Written answers

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017 to require landlords to test for radon; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18]
    • Rental Sector
      38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income criteria for the cost of rental pilot projects being undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the rising number of elderly persons that are now homeless; his further plans to arrest the escalation of...
    • Local Government Reform
      The Programme for a Partnership Government (PPG) sets out a number of requirements in relation to local government reform. In particular, the PPG envisages the submission of a report to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department provides social housing in line with A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his definition of affordable housing; the way in which he will ensure that homes built on publicly owned land will be...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the latest homeless figures; the councils that have discrepancies in their figures; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to fast-track the development of housing on local authority owned, State owned or State controlled...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
      45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to greatly expand the mortgage to rent scheme to obviate the sale of family homes by banks to vulture funds; and if...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes....
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for social housing projects which have been submitted by Westmeath County Council and Longford...
    • Regional Assemblies
      48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the administrative support given to regional assemblies in view of their role in the national planning...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures he is taking to speed up the delivery of social homes; if he has analysed the data from the Rebuilding...
    • Housing Data
      50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rapid build housing units that have been constructed to date as outlined in Action 1 of Rebuilding Ireland; the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units built directly by local authorities in 2017; the way in which this figure is in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the tenant purchase scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19747/18]
    • Housing Provision
      55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans will be approved for additional housing in County Laois incorporating social housing, affordable housing and private...
    • Planning Issues
      56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the purpose of a recent circular sent to local authorities in relation to the rights of councillors to comment on planning...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the social housing delivery targets set for each local authority are a maximum or a minimum to achieve; and if he will make...
    • Rental Sector
      59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation to outlaw so-called renovictions (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make legislative changes to ensure that persons in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP, are kept on the...
    • Land Availability
      62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the views expressed in his proposal to the public consultation conducted by the Department of Finance on...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made to reduce the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19608/18]
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review and expand the rent pressure zone system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19847/18]
    • Local Authority Staff
      66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether local authorities are suitably resourced with the relevant personnel, for example, architects, planners,...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when additional projects in County Kildare can be considered for local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funding;...
    • Mortgage Insurance
      72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the cost of mortgage protection insurance associated with the Rebuilding Ireland home loans...
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the working group report on short-term lettings will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19851/18]
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the inadequacies regarding the new housing assistance payment scheme will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reports
      75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report regarding the establishment of a redress scheme for those homeowners whose homes were built using...
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his strategy to address the problem of excessive rent increases in areas outside rent pressure zones. [19844/18]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector....
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if projects which were part of local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, 1 but which have not progressed will have...
    • Land Acquisition
      80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role his Department will play with regard to the new Government agency that will buy private land adjoining existing prime...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, project at Ballincollig, County Cork has not advanced; and...
    • Local Government Fund
      82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to address the anticipated shortfall of income of €260 million to the Local Government Fund...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18]
    • Housing Data
      84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 19 January 2017, the status of the plan to build 73 new units in Ballyburke,...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason only €1.6 million in funding has been drawn down to date through the local infrastructure housing activation...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to improve the supply of newly built local authority social and affordable housing; the reason for...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families with children being accommodated in hotels each month since July 2017 to date in 2018; and if he will...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is collating a central database of Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme applications from each local...
    • Vacant Sites Levy
      90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to update legislation to address anomalies in the vacant site levy and to deal with land hoarding. [19841/18]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff Training
      91. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19616/18]
    • Departmental Staff
      92. To ask the Taoiseach if a civil servant in his Department made contact with members of An Garda Síochána in connection with the events of 23 and 24 June 2017 when a civil servant in...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      93. To ask the Taoiseach if he held meetings while attending the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and the issues that were discussed. [19619/18]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to mark the 40th anniversary of Irish troops being deployed to Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19658/18]
    • Defence Forces Fatalities
      98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the recommendations from the January 2006 review in the aftermath of the death of a person (details supplied); the recommendations that were not...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if media reports that in 2016 it cost the taxpayer €15 million to replace Defence Forces personnel that left were accurate; and if he will...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ministerial Meetings
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or officials in his Department met the British Minister for the Cabinet Office, Mr. David Lidington, when he visited Dublin. [19620/18]
    • Brexit Negotiations
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Brexit negotiations being delayed until October 2018; and the detail of the British red-line issues. [19621/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Mr. Michel Barnier elaborated on the scope of the alignment he referred to in his speech in the context of the Border when they met on 30...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and if he or his officials have held meetings recently on the matter. [19990/18]
    • Syrian Conflict
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the Syria Donor Conference; the measures Ireland is undertaking to press EU and UN member states to pursue a full...
  • Department of Finance
    • State Claims Agency
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the State Claims Agency manages individual cases; the person directly responsible for the running of the State Claims Agency in relation to...
    • Budget Measures
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected net effect of carryover measures carried over for 2019 as a result of budget 2017 measures; the way in which it is accounted for in the fiscal...
    • Budget 2018
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the adjustment made for indexation of income tax bands and income tax rates when calculating the fiscal space for budget 2018. [19651/18]
    • Excise Duties
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in excise on diesel of five cents per litre; the expected cost of using the diesel rebate scheme to offset such an...
    • VAT Yield
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue that would be generated from the restoration of the VAT rate for the hospitality sector from 9% to 13.5%; and if he will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes Administration
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person who is taking part in a community employment scheme has to pay the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19670/18]
    • Universal Social Charge Data
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue received from the universal social charge, both PAYE and self assessment, in 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Motor Insurance
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that some insurance companies refuse to quote for private motor insurance cover if the policyholder has had a claim in the past number...
    • Tax Code
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance if sparkling water is included in the sugar sweetened drink tax; if his attention has been drawn to cases in which retailers have increased prices of soft...
    • Vehicle Registration (1 comment)
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the application of VRT on imported vehicles is fully in accordance with EU law in all respects; his plans to introduce changes to the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or a State agency under his remit has availed of the services of companies (details supplied) since 2011; if so, the details of the...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of claims pending against the State Claims Agency at present by claim type, category and county in which the claimant is based; and if he will make...
    • Tax Code
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason an incorrect tax certificate was issued to a person (details supplied). [19927/18]
    • Stamp Duty
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has signed the commencement order for farm consolidation relief of stamp duty as provisioned in section 68 of the Finance Act 2017; if not, when he will...
    • Foreign Earnings Deduction
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a proposal (details supplied) over a full calendar year. [20093/18]
    • Tax Reliefs Costs
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a proposal (details supplied) over a full calendar year. [20094/18]
    • Tax Credits
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the earned income tax credit for the self-employed by amounts (details supplied) over a full calendar year....
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of a compensation scheme for third party claimants of a company (details supplied); the timeframe for the introduction of the scheme; if the scheme...
    • Banking Sector
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he remains satisfied that the main banks are making adequate resources available to facilitate the urgently required house building...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Contingency Planning
      131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funds set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date in 2018; the way in which it is...
    • Public Parks
      132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budget that has been allocated for the enhancement and refurbishment of the Phoenix Park in 2018; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of assistant principal grade positions that will become available in County Westmeath in 2019 in respect of each Department;...
    • Public Sector Staff
      136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedures adopted under the mobility policy; if it is possible for a person to move backwards on the list; the circumstances in...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of transfers of Department of Justice and Equality staff planned in 2018 and 2019 in zone 7 under the mobility policy...
    • Built Heritage Investment Scheme
      138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the phase 2 restoration works to a site (details supplied) will be considered as part of the recently announced Investing in our...
    • Office of Public Works
      139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated revenue in respect of events (details supplied); the arrangements to be made to reimburse the Phoenix Park to undertake...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will request the State Claims Agency to provide information as to whether or not any of the seven settlements made as part of the ex gratia...
    • Special Educational Needs
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the review of career guidance services in schools, higher education institutes and colleges of further education will include special schools;...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements which will be made to accommodate a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9 with a place in an autism specific unit in a mainstream...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant to €4,025 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for funding under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) which provides special services for autistic children is...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time limits used by SUSI when determining qualification by a person for a third level grant; the way in which a person can retrospectively...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 6 February 2018, the status of plans for the development of a school (details supplied); and if he...
    • Site Acquisitions
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site (details supplied) will be considered as a new secondary school for south County Kildare. [19718/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) for additional space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19741/18]
    • Schools Building Projects
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be inaugurated; the process for the selection of a school patron and a permanent site for the school; and...
    • Apprenticeship Data
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship registrations in craft based apprenticeships; the number in new apprenticeships in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018,...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if stage 2B of a school (details supplied) has been completed; if the project has moved to the stage 3 tender process; and if the transfer and...
    • Autism Support Services
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the closure of a unit (details supplied). [19924/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount the multi-sensory unit cost which was recently put into a unit (details supplied). [19925/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision will be made in relation to an application for an additional classroom by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Third Level Fees
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if third level students from Northern Ireland studying here will be exempt from paying non-EU student fees under the common travel area from...
    • Brexit Issues
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to protect Irish citizens' rights to study in a university or college on the island of Ireland and to ensure that students...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for additional school accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Data
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in a location (details supplied) that are still using prefabricated buildings; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests for classroom extensions and or sports halls for schools at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Autism Support Services
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the post-primary school for 600 pupils in the Dublin 2 and 4 areas will have a dedicated autism unit. [20022/18]
    • School Transport Data
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each contract for school bus provision by the length of the journey, number of children and cost of the route by each of the...
    • School Curriculum
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the controls his Department exercises in regard to outside groups that are invited by schools to help in delivering various aspects of the...
    • Teacher Training Places
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate plans will be provided for the forthcoming academic year for young students (details supplied) who wish to undertake courses in...
    • Apprenticeship Data
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated average and full year cost per apprentice over a calendar year in State-funded craft and consortia led apprenticeships based on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of contractors which have expressed an interest in the construction of a school (details supplied) by the closing date of 3 May 2018;...
    • School Staff
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process will commence for the appointment of a principal for a school (details supplied) in view of the need to appoint the principal by...
    • School Placement
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a child (details supplied) who has not been able to secure a place in second level school for the past two years will be examined....
    • Summer Works Scheme Data
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that has been made to budget for new applications to the school summer works scheme during 2018; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • School Transport
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Minister of State in his Department who has responsibility for the school bus transport system; and the designated orders that have been made...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the site is now in the ownership of his Department; and when...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the religious volunteer visa programme; the changes that may have been made to the programme; the changes that...
    • Criminal Law
      184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to commence the review of the legal protection offered to complainants in sexual assault cases announced in April...
    • Youth Justice Strategy
      185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda youth diversion projects; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19671/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the sections of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 that have been commenced; if there are sections which have yet...
    • Courts Service
      189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if court sittings will be held in Waterford Courthouse on a consistent basis five days a week; and if he will make a statement...
    • Immigration Controls
      190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons of Syrian, Eritrean, Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian, Libyan and Somalian origin refused leave to land at points...
    • Asylum Applications Data
      192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that are in the asylum process for more than three, five and seven years, respectively, in tabular form;...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convicted sex offenders in prison here; the number of these that are for child sex offences; the number of...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a monitoring of international travel by sex offenders convicted in courts here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or a State agency under his remit have availed of the services of companies (details supplied) since 2011; if...
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for citizenship ceremonies; and the reason for the long delays. [19752/18]
    • Residency Permits
      197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for permission to remain in the State on the basis of parentage of an Irish citizen child in the...
    • Prison Service Staff
      198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is envisaged that transfers from the Irish Prison Service to other areas of his Department will cease upon the new...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of applications for family reunification in the case of the relatives of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Contingency Planning
      201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funds set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date in 2018; the way in...
    • Deportation Orders
      202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for a decision on their application for leave to remain; and if he will...
    • Residency Permits
      203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) has been granted temporary leave to remain in the State with biennial renewal since...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 22 March 2018, when the promised review of the future delivery of court services...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that almost 50% of the fleet in the Garda R District is either aged over ten years...
    • Prison Service Staff
      206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 1 May 2018, when a person (details supplied) can expect to be called for their...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Job Creation Targets
      207. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual targets for attaining 70,000 returned emigrants as per the A Programme for A Partnership Government commitment in tabular...
    • Research and Development Supports
      208. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which research and development expenditure has been afforded a sufficiently high priority in Departments since the launch...
    • Film Industry Promotion
      209. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the conditions that surrounded the sale of the State's stake in a studio (details supplied); the way in which this fits into the...
    • Unfair Dismissals
      210. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the recourse available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20045/18]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      211. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of plans to appoint two further directors to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; and the criteria under consideration...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      214. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits since 2011 sponsored by IDA Ireland to Dublin that also visited Cork and to Cork that also visited Dublin, in the...
    • Appointments to State Boards Data
      216. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the professional backgrounds of existing directors of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Agencies Data
      218. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of a site (details supplied); the person or body that owns the site; if there have been site visits through IDA Ireland to...
    • Third Level Funding
      219. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on introducing a new five-year cycle with respect to the programme for research in third level institutions; the duration to...
    • Departmental Funding
      220. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding allocated to Enterprise Ireland, local enterprise offices, LEOs, InterTradeIreland and IDA Ireland, by capital...
    • Brexit Staff
      221. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date regarding filling positions for the allocation made in budget 2018 to recruit a further 40 to 50 staff to...
    • Company Law
      223. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether accountants are being unfairly penalised by the audit exemption removal provisions in the Companies Act 2014 in...
    • Company Registration
      227. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if no applications were made under the old regime pursuant to section 60 of the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 from 2001 to 1 June...
    • Company Law
      229. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Minister for Justice and Equality and-or the President of the High Court and the Courts Service of Ireland have been consulted...
    • Company Registration
      233. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Companies Registration Office has collected more than €215 million in late filing fees alone since the fees were...
    • Company Law
      235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Companies Registration Office has properly assessed the relevance and usefulness of the current statutory filing requirements...
    • Company Registration
      237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Companies Registration Office has a strict zero tolerance policy with regard to companies that are late by more than nine...
    • Company Law
      238. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Companies Registration Office, in addition to having wide and strong powers to impose substantial late filing fees and to...
    • Money Laundering
      243. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reliefs available to companies and or accountancy or other practitioners with regard to the expected new statutory deadline of 1...
  • Department of Health
    • Nursing Staff Data
      244. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of superannuation contributions paid by nurses of all disciplines in each of the years from 2015 to 2017, respectively; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapy, speech and language and child psychology posts vacant; the locations of each; the length of time they have been vacant; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      248. To ask the Minister for Health if three MRI scans can be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [19614/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      249. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a physiological assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19624/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      250. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients (details supplied) cannot avail of a specific HSE service; and if the matter will be examined. [19635/18]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      251. To ask the Minister for Health further to the announcement on 9 June 2017 regarding the recruitment of 114 assistant psychologists, the number of the 114 who are newly recruited front-line...
    • Orthodontic Services
      253. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an orthodontic appointment. [19659/18]
    • Child and Adult Mental Health Services Reports
      254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that no annual report has been published by CAMHS since 2013. [19661/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      255. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for occupational therapy assessments for children between the ages of six and 18 with autism by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Autism Support Services
      257. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the child psychology posts at University Hospital Waterford under relevant headings (details supplied) to support children between the ages of...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      261. To ask the Minister for Health if the post of diabetes clinical nurse specialist has been filled in Letterkenny University Hospital following a recent retirement; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Registration Service
      263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to make additional resources available to County Kerry for civil registration appointments, including the appointment of additional...
    • Medical Card Applications
      264. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [19680/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      265. To ask the Minister for Health if transplant patients who must take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of their lives following transplantations will be covered under the long-term...
    • Psychological Services
      266. To ask the Minister for Health the access persons with type 1 diabetes attending Letterkenny University Hospital have to psychology services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      267. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to ensure that each child in County Donegal diagnosed with type 1 diabetes under five years of age will have access to start...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      268. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive a place in a suitable mental health facility for further supportive interventions; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      269. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a diabetes centre of excellence for the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19693/18]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff manning the CervicalCheck helpline; his views on whether this is the necessary number of staff to deal with the level of calls to the...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nights persons under 18 years of age spent in adult psychiatric wards here in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by month,...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the position of hospital medical officer at Saint Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary, remains unfilled despite the fact that it has been...
    • General Practitioner Services
      273. To ask the Minister for Health if there is access to general practitioner services midweek after 6 p.m. in Castlebar, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19712/18]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      275. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners work out of hours in the primary care centre in Castlebar, County Mayo; if not, the reason therefor; if arrangements for general...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      279. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a surgical procedure carried out in St. James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19719/18]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      280. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn during court proceedings to the HSE legal strategy regarding a case (details supplied) against clinical pathology laboratories; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      283. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the waiting times for outpatient rheumatology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19744/18]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      284. To ask the Minister for Health if extra consultant paediatric rheumatology consultants will be appointed in order that the World Health Organization's guidelines of six for the population is...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      285. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting period for hernia surgeries in St. James's Hospital; and when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [19746/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      286. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home support for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19761/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      287. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists for scoliosis treatment; if the HSE has been successful in recruiting an additional consultant in respect of scoliosis...
    • Disability Services Funding
      288. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by the HSE to branches of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry in each of the past five years; and if he will make...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      289. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for a consultation in the United Kingdom under the treatment abroad scheme; the steps being taken to...
    • Child and Adult Mental Health Services
      290. To ask the Minister for Health the options available in situations in which a child (details supplied) is self-harming, there are complex additional needs and services have been denied by...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      291. To ask the Minister for Health the reason transfers for community mental health nurses are not taking place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19776/18]
    • Hospital Charges
      292. To ask the Minister for Health if a meeting about patients with haemochromatosis having to pay €80 per venesection or phlebotomy therapy has taken place (details supplied); if a...
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      293. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a public health centre has no funding to provide extra home care hours for a person (details supplied); and the reason it has no funding for home...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      294. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels of CAMHS teams by their respective area populations compared with the staffing levels recommended in A Vision for Change; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Health the location of each perinatal psychiatry service in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19804/18]
    • Maternity Services
      300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of compensation payments made by the HSE on foot of incidents in maternity units in 2017, in tabular form; the amount of each individual payment;...
    • Patient Safety
      301. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events in 2017 and to date in 2018 that were notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [19807/18]
    • HSE Investigations
      305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to investigate a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19820/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the turnaround time for persons applying for the fair deal scheme in counties Longford and Westmeath; if this is an average time; if there are backlogs in the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      307. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a urology inpatient procedure at Limerick University Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      308. To ask the Minister for Health if the dearth of parking at a primary care centre (details supplied) will be reviewed and remedied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19829/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      309. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be granted one additional home help hour in the evenings. [19874/18]
    • Medical Products
      310. To ask the Minister for Health the patient entitlement including product types and product costs of post-surgery products such as prosthesis swimwear, bras and so on; the application...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
      311. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a partial refund was awarded to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/18]
    • Hospital Facilities
      312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in approving the retention of the mobile temporary diagnostic cath lab at Waterford University Hospital; the date when approval issued...
    • HSE Governance
      313. To ask the Minister for Health when he or the CEO of the HSE first learnt of the CervicalCheck scandal; the reason he and the CEO did not know of the scandal earlier; and the systems in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      314. To ask the Minister for Health the international comparison studies his Department has conducted to determine the exclusion of persons over 21 years of age from the FreeStyle Libre device;...
    • Disability Support Services Funding
      316. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a newspaper article in relation to an organisation (details supplied); the reason for the decrease in funding for 2018 for the organisation; if...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) for home help hours can be expedited in view of the difficult circumstances for the person and their family;...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      318. To ask the Minister for Health when a new primary health centre will be constructed in Cobh (details supplied) [19921/18]
    • Child and Adult Mental Health Services Funding
      319. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which CAMHS is funded in counties Longford and Westmeath; the way in which the budget was spent in 2017; if there was an overrun or deficit in...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Health the location of services for each category of patient needing mental health services in County Louth; the waiting list for such services; the number of staff...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      321. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the system for reimbursement of lidocaine 5% medicated plasters and make them available on the community drug scheme; and if he will make a...
    • National Cancer Strategy Implementation
      323. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of the HSE following the recent CervicalCheck controversy in order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents in the future;...
    • Health Service Capacity Review
      324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist in having a person (details supplied) placed back on a waiting list. [19948/18]
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth that have been assigned a general practitioner by the HSE. [19954/18]
    • Obesity Strategy
      327. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1118 and 1121 of 16 January 2018, the status of the work of the subgroup on reformulation; the terms of reference for...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      331. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the position of a stroke nurse at South Tipperary General Hospital; if there are vacancies for the position in the area; if so, the length of...
    • Health Services Provision
      332. To ask the Minister for Health when a public consultation with persons and stakeholders on the way in which to improve cardiac services will take place; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
      336. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out or is planned of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 to examine the success in implementing its...
    • Hospital Services
      337. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 359 of 27 March 2018 and 914 of 17 April 2018, the contingency plans in place should the existing neuro interventional...
    • Obesity Strategy
      338. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 20 February 2018, the status of the monitoring body to be designated to monitor the voluntary codes of practice on...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      339. To ask the Minister for Health if eligibility for a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19969/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for person (details supplied); his plans to reduce the waiting list in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ambulance Service
      341. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his most recent meeting regarding ambulance services in south and west County Donegal; his plans to improve the level of services in County...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in County Louth who were misinformed that their cervical smear tests were normal. [20015/18]
    • Respite Care Services
      344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20018/18]
    • HSE Legal Cases
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the funding set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date by the HSE; the way in which the amount is determined by the...
    • HSE Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Health if all written agreements between the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) on the provision of all services within the organisation's remit will be made...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      347. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more beds have not been made available at Mallow General Hospital; and the reason there is spare capacity in the hospital in view of the fact that...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been referred for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20035/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry regarding access to new and effective medication for...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      350. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, when it is the case that medical card holders of pension age are entitled to State-funded physiotherapy, transport to medical appointments,...
    • Health Services Provision
      351. To ask the Minister for Health if the ketogenic diet will be available from Cork University Hospital to persons who could benefit from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services Expenditure
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the budget available to the HSE Cork South Lee for mental health services in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20071/18]
    • Hospitals Policy
      354. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied there is proper democratic accountability in respect of governance and budgetary oversight of all hospitals within the South-South West...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      355. To ask the Minister for Health when an application on behalf of a child (details supplied) in County Cork for an item of equipment was received by the HSE; when the equipment will be...
    • HSE Legal Cases
      356. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the HSE in respect of non-disclosure and confidentiality clauses being included in circumstances in which settlements are reached in or out of...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Screening Service will implement the recommendations of the HIQA review of information management practices at BreastCheck; the timeframe for...
    • Hospitals Car Park Charges
      358. To ask the Minister for Health the amount earned from the car park of Tallaght hospital in 2017; and the amount for 2016. [20149/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      360. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 27 February 2018, if the two paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres in Connolly and Tallaght hospitals are...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO area 9 who received an electric powered wheelchair in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018; the average...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      362. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase home care services in County Wexford in circumstances in which families are struggling to provide vital care necessary for their family...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists by age and gender in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20157/18]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      365. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to analyse smear tests; the number of smear tests it analysed in each year; and...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      366. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding mental health in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20169/18]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused medication on a medical card. [20204/18]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Ministerial Meetings
      368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the bilateral meetings he has had since 1 January 2018 with his EU counterparts in which he discussed CAP funding post-2020; and the...
    • Harbours and Piers Development
      369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop the harbour at Dunmore East, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19932/18]
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support the repair of a pontoon recently damaged and used by the RNLI at Dunmore East; and if he will make a statement...
    • GLAS Appeals
      373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS 2 appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19615/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Administration
      374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the deadline for basic payment scheme applications will be extended to 15 June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • European Fisheries Fund
      375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding drawn down in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018 under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund...
    • Beef Exports
      376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the quota regime in operation since 2009 pertaining to US hormone-free beef exports annually to the EU in terms of tonnage and value;...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 765 to 769, inclusive, of 20 March 2017, if all the data requested has been compiled. [19755/18]
    • EU Regulations
      378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on EU regulation 1306/2013 (Art. 75(1)(4)); and the way in which from 2018 payments will be made by 30 June the following...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average support per hectare under the BPS and greening scheme nationally and by county based on 2017 data; the value per farm...
    • Fodder Crisis
      383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider his decision and implement a meal voucher scheme in view of the ongoing fodder crisis; his plans to use the EU...
    • Fishing Industry
      384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions that have been taken to date to progress proposals to establish a consultation process to review the options for more...
    • GLAS Applications
      385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19892/18]
    • Organic Farming Scheme Payments
      386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19931/18]
    • Bord Bia Staff
      387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of new staff hires and replacement staff, respectively, recruited in Bord Bia since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 by...
    • State Bodies Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of new staff hires and replacement staff recruited since the Brexit referendum in June 2016 in State agencies and bodies...
    • State Bodies Funding
      389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding allocated to Bord Bia, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Teagasc and the Marine Institute by capital and current allocations...
    • Live Exports
      390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of revenue that would be forgone in each category (details supplied) in the livestock sector if the fee amount for each...
    • Quality Assurance Schemes
      391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal that all animals which come from a quality assured farm should receive the some level of bonus as a way to...
    • Forestry Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the planting targets per hectare for categories (details supplied) over the 2014 to 2017 period for the forestry programme 2014-2020;...
    • Forestry Sector
      394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer based on 2017 participation and planting rates to implement a proposal (details...
    • Forestry Data
      396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer based on 2017 participation and planting rates on implementing a proposal (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated and expended, respectively, on forestry schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form. [20054/18]
    • Dairy Sector
      398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps she is taking to address labour shortages in the dairy sector; and the way in which this deficit will be met in order to...
    • Bioenergy Strategy
      399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has examined the study published by the EU Commission in March 2017, "Optimal Use of Biogas from Waste Stream. An Assessment of...
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the body responsible for the upkeep, repair and maintenance of the slipway in Foynes, County Limerick (details supplied); and if he...
    • Nitrates Action Programme Implementation
      401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Exchequer funding allocated for the nitrates action programme in each of the years 2018 to 2021; the 2018 funding allocation, by...
    • Departmental Programmes
      402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Exchequer funding allocated to the sustainability support and advisory programme in each of the years 2018 to 2021; the 2018...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a scheme for farmers to further reduce ammonia and nitrogen emissions following the completion of the projects...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Fisheries Protection
      404. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for a by-law (details supplied) in regard to the reduction of fishing; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      405. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to implement the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment to...
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      406. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that average broadband speeds in parts of Cobh are inadequate and that...
    • Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
      407. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the BAI five-year review of public service broadcasting funding report for 2018 to 2022 will be published; and if...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      408. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times he meets the CEOs of the major State companies and agencies under the remit of his Department; and...
    • Telecommunications Services Expenditure
      409. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual cost of setting up the broadband and mobile phone task force; the annual costs incurred and total Exchequer...
    • National Mitigation Plan
      410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the term "non-zero emission vehicle" in regard to the commitment in the National Development Plan 2018-2027...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's planned renewable energy system's capacity estimated to be installed here in percentage of the power...
    • Advertising Regulation
      413. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a report (details supplied) will be released on the impact of opt-out advertising on the Irish market; and if he...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Network
      414. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a bypass for Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19633/18]
    • Taxi Regulations
      416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair-accessible taxis registered in each county. [19703/18]
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      417. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to the large-scale sport infrastructure fund announced by the Minister in his budget 2018 speech for each...
    • Brexit Issues
      418. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparatory work that has been carried out with regard to maintaining the open skies policy following Brexit; the contingency plans...
    • Harbour Authorities
      419. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 2015 amendment to the Harbours Act 1996 provides for retrospective application in...
    • Harbour Authorities Membership
      420. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances in a matter (details supplied); the reason an elected official whose election was...
    • Harbour Authorities Staff
      421. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is apparently no time limit on the term of a CEO as a director of a port company...
    • Harbour Authorities Membership
      422. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an anomaly exists in the election of worker directors of ports here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Motor Tax
      424. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a mechanism in the context of motor tax that provides for a refund of funds and or transfer of motor tax to...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts being made to progress the greenway infrastructure in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme Data
      426. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the latest figures for persons cycling to work; the amount the bike to work scheme costs to run; and if he has carried out a cost-benefit...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Sexual Offences Data
      427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases of alleged sexual abuse of children in foster care by a person or persons in the home that have been reported to the...
    • Adoption Legislation
      428. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure the progress of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • CLÁR Programme
      429. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of CLÁR funding which will be made available under each strand in 2018; the level of funding under each strand which...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the SICAP funding received by an organisation (details supplied) in 2016 and 2017. [19750/18]
    • Community Development Initiatives
      433. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding issued to each county via the community development programmes LDSIP, LCDP and SICAP on a yearly basis since 2008, in...
    • RAPID Programme
      434. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding for the RAPID programme in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • CLÁR Programme
      435. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding for the CLÁR programme in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Funding
      436. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total funding for the SICAP programme in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Community Services Programme
      437. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there are grants available in relation to the establishment of community halls in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      438. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided to Louth County Council and ring-fenced to further develop the Great Eastern Greenway to extend it south...
    • CLÁR Programme
      439. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application for CLÁR funding submitted by an association (details supplied) in County Cork; when final decisions...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Support Services
      441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether there are enough supports for a person (details supplied); if not, if additional supports will be...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive full arrears; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19660/18]
    • Living Alone Allowance
      443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a living alone allowance allocation being provided to a person (details supplied) is correct; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 2125 of 20 June 2017, the outcome of her examination of the decision of the Social...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case regarding alleged overpayment by a person (details supplied) in respect of their carer's allowance payment will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's allowance submitted in the name of a person (details supplied) was received; when a final...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19937/18]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which it can transpire that between combined contributions from Ireland and the United Kingdom and being only...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fish assist application by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20025/18]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contingency Planning
      455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funds set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date in 2018; the way in...
    • Social Insurance Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of a proposal (details supplied). [20103/18]
    • State Pensions
      457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) can buy voluntary contributions to make it up to 520 contributions for a State pension; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 1 May 2018, her plans to improve the employment progression for persons that are...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding mental health in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new tenant purchase scheme will be launched; the mortgage approval process regarding same; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter regarding a housing adaption grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated value of a site (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the way in which it is proposed that Dublin City Council will...
    • Planning Issues
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to reform the planning laws to have developments such as data centres regarded as strategic infrastructure...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is a condition that borrowers must have accumulated a deposit of 3% by way of savings as part of the Rebuilding Ireland...
    • Register of Electors Administration
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on expanding the number of persons that can sign applications for the Supplementary Register of Electors in order to...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding the miscategorisation of persons in local authority homeless figures....
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for the proposed ring road is dependent on a particular route being selected as part of the Part 8 process; and if...
    • Electoral Register
      472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to allow British citizens living here to vote in referenda and presidential elections; and if he will make a...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding received by organisations (details supplied) from his Department and housing authorities in relation to...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      475. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses acquired and purchased by Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council in each of the years 2013 to...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a house which is valued within the mortgage to rent thresholds must be discounted to take account of essential...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      478. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing commencements anticipated by the end of 2018; the number of such houses for families on local...
    • Housing Policy
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which facilities are available to meet the housing needs of the indigenous rural population throughout...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses and new housing starts in each of the counties immediately adjacent to Dublin city and county over the...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the need to install a robust local authority housing loan system similar to that available in the 1980s will be examined...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses directly under construction by the local authorities at present; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Provision
      488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he remains assured that adequate suitable and serviced building lands remain available in each local...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legal advice he has received in relation to the basis of the Pyrite board's narrow interpretation of section 15(3) of the...
    • Local Authority Housing Funding
      491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Westmeath County Council to purchase houses to enable persons that have lived in such...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure
      492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional revenue that would be required in 2019 if the budget for the housing adaptation grants for older persons and...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address queries (details supplied) in relation to approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nitrates Action Programme Review
      495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Exchequer funding allocated to the Nitrates Action Programme in each of the years 2018 to 2021; the 2018 funding...
    • Departmental Programmes
      496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Exchequer funding allocated to the sustainability support and advisory programme in each of the years 2018 to 2021; the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Websites
      497. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there was a text amendment made to a section on a website (details supplied) regarding Enniscrone, County Sligo since 22...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      498. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the landholding of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is a special area of conservation; her future plans to designate...
    • EU Directives
      499. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the review of derogations from the EU Birds Directive will be complete having regard to the declarations in place; if methods...
    • Clár Bonneagair agus Infheistíochta Caipitil
      500. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sí pobal na Gaeilge i nGlas Naíon, Baile Átha Cliath a chosaint ó dhochar a...
    • National Concert Hall
      501. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to proceed with the refurbishment of the National Concert Hall as committed to as part of Ireland 2040; when these...
    • EU Directives
      503. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is technically feasible to introduce a new forestry management protocol covering special protection areas important to the...
    • Departmental Reports
      504. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a report (details supplied) into the audio visual sector will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

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