Written answers
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
- Department of An Taoiseach
- European Council Meetings
26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the October 2018 European Council meeting in Brussels; the issues discussed at this summit; and the details of bilateral meetings...
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
37. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Ms Arlene Foster. [45008/18]
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned lands suitable for residential units; the number of residential units built on publicly owned land...
- Irish Water
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Irish Water moving towards a single utility; the reason for the separation of Irish Water from a company (details...
- Proposed Legislation
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to bring forward the legislative changes to the rental sector as indicated in budget 2019; the additional...
- Derelict Sites
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress he has made in tackling the issue of derelict sites in cities and towns, which halt progressive development of...
- Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the recent announcement of the mica redress scheme; the date in 2019 from which homes will begin to be repaired...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made on reducing the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47175/18]
- Approved Housing Bodies
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to the setting up of housing co-operatives under the aegis of the local authorities with a view...
- Traveller Accommodation
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the spending of local authority Traveller accommodation budgets for 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he...
- Pyrite Resolution Board
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to address the fact that the Pyrite Resolution Board has not heard appeals regarding persons who...
- Vacant Sites Levy
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites on the register of each local authority that will be subject to the vacant sites levy due to be applied in...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider ordering a stay on all sales of public land by local authorities or State agencies that could provide...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the roll-out of the serviced sites fund for affordable housing; the number of affordable units that will be...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce amendments to the tenant purchase scheme; if tenants who were allocated council houses that were...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to accelerate the opening up of vacant council properties to address the acute homelessness problem in cities; and if...
- Local Authority Housing Data
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a comprehensive list of all unoccupied local authority properties in the Dublin city area is available; and if the time in...
- Land Development Agency
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Land Development Agency and the use of public land for housing; and if he will make a statement...
- Housing Estates
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the taking in charge initiative measure 2 will be published; the level of funding that will be available in...
- Departmental Correspondence
92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department issued a circular (details supplied) independent of him; and if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Student Accommodation
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his commitment to bring students living in student-specific accommodation under the protection of the Residential...
- Planning Issues
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to initiating a review into one-off builds prevalent in rural areas; his views on the issue that...
- Approved Housing Bodies
95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the approved housing body component of housing targets for 2019 due to the reclassification of such bodies...
- Homeless Persons Data
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the recategorisation of persons on the PASS system and the statistics on homelessness; and if he will make...
- Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing many families on low incomes that are ineligible for social housing...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review
100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the statutory instrument giving effect to the recommendations in the reports of the local electoral area boundary...
- Home Repossessions Rate
101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he maintains statistics on the number of repossessions; and the services available to those that become homeless following...
- Rental Sector
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to regulate the short-term letting sector; and if short-term letting providers will be liable for...
- National Planning Framework
105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that population caps detailed in the national framework document will not leave persons homeless, push up...
- Rent Pressure Zones
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the housing crisis in County Wexford; if he will consider establishing Gorey as a rent pressure zone; and...
- Wastewater Treatment
107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the need for a national policy to deal with developer-led wastewater treatment systems will be addressed; and if he will...
- National Planning Framework
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the regional spatial and economic strategy with specific regard to the plans for County Kildare; and if he...
- Local Authority Funding
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a structure can be formed for operation by the local authorities for the purpose of obtaining sufficient capital at the...
- Housing Assistance Payment
112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increasing difficulty potential tenants are having finding properties that accept HAP;...
- Commercial Rates Exemptions
113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if early childhood care and community educations services will be exempted from paying commercial rates; if his attention has...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers that local authorities have in terms of tenancy agreements in dealing with families that have continually broken...
- Housing Assistance Payment Implementation
117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord register of HAP properties will be made available to persons in advance of taking up a tenancy with HAP support;...
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be allocated for the regeneration of a location (details supplied) and the construction of social housing on...
- Residential Property Sales
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the matter of newly completed apartment blocks being sold in bulk to investment funds and pension funds instead...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he met with officials from Fingal County Council regarding the roll-out of affordable housing; and if he will make a...
- Home Loan Scheme
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful applications for home loans under the Rebuilding Ireland scheme for first-time buyers; and the number...
- Regulatory Impact Assessments
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the regulatory impact analysis of the new electoral commission Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Grant Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase funding for housing grants provided by each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Planning Issues
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the planning laws as they relate to unauthorised developments will be carried out; if a recent assessment has...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of housing projects that had been under construction by a company (details supplied) before it went into...
- Electoral Register
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a review of the electoral registration system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47103/18]
- Land Development Agency
129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for Columb Barracks, Mullingar, with respect to the new Land Development Agency. [39914/18]
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders undertaken by Wexford County Council other than for national road projects from 2011...
- Local Authority Meetings
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supports will be provided to county councils to enable them to provide for webcasting of local authority meetings in...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing construction targets for all local authorities in 2018; the number that have been delivered to date in each...
- Housing Assistance Payment Data
136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the individual, annual and weekly HAP targets set by his Department for Galway city and county councils for each of the past...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Remuneration
137. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which members of the Defence Forces can make representations to his Department regarding their pay and conditions; and if he will...
- Defence Forces Medicinal Products
138. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces medical service is continuing to prescribe the antimalarial drug Lariam for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Northern Ireland
139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Northern Executive and Assembly will be reconvened in the near future; and if he has discussed this with his British counterpart...
- Department of Finance
- Revenue Commissioners
140. To ask the Minister for Finance the substantive differences both in terms of capacity, scope, ability, personnel and powers between the large cases division that deals with high wealth...
- VAT Rate Increases
141. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax increase (details supplied) will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47372/18]
- Revenue Commissioners
142. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners will respond to a request for a document for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Foireann Roinne
143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cad iad na socruithe atá curtha i bhfeidhm dóibh siúd a chuireann isteach ar phoist tríd an tSeirbhís um...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education Expenditure
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the share of public expenditure allocated to voted education expenditure in each year since 2010, in tabular form. [47235/18]
- School Transport Provision
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied) with school transport. [47277/18]
- Schools Building Projects Status
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied); the contacts he has had with Fingal County Council on...
- Schools Building Projects
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a case (details supplied) against his Department is impacting on all potential new school builds; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Examinations Appeals
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student that is not satisfied with their leaving certificate results in agricultural science cannot appeal the project portion of...
- Special Educational Needs Staff
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent cuts to the number of special needs assistants at a school (details supplied); his plans to fund the restoration of an...
- School Accommodation Provision
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied). [47299/18]
- Schools Building Contractors
160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the building projects that are under way with a company (details supplied); his plans to continue with these contracts in view of the serious...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Station Refurbishment
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47228/18]
- Road Traffic Offences
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to address the problem and threat to public safety as a result of the widespread misuse of quad bikes...
- Visa Applications
163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a long stay visa in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
- Citizenship Applications
164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship being processed; the number of active applications being processed for more than...
- Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47350/18]
- Legislative Process RIA
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to conduct research into the implications of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017;...
- Department of Health
- First Aid Training
169. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person may apply to become an instructor in mental health first aid as per the course licence purchased by the HSE and assisted by a service...
- Health Services Provision
170. To ask the Minister for Health if more frequent appointments will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [47226/18]
- Mental Health Services Provision
171. To ask the Minister for Health when work will commence on the new acute mental health unit in County Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47229/18]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
172. To ask the Minister for Health if a delivery date in respect of equipment ordered for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be established. [47232/18]
- Traveller Health Action Plan
173. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national Traveller health action plan; if a planning advisory body for Traveller health to drive delivery will be established; if the...
- Transport Support Scheme
174. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the legislation for the new transport support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47234/18]
- Hospital Facilities
175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out maintenance works in a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47241/18]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
176. To ask the Minister for Health when the FreeStyle Libre device will be available to adult diabetics to assist in the management and control of their illness; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Card Administration
177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the awarding of medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47244/18]
- HSE Planning
178. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts the HSE is putting in place to ensure the large number of persons on trolleys at Sligo University Hospital does not continue for the duration of...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
179. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reforms of the fair deal scheme relating to small businesses and farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47252/18]
- Respite Care Services Provision
180. To ask the Minister for Health if a respite payment for a person (details supplied) can be recouped; if a future respite payment will be granted or fulfilled; and if he will make a statement...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
181. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a reply has not issued from the HSE regarding the number of reviews per laboratory (details supplied) in view of evidence provided to the Committee...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
182. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines that patients with multiple sclerosis have access to through the healthcare system; the difference between medicines that patients here with...
- Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
183. To ask the Minister for Health if he is actively engaged in a process to guarantee the future of Lifford Community Hospital; if proposals are being considered for a replacement facility for...
- Ambulance Service Provision
184. To ask the Minister for Health if an ambulance service was not available in Maynooth on 7 November 2018; if only three ambulances were serving the area between Navan, Monaghan and Cavan on...
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
185. 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
186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant posts in whole-time equivalent terms in the CAMHS service for each CHO in tabular form. [47272/18]
- Hospitals Car Park Charges
187. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 479, 496 and 498 of 6 November 2018, the reason for the delay in the review into car parking charges in public hospitals...
- Commencement of Legislation
188. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delays in the commencement of Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; when these sections will commence; and if he...
- Hospital Equipment
189. To ask the Minister for Health if software (details supplied) and equipment for foetal assessment scanning and anomaly scanning is being used in hospitals here. [47284/18]
- Medical Card Eligibility
192. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not eligible for a full medical card. [47287/18]
- Brexit Issues
193. To ask the Minister for Health if a current service (details supplied) provided in County Derry will continue after Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47288/18]
- Hospital Staff Data
194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ultrasonographers operating in maternity hospitals in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47289/18]
- Birth Rates
195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [47290/18]
- Hospital Procedures
196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of 20-week foetal anomaly scans carried out in maternity hospitals in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by community health...
- Hospital Staff Data
197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of foetal medicine experts operating in maternity hospitals by community health organisation and by individual maternity hospital in tabular form;...
- Midwifery Services
198. To ask the Minister for Health the number of midwives operating in the health service in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
199. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [47294/18]
- Health Services Funding
200. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional full-year expenditure needed in each of the next five years in order to maintain existing levels of health services. [47295/18]
- Psychological Assessments Waiting Times
202. To ask the Minister for Health when he will appoint a school age psychologist for counties Sligo and Leitrim to carry out assessments to diagnose autism; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Procedures
205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient elective procedures and surgeries by specialty that were cancelled in Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2014 to...
- Hospitals Data
207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients outsourced at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Emergency Departments Data
208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists Data
209. To ask the Minister for Health the outpatient waiting times at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by speciality in periods (details...
- Hospitals Data
211. To ask the Minister for Health the operating budget for Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Hospitals Funding
220. To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects agreed and funded at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the details and overview of...
- Hospital Overcrowding
222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol was initiated at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if...
- Patient Data
224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that do not collect inpatient and outpatient cancellation data; the reason these data are not being collected; if there are plans to...
- Commencement of Legislation
225. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to commence the Children and Families Relationships (Amendment) Act 2018 (details supplied). [47343/18]
- HSE Planning
226. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being put in place for hospitals (details supplied) as part of the winter 2018 acute hospital plans; if extra beds are being provided; if so,...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
227. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the family risk clinic at St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, which was suspended in April 2018; his plans for the reopening of this clinic; and if...
- Medical Card Applications
228. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47353/18]
- Cancer Screening Programmes
229. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the requests from women for their slides from the cervical screening process by laboratory (details supplied). [47361/18]
- Psychological Assessments
230. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department allowed CAMHS in counties Sligo and Leitrim to cease providing services in assessing children for autism and refer them to the...
- Respite Care Services Provision
231. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a service. [47368/18]
- Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
232. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the delays in regard to public ultrasounds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47373/18]
- General Practitioner Services
233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47392/18]
- Hospital Facilities
234. To ask the Minister for Health if the author of the Herity report into cardiac services in University Hospital Waterford had been involved in contract negotiations regarding catheterisation...
- Hospital Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days per week the mobile catheterisation laboratory in University Hospital Waterford is working. [47396/18]
- National Maternity Hospital Location
239. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposal to develop the new national maternity hospital on the grounds of St. Vincent's University Hospital; the way in which it is planned...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- GLAS Payments
241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Cork; and if a repayment will be reconsidered. [47227/18]
- Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the category a farmer should put down on the BPS-ANC application form in respect of tenure of land in a case in which the farmers is...
- Transfer of Entitlements
243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if entitlements will be returned to a person (details supplied) under the CAP 2015 regulations as advised by the Office of the...
- Pesticide Use
244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the length of time Coillte is obliged to keep records of pesticide purchase and use, that is, the number of years such records must...
- Harbours and Piers Development
246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47297/18]
- Sheep Imports
247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep imported from Northern Ireland for the purposes of breeding and slaughter in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and...
- GLAS Payments
248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 20 September 2018, when a person (details supplied) will receive the outstanding payment...
- TAMS Payments
249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a TAMS grant payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ash Dieback Threat
250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to prevent the spread of dieback chalara affecting ash forestry here; the studies undertaken by his Department...
- Fishery Harbour Centres
252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a meeting with a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47348/18]
- Transfer of Entitlements Application
253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a transfer of entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be completed; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Services for People with Disabilities
254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if wheelchair access to boats will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Rail Network
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to electrify the Connolly to Maynooth rail line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47243/18]
- Road Network
256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding checks on national primary routes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Bodies Communications
257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Bus Éireann and the National Transport Authority are not answering email queries...
- National Sports Policy Framework
258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the proposed large-scale sport infrastructure fund that is being established for larger sports projects; the application...
- Legislative Programme
259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will introduce the amendment to the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 that will ensure that a ban on motorised rickshaws carrying...
- Public Transport Expenditure
260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 18 October 2018, if funding has been allocated under the existing capital plan or other...
- Public Transport Initiatives
261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the upgrading and development works for the Royal Canal cycleway and walkway for the area between Ashtown to Phibsborough...
- Pension Provisions
262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to address the imbalance in pension increases for members of a fund (details supplied) in view of the fact that...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
263. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 981 of 6 November 2018, if she will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Adoption Records Provision
264. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when adoption records from the Protestant adoption board will be available. [47300/18]
- Child Abuse
265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in the recording of abuse claims, the field "founded or unfounded" exists on the NIIS information system as used by Tusla; the...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Burial Grounds
266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a burial site (details supplied) of historical importance can be accessed by members of the public for historical review in view of...
- Library Services Provision
267. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Donegal town library, which was recently sanctioned; the timeline for the delivery and the completion date of this...
- Dormant Accounts Fund Grants
268. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application for funding by an organisation (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Carer's Benefit Applications
269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [47231/18]
- Illness Benefit Applications
271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if she...
- Working Family Payment Applications
272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) for a working family payment will be processed; and if she will make a...
- Illness Benefit Eligibility
273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an illness benefit payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Illness Benefit Payments
274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a decreased level of illness benefit payment issued recently to a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Invalidity Pension Eligibility
275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an invalidity pension payment will be reinstated in the case of person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Payments
276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving a reduced rate of partial capacity benefit; when the full rate will be...
- State Pensions Reform
277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on when the total contribution system will be introduced for the State pension; if there will be...
- Illness Benefit Payments
278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be processed to completion; and if she will make...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding
279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of a special purpose vehicle by a council (details supplied) for the investment of funds in...
- Solar Energy Guidelines
280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop guidelines for the construction of solar energy sites. [41178/18]
- Wind Energy Guidelines
281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the revision of the wind energy development guidelines; and the timeframe for completion of the revision. [41177/18]
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding
282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an extension of the funding intended for local authority house building is envisaged in view of the urgency of the...
- Referendum Campaigns
283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the referendums he is planning after the blasphemy referendum of 26 October 2018. [43912/18]
- Rental Sector
284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered increasing the 90-day limit as regards a company (details supplied) for primary residences in keeping...
- Pyrite Remediation Programme
286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the obligations of the Pyrite Resolution Board or Housing Agency to require a builder that carried out remediation works as...
- European Parliament Elections
288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the opportunity of legislation relating to the European Parliament constituencies will be used to amend the Electoral Act...
- Irish Water
289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all refund cheques issued to Irish Water customers have been credited to their accounts; if not, the amount outstanding on...
- Grant Payments
290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the manner in which residents from outside counties Donegal and Mayo will be able to access the mica redress scheme in...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new local authority house starts, excluding activity generated by approved housing bodies, recorded in each...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which adequate funding remains available to Kildare County Council for the provision of disabled persons and...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families homeless and on Kildare County Council's housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which each local authority can make available developed housing sites for families in a position to meet their...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have sought additional capital for the acquisition of building lands on which it might be proposed to...
- Local Authority Housing Eligibility
300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to be in a position to revise upwards the income limits appertaining to eligibility for local authority houses...
- Building Regulations
301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that adequate structural guarantees now exist in the building sector to protect the consumer; and if he...
