Written answers
Thursday, 3 May 2018
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- JobPath Programme
14. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on jobseeker's payments are obliged to pursue the JobPath Seetec route if called upon to do so by her Department or...
- Company Closures
15. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department can intervene in cases in which a company (details supplied) has closed, suddenly leaving workers unpaid...
- Food Poverty
16. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on an announcement by an organisation (details supplied) that it is receiving a high number of calls...
- Employment Support Services
17. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on developing an individual placement and support model of supported employment; and if she will make a statement on...
- Unemployment Levels
18. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the discussions her Department has had with other Departments to address the issue of unemployment blackspots; and if there...
- Social Welfare Offices
19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the conclusion of talks between her Department and an organisation (details supplied) dealing...
- Employment Rights
20. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the work in her Department to resolve issues regarding the classification of stable staff and racehorse trainers...
- Legislative Process
21. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding progressing amendments on Committee Stage of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill...
- Qualified Child Increase Payments
22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a higher rate of a qualified child increase for children of 12 years of age and over in view of...
- Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protections in place for employees who are members of defined benefit pension schemes in which a pension scheme is due to...
- Unemployment Levels
24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the measures she has taken to address the above average unemployment levels which persist in County Wexford; and...
- State Pensions Reform
25. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State pension rates will be restored to those who left the workforce due to childcare and are now receiving a lower...
- Social Welfare Code
26. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her role in the welfare of actors and persons in the arts who are having difficulty accessing social protection due to the...
- Free Travel Scheme Applications
27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a travel pass will issue to a person (details supplied) irrespective of means. [19306/18]
- State Pension (Contributory) (1 comment)
28. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances under which or the reason a person can avail of ten years credited contributions as distinct from the 20...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
30. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if failure to sign a personal progression plan with Seetec is used by deciding officers as a sole reason to penalise a...
- Labour Activation Measures
32. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional number of persons expected to access community employment and Tús schemes following the rule change for...
- Pensions Reform
33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the pension system in view of the perception that it discriminates against persons, mainly women, that...
- Paternity Leave
34. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the provision of paternity leave and paid parental leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Jobseeker's Allowance
35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to address the anomaly that persons who are homeless and under 25 years of age on jobseeker's...
- Exceptional Needs Payments
36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reform the operation of the exceptional needs payment in view of concerns that have been raised regarding access...
- Public Services Card Authentication
37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the tender recently published on her Department's website seeking the supply of facial image matching software to...
- Child Maintenance Payments
38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that take child maintenance payments into account as means; and if she will make a...
- Job Losses
39. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the knowledge she had of potential job losses prior the announcement of 750 potential jobs losses in Eir; and her plans to...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
40. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied with the restructuring process for Money Advice and Budgeting Services and Citizens Information Services;...
- International Agreements
41. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department has direct contact with other jurisdictions with which a bilateral arrangement for social...
- Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
42. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for applications submitted for carer's allowance, disability allowance and domiciliary care allowance; and...
- Pensions Reform
43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made regarding introducing a new total contributions pension scheme by 2020 and the introduction of a pension...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
44. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take to facilitate the award of widow and widower's pension in respect of persons married here...
- Public Services Card Data
45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of face biometric data records collected through the administration of the public services card that are held by...
- State Pension (Contributory)
46. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend legislation regarding the State pension (contributory) with particular reference to persons whose insurance...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns held by those in Money Advice and Budgeting Services and Citizens Information...
- Labour Activation Programmes
48. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person has a right to refuse a place on JobPath in favour of a place on a community employment scheme; if there is a...
- Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
49. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address issues in defined benefit pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19177/18]
- Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
50. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address social welfare appeals processing times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19174/18]
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Staff Training
51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19394/18]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications Administration
52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if a public services card is a requirement in order to make an...
- Foreign Conflicts
53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the statement from a group (details supplied) in which the group apologised for the hurt caused to victims...
- Human Rights Cases
54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact the deadline for appealing a 20 March 2018 decision from a chamber of the European Court of Human...
- Departmental Staff Training
56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19398/18]
- Department of Finance
- Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the criteria for the primary medical certificate under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme in view of the UN ratification...
- Help-To-Buy Scheme Administration
58. To ask the Minister for Finance if a query raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the help-to-buy scheme will be addressed. [19373/18]
- Departmental Staff Training
59. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19397/18]
- Knowledge Development Box
60. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of indigenous SMEs that have applied for the knowledge development box relief; the number of indigenous SMEs that have successfully availed of the...
- Banking Sector Data
61. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of banks that have reached and not met their loan to value exemption limit in 2018, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Help-To-Buy Scheme Data
65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, as distinct from couples, who availed of the help-to-buy scheme in 2017 by ratios (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Reliefs Data
67. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 126 and 128 of 19 April 2018, the number of employees within the Revenue Commissioners who are dedicated to working on...
- Tax Credits
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of firms by size with less than ten employees, 11 to 49, 50 to 249 and more than 250 employees respectively, that have applied for the research and...
- Tax Exemptions
72. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis for applying a tax and exemptions to products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19556/18]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff Training
73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19402/18]
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Staff
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the situation in which the principal at a school (details supplied) is a teaching principal will be reviewed in view of the fact the role of...
- DEIS Status
75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding DEIS status for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [19365/18]
- Departmental Staff Training
77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19395/18]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of implementing one point reductions in average class size at primary level; and the estimated full year cost for...
- School Staff
80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of fully restoring the staffing schedule for retaining and gaining a teacher that applied for schools before 2012 for...
- Capitation Grants
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring pre-2010 capitation levels to primary schools; and the estimated full year cost of a 10% increase in the...
- School Management
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of providing schools one administration day per week for teaching principals to cover the establishment of a...
- National Educational Psychological Service Data
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of employing an additional 100 new National Educational Psychological Service psychologists. [19416/18]
- Special Educational Needs Data
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring temporary English posts as additional language posts to pre-2012 levels. [19418/18]
- School Guidance Counsellors
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring ex-quota guidance counsellors to all schools. [19420/18]
- Momentum Programme
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of places available on the Momentum Programme by 20%. [19422/18]
- School Transport Data
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring school transport services to the criteria that existed pre-2011. [19423/18]
- Teachers' Remuneration
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring all allowances to new entry teachers which were abolished in 2012-2013; and if he will make a statement...
- School Curriculum
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of introducing a computing and coding curriculum for primary schools. [19426/18]
- Student Grants Data
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of restoring postgraduate grants to 2011 levels. [19427/18]
- Student Assistance Fund
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full year cost of increasing the student assistance fund to peak levels in 2012-2013. [19429/18]
- Summer Works Scheme Applications
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for works to be carried out on car parking facilities will be reviewed; and if he will make a...
- DEIS Applications
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made in respect of a DEIS status application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason the school has been...
- Schools Building Projects
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need for new national or secondary schools in the Charlestown and Meakstown areas of Dublin 11 has been examined or assessed. [19541/18]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Correspondence
100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is in receipt of correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if the correspondence is being...
- Garda Investigations
101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the investigations that have been carried out by An Garda Síochána into the operations of Bray Garda station over the...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a civil servant in his Department made contact with a member of An Garda Síochána in connection with the events of...
- Commission on the Future of Policing
103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of establishing a stand-alone intelligence agency either within the Defence Forces, An Garda...
- Prison Facilities
104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of the new male and female facilities for Limerick Prison; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff Training
105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external...
- Naturalisation Applications
106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency and eligibility for long-term residency and naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
- Family Reunification Applications
107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if family reunification can be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if long-term residency status, stamp 4 and naturalisation will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
- Naturalisation Applications
111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in regard to the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
- Residency Permits
112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected residency position in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Family Reunification Applications
114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19497/18]
- Residency Permits
115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps which can be taken to regularise the residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders Re-examination
116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the relevant section of his Department has received an association of membership of local voluntary groups as per...
- Asylum Applications
117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of eligibility for long-term residency and stamp 4 in the case of a person (details...
- Residency Permits
118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position with regard to residency and stamp 4 status in the case of a person (details supplied); if this is sufficient to...
- Road Traffic Offences Data
120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines or fixed penalty notices that were issued to motorists (details supplied) in each of the years 2012 to...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Labour Court Recommendations
123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the introduction of a sectorial employment order for the construction industry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- IDA Ireland Data
124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of grant aid awarded to companies by IDA Ireland in 2017 by county in tabular form. [19351/18]
- Consumer Protection
125. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to certain commercial practices in the car rental industry which have been rejected by Governments in...
- Departmental Staff Training
126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19390/18]
- Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding
127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of Horizon 2020 funding to small and medium-sized enterprises on an annual basis since it was established by county in...
- Work Permits Applications Data
128. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of employment permits granted for non-EEA workers by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018,...
- Skills Shortages
129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department carried out a sectorial analysis of skills shortages in the economy for the next five, ten, 15 and 20 year period;...
- Job Creation
131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policies in place to attract emigrants to return here and retain skilled talent in the State after qualifying. [19546/18]
- Brexit Issues
132. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the research study commissioned by her Department regarding sectorial implications arising from Brexit most exposed sectors is...
- Work Permits Data
133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of all occupations and sectors on the highly skilled eligible occupations list and the ineligible categories of employment...
- Immigration Policy
135. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of her Department’s review of economic migration policy and the interdepartmental group established. [19550/18]
- Expert Group on Future Skills Needs Report
136. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the work being carried by the expert group on future skills needs, including published reports on skills and labour shortages in the...
- IDA Ireland Site Visits
137. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland site visits in each county in quarter 1 of 2018, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
- IDA Ireland Jobs Data
138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA Ireland supported jobs at the end of 2017 in each Dublin local authority and by county in tabular form; and if she...
- Department of Health
- Medicinal Products Availability
139. To ask the Minister for Health the approval status with respect to the provision of a drug in the treatment of cancer; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is being used in...
- Medical Disclosure Code
140. To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring legislation forward to provide for mandatory open disclosure (details supplied). [19323/18]
- Departmental Meetings
141. To ask the Minister for Health the correspondence, discussions or meetings he or his predecessors, Ministerial advisers or departmental officials had with clinical pathology laboratories or...
- Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
142. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the report on rare diseases; the parts of the recommendations already implemented or pending; the...
- Health Services Provision
143. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Alzheimer’s disease day unit in Castlebar, County Mayo, is reducing its service from five to three days; and if he will make a statement...
- Patient Transport Provision
144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the bus service that operates to bring patients to and from the Alzheimer’s disease day unit in Castlebar, County Mayo, is being cut and...
- Hospital Appointments Status
146. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited in order to be sanctioned for works by the PCRS; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
147. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal scheme application by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited in view of the situation; and if he will make...
- Hospital Appointments Status
148. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19340/18]
- Hospital Charges
149. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a levy (details supplied) on overnight hospital bed stays; if so, the reason the levy exists; the cost in this regard; the persons who are exempt...
- Patient Safety
150. To ask the Minister for Health the patient and child safety measures in place for Temple Street Children's Hospital; if he is satisfied that there are no concerns regarding the matter; and...
- HSE Data
151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE services that have been outsourced to private agencies; the services that have been outsourced; when the contracts for outsourcing were...
- HSE Staff Data
152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of managers hired by the HSE since 2016; the salary scale of each; and the departments in which they operate. [19478/18]
- Mental Health Services Staff
153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired in the area of mental health since 2016; the geographical location and remit of each; and the salary scales on which they were hired....
- Health Services Staff Data
154. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired in the area of early intervention since 2016; the location and ascribed role within the early intervention scheme of each; and the...
- Medicinal Products Availability
155. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the delays for persons with multiple sclerosis to access life-changing medication; and if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied)...
- Respite Care Services
156. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to allow for the full utilisation of newly refurbished facilities at a location (details supplied) which are vital for the...
- Medicinal Products Supply
157. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to add the FreeStyle Libre blood monitoring sensor to the long-term illness or drug reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a...
- Psychological Assessments
158. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an assessment of needs under the child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointments Status
160. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment for a cervical operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the hospital deemed the case in need...
- Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Data
161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in community neuro-rehabilitation teams in each community health care organisation in tabular form; the specific medical or health care...
- Hospital Services
162. To ask the Minister for Health if dermatology services will be restored to Mullingar Regional Hospital; and if persons will be offered treatment in an alternative setting in the interim....
- Services for People with Disabilities
163. To ask the Minister for Health when the group home for persons with disabilities will open in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19369/18]
- Cancer Screening Programmes
164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath and nationally who had a cervical check through the national screening service in each year since...
- Health Services Provision
165. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait for two years for medical treatment in view of the fact that their condition is life threatening. [19374/18]
- Autism Support Services
166. To ask the Minister for Health if resources for a service (details supplied) for the provision of extra psychiatrists for the assessment of children with autism and ADHD will be increased;...
- Hospital Appointments Status
167. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) awaiting spinal surgery in Tallaght University Hospital; the length of time they are...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
168. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his attention was drawn to the cervical cancer scandal; when he was informed of the false negative tests; when he was informed of the fact...
- Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
169. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to support University Hospital Kerry to reduce the three-year wait time for a routine ENT outpatient appointment at the hospital; and if...
- Departmental Staff Training
170. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19399/18]
- Home Help Service Provision
171. To ask the Minister for Health when a home help service granted to a person (details supplied) will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19409/18]
- Health Services Funding
172. To ask the Minister for Health if a multi-annual consideration was made on a recent cost study analysis of a facility (details supplied); if the full level of funding reinstated in 2017 has...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
173. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of amending the fees charged under the nursing homes support scheme, NHSS, to enable nursing home residents with an assessed...
- Hospital Services
174. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost, current and capital, of providing a mobile catheterisation laboratory for Waterford University Hospital. [19433/18]
- Health Services Data
175. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year running costs of opening all medical assessment units on a seven-day basis. [19434/18]
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
176. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an extra 500 hospital consultants; and the average estimate for support staff required per consultant. [19435/18]
- Nursing Staff Recruitment
177. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 4,000 nursing staff. [19436/18]
- Prescriptions Charges
178. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [19437/18]
- General Practitioner Data
179. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of increasing the general practitioner rural practice allowance to €25,000. [19438/18]
- National Maternity Strategy Implementation
180. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of implementing the national maternity strategy. [19439/18]
- Home Care Packages Data
181. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 2.2 million home help hours. [19440/18]
- Mental Health Services Provision
183. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of completing the recruitment required for the full implementation of A Vision for Change. [19442/18]
- Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
184. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drug payment threshold to €100. [19443/18]
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
185. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting an additional 200 speech and language therapists. [19444/18]
- Services for People with Disabilities
190. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 1.5 million personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Services Provision
192. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing an additional 100 critical care beds. [19451/18]
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
195. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by his Department and/or the HSE to replace the dermatologist in the midlands area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Appointments Status
196. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a procedure will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19457/18]
- Cancer Screening Programmes
197. To ask the Minister for Health the amount set aside as contingent liabilities for failures in the cervical smear programme; the funds that have been expended within the past five years; the...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
198. To ask the Minister for Health the payment mechanism in place for families who have recently lost a relative under the care of the fair deal scheme; if the balance on an account can be paid...
- National Maternity Hospital Administration
199. To ask the Minister for Health if medical and surgical procedures legal here will be available at the national maternity hospital after the St. Vincent's company is established; and if he...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
203. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline surrounding the failure of the national cervical cancer screening programme to notify women of incorrect results; the date on which the attention...
- Hospital Services
204. To ask the Minister for Health if dermatology services will be restored to Mullingar Regional Hospital; and if patients will be offered treatment in an alternative setting in the interim....
- Primary Care Centres Provision
205. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given on the need for a primary care facility in the Meakstown and Charlestown areas of Dublin 11. [19485/18]
- Meals-on-Wheels Services
206. To ask the Minister for Health if mainstream funding for meals-on-wheels rather than the situation whereby meals-on-wheels is carried out through community employment schemes will be...
- Home Help Service Provision
207. To ask the Minister for Health if further home help hours requested by persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19539/18]
- Constitutional Amendments
208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [18887/18]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be decided upon by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- GLAS Administration
212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a further extension of the grazing period on traditional hay meadows in GLAS until 14 May 2018 will be considered due to the...
- Departmental Staff Training
213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events....
- GLAS Data
214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of GLAS 1, 2 and 3 who have received their 2017 balancing payment by county in tabular form; the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data
215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of AOES payments who have received the 2017 balancing payment by county in tabular form; the number...
- Commonage Framework Plans
216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to lift the requirement that final commonage plans must be in place before the final 15% GLAS 2017 payment is made due to...
- GLAS Payments
217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied); and if the difficult circumstances this person found themselves...
- Land Parcel Identification System
218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body that has the contract for carrying out the mapping for his Department by way of land parcel identification system,...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Staff Training
219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Free Travel Scheme
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his engagement on the proposed plans for free InterRail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19561/18]
- Motor Tax
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of issuing a motor tax disc on a quarterly, six monthly and annual basis which is paid for over the counter at a local authority...
- Departmental Staff Training
223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19404/18]
- Coast Guard Services
224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the responsibilities of the Coast Guard including if the Coast Guard is responsible for the enforcement of the Sea Pollution Acts 1991...
- Departmental Expenditure
225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 217 of 25 April 2018 and 355 of 29 March 2018, the full yearly breakdown of the amount his...
- Border Crossings
226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of official Border crossings with Northern Ireland; the location of such crossings; the classification of the roads leading to...
- Driver Licences
227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reinstate a facility (details supplied) in which driver licence services were previously provided in County Donegal; and if...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Visiting Teacher Service
228. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full year cost of restoring the visiting teacher service for Travellers to primary and post-primary schools. [19417/18]
- European Solidarity Corps
229. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total Irish contribution to the European Solidarity Corps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19560/18]
- Early Childhood Care and Education Data
230. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of children enrolled in the ECCE programme that will be eligible to avail of the next programme year (details supplied); and...
- Child Care Services Data
231. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of households that use child minders for part or all of their childcare needs. [19377/18]
- Early Childhood Care and Education Data
232. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of children who availed of ECCE hours in two programme years (details supplied). [19378/18]
- Child Care Services Data
233. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of households availing of each subsidy level (details supplied) of the childcare subsidy scheme in tabular form. [19379/18]
- Early Childhood Care and Education Data
234. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full year cost of one child's place in the ECCE programme. [19380/18]
- Departmental Staff Training
235. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19391/18]
- Child and Family Agency Reports
236. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the long waiting times that still exist for Tusla to furnish section 20 reports requested by the...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Local Improvement Scheme Administration
237. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which his Department allocates funding to counties under the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Staff Training
238. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19403/18]
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Schemes
239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of visual artists and writers to date who have availed of the pilot jobseeker's exemption scheme that was...
- Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if proposals that will protect workers in defined benefit schemes from attempts by their employers to abandon such schemes...
- JobPath Programme
241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker that refuses to sign a PPP with a JobPath provider such as Seetec and so on will not automatically face...
- Illness Benefit Payments
242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit payment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Schemes Data
243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year and full year cost of increasing entitlement under the living alone allowance scheme by €5;...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated first year cost and full year cost of increasing paternity leave by one, two, three and four weeks,...
- Departmental Staff Training
247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grant assistance which may be available to a person (details supplied) requiring hearing aids. [19466/18]
- Paternity Benefit Applications
249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused paternity benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19474/18]
- Working Family Payment Applications
250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the working family payment for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make...
- Disability Allowance Applications
251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which a decision has been made to refuse disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); if the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of income derived from rental property will be reviewed in a jobseeker's allowance level of payment in view of...
- Exceptional Needs Payments
253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs payments have been restricted, even in cases in which the need clearly exists; and if...
- Disability Allowance Eligibility
254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance or invalidity pension payments are being disallowed in cases on the basis that a person has a serious...
- Community Employment Schemes Administration
256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an extension of employment for participants in community employment schemes whose sponsors are anxious that they continue...
- Carer's Allowance Eligibility
257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason carer's allowance has been curtailed in cases in which the carer is caring for more than one person; and if she...
- State Pension (Contributory) Applications
258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue in regard to a State pension in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance continues to be refused in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Widow's Pension Eligibility
260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when restoration of a widow's pension will occur in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals Data
261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals arising from claims of cohabitation received in her Department in each of the past five years to date;...
- Widow's Pension Eligibility
262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds on which non-recognition of foreign divorce can be used to refuse entitlement to widow's or widower's pension...
- Invalidity Pension Data
263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for invalidity pension refused by her Department in each of the past five years to date; if...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in the determination of eligibility for State pension, the practice of awarding credits in circumstances in which...
- Deserted Wife's Benefit Data
265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of deserted wife's benefit claims still in payment; the extent to which the number of recipients has been reduced...
- Social Welfare Appeals Delays
266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she can take to speed up the manner in which various appeals are being dealt with, delays regarding which can cause...
- Social Welfare Benefits
267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature and type of benefits that are available to a person who works two full-time days constituting 16 hours of...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Assistance Payment Administration
268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department ensures that all properties in respect of which housing assistance payment is being paid out are registered...
- Housing Data
269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department is projected to spend in each quarter of 2018 in local authority builds, approved housing body...
- Departmental Staff Training
270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external...
- Election and Referendum Posters
271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that regulates the contents on election and referendum posters to prevent false content; if no such body...
- Homeless Persons Data
272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will continue to publish monthly homeless figures; and his plans to amend this to quarterly or other less...
- Home Loan Scheme
273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a council (details supplied) is refusing to consider a family for a...
- Rent Pressure Zones
276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the rent pressure zones to student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19559/18]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Staff Training
277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events....
