Written answers

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of energy generated by means of solar power; the necessary actions that must be taken to significantly...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      54. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for broadband services to be available in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the status of fibre installation;...
    • Energy Prices
      55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to use his powers under the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and issue a policy direction to the Commission for...
    • Exploration Licences
      56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to stop issuing further licences for the exploration of petroleum in view of the fact that Dáil...
    • Illegal Dumping
      57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department is taking to assist county councils to deal with incidents of illegal dumping and fly tipping;...
    • Post Office Network
      58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposals his Department is working on regarding the preservation and enhancement of the rural post office network;...
    • Climate Change Policy
      59. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the climate action fund to be paid out over the next decade; and the type of projects this will fund....
    • Environment Fund Allocations
      60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received to the LA 21 environmental partnership fund in 2018; and his plans to extend and...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of rural high speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37512/18]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the programme for partnership Government commitments on climate change; and the way in which...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a different model for the collection of the television licence such as pay at point of purchase....
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan with particular reference to County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Post Office Closures
      66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on An Post's decision to close 11 post offices in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to date on a compensation package for eel fishermen. [37620/18]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which he remains satisfied regarding the attainment of objectives in respect of carbon reduction within...
    • Post Office Closures
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to save the existing post office network in view of the recent closures of rural post offices and the plans...
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the implementation of recommendations from the mobile telephone and broadband task force to help improve...
    • Social Media Regulation
      72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the establishment of a digital safety commissioner to ensure fair and responsible practice in the online...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to ensure waste collection companies do not continue to increase their monthly service...
    • Litter Pollution
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he is undertaking to address the high level of litter across the State (details supplied). [37626/18]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his projections for the carbon emissions from the power stations in Edenderry, west Offaly, and Lough Ree; when they...
    • Post Office Network
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the implementation of the An Post new vision programme; if the deadlines for the programme have...
    • National Broadband Plan Administration
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to review the contract for the roll-out of broadband to enable flexibility in order that the contractor can...
    • Waste Management Data
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of houses and apartments that have a municipal compost bin. [37583/18]
    • National Mitigation Plan
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which and the point at which he came to the conclusion that the national mitigation plan is not working....
    • Electricity Generation
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to plans by Bord na Móna and the ESB to generate electricity by use of large scale...
    • Online Safety
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to enhance digital safety for young persons online in view of recent reports; and if he will...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to whistleblower allegations regarding the conduct of RTÉ during the 2011...
    • Waste Management
      87. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the specific actions he plans to take and associated timeframe involved to give practical effect to the EU's proposal on...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • State Legal Services
      89. To ask the Taoiseach the person or body that appoints a solicitor to the position of State solicitor in Cork, Dublin or elsewhere; the person or body to which State solicitors are...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis. [37540/18]
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      92. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [37542/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      93. To ask the Taoiseach the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the commencement dates of the employment of...
    • Departmental Communications
      94. To ask the Taoiseach the positions in his Department and the organisations under its aegis that have arrangements in place for lo-call numbers or 1800, 1850 and 1890 telephone numbers for...
    • Unemployment Data
      95. To ask the Taoiseach the NUTS 3 regions that are within 1% of the national unemployment rate; and the NUTS 3 regions that are not within 1% of the national unemployment rate in tabular form.....
    • State Visits
      96. To ask the Taoiseach the rationale for the decision to provide State funding to facilitate the Pope's visit here in 2018. [37189/18]
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      97. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee meetings he has attended since June 2018. [37321/18]
  • Department of Defence
    • Commemorative Medals
      98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a decision not to award the 1916 commemorative medal to members of veterans groups (details supplied) will be reconsidered; and his views on...
    • Ministerial Transport
      99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full costs of travelling by Defence Forces helicopter to Inis Meáin recently. [37201/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      100. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the commencement...
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if payments due to a person (details supplied) will be issued. [37405/18]
    • Naval Service Operations
      103. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the LÉ Ciara did not proceed on its scheduled patrol on 20 August 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37506/18]
    • Overseas Missions
      104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if peacekeeping duties performed by Defence Forces personnel in Kosovo included exclusive chauffeur duty to an assigned senior officer. [37526/18]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the activities members of the Defence Forces were directed to undertake during the Papal visit; and the overtime payments made to them for work...
    • Departmental Properties
      106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is examining the possibility for his Department to hand over properties in its possession to be refurbished and provided as affordable...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost in 2019 of recruiting an extra 1,200 personnel into the Permanent Defence Force; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there will be a recruitment drive for the school of music in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37833/18]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of increasing the security duty allowance of €23.81 per day for duty of less than 24 hours to €29 per day and...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Brexit Staff
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his attention was drawn to the recruitment of up to 1,000 officials to prepare for Brexit. [35451/18]
    • State Visits
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date on which he was informed about the forthcoming visit of President Trump; and the details of same. [36731/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • International Relations
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to establish a bilateral consultation mechanism with Nepal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37246/18]
    • Visa Applications
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a facility for an Irish citizen applying for a visa for the Philippines to deal with a named official in his Department here...
    • British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the Intergovernmental Conference held in July 2018; the issues that were discussed; and if there has been a follow-up...
    • Irish Aid
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the inordinate delay by Irish Aid in the distribution of approved grants for 2018 to NGOs; the timeline by which he now...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the primary and secondary legislation which stipulates that a civil birth certificate is required for first passport applications; and if he...
    • EU Issues
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the call by the European Commission President in his state of the Union address to the European Parliament to move to qualified...
  • Department of Finance
    • Brexit Staff
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have discussed the need to recruit up to 1,000 officials for Brexit with his British counterpart. [35453/18]
    • Tax Code
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to exempt or reduce the rate of VAT charged in the delivery of community development projects with a view to maximising the direct spend on...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his forthcoming meeting with a person (details supplied). [37417/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the political advisers being used by senior and junior ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the commencement dates of the...
    • Motor Insurance
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to sign the commencement order for the Insurance (Amendment) Act 2018; the reason it has taken this long to sign the order; when he expects...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to service providers that are registered as charities availing of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme...
    • Corporation Tax
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated budgetary impact of the corporation tax roadmap; the breakdown of same in the circumstances applicable; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of the issue the financial contractual obligations to consultants being honoured operating under the 2008 consultants' contract will have in Budget...
    • Tax Credits
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the existing tax credit for rent paid to private landlords for 2019. [37220/18]
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if an analysis has been undertaken on the effectiveness of the home renovation incentive; if this scheme will be extended beyond 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for a tax clearance certificate by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37231/18]
    • Tax Code
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason buses for transporting persons with disabilities are not exempt from paying VAT (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37328/18]
    • Tax Settlements
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance if an appeal in relation to the tax affairs of a person (details supplied) will be determined without delay in view of the fact that the ability of the...
    • EU Directives
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on ongoing negotiations with his EU counterparts and the European Commission on the proposed EU digital tax; and if he will make a statement...
    • Property Tax Review
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance when the LPT review will be completed; the engagement that has taken place with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, local authorities...
    • VAT Yield
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has assessed the impact on VAT revenue from residential property sales of new residential schemes being built on a build-to-rent basis; if...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has made an assessment of the impact of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in respect of foreign direct investment and revenue here; and...
    • Tax Exemptions
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the exemption levels on a tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37691/18]
    • Tax Credits
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the reduction in a person's (details supplied) tax credits; the process by which the person can appeal same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of doubling the number of dogs in the Revenue Commissioners' dog unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37831/18]
    • Company Law
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) is regulated by the Central Bank; if so, if he will request the Central Bank to investigate a matter; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the OPW will appoint engineering consultants for the planned State data centre at Backweston, Celbridge, County Kildare; when...
    • Forensic Science Ireland Laboratory
      149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of building contractors that have expressed an interest in constructing the new State forensics laboratory at Backweston,...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers by his Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • National Monuments
      151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to open the round tower in Kells, County Meath, to tourists; and if there have been reports or studies carried out by the OPW...
    • Coastal Erosion
      152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a decision will be made on an application by Galway County Council for funding for coastal erosion works in the village of Leenane...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the review process the Office of Public Works will be engaged in regarding the use of the Phoenix Park for the visit of Pope Francis; if...
    • Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme Applications
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding for minor works in County Cork will be released in view of an application (details supplied). [37260/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018; the indicative timeline for its progression; and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the areas of the public sector that are experiencing the most acute recruitment and retention problems; the measures he is taking to...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review will be undertaken by the OPW into the preparations for the Papal visit focusing on the degree of co-ordination between the...
    • Office of Public Works Staff
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of general operative positions in the eastern region of the Office of Public Works he plans to fill within the next 12...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37122/18]
    • School Transport
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37326/18]
    • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the selection criteria used for non-EU citizens applying to Irish medical schools; if these applications are at the discretion of each individual...
    • Third Level Fees
      163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if fees (details supplied) are substantially less than the annual cost of training a medical student; and if so, the way in which the balance of...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who is pursuing a course under the VTOS scheme is not being paid an appropriate allowance; and if he will...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that redress that is owed is paid by the Church (details supplied). [36587/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the commencement...
    • School Transport Provision
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special transport service will be provided for a person (details supplied). [37007/18]
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a site has been identified for a school (details supplied); when parents will be informed of the site location; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the school community at a school (details supplied) with regard to progress towards permanent...
    • School Transport Provision
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) who has provided documentary evidence that there is no place for the child at the nearest school will not...
    • Teacher Supply
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the difficulties faced by primary schools in hiring qualified substitute teachers to cover...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all persons who previously qualified for the role of SNA will automatically qualify for the new inclusion support assistant role; his plans to...
    • School Transport Provision
      176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an extra bus will be provided to ensure pupils (details supplied) remain at a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37136/18]
    • School Staff
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be allocated an extra teaching post for sixth year. [37139/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for essential school building works for a school (details supplied) will be expedited. [37177/18]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date for the commencement of works at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37178/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review will be carried out of the level of higher education grant awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); if contact will be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NCSE is now able to instruct a school at second level to provide a place for a child with special needs if the NCSE is of the view that...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council of Ireland does not recognise a person (details supplied) in County Cork as a qualified Gaeilge teacher; the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no funding is available to establish ASD special classes in secondary schools but funding for similar classes in primary schools can...
    • School Admissions
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 will come into effect for secondary school admissions in September 2019; and if he will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the implementation of the circular relating to the ability of students to opt out of religion classes in education and...
    • Student Support Schemes
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an appeal option available to a person (details supplied) regarding the refusal of a remote boarding grant; and if he will make a...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Administration
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a QQI fee waiver for not-for-profit community and voluntary sector education groups that are currently expected to pay the same fees as...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for additional accommodation is still under consideration; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Transport Data
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places made available to persons in County Louth for the school transport scheme for the 2018 new school term. [37266/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commencement of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the school will commence in the first quarter of 2019;...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [37287/18]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing pay parity for primary principal teachers with those in second level schools; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a requested meeting (details supplied) with the Minister of State with responsibility for school transport will be arranged; if it will take...
    • School Transport
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 51% of buses inspected by the Road Safety Authority which failed roadside safety checks, as reported recently by RTÉ,...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the progress of a development at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [37381/18]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the refurbishment and provision of an extension for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on delivery of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37392/18]
    • School Enrolments
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new secondary school for the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin will be enrolling in September 2018; if so, the location of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Swords area of County Dublin as announced in November 2015; if he has identified...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37397/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on a new school building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new site for a school (details supplied), as announced in November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that the works to provide a new school building for a school (details supplied) in addition to the associated refurbishment...
    • Capitation Grants
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding levels per child in ASD units or special classes at primary and second levels. [37426/18]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for three special needs students in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37449/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of, and progress made to date with regard to, the provision of a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Data
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of each national school in the diocese of Killala, County Mayo; the year each school was originally built; the parish in which each...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); when the meeting will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37516/18]
    • Springboard Programme
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2019 of providing 1,250 extra places on Springboard+; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37554/18]
    • Teacher Recruitment
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school teaching posts that were approved but remain unfilled as at 12 September 2018, in tabular form. [37587/18]
    • School Therapy Services
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools from the Dublin 15 area applied for inclusion in the project for bringing specialised therapists into schools and preschools, as...
    • School Funding
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available to assist a school (details supplied) with costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37693/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a place can be facilitated in a school in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37695/18]
    • Schools Property
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the transfer of a property (details supplied). [37699/18]
    • Adult Education Provision
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the adult education level five nursing studies course that was run by a school (details supplied) has been discontinued; and if he...
    • School Placement
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an assessment or review of a situation can be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bullying in Schools
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which allegations of bullying have been investigated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Interdepartmental Committees
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the interdepartmental committee he has convened to examine the way in which existing mainstream State services can best meet the needs of...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, despite the approval of funding for school transport for a child (details supplied) with...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the pre-qualification of tenderers will be advertised for the construction of a new school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of building contractors that have indicated their interest in tendering for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare by the...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of appointing 200 principal posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37827/18]
    • Education and Training Boards
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he last met the chief executive officer and chairperson of the City of Dublin Education and Training Board; when he will next meet the chief...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to move to a system of digital or paperless payslips for teachers in view of the fact it is perceived that the current system is...
    • Education and Training Boards
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current and-or expected progress in the context of the completion of the works at a campus (details supplied) with particular reference to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a design team will be appointed for a planned extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [37868/18]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Coroners Service
      247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is no separate county coroner for County Westmeath but instead the coroner who covers County Offaly must also...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants to the community CCTV grant aid scheme since it launched; the number of such applicants that have been...
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development; the timeline for completion of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will bring forward legislation to prohibit the use of scramblers, quad bikes and other off-road mechanical vehicles in...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government;...
    • Road Safety Data
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fatal accidents, serious injuries and minor injuries recorded at locations (details supplied) prior to May 2016...
    • Residency Permits
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if and when stamp 4 will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Deportation Orders
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application pursuant to section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended)...
    • Residency Permits
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all documentation has been received in regard to an application for stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Deportation Orders
      258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the decision to deport will be reconsidered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Visa Applications
      260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed to permit the child of a person (details supplied) to come here to stay and help care for...
    • Immigration Status
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37061/18]
    • Garda Retirements
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who retired in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [37068/18]
    • Garda Deployment
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí based in each Garda station in County Donegal in each of the years 2002 to 2017 and to date in 2018,...
    • Garda Transport Data
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles based in each Garda station in County Donegal in each of the years 2002 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Garda Deployment
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of dedicated community gardaí based in each Garda district in County Donegal in each of the years 2002 to 2017...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Carndonagh Garda station. [37073/18]
    • Garda Overtime
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the accuracy of reports that overtime has been cancelled for gardaí serving in Garda districts in County Donegal is...
    • Visa Applications
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the waiting times for join spouse visas; the measures he will put in place to reduce processing times; and...
    • Visa Data
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of EU treaty rights visa applications received, granted and refused, respectively, by country in each of the past...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and types of road traffic offences recorded in Cork city in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018....
    • Residency Permits
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37161/18]
    • Immigration Controls
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the basis on which it has been determined that the renewed passport submitted by a person (details supplied) was a false...
    • National Development Plan Data
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital allocation committed to within his Department for 2019 under the National Development Plan 2018-2027; and the...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the works at Fitzgibbon Street Garda station, Dublin 1; and the possible opening date. [37247/18]
    • Courts Service
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the community courts initiative. [37248/18]
    • Visa Applications
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons waiting on a decision on visa applications; the implications of the Luximon Supreme Court judgment; and...
    • Crime Data
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests, charges and cautions under the new offences of purchasing sexual services from February 2017 to date...
    • Residency Permits
      283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if and when stamp 4 will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Deployment
      284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda personnel working in the National Economic Crime Bureau; the number of personnel specifically dedicated to...
    • Insurance Fraud
      285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of commencing a specific unit within the National Economic Crime Bureau for tackling insurance fraud; if he has...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 280 of 23 January 2018 and 292 of 15 May 2018, the number of persons who have been...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing a Garda vetting security clearance application by a person (details supplied); the...
    • Prison Accommodation Standards
      288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners sleeping on the floor in all prisons during the months of April, May, June and July 2018. [37331/18]
    • Prisoner Data
      289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most recent available figures for prisoners on protection in each prison; and the daily average for 2017. [37332/18]
    • Prison Accommodation Standards
      290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if refurbishments have been completed in D division in Mountjoy Prison. [37333/18]
    • Prison Accommodation Provision
      291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Inspector of Prisons will be in a position to update bed capacity for Mountjoy, Cloverhill, Wheatfield and Cork...
    • Prisoner Discipline
      292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Prison Service is committed to introducing measures to reduce the number of prisoners held on restricted regimes...
    • Court Procedures
      293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the €2,000 threshold for claims in the small claims court was set; and his plans to increase this threshold. [37350/18]
    • Garda Deployment
      294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the roads policing unit in each Garda division in each of the years from 2007 to 2017 and...
    • Garda Vetting
      295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the location in England to which the Garda vetting for a person (details supplied) was sent; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) has been received; the date the person applied; and the...
    • Deportation Orders
      298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a deportation order was issued to a person (details supplied); if this case will be investigated with a view to...
    • Garda Deployment
      299. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan and Rathcoole Garda stations, respectively; and if he will...
    • Garda Operations
      300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific actions he and An Garda Síochána are taking to deal with public order offences, anti-social behaviour...
    • Garda Expenditure
      301. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure that has been incurred on Garda overtime in 2018 to the end of August; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Vetting
      302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the Garda vetting system; his views on concerns outlined by persons (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Garda Training
      303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of training 50 extra forensic collision investigators in An Garda Síochána in 2019; and if he will...
    • Legislative Reviews
      305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the defamation laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37608/18]
    • Immigration Status
      306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a case, following submission of representations under section 3 of Immigration Act...
    • Residency Permits
      307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons on the sex offenders register as of 1 January in each year since 2002; the number of notifications made...
    • Victim Support Services
      311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if people who are the victims of sexual assault have a right to self-refer to a sexual assault treatment unit even if they are...
    • Garda Reform
      312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request the Garda Commissioner to bring forward a new Garda diversity strategy and implementation plan, in view of...
    • Garda Recruitment
      313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his recruitment plans for An Garda Síochána and the Garda Reserve over the next five years; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision Data
      314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of residents in direct provision centres; the number of adult males and females, respectively; the number of...
    • Garda Deployment
      315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Garda sergeant positions vacant across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed-penalty notices issued for speeding in the Dublin Port tunnel in each of the past three years; and if he...
    • Prisoner Data
      317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in jail continuously for a period of more than 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Residency Permits
      319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which progress is anticipated in the processing of the case for long-term residency in the case of persons...
    • Asylum Applications
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a proposal to deport will be set aside in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in regard to extended residency or stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Asylum Applications
      324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the determination of eligibility for long-term residency or stamp 4 in the case of a person (details...
    • Immigration Status
      325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in regard to extended residency or stamp 4 in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Deportation Orders
      328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which progress has taken place in the case of a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited with a...
    • Immigration Status
      330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for permission to remain on the basis of parentage of an Irish...
    • Garda Data
      331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the statistics An Garda Síochána hold that were obtained from the red light running cameras in Dublin city at the...
    • Garda Equipment
      332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the installation of further red light running cameras in Dublin city. [37770/18]
    • Immigration Status
      333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason stamp 4 has not been renewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Operations
      338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a report on the involvement of members of An Garda Síochána in an incident (details supplied) will be sought; and...
    • Student Visas Administration
      339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a series of matters (details supplied) relating to an Argentinian person staying here longer than 90 days will be examined;...
    • Garda Operations
      340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place for An Garda Síochána to assist private security during evictions; if private security must...
    • Garda Resources
      341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes allocated to each Garda station in the Dublin region in 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided to purchase replacement Garda prison trucks; the number of Garda prison trucks withdrawn in 2016,...
    • Garda Resources
      343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding for the replacement of aircraft in the Garda air support unit will be provided; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding for the replacement of the entrance to the public office of a Garda station (details supplied) with automatic doors...
    • Garda Transport Data
      345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new marked and unmarked Garda cars and vans allocated to the Garda dog unit in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018;...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will take a zero tolerance approach as requested by local residents to anti-social behaviour at...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      347. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in her Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      348. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a request (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37076/18]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      349. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the financial supports available to assist the setting-up of an equestrian centre in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Enterprise Ireland Funding
      350. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for Enterprise Ireland under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and if...
    • IDA Ireland Funding
      351. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for IDA Ireland under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and if she...
    • Science Foundation Ireland
      352. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for Science Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for local enterprise offices under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to 2023;...
    • Health and Safety Authority Data
      354. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for the Health and Safety Authority under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to...
    • InterTradeIreland Funding
      355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital expenditure for InterTradeIreland under the National Development Plan 2018-2027 in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and if...
    • Work Permits Data
      356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if all permits (details supplied) have been allocated for 2018; her plans to increase the number available to the industry; and if she...
    • Corporate Governance
      357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to legislate in order that company executives must hold bonus shares for periods of at least five years further to recent...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Staff
      358. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to increase the number of staff in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement by 20%; the necessary resources...
    • Work Permits Applications
      359. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a work permit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37730/18]
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      360. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a person (details supplied) can qualify for a work permit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37736/18]
    • IDA Ireland
      362. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the IDA will be meeting with the new owners of a new site (details supplied) in County Kildare to discuss its commitment to...
    • Science Foundation Ireland Appointments
      363. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the post of director of industry programmes in Science Foundation Ireland has been filled; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Health
    • Vaccination Programme
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if concerns regarding the link between Pandemrix and narcolepsy were ever brought to his attention; if so, the details of same; and the measures he took to...
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      365. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the motorised transport grant for new applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36995/18]
    • Medical Card Administration
      366. To ask the Minister for Health if the practice employed by the primary care reimbursement service, whereby a medical card can be cancelled far in advance of a letter being received by...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      368. To ask the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the situation by which some homes owned by persons availing of the fair deal nursing home scheme are left vacant while the person is in a...
    • Hospital Consultant Remuneration
      369. To ask the Minister for Health if pay equality for hospital consultants appointed after 2012 will be restored; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties in recruiting and retaining...
    • Health Reports
      370. To ask the Minister for Health the role his particular Department has in the implementation of the Sláintecare report. [37320/18]
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Health the political advisers being used by Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the commencement dates of...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      372. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 14 June 2018, the status of negotiations on the pay restoration issue for staff employed by section 39 bodies; and...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      373. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Pharmacy Act 2007 to incorporate pharmacy assistants into mandatory continuous professional development, CPD, and fitness to practice...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      374. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36999/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an assessment of need will take two years in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that the Disability Act 2005 states that...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37005/18]
    • Health Care Infrastructure Provision
      379. To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects being developed at Sligo University Hospital and a hospice (details supplied); the status of each; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      380. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled. [37013/18]
    • Psychological Services
      381. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the provision of primary care psychology services in Maynooth, County Kildare, with particular reference to the importance of early...
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Thiamine is not available free under the medical card scheme in circumstances in which it is prescribed by a general practitioner or hospital...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      384. 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. [37021/18]
    • Transport Support Scheme
      386. To ask the Minister for Health to whom a person's (details supplied) family can apply to obtain transport to allow the person to attend a centre; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      388. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have cataracts removed at the South Infirmary University Hospital, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      389. To ask the Minister for Health if primary care centres and-or general practitioners are bound by particular geographical areas; if there is a primary care or general practitioner...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37034/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in the availability of a specific drug (details supplied); and if the application submitted to supply this drug here will be expedited. [37035/18]
    • Medical Card Administration
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card can be used for hospital invoices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37038/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      393. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37054/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      394. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37060/18]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      395. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement full-time general practitioner (details supplied) has been offered a position; if a contract has issued; if so, the expected timeframe for...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the types of contracts that are offered to child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, staff members; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services Data
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time HSE dentists and orthodontists who have private practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37067/18]
    • Tobacco-Related Diseases
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been performed on the health risks associated with electronic cigarettes or vaping technology; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pharmacy Services
      399. To ask the Minister for Health if changes which have recently been made by which pharmacy assistants can no longer cover for the senior pharmacist for a short period will be reviewed...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      400. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will undergo an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37085/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to incentivise owners to get vacant properties back into usable housing stock in view of the excess of houses lying vacant due to the owners being in...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      402. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund the drug Spinraza; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are persons with spinal muscular atrophy who are experiencing...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities available for persons presenting at the centre for mental health care and recovery at Bantry General Hospital, specifically consultation rooms...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community mental health nurses in place for adults in west County Cork; the number of nurses in place for children and adolescents in need of...
    • Primary Care Centres Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing posts attached to the new primary care centre in Dungarvan, County Waterford, by headings (details supplied); the positions allocated in line with...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      406. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dietitian in situ in the centre for mental health care and recovery at Bantry General Hospital for persons presenting with eating disorders; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      407. To ask the Minister for Health if and when hip replacement surgery will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37097/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests made to the HSE in each of the past five years and to date in 2018 for funding for automated external defibrillators by families with...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures and criteria in place in respect of supplying automated external defibrillators for families of children with inherited heart conditions; if...
    • Health Services Provision
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if the removal of a health service from a town (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37106/18]
    • Health Services Staff
      412. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has considered increasing the number of medical professionals covering County Westmeath and the midlands (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      413. To ask the Minister for Health if respite will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37143/18]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff and the grade of each employed in north County Louth addiction services based in Dundalk; the number of positions vacant; and the...
    • Mental Health Policy
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if it is Health Service Executive, HSE, policy that a person with an alcohol or substance addiction and a mental health diagnosis cannot be admitted to a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); if all required documentation has...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      424. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to be assessed by a Health Service Executive, HSE, early intervention team; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Care Infrastructure Provision
      425. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available for the endoscopy and rehabilitation and stroke units in Bantry General Hospital in circumstances in which both projects...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      426. To ask the Minister for Health when he will sign the commencement order for all of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 and deprecation of liberty safeguards. [37172/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      427. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an eye appointment. [37173/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not been given a prescription for treatment on their eyes and glasses. [37174/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre sensor will be made available under the long-term illness scheme to those over 16 years of age to provide patients with the option...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      430. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment for a MRI at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly. [37181/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      431. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will renew following the submission of all relevant documentation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive, HSE, is engaging with section 38 hospitals to assess the possibilities for improving opportunities for...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of implementing the recently announced changes to medicinal cannabis; the progress to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37184/18]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been subject to two medical card reviews in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37191/18]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the difference between the health group gross current expenditure ceiling for 2017 published in the budget 2018 expenditure report of €14.152 million...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have their required surgery scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37207/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the reason inflammatory bowel disease is not included under the long-term illness scheme in view of the fact that it is a long-term illness; if the list will...
    • National Dementia Strategy
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent report that highlighted the fact that no area here meets a minimum basic standard for dementia care; the steps he...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      439. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork joined the waiting list for an assessment of need, AON; the position of the person on the waiting list; when...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital assessment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37216/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      441. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the paediatric unit in the National Rehabilitation Hospital has suspended its services due to a key member of...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      442. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a person (details supplied) receiving speech and language and occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      443. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for respite care in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37244/18]
    • Respite Care Services Data
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for respite for both adults and children in each county; and the number of staff working to provide respite in County Meath for each of the...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      445. To ask the Minister for Health the services located in County Meath for children and adults that are taking drugs; the rehabilitation services in each of the main towns in County Meath for...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      446. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to lower the prescription charges for certain persons (details supplied). [37263/18]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in smear test results (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37265/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      448. To ask the Minister for Health when a response to Parliamentary Question No. 585 of 10 July 2018 (details supplied) will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37270/18]
    • Medical Card Administration
      449. To ask the Minister for Health the selection process regarding persons to be reviewed by the PCRS for eligibility for a medical card; if he will re-examine the way in which persons are...
    • HSE Properties
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek assistance from the HSE to enable a feasibility study to be carried out into a property (details supplied) in the ownership of the HSE and his...
    • Home Help Service Eligibility
      451. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be allocated additional hours care in the evenings under the assisted living-independent living program operated by the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37278/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; if services have or are being reduced at the hospital; and his views on a matter...
    • Health Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if there is assistance with the cost of specialised shoes available for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare. [37290/18]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the request by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the need to provide additional funding for specific health...
    • Health Services Data
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that received mesh implants here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37303/18]
    • Home Care Packages Funding
      460. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in north County Dublin by which home care hours have been allocated and approved and carers are available and...
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the original budgeted cost of building the national children's hospital; the cost incurred to date on the project; if it is in-budget when compared to the...
    • National Children's Hospital
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the original planned completion date for the national children's hospital; the current estimated completion date for the hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
      463. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the waiting times for an early intervention assessment in the CHO Dublin north city is 29 months; the steps...
    • Hospital Services
      464. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the radiology department in Beaumont Hospital is working in a safe and efficient manner; his views on whether all patients and in...
    • Brexit Issues
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to ensure the supply of medication in the event of a no-deal Brexit scenario; if the contingency plans that are put in place...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37336/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to delays for parents in accessing an assessment for their child or children with needs or exceptional needs in south-western...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the outpatient waiting list for gastroenterology in Tallaght University Hospital; the number who have appointments; the longest...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      469. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of vacant consultant psychiatrist positions in north County Dublin; the steps he is taking to rectify this; the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in appointments for speech and language therapists in the Swords area related to a person (details supplied); if his attention has...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      471. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for a life-saving treatment for persons with spinal muscular atrophy, Spinraza, will be approved in line with the BeNeLuxA initiative (details...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      472. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide persons with multiple sclerosis access to Sativex; his further plans to allow the costs to be reimbursed; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      473. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with additional foot orthotics to assist with alignment resulting from cerebal palsy; and if he will make a...
    • Community Care Provision
      475. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow local hospitals such as Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, to refit cannula and IVs for a person discharged from a Dublin hospital to the...
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused Versatis patches on their medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37367/18]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      478. To ask the Minister for Health when a reply will issue to parliamentary question No. 176 of 17 May 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37368/18]
    • Home Help Service Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours assigned in County Kerry in the months January to September 2018, in tabular form; the number of hours provided in each month by...
    • Orthodontic Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the report by persons (details supplied) into orthodontic services within the HSE completed in 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new contracts to HSE home help staff; the timeline for completion; if he is satisfied with the progress of same; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the dangers involved; if an ambulance base will be...
    • Emergency Services
      484. To ask the Minister for Health when it is planned to launch a helicopter emergency medical service base in north County Cork. [37420/18]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
      485. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent media reports that County Louth is facing a shortfall of over 300 nursing home beds in the next eight years; if the same shortfall has been...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if a request made by the family of a person (detailed supplied) will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37429/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours for which the theatres in Crumlin children’s hospital are operational for each month in 2018; the days on which theatres are closed;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on granting Sligo University Hospital a dedicated catheterisation laboratory service will be made (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait so long to get an appointment with the Cavan Monaghan child development team; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the position relating to the mobile laboratory situated at University Hospital Waterford which was swapped out on 17 August 2018 for servicing; the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37454/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines that are available to other members of the BeNeLuxA initiative that are not available here; the reason for this difference; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an ophthalmology appointment for a person (details supplied) with the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be assessed by the local mental health services team in County Leitrim and be considered for a social worker to assist the...
    • Health Services Provision
      505. To ask the Minister for Health the reason preventative treatment was not provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37466/18]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if the inpatient paediatric unit at the National Rehabilitation Hospital is accepting new referrals; the status of the inpatient paediatric unit; the reason...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to support the implementation of the national policy and strategy for the provision of neuro-rehabilitation services in Ireland...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      509. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37472/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      511. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37475/18]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      512. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of hospital car parking charges has been completed in August 2018 as expected; if so, the next steps to be undertaken to establish clear national...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      513. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made with the HSE and the NTPF to finalise an outpatient action plan for 2018 in order to reduce the growth in the number of persons...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      514. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 12 July 2018, the number of procedures carried out to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Health the actions and timeframe within which he plans to eliminate the additional home support services waiting list (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      516. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that there will be an increase in core funding to both local and regional drug task forces as part of the budgetary process (details...
    • Vaccination Programme
      517. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Health Information and Quality Authority to complete a health technology assessment on extending the school immunisation programme to...
    • Emergency Departments
      518. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the 2018 winter initiative; and the additional resources which will be put in place for services in County Louth as part of the initiative. [37497/18]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      520. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit the 169 vacancies in emergency departments across the State; the locations in which these vacancies exist; the reason these posts are...
    • Disability Services Provision
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding for a person (details supplied) has been deferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37500/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a response from the HSE (details supplied); his views on whether current waiting times for occupational therapy appointments in CHO1 are...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of a registration board for the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the filling of a full-time vacancy (details supplied) in County Cork. [37508/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      526. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section is seeking renewed information on an application by a person (details supplied) despite the fact this was provided to it...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a review of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) was not undertaken despite being forwarded to the section in advance of the...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      528. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether sleep apnea should be included in the list of illnesses under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Brexit Issues
      530. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on post-Brexit access to essential PKU food and protein replacement supplements that are currently made and packaged in Britain and shipped...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      532. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2019 of recruiting 170 extra speech and language therapists and 100 additional occupational therapist posts; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      533. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to reduce or completely remove the home help service provided by the HSE and to allow private companies to provide home help services; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); the timeframe for the procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37565/18]
    • Disability Services Data
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the existing and future exemptions which are and will be of benefit to persons with disabilities who are working or plan to gain employment; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37578/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a treatment (details supplied) has not been reimbursed here despite it being the first drug approved in all other member countries of the...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      539. To ask the Minister for Health if the home help hours given to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37589/18]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      541. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a sub-committee within his Department to examine recruitment, retention and remuneration issues in the health service to report back to...
    • Patient Data
      542. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults, respectively, who were admitted to hospitals by county due to injuries sustained with scramblers, quad bikes or other...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      543. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [37607/18]
    • Hospital Charges
      544. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of venesections for persons with haemochromatosis; his views on newly diagnosed persons cancelling their appointments due to the prohibitive costs of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37656/18]
    • Hospital Charges
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37677/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to increase the number of hours of a specific service to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37678/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each county on waiting lists for equipment recommended by their occupational therapist. [37679/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the location the HSE procures AFO ankle supports; and the cost of each pair to the HSE. [37680/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in 2017; and the amount allocated for 2018. [37681/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37687/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for Spinraza, a treatment for persons with spinal muscular atrophy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if charges for dentist and bloods tests (details supplied) will be reviewed; the protocol in both cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37700/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      562. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37737/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic treatment will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied); if the case will be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and if he will make...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Closure
      565. To ask the Minister for Health when the health (transport support) Bill will be published; the progress made towards replacing the mobility allowance and the motorised transport schemes with...
    • Home Help Service
      566. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have an approved home support service implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37763/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      567. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be allocated in respect of home support services in County Donegal in view of the delays in putting approved packages in place; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding adult services in north County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37771/18]
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting times for a service (details supplied); the actions in place to reduce these waiting times; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      570. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [37780/18]
    • Medical Records
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person should have to wait to receive a medical file or record from a hospital after requesting same. [37788/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37791/18]
    • Hospitals Funding
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if further investment in services (details supplied) at a hospital is planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37799/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      577. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will have a procedure performed at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a wheelchair will be made available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37802/18]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      579. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Queston No. 389 of 26 June 2018, if additional beds will be provided at Naas General Hospital in preparedness for winter 2018-19; and...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be approved for the provision of the new medication Spinraza for persons needing this medication in view of its widespread availability to...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if the necessary financial resources and personnel will be allocated for the provision of ambulance services in view of the delay in responding to an emergency...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the €300 million over budget on current expenditure in the health Vote related to recruitment of new staff; the number of new recruits in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a pre-asssement appointment to a person (details supplied); the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Ceadúnais Cladaigh
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an bhfuil ceadúnas cladaigh ag cuideachta (sonraí tugtha) chun píopa uisce a leagan ar an gcladach agus faoin...
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development; the number of the jobs targeted that have...
    • Forestry Sector
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects forestry to play a part in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions annually henceforth; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the political advisers being used by Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department since the commencement of this Government;...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) to the agriculture appeals office; when a decision on the appeal is expected;...
    • Fishing Industry Data
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total tonnage and value of Irish, European, shellfish and fish farm landings for Castletownbere and the Beara Peninsula in 2016...
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 406 of 3 July 2018, the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • GLAS Appeals
      591. 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. [37214/18]
    • Animal Welfare
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, due to the high level of ill treatment of horses, the appointment of horse wardens will be considered; and if the appointments...
    • Equine Passports
      593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts and work being undertaken to ensure all horses are microchipped and allocated passports; and if the use of scanners being...
    • Animal Welfare
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions for cruelty to horses in counties Tipperary and Limerick. [37253/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) can expect a 2017 GLAS payment to be made to them; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the forestry payment for a parcel (details supplied) has not been paid in the past few years; and if he will make a...
    • Equine Identification Scheme
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the identification of equine legislation; and when he expects these regulations to come into force. [37425/18]
    • GLAS Administration
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria, deadline and other information on the 2018 GLAS farm out buildings scheme. [37547/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a full basic payment to a person (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37596/18]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the AEOS payments will issue to farmers that are struggling at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37694/18]
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full year cost of recruiting an extra 100 veterinary inspectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37839/18]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development was not delivered by the timeline...
    • Trading Online Voucher Scheme
      605. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of businesses which availed of the trading online voucher scheme in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to...
    • Air Pollution
      606. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans with regard to the testing of set-down and collection areas around schools for exhaust emissions to identify...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress expected in 2018 in the upgrade of the broadband telecommunications infrastructure for Blacktrench, Naas,...
    • Offshore Exploration Licences
      609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of a licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37088/18]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      611. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a company will not extend a short distance to include a location (details supplied) in the installation of...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      612. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to put in place guidelines and recommendations for the use of natural-based cleaning products in place of...
    • Electric Vehicles
      613. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase the number of fast charge points for electric cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • North-South Interconnector
      614. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the publication of the studies on the North-South interconnector. [37375/18]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      615. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason households (details supplied) in Dublin 7 are still without access to fibre broadband despite virtually...
    • National Broadband Plan
      616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the name and contact details for the broadband officers within Cavan and Monaghan County Councils as outlined by him in...
    • Post Office Closures
      617. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his officials have produced an economic impact analyses of the implications of the closures of local post offices...
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      618. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the work of the Action Plan for Rural Development specifically relating to the roll-out of broadband; and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      619. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department has in the formulation of the climate and energy plan. [26893/18]
    • National Broadband Plan
      620. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan in view of recent developments; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons that have retrofitted their homes with heat pumps under the better energy homes programme since...
    • Post Office Closures
      622. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether many older persons who are not online users and who live in remote areas with poor access to...
    • Press Standards Legislation
      623. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to establish a media fund to support independent journalism similar to other EU countries; and if he will...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      624. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the degree to which the programme to provide broadband nationwide is progressing and achieving its targets; and if he...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      625. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the switch to indigenous alternative non-fossil fuels for electricity generation is progressing...
    • Electricity Generation
      626. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of electricity generating power plants throughout the country with particular reference to fossil fuels,...
    • Mobile Telephony Use
      627. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Commission for Communications Regulation or his Department can influence the need to upgrade the quality of...
    • Electricity Generation
      629. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the peak time electricity generating capacity; the excess requirement for continuity and security purposes; and if he...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      630. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which electricity is exchanged North, South and east, west; the extent to which alterative international...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      634. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which each sector in the economy can contribute to greenhouse gas reduction over the next five years...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      635. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which it is expected to use waste to energy in electricity generation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Energy Policy
      636. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his long-term plans to achieve maximum progress towards a dramatic reduction in reliance on fossil fuels for...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Ports Development
      637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a financial investment through public funds in Rosslare port and harbour in the past five years. [37015/18]
    • Greenways Development
      638. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development was not delivered by the timeline committed to; the...
    • Public Transport Review
      639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development was not delivered by the timeline committed to; the...
    • Public Service Vehicles
      640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development was not delivered by the timeline committed to; the...
    • Driver Licences
      641. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the class of driver licence necessary to carry out a function (details supplied); the regularity with which various classes of driver...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      642. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent to date on the M45 Dublin outer orbital road; and his plans to progress its construction in future capital plans. [37014/18]
    • Road Signage
      644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland to erect a dangerous junction ahead sign at the junction of the Ahaneboy L10696 road...
    • Public Transport
      645. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to implement a programme to assist persons with non-visible disabilities to have greater access to public transport; and if he...
    • Stadium Projects
      646. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal advice his Department received regarding access to a stadium (details supplied) for non-GAA sports in view of the significant...
    • Driver Test
      647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the language used in driver theory test publications will be examined as to use of plain English in driver theory books and the driver...
    • Driver Test Data
      648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address concerns regarding the high failure rate among those presenting for their driver test in addition to the significant...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      649. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to address the fact that there are only 98 whole-time equivalent driver testers to cover the entire State; and...
    • Driver Test Regulations
      650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of approved driver instructors registered to deliver essential driver training; the regulation the RSA undertakes on this...
    • Penalty Points System
      651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding a penalty notice in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport Fares
      652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of halving all public transport fares; the estimated cost of providing free public transport for all in...
    • Light Rail Projects
      653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Luas tracks across Dublin can be bicycle proofed; the estimated cost for this measure; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects
      654. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding the construction of roads. [37236/18]
    • Integrated Ticketing
      655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected to extend the Leap card benefits to all commuter lines in east County Cork. [37282/18]
    • Rail Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a price review for rail services from south County Kildare to encourage public transport in view of the four stations...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      657. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the scheduling of a driver test for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Trans European Transport Network Programme
      659. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to facilitate a meeting request from a chamber of commerce (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding the proposed...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      660. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the release fees being charged by private clamping companies; his plans for a review of the appeals process which is not...
    • Bus Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it will be ensured that all vehicles that are used for bus transport meet a minimum standard for exhaust emissions in the future....
    • Road Safety Authority Reports
      662. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the recent Road Safety Authority report on the 873 bus inspections carried out in the 12 month period to June 2017, the number...
    • Road Safety Authority Data
      663. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to request the Road Safety Authority to share its risk index with a view to identifying whether these vehicles have been...
    • Road Safety
      664. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37387/18]
    • Bus Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to award further contracts for the operation of certain bus services in Dublin by way of a competitive public tendering...
    • Road Safety
      666. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the work of the ministerial committee on road safety; when it last met; when it is due to meet next; the priorities...
    • Rail Services Data
      667. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the supporting information on the way in which passenger data were calculated to influence the decision to reduce the frequency of...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding for the proposed changes to the Dublin Bus network is inclusive of the cost of changes to the physical infrastructure which...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      669. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the roll-out of the Leap card will come into effect for students using public transport to travel from Mullingar to Athlone. [37474/18]
    • Swimming Pool Programme Status
      670. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37495/18]
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      671. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the scheduling of a driver test for a person (details supplied) can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37520/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for voluntary organisations such as a club (details supplied) for the running of same; and if he will make a...
    • Regional Airports
      673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Shannon Airport has been excluded from the regional airports programme in view of passenger numbers of 1.7 million per annum;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the activities over the past two years that have been undertaken by Fáilte Ireland to encourage the expansion of traffic for tourism...
    • Brexit Issues
      675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparations being made to ensure aviation transport linkages to the United Kingdom in the event of a hard Brexit in which the UK...
    • Rail Network Maintenance
      676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of upgrading signalling centres on the rail network; his plans to replace signalling centres in 2018 or 2019; and if...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to curb the use of scramblers and quad bikes on streets and in parks and amenity areas; and if he will make a...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      678. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of atmospheric emissions generated by the Dublin Bus fleet; his plans to bring forward proposals to reduce emissions across...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      679. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding property. [37659/18]
    • Rail Services Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of days that each line was out of service on each rail route under the control of Iarnród Éireann in each of the...
    • Sports Funding
      681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding offered to persons who excel in niche sports and reach world finals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tourism Ireland Funding
      682. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of increasing the overseas marketing budget for Tourism Ireland by 10%; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      683. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development was not delivered by the timeline committed to; the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      684. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in her Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      685. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of registered charities and organisations that operate within her remit; the number of these that receive direct funding for the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      686. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she plans to take regarding the anomaly that exists in the ECCE scheme further to correspondence (details supplied); the...
    • Child and Family Agency Payments
      687. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Tusla family services grant will be paid to an education centre (details supplied). [37371/18]
    • Child Care Services Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of efforts to re-open a childcare facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37418/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      689. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the remaining sections of the Youth Work Act 2001 will come into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37560/18]
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the children of a person (details supplied) can be assisted by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37606/18]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Services Programme
      691. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated impact on vulnerable service users and their families of the disruption of a service (details supplied) caused by...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      693. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the political advisers being used in senior and junior Ministers by his Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • Leader Programmes Data
      694. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of local action groups that have been asked to pay back moneys or the number of projects that were approved funding under...
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      695. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on producing the Action Plan for Rural Development; the breakdown of costs in tabular form; the number of times the...
    • CLÁR Programme
      702. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if unsuccessful applications under CLÁR must resubmit a full fresh application; if unsuccessful applications will roll over and...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      704. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the capital allocation for the rural regeneration and development fund in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the projects this fund will...
    • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
      706. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated to each county under the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018,...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      707. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when funding for an organisation (details supplied) will be issued to County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a stated long-term commitment relating to the delivery of the social welfare contract via the post offices. [37548/18]
    • Social Insurance
      709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount that would be generated if the minimum payment for class S PRSI increased from €500 to...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      710. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the political advisers being used by Ministers and Ministers of State in her Department since the commencement of this...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      711. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not entitled to claim for illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the refusal of a disability allowance application in the case of a person (details supplied); if this...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      713. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who was eligible for illness benefit on the basis of documentation submitted was not...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      715. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for not providing illness benefit to eligible applicants and means testing claimants under the supplementary...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for an increase in their rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance review in the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [37092/18]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that claimants of the one-parent family payment and rent allowance are only...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      721. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the non-payment of rent support in June and July 2018 in the case of a person (details supplied); if payment...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which an applicant can be deemed fit for employment in the medical assessment for invalidity pension yet the same...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the decision to refuse a claim by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the introduction of the YESS scheme; the criteria of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Employment Data
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of workers here that are categorised as being in bogus self-employment in 2017 and to date in 2018; and...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for the back to education allowance in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an overpayment of €198 has been assessed against a person (details supplied); if a review will be...
    • Illness Benefit Reform
      729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in relation to an issue (details supplied); if she will engage with an organisation; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the seriousness of the condition of a person (details supplied); if their application for...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37209/18]
    • Pensions Reform
      732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to reform the pension system in particular the anomalies in the system which discriminate against women;...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      733. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce changes to the wage subsidy scheme for persons with brain injuries in view of the fact that working 21...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the ongoing delay in a decision being made on a review in the case of a person (details supplied). [37262/18]
    • Living Alone Allowance
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the living alone allowance (details supplied). [37264/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be reached on an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      738. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of a disability allowance payment which has been with an inspector for an extended period of time regarding a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      739. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all medical documentation in respect of a disability allowance payment has now been registered as received in the case of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      740. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance can be changed for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [37289/18]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance review in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a claim for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pensions Reform (2 comments)
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the gender pension pay gap; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37442/18]
    • Industrial Disputes
      745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and her plans to investigate whether the company's actions are...
    • Social Insurance
      746. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons who are regarded as self-employed home tutors and pay S class contributions accordingly are also deducted...
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review being undertaken regarding the issue of child maintenance payments; the scope of the review; the...
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will publish the four-year plan for the period 2018-21, an integrated framework for social inclusion; the reason for...
    • Working Family Payment Data
      749. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons receiving the working family payment by the size of their employer (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to enable working persons in receipt of a contributory widow's pension to access illness benefit when sick in the...
    • School Meals Programme
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a meals grant application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37529/18]
    • Departmental Staff
      752. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the number of staff in the social welfare appeals office by 25%; the necessary resources required to do...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      753. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be issued on a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) further to the oral hearing on 2...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department issued directives to community employment scheme area supervisors advising them that support is...
    • Child Benefit Administration
      755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is a way of making the system for EU child benefit payments (details supplied) simpler and easier to reassess on an...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      757. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a basic social welfare or supplementary allowance payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37638/18]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding pensions for carers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      760. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of ensuring the State contributory and non-contributory pensions are available to all those who...
    • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to deal with the delay in illness benefit payments which is creating hardship for individuals and...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if further consideration will be given to awarding an exceptional needs grant in the case of a person (details supplied); if...
    • Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a social welfare payment will be made in the case of a person (details supplied); if the payment can be made with some...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied); if payment will be restored in full; if this...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will be made in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appropriate payment in respect of a person (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pensions Reform
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to implement the recommendations of an organisation (details supplied) for a universal basic pension; and if she...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrears of qualified adult allowance and qualified child allowance are due to a person (details supplied) in regard to an...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a required medical form can reissue in the case of a person (details supplied) as part of his application for an...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals
      771. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a file relating to a person (details supplied) will be forwarded from the non-contributory section of her Department in...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1241 of 7 September 2018, the reason the initial decision was revised; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in relation to a disability allowance application; and if she will...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
      774. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put a deadline on the registering of traditional seaweed harvesting rights; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Action Plan for Rural Development
      775. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      777. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations or guidelines in place governing consumer protection and standards for residential log cabins both at the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      778. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the lack of affordable housing for military personnel; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      779. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if and when it is expected revised regulations appertaining to the location of wind turbines and minimum distance from...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      780. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in his Department since the commencement of this Government;...
    • Vacant Properties
      781. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to incentivise owners to get vacant properties back into usable housing stock in view of the excess of houses lying...
    • Postal Voting
      782. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an Irish student studying outside the State can qualify for a postal vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Loan Scheme
      783. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which persons (details supplied) did not meet the criteria for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan; if an appeals...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      785. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 753 of 20 September 2017, the number of HAP supported properties by local authority in...
    • Housing Issues
      787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the legislation regarding tenancy agreements and anti-social behaviour (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Mayoral Election
      788. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a directly elected Mayor of Cork; and if it will form part of the legislation regarding the expansion of the...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      789. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed mixed tenure housing developments in locations (details supplied) will be provided with revenue funding, loan...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      790. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with residents of a location (details supplied) with regard to fears that there may be structural and serious...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      791. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes delivered under various affordable housing initiatives for each year since 2010 in tabular form; his plans...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      792. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received in County Louth for Rebuilding Ireland home loans since the commencement of the scheme;...
    • Housing Provision
      793. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) detailing the lack of affordability of housing in the greater...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has assessed the nature of the delays being experienced in respect of local authorities signing contracts...
    • Rental Sector
      795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections carried out in the rental sector for each local authority in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing units acquired under Part V; the location of each by local authority for the first six months of...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional staff have been assigned to the housing delivery office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37486/18]
    • Local Authority Functions
      801. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances in which local authority management can change reserved functions to executive functions; if a statutory...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      802. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to local authorities (details supplied) specifically to hire new staff for the housing departments in...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the allocation and spend of the Traveller accommodation budget of each local authority from the inception of the programme...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      804. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the increases in staff in council housing departments approved and funded by council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to...
    • Planning Guidelines
      806. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department keeps track of the number of crèches granted planning permission in estates larger than 75 houses as...
    • Planning Issues
      807. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent changes in the UK regarding shared space guidance in the public realm; his plans to...
    • Rental Sector
      808. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposals from the working group examining the appropriate regulatory approaches for short-term lettings; and if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      809. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for new incentives for affordable housing schemes particularly in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      810. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households on the housing assistance payment scheme in each local authority; the number of those recorded as...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      811. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that he wrote to regarding family hubs; and the criteria for selecting which local authorities would be...
    • Vacant Properties
      812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant buildings in Dublin city and county; the number of property owners who are engaging in discussions with...
    • Housing Provision
      813. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the development of the Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum for housing; the scale and type of housing...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      814. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an action (details supplied) under the Action Plan for Rural Development; the reason it was not delivered by the...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      821. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if legal clarification has been agreed regarding whether uninterrupted turf cutting in succession since the 1970s on a plot...
    • Ministerial Advisers Data
      822. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the political advisers being used by senior and junior Ministers in her Department since the commencement of this Government; the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      823. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts that have been made to secure the lands that are for sale at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Archaeological Sites
      824. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an application for funding by a group (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Arts Council Funding
      825. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated amount it would cost in a full year if the budget for the Arts Council increased by 7.5%; and if she will make a...

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