to create a park and share facility near Gorey, County Wexford, or close to the border of counties Wexford and Wicklow; and if...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the engagements he has had to date with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the use of phase 2 of the...
    • Tourism Funding
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason funding has not been received by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/18]
    • Road Network
      498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop the Waterford to Limerick road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17641/18]
    • National Development Plan Funding
      500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital funding that has been approved and secured for the development of the north quays in Waterford city; and if he will make a...
    • Regional Road Network
      501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation of road funding to projects in Waterford city and county in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he...
    • Airport Development Projects
      502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding being made available to extend the runway at Waterford Airport. [17645/18]
    • Ports Traffic
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the tonnage handled in each port in each of the years 2000, 2010, 2016 and 2017, by port in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tourism Promotion
      506. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the inclusion of east County Clare in the Ireland's Hidden Heartlands tourism initiative and also on the River Shannon...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he plans to implement to eliminate delays in driver tests in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects Status
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to progress a road project (details supplied) in view of its importance to a number of counties; if this project will be...
    • Taxi Regulations
      509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations and legislation he plans to introduce to manage the use of rickshaws for public hire following a public consultation on...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons who pay their car tax on time each quarter are charged more than if they pay annually; and if he will review the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      512. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the N81 from Tallaght to Hollywood Cross, Wicklow, road improvement scheme in view of the safety and congestion issues on...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      513. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the recent decision to award a contract for the operation of 24 bus routes in Dublin to a company (details supplied);...
    • Road Network
      514. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his response to the National Oversight and Audit Commission's recent report on the condition of Ireland's regional...
    • Driver Licences
      516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1295 of 17 April 2018, the follow-up that has taken place to retrieve licences from the 281 learner...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria applied in the review process for applications for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Park and Ride Facilities
      520. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 15 February 2018, the engagement that has taken place with the NTA regarding funding; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      521. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017,...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      522. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his Department; and if...
    • Road Network
      523. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to allow the construction of the Carrigaline western relief road, County Cork, to proceed; and if he...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      524. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals made by Bus Éireann to the NTA to improve the 220, 220X and 223 bus services in Cork. [18043/18]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      525. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when additional funding will be allocated to Cavan County Council in respect of the roadworks programme 2018 in view of the severe damage...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he has been able to facilitate organisations that received grant aid under capital sports grants and that wish to...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects to be in a position to offer funding towards the development of sporting and recreational facilities,...
    • Tourism Industry
      529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects the tourism industry to develop in all its facets in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Traffic Management
      530. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he has identified roads or motorways experiencing traffic congestion due to an inadequacy of capacity such as the M4...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which funding can be made available to the various local authorities in order to address damage to roads arising from...
    • Brexit Issues
      532. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects to provide alternative direct transport access to Europe in the aftermath of Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects public transport to become less reliant on fossil fuels in the future; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rail Network
      535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which it may be possible to bring forward the electrification of commuter rail routes, such as Enfield to Dublin, Sallins...
    • Tourism Industry
      536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the hotel and catering industry is sufficient to meet the demands of the tourism sector now and for the foreseeable...
    • Sports Events
      537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which Ireland continues to be marketed abroad as a venue for major sporting events; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which further extensions of integrated ticketing are proposed throughout the public transport sector; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Protection
      539. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a model here similar to the children's panel that exists in Scotland (details supplied); and if not, her plans to put in place...
    • Child and Family Agency
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will conduct a case review of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17548/18]
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence refuges and domestic violence step-down accommodation, respectively, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Department of Education and Skills is not represented on the working group tasked with streamlining children's mental health...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of the out-of-hours budgets for social work services that were allocated to north County Dublin in each of the years from...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) can avail of the early childhood care and education scheme in September 2018; if consideration is being...
    • Children in Care
      545. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the indemnity scheme under the State Claims Agency will be extended to foster carers; the progress that has been made to ensure there...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      546. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there will be only one entry point for the new early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme from 1 September 2018 and not...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      547. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason funding is being withheld from an organisation (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to concerns of local scout...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to her Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years from 2007 to 2017,...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      549. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, under the lobbyist register, it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in her Department; and if...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Local Improvement Scheme Administration
      550. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department has changed its practice in which it no longer funds private or non-council roads on islands unless the council...
    • Charities Regulation
      551. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the operation of the Charities Regulatory Authority; the number of applicants awaiting registration; the average length...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      552. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided for volunteer information services operating throughout the country that have been assisted by various...
    • Library Services
      553. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the detail of the new strategy that is being prepared to be launched to promote and encourage increased use of libraries; the way it...
    • Local and Community Development Programme Expenditure
      554. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on the local development social inclusion programme and the local and community development programme by county in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      555. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to 2017,...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Citizens Information Board
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has approved the allocation of funds voted by Dáil Éireann to the Citizens Information Board to be disbursed...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been advised of their ineligibility for participation in an...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17409/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17424/18]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive unemployment assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17435/18]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17437/18]
    • Widow's Pension Applications
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears for a person (details supplied) will be processed; and when they will receive same. [17442/18]
    • Guardian's Payment
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the guardian's payment (contributory), the guardian's payment (non-contributory) and the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports, monetary or otherwise, made available by her Department to orphans or those who are caring for orphans; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the need to progress an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in view of exceptional...
    • JobPath Programme
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter regarding lollipop persons signing up with the JobPath scheme (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Parental Leave
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of providing two weeks paid parental leave as recently proposed by her Department; and if she will make a statement...
    • Public Services Card
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason agencies which refuse to accept the public services card as personal identification will accept a passport which...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if stamps earned in the UK for the purpose of a pension can be transferred to Ireland for the purpose of a review for a...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a partial capacity payment will be awarded to a person (details supplied) following a review of the case and medical...
    • Labour Activation Programmes
      574. 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 an...
    • National Reform Programme
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role her Department has in outlining progress on social inclusion under the National Reform Programme 2017. [17684/18]
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for an exemption or a reduction in the household charge for family carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Grant Data
      577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the respite care grant and carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Jobs Initiative
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there was an increase in line with the social welfare increases in budget 2018 for persons in receipt of social welfare on...
    • Pension Provisions
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2019 of increasing the State pension, non-contributory, top rate to the State pension, contributory,...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory)
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the difference between the State pension, non-contributory, payment rate and the latest minimum income standards as indicated...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to her Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007...
    • Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to hire extra staff to alleviate the 17-week waiting time for the processing of carer's allowance applications; and...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of entitlements for seasonal and part-time workers (details supplied); the proposals from the review...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeal payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17962/18]
    • Social Welfare Offices
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of new contracts for social welfare office branch managers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18038/18]
    • Public Services Card
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to make the public services card available to be used as identification with the Central Bank; and if she will make...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wastewater Treatment
      592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount in fines levied against Ireland for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [17417/18]
    • Property Registration Authority
      593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the delays in the land registry system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed working group examining the impact of the EUROSTAT reclassification of tier 3 AHBs to become part of the local...
    • Building Regulations
      595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that 67% of all new housing being built has fossil fuel-based heating systems; and the measures he will...
    • Planning Issues
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the number of unauthorised developments local authorities are dealing with are monitored by his Department; if so, the...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Applications
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for the tenant purchase scheme received by Tipperary County Council in 2016 and 2017; the number of...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 3,800 housing units to be completed construction in 2018, by scheme and local authority in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of LIHAF funding drawn down to date by project in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes under construction by local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next review of local authority social housing income threshold bands will take place; if the special treatment of the...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households that have exited section 10 funded homeless accommodation in 2017; and the housing tenures to which...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in 2017; the number of these used to prevent homelessness; and the number used to...
    • Local Authority Housing
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for a proposed new development (details supplied) in County Limerick has been agreed in view of statistics; his...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated for and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in the first quarter...
    • Housing Estates
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to take in charge a number of properties (details supplied). [17652/18]
    • Residential Tenancies Board Administration
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the criteria for membership of the board of the Residential Tenancies Board have been reviewed since its remit was extended...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all homeless households (details supplied) are being counted in the figures published monthly by his Department; and if he...
    • Postal Voting
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will sanction the appropriate measures to allow citizens who are abroad on holidays to vote in the forthcoming...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to his Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in his...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the definition of exceptional circumstances when accessing an appeal by a person to the pyrite remediation scheme; and if he...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 621 and 622 of 23 January 2018, if a feasibility study will be examined in conjunction...
    • Local Authority Funding
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when additional financial allocations will be made to Monaghan County Council in view of the additional expenditure incurred...
    • Student Accommodation
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made to increase purpose built student accommodation by the end of 2019; the number of beds that...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Protection
      619. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to protect the Irish hare; the measures that are already in place; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      620. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the concern in the communities of Burt, Bridgend, Burnfoot and Inch Island in the Inishowen...
    • Seirbhísí agus Tacaíochtaí Gaeilge
      621. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cá mhéad comhairle contae agus cathrach a bhfuil oifigeach Gaeilge lánaimseartha acu; cá mhéad acu a...
    • Heritage Schemes
      622. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants or supports available for persons who seek to maintain buildings that are over 50 years old; and her plans to make...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      623. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has been made with regard to payment of rent due for the provision of installations at a location (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      624. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the form, date and amount of all invoices issued to her Department by a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2007 to...
    • Commemorative Events
      625. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she will re-establish the decade of centenaries all-party committee which has not met since February 2016. [17923/18]
    • Wildlife Protection
      626. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which the review of the wild birds derogations process currently under way under contract to her Department and the...
    • Copyright Legislation Review
      629. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a legal deposit of published digital material for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17949/18]
    • Deontais Ranna
      630. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cá mhéad airgead i ndeontais in aghaidh na bliana a íocadh leis na comhlachtaí forbartha ar an hoileáin...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      631. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cá mhéad airgead atá ar fáil i meastacháin na Roinne i mbliana don phleanáil teanga; cá...
    • Regulation of Lobbying
      632. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if under the lobbyist register it is expected that calls from lobbyists are recorded; if this is the practice in her Department;...

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