Written answers

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Homemakers Scheme
      76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the women affected by the gaps in the homemaker's scheme can expect to see the changes that will bring them in line with...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there is a backlog of claims in the carer's allowance section (details supplied). [46893/18]
    • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
      81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the issues with the new system for illness benefit will be rectified; if additional staff will be allocated in order to...
    • Working Family Payment
      86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the working family payment is not eligible for the Christmas bonus; and if she has given consideration to extending...
    • Pension Provisions
      87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take to facilitate the award of widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the application process and waiting times for payments such as domiciliary care's allowance and...
    • Employment Rights
      90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legislative measures she plans to prioritise to deal with bogus self-employment and related denials of workers' rights;...
    • Pension Provisions
      92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the change from a 30-year qualifying base for a State pension (contributory) under the 2010 national...
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recent ESRI report, which indicated that welfare cuts since the economic crash discriminated against the...
    • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
      96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cause of the difficulties experienced by persons accessing illness benefit payments over the past few months; the reason...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of correspondence requiring them to transfer to HAP from rent supplement; the number of...
    • Parental Leave Expenditure
      99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date in 2019 from which parental leave will be paid under the budget forecasts; the number of persons expected to apply in...
    • Pension Provisions
      100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports provided to foster parents particularly in the area of pensions in which foster parents would like their role as...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a community advisory forum for community employment schemes; and her further plans to increase the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for carer's allowance and carer's benefit applications; the reason for the backlog of applications; her...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional resources will be provided to reduce delays in the processing of carer's allowance applications; and if she...
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the targets to reduce consistent poverty and child poverty by 2020 will be met; and if she will make a...
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of young persons who have engaged with the YESS scheme; the number of employers that have registered under the...
    • JobPath Data
      119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of JobPath attendees that gained work after completing the course; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of red tape involved in the annual forms that applicants for farm assist are required to fill out and return...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps taken to honour the pension claim of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors as per a 2008...
    • Unemployment Data
      123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the fact that decreases in the live register figure are not reflected in the average amount of income tax paid...
    • Action Plan for Social Inclusion
      124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the national action plan for social inclusion 2018-2021 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Issues
      126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the discussions she has had with the authorities in Northern Ireland and her counterpart in the British Government regarding...
    • JobPath Programme
      127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for Turas Nua and Seetec in view of the improvement in the number of persons at work; and if she will make a...
    • JobPath Data
      129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in the south east to date who have found employment through the JobPath service; the number of persons...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Ministerial Meetings
      130. To ask the Taoiseach the policy in relation to the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; and the way in which this policy is...
    • Brexit Issues
      131. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation with Prime Minister May on 5 November 2018 regarding Brexit. [46530/18]
    • Employment Data
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on a wage at or below the minimum wage level by gender and age. [46378/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      133. To ask the Taoiseach the advisers and constituency staff working for him both in respect of his role as Taoiseach and in respect of his role as a constituency Member; and if he will list all...
  • Department of Defence
    • Ministerial Meetings
      134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      135. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the defence budget allocation for officers and enlisted personnel, respectively, in 2019. [46701/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      137. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [46997/18]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 25 October 2018, notwithstanding the fact that allowing the aircraft in question to refuel and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in...
    • Human Rights
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the level of reported ethnic and linguistic tensions in Cameroon in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment that has been made of the circumstances surrounding the recent kidnapping of approximately 80 persons including children from...
    • Human Rights
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the potential threat to a person (details supplied); the actions he will take in relation to this matter;...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made for the undocumented Irish. [46806/18]
    • EU Issues
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made at EU level to protect the territorial integrity of Georgia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46969/18]
    • Visa Agreements
      151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has considered the possibility of a Palestinian sponsored visa programme in circumstances in which persons have a sponsor here that...
    • European Defence Capabilities
      152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent remarks by the French President Mr. Emmanuel Macron supporting the foundation of a true European army (details...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47001/18]
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the work of his Department's committee on human rights; the details of its membership; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has announced, or his plans to announce, changes to capital gains tax or capital acquisitions tax regarding solar panels on farmland as part of...
    • Banking Sector
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied). [46476/18]
    • Betting Regulations
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46477/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which this policy is...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners did not issue RICT certificates under the employment and investment incentive, EII, scheme to investors in time for the...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention and the attention of the Central Bank has been drawn to the liquidation of a company (details supplied) that was the underwriter on...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he declined to opt for the type of controlled foreign corporation, CFC, rules model A that the majority of EU countries have found to be the most...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and-or SMEs from outside the State that have been granted guarantees and-or risk sharing facilities under the Strategic Banking...
    • Life Insurance Policies
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding life assurance providers rejecting applications based on a mental health condition from which a person has since recovered; and if he...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Data
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the historical amounts allocated to banks (details supplied) to provide funding to small and medium enterprises; if the Strategic Banking Corporation of...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and location of all completed and unfinished residential units in NAMA's original portfolio including the residential units securing loans acquired...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and location of all residential units sold by NAMA debtors receivers since inception; the number of those units sold at NAMA loan sales by year...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of social housing units offered to local authorities and approved housing bodies by the name of the development and residential location and the...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the criterion used by NAMA to select residential units to be offered for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46748/18]
    • NAMA Property Construction
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the new developments in which residential units were funded by NAMA from inception to date in 2018, by the development location and local authority area; and...
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 10 October 2017, the timeframe for small businesses to be approved by the Revenue Commissioners for the employment...
    • Tax Data
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if a figure (details supplied) in revenue from corporation taxes comes from the four commercial gas fields in Irish waters or from the entire category of...
    • Tax Agreements
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the EU proposals on digital taxation; and if his other EU counterparts have discussed the need for change in this area with him directly....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47000/18]
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a cap on the percentage an insurance company is entitled to increase a life insurance premium by in order to maintain cover; and if he will make a...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if the threshold for remission of vehicle registration tax to take account of the 1% surcharge that will be levied on all new diesel cars as announced in...
    • Local Authority Functions
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide local authorities with the power to introduce a transient occupancy tax on hotel rooms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fiscal Data
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected fiscal space, inflation rate and rates of growth in GDP and GNI for the years 2020 to 2024. [47032/18]
    • Gambling Sector
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the context of the recent increase in budget 2019 raising the betting tax from 1% to 2%, he will consider the alternative proposal that will achieve...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood defences that have been commenced since June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46612/18]
    • Commission for Public Service Appointments
      191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of investigations conducted by the Commission for Public Service Appointments regarding the blic recruitment process in the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in...
    • Legislative Measures
      193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it would cost the Exchequer if the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 was backdated to when his interim...
    • Coastal Protection
      194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans, following his recent visit to the area, for the urgent coastal works needed at Laytown and Bettystown; and if he will make a...
    • Public Service Pay Commission Reports
      195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the 1:12 ratio of average annual earnings in 2014, set out in table 5.3 of the report of the Public Service Pay...
    • Pension Provisions
      196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who have availed of the interim arrangement put in place to allow those workers who turn 65 years of age...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of senior positions held by men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47005/18]
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public sector reforms he plans to pursue. [46827/18]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Pension Provisions
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rules in place for cases in which an overpayment of a pension (details supplied) is made over ten years; the look-back time to seek repayment...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autism spectrum disorder units and number of places available in schools for children with autism at all levels for the Dublin 8,...
    • Scoileanna DEIS
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad chuige nár tugadh stádas DEIS do scoil (sonraí tugtha) i gcontae Dhún na nGall; an dtabharfaidh sé tuilleadh eolais...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which this...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if travel and subsistence is available to a person (details supplied) who is in the first year of an apprenticeship; and the other assistance...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new building for the relocation of a school (details supplied); the funding that has been allocated for this project; the...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the completion of works on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46516/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tender documents have been issued to the relevant contractors on schedule, as per 8 November 2018 being specified in the agreed programme for...
    • Gaelcholáistí Issues
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been reached on the accommodation for the proposed Gaelcholáiste in Maynooth, County Kildare; if it will be accommodated...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) relating to a SUSI grant will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46562/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with a person or persons specifically relating to a matter (details supplied); and if so, the details of such meetings. [46572/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be completed. [46576/18]
    • Schools Building Projects
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of an area (details supplied) will be considered with a view to providing a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if non-rental properties owned that are not primary residences are assessed for capital means for student grant purposes; if so, the calculations...
    • Schools Inspections
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the need for repairs in a school (details supplied); if he will consider the request from the board of management of the...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school capital appraisal section has received a planning approval appeal submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for...
    • School Placement
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been progress made on the delivery of an Educate Together school for Leixlip (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46654/18]
    • Schools Inspections
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an inspection at a school (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46657/18]
    • School Staff
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of an ancillary grant to replace a retired secretary in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) will not have enough classrooms in September 2019 if it takes in a...
    • DEIS Scheme
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to the provision of an extra payment or allowance for teachers who remain teaching in DEIS schools for more than a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is equitable that a mature student seeking to return to education to undergo a level 8 degree should be denied financial...
    • Minor Works Scheme Payments
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the minor works grant 2018 will issue to schools; if it will issue before the end of 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of negotiations on the issue of SNA training being funded by the State as opposed to by individual SNAs; if the recommendation for...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra funding to facilitate extra hours of speech and language therapy at a school (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to appeal the decision to refuse planning for a new primary school building (details supplied) and a physical education hall for two...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider a decision to cut a teacher from a school (details supplied); the reason for the loss of this teacher; his views regarding...
    • Third Level Funding
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fund the third level education sector; the way in which he will address the recent years of serious underfunding of the sector; and...
    • Schools Building Regulations
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a clerk of works was appointed for the construction of a school (details supplied); if the clerk conducted inspections of the building; if...
    • Schools Establishment
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 12 June 2018, if he has identified a short list of suitable sites in Leixlip, Maynooth and Naas for...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the appointment of contractors for a school building project (details supplied) that has received approval to progress the...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 320 of 6 November 2018, the measures in place at Caranua to deal with the influx of applications since the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review being undertaken by a SENO for additional SNA support in a school (details supplied) will be completed; if the case will be...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [46998/18]
    • School Patronage
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the patronage process for the new second level school in the Drumcondra, Marino and Dublin 1 areas; if access to a non-denominational second...
    • Fire Safety Regulations
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the representative sample of up to 25 schools (details supplied) that were being inspected after September 2017; and the nature and extent of...
    • School Admissions
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria applicable to schools admissions following the enactment of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 with particular emphasis...
    • School Curriculum
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47113/18]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the issue of class sizes in primary schools was not addressed in the Budget Statement 2019; his plans to address this issue; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the publication of the education (parent and student charter) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47131/18]
    • Residential Institutions
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcomes from the recent meeting of the interdepartmental committee to examine the way in which existing State services can best meet the...
    • An Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a chuirfidh an Chomhairle Mhúinteoireachta uimhir mhúinteora ar fáil do mhúinteoir (sonraí curtha ar...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts continue to be made to create apprenticeship opportunities under various trades; the degree to which shortages have...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Proposed Legislation
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation in which a commercial property owner is restricted from asking tenants to leave if the...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when primary legislation will be introduced in order to extend the medical card and other health-related supports to the...
    • Garda Deployment
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda by rank and location in the Louth Garda division and Ashbourne, Meath division; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a Garda transport division to deal with the increasing levels of anti-social behaviour and criminality...
    • Drugs Crime
      257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns regarding drug-related crime in Drogheda and east County Meath, such as...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) has not been expedited in view of the fact that the...
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to extend the opening hours of Kilcock Garda station with particular reference to enhanced community policing in the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the provisions of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be implemented in full; the progress made to date...
    • Direct Provision System
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the current extension of the direct provision contract at a location (details supplied) expires in 2019; and...
    • Residency Permits
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) appears to continue to be unqualified for regularisation of the person's residency...
    • Courts Service
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if compensation is available for persons who incur expenses (details supplied) in cases in which a court case is cancelled at...
    • Residency Permits
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in updating stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has approved a contract to a company (details supplied) to accommodate up to 80 refugees at a hotel; and if he will make...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the likely date that Part 9 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced. [46722/18]
    • Legislative Programme
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to revise harassment laws here taking into consideration the impact of cyberbullying on the mental health of a...
    • Garda Transport Data
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles allocated to Coolock and Raheny Garda districts as of 1 January 2018 and 2 November 2018; and if he will...
    • Garda Training
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who successfully completed the Garda van driving course in 2017 and to date in 2018; when this course...
    • Garda Warrants
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of warrants issued in the past six months that were executed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46776/18]
    • Deportation Orders
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the basis on which a deportation order was revoked and by whom in the case of a person (details supplied); the way in which the...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the plans in relation to the creation of a centre for refugees in Rooskey, County Leitrim; the details of...
    • Direct Provision System
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of direct provision centres operational here; the respective locations of each; and the number of households living...
    • Crime Data
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of stabbings or knife crimes recorded from January 2015 to date in 2018; and the number of fatalities...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47004/18]
    • Immigration Status
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if early GNIB appointments to obtain an appropriate stamp can be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied); and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to set up a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) following the vote in Dáil...
    • Cumas Gaeilge sa Gharda Síochána
      283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality conas nach raibh an Ghaeilge luaite chor ar bith i dtuarascáil an Choimisiúin ar Thodhchaí na...
    • Prison Accommodation Standards
      285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 18 September 2018, when the requested data will be supplied regarding the number...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Local Enterprise Offices Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual funding that each LEO has received per year in the past five years, in tabular form. [46752/18]
    • Brexit Staff
      287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff in her Department that are involved in co-ordinating and ensuring that businesses are prepared for Brexit. [46802/18]
    • Local Enterprise Offices Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons or businesses that availed of the mentor programme run by each local enterprise office in 2016, 2017 and to date...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policy relating to the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way...
    • Bord na Móna
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she has taken to protect jobs at Bord na Móna and put supports in place for employees that will be made redundant on...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date for each of the 71 action points made in the cost of insurance working group report on motor insurance published...
    • Insurance Costs
      293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date for each of the 29 action points made in the cost of insurance working group report on the cost of employer and...
    • Jobs Data
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs lost or created in County Kildare on an annual basis in the past six years to date; and if she will make a...
    • Construction Industry
      295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will review the workings and effectiveness of the Construction Contracts Act 2013; if she is satisfied that subcontractors are...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in her Department. [46993/18]
    • Science Foundation Ireland Expenditure
      297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason funds via Science Foundation Ireland have been withdrawn from a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of regional IDA site visits up to the third quarter of 2018, by county; and the vacant IDA properties by county in tabular...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the local enterprise offices located in each county; the number of staff that work in each office in 2018, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Intellectual Property Management
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on proposed changes to Regulation (EC) No. 469/2009 to allow for a SPC manufacturing waiver; her views on this initiative;...
  • Department of Health
    • Hospital Consultant Remuneration
      302. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the policy on the reduced pay level that applies to medical consultants recruited since 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      303. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make FreeStyle Libre available to persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      304. To ask the Minister for Health the number on waiting lists for CAMHS by county in tabular form; the number waiting zero to three, three to six, six to nine, nine to 12, 12 to 18 and more...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      305. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied) in order that a clinical and medical assessment be carried out [47028/18]
    • Community Alert Programme
      306. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE-funded community alert development officer position in the western Garda region that has been vacant since July 2017 has been filled; if full...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      307. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for bringing forward amendments to section 38(2)(b) of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, as amended, to accept qualification...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      308. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in relation to the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which this policy...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      309. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46500/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      310. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in view of the person's deteriorating health; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Support Services
      311. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46507/18]
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      312. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46510/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      313. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the continuing under-reporting of University Hospital Waterford cardiac catheterisation activity due to the manual...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      314. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit an interventional cardiologist as a matter of urgency in order to commence interventional cardiac catheterisation activity at the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      316. To ask the Minister for Health if therapy will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46526/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      317. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the availability of the FreeStyle Libre on the long-term illness scheme to include those aged over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes;...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls responded to in each ambulance base in County Mayo in 2017 and the first six months of 2018; the average response time in each month in...
    • Air Ambulance Service Data
      321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occasions by month in 2017 and in the first six months of 2018, that an air ambulance was used to respond to calls in County Mayo in tabular...
    • Rural Practice Allowance Scheme
      322. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in respect of a review of documentation (details supplied) already submitted to the National Contracts Office; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      323. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46570/18]
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      324. To ask the Minister for Health when the registration board for counselling and psychotherapy under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 will be operational; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      325. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that need to be met in order for a child to qualify for a rebate for bifocal glasses; if the percentage rebate awarded is equal across the board...
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      326. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a home care application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46594/18]
    • Industrial Relations
      327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) which recently commenced phased industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      328. To ask the Minister for Health the support facilities available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46599/18]
    • Hospital Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Health if Letterkenny University Hospital is party to a contract with a company with respect to the provision of laundry services; if so, the name of the company; the...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      330. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46604/18]
    • Autism Support Services
      331. To ask the Minister for Health if specialist autism specific respite support services will be developed in 2019 for persons in County Tipperary (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report from the Minister for State with responsibility for the drugs and alcohol strategy on actions proposed in respect of his commitment...
    • HSE Incident Management
      333. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE 2018 incident management framework document designed to provide health and social care services with a practical and proportionate approach to the...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation
      334. To ask the Minister for Health the legislative provisions in place in the area of surrogacy here. [46616/18]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      335. To ask the Minister for Health if half-time matches involving minors at sports grounds will be impacted by the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 being enacted (details supplied); and if he...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      336. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is in place and if the recruitment process has commenced for the position of a multiple sclerosis clinical nurse specialist in University Hospital...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      337. To ask the Minister for Health if a review will be carried out on the request to secure independent living for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Planning
      338. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the winter initiative plan in place for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in order to cope with projected surge in persons accessing acute...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the additional measures being put in place in each community health organisation, CHO, area further to recent comments by a union (details supplied) warning...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting appointments in respect of cataract treatment in County Louth; and the number waiting for six, 12, 24 and in excess of 24...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have accessed cataract treatment from County Louth under the cross-border healthcare directive scheme in each year since 2016. [46635/18]
    • Psychological Services Waiting Lists
      342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting to access psychology services for community health organisation, CHO, area 8 and specifically for County Louth; the number of...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      343. To ask the Minister for Health the process a person must follow to access cannabis oil in circumstances in which the person suffers with epilepsy. [46639/18]
    • Transport Support Scheme
      345. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant withdrawn in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46642/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      346. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the long-term illness scheme to include mental illness beyond 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46646/18]
    • Health Services
      347. 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. [46655/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Health when home help hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46656/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make FreeStyle Libre available under the long term illness scheme for all type 1 diabetics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46668/18]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      350. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the appointment of a general practitioner to a surgery (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      351. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46670/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      352. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when this person can expect an appointment for orthodontic treatment under the Health Service...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting so long for an appointment in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; the reason many of the...
    • Hospitals Data
      355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of places available for day care services per day in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46713/18]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      358. To ask the Minister for Health the service location of each neuroradiologist positions occupied or vacant across the State, in tabular form. [46716/18]
    • Health Services
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a matter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46721/18]
    • HSE Staff Data
      361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social workers appointed to cover the Connemara south and west regions; the number of vacancies; the number of persons awaiting allocation to a...
    • Health Services
      362. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited with an organisation for a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for two years; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Home Services
      363. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a bed in a nursing home or a community hospital. [46742/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make FreeStyle Libre available under the long-term illness scheme for all type 1 diabetics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46758/18]
    • HSE Planning
      365. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the winter plan that has been put in place to deal with the expected winter vomiting bug at University Hospital Waterford; and the expected demand...
    • Hospital Services
      366. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans for extra bed capacity in the short term at University Hospital Waterford. [46760/18]
    • Hospitals Discharges
      368. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to expedite discharge from acute hospitals due to the fact that 136,239 delayed discharges were registered at various hospitals in 2018;...
    • Cyberbullying Issues
      369. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been in contact with the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the mental health impact from cyberbullying on the Internet; his plans to...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      370. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the emergency department waiting times greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age in 2018; if the targets were met; if not, the number...
    • Autism Support Services
      373. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the therapy intervention services that will be provided to a child (details supplied) in County Cork who has received a diagnosis of autism spectrum...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      374. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46815/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      375. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre sensor will be made available on the long-term illness scheme for type 1 diabetics; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      376. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to review the provision of medical cards to those on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46819/18]
    • Hospital Equipment
      377. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will fund a replacement thrombectomy machine in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46821/18]
    • Vaccination Programme
      378. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the dates he formally approved each of the human papillomavirus vaccination campaigns in 2017 and 2018, including the Armed for Life and Protect our...
    • Dental Services
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE funding for dental treatment for all special needs children and adults in south County Dublin has been withdrawn; the way in which special needs...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      381. 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. [46840/18]
    • Hospital Services
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a second cath lab at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46849/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      383. To ask the Minister for Health when the 60-bed modular unit for University Hospital Limerick will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46850/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      386. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be called for an operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rare Diseases
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the creation of the rare disease technology review committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46871/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      389. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the assessment criteria of orphan drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46872/18]
    • Disability Services Data
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential care places available for adults with an intellectual disability in County Wexford. [46906/18]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential care places available for elderly persons in County Wexford. [46913/18]
    • Psychological Services
      400. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that no replacement has been provided to cover maternity leave for the clinical psychologist in the HSE early...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of adult and child mental health intellectual disability teams in 2018; and the number of additional new staff appointed...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in whole-time equivalent terms in the CAMHS for each CHO in tabular form. [46943/18]
    • Sign Language and Deaf Services
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to the deaf community in accessing mental health supports, including the provision of mental health professionals fluent in sign...
    • Proposed Legislation
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when the assisted human reproduction Bill will be introduced; if it will include a clause prohibiting donor tourism whereby a clinic based here facilitates...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in publishing value for money and client fund reviews of a service (details supplied); the further reason for the delay in the...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for reimbursement of the cost of medicinal cannabis to treat severe epilepsy. [46957/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      408. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the Health Service Executive has to re-open a walkway bridge (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      409. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [46961/18]
    • Disability Support Services Expenditure
      411. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of spending on disability services in each of the years 2014 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018, by county; and the spending as a percentage...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a licence to access medicinal cannabis to treat severe epilepsy; and, if the licence has been...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if an access programme will be established for the drug Spinraza for children with spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to maintain the commitment to support the continuation of community action on alcohol projects; the funding plans for the continued...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      416. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expedite the availability of new medicines to persons with multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46985/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior positions held by men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47002/18]
    • Hospital Admissions
      418. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47010/18]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      419. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of consultant in pain management at the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital, Cork, which has been vacant since the end of August 2018, will be...
    • Medicinal Products
      420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce free nicotine patches for persons with nicotine addiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47018/18]
    • Hospital Equipment
      421. To ask the Minister for Health when a new thrombectomy machine will be in place at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47021/18]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, waiting lists by county for specific periods (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended number of healthcare professionals, by category, operating in community-based services, per 1,000 of user based population. [47033/18]
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency staff in the health service in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by occupation and hospital in tabular form; and if he...
    • HSE Agency Staff Data
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency locum staff working in the health service or that are employed directly or indirectly by the HSE; the locations in which they are based,...
    • Hospital Procedures
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times surgeries have been cancelled or disrupted due to a lack of theatre staff in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided for procedures carried out under the cross-border directive by procedure and location in which the procedure was carried out for...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Closure
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to reinstate the motorised transport grant which was suspended in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47057/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a rheumatology appointment in University Hospital Kerry, UHK, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if primary care services can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47061/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      439. 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. [47077/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      440. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time it takes to approve new MS drugs here; the MS drugs in the approval process; the length of time they have been undergoing approval; and the...
    • Disability Support Services
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the hourly rate for disability services home support is paid at a lower rate than that for older persons home support; his plans to review same; and...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      442. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds provided to the public inpatient CAMHS units nationwide; if any of the beds have been closed at any stage during the year; if so, the...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      443. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute psychiatric beds available for persons over 65 years of age; and the number required to meet the recommendation for same made in A Vision...
    • Hospitals Policy
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision of January 2016 regarding hospitals (details supplied) made by the former Minister of State for older people has been officially rescinded and...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding the signing of a contract with a laboratory to examine cervical smears; and if he will make a statement...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      447. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medicinal cannabis licences that have been issued to date in 2018. [47139/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if weekend home support, including newly approved support, will continue and include all cover according to days and times in their care plan for a person...
    • Nursing Staff Data
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the fall in the number of staff nurses employed in the health services from April to September 2018 with 245 fewer employed over the course of...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Data
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 21 years of age who have access to the FreeStyle Libre under the long-term illness scheme; the number of persons over 21 years of...
    • Budget 2019
      453. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of 16 October 2018, if the additional superannuation contribution, ASC, is netted off pension costs only and not...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      454. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that an organisation (details supplied) is considering closing down its office in Dún Laoghaire leaving the visually...
    • Health Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the role of a person (details supplied) in the implementation of the proposed delivery of abortion services; the length of time the person is contracted for in...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      456. To ask the Minister for Health when the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be fully implemented; the reason for the delay for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Ministerial Meetings
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way...
    • GLAS Payments
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an outstanding GLAS payment for 2017 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      459. 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...
    • Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Applications
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a farmer (details supplied) has been approved for payment; and if so, when payment will issue. [46709/18]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on the inspectorate review of a penalty applied to a TAMS grant in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Transfer of Entitlements
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46842/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a BPS payment in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46973/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of senior positions held by men and women, respectively, in his Department. [46992/18]
    • Pesticide Use
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is Coillte policy to test groundwater on and near its lands regularly in order to determine if unsafe levels of the pesticides...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Efficiency
      468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households cutting turf on special areas of conservation, SACs, that have availed of a retrofit of their...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be supplied in an area (details supplied). [46471/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy in regard to the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be supplied to an area (details supplied). [46532/18]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff in his Department qualified to process freedom of information, FoI, requests; if his attention has...
    • National Broadband Plan
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress a person (details supplied) has made to date in carrying out an examination of the national broadband...
    • Electric Vehicles
      475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has given consideration to the provision of funding for the trial roll-out of dual public light post e-car charge...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of reference of the interdepartmental working group on climate action in regard to wetlands; and if he will...
    • Metropolitan Area Networks Programme
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a review of the performance of the operation of the MANs by an organisation (details supplied) will be published...
    • Waste Management
      478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will take immediate steps to restrict single-use plastic products here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of senior positions held by men and women, respectively, in his Department. [46995/18]
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of an annual support towards the cost of pay-by-weight charges for households that have a...
    • Inland Fisheries
      481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, in the context of his recent announcement concerning the eel fisherpersons support scheme and in particular in...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Correspondence
      482. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46586/18]
    • Driver Test Data
      483. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting driver tests by county; the average and longest wait time in each county; the number of persons that do...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which...
    • Dublin Bus
      485. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Dublin Bus drivers that have transferred their services in the context of job role, pay and conditions to a company...
    • Bus Services
      486. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 24 October 2018, the number of 2018 registered vehicles the NTA has acquired for use by a...
    • Rail Services Provision
      487. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the disruption caused to rail passengers by the recent changes (details supplied) on the Maynooth to...
    • Taxi Regulations
      488. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allow increased capacity and to tackle rising insurance costs in the taxi industry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for a first driver test in each driving test centre in County Mayo; the number of days in each week on which tests are...
    • Public Service Obligation Data
      490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of subvention granted to a company (details supplied) in the context of operating the public service obligation routes it...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      491. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a capital sports grant will issue to a club (details supplied); the measures the club must take in order to expedite the payment;...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
      492. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a copy of the terms of reference for the feasibility assessment of possible routes for the potential N3 to N4 link road project being...
    • Road Safety Authority
      493. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the health and safety concerns that led to the closure of Road Safety Authority, RSA, motorcycle testing at the Tipperary driving test...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      494. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities and other road designers are required to implement the national cycle manual on all roads other than motorways; and...
    • Road Network
      495. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the weight restrictions on roads that previously had a 3 tonne weight restriction and but have recently increased...
    • National Transport Authority
      496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sanctions in place if the charter is not adhered to in view of the fact that Bus Éireann's customer charter states that it will...
    • Cycling Policy
      497. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of an enhanced cycling infrastructure in terms of the creation of a national cycling office; and if there...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      498. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the statutory instrument for the minimum passing distance. [46782/18]
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      499. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter in regard to truck weight (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46814/18]
    • Driver Test
      500. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to waive the cost of a driver test in cases in which an applicant needs to repeat this test and needs the licence for work or...
    • Irish Coast Guard Issues
      501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if emergency calls to the Irish Coast Guard are recorded; the chronology setting out the sequence of events involving the Irish Coast...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47007/18]
    • Air Quality
      503. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent reports regarding emission levels from diesel vehicle imports from the United Kingdom; if these imports meet...
    • Rail Services Provision
      504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the frequency of the southbound Dundalk train between 6.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. in view of the fact that changes to...
    • Road Safety
      505. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if national guidelines will be provided for the installation of cattle grids on roads in view of safety concerns raised by some local...
    • Park and Ride Facilities
      506. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of constructing park and ride facilities (details supplied). [47083/18]
    • Public Transport
      507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of conducting feasibility studies for transport projects (details supplied). [47084/18]
    • Bus Éireann
      508. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of Bus Éireann's financial losses in 2017; and the accumulated deficit of the company. [47135/18]
    • Rail Services Data
      509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of Iarnród Éireann's financial losses in 2017; and the accumulated deficit of this company. [47136/18]
    • National Transport Authority Remit
      510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering changes to the National Transport Authority's route licensing powers. [47137/18]
    • Driver Test Regulations
      511. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1305 of 2 May 2017, if his officials have completed their review of the requirement to undergo a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Ministerial Meetings
      512. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which this...
    • Community Childcare Subvention Programme
      513. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access community childcare subvention and community childcare subvention plus schemes; the...
    • Early Years Strategy Implementation
      514. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of baby boxes being delivered to parents under the national early years strategy announced in April 2018. [46587/18]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a request from a service provider (details supplied) to meet with her has been received; if so, if this request will be facilitated;...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a national training needs analysis has ever been carried out by Tusla; and if so, if she will provide a copy of the results of same....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there has been a delay in capitation payments to childcare providers; and when they can expect to be paid. [46653/18]
    • Child and Family Agency Data
      520. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers appointed to cover the Connemara south and west regions; the number of vacancies; the number of children...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Reports
      521. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there has been a formal response from the board of Tusla following the publication of the third interim report of the disclosures...
    • Child Abuse Reports
      522. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the expert quality assurance and oversight group to support and advise Tusla on the implementation of the recommendations of the HIQA...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the action plan that is to be published on the Tusla website with timelines of the measures it plans to take to implement the...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      524. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the human resources section of Tusla has received a grievance that includes a complaint in regard to the performance of a person...
    • Departmental Strategies
      525. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a baby box for children; the steps she has taken in regard to the matter to date; the estimated annual cost of this...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care on waiting lists for CAMHS by county in tabular form; the number waiting up to three, three to six,...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      527. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of beds available in a given night in all Tusla-funded domestic violence emergency and step-down accommodation. [46958/18]
    • Children in Care
      528. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in full-time residential care. [46966/18]
    • Child and Family Agency Data
      529. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have been referred by Tusla to an organisation (details supplied) since 2013. [46974/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in her Department. [46994/18]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • CLÁR Programme
      533. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on a matter in respect of a CLÁR grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46479/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      534. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way in which...
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      535. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding applications for grant aid for projects (details supplied); when projects under these schemes will be finalised...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Expenditure
      536. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the timescale for the spending of local improvement scheme, LIS, funding can be postponed to March 2019 in order to allow county...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      537. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47006/18]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the perceived inequality that prohibits persons who are not in receipt of a social protection payment from applying for...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      539. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      540. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving reduced and varying rates of illness benefit payments over the past...
    • Fuel Allowance Payments
      541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46480/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      542. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit payment in the case of a person (details supplied) will be normalised; the status of changes to the...
    • Legislative Programme
      544. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will be progressed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      546. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 522 of 3 July 2018, if her attention has been drawn to inconsistencies regarding the...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason expenditure on jobseeker's benefit is expected to rise in 2019 when compared to 2018 as outlined in the budget...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      548. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      549. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies on employment schemes nationally in view of the reliance on these schemes to carry out essential work...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      550. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance becomes payable in the case of a person (details supplied) who was previously in receipt of a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      551. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes being applied to a practice (details supplied); her plans to make changes to this practice in the forthcoming...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      552. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive regular illness benefit payments; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      553. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to exclude a payment (details supplied) from the means test for social welfare payments in view of the nature of...
    • Illness Benefit Waiting Times
      554. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting payment for illness benefit in County Louth; the length of time these persons have been...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      556. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an illness benefit payment; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      557. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a full carer's allowance will be paid to a person (details supplied). [46719/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      558. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date for the commencement of the relevant provisions of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 such that Part 9 of...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      559. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a fuel allowance. [46766/18]
    • State Pensions
      560. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans to reinstate the State pension (transition) to prevent persons forced to retire at 65 years of age having...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be reached on a partial capacity benefit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      562. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46816/18]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      563. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
      564. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria in place when it comes to awarding the Christmas bonus in to the long-term unemployed in circumstances in which,...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason carer's contributions for a person (details supplied) do not count towards contributions in order to avail of...
    • Child Benefit Data
      566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of issuing a double child benefit payment to parents on the birth of a child; and if she will...
    • Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities
      567. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the programmes and schemes in place to assist persons with a disability to enter or stay in employment in tabular form; and...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      568. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension claim by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      569. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      570. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in her Department. [46999/18]
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      571. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears for a person (details supplied) will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47013/18]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who does not require fuel allowance can apply for telephone allowance separately; and if she will make a...
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      573. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1149 of 6 November 2018, the date on which the review of YESS will begin; the timeframe...
    • Labour Activation Programmes
      574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1149 of 6 November 2018, the date on which the evaluations of JobPath, JobsPlus and...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an entitlement to an invalidity pension following the submission of further...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      576. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a regular payment of illness benefit will issue to a person (details supplied). [47064/18]
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility
      578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will issue on a partial capacity benefit application by a person (details supplied). [47066/18]
    • Pensions Data
      579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the pension ages and available projected pension age increases in the EU. [47068/18]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit claim by a person (details supplied); when payment and arrears will issue; and if she will...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1103 of 6 November 2018, if her Department will advise a person (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Reviews
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she continues to ensure that undue hardship is not caused to recipients of social welfare payments in...
    • State Pensions
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address the issue of persons, including the self-employed, who have made contributions towards their pension but...
    • Carer's Allowance Data
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of carer's allowance receiving a payment in each of the past three years to date; and if she will...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Data
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for a State pension (non-contributory) received in each of the past four years to date; the number...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for jobseeker's allowance received in each of the past four years to date; the number approved and...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received for a domiciliary care allowance in each of the past five years to date; the number...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Reviews
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which due process and natural justice remains paramount in the context of dealing with social welfare...
    • State Pensions
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which efforts are being made to award State pensions to those men and women whose contribution record was...
    • Social Welfare Code
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her Department has direct contact with other jurisdictions with which a bilateral arrangement for social...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the Christmas bonus will be paid; the categories of social welfare recipients which will receive same; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      597. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in respect of various payments awaiting a decision for more than two months; and if she will make...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the housing project launched in Ballymun on 5 November 2018; and if there are other projects similar to...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications submitted to date under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number of applications that...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the tenant purchase scheme review report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47251/18]
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to sign off on the report of the local electoral area boundary committee; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy on the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the way...
    • Planning Investigations
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the findings of the Mulcahy report. [46502/18]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to commence the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to allow purchasers under the new affordable...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on housing waiting lists in each of the years 2014 to 2017, by local authority and by household size,...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the one-stage approval process for local authority social housing is now available for developments up to the value of...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be introduced to place an upper time limit on the use of family hubs or unsuitable emergency accommodation...
    • Water Charges
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if categories of properties (details supplied) are liable for commercial water charges. [46592/18]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes to be delivered per year from 2022 up to the end of the National Development Plan 2018-2027 by...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Funding
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if finance (details supplied) is available for Dublin City Council to develop the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ,...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the decision making process from inception to delivery for the development by public-private partnership of new housing in...
    • Regeneration Projects
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the Planning and Development Act 2000, he has given consideration to a strategic development zone in south and west...
    • Housing Estates
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing estates that are not taken in charge in County Tipperary; the names of these estates; the number of...
    • Planning Guidelines
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the planning laws will be carried out as they relate to unauthorised developments; if recent assessments have...
    • Local Authority Housing
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a decision will be made regarding a person (details supplied) as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electoral Register
      622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of online voter registration and other reforms of voter registration; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staffing requests received from the building control section of each local authority in each of the years 2014...
    • Emergency Accommodation Provision
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework...
    • Water Quality
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the ECJ case against Ireland for failure to meet its obligations under the terms of the urban wastewater...
    • Planning Guidelines
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the working group of rural planning guidelines; when he expects the work of the group to conclude;...
    • Water Meters
      628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding water allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Construction Industry Register Ireland
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated for Traveller accommodation to Galway city and county councils in each of the past five years; the funds...
    • Local Authority Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to creating a scheme that would allow each local authority to apply for funding in order to...
    • Water Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will seek bids for group sewerage schemes under the three-year Rural Water Programme 2019 to 2020; and if he will make...
    • Planning Guidelines
      633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 40 sq. m limit for exempt development (details supplied) will be examined with a view to increasing same in order to...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenants in each local authority paying a top-up above the prescribed housing assistance payment limits; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in his Department. [47003/18]
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount drawn down and spent in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, respectively, by Cork County Council for disability...
    • Local Authority Finances
      638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount owed by each local authority in relation to various forms of borrowings; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Functions
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to encourage or incentivise local authorities to use their compulsory purchase order, CPO, powers to buy up derelict...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults and children recorded on the pathway accommodation and support system, PASS, as in own door...
    • Protected Disclosures
      643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a detailed and full response will issue to a person (details supplied) who made a protected disclosure to his Department...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Built Heritage Investment Scheme
      644. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding avenues which are available to the owners of protected buildings in order to carry out essential works; and if she...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      645. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the policy regarding the need for note taking when Ministers and-or Ministers of State meet business and other leaders; the...
    • Waterways Ireland
      646. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timeframe for commencing the County Kildare part of the Barrow Blueway; and the timeframe for completion of the blueway in...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      650. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if officials from the National Parks and Wildlife Service will meet with fishermen to discuss the seal population at a location...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings she has held with environmental organisations since taking office. [46686/18]
    • National Raised Bog Management Plan
      656. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent to date on the proposal to move nine turf cutters from Ballynafagh bog to Coolree bog, County Kildare. [46692/18]
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Data
      660. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of households cutting turf on SACs that have availed of a turf supply in place of their own extraction; and the amount...
    • Gender Equality
      663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the latest report in respect to the gender pay gap in the fields of theatre and culture; the median wage for...
    • National Concert Hall
      664. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the timetable of the reconstruction and development of the National Concert Hall; if it will be closed during the course of the...
    • Commemorative Events
      666. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for War of Independence commemorations, particularly in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      667. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of senior positions held by both men and women, respectively, in her Department. [46996/18]
    • Arts Centres
      668. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position on the request for additional funding for a project (details supplied); when a final decision will be made; and if...

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