Written answers

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Sports Funding
      45. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if grants to cover the costs of grassroots football coaching badges similar to those in Belgium will be offered; and if he will make a...
    • Sport Ireland
      47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the benefits from the results of the recently published sports monitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25245/18]
    • Bus Services
      48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of bus shelters on the main routes connecting Dublin, Cork and Limerick which are required in towns and villages on the...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of plans to promote areas such as the Lee Valley as being near the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Policy
      50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific timelines for the publication of the NTA's integrated implementation plan for the greater Dublin area (details supplied); and...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps which will be taken with regard to applications that were invalid in the 2017 SCP; when new applicants can expect to apply for...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      52. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that will be made available to allow the construction of the Carrigaline western relief road, County Cork, to proceed; and if...
    • Traffic Management
      53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate congestion on the M50 in the short term in view of the continuing congestion on the M50 especially at peak times;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      54. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase visitor numbers from China and Hong Kong in view of the new direct air links from Hong Kong and Beijing. [25406/18]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the publication of the new national sports policy. [25269/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for receipt of applications and announcement of successful projects under the €50 million large scale infrastructure...
    • Tourism Promotion
      57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of efforts to improve cross-Border tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25315/18]
    • Question Heading
      58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of the preparations for the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25377/18]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the inclusion of persons with disabilities on the boards of public transport companies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety Authority
      60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the quality assurances he undertakes with the Road Safety Authority to ensure that it is effectively carrying out its requisite duties...
    • Transport Policy
      61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Irish Maritime Development Office will publish its study into the use of the UK landbridge; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of anti-social incidents that have been recorded on the DART line in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [24334/18]
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on concerns of taxi drivers and the costs of car insurance; and his further views on the fact that many taxis are being priced...
    • Noise Pollution
      64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reflected further on the decision to award Fingal County Council the role of noise monitor for Dublin Airport in view of...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which schools can benefit from the sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25243/18]
    • Tourism Policy
      66. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the recent conference held in Dún Laoghaire on accessible tourism could inform ways to benefit Dublin's and...
    • Traffic Management
      67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options his Department is considering to manage traffic capacity issues on the M50; if the introduction of additional tolling is the...
    • Rail Services Provision
      68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of commitments to increase the frequency of the DART through the Phoenix Park tunnel to every ten minutes; and if he will make...
    • Road Projects Status
      69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of the A5; the details of his engagement with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on the project; the funding...
    • EU Regulations
      70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress of the primary legislation necessary to give effect to EU Regulation 598/2014. [25030/18]
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a feasibility study for the provision of a segregated cycle lane to be constructed with the MetroLink project in the...
    • Transport Policy
      72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet directly with representatives of the trade unions with a view to establishing a forum to agree a framework for discussion...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding plans for the development of the railway line in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the opening of the 2018 sports capital programme. [25268/18]
    • Bus Services
      75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the Bus Éireann review of services in the Ballincollig area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25283/18]
    • Legislative Programme
      76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his priority legislation for the remainder of this session of Dáil Éireann and the first session after the summer recess. [25409/18]
    • Taxi Licences
      77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend section 15 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 to make it mandatory for holders of small public service vehicle licences to...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of and proposed timeline for the development of the DART interconnector between Heuston Station and Spencer Dock. [25399/18]
    • Schools Healthy Living Strategies
      79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which efforts to promote the daily mile in schools are progressing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25318/18]
    • Greenways Development
      80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the Shannon greenway proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25207/18]
    • Tourism Promotion
      81. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans in 2018 to further promote and enhance Ireland's Ancient East as a tourist destination for visitors from at home and abroad; and...
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      82. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital funding awarded to sports clubs in County Offaly since 2011 under the sports capital programme; when the next sports capital...
    • Bus Services
      83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the number of bus routes that are privatised will not be increased in excess of the current 10%. [25403/18]
    • Public Transport Fares
      84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Estonia there are plans to make public transport free at the point of use (details...
    • Greenways Development
      86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the forthcoming greenway strategy will inform on the best way to undertake expanding the Great Southern Greenway; if he will discuss...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of anti-social incidents that have been reported on the Luas Green Line and Red Line in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding for the extension of the M3 motorway to Cavan town, the N2 to motorway in County Monaghan and the east-west link will be...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review of the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973 which was commenced...
    • Cycling Policy
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cuts to the cycling budget over the past two years will be revised; if a statutory instrument for placing a minimum passing distance on...
    • Ports Merger
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Data
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the release of information contained in two databases (details supplied) to potential new entrants to the Irish...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil sé chun gach iarracht a dhéanamh a chinntiú nach gcuirfidh forbairt Metrolink isteach ar fhorbairt Scoil...
    • Gender Equality
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure equality between men and women in sport in view of the fact no woman appeared on the recently published report on 100...
    • Tourism Promotion
      98. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the Hidden Heartlands experience will be developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25204/18]
    • Road Projects Status
      99. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Bonagee link road project in County Donegal; when the project will commence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ports Mergers Expenditure
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the consultative process with residents and affected stakeholders along the initially proposed MetroLink line in...
    • Irish Aviation Authority
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 30 May 2018, if the section 32 examination of the performance by the IAA of its functions in...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the proposed cycle route along the seafront from Sandymount to Dún Laoghaire as part of the proposed Sutton to...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will consider a further tranche of major and minor capital sports grants to include swimming pools and other categories...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if different route alignments on the MetroLink proposal project that is in public consultation at the moment will be considered including...
    • Tourism Promotion
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on tourism potential in County Carlow following his recent visit and funding announcements; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Airport Development Projects
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for a third terminal in Dublin Airport; if he will reference rumours that such a terminal would be built on the western...
    • Transport Policy
      108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the modal share targets set out in the smarter travel A Sustainable Transport Future, A New Transport Policy for Ireland 2009-2020...
    • Noise Pollution Legislation
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a risk analysis has been conducted in regard to potential infringement proceedings being launched by the European Commission against...
    • Tourism Promotion
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the effectiveness of the Wonders of the Wild Atlantic Way marketing campaign; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to improve the surrendering of licences from disqualified drivers to the Road Safety Authority in view of the...
    • Tourism Funding
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which investment in tourism infrastructure will continue with a view to ensuring maximisation of Ireland's impact on the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the progress of the proposed overbridge at the N24 Piltown bypass at Tower Road; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to alleviate the delays and service cancellations affecting Dublin Bus services as a result of traffic congestion and the...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his comments at the recent public transport round-table event regarding the possibility of an employee share...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the impact the draft regional spatial and economic strategy for the eastern and midlands area which sets out restrictive population...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Data
      118. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of the workforce employed in temporary, part-time, non-permanent, contract, banded hours and zero-hours contracts and other non-permanent employment; and...
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      119. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees he held in May 2018. [25359/18]
    • EU Meetings
      120. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken collectively or on an individual basis with EU leaders since the most recent European summit. [25656/18]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      125. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention was drawn to freedom of information documents on the strategic communications unit being released on 25 May 2018. [24568/18]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      126. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the implementation of A Programme for Partnership Government as it applies to his Department. [24581/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      127. To ask the Taoiseach the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced. [25185/18]
    • Departmental Budgets
      128. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [25578/18]
    • EU Data
      129. To ask the Taoiseach the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form. [25736/18]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to remove the additional pay scales for privates that did not exist in the past and were introduced under the Haddington Road...
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to change contract duration terms to six-year terms to coincide with the move from the old pension terms, that is, 21 year and 31 year...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      132. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to improve the duty money rate and the payment system to ensure persons are paid in seven working days. [24282/18]
    • Defence Forces Contracts
      136. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to apply the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 allowing persons to have flexible working hours; and his further plans to introduce...
    • Defence Forces Records
      137. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to cease issuing the green book, the LA 89 and replace it with an electronic CV and presidential letter of commendation. [24287/18]
    • Defence Forces Training
      138. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to cease medical downgrading of persons of over 40 years of age (details supplied). [24288/18]
    • Defence Forces Allowances
      140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason for the delayed Air Corps members' duty and ration payment issuing on time for the past three months; and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the implementation of the Programme for a Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a statement...
    • Defence Forces Veterans Associations Funding
      142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the consideration that has been given to making an annual financial contribution towards ​military veterans' organisations such as an...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      143. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the starting salary and relevant expenses and conditions for serving soldiers; and the way in which it compares to living wage standards. [24707/18]
    • Defence Forces Veterans
      144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the provision made for former soldiers who find themselves homeless after leaving the Army. [24708/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years....
    • Naval Service Vessels
      147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the new Naval Service ship LÉ George Bernard Shaw will arrive into the fleet; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a...
    • EU Data
      148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25730/18]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Middle East Issues
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if recent developments and loss of life on the Israel and Palestine border will be discussed at the June 2018 European Council meeting....
    • Brexit Issues
      151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the €3.5 million allocated to Article 50 negotiations as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the €3.5 million...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the €2 million allocated to deepening Ireland's global footprint as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the...
    • Passport Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the €1.5 million allocated to passport service and consular operational costs as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the €13 million allocated to overseas development assistance as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the €13...
    • Passport Data
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passports issued in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of passport applicants from Great Britain...
    • Passport Services
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the target time for issuing passports across all services; the actual time for issuing passports across services; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Policy
      158. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the political situation in Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24345/18]
    • Syrian Conflict
      159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to ensure that aid is properly managed in Syria and reaches those most in need in view of the fact that Ireland will...
    • Passport Applications Data
      163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of new applications and renewal applications for Irish passports that have come from Northern Ireland since 1 January 2018; and...
    • Passport Services
      164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the system through which elected representatives can communicate with the Passport Office; and his plans to review this system...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correct procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) whose passport expires in July 2018 but who reaches 18 years of age in...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the implementation of A Programme for a Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Israel's rejection of the UN and EU calls for an independent inquiry into the recent atrocities in Gaza; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the situation in Yemen; the efforts being made by the EU in regard to the conflict and the humanitarian situation there; and...
    • Northern Ireland
      171. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent efforts to restore the Executive in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24677/18]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has or is considering the prospect of reopening the embassy in Tehran particularly in view of the plan to double Ireland's global...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps and actions that have been taken since the publication of the report on challenges being faced by returning Irish emigrants; and...
    • Passport Services
      174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is he is satisfied that the Passport Office has sufficient resources to deal with the peak in demand during the summer months; and if he...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the guidelines and timeframe for withdrawing an active passport application at an appointment in the Passport Office; the documentation...
    • International Students
      176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports available for second level schools that are promoting the option of second level education for international students here; and...
    • Passport Applications Data
      177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications processed by the Dublin passport office in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25151/18]
    • Passport Services
      178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of whole-time equivalent staff working in the Dublin passport office in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25152/18]
    • Passport Applications Data
      180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications processed by the Cork passport office in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25155/18]
    • Passport Services
      181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of whole-time equivalent staff working in the Cork passport office in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25156/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced;...
    • Passport Applications Data
      184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications received from applicants with an address in Northern Ireland in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in...
    • Departmental Funding
      185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those...
    • Passport Services
      186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase the number of post offices in the UK that accept express applications for Irish passport applications; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to have a bilateral meeting with the US Secretary of State, Mr. Mike Pompeo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25662/18]
    • EU Data
      188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25733/18]
  • Department of Finance
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24264/18]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason all persons with a registered disability who have mobility issues are not classified equally when it comes to eligibility for reductions in...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance the protection in place for persons who want to restructure their mortgage in order that they can keep their family home (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Sale of State Assets
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which his Department has used the moneys the State received from the sale of its stake in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • NAMA Operations
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans of NAMA for a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25091/18]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if a proposal (details supplied) will be costed. [25589/18]
    • Insurance Costs
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the cost of insurance working group; when it is likely to report; the status of recommendations it may make; and if he will make a statement...
    • Stamp Duty
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance when measures will be commenced involving a reduction in stamp duty to 1% in respect of the purchase of agricultural land which is purchased for farm...
    • State Aid Investigations
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the party that benefits from interest or other payments accrued while a company's (details supplied) funds are on deposit in an escrow account following the...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to situations in which insurance companies are pursuing claimants or plaintiffs for their High Court and-or Court of Appeal...
    • Pensions Reform
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on tax relief for pension contributions; when his Department's working group on this issue will report to Dáil Éireann; and if he will...
    • Maternity Benefit
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the taxation of maternity benefit; his views on whether the taxation creates an unfair burden on single income households in which a new...
    • Carbon Tax Yield
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the rate of carbon tax in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24487/18]
    • Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Central Bank's investigation into an agency (details supplied); if the investigation has been completed; if not, when it will be completed;...
    • Sovereign Debt
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the political issues in Italy have had on Irish sovereign bond yields; if a risk analysis has been undertaken by his Department on financial issues...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the implementation of the programme for partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to revise the rules allowing retired persons withdrawing their remaining retirement fund but who are unable to do so due to the requirement to have...
    • Shared Services
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if all staff will be transferred to the National Shared Services Office in view of the transfer of his Department's functions in Tullamore back to Dublin; if...
    • VAT Yield
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated annual losses to the Exchequer which result from retailer VAT reclaims owing to below invoice cost selling of alcohol; the estimated losses to...
    • Professional Fees
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 29 May 2018, the annual tax cost of the tax relief on professional membership fees before the changes made in...
    • VAT Exemptions
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if a provision will be considered whereby a specific industry (details supplied) can reclaim VAT paid on certain products. [24651/18]
    • Bank Contracts
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding bank accounts closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24765/18]
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the definition of "first-time buyer" used by the Central Bank and the Revenue Commissioners, respectively. [24791/18]
    • Bank Contracts
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the sale of a property (details supplied). [24837/18]
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person that is taking part in a community employment scheme must pay the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24840/18]
    • Motor Insurance Data
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance if the setting up of the national database to track insurance claims to develop an understanding of the way in which the cost of claims is affecting motor...
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Remit
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is permitted to receive and consider complaints from persons that are of the view they were mis-sold payment...
    • Tax Yield
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income tax paid by persons aged over 65 years of age in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24873/18]
    • Banking Licence Applications
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if under current legislation it is possible for a local authority to secure a banking licence to enable it to raise funds for the purpose of issuing...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to difficulties musicians face in obtaining commercial motor insurance (details supplied); his plans to address this matter;...
    • Mortgage Lending
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the maximum age that a borrower can be scheduled to have normal repayments for the duration of a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Motor Insurance Claims
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance when the legislation which will permit the compensation of victims arising from road traffic accidents which involved vehicles which were insured with a...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on insurance companies charging extra to HSE first responders; if there is a regulatory prohibition of such a practice; if there are tax incentives...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding customers who were undercharged mortgages in 2013 by a bank (detail supplied); if the Central Bank formally investigated the bank in...
    • Financial Services Sector
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on situations in which investors using a stockbroker service are left exposed if that stockbroker goes into liquidation; if there is an equivalent...
    • Legislative Programme
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make...
    • Vehicle Registration
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason customs officials are continuing to seize vehicles which have been outlined in a ruling, namely leased and borrowed vehicles from outside the State...
    • Consumer Protection
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulatory approach to hire purchase agreements; the role of different authorities in this regard; the application of the consumer protection code in this...
    • Banking Sector
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions his Department or the Central Bank has had with their British counterparts regarding the sale of a bank (details supplied) in view of the...
    • Tax Code
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce the windfall gain tax on rezoned lands abolished in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25264/18]
    • Financial Transactions Tax
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to introduce a financial transactions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25265/18]
    • Banking Sector
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which a bank can cease providing banking services to a business; the opportunity such a business has to contest such a decision; and if he will...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to lower the local property tax for senior citizens in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25498/18]
    • Departmental Budgets
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [25571/18]
    • VAT Payments
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT payments received for each month from January to May 2016, 2017 and 2018 in addition to a summary of refunds under headings (details supplied). [25625/18]
    • Revenue Commissioners Audits
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to carry out an immediate audit of a company (details supplied) and to transmit by way of a spontaneous exchange...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of notifications received by the Revenue Commissioners from other tax authorities of recipients of pensions from other EU member states resident...
    • Brexit Issues
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional customs officers that will be required to deal with the issues arising from the UK's imminent departure from the EU; the number that...
    • Customs and Excise Staff
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners considered the need to arm customs officers that will be stationed on the land border with the United Kingdom when the UK leaves...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are provisions or exemptions whereby persons that had a share in a house previously and have since been divorced and are now seeking to buy a...
    • Property Tax Yield
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the local property tax rate of 0.25% was increased to 0.40% for houses valued at over €1...
    • Government Bonds
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of assets purchased each year from Irish financial institutions by either the Central Bank or other eurozone central banks, including the European...
    • Fiscal Policy
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance if consultation has taken place with the European Commission in relation to the rules regarding the statistical treatment of the rainy day fund; if a decision...
    • State Claims Agency Data
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of medical claims settled by the State Claims Agency in each year since 2010 whereby the claim was either fully or partially recouped by...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Appointments Service
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the response to the clerical officer competition on publicjobs.ie earlier in 2018; the number of positions filled from the panel; the...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement the Office of Public Works has had regarding a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Stations
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of works for a Garda station (details supplied); the completion date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Funding
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has spoken to his other EU colleagues regarding the EU cohesion funds recently. [24566/18]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the inflexibility of State contracts in the face of substantial increases in input costs means construction...
    • Pension Provisions
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the outstanding claim by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors on their pension ex gratia claim; the...
    • Departmental Properties
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual rental cost for the Dublin Passport Office building in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [25154/18]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if river levels at a location (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24267/18]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the introduction of the new sectoral employment order, SEO, for the construction sector on 19 October 2017, if State...
    • Public Sector Pensions Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public and civil service workers whose pension entitlements are subject to convergence criteria, that is, whose workplace...
    • Legislative Programme
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the public service superannuation (miscellaneous provisions) (amendment) Bill; when it will be published and introduced;...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the implementation of the programme for partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in relation to a flood protection scheme (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who will reach retirement age before the end of 2022, by profession; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU Data
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25034/18]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of residential properties owned by the Office of Public Works in the Phoenix Park that are vacant; the plans of the OPW to...
    • Legislative Programme
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sections and Parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Public Sector Pay
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 216 to 219, inclusive, of 29 May 2018, if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when proposed works (details supplied) will be carried out; if the contractor has been contacted and asked to give a date for the...
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in respect of the retirement lump sum for public servants retiring after March 2019; the details of changes in the...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an official from his Department will be appointed to engage with a person (details supplied) to negotiate an agreement regarding...
    • Departmental Funding
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those...
    • Expenditure Reviews
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the gross voted current expenditure in each year since 2010; the annual percentage increase or decrease in each year; the gross voted...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staff
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is in receipt of email correspondence sent to him by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding the issue of release day...
    • Capitation Grants
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional capitation funding will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Fees
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he envisages extending the qualifying criteria for the payment of fees to third level education institutions for returning Irish masters and...
    • Defibrillators in Schools Provision
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with the Minister for Health to discuss installing defibrillators in schools here; if so, the date the meeting took place; the...
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €29 million allocated to special needs as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent; the...
    • School Curriculum
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €5 million allocated to curriculum reform as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent;...
    • School Staff
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €4.5 million allocated to the reduction in staffing schedule at primary level as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of...
    • School Therapy Services
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €2.5 million allocated to the ten additional national educational psychological services, NEPS, psychologists and new...
    • DEIS Expenditure
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €1.5 million allocated to delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS, as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of...
    • School Guidance Counsellors
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €2 million allocated to creating 100 new posts for career guidance and strengthening school leadership as outlined in...
    • Irish Language
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €1 million allocated to the Irish language as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent;...
    • Languages Programme
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €4.5 million allocated to foreign languages, STEM school policy and digital learning programmes for schools as outlined...
    • Creative Ireland Programme
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €1 million allocated to Creative Ireland as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent;...
    • National Training Fund
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €37 million allocated to the national training fund for the higher education provision of relevance to employers as...
    • Springboard Programme
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €3 million allocated to Springboard as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent; the...
    • National Training Fund
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €3.5 million allocated to Skillnet as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has been spent; the way...
    • Skills Development
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €1 million allocated to new expenditure on regional upskilling and reskilling as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €20 million allocated to the school building programme as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the allocation that has...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the €8 million allocated to equipment and fit-out costs associated with the expansion of apprenticeship programmes as...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Data
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPs recruited since May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24326/18]
    • Teachers' Professional Development
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary school teachers who have completed SafeTALK and ASIST, applied suicide intervention skills training, courses...
    • Schools Establishment
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his plans for the establishment of an Educate Together school in Westport; the steps which have been taken to date to establish the...
    • School Transport
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of the remote area grant; the occasion on which it was last increased; his plans to increase it for the 2018/2019 school year; and if...
    • School Supervision and Substitution Scheme
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps and actions he is taking to address the ongoing difficulty for schools to obtain substitute teachers; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Media in Education
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for schools or other organisations to provide safer social media alternatives to children and young persons. [24385/18]
    • Schools Establishment
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 7 November 2017, the status of his plans to establish an Educate Together school in Leixlip; his...
    • Student Grants Data
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of restoring higher education grant thresholds to pre-budget 2011 rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24425/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs assistants provided to an organisation (details supplied) can be maintained at the current level rather than having two...
    • School Enrolments Data
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of junior infants, senior infants and first classes in the primary system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the cost of a special needs assistant at primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24463/18]
    • School Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24511/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the estimated cost of increasing the grant to reflect inflation rates and the consumer price index year-on-year; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the estimated cost of reversing the budget 2011 decision to increase the SUSI grant non-adjacency qualifying distance from 24 km to 45...
    • Free Travel Scheme Data
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the estimated cost of providing a free travel card to students in receipt of a grant or on the back-to-education allowance; and if he...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the estimated cost of paying 80% of the entry level rate to student teachers on placement; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of works for a school (details supplied); the completion date for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can receive assistance with educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of the school building project at a school (details supplied); and the year in which he expects the construction of the...
    • Third Level Staff
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out in tabular form the expenditure in each of the years 2013 to 2017 by all third level institutions, respectively on property provision...
    • Traffic Management
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to traffic management issues at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; his plans to offer assistance in...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of the implementation of A Programme for a Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for an extension will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24627/18]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of a request for permission by Longford Westmeath ETB to use its resources to acquire two acres from Longford County...
    • Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills maidir le ceist 157 an 28 Márta 2018, an bhfuil an fhaisnéis a bhí á lorg ag an Roinn faighte; an ndéanfaidh sé...
    • Capitation Grants
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his views on the capitation payments for primary schools in view of the discrepancy between the payments at primary and secondary...
    • Irish Language
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the estimated cost of extending the Gaeltacht school recognition schemes to preschools operating in the Gaeltacht. [24637/18]
    • Capitation Grants
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to restore capitation funding to primary and post-primary schools as per the commitment in A Programme for a Partnership Government;...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistants, SNAs, are being removed from a number of children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath for works to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the educational supports in place for children in the deaf community in County Mayo; the way in which this compares with other counties; his...
    • Schools Property
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the type of intervention made to encourage the trustees of a school (details supplied) to provide access to the building's facilities for use by...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a recent report (details supplied) on the availability of skilled personnel for a sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations Commission
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the entitlements of a person (details supplied) in circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24723/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the last new school planning area was added. [24732/18]
    • School Enrolments Data
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the relevant departmental geographic information systems, GIS data, that is, enrolments and other relevant data which is...
    • School Curriculum
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an exemption can be made in the case of a person (details supplied); the steps which need to be taken in order for this to be processed; and...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are other grants available, bar the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, partial grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Expenditure
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the payment of €3,000 a month by University College Cork, UCC, for rental accommodation for its president is an...
    • School Admissions
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed. [24749/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be completed for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24763/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will receive the necessary level of special needs assistant, SNA, support as advised by health professionals; and...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the definition of financial close stage for new school builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24781/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on site for a new school build for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Facilities
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding supports that may be available to a secondary school in a DEIS area that wishes to convert an existing grass playing pitch to a 4G...
    • Insurance Costs
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special schools are subject to increasing insurance premiums; and the steps he will take in this regard. [24797/18]
    • Tax Collection
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that all payments made by schools for services covered by relevant contracts tax, RCT, were correctly treated by those schools...
    • School Transport Availability
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the services available to assist young adults with a disability such as a person (details supplied) who had been availing of school transport...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if authorisation has issued to the board of management of a school (details supplied) to commence the pre-qualification of contractors for the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 24 April 2018, if there has been further progress with the site acquisition process; when a design...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the stage 2B report for a school (details supplied) has been approved; if the school has been authorised to invite expressions of interest...
    • Career Guidance Services
      373. 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;...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date on the site acquisition process that will identify the location of the new 1,000 pupil post-primary school to be...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the absence of a co-educational, multidenominational, non-fee paying secondary school in the Dublin 8 and 12 catchment areas, these areas...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to resolve the chronic shortage of primary school places in Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock; and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to resolve the chronic shortage of primary school places in Skerries; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capitation Grants
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an increase to the school capitation grant to primary schools in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will make a...
    • Technological Universities
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position on the planned technological university for Munster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24969/18]
    • School Patronage
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for considering a school (details supplied) as a candidate school for public consultation as part of the multidenominational and...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will be accepting new applications for the summer works scheme 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24999/18]
    • Minor Works Scheme
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the minor works scheme with a view to providing the grant on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Catchment Areas
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area for the new Educate Together school in Harold's Cross, Dublin 6; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase funding for SNA provision in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/18]
    • Multidenominational Schools
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage plans are at for the proposed location and timeframe in providing a new Educate Together school for Arklow, County Wicklow as...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the capacity of professional and administrative personnel within his Department including inspectors, psychologists, speech and language...
    • Third Level Admissions Assistance
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a HEAR application will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25126/18]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in the development of a healthcare assistance apprentice programme an organisation (details supplied) will be centrally involved in the...
    • Oideachas Gaeilge
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an dtabharfaidh sé freagra ar litir thíosluaite (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [25147/18]
    • Junior Cycle Reform
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision has been made for students taking a junior certificate subject with a compulsory assessment component in which the subject is not...
    • Student Grant Scheme
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for a student (details supplied) who studies abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25169/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding to carry out renovations at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25195/18]
    • Third Level Staff Remuneration
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the remuneration packages for presidents of third level institutions in tabular form. [25196/18]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the policy document outlining the procedures relating to DEIS status and the amalgamation of national schools, particularly...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding completion of a site acquisition and the process for commencing the pre-qualification process in respect of a school...
    • Adoptive Leave
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision has been made for male teachers in a same-sex partnerships seeking adoptive leave from his Department. [25325/18]
    • Student Assistance Fund
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the potential costs and considerations of setting up a student assistance fund specifically for the benefit of postgraduate students in view of...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact he has had with a school (details supplied) in relation to works that need to be carried out; when the work is expected to start; and...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a proposed site for a school (details supplied); if a site has been purchased; if so, the details of the purchase; and if...
    • School Transport Provision
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision being made for school transport to convey children with disabilities and special needs to preschools that have the capacity and...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a funding application from a school (details supplied) for the replacement of prefabs to cater for a staff room, an additional special...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consequent to the carrying out of the M4-N4 corridor study pertaining to the provision of secondary school accommodation, if a further...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the current residency criteria for access to the SUSI grant from three to two of the past five years. [25454/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Expenditure
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of assessing all students aged 18 to 23 years of age, that is, not exclusively those estranged from their parents, as...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to refuse school transport in the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Catchment Areas
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the catchment area for the new Harold's Cross secondary school will be extended to include the Dublin 8 and 12 areas in which there are two...
    • Junior Cycle Reform
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department halved the junior cycle management resource hours available to schools for the 2018/2019 school year (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years....
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of schools projects that were to be delivered by way of PPP with a company (details supplied). [25585/18]
    • Site Acquisitions
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the transfer of land from South Dublin County Council to his Department; and the progress that has been made in relation to...
    • School Patronage
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new system for the awarding of a patronage to schools will be finalised in view of findings that the Education Act 1998 had been...
    • Site Acquisitions
      435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to secure a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25603/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a school (details supplied) is having its special needs assistant withdrawn, leaving the school with none despite the fact there are...
    • Schools Building Projects
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from his Department will agree to meet the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss its request for a new...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to have a bilateral meeting with his US counterpart, Ms. Betsy DeVos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25666/18]
    • School Accommodation
      439. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25681/18]
    • Site Acquisitions
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site for a new school (details supplied) in Dún Laoghaire will be urgently progressed; the status of progress to date; and if he will...
    • EU Data
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25731/18]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • European Council Meetings
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if immigration will be discussed at the June 2018 European Council meeting in view of events that have occurred in Hungary and...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports
      444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has met a family (details supplied) following the publishing of the GSOC report in regard to the way in which complaints...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there have been changes to the indicative timetable for the holding of referendums (details supplied) agreed on 26 September...
    • Garda Operations
      446. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is planned to establish the Garda insurance fraud unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24933/18]
    • Adoption Legislation
      447. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if adoptive leave will be provided for same-sex couples in view of the fact that circular 18/2013 does not cater for the needs...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      448. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation he plans putting in place in 2018 and 2019 in order to establish a UNCRPD implementation working group...
    • Crime Data
      449. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unlicensed taxi drivers apprehended by An Garda Síochána in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Training
      451. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated for high-quality training on domestic and sexual violence to An Garda Síochána in 2017 and...
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if GISC's responsibility for the management of the Garda information technology service desk out of hours and on weekends was...
    • Prison Service Staff
      453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the name of the governor of Portlaoise prison; when they were appointed; and the name of the previous governor and the date of...
    • Legal Costs
      455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is permitted for an insurance company to pursue claimants or plaintiffs for their High Court and-or Court of Appeal costs...
    • Garda Equipment
      457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when vehicle number recognition systems will be installed in all Garda patrol cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that will be provided for the second sexual abuse and violence in Ireland study; the communications he...
    • Garda Equipment
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to roll out the use of body-worn cameras by gardaí as standard in view of the fact that the Metropolitan Police...
    • Garda Resources
      461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda staff who were co-located with staff provided by a company (details supplied) in 2016 and who functioned as...
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff including Garda in-house and external staff provided by a company (details supplied) allocated to work as...
    • Garda Resources
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the €7,625,089 cost of the contract awarded to a company (details supplied) for the provision of skilled resources to...
    • Garda Vetting
      466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda vetting and clearance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received in 2017 and to date in 2018 for the community CCTV scheme; the number of applications...
    • Equality Legislation
      471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the penalties applying to the refusal of an establishment to allow entry to a customer or to ask a customer to leave on the...
    • Domestic Violence Services Funding
      472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding which will be provided in 2018 and 2019 to implement the provisions of the Domestic Violence Act 2018 (details...
    • Garda Oversight
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of funding the Garda Complaints Board in the past five years to date; the number of personnel involved; the cost to...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2018, the approximate number of anti-social behaviour orders issued by An...
    • Garda Data
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports of section 12 of the Children's Act recorded on the PULSE system in 2016 and 2017, by each district in...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will...
    • Garda Data
      478. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile good behaviour contracts issued in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reports
      481. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 601 of 17 April 2018, if the nature and extent of sexual violence against those in State...
    • Rural Crime
      482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts being made to tackle rural crime in the north west; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
      483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has examined the GSOC inquiry report on the death of a person (details supplied); the actions he is taking to address the...
    • Garda Strength
      484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel in Roscrea Garda station to date; the number of personnel that were stationed there five and ten years...
    • Immigration Status
      485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application under section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 in the case of a...
    • Refugee Data
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases referred to the International Protection Office that have been granted residency or have had their cases...
    • Assisted Decision Making
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24762/18]
    • Garda Resources
      490. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with senior Garda management the urgent need for sufficient Garda resources to be allocated to an area...
    • Guardian Status
      491. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the position of a central registrar to maintain a record of statutory declarations of guardianship in Ireland can be...
    • Garda Training
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each district in the Dublin region who have completed the CBD level-three driving course in each...
    • Proposed Legislation
      493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24857/18]
    • Asylum Applications Data
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the age profile of asylum seekers currently resident in direct provision by age and gender in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Palestinian citizen who is married to an Irish citizen is eligible to apply for Irish citizenship. [24866/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the sections of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 which have not yet been commenced further...
    • Garda Deployment
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Henry Street and Roxboro Road districts of Limerick city in each of the years 2007 to 2017 and...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Policing Authority has not yet issued guidelines on CCTV schemes in accordance with section 31(d) of the Garda...
    • Data Protection
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 30 May 2018, the process involved in drawing up the codes of conduct referred to...
    • Leave to Remain
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the INIS has access to an ink stamp to appropriately endorse a passport allowing a person to remain in the State (details...
    • Home Repossessions Rate
      502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of proceedings lodged in respect of repossession cases before the courts involving the family home; the number of...
    • Courts Service Data
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines that have been applied to persons driving without insurance in each of the years 2013 to 2017, by county in...
    • Motor Insurance Data
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized for driving without insurance in each of the years 2013 to 2017, by county in tabular form; and...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths arising out of accidents involving vehicles which were driven by uninsured drivers in each of the years...
    • Asylum Applications Data
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 29 May 2018, if only 0.5% of residents on direct provision have been in the asylum...
    • Garda Resources
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Iveragh, County Kerry, will be supported with the installation of ANPR cameras to assist in policing (details supplied); and...
    • Garda Recruitment
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new superintendent will be appointed to Bruff Garda station, County Limerick. [25066/18]
    • Immigration Status
      509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration has been given to allow a person (details supplied) to remain legally here; if recognition has been given to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25074/18]
    • Immigration Status
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects a decision on an immigration appeal by persons (details supplied) to be processed; if it will be expedited in...
    • Prison Service Data
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the lengths of time individual prisoners were placed in safety observation cells, closed observation cells and 22 and 23 hour...
    • Data Protection
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of female and male prisoner, respectively, who exercised their right to vote in the referendum to repeal the eighth...
    • Garda Reserve
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Caherciveen Garda station will be reopened; his plans to appoint the requisite gardaí to facilitate same; and if he...
    • Prison Education Service
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the participation rates of prisoners in education during their sentences by prison; the budget for the provision of such...
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of category A complaints submitted in 2017 and to date in 2018 by prison in tabular form; the length of time taken...
    • Prison Discipline
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that received a disciplinary sanction for breach of prison discipline by prison in tabular form; the...
    • Prison Facilities
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the commitment made by him at the UNCAT hearing in 2017 that all prisons would have child friendly visiting conditions by...
    • Direct Provision System
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the findings of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25112/18]
    • Crime Data
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stolen firearms that were used in crimes in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to preserve the courthouse building in Kanturk, County Cork: if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Garda Reserve
      522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Reserves in each year since its establishment in 2006. [25164/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to accommodate refugees from the Syrian crisis; the way they can be integrated into society and...
    • Visa Applications
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in respect of an appeal for a visa by a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be...
    • Garda Transport Data
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mountain bikes allocated to each station within the Garda R and J districts in each of the years 2016, 2017 and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 21 May 2017, if a meeting can be arranged between him and the person to discuss...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding refugees in Killarney town; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Data
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 7 May 2017, the number of new staff hires engaged in the provision of services in...
    • Asylum Applications
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the average wait time for first interview for asylum applications has increased from 11 weeks in 2015 to 18 to 20...
    • Garda Data
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have been injured in the line of duty; the number of injuries and...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures taken to equip gardaí in Tallaght with adequate four wheel drive vehicles to help reduce response times...
    • Garda Accommodation
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of gardaí in the Tallaght area operate out of a hotel close to...
    • Residency Permits
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied); if they are required to take particular steps...
    • Garda Data
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding warrants nationwide on the Garda PULSE system to date by bench, penal and committal warrants; the...
    • Court Procedures
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concept of courtroom dogs which are used in the United States of America as a means of...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation or a statutory instrument will be introduced that would allow An Garda Síochána and specifically the...
    • Departmental Funding
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each...
    • Garda Transport Data
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of large marked Garda vans; if funding will be made available to purchase additional large marked vans for use by...
    • Detention Centres Provision
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when construction works on the new Garda immigration detention facility at Dublin Airport will be completed; and if he will...
    • Garda Vetting
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for Garda vetting for voluntary organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25606/18]
    • Garda Transport Data
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional unmarked Garda vehicles that came into the fleet in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018;...
    • Garda Equipment
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to issue each front-line garda with a Taser; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of employing ten new front-line gardaí. [25698/18]
    • Garda Resources
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of providing front-line Garda vehicles with GPS. [25701/18]
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of establishing a new Garda youth diversion project; and the estimated full year running cost of any such a...
    • Legal Aid
      555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of reducing free civil legal aid by €70, €80, €90 and €100...
    • Courts Service
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year running cost of the Courts Service. [25704/18]
    • Garda Resources
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of forensic accountants dedicated to tackling white-collar crime. [25707/18]
    • Electronic Tagging
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of electronic tagging and monitoring thereafter of those convicted of rape, child sexual abuse and...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Work Permits Applications
      560. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of a work permit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24515/18]
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      561. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits conducted by the IDA in each of the years 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018, by county in tabular form; and...
    • Third Level Funding
      562. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of current and capital expenditure allocated to the programme for research in third level institutions in 2018. [24356/18]
    • Trade Agreements
      563. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the likely ratification procedure at EU and member state level for ratification of a final Mercosur trade agreement relating to market...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      564. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the implementation of the programme for partnership Government as it applies to her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Education Policy
      565. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if options for the promotion of second level schools for international students through Enterprise Ireland will be examined; and if...
    • Legislative Programme
      566. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      567. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider amending a specific category under the employment permit regulations to address shortages in an area which is...
    • EU Directives
      568. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the delay in the transposition of the trade secrets directive, EU Directive 2016/943; if Dáil Éireann will...
    • International Bodies Membership
      570. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if negotiations have taken place in regard to Ireland becoming a member of CERN; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25551/18]
    • Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
      571. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement will come before Dáil Éireann for a debate and vote;...
    • Departmental Funding
      572. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those...
    • Economic Data
      573. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact on industry here as a result of the US announcement on duties imposed on steel and aluminium and specifically on a company...
    • Science Foundation Ireland Staff
      574. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Science Foundation Ireland has filled the post of head of international within the agency; if not, when this post will be filled;...
    • EU Data
      575. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25726/18]
  • Department of Health
    • Health Care Policy
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the policy direction being pursued in regard to a matter (details supplied); if his officials will be directed to support the pursuit and scope of this new...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance who hold a medical card. [24747/18]
    • Proposed Legislation
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of plans to repeal section 85(6) of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 in view of the repeal of the eighth amendment of the...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with the United Kingdom authorities regarding the operation of legislation for the termination of pregnancies here and the way in...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      581. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 24 May 2018, the exact quantum of funding allocated in 2018 to provide for the full implementation of national...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if a report has been carried out regarding the impact on the loss of the ambulance base in east County Cork; if not, the reason therefore; and if he will...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a bus service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24250/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24251/18]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol has been used in University Hospital Limerick to date in 2018. [24253/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have had to wait on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick to date in 2018. [24254/18]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a 96-bed extension to University Hospital Limerick. [24255/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      588. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing a date for the procedure in view of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a MRI appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24268/18]
    • Health Care Policy
      590. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out a national scheme to allow children who do not need medical or surgical management to be examined in the community by optometrists; and...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      593. To ask the Minister for Health when it is likely that there will be a change in regard to which labs are used to analyse smear tests for the CervicalCheck programme; and if he will make a...
    • Health Care Policy
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the re-evaluation of the national eye care plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce the waiting time for access to orthodontic care for minors in the CHO 4 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      596. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a community-based children’s optometrists scheme in order to address the waiting lists that exist for children to receive eye...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that all new life-changing medicines are made available to...
    • Departmental Management Structures
      598. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 2 June 2016, if policy issues in respect of abortion are still subsumed into the tobacco and alcohol control unit...
    • National Maternity Strategy Expenditure
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the implementation of the National Maternity Strategy for 2018, 2019 and 2020; the way in which this funding allocation is broken...
    • Health Care Policy
      600. To ask the Minister for Health when a revised HSE national consent policy will be published which omits paragraph 7.7.1’s exceptions to the principle of consent [24380/18]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been informed by the HSE if it ensured that outsourced cervical screening tests had to be examined for a minimum amount of time; and if he will make...
    • Health Care Policy
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken over the past year to implement Sláintecare; his plans in this context for budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiations between his Department and the farming organisations with a view to introducing a cap on the number of years farmland can be...
    • Medical Conditions
      605. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to support myalgic encephalomyelitis patients and carers; if his Department will review the HSE’s handling of this condition; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the status of surgery for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24406/18]
    • Autism Support Services
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if it is policy to send children with autism spectrum disorder to the UK if no residential placement is available here or to place a child in an adult...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the strategy in place to provide services for school leavers and young persons who are exiting RT programmes in 2018. [24426/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a submission by a group (details supplied) regarding the HSE’s implementation from 30 April 2018 of the standard...
    • Medical Products
      611. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be supplied with medical supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24436/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding cataract waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24437/18]
    • Nursing Home Fees
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the difference between the fee for private and HSE run nursing homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24438/18]
    • Autism Support Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for children to access speech and language therapy, psychological therapy and occupational therapy at Beechpark Services for children with...
    • Medicinal Products Regulation
      615. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 771 of 7 November 2017, the status of the PRAC's review of valproate; the response of the HPRA to the outcome of this...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns being raised by parents, schools and representative bodies of relevant allied professionals regarding the new...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24453/18]
    • Nursing Home Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding each of the recommendations made in a report (details supplied) on a nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24454/18]
    • Assisted Suicide
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed or plans to review the prohibition of euthanasia, assisted dying and physician assisted suicide; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the policy position with respect to medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24456/18]
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Act 2017; the costs to date associated with the operation and...
    • Gender Equality
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has raised the phenomenon of gendercide at national or international fora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24458/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings or engagements he and his Department have had with organisations (details supplied) in the past three years; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full and partial lower limb amputations were carried out in 2017; the number of these patients with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      632. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the discrepancy between the evidence provided by CervicalCheck and the records of the State Claims Agency in regard to women being informed of the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if Health Service Executive services will be made available to a person (details supplied); if measures will be taken to reduce the waiting lists for the...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will provide a home care package for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24483/18]
    • Health Services Reports
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the progress of implementation of recommendations of the eye services review group report; his views on whether the review group's...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 144 additional posts needed to transfer outpatient department eye services to primary care as recommended by the eye services review group...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of paediatric vascular surgeons here; the number of operations carried out by location from January 2017 to date in 2018; and if he...
    • Dental Services Provision
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if a new dental scheme will be agreed with an association (details supplied) which will examine prioritising prevention for medical card patients and affording...
    • Medical Card Data
      643. To ask the Minister for Health when a new scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance schemes will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Care Policy
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the national protocols in place for the administration of psychotropic drugs to patients in nursing homes and other institutions in which persons are in care;...
    • Health Services Funding
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to each of the community healthcare organisations, CHOs, for implementation of recommendations in the primary care eye services...
    • Health Services Provision
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if a group has been established in his Department to examine the provision of free contraception; if the group has formulated a comprehensive response to the...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      649. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, to the medical conditions listed as part of the long-term illness, LTI, scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for provision of respite services in the State; the number of families accessing respite services; the average spend on respite services by the...
    • Health Services Provision
      651. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a medical procedure. [24523/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential care places in County Mayo; the number of persons on the waiting list for residential care in the county; the estimated wait time and...
    • Disability Services Provision
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to residential care providers in County Mayo; his plans to provide extra funding to residential care providers in County Mayo; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is on the waiting list for a knee replacement at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan; the status of his or her appointment; and if he...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the additional duty of care placed on a doctor prescribing an unlicensed medicine; and the additional steps the doctor must take to ensure patients' attention...
    • HIQA Data
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the memorandum of understanding, co-operation and information sharing signed in June 2015 between Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA,...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a series of matters on BreastCheck (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24553/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss failings in the market access system for obtaining drugs for the condition. [24558/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      660. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1051 of 16 January 2018, the progress being made to introduce dialectical behaviour therapy services for adults in County...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if all electronic correspondence between him and either of his two special advisers regarding all aspects of the CervicalCheck crisis will be published; and if...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commencement of Legislation
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the national donor-conceived person register as per the provisions of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24591/18]
    • Health Services Staff
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if exceptions to Health Service Executive, HSE, Circular 15/2017 (details supplied) will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24601/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home help and other support in the home available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24607/18]
    • HSE Funding
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding has been withdrawn by the Health Service Executive that makes possible an annual one week holiday for medium-term and long-term patients...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      668. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 to include a ban on below invoice cost selling in view of the fact that minimum unit pricing will be...
    • HSE Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the average height of children here aged between 6 to 18 years of age according to Irish data or comparative international data which his Department has access...
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the selection of a 1.2 metres separating barrier contained under section 22 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015; if this was developed...
    • National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the budget set aside for the roll-out the three-year action plan for the NDS from 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24626/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for an angiogram for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24644/18]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants in the community in an area (details supplied); the number of vacancies for these positions in the area; the number of...
    • Medicinal Products Regulation
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure in place for the approval of medicinal cannabis oil for individual persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24654/18]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      680. To ask the Minister for Health if there are difficulties with the recruitment of medical scientists in the biochemistry and haematology departments in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda....
    • Health Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 19 April 2018, the details regarding the circumstances of the entry of a person (details supplied) into State care,...
    • Health Services Funding
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for capital funding for a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the appraisal unit assessing the application has now...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      684. To ask the Minister for Health his views on providing medical cards to those with spinal cord injuries in view of the long-term and varied consequences of spinal cord injuries; if the matter...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community registered general nurses working in the community (details supplied); the number of vacancies for such posts; the number of unfilled...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24666/18]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      687. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement new measures to allow faster access to the child and adolescent mental health services in order to tackle increasing waiting lists such...
    • National Cervical Screening Programme
      688. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 381 and 382 of 15 May 2018, the laboratories which were the subject of site visits in 2011 and 2014. [24693/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress regarding the fair deal scheme in respect of farm assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24698/18]
    • Home Help Service Data
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Roscommon and Galway in receipt of home help support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24700/18]
    • Health Services Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to appointing a dietician for north County Kildare, specifically as a support service for children with autism; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      695. 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. [24711/18]
    • Hospital Staff
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made to allocate additional advanced nurse practitioners to deliver adult and children's diabetes care services at Letterkenny University...
    • HSE Staff
      698. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a recruitment embargo in operation for HSE south; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24761/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of home help or home care packages when a person (details supplied) is below 65 years of age but suffers from various...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      700. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 17 May 2018, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the position of at least some families is that they...
    • Hospital Staff
      701. To ask the Minister for Health when the persons appointed to the two ANP posts confirmed for diabetes care in County Donegal will take up their posts. [24775/18]
    • Hospital Services
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if County Donegal has the requisite numbers of adults and children with diabetes types 1 and 2 to merit the locating of a centre of excellence for diabetes...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing staff at Buncrana nursing unit, County Donegal in comparison to 2016 and 2017; and if all beds within the unit are operational. [24777/18]
    • Health Services Funding
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the €1 million allocated in budget 2018 for the Sláintecare implementation office has been spent; and if he will make a statement...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); if this case will be facilitated at an early date in view of the...
    • Hospital Staff
      708. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the state of industrial relations in the University Limerick hospital group, especially at the hospital in Dooradoyle; and if he will make a...
    • Food Labelling
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has been consulted on proposed EU comments on draft Codex guidelines on the use of front of pack nutrition labelling; if his Department has...
    • Health Services Reports
      714. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish a Sláintecare implementation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24807/18]
    • Disability Services Funding
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if a task force was set up by the HSE or his Department to examine individualised funding for persons with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities;...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be examined following a nursing homes support scheme review; if the supporting documentation will be...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to assist young adults with a disability such as a person (details supplied) who had been availing of school transport accessing their...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if a new state-of-the-art primary care centre will be provided in Maynooth, County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      719. To ask the Minister for Health if EpiPens are covered on the medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24841/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet received an assessment. [24842/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive orthodontic treatment which was identified when they were in primary school and was not delivered at that time;...
    • Disability Services Funding
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal, in view of a recent meeting that took place between the organisation...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      724. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will have an assessment of need carried out; the number they are on the waiting list; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24862/18]
    • Home Help Service
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the home help supports a person (details supplied) might be entitled to; if an assessment of need will be conducted as a priority to determine the level of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      727. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will arrange a meeting with its officials, an organisation and the family representatives of a person (details supplied) to discuss the person's...
    • Health Promotion
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the penalties applying to breaches of the codes of practice for non-broadcast media advertising and marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages, including...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the provision of a primary care centre in Kinlough (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24897/18]
    • Abortion Legislation
      732. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include a protest exclusion zone as part of the legislation to be enacted following the recent referendum in the interests of the mental health...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      734. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide alternative respite care whilst the renovations of the Boyne View Centre, Drogheda is being refurbished; the details of the project; his...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for five hours home help; and when they can expect a decision on their case. [24911/18]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the previous history of rogue abortion counselling services and the general lack of proper psychological services in this area, he will further...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not yet been contacted on securing a place in school. [24916/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      738. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 6 February 2018, the reason students that started after 2012 are not entitled to transport to assist them getting...
    • Psychological Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary care psychologist will be found during a period (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24918/18]
    • Hospital Services
      740. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is entitled to convalescent care for post-operation from Tullamore General Hospital. [24919/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if a situation relating to transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be examined. [24920/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in Cork city and county on the waiting list for an assessment of need; the number waiting by periods (details supplied) in each HSE area...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if in the case of a fair deal scheme being granted to an applicant, if the money can be backdated to the day of application in the event that the applicant had...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the position a person (details supplied) is on the waiting list for urgent back surgery in both Mayo University Hospital and University Hospital Galway; the...
    • Health Promotion
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the position of Ireland on the World Health Organization's international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes or later updates of this code; and the...
    • Hospital Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 798 of 17 April 2018, when the seven remaining rooms will be operational and fully staffed before the end of 2018 in view...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current general medical services general practitioner in Carnew, County Wicklow has retired earlier than...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision
      748. To ask the Minister for Health when IVF funding will be provided; if there is pending legislation in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24983/18]
    • Data Protection
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department is engaging with the Department of Justice and Equality on section 32 of the Data Protection Act 2018, specifically on the...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if the families of the 74 persons who died as a result of CPE in University Hospital Limerick were provided with full information in regard to the risks of CPE...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) in County Cork can access speech and language therapy pending their assessment of need being carried out in view of the fact that...
    • Hospital Deaths
      755. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 30 May 2018, if a follow-up will be made on an incident (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      756. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a brain scan at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25007/18]
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      757. To ask the Minister for Health when a FreeStyle Libre device will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25009/18]
    • Nursing Home Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Health when the review regarding the level of nursing home support payable in the case of a person (details supplied) is likely to be concluded; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      759. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application appeal by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25015/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      760. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 9 May 2018; the reason a response has yet to issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25016/18]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting time for appointments to access the adult mental health services via Balbriggan primary care centre; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if first responders are reimbursed for expenses incurred specifically in terms of motor expenses and motor insurance costs; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the status of changes proposed to the fair deal scheme to facilitate changes for farmers and small business owners; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Cervical Screening Programme
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move the cervical screening process to a HPV test; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many clinicians internationally (details...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department has engaged with industry to explore ways in which new medicines can be more easily introduced here; his plans to update...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      773. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for knee surgery in Croom Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if the home care package funding available to CHO area 7 will be reviewed with a view to increasing it (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is in place for one full-time multiple sclerosis specialist nurse position in University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Programme
      776. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to comply with recommendation 2.2 of the ESRI’s Delivery of Pharmaceuticals in Ireland (details supplied). [25097/18]
    • Debt Collection
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE uses debt collection agencies and or appointed persons to collect outstanding fees or bills of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • National Maternity Hospital Administration
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the agreement reached by his Department with St. Vincent's University Hospital, SVUH, in relation to the national maternity hospital; if, and the way in which...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if he has recently met with an organisation (details supplied); and if so, the outcome of the meeting. [25114/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the grants or financial supports that are available for groups seeking to purchase and install automated external defibrillators in public spaces, sports clubs...
    • Nursing Home Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations placed on nursing homes by HIQA for dementia patients; the way in which this differs from non-dementia patients; if there is a requirement for...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the rules in relation to the fair deal scheme for nursing homes with regard to the prices agreed between nursing homes and the National Treatment Purchase...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has received a hearing aid from the HSE. [25133/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the recent changes to children's eye care services for children aged 12 to 16 years of age; the impact these changes have had on the provision of...
    • Rape Crisis Network Funding
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a rape crisis outreach centre in County Meath will be provided (details supplied). [25141/18]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for respite care by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25142/18]
    • Health Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention or the attention of the HSE has been drawn to the case and or treatment of a person (details supplied) at Waterford University Hospital; and...
    • Health Services Staff Training
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if in the development of a healthcare assistance apprentice programme an organisation (details supplied) will be centrally involved in the development and...
    • Disability Services Funding
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if the cut in funding to an organisation (details supplied) will be reversed. [25146/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a child (details supplied) waiting to be assessed will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25150/18]
    • Obesity Strategy
      797. To ask the Minister for Health when a monitoring body will be set up to monitor the voluntary codes of practice on the marketing of food and non-alcoholic beverages; the timeframe for the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      798. To ask the Minister for Health the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Services Availability
      799. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available to persons with intellectual disabilities in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25193/18]
    • Respite Care Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in budget 2019 to increase the number of respite beds available for older persons who are dependant on a carer; his further plans to expand the...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an incapacitated patient of a private nursing home who is unable to travel by car to a hospital for a medical appointment accessing...
    • Hospitals Data
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of hospitals operating under the full capacity protocol; the timeframe the protocol has been in place in each location; and if he will...
    • HSE Reviews
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and likely publication date for the development of a three year unscheduled care plan for the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the status of additional measures to be included in the 2018 winter initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25209/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the KPIs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis as appropriate for both admitted and non-admitted patient experience time, PET, nine hour to 24 hour breaches and...
    • HSE Documents
      806. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a centralised repository supported by the national document control system for the management of the HSE national PPPGs; and...
    • Health Care Infrastructure Provision
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of family forums and residents' councils across each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25212/18]
    • HSE Governance
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a contract management support unit for section 38 and 39 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25213/18]
    • HSE Reports
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the publication date of the HSE's report on estates maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25214/18]
    • Medical Qualifications
      810. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the completion of analysis of the various cohorts of consultants not on the Medical Council specialist register; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the abolition of a specific clause (details supplied). [25217/18]
    • Nursing Staff
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses by area within the north County Dublin area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25221/18]
    • Home Care Packages Expenditure
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the budget dedicated to home care support in the CHO 7 region for 2018 that has been spent to date in the second quarter of 2018; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the number of midwifery and obstetrician-gynaecologist staff employed in the maternity unit of South Tipperary General Hospital; the number employed in each of...
    • Health Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if night time seizure assistance and accommodation will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25262/18]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      825. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the €500 eligibility limit for receipt of a medical card by a single person over 70 years of age and the €900 limit for a...
    • Medical Card Data
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 70 and 80 years of age, respectively that hold a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25273/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      828. 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. [25275/18]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the number of FOI requests for medical files that have been made from women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy or the families of such women; the number...
    • Medical Card Administration
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the discretionary medical cards granted to women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy; if the medical cards are only granted to women; if...
    • Open Disclosures Policy
      831. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the introduction of mandatory open disclosure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25279/18]
    • Psychological Services
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 114 assistant psychologist posts and 20 psychologist posts that have been filled (details supplied); the locations in which these posts will...
    • Counselling Services Provision
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the undertaking of the HSE to examine the scope for improved ways of working through a service improvement initiative for counselling in primary...
    • Psychological Services
      836. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to introduce a dedicated mental health telephone and text line in 2018 in addition to a pilot telepsych initiative that will deliver mental...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have applied for the FreeStyle Libre sensor for the monitoring of type 1 diabetes since the product's approval for young persons...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      839. To ask the Minister for Health if an open recruitment process for the role of CEO of University Limerick hospital group was followed prior to the appointment of a new CEO in 2014. [25319/18]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      840. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent policy change by the National Ambulance Service whereby in the event of an emergency, the national emergency...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      841. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment with an occupational therapist for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25343/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      843. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [25346/18]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, sanctioned a person (details supplied) in 2015 following a fitness to practice hearing. [25347/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      846. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff allocated to a respite centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; if there is sufficient staff in place in order to be able to operate...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the definition of close family member in the proposed legislation regulating assisted human reproduction does not include first cousins or...
    • Maternity Services
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the implementation of the maternity and infant care scheme for each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      850. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available for a residential placement for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25419/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      851. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [25426/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      852. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been waiting on a home care package for some months will be awarded same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing the €100 charge for the use of emergency departments; and the estimated cost of abolishing the €75 day charge...
    • Respite Care Services
      854. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing respite care hours by 10%, in tabular form. [25437/18]
    • Dental Services Expenditure
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for the public dental service in each of the years 2006 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; his plans to increase this; and if he will...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychology services in north County Dublin by children and youth services and adult services in...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      858. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for dentistry and orthodontic services in north County Dublin by children and youth services and adult services in tabular form; and if he...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the general waiting list for orthodontic diagnostics at Merlin Park, University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Orthodontic Services Data
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for orthodontic treatment by HSE area in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [25444/18]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private ambulances operating; the hospital or hospital group they are working with; and the amount spent on private ambulances by hospital or...
    • Health Services Data
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ultra sonographers operating in maternity hospitals by community hospital organisation and maternity hospital in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) at HSE south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25449/18]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists required to eliminate waiting lists in accordance...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      867. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); the measures the HSE will undertake to ensure that the needs of the person and the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatric consultants working within the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, at University Hospital Waterford in each of the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children placed in an adult psychiatric ward at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, by month...
    • Hospital Services
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if the expansion of a clinic at a hospital will be considered in view of the fact that it does not cater for all persons in County Donegal dependent on their...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the committed capital spend for health in each of the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and the projects on which it will be spent. [25475/18]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      873. To ask the Minister for Health the capital cost of a hospital bed; the estimated fully absorbed cost of a hospital bed including staff, ancillary services and running costs; and the capital...
    • Home Care Packages Expenditure
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on home care packages for 2018; and the estimated cost of increasing home care packages by 10% in one year based on current spend on home care...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing an advanced paramedic. [25479/18]
    • Home Help Service Expenditure
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated spend on home help hours for 2018; and the estimated cost of increasing home help hours by 10% in one year based on current spend on home help....
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated unit cost of hiring 100 nurses on an average nurse's pay grade. [25481/18]
    • Midwifery Services
      879. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated unit cost of hiring 100 midwives on an average midwife's pay grade. [25482/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Staff
      880. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of hiring 100 occupational therapists on the average occupational therapist pay grade. [25483/18]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of hiring 100 speech and language therapists on the average position pay grade. [25484/18]
    • Dental Services Staff
      882. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of hiring ten dentists on the average dentist's pay grade. [25485/18]
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      883. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of hiring 100 physiotherapists on the average physiotherapist's pay grade. [25487/18]
    • Nursing Staff Data
      884. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing a staff nurse. [25488/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Staff
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing an occupational therapist. [25489/18]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      886. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing a speech and language therapist. [25490/18]
    • Midwifery Services
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing a midwife. [25491/18]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      888. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing an obstetrician or gynaecologist. [25492/18]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      893. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing, equipping and staffing 12 new ambulances. [25497/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Galway city and county receiving support under the nursing homes support scheme; the number that have a principal private residence...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      895. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has yet to receive notice of a rescheduled appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25500/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      896. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for surgery for hip and knee replacements after the initial outpatients consultation by an orthopaedic consultant in Letterkenny University...
    • Health Services Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals in which skin removal operations are carried out; and the medics who perform the procedure. [25508/18]
    • Health Services Data
      899. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations for the removal of excess skin following bariatric surgery that have been carried out in each of the past five years; the number that...
    • Health Services Provision
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if it is HSE policy that patients requiring plastic surgery following cancer treatment are prioritised over patients requiring similar surgery following...
    • Public Health Policy
      901. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a baseline health study in the Cork Harbour area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25512/18]
    • Proposed Legislation
      902. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25513/18]
    • Patient Deaths
      903. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths which have occurred in the University Limerick Hospital, Dooradoyle, County Limerick while the patient was undergoing a procedure in each...
    • Medical Negligence Cases
      904. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical negligence legal actions taken against the State, him and individual medical or nursing staff who were or are based at the University...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      906. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 771 of 17 April 2018, the number of persons on the ENT waiting list at the Mater Hospital; the length of time they have...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the HSE information technology budget to bring it to the EU and OECD averages, respectively; the estimated cost of increasing...
    • General Practitioner Services
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if the estimate of the cost of introducing free general practitioner care for all persons was between €330 million and €365 million, excluding...
    • Medical Card Data
      918. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of awarding medical cards for all adults with disabilities. [25529/18]
    • Prescriptions Charges
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of abolishing prescription charges; the estimated cost of the phased abolition of charges by 50 cent; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      920. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency department waiting times greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age in 2018; if the targets were met; if not, the number of persons...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      923. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a special needs wheelchair. [25535/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      925. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons (details supplied) who have applied to the scheme since the FreeStyle Libre sensor approval for young persons between four to 21 years of...
    • Departmental Funding
      926. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those years. [25573/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      928. To ask the Minister for Health if it is accurate to state that patients wait an average of 348 days for a drug to be approved for public funding and in some cases over four years; and if he...
    • HSE Reports
      929. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in publishing the HSE performance report for quarters in 2017 and to date in 2018. [25584/18]
    • Emergency Departments Staff
      930. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no general practitioners will be located in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 after midnight; his plans to extend...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      931. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) is awaiting a dermatologist appointment in Tallaght University Hospital; if the waiting time is usual or...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      932. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a consultant's appointment at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      933. To ask the Minister for Health when proposed changes in the fair deal scheme outlined in the media in February 2018 will be implemented; the full extent of these changes; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      934. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25616/18]
    • Care Services Provision
      935. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to expand a pilot course for family carers of those with life limiting illnesses; the expected timeline for this expansion; and if he will...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      936. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 810 of 16 January 2018 if he will request the HSE to provide the information requested (details supplied). [25622/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      937. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting assessment for surgery to remove excess skin following bariatric...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      940. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of employees in the mental health service by location and grade in counties Louth and Meath; the number of vacancies in both counties by...
    • Medical Products Supply
      941. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding the free supply of medicines by pharmaceutical companies to public hospitals; the extent to which this is happening; the...
    • Hospital Staff
      942. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of the actions which have been taken following the serious issues raised in the media (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Data
      943. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25734/18]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the details of the commitment to develop Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal as outlined in Project Ireland 2040; if this...
    • Herd Data
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the criteria for attaining a herd number; if these criteria differ in cases in which a new farmer is trying to reactivate...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out in tabular form the number of checks carried out in compliance with SI 62 of 2016 and the requirement to possess a horse...
    • Farm Sizes
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his views on supports for farmers that are purchasing land to consolidate their farm holdings and incentives that can be...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a basic farm payment will be awarded to a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24275/18]
    • GLAS Administration
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to reopen the GLAS scheme; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24294/18]
    • Water Quality
      950. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the 2018 funding allocation to the sustainability support and advisory programme by project costs and staff costs; and if...
    • GLAS Payments
      951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24346/18]
    • GLAS Applications
      954. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24405/18]
    • Forest Roads Scheme
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24420/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a foal may be registered without the foal levy being paid. [24448/18]
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of court cases taken by Horse Racing Ireland since the foal levy was introduced seeking recovery of unpaid foal levy...
    • Animal Slaughtering Data
      958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of kilos of beef killed per week in all factories and abattoirs here. [24496/18]
    • Herd Data
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded calf births in suckler herds from 1 June 2015 to date in 2018, by year in tabular form. [24497/18]
    • Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a once a year young farmers payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the implementation of A Programme for a Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • GLAS Appeals
      962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24588/18]
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment will be issued in respect of 2017 to a farmer (details supplied) in County Cork who has submitted the necessary...
    • Aquaculture Regulation
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason fish from a company’s (detail supplied) hatchery at Lough Altan, County Donegal has been awarded organic status...
    • Fish Farming
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the procedures operated by his Department for organic designation of salmon farms are so flawed that the organic...
    • Organic Farming
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the policy oversight and management of the organic labelling system should be transferred to a body that is...
    • Aquaculture Licence Appeals
      968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contacts, formal and informal and written and oral, made by his Department with the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in advance...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has not yet concluded its investigation into the licence breaches at various salmon farms operated by a...
    • Animal Welfare
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 432 and 433 of 23 January 2018, the powers that are available to ensure the enforcement of...
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24880/18]
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal under the beef data and genomics programme for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the amendment in January 2018 to section 10.4 of the certificate of suitability for a veterinary...
    • Driver Safety
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the use of anti-roll bars and protective head gear on all-terrain vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the full costs associated with the various court actions taken against the State regarding SI 3/2014 and SI 125/2016 on the matter of...
    • Control of Horses
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if prosecutions have been taken by local authorities or his Department in regard to abandoned or neglected equines across the...
    • GLAS Payments
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25005/18]
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      984. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment under the sheep welfare scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Animal Welfare
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to breaches of animal welfare regulations at a farm (details supplied) in north County Wexford; if...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Departmental Schemes
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1155, 1156, 1158 and 1160 of 16 January 2018, when a response will issue in view of the...
    • Literacy Programmes
      989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to assist farmers who have dyslexia and-or literacy issues in regard to inspections, applications and online...
    • Fur Farming
      990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25230/18]
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      991. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an oyster licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25240/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to footage (details supplied); if this farm passed its 2017 health and welfare inspection; and if the...
    • GLAS Payments
      993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25344/18]
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is conducting a new round of recruitment for technical agriculture officers; if so, the stages involved in the...
    • Transport of Animals
      995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if violations (details supplied) involving Irish trucks can be investigated. [25430/18]
    • Aquaculture Regulation
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the penalties in place for farmed salmon operators who fail to notify the relevant parties of a fish escape; the relevant parties who...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland Investigations
      997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the findings of the Inland Fisheries Ireland report on the occurrence of farmed Atlantic salmon in rivers in the western...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department or an agency under its remit including the Marine Institute contacted Inland Fisheries Ireland to request either...
    • Aquaculture Regulation
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken by his Department following the notification of a fish escape incident at a salmon farm located at Glinsk, Mulroy...
    • Fur Farming
      1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 30 January 2018, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the United Kingdom,...
    • Departmental Funding
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of...
    • Forestry Sector
      1002. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an appeal by a person (details supplied) with the Forestry Service is taking so long to finalise. [25688/18]
    • EU Data
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25725/18]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1004. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the likely penalties that will be paid by Ireland for failure to meet EU 2020 carbon emissions targets; and if he will...
    • Waste Management
      1005. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy on the use of incineration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24981/18]
    • Electric Vehicles
      1009. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional charge points will be provided for electric cars in Killarney and surrounding areas; and if he will make...
    • Media Mergers
      1010. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered the need for rules for media organisations regarding the character or professional reputation of...
    • Cyber Security Policy
      1011. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures in place to prevent or minimise threats to the electricity and water infrastructure in view of threats...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1012. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the new bye-law to allow for the removal of pike from certain waters; and if he will make a...
    • Online Safety
      1013. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding is available for schools or other organisations to provide safer social media alternatives to children and...
    • Energy Schemes
      1014. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter in relation to SEAI grants for insulation (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      1015. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the scale of coffee grain residue from retail outlets in view of the rise in retail coffee consumption in recent...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1016. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband will be provided at an address (details supplied). [24510/18]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1017. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1018. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings that have taken place since 1 January 2011 between him or officials in his Department with a company...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1019. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to resolve a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24724/18]
    • Climate Change Policy
      1021. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made on the 13 recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly final report on making Ireland a leader in...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1022. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the provision of broadband services with speeds of at least 20 Mbps in an area (details...
    • National Broadband Plan
      1028. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the contract for the roll-out of the national broadband plan will be amended; when it is expected that work on...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      1029. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when permission will be given to RTÉ to transmit RTÉ 2 +1 on a platform (details supplied); when...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1030. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1031. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high-speed broadband will be rolled out in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      1032. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the renewable heat incentive, RHI, scheme for renewable energy equipment will be announced; and if he will make a...
    • Aquaculture Regulation
      1035. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when Inland Fisheries Ireland was notified of the escape of 20,000 farmed salmon at a salmon farm located at Glinsk,...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      1039. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the usage element contained in the new waste collection charges; if steps will be taken to protect older and...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1040. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated...
    • Seismic Surveys
      1041. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and type of licences and seismic survey activities for which he has exercised his power under the...
    • Exploration Licences
      1046. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the commitments his Department has made on work programmes for exploration licences and their extensions (details...
    • Seismic Surveys
      1047. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will be making changes to guidelines for ocean seismic testing in view of new...
    • Bioenergy Strategy Publication
      1048. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1146 of 21 March 2017 and 215 of 13 December 2017, when the strategic...
    • Fines Data
      1049. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Safety
      1050. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department received applications from Galway County Council to extend the speed limit at a school (details supplied) on the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1052. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a detailed design has been carried out by Galway County Council and submitted to TII for funding on the R333 at Claretuam; and if he...
    • Fuel Oil Specifications
      1055. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil in the Irish Sea will be implemented; if so, when it will be implemented; and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1056. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full range of legal punishments applying to motorists who drive without insurance that are available to An Garda Síochána;...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      1057. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of penalty points that have been issued for driving without insurance in each of the years 2013 to 2017, by county in tabular...
    • Bus Services
      1058. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support an increased service for the 101 Bus Éireann route with particular reference to the village of Balrothery in...
    • Greenways Development
      1059. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the greenway from Sligo to Enniskillen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24240/18]
    • Railway Stations
      1060. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 22 May 2018, when funding will be available to progress the scheme in view of the fact that...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1061. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an approved sports capital grant application (details supplied) has now been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      1062. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency funding will be provided to Kerry County Council (details supplied) for road maintenance; and if he will make a statement...
    • Grant Payments
      1063. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grants available for taxi operators to purchase wheelchair accessible vehicles; the eligibility for persons who wish to apply for...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1064. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the implementation of the Programme for A Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      1065. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a product (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the DAA will introduce it to Dublin Airport to assist persons with disabilities; if...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      1066. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number required for a full complement of the board of Fáilte Ireland; the number required for a quorum; the number of vacancies...
    • Road Projects
      1067. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a bridge. [24634/18]
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      1068. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if TII will confirm when a decision will issue on the latest developments on traffic calming proposals for Kilcornan, County Limerick,...
    • Public Services Card
      1069. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the change to the mandatory requirement for a public services card for applying for a driver licence and provisional...
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      1070. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given under the Sports Capital Programme to allow for flexibility for a sports club which operates on...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1071. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to a multi-annual programme of sports capital grants (details supplied). [24687/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      1072. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount awarded across the past four rounds of the sports capital grant; the number of grants awarded; the number of grants drawn...
    • Transport Policy
      1073. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to consult with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24712/18]
    • Tourism Funding
      1074. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding streams available for those wishing to enter the tourism accommodation sector, namely campsites, self-catering and bed and...
    • Driver Licences
      1075. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS is allowed to reissue a driver licence to the address that is on file for that person in the case of a driver licence that...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      1076. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Collooney to Dromahair greenway is included in the national greenways plan for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects Status
      1077. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a reply will issue to representations (details supplied) to Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of funding; the reason for...
    • National Sports Policy Framework
      1078. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to publish the promised review of the national sports policy; his plans to reintroduce the local authority swimming pool...
    • Road Projects Status
      1079. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the proposed upgrade of the N81 from Hollywood Cross to Tallaght, bypassing Blessington, has been suspended; his plans to...
    • Transport Policy
      1080. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deal with the use of rickshaws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24853/18]
    • Public Transport
      1082. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the retrofitting of both audio and visual equipment to the Bus Éireann fleet in counties Sligo and Leitrim to...
    • Tourism Policy
      1086. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if either his Department or Fáilte Ireland has ever attempted to quantify the value of the accessible tourism market; if not, if he...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1087. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if either his Department or Fáilte Ireland has ever investigated the delivery of an accessible tourism marketing campaign; and if...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1088. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the substantial cuts imposed on members of a pension scheme (details supplied) in advance of the sale...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      1089. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a once-off allocation of funding will be made to clear the backlog of local improvement schemes in County Leitrim; and if he will...
    • Greenways Development
      1090. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to publish the greenways strategy; the reason for the delay in publishing same in view of the reply to Parliamentary...
    • Airport Development Projects
      1092. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 30 May 2018, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that although the proposed third...
    • Proposed Legislation
      1093. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of proposed legislation to deal with issues concerning scramblers and quad bikes in Dublin. [25110/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1094. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Rail Services
      1095. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bicycles Iarnród Éireann trains can carry per journey on each of its routes in tabular form. [25198/18]
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      1096. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the case of a person (details supplied) who applied to have their car certified as not in use from July 2015 has now received...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1097. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a new round of sports capital grants will be undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25223/18]
    • Transport Policy
      1098. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress to date in the implementation of the transport access for all policy in terms of the taxi fleet, buses and trains; and if...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      1099. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he envisages the introduction of 24-hour services by Dublin Bus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25339/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to announce details of the next sports capital programme scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25345/18]
    • Stadium Projects
      1101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of Dalymount Park as part of the Euro 2020 legacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25370/18]
    • Sports Events
      1102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of Dublin hosting a round of the FIA Formula E championship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25371/18]
    • Sport Ireland
      1104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to develop female participation in sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25373/18]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      1105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to support the development of grassroots football across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the necessary upgrading of an arterial route (details supplied) will be prioritised for funding in the 2019 road works programme in...
    • Brexit Issues
      1107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he anticipates bodies under the aegis of his Department to be affected by Brexit with particular reference to inward...
    • Road Network
      1108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which he has examined existing road networks throughout the country in both urban and rural areas with a view to the...
    • Employment Rights
      1109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Workplace Relations Commission at hearings held on the 29 May 2017 and 17 June 2017...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to reduce the numbers of unlicensed taxi drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25460/18]
    • Roads Maintenance
      1111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25534/18]
    • Departmental Properties
      1112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the leasing of property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25545/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      1113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 17 May 2018, if he will address the fact that some insurance companies are refusing to...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which applications for capital grants that were unsuccessful in 2017 for various reasons will be examined with a view to...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and his Department continue to liaise with various sporting groups that have been the beneficiaries of sports capital grants in...
    • Rural Transport Services
      1117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department has continued to evaluate rural transport requirements with a view to bringing transport to the...
    • Transport Infrastructure Provision
      1118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department continues to evaluate the transport system, road and rail, public and private, to ensure the...
    • Tourism Policy
      1119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which efforts continue to distribute the tourism industry evenly throughout the country with particular reference to the...
    • Tourism Industry
      1120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which potential growth opportunities for business tourism here continue to be identified; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Transport Review
      1121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which a study has been carried out or is ongoing in respect of public transport in County Kildare with particular...
    • Rail Services Provision
      1122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for investment in the rail services over the next five years including an extension to services; and if he will make a...
    • Regional Airports
      1123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he plans to support and promote the role of regional airports; if a particular initiative is required in this...
    • Tourism Data
      1124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which particular sectors of the tourism sector to date in 2018 have shown particular potential for growth with consequent...
    • EU Data
      1128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25737/18]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Disability Services Data
      1129. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available for the access inclusion model for pre-school children with special needs over the past five years; the number of...
    • Child Care Services Data
      1130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of naíonraí operating here; and the number of children attending same. [24638/18]
    • Child Protection
      1131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1676 of 11 September 2017, when a response from Tusla will be forthcoming. [24242/18]
    • Child and Family Agency Reports
      1132. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a copy of the inquiry report by a person (details supplied). [24243/18]
    • Family Resource Centres
      1133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 16 May 2018, if further funding will be allocated for family resource centre programmes in...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      1134. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will continue to be provided to schools for counselling (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Youth Services Funding
      1135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding is available for schools or other organisations to provide safer social media alternatives to children and young persons. [24382/18]
    • Affordable Childcare Scheme
      1136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated additional cost in 2018 of increasing the universal minimum subsidy across the affordable childcare scheme, assuming the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a second entry point for the ECCE scheme in order to ensure that children that turn two years of age at the...
    • Child Abuse
      1138. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Garda division headquarters that are collaborating with Tusla in relation to dealing with cases of child abuse in view of...
    • Programme for Government
      1139. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the implementation of A Programme for A Partnership Government as it applies to her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Child Protection
      1140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on amendments made to section 22 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 from a child protection perspective in view of he fact...
    • HSE Funding
      1142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which a person (details supplied) who was a resident in a location can access funding in relation to travelling costs incurred...
    • Child and Family Agency Data
      1143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases awaiting allocation to a social worker in each Tusla local office area in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      1144. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the assessment under the AIM programme for a child (details supplied) in County Cork has been completed in order that they can access...
    • Departmental Funding
      1145. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of requests for additional funding, staff resources or expertise that have been made by Tusla since January 2014, in tabular...
    • School Completion Programme
      1146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received correspondence from the Department of Education and Skills in relation to concerns regarding the school completion...
    • Cúram agus Oideachas na Luath-Óige
      1147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs cad iad na tacaíochtaí breise Gaeilge a bheidh á gcur ar fáil i mbliana agus cé mhéad airgead a chaithfear...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1148. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost to roll out the routine delivery of Aistear across the childminding sector including those childminders not registered...
    • Departmental Funding
      1149. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if non-contact time payments will be available in 2018; and if so, when services can apply for same. [25167/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced;...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of measures introduced to increase the national birth rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25200/18]
    • Early Years Sector
      1152. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the grounds on which an application was not granted as part of the Capital Programme 2018 - EYC 2018 strand 1 in the case of a person...
    • Child and Family Agency
      1153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which the €40.5 million additional funding for Tusla in 2018 will be spent; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      1154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide extra funding for Tusla (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25340/18]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of those...
    • EU Data
      1156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25727/18]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Charities Regulation
      1158. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints received by the Charities Regulatory Authority about an exhibition (details supplied). [24395/18]
    • Library Services
      1160. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a book written here must be approved and purchased by a company (details supplied) in the UK before a supply and purchase...
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      1161. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the persons or bodies that are entitled to apply for funding through SECAD in view of the boundary changes (details supplied) in...
    • Western Development Commission Funding
      1162. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current and capital allocations in 2018 to the Western Development Commission. [24361/18]
    • CLÁR Programme
      1163. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if CLÁR funding will be awarded to a school (details supplied) under measure 1 safety works. [24365/18]
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      1177. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons who have accessed the seniors alert scheme in counties Roscommon and Galway since 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Community Services Programme
      1178. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if Pobal will be requested to provide an update on CSP funding for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1179. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the implementation of the Programme for A Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Public Participation Networks
      1180. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the request from the public participation network in each local authority to have an increase in resources has been agreed due to...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1181. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams available to those in rural County Wicklow who wish to establish tourist accommodation such as campsites,...
    • CLÁR Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be granted to a school (details supplied) that has submitted an application through the CLÁR scheme; when...
    • Community Services Programme
      1186. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the wage grant per participant under the community services programme in each of the years since 2009; the amount of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1189. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of capital expenditure in 2018 to date by his Department by subhead; the amount of capital provided for in the estimates...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      1190. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the value of all projects approved by each LAG under the Leader programme; the amount expended on projects by each LAG under the...
    • Departmental Funding
      1191. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of capital carried over from 2017 to 2018; the amount of same spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Finances
      1192. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of the €28 million pre-paid to local authorities at the end of 2016 that has not been expended to date by local...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Applications
      1193. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a special application by a person (details supplied) in respect of a person will be accepted. [25121/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1194. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1195. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the additional funding available to a group (details supplied) to complete a process; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      1196. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      1197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1830 of 16 January 2018, the reason funding from the schools meals programme has not...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      1198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that a tenant can take if a landlord refuses to sign supplementary rent forms, SWA RS1; and if she will make a...
    • School Meals Programme
      1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding under the school meals local projects scheme for a school (details supplied) will be increased proportionally in...
    • Disability Activation Projects
      1200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports provided by her Department for those in employment that have intellectual disabilities and may need additional...
    • Birth Certificates
      1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible for a birth certificate to record two persons of the same sex or gender as the parents of a child produced...
    • Direct Provision Payments
      1202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase direct provision payments for adults and children in line with the supplementary welfare allowance;...
    • Paternity Benefit Applications
      1204. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have used class S PRSI contributions to qualify for paternity benefit, invalidity benefit and...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24279/18]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Support Services
      1207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those aged over 62 years of age are required to engage in job activation schemes; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      1208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the €10 million allocated to the free travel scheme as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the...
    • School Meals Programme
      1209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the €1.7 million allocated to school meals for newly designated DEIS schools as outlined in budget...
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      1210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the €1 million allocated to youth employment support schemes as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of...
    • Rural Social Scheme Expenditure
      1211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the €1.2 million allocated to the rural social scheme as outlined in budget 2018; the amount of the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to receive a domiciliary care allowance backdated to the date of...
    • Paternity Benefit
      1213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that have availed of paternity benefit in each of the years since its introduction in tabular form;...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding an application for a carer’s payment by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; when a...
    • Pension Provisions
      1215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the means assessment rules for capital sums held by applicants applying for the State pension...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      1216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of increasing jobseeker's allowance to €196 for all those under 26 years of age in receipt of the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      1220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how a person who has worked 48 days out of 365 days and has actively sought work in a 12 month period is not eligible to...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding financial assistance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the implementation of the programme for partnership Government as it applies to her Department; and if she...
    • JobPath Programme
      1223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was targeted for inclusion in the JobPath scheme run by a company; and if she will...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      1224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if supplementary welfare can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a pilot scheme that was introduced for jobseeker’s allowance and benefit recipients whereby...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      1226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance. [24746/18]
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      1227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 16 May 2018, the extent of receipts that must be retained; and the legislative...
    • Disability Allowance
      1228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an anomaly (details supplied) regarding the exclusion of persons with disabilities from the artistic and cultural...
    • Employment Rights
      1229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to examine legislation regarding statutory holiday entitlements (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Services Card
      1231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consequences or processes that are followed when persons cannot attend an appointment for a PSC when invited to do so by...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services available to assist young adults with a disability such as a person (details supplied) who had been availing of...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      1233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for carer's benefit in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      1235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pensions Legislation
      1236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of efforts being made to ensure that an association (details supplied) is given an opportunity to represent its...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied). [24877/18]
    • JobPath Programme
      1238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; the reason the person is being pressurised to engage with a...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when section 22(3C) of Civil Registration Act 2004 as inserted by section 6(e) of the Civil Registration Act 2014 and-or...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      1241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request the management of the social protection office in Summerhill, County Sligo, to enforce new measures...
    • Pension Provisions
      1242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish an independent review group within her Department to assess the level and impact of cuts suffered by...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      1244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made on a number of issues which have recently been raised with her officials with regard to community...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      1246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears relating to a disability allowance for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      1247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter regarding changes to pension calculations and age of eligibility for a pension (details supplied) will be...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      1248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of support available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25013/18]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      1249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the income limits for the household benefits package and the fuel allowance automatically increase in line with increases...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      1250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding disability allowance; and if she will...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to...
    • Free Travel Scheme Data
      1252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the budget for the free travel scheme in 2019 by 10%, 12% and 15%, respectively;...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1253. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the representations made to her by the equine and related industries in the past 12 months seeking alterations to or...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding being provided to organisations (details supplied) under the Ability programme. [25382/18]
    • Pension Provisions
      1255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts are being made to address issues in relation to a pension scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      1258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the expenses received by elected city and county councillors as distinct from their salary is reckonable as income when...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the disability allowance. [25428/18]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application to backdate a domiciliary care allowance to the date of birth for a child by a person (details supplied)...
    • Labour Activation Programmes Data
      1262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and the unsatisfactory manner in...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      1263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she plans to introduce to address the level of youth unemployment (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in...
    • Unemployment Data
      1265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of jobless households here; the way in which this compares to the EU average; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Applications
      1266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can receive the State pension (contributory) in view of his or her particular...
    • Public Services Card Data
      1267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedure in place in order that a person that does not have a birth certificate or that may not have had his or her...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the 85% Christmas bonus for social welfare recipients to 100%; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance Data
      1269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons born in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 who had reckonable earnings for social insurance purposes within...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      1272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an application for a carer to collect disability allowance on behalf of a person (details supplied) was refused;...
    • EU Data
      1273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the European Union, EU, fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • River Basin Management Plans
      1274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 190 priority catchments identified by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, in consultation with other Government...
    • Irish Water Data
      1275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has requested Irish Water to restart a water meter installation programme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authority Rates
      1276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to help reduce the cost of local authority rates on businesses. [24442/18]
    • Referendum Data
      1277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there have been changes to the indicative timetable for the holding of referendums (details supplied) agreed on 26...
    • Planning Issues
      1278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can require those embarking on a de facto new build to contribute to a ring-fenced fund to repair damage to the roads...
    • Housing Issues
      1279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation is planned to cease the practice of developers advertising new homes with price on application and no...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land available for the provision of local authority housing by local authority area; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Eligibility
      1282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the homeless HAP scheme to additional local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      1283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of family hubs that are to be provided in Dublin in 2018; the number of families that the hubs will accommodate on...
    • Property Registration
      1284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding property registration; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Commercial Rates
      1285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary question No. 2074 of 11 September 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the wide variation in the...
    • Planning Issues
      1286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is provision to deviate from the terms of the original planning permission in regard to the water and waste water...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      1287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a case; the options open to persons (details supplied) in this matter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      1288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the local authority tenant purchase scheme beyond three bedroom houses; if two bedroom properties and...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      1289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the local electoral boundary review will be published; and the date for publication. [24545/18]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the programme for Partnership Government as it applies to his Department; and if he will...
    • Energy Efficiency
      1291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when phase two energy refit funding will be allocated to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      1292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the rent pressure zone to Dundalk in view of the crisis in rental costs and student accommodation costs;...
    • Planning Data
      1294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of pre-planning meetings that have taken place in relation to housing developments, including one-off rural...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount drawn down under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund per annum to date; the number of affordable...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of income eligibility limits for social housing will be finalised and published; and if he will make a...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      1297. 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. [24727/18]
    • Housing Provision
      1298. 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...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when additional projects in County Kildare will be considered for LIHAF funding; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      1300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each approved construction, turnkey and large scale acquisition projects, that is, capital funded in 2015 and 2016 have...
    • Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
      1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the first two recommendations from the report of the expert panel on concrete blocks in counties Donegal and Mayo will...
    • Rental Sector
      1303. 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. [24839/18]
    • Local Authority Services
      1304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application by Sligo County Council with regard to an extension to an address (details supplied); and if he...
    • Rental Sector
      1305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether a review of tenants' rights is required, in view of the details of the case of persons (details...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 2018 funding allocations for voids and adaptations made to Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon county councils; and if he will...
    • Vacant Sites Data
      1307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites of each local authority listed on the vacant sites register in advance of the application of the levy in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      1308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish the review of the tenant purchase scheme; if persons in receipt of a social welfare payment and who are...
    • Mortgage Lending
      1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if persons whose credit history indicates some missed loan repayments in the past can still qualify under the Rebuilding...
    • Grant Payments
      1310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants payable under the Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, that is, SI No....
    • Electoral Reform
      1311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 31 May 2018, if he will confirm that the Bible should not be on display in...
    • Protected Disclosures
      1312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date an application by a person (details supplied) was received under the Protected Disclosure Act 2014; the reason for...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance
      1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an association will be requested to bring a house back into repair (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units owned by an association (details supplied) without a tenant; the period of time they have been...
    • Planning Data
      1316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning appeals against local authority decisions decided in 2018 by An Bord Pleanála; the number of...
    • Planning Issues
      1317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date in discussions with the EU Commission on the "Flemish Decree"; his plans to hold a public...
    • Fire Stations Provision
      1318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the construction of the new fire station in Kanturk, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      1320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated annual cost if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private well water users covered the full operating...
    • Local Authority Management
      1322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there will be a review of the powers of the chief executive role in local authorities, with a view to ensuring...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      1323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a benefit solution to make up the shortfall in the cost of providing a purposed room for an autistic child in a...
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      1324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his announcement on 30 May 2018 regarding the urban regeneration and development fund. [25358/18]
    • Housing Grant Payments
      1325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are grants available to convert an old farm dwelling into a modern, liveable dwelling; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023, inclusive; and the areas to which funds will be...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rules that govern the exclusion of certain members of An Bord Pleanála from participating in decision-making at...
    • NAMA Receivers
      1328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the receiver acting for NAMA has been allowed to appeal against a decision agreed in 2017 between all the parties...
    • Electoral Reform
      1329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review electoral law (details supplied) to make it easier for Irish citizens living abroad or abroad on holidays...
    • Local Authority Staff
      1330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of clerks of works by local authority in tabular form; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns about the...
    • Fines Data
      1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Shooting Rights
      1332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24990/18]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff
      1333. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, employee (details supplied) in County Kerry will be permitted to remain in their...
    • Animal Welfare
      1334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an exemption to the regulations applied to a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided; and if she will...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government as it applies to her Department; and if she will...
    • Road Projects Status
      1336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application made by Sligo County Council in April 2018 seeking funds to carry out repair works on the L-7506-0...
    • Heritage Council Funding
      1337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget allocation to the Heritage Council in each year since 2008, in tabular form (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
      1338. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) will be compensated for cessation of turf-cutting on their site, as per agreement with her...
    • Irish Music Industry Promotion
      1339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a policy, strategy and budget in respect of the development of music for screen here; her plans to develop...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the spending on the programmes and projects since 2008 under headings (details supplied). [24948/18]
    • Commemorative Events
      1341. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the all-party consultation group on commemorations will be re-established; her plans to proceed with convening the first...
    • Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga
      1342. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach mbeidh cúntóirí teanga breise á gcur ar fáil Meán Fómhair seo chugainn...
    • Heritage Council Funding
      1344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation to the Heritage Council in each of the years 2008 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018. [25096/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be...
    • Archaeological Sites
      1346. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a community heritage and tourism facility will be put in place at Mayne in view of the High Court decision to cease the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1347. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will examine a matter (details supplied) on refugees who wish to volunteer; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Heritage Schemes
      1348. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the heritage in schools scheme was recently closed for bookings. [25349/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      1351. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's capital allocation in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the areas to which funds will be allocated in each of...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1352. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a building that is deemed not to have significant architectural heritage value can be removed from the national inventory of...
    • Seismic Surveys
      1353. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be making changes to National Parks and Wildlife Service guidelines for ocean seismic testing in view of...
    • EU Data
      1354. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the EU fines paid in each of the years 2015 to 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25729/18]

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