Written answers
Thursday, 27 September 2018
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Policy
15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the need for developers and the State to prioritise housing development. [37796/18]
- Legislative Process
16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the passing of Second Stage of the Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018, if his Department will work...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the housing adaptation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38949/18]
- Local Authority Boundaries
18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the members of Cork County Council to discuss the issues of concern expressed by it in respect of the...
- Local Authority Housing Funding
19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall funding allocated to the 31 local authorities for void refurbishment in 2017 and to date in 2018; the conditions...
- Vacant Sites Data
20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 10 October 2017, the status of the registers of vacant sites for Galway city and...
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding
21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce a State-wide affordable housing scheme for local authorities; and the reason the €75 million...
- Local Authority Housing
22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on reports that Dublin City Council approached a company (details supplied) to rent blocks of units for social...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to fund local authority house building in counties Roscommon and Galway in 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
- Approved Housing Bodies
25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's attempt to secure the reclassification of AHBs as off-Government balance sheet. [39018/18]
- Housing Assistance Payment Administration
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the inadequacies with the new housing assistance payment scheme will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recommendation in the IGEES current and capital expenditure on social housing delivery mechanisms report from...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of an affordable home under the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Repair and Leasing Scheme
29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there has been such a slow uptake in the repair and leasing scheme by local authorities throughout the country in...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will facilitate a meeting with Dún Laoghaire Deputies, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and officials from...
- National Development Plan Funding
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidelines for indigenous businesses and enterprises to access the €2 billion urban regeneration and development...
- Local Authority Staff Data
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken a review of the resources and personnel in local authorities' housing departments; and if he...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reconsidered the proposal for a dynamic housing executive for the greater Dublin region in view of the low delivery...
- Housing Assistance Payment Data
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding paid to landlords through the housing assistance payment in the past year; and if he will make a...
- Land Development Agency
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financing arrangements envisioned in the delivery of social, affordable and market priced housing on the first eight sites...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether his Department's insistence on mixed tenure developments is having a negative consequence on the delivery...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made on reducing the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38907/18]
- Local Authority Housing Data
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time taken for each local authority to reallocate homes under their remit after they have been vacated;...
- NAMA Social Housing Provision
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of all properties conveyed by NAMA to Galway City and County councils; and if he will make a statement...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of local authority owned potential building lands available for local authority affordable housing in the greater...
- Local Authority Housing Data
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of likely local authority housing starts that can possibly take place in the next six months by county but with...
- Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the income eligibility limits for social housing particularly in areas such as counties Cavan and...
- Defective Building Materials
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if families whose homes are affected by mica in County Donegal will receive at least the same redress as those families whose...
- Vacant Properties
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of privately owned homes brought back into use as a result of the vacant homes strategy of Rebuilding Ireland; his...
- National Planning Framework
47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timelines for completion of regional planning strategies under the regional spatial and economic strategies; the way in...
- NAMA Social Housing Provision
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an explanation was sought from the relevant local authority CEOs or the Housing Agency as to the reason only 2,717 units...
- Home Loan Scheme
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approvals granted under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; his plans to modify the deposit requirement...
- Local Authority Housing Data
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority new builds to be completed and ready for occupation by the end of 2018, by local authority; and...
- Rent Pressure Zones
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take to deal with the widespread breaching of rent increases in rent pressure zones; and if his...
- Housing Provision
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units due to be provided under the serviced sites fund in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Remuneration
55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review into pay and allowances for members of the Permanent Defence Forces; if allowances which were previously paid will be...
- Ministerial Meetings
56. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he last met officials from his Department to discuss defence policy. [38844/18]
- Defence Forces Recruitment
57. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question 14 of 7 September 2018 (details supplied), if minutes of these meetings were actually taken as distinct from...
- Brexit Issues
58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if additional financial resources have specifically been given to his Department to prepare for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit; if members...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Human Rights Cases
59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the arrest and imprisonment of a political activist (details supplied) in India; and if he will he urge...
- Departmental Staff Data
60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff employed in the press office of his Department, both at official and non-official level; and if he will make a statement...
- Public Relations Contracts Data
61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of public relations companies that have been recruited by his Department in 2018; the areas and campaigns in which they have given...
- Brexit Supports
62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the campaigns he is undertaking to inform persons on Brexit; the format these will take; if he has sought external advice on same; and if he...
- International Criminal Court
63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be supporting the UN Security Council referring Burma to the International Criminal Court (details supplied); and if he will...
- Middle East Peace Process
64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas; his views on the recognition of the state of Palestine; and...
- Northern Ireland
65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with the political parties on the need to have the...
- Department of Finance
- Mortgage Lending
66. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks have the discretion to grant a mortgage to a person without adequate life assurance and-or mortgage protection cover in place; and if he will make a...
- Revenue Commissioners
67. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners' office in Tralee, County Kerry is closed to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39196/18]
- Tax Reliefs Availability
68. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax incentive schemes that exist to encourage employers to take on new employees; and the cost of these in a full year. [39255/18]
- Budget Submissions
69. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the request of an organisation (details supplied) on the rate of VAT applicable to a sector in view of its importance to the...
- Sale of State Assets
70. To ask the Minister for Finance the location the proceeds from the sale of Bord Gáis currently lie in view of the fact that €10 million is allocated per year for a pilot scheme on...
- VAT Rate Reductions
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing to 0% the current 23% VAT on digital school books; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39288/18]
- Illegal Fuel Sales
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the widespread illegal importation of smoky coal from Northern Ireland and its adverse impact on legitimate businesses here;...
- Tax Credits
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of increasing the earned income tax credit from its 2018 level of €1,150 to €1,650 to match the PAYE credit; and if he will...
- Tax Data
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the likely revenue that would accrue to the State on the closure of existing tax breaks for real estate investment funds including section 110 special purpose...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Staff Remuneration
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the relevant information in respect of the professional added years schemes pertaining to staff who joined the Civil Service prior to...
- Departmental Correspondence
80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39130/18]
- Public Appointments Service
81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a Public Appointments Service campaign for a post (details supplied) is still ongoing; when applicants under consideration for...
- Budget 2019
82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 20 September 2018, if current spending overruns of €209 million according to the...
- Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide funds to address the issue of providing a pension and gratuity to retiring and retired community employment...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of removing the anomaly in which lone parents in receipt of one-parent family payment and jobseeker's transition payment and...
- School Transport Provision
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport service will be provided for a person (details supplied). [39127/18]
- School Transport Administration
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding the school transport scheme; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that many...
- Schools Building Projects Status
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a building project by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39151/18]
- School Staff
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork will remain a four teacher school for the 2018-2019 school year; if an appeal mechanism is...
- Schools Data
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-DEIS primary schools with two special classes other than ASD classes designated for pupils with special educational needs; the...
- Emergency Works Scheme Applications
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is in receipt of an emergency works application from a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the status of the...
- Commencement of Legislation
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will commence the provisions of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018. [39270/18]
- Teachers' Remuneration
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in resolving the issue of lower paid teachers whose salaries were reduced in context of emergency economic measures; if...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason income allegedly derived from parents was used in the calculation of entitlement to a higher education grant in the case of a person...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Direct Provision Expenditure
96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget that was given to private companies to run direct provision centres in each of the years 2012 to 2017; and if he will...
- Immigration Support Services
97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding provided for immigration integration services in each year since 2011; the services provided with this targeted...
- Civil Legal Aid
98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of abolishing financial contributions to civil legal aid for victims of domestic violence; and if he will...
- Legislative Reviews
99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the review of the Defamation Act 2009; and if there is a timeline for the review to be completed. [39177/18]
- Immigration Status
100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 18 September 2018, if his attention was drawn to the fact that the person was on...
- Direct Provision Data
101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capacity of Mosney direct provision centre in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of residents...
- Deportation Orders
104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 18 September 2018, if he will respond to the question regarding the statistics for...
- Prisoner Discipline
105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 18 September 2018, his views on the measures to reduce the number of prisoners on...
- Brexit Issues
106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional financial resources have specifically been given to An Garda Síochána to prepare for the possibility of...
- Immigration Status
107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of residency in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39335/18]
- Deportation Orders Re-examination
114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a deportation order will be set aside in the case of a person (details supplied) on the basis of their marriage to an Irish...
- Departmental Staff Careers
115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if and when an appeal in respect of a work record and opportunities for promotion can be progressed in the case of a person...
- Wards of Court
116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which funding of wards of court is adequately catered for with particular reference to the need to ensure the...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Work Permits Appeals
117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an urgent work permit appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39128/18]
- Department of Health
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
118. To ask the Minister for Health the pay arrangements that apply for nurses and consultants involved in a certain hospital activity (details supplied); and the per patient fee for same; and if...
- Ministerial Meetings
119. To ask the Minister for Health when the promised and deferred meeting with an organisation (details supplied) will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39133/18]
- Service Level Agreements
120. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for implementation of the service level agreement being drafted between University of Limerick Hospital group and Saolta University Health Care...
- Disabilities Assessments
121. To ask the Minister for Health the status of medical assessments for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39136/18]
- Services for People with Disabilities
122. To ask the Minister for Health the options, services, facilities or initiatives available to young adults with disabilities (details supplied) that finish full-time education at 18 years of...
- Disability Services Funding
123. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39144/18]
- Patient Data
124. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which persons under 18 years of age received treatment in the United Kingdom in each of the past four years; and if he will make a...
- National Dementia Strategy
125. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put in place services for persons with dementia under 65 years of age and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39146/18]
- Primary Care Centres Provision
127. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a new primary care centre at a location (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Dementia Strategy
129. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will be assisted with its plans for better services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pharmacy Regulations
130. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of temporary absence arrived at by an organisation (details supplied) with the permission of his Department in the case of pharmaceutical...
- National Dementia Strategy
134. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given for the funding of a dementia adviser in County Kildare. [39159/18]
- Health Services
135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of a facility (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39167/18]
- Disability Services Data
136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed at a facility (details supplied); the number of service users who are enrolled to attend services in tabular form; and if he...
- HSE Properties
137. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the development of a site (details supplied); and the timelines and dates for same. [39169/18]
- Health Services Provision
138. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources, including funding and locations, will be made available for inpatient nut allergy testing for children in view of the fact that there...
- Hospital Waiting Lists Data
139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting cataract surgery in County Limerick; the average waiting times for such procedures; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospitals Data
141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hip replacements carried out at Our Lady's Hospital Navan in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, respectively; the number of persons awaiting hip...
- Hospital Appointments Status
142. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an ENT appointment at Tallaght University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39195/18]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
143. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a helicopter landing facility at Cork University Hospital; when the matter will progress; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Eligibility
144. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove means-testing for medical cards for children who are orphaned and cared for by family members; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Beds Data
145. To ask the Minister for Health the average annual operational cost of a filled acute bed in a public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39229/18]
- Pharmacy Regulations
147. To ask the Minister for Health if the status of pharmaceutical assistants following recent recommendations made by an organisation (details supplied) will be protected; and if he will make a...
- Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
148. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given for the use of the drug pembrolizumab in the case of a person (details supplied). [39235/18]
- Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
149. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 418 of 13 February 2018, the status of the construction of a helipad at Cork University Hospital to facilitate an air...
- Hospital Consultant Recruitment
150. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances which lead to the unplanned long-term leave of a consultant paediatrician at the National Rehabilitation Hospital resulting in the...
- Disabilities Assessments
151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in County Tipperary; the length of time they have been waiting; the age of the children waiting; the...
- Medical Card Administration
152. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of an art assist device on the medical card scheme has been considered for patients who have been prescribed same by their doctor; and if he...
- Ministerial Meetings
153. To ask the Minister for Health when a meeting with a group (details supplied) will be arranged with relevant health professionals, the National Cancer Control Programme, the HSE and Saolta...
- Hospital Facilities
154. To ask the Minister for Health if the lack of disability access on the grounds and hospital of St. Columcille's, Loughlinstown, will be investigated (details supplied); if these issues will...
- Hospital Waiting Lists Data
155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for cataract operations in the South/South West hospital group sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39267/18]
- Cross-Border Health Initiatives
157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the cross-border directive to have cataracts removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39269/18]
- Medical Card Administration
158. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to including an art assist device on the medical card scheme for persons who have been prescribed it by their doctor (details...
- Cross-Border Health Initiatives
159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the cross-border directive for orthopaedic operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39272/18]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Equine Identification Scheme
160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions since January 2013 with regard to the failure of owners to chip their horses. [39162/18]
- Weather Events
161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports that can be made available to farmers who suffered damage to maize crops during Storm Ali and subsequently cannot...
- Young Farmers Scheme
162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an anomaly concerning young farmers (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39185/18]
- Sheep Welfare Scheme
163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the sheep welfare scheme. [39351/18]
- Animal Diseases
164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingency plans deployed in terms of monitoring and biosecurity measures in view of the confirmation of the spread of African...
- State Aid
165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the European Commission’s proposal to increase the state aid threshold for farmers to €25,000 per...
- Food Labelling
166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the obligatory labelling of country of origin on vegetables, fruit and potatoes in supermarkets as proposed by farming...
- Brexit Issues
167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline and deadlines that have been agreed for recruitment of veterinary inspectors in the event of a no-deal hard Brexit...
- Fur Farming
168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fur farms by county; the number employed in such farms in each county; and the domestic and European regulations in...
- Trade Agreements
169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on discussions by the European Commission with the US Administration on renegotiating the EU’s annual 45,000 tonne...
- EU Directives
170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the joint statement by a group of European farming and food organisations (details supplied) calling for all...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Electricity Transmission Network
171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if areas on boil water notices will be prioritised for power restoration in the event of power outages due to poor...
- Broadband Service Provision
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the supply of high-speed broadband to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Waste Disposal Charges
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for his determination that the allowance of €75 would cover the cost of the disposal of incontinence...
- Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme
175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to examine the reason electricity companies do not give credits or payments for excess electricity generated...
- Fisheries Protection
177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the eel fisherman hardship fund will be introduced; and the amount of compensation that will be available to...
- Bituminous Fuel Ban
179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the smoky coal ban commencing 1 September 2018 with all stocks of smoky coal to be sold off and burnt by...
- EU Directives
180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a 3% annual rate of renovation for Government owned and occupied buildings as required by Article 5 of the Energy...
- Illegal Fuel Sales
181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the widespread illegal importation of smoky coal from Northern Ireland; the measures...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Sports Capital Programme
182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an approved sports capital grant application by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Signage
183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if requests by the local community in Tallaght village to have a "Welcome to Tallaght" sign erected by Transport Infrastructure Ireland...
- Road Tolls
184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the contract for the operation of the secondary toll ramps on the M1 entering Drogheda town will conclude; if the ramps in question...
- Railway Stations
185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority plan to commission a feasibility study for a train station for the northside of Drogheda; and if he...
- Driver Test Data
186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent statistics confirming a high failure rate among driver test candidates in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
- Light Rail Projects
187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if studies and appraisals conducted by his Department in designing the MetroLink project will be published; and if he will make a...
- Light Rail Projects Expenditure
188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the cost of constructing the Luas cross city with reference to the cost of land, the amount spent on analysis from engineers and other...
- Light Rail Projects
189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or transport agencies have commenced a feasibility study on the introduction of light rail in Cork city and suburbs....
- Commencement of Legislation
191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason section 17 of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008, has not been commenced. [39211/18]
- Cycling Facilities Funding
192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding which has been made available to local authorities for the maintenance of cycle paths in each year since 2008; and...
- Weather Events Response
193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided to local authorities in order to treat footpaths in freezing weather conditions; and if he will make a...
- Cycling Facilities Data
194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of kilometres of cycle lanes in Cork city by dedicated separate cycle lanes and shared cycle lanes. [39215/18]
- Bus Services
197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses using the recently opened coach park facility on Sheriff Street in each week since its opening. [39218/18]
- Public Transport
198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if licensed commercial coach operators are permitted to use bus lanes. [39219/18]
- Park and Ride Facilities
199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the location and capacity of each publicly owned park and ride facility in tabular form. [39220/18]
- Taxi Licences
201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which taxi plates are transferred from parent to child will be examined; his views on whether a transfer based solely on the...
- Sports Capital Programme Administration
202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be made available to a club (details supplied) in County Donegal as a result of the flooding that occurred in Inishowen...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child and Family Agency Services
203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the process for handling subject access requests to Tusla; the personnel involved by name, job title and grade; the expenditure to third...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Community Services Programme Funding
204. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional supports, including funding, will be made available to community organisations which provide community services through...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Insurance Payments
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the calculation method for employee's PRSI contribution for those earning between €352.01 and €424 will be...
- Guardian's Payment
206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to remove means-testing for guardian's payments for children who are orphaned and cared for by family members; and...
- Free Travel Scheme Administration
208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the existing fare agreements with transport providers involved in the free transport scheme; the year in which these fares...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of allowing lone parents in employment to receive both the jobseeker's transition payment and working...
- Child Benefit Eligibility
210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the habitual residency condition as a condition for access to child benefit; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of equalising to the adult rate reduced rate pensions and jobseeker's allowance for those under 26 years of age; and...
- Child Benefit Data
212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making child benefit payable to families with children over 18 years of age who are enrolled in...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending statutory paid maternity and paternity leave to a year, both shared and unshared; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for rent allowance payments; and if she...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Fuel Allowance Eligibility
222. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a homeless person on a community employment scheme is not eligible for the fuel allowance when they are housed and...
- Disability Allowance Payments
223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving a reduced rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement...
- Illness Benefit Payments
224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason payments to a person (details supplied) were reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39173/18]
- Fuel Allowance Eligibility
225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a homeless person on a community employment scheme is not eligible for the fuel allowance when they are housed and...
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Data
226. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of back to school grant applications received from persons living in direct provision in each year since 2012; the...
- JobsPlus Scheme
227. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the employers' PRSI incentive schemes that exist to encourage employers to take on new employees; and the cost of these in a...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
228. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for the household benefits package and the fuel allowance could be affected in a situation whereby the child...
- Invalidity Pension Eligibility
229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the class or rate of contributions that must be paid by a person seeking an invalidity pension; if voluntary contributions...
- Disability Allowance Applications
230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) for the past ten years; and if she...
- Fuel Allowance Payments
231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the fuel allowance for vulnerable households to remove the extra costs of increasing the carbon tax to...
- Creative Ireland Programme
232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will expand the Creative Ireland social welfare pilot beyond writers and visual art artists to include the...
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal against a decision to refuse disability allowance or an invalidity...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseeker's allowance claims are being paid up to date in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of removing the means-test for maintenance payments, particularly for housing assistance payments; and if...
- Mortgage Protection Policies
237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the compulsory mortgage protection insurance on the Rebuilding Ireland scheme...
- Local Authority Housing Data
238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new direct local authority built social housing units in the Louth County Council administrative area which came...
- Planning Guidelines
239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new revised guidance for local authorities on one-off rural housing regulations will be published; and if he will make...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review
240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and nature of service level agreements formally agreed and signed between Louth and Meath county councils arising...
- Fire Stations Upgrade
241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when capital funding will be provided for the upgrade of Rathdowney fire station County Laois; and if he will make a statement...
- Shared Ownership Scheme
243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the reintroduction of a shared ownership scheme in partnership with local authorities is being considered for families and...
- Student Accommodation
244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures in place to deal with the projected shortfall of in excess of 16,000 student beds by 2024 as outlined in the...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be allocated to a local authority (details supplied) in respect of schemes; and if he will make a...
- Planning Guidelines
246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning guidelines account for future coastal erosion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39242/18]
- Sale of State Assets
248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the location the proceeds from the sale of Bord Gáis currently lie in view of the fact that €10 million is...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the sale of local authority housing; and if he will make a statement...
- Vacant Sites Levy
250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of revenue which would be raised if the vacant site levy was applied to all sites above 100 m and below 500 sq m;...
- Development Contributions
251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of unpaid development levies due by local authority. [39297/18]
- Approved Housing Bodies
252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the EUROSTAT classification of approved housing bodies as on balance sheet; and if he will make a...
- Planning Investigations
254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he sought legal advice on the senior counsel report to him regarding planning matters in County Donegal; and if he will...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have lands within their possession that are serviceable or serviced on which local...
- Home Repossessions
258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will approach the lending institutions with a view to the temporary cessation of home repossessions in order to reduce...
- Local Authority Housing Data
260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new housing applicants registered with the various local authorities throughout the country in each of the past...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which can be taken to arrange for the immediate commencement of local authority housing schemes and or the provision...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the number of local authority housing lists have been reduced in the past 12 months whether on income...
- Home Loan Scheme
267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have made an application for Rebuilding Ireland loans; the number granted, refused and pending,...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Special Areas of Conservation Management
271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will liaise with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to review a more workable system to allow farmers in...
- Waterways Issues
272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the difficulty between a person (details supplied) and Waterways Ireland has been resolved; if not, if efforts can be made to...
- Wildlife Protection
273. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 26 April 2018, the European regulation that obliges member states to protect against...
