Written answers

Tuesday, 12 March 2019

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Probation and Welfare Service Data
      12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in probation services linked in with a probation officer; if sufficient community services are available;...
    • Garda Deployment
      13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new recruits allocated and transfers in of existing gardaí in the past four years to each of the Cork Garda...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic collisions involving heavy goods vehicles and public service vehicles in each of the years 2015 to...
    • Protected Disclosures Data
      15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the work of the panel of barristers examining protected disclosures within An Garda Síochána; the number...
    • Garda Stations
      16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the efforts of the Office of Public Works regarding the proposed new Garda station at a location (details...
    • Prisoner Welfare
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who died in prisons since 2011 to date; if he is satisfied that the Irish Prison Service is adequately...
    • Crime Data
      18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received reports and statistical analysis of the number of crimes in which a knife was the primary weapon used. [11980/19]
    • Garda Civilian Staff Data
      19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff employed by An Garda Síochána; and the percentage of the overall An Garda...
    • Direct Provision System
      20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to ensure that residents in direct provision centres are being advised of their right to vote in local...
    • Garda Deployment
      21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in County Donegal in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11971/19]
    • Brexit Preparations
      22. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in respect of providing additional gardaí to the Border area; and if it is confirmed that 600...
    • Gambling Legislation
      23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 was last reviewed in view of the increase in gaming arcades; the locations where Part III...
    • Protected Disclosures
      24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the deliberations of the panel of barristers he has convened in respect of protected disclosures from current and...
    • Victim Support Services
      25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position with regard to the release of information pertinent to cases of familicide by organisations with relevant...
    • Brexit Preparations
      26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the need to provide additional staffing resources to the Border region in 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Court Poor Box
      27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the operation of the court poor box is to continue for the foreseeable future. [11981/19]
    • Victim Support Services
      28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which he has examined the situation experienced by families suffering in the aftermath of familicide with...
    • Crime Levels
      29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the recent incidents of burglaries and thefts in Cork city over the Christmas 2018 period;...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data
      30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases and applications on hand at the end of each of the years 2015 to 2018 with the Criminal Injuries...
    • Community Alert Programme
      31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to concerns from community text alert groups about a new centralised system for telephone calls...
    • Organised Crime
      32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he remains satisfied with the adequacy of resources available to An Garda Síochána to assist in...
    • Prison Staff
      33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the destinations of prison officers to be recruited in 2019; the number required to replace retired officers; and if he will...
    • Direct Provision System
      34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recent alleged arson attacks on possible sites for direct provision and asylum seekers; if he has discussed the...
    • Garda Deployment
      35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí who were and are assigned to Swords Garda station in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to...
    • Prisoner Data
      36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a report will be commissioned on the extent to which persons with a care history are represented within the prison...
    • Crime Prevention
      37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered the installation of CCTV cameras at motorway junctions to help act against rural crime; and if he will make...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for upgrading refugee centres nationally. [12007/19]
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed the provision of additional information technology resources for An Garda Síochána with the Garda...
    • Garda Deployment
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in the Dublin northern and western divisions as of 1 January 2019; and the...
    • Visa Data
      41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of spouses and-or family members of international nurses working here awaiting visas; the range of waiting times; and...
    • Northern Ireland
      42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement he has had with his counterpart in the UK in respect of the threat of violence from so-called dissident groups....
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications in respect of an award under the terms of the addendum to the Magdalen restorative justice ex gratia...
    • International Conventions
      44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, known as the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for a hotel (details supplied) to remain serving as a refugee centre. [12006/19]
    • Judicial Appointments
      46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his role in the appointment of the Master of the High Court. [7982/19]
    • Northern Ireland
      47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recent letter bomb sent to London from an address in Dublin; and if he has spoken to his UK counterpart about...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Parades
      49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that members of the Reserve Defence Force in some counties are being prevented from and not...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to comments by the chief medical officer of the Defence Forces (details supplied); and if soldiers have been...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      52. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of backdating claims for Army Rangers, chefs, accountants and recruits to the dates recommended by adjudicators in each case....
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 5 March 2019, the breakdown of the expenditure on capability development; and if he will make a...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      54. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding the mid-life refit of the LÉ Róisín. [12048/19]
    • Defence Forces Review
      55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to conduct an independent external review of the Defence Forces human resources management in view of the retention crisis in the...
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      56. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a combined pension for service with a number of defence-related bodies; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Brexit Expenditure
      57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding expended by his Department in promoting and hosting all Getting Ireland Brexit Ready events to date; the costs associated with...
    • Northern Ireland
      58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to a family (details supplied) since a British Supreme Court ruling. [11930/19]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if information on a series of matters (details supplied) regarding the types of person on the 2019 election observation roster will be...
    • Middle East Issues
      60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recently published UN report that indicated the actions by Israeli authorities in respect of protests in Gaza may amount to...
    • Passport Applications Data
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons from Great Britain and Northern Ireland who have applied for an Irish passport in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to...
    • Legislative Measures
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to update the Passports Act 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11729/19]
    • Northern Ireland
      66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the issue of a referendum on a united Ireland or a Border poll is included on the risk register of his Department; if the risk committee...
    • Human Rights
      67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he advocated for the strengthening of corporate accountability and increased regulation of the activities of...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the recently issued appeals terms of reference would apply to a person (details supplied); if the independent appeals panel will review...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will be prioritising visits to affected communities in Colombia in view of the new embassy in place in Bogota and his commitment to...
    • Climate Change Policy
      71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 5 March 2019, the number of grants made versus loans, that is, quantity and monetary value...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 6 March 2019, if additional concerns (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the suppression of protests in Sudan by the government of President Al-Bashir; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Northern Ireland
      74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting in the Irish Embassy in London with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Ms Karen Bradley; the...
    • Official Engagements
      75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the dinner he attended in the Irish Embassy in London on 6 March 2019; the guests who attended; the issues that were...
    • Northern Ireland
      79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed with the British Foreign Minister and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland the way in which the victims of...
    • Brexit Issues
      83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received an update on the meetings that the British Attorney General has been having with EU officials on the withdrawal treaty and...
    • Insurance Coverage
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies increasing premiums or not covering persons who are renting rooms to students as part of the rent-a-room...
    • Mortgage Lending
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the rules the Central Bank has in place on promotional and other material relating to mortgage offers; if the Central Bank has power to instruct that such...
    • Financial Services Sector
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if the car finance model being investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK in which credit brokers are paid commission based on interest charged...
    • Insurance Costs
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance when the next quarterly update from the cost of insurance working group will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11505/19]
    • Personal Injury Claims
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate claims harvesting companies in the area of personal injuries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11527/19]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners will not accept correspondence from agricultural colleges (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      91. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated by the sugar sweetened drinks tax since its introduction; if he will provide a revised estimate of the revenue raised from the tax in a...
    • VAT Rate Application
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the work being undertaken in respect of addressing anomalies in food and drink VAT rates as part of deliberations on upcoming changes to VAT law at EU level;...
    • Tax Code
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the threshold band of inheritance tax payable for nieces and nephews in view of the high rate of tax that they are liable to pay on...
    • Motor Insurance Data
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid by policy holders by way of insurance premiums in each of the years since 2010 in respect of class 1 business motor insurance in tabular form;...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance if banks are required to offer customers in mortgage distress the option of applying for the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance the EU contributions to be made by Ireland in each of the next five years; the estimated figure if the contributions were based on best forecasts; and if he...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance when persons (details supplied) will receive the remaining 35% of their entitlements following the collapse of a company; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU Directives
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a derogation in the proposed transposition process of IORP II for small single member pension schemes as was provided in the previous directive...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance the views of the Central Bank on potentially expanding the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; if he requested the Central Bank to provide a formal opinion...
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance if funding will be provided for the purchase of an additional mobile X-ray scanner for the Revenue Commissioners; and the additional equipment that has been...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to have a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart, Mr. Giovanni Tria. [11812/19]
    • Public Interest Directors Data
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance the banks in which he or the State has a share holding; the role of public interest directors who can be appointed by him in respect of the banks; the details...
    • Insurance Costs
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made to establish a national claims database as recommended by the cost of insurance working group; and if he will make a statement...
    • Insurance Coverage
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance if the working group identified in Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 5 March 2019 has identified areas in which there should be increased provision of flood...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans for a flood relief scheme (details supplied) in County Cork; if the required level of funding is committed; the next...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding renovation works at Ballymahon and Longford Garda stations. [11470/19]
    • Pension Provisions
      121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 2 May 2018, if a copy of the actuarial tables referred to will be provided. [11539/19]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the work carried out by OPW in the areas of Ballymakeogh, Clonsingle and Shower Bog road further to the serious flooding of 2018; the...
    • Garda Stations
      123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans for the refurbishment of a Garda station (details supplied); the timeline for the completion of same; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the refusal of a supplementary pension for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Loan Scheme
      125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of consultation the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has with him about extra funding for the Rebuilding...
    • Office of the Ombudsman Staff
      126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the necessary funding for the recruitment of two additional assistant legal advisers at assistant principal, AP, level for the Office...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of flood defence projects delayed due to planning issues. [12347/19]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a person (details supplied); the way in which neurological conditions are specifically catered for in the school...
    • Departmental Circulars
      130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools here that implemented circular 0038/2018. [11525/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Facilities
      132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the costs associated with conducting a national audit of secondary schools in respect of the equipment, infrastructure and facilities available...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a matter relating to a school amalgamation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11589/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the building programme of a school (details supplied). [11642/19]
    • School Accommodation
      138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new set of regulations and standards is being drawn up for temporary prefabs being purchased or leased for school purposes; if the new...
    • School Staff
      139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a concessionary post of administrative principal will be approved for schools (details supplied); the progress to date in respect of each...
    • Schools Establishment
      140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed location of the new second level Educate Together school for Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11702/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage the building project at a school (details supplied) is at; and the timeframe for construction to commence at the school. [11708/19]
    • Home School Community Liaison Scheme
      142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount it would cost in a full year if 75 additional rural co-ordinator posts under the home school liaison services were provided;...
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Information Commissioner and Data Protection Commissioner have been consulted with regard to proposed legislation (details supplied) to...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the allocation of special education teaching support for a school (details supplied) will be reassessed on the grounds of exceptional...
    • Technological Universities Data
      146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and location of technological universities nationally; and the institutes of technology which merged to form these technological...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the construction of a school extension (details supplied); when contact will be made with the school on the matter; if the...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is fair that funding will not be granted to resolve building conditions in a classroom at a school (details supplied)...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has included autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes in its regeneration plans. [11921/19]
    • Technological Universities Status
      157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a motion from a union (details supplied) that Dundalk Institute of Technology should apply to become a technological university...
    • Schools Building Projects
      158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the number of prequalified contractors has been reduced from ten to eight in the re-tendering process for the two schools in Maynooth...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Data
      160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for a third level maintenance grant refused in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019 as a result of an...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for an extension and-or new build; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Refurbishment
      162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name, location and specific energy conservation measures of the schools set to receive deep energy retrofits in 2019, in tabular form; and if...
    • Education and Training Boards
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12092/19]
    • DEIS Status
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be considered for and granted delivering equality of opportunity in schools, DEIS,...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with a person (details supplied) to discuss the educational needs of the person's child. [12137/19]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant assistance is available for students (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12140/19]
    • Technological Universities Status
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an institute of technology (details supplied) is in the process of establishing a formal amalgamation with a college of further and higher...
    • School Placement
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rights parents of and pupils themselves have in terms of appealing a school decision to reject an application to attend for post-primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address a matter (details supplied) relating to children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12259/19]
    • School Transport Applications
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for school transport for a pupil (details supplied) in County Cork; the steps he will take to ensure transport will...
    • School Curriculum
      175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is sufficient that the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA, in terms of syllabus specifications, merely...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Parental Leave
      176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the additional two weeks paid parental leave for children under one year as outlined in budget 2019; and if he...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure that the OPW secures another venue in Carndonagh, County Donegal, while the local courthouse will be...
    • Residency Permits
      178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11482/19]
    • Immigration Status
      179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current or potential residency status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11483/19]
    • Irish Prison Service
      180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the smoking ban is not being enforced in prisons including Wheatfield Prison, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and the steps...
    • Gambling Legislation
      181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the areas in which Part III of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 is in force; the measures in place to ensure that District...
    • Wards of Court
      182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the legislative proposals to establish a central funds office to provide for the audit of wards of court funds by...
    • Assisted Decision Making
      185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the full commissioning of the decision support service; and the achievements to date. [11659/19]
    • Legislative Measures
      186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is planned to bring forward a gambling control Bill in view of the ongoing problems identified with the Gaming and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adult applications for naturalisation based on Irish association granted in 2018. [11687/19]
    • Garda Transport Provision
      190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has recently put out to tender a contract to supply new marked Garda cars and vans to the fleet;...
    • Forensic Science Ireland
      191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full year cost of recruiting two additional forensic anthropologists for Forensic Science Ireland; and if he will...
    • Garda Resources
      192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new marked and unmarked Garda cars and vans that were attached to the Garda water unit in 2017, 2018 and to date...
    • Prison Service Data
      193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 482 of 15 January 2019, the number of Irish Sign Language interpreting hours provided to...
    • Legislative Programme
      194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Registration of Clubs Acts 1904 to 2008. [11739/19]
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons, including unaccompanied minors, Ireland committed to accepting under the resettlement and relocation...
    • Garda Equipment
      197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a report from the Garda authorities regarding the issuing of body-worn cameras to An Garda...
    • Legislative Programme
      198. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956. [11815/19]
    • Direct Provision Payments
      199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an agreement with a company (details supplied) was signed to provide a direct provision centre at a hotel for an initial...
    • Direct Provision System
      200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a letter was issued to confirm that a hotel (details supplied) met all the health and safety requirements to be used as a...
    • Garda Transport Data
      202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles allocated to each Garda station in the Garda R and J districts in each of the years 2015 to 2018...
    • Garda Recruitment
      203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda crime prevention officer post within the Garda Dublin north division will be filled on a full-time basis in view...
    • Fines Data
      204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have failed to pay fines imposed by the courts since the commencement of the Fines (Payment and...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a policy in place as to the way in which the State would respond in the eventuality that an Irish citizen becomes...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data
      206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in line to proceed to a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal for consideration, namely,...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
      207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 95, 96 and 97 of 28 February 2019, the meaning of applications received but not actively...
    • Garda Stations
      208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans of the Office of Public Works for the tendering of new Garda stations in County Cork in 2019; the locations of those...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he can intervene to ensure that children at risk are protected from being forced into crime or...
    • Courts Service Data
      210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 of 5 March 2019, if the value of the fines imposed by the court as requested will be...
    • Departmental Consultations
      211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the result of the public consultation carried out by his Department on the impending decision regarding daylight saving time;...
    • Probate Data
      212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for the granting of probate in the Probate Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12127/19]
    • Garda Data
      213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the Roscommon and Longford division and the Galway division in each of the years 2010 to...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capacity of a centre (details supplied); if it is at full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12190/19]
    • Proposed Legislation
      215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of legislation to tackle the ongoing issue of scrambler and quad bikes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Visas Data
      216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in considering applications under the special scheme for non-EEA nationals who held a student permission...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Data
      217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the qualification criteria for the immigrant investment programme; the turnaround time and number of applications for...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the capacity of a centre (details supplied) to accommodate additional asylum seekers and their families;...
    • Direct Provision System
      219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the tendering process for direct provision services within 40 km of Newbridge, County Kildare, has concluded; if so, the...
    • Garda Deployment
      220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Strokestown Garda station, County Roscommon, can expect to return to its five permanent gardaí status. [12342/19]
    • Northern Ireland
      223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his Department has met with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12363/19]
    • Crime Prevention
      224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which sufficient provision continues to be made to intercept and prevent suspected mail bombing attempts; if he...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the Criminal Assets Bureau continues to pursue organised crime activity; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Strength
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which Garda numbers have increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12377/19]
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the upgrading of Garda stations nationally is scheduled for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prisoner Data
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons serving long-term prison sentences for murder; the number scheduled for review or release; and if he will...
    • Garda Equipment
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which the most modern technology is available to An Garda Síochána in the fight against crime; and if...
    • Gangland Crime
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he remains satisfied that adequate resources are made available to An Garda Síochána to enable it...
    • Prisoner Data
      231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in various prisons nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12383/19]
    • Crime Data
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have reoffended while on bail in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12384/19]
    • Prisoner Data
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons deemed to have absconded and who still remain free over the past ten years; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Promotions
      234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional positions vacant and remaining to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12386/19]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Intellectual Property Management
      235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to publish a task force on digital piracy. [12146/19]
    • Regional Development Initiatives
      236. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which her Department continues to promote rural areas for investment through technology; and if she will make a...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an employment permit will be granted to a person (details supplied); and the recourse the person has to maintain current employment...
    • Job Creation Data
      239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the full extent of job creation throughout the regions in the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11802/19]
    • Job Creation
      240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which enterprise and innovation continues to feature as a basis for job creation throughout all parts of the country;...
    • Research Funding Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the gross expenditure on research and development as a percentage of GDP and GNI; the average gross expenditure as a percentage of GDP...
    • Regional Action Plan for Jobs
      244. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date on the implementation plans for jobs for the midlands region by county; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation Data
      245. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the additional jobs created in 2018 in the Border and west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11867/19]
    • IDA Ireland Portfolio
      246. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the IDA is working with Enterprise Ireland to secure a tenant for a location (details supplied); and if it will consider putting...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      247. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will consider providing supports to an industry (details supplied) as a result of the recent regulatory changes which have...
    • Regional Enterprise Development Fund Data
      248. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications made to the regional enterprise development fund; the number of approved grants made under the fund by...
    • Trade Agreements
      249. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether it is appropriate for her Department to object to trade deals that do not satisfy a precondition (details...
    • Brexit Supports
      250. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applicants and participants in Brexit schemes and supports provided by her Department or agencies under her remit in...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      253. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the future growth loan scheme announced in budget 2018 will open for applications; the terms and conditions of this scheme; and...
    • Brexit Supports
      254. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of food businesses that have applied for working capital under the Brexit loan scheme which opened in March 2018; the...
  • Department of Health
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      255. To ask the Minister for Health when products of a company (details supplied) will be dispensed through general practitioners or pharmacies here in order to avoid persons having to travel...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      256. To ask the Minister for Health if an audit of children or adults in long-term residential care has been carried out; the costs associated with the care and stay of such persons during their...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      258. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); if they can be placed on a cancellation list; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation
      259. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which private sector IVF is regulated; his plans in place in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11465/19]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      260. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the replacement and refurbishment of 90 community nursing units nationally announced on 26 January 2016, in tabular form; the funding allocated...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy
      261. To ask the Minister for Health the funding made available in 2019 to support the implementation of the national neurorehabilitation strategy following publication of the implementation plan...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      262. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times he met with a person (details supplied); the issues discussed; if his officials attended the meeting; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      263. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no funding is available to transport young adults with disabilities to day care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11490/19]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision
      264. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the public IVF scheme operates; the way in which it is regulated; the criteria for accessing the scheme; his plans in this regard; and if he...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      265. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 26 February 2019, the details of interactions including dates, substance of advice and position taken by...
    • HSE Staff Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the HSE on 1 March 2019 or the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area in tabular form. [11500/19]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      268. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the position to be filled at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, which has been with the health business services division for advertising...
    • General Practitioner Services
      269. To ask the Minister for Health if a general practitioner surgery (details supplied) will be excluded from panel appointments going forward due to the fact that the surgery is operating at...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times
      270. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for treatment under the NTPF for public patients seeking wisdom tooth removal or impacted teeth removal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Properties
      272. To ask the Minister for Health the intended use of a building (details supplied) acquired by the HSE in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11536/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      273. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to relocate 33 persons from a home (details supplied); if those persons will be relocated together to a complex; if they will be dispersed to other...
    • Obesity Strategy
      274. To ask the Minister for Health the research which has been undertaken on evidence based fiscal measures to support healthy eating and lifestyles as per action point 1.8 of A Healthy Weight...
    • Maternity Services
      277. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the breastfeeding action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11557/19]
    • Public Health Policy
      281. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the HSE programmes, cook it and healthy food made easy, in 2018 in terms of targets and attendances; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of external consultants employed on a full-time basis by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI; and the levels within the organisation at...
    • Ambulance Service Accommodation
      288. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency accommodation is provided by the HSE for nursing staff of St. Mary's Hospital in a building (details supplied); if so, the number of managers of...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      290. To ask the Minister for Health the reason overtime for intermediate care operative, ICO, grades in the national ambulance service, NAS, in Limerick has been discontinued. [11584/19]
    • Ambulance Service
      291. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to private ambulances from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018 in the Limerick area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11585/19]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      292. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the significant deterioration in bullying figures between the 2016 national ambulance service, NAS, survey and the survey carried out in 2018; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      293. To ask the Minister for Health when medical surgery will take place for a person (details supplied). [11590/19]
    • Disability Services Provision
      294. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on providing a person (details supplied) with an inpatient place at the National Rehabilitation Centre, Dún Laoghaire; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      295. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for scoliosis operations; the steps taken to reduce waiting times for these operations; if there has been an increase in the number of...
    • Hospitals Funding
      296. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to the national clinic in Beaumont Hospital that assists those affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as motor...
    • Health Services Data
      297. To ask the Minister for Health the direct discharge rate to nursing homes for stroke patients from 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11603/19]
    • Stroke Care
      301. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with addressing the resource deficit in the provision of the thrombectomy services; the costs of addressing the infrastructural issues...
    • Hospitals Discharges
      305. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of early supported discharge here; the number of operational ESD teams; the number of the teams that have the recommended staffing...
    • Stroke Care
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of a national roll-out of early supported discharge for stroke patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11612/19]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Data
      308. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the implementation plan for the national neurorehabilitation strategy which outlines a ten step plan to develop neurorehabilitation...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons under 65 years of age that were in receipt of homecare packages in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Clinical Programme for Heart Failure
      310. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of establishing a heart failure unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11616/19]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the introduction of brain injury identity cards here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11623/19]
    • Health Services Provision
      318. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11634/19]
    • Abortion Legislation
      320. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the group established under the chairmanship of the chief medical officer to consider the issues raised by the Joint Committee on the...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      321. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding out of hours doctors in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11649/19]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital managers and CEOs educated to MBA level or equivalent; and the number who have been funded to acquire such a qualification since 2016....
    • National Children's Hospital
      323. To ask the Minister for Health the ownership of the land now being used for the national children's hospital prior to the land in question being acquired for the site. [11667/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      324. To ask the Minister for Health the number of scheduled treatments and procedures cancelled in all acute hospitals in 2018. [11670/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an operation on their spine; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11676/19]
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      326. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a repayment for an operation received through the cross-border directive; the reason for the delay; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for MRI scans in Galway University Hospital by category of urgency; the steps proposed to be taken to reduce the waiting time for same; and if...
    • Hospital Facilities
      330. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take with the HSE to provide a kidney dialysis unit at Ennis General Hospital thereby reducing significant transport costs associated with...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      332. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a follow-up appointment with the dermatology unit at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement...
    • Counselling Services Provision
      333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of the counselling in primary care service in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of conferring consultant status on specialists in public health medicine here further to a report (details supplied). [11713/19]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      340. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding medication for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11714/19]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Health if a further assessment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Cork who requires additional home help hours. [11715/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      342. 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. [11716/19]
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishment of a working group to examine drug testing at nightclubs and music festivals; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Administration
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders in County Wexford no longer receive appointments with a medical centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      347. To ask the Minister for Health the status of extra home support for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11741/19]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE helpline providing information on terminations will have a facility for deaf persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11766/19]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which funding issues for residential care for a person (details supplied) will be addressed; if the HSE received correspondence from the person's...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      350. 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. [11772/19]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding Orkambi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11775/19]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      353. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new respite service recently opened in Dundalk, County Louth, is not fully wheelchair accessible; if funding...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      354. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11807/19]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      355. To ask the Minister for Health the target date for the opening of the new 60-bed modular unit at University Hospital Limerick; the target date for the opening of the new permanent 90-bed...
    • Hospital Facilities
      356. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of the new diabetes treatment centre at Sligo University Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Properties
      357. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made regarding the future use of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11841/19]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      358. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred to a nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11846/19]
    • Patient Transport Data
      359. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on taxis in each of the years 2011 to 2018, in tabular form; the reason for using taxis for patient transfer, transfer of paper...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure
      361. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts in place in the HSE for recycling various medical products such as crutches, walking aids, Zimmer frames, wheelchairs and other aids to assist...
    • Occupational Therapy Data
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding children in County Wexford with autism accessing occupational therapy; the number on the waiting list; the number waiting more than six...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      363. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a hoist at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11880/19]
    • Home Care Packages Data
      364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive home care packages for persons with dementia allocated in 2018, by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      365. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Waterford who applied for the treatment abroad scheme in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11882/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a cataract operation at University Hospital Waterford for longer than six, 12 and 18 months, respectively, in tabular form;...
    • Hospital Procedures
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who had elective surgery cancelled or rescheduled more than once in 2017 and 2018 at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting follow-up appointments for knee and hip operations at University Hospital Waterford in 2017 and 2018, respectively, in tabular...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated under the home care package in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Psychological Services
      370. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to assist the estimated 150,000 adults here who may be undiagnosed and untreated for ADHD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11888/19]
    • HSE Properties
      374. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all current and proposed HSE operational lease infrastructural projects here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11892/19]
    • Ambulance Service
      375. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the dynamic deployment method AMPDS system that is being used by the NAS control centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/19]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are between 50 km and 100 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Health if the AMPDS system has a facility to allocate crews a rest break; if not, the system used to ensure crews have their mandatory rest breaks; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service
      383. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made between the HSE and his Department regarding meetings between both in respect of the ongoing ambulance service dispute; the resolution he has...
    • Hospital Services
      384. To ask the Minister for Health if the newly opened 12-bed short-stay surgical ward at University Hospital Limerick is being used by non-surgical patients to alleviate overcrowding in the...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      386. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be provided to a person (details supplied). [11925/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      388. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 23 October 2018, the action being taken to resolve a situation (details supplied). [11976/19]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Health if the educational psychologist vacancy has been filled in the school age team in the Dublin south-west area; if the dedicated team manager position has been...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      390. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can apply for private financial assistance through the HSE; and the way in which the person can apply for financial support if...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the method of recruitment of internationally trained non-consultant hospital doctors here; the number of non-consultant hospital doctor positions filled by...
    • Health Services Staff Training
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a difference in the clinical performance between non-consultant hospital doctors trained here and internationally, respectively; and the way in...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if the dependency of Ireland on internationally trained non-consultant hospital doctors has grown or reduced between 2010 and 2018 and to date in 2019; and the...
    • Health Services Data
      395. To ask the Minister for Health when a unique identifier will be introduced for patients here; and the reason for the delay in the introduction of same. [12026/19]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the grant schemes for items (details supplied) available through his Department or the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12028/19]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      397. To ask the Minister for Health if a revised decision on minimum unit pricing in the event of an extension to Article 50 will be committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Care Packages Data
      399. 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. [12035/19]
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      400. To ask the Minister for Health if an application under the cross border scheme by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [12053/19]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in a hospital (details supplied) unfilled or filled on a temporary basis by category. [12055/19]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of internationally trained non-consultant hospital doctors who were or are registered and working in hospitals here in each of the years 2016 to...
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to increase the use of biosimilar drugs in order to get more value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12060/19]
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      404. To ask the Minister for Health if efforts have been made to increase the funding for respite care services for children in care with disabilities. [12068/19]
    • Disability Services Provision
      405. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or agencies under his remit have conducted a systematic review of the supports and services being offered in a case (details supplied) which...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      408. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for cross-border assistance will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [12074/19]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies unfilled or filled on a temporary basis in Cavan General Hospital; and the details of each by categories. [12084/19]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      410. To ask the Minister for Health if the income thresholds will be raised for medical card means tests (details supplied). [12085/19]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      411. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for a speech and language therapy appointment for children in County Meath. [12091/19]
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which each of the 50 actions of the national drugs strategy has been implemented; the timeline for the implementation of each outstanding action;...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not entitled to assistance towards the cost of a cushion and shoes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      414. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 24 January 2019, the breakdown of orthodontic patients waiting less than two years for treatment; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the level to which staffing levels in the national ambulance service need to fall to before it is considered a national emergency; and the point at which the...
    • Ambulance Service Accommodation
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance stations nationally in which there have been reports of rat, mice or other rodent infestation in 2018; the actions taken on such...
    • Ambulance Service
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if a health and safety report was carried out on the ambulance based in UCHG; if a report was also carried out by HIQA; if the reports have been made available...
    • Hospital Procedures
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures cancelled by specialty at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, by each month in 2017 and 2018, in tabular...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on the provision of private ambulances from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. [12122/19]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the collective agreement between the recognised unions and the HSE regarding paramedic ICO locations; and if there have been adverse incidents regarding this...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the OJEU notice under which the contract for the provision of a national agency vendor management system to manage its recruitment agency framework was...
    • Departmental Funding
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the financial consideration that has been afforded for the use of a system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12132/19]
    • National Children's Hospital
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if all fire certifications are in place and approved for the underground car park for the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      435. To ask the Minister for Health if a MRI scan will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [12142/19]
    • Hospital Staff
      436. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a cost to those using emergency accommodation provided by the HSE for nursing staff of a hospital (details supplied) over...
    • Hospital Transfers
      437. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to be transferred from Letterkenny University Hospital to the St. Conal’s rehabilitation...
    • Hospital Admissions
      438. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to be admitted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Charges
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in refunding the costs of a hip operation carried out in London on a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Data Protection Regulation
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to the impact of the general data protection regulation and health research regulations on the ability...
    • Dental Services Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders awaiting dental surgery at a clinic (details supplied); the number of medical card holders awaiting dental surgery at...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      442. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for orthodontic treatment; the waiting time for orthodontic treatment in the Galway region; and if...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      443. To ask the Minister for Health if the upgrade to Clonakilty Hospital in accordance with the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, regulations will proceed as scheduled; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      448. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot claim reimbursement for a drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12186/19]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the minimum staffing level for intermediate care operative grades in County Limerick; and the provisions that have been put in place to cover absences for the...
    • Nursing Staff Data
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency accommodation is provided by the HSE for nursing staff of St. Marys Hospital at a location (details supplied) occupied by the national ambulance...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a vacancy for a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Mater child and adolescent mental...
    • Psychological Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding primary care psychology for children in County Wexford; the number of children awaiting a primary care psychology appointment; the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a medical device (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12258/19]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Sativex is available for use by prescription in all HSE areas; if not, the HSE areas it is available in; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      458. To ask the Minister for Health his future plans for dermatological services at Letterkenny University Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that these services were recently...
    • National Children's Hospital
      459. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1195 of 20 June 2017, if he will provide the international benchmarking exercise used to compare the construction cost of...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on offering the FreeStyle Libre device to diabetic patients over 21 years of age for free; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service Data
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours provided by local health area to date in 2019; the number of hours to be targeted in 2019; the number of home help hours...
    • Medical Card Applications
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, in the case of a medical card application, a notice of assessment must be provided for the purpose of demonstrating tax liability but in which a...
    • Long Stay Residential Units
      463. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a unit (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [12335/19]
    • Health Services Provision
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which victims of terrorism who live here could receive specific supports, in particular counselling, from the health service; if they receive...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cars clamped by an operator at a facility (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [12329/19]
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      469. To ask the Minister for Health if a contract (details supplied) is a temporary rolling contract which is being recruited at present; if it is recruitment for the permanent position of...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the hours resourced and cost per hour of the number of professionals providing dialectical behaviour therapy through HSE funding by area in tabular form. [12416/19]
    • Psychological Services
      471. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further support access to dialectical behaviour therapy across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12417/19]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Data and Genomics Programme
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason deductions were made to payments of a person (details supplied); if the matter can be appealed; when full payment will...
    • Greyhound Industry
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is appropriate to continue funding the greyhound industry in view of the recent assessment by sports...
    • School Milk Scheme
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of schools in receipt of the EU school milk scheme; the number of students who received an allocation from the scheme in...
    • EU School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of schools in receipt of the EU school fruit and vegetables scheme; the budget allocated; and if he will make a statement...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process by which the areas of natural conservation were identified; the methodology used; if an appeal process is in place for...
    • Plant Protection Products
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the impact on agriculture of the ban of a chemical (details supplied) introduced in France in January 2019; his plans to introduce a...
    • Horse Racing Ireland
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he last met the chairperson of an organisation (details supplied); the issues discussed; when he will next meet the chairperson;...
    • Beef Industry
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to change the rules to allow a beef animal which is fit for slaughter and from a quality assured farm to be sold in a mart...
    • Harbours and Piers
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the provision and supply of services at Killybegs pier in County Donegal, namely, stevedoring, crane hire and-or shipping agents...
    • Afforestation Programme
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application (details supplied); when a decision on it will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Welfare
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses injured and killed at racecourses and point-to-point events here in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019. [11869/19]
    • Environmental Policy
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the actions being taken with respect to the bioeconomy; and the meetings of the interdepartmental group jointly chaired...
    • Afforestation Programme
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if data (details supplied) will be provided for each of the years from 2007 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the supports provided to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Animal Welfare
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of companies providing dog microchipping services; if the companies provide details of dogs to his Department; and if his...
    • Brexit Preparations
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the application of certification post-Brexit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12139/19]
    • Agriculture Scheme Eligibility
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 19 February 2019, if individual parcels of land in the folio are not required to be...
    • Export Credit Insurance
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the export credit insurance scheme in place; and, if there is none, if such a scheme will be put in place. [12153/19]
    • Animal Diseases
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cases of bovine tuberculosis herd incidents, by county, in 2017 and 2018 in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Nitrates Usage
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to monitor the transfer of slurry and farmyard manure from feedlots to areas removed from the site of...
    • Animal Diseases
      502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role the animal health computer system has in monitoring levels of tuberculosis; if the system is updated on an ongoing basis,...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to confine outbreaks of bovine tuberculosis in areas of high incidence; and if he will make a...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of samples submitted to the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory from licensed export slaughter plants operating in...
    • Afforestation Programme
      505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an appeal by persons (details supplied) against the decision to withdraw a forestry licence will be heard; and if he will make a...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for pig farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12306/19]
    • GLAS Issues
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/19]
    • Afforestation Programme
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a series of matters in regard to forestry will be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Slaughtering Data
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of carcasses graded by a given machine between when it was discovered to be working out of synchronicity and the last time...
    • Beef Exports
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions which have been made to facilitate the live export of beef animals in the event that high import tariffs are placed on...
    • Animal Slaughtering Data
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of factory-fit beef animals from Ireland slaughtered in meat plants in Northern Ireland in 2017 and 2018, respectively,...
    • Animal Slaughtering Standards
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 6 March 2019, when a factory must revert to using an approved manual grader; if there is...
    • Departmental Schemes
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the applications will open and the expected lending interest rate for the future growth loan scheme for long-term investment...
    • Live Exports
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of cattle and calves exported by country in the 2010 to 2018 period; the figures for 2019 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Beef Exports
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume and value in 2018 of total beef exports by country; the percentage of total exports to each country in 2018, in tabular...
    • Food Exports
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the countries to which Ireland exports lamb; the volume and value in 2018 of total exports by country; the percentage of total...
    • Pork Exports
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by country in volume and value in 2018 of pork exports; the percentage of total exports to each country in 2018; and if...
    • Food Exports
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown by country in volume and value in 2018 of dairy ingredient exports; the percentage of total exports to each country in...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Waste Management
      521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department had studied the work of an organisation (details supplied) by which the Scottish Government tries to...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated time for connection under the roll-out of the national broadband plan for an area (details supplied); if...
    • Climate Change Policy
      524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 539 of 16 October 2018, the terms of reference for the report on just transition...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of an annual support towards the cost of bin charges for homes in which a family member...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for the roll-out of high-speed broadband for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role of hedgerows acting as a carbon sink here; the position with regard to a national inventory...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 5 March 2019, if he has raised with the European Commission the need to...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is possible under EU law to ask a semi-State company, such as the ESB, to roll out broadband under the national...
    • National Broadband Plan
      545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason provided by companies (details supplied) for withdrawing from the national broadband plan; if the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      548. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of high-speed broadband in an area (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electric Vehicles
      549. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the perceived inadequate number of ESB electric car charge points nationally will be recognised and remedied, in...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      550. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the roll-out of broadband under the national broadband plan in County Laois; and if he will make...
    • Waste Management
      551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered a different model of household waste collection. [12145/19]
    • Nuclear Waste
      552. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on reports that the British Government was examining the construction of a geological disposal facility for...
    • Waste Tyre Disposal
      555. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to fund a scheme through an organisation (details supplied) for farmers to dispose of waste tyres correctly,...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Toll Data
      556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the fees paid to a company (details supplied) for each of the past four years in its role as the enforcement service provider for the M50...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      557. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital expenditure of his Department from 1 January to 31 December 2018 under the greenways heading; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Licences
      558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place for UK driver licence holders resident here to continue using their licence in the event of a no-deal Brexit (details...
    • Road Safety
      559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review speed limits here in view of the levels of death and serious injury on Irish roads to date in 2019; the legislation...
    • EU Funding
      561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will be making applications to the recently announced €100 million fund under the Connecting Europe Facility....
    • Dublin Bus Fleet
      562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to have phased out completely the use of diesel buses from the Dublin Bus fleet in view of the commitment not to purchase...
    • Air Services Provision
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to assist Shannon Airport improve access after Brexit when its current hub, Heathrow Airport, will no longer be in...
    • Tourism Ireland Funding
      564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost of increasing funding to Tourism Ireland by 12.5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11730/19]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      565. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a sports capital application from a group (details supplied) was granted only partial funding under the sports capital...
    • Road Toll Data
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue collected in each of the past four years and to date by a company (details supplied) acting in the capacity of enforcement...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the NTA to investigate if the services and stops on the S1 and S2 Bus Éireann public service routes in Sligo town...
    • Rail Network Safety
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to update the Railway Safety Act 2005. [11813/19]
    • EU Funding
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position on the inclusion of the western rail corridor as a transport link eligible for funding under the European Union Connecting...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has commissioned a feasibility study into the extension of the western rail corridor (details supplied); the sections of the rail...
    • Bus Éireann Fleet
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Expressway coaches which have been purchased in each year since 2008; and the number of coaches that will be purchased in...
    • Bus Éireann
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent on private hire services in each year since 2008. [11840/19]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of the person who will replace a person (details supplied) as chairperson of the Taxi Advisory Committee. [11855/19]
    • Park and Ride Facilities
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or the NTA will source alternative public park and ride facilities to serve passengers from the Newcastle-Rathcoole areas who use...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      579. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a sports capital application by a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12049/19]
    • Public Transport Provision
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure there is better synchronisation between rail services on the Dublin to Maynooth line and the 39 Dublin Bus service in...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on making dashboard cameras mandatory in all motor vehicles. [12073/19]
    • Electric Vehicles
      582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the targets for the use of electric vehicles nationally; the targets and dates associated with achieving same; the measures he is leading...
    • Road Signage
      583. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an issue previously raised with him directly in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status on an issue previously raised with him directly in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12188/19]
    • Road Safety
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Transport Infrastructure Ireland to investigate major safety issues arising on a national primary route (details...
    • Fáilte Ireland Staff
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons now employed on the Hidden Heartlands Fáilte Ireland project; and if it is planned to provide further...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a rural transport scheme for south County Roscommon following the removal of Bus Éireann stops at a location...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Standards
      588. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of on-site audits carried out by her Department or on its behalf on ECCE providers in each of the years 2015 to 2018; the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      589. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the policy of her Department, or the agents under the remit of her Department, to check all PPS numbers of children supplied by...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of staff in her Department engaged on the audit of funded programmes; the level of qualifications of each, for example, part or...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a decision will be overturned regarding the provision of an overage exemption for a person (details supplied) for an ECCE scheme; and if...
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the second optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child will be ratified; the reason Ireland is the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to issues with the ECCE scheme by which childcare providers are prioritising children whose parents are...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding separated children seeking asylum; the number Ireland has committed to accepting; the number accepted to date; when...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of domestic refuge centres here in tabular form; the number of spaces available by centre; the number of persons who availed of...
    • Court Orders
      597. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person who has undergone a parental capacity assessment can be required to undergo a second one immediately or shortly after the first...
    • Child and Family Agency Reports
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 5 March 2019, if the reason she did not seek a copy of the report in question was due to the...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated full year cost of recruiting 30 additional full-time early years inspectors for Tusla; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Child and Family Agency Reports
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 514 of 5 March 2019, if a copy of the minutes requested will be provided in view of the fact the...
    • Childcare Services Regulation
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 2335 of 24 July 2018, the details of the findings regarding the crèche in question being...
    • Childcare Legislation
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to update the Child Care Act 1991. [12045/19]
    • Child and Family Agency Investigations
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the assurance review by Tusla of allegations made regarding a carer of a child or young person with a disability. [12115/19]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department or Tusla has reviewed the provision of disability supports and services to children in care as discussed in the Ombudsman...
    • Children in Care
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce an enhanced support payment for children in care with disabilities. [12117/19]
    • Childcare Services Regulation
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the concerns of a forum (details supplied) regarding the reporting of registration and attendance of children in...
    • Brexit Preparations
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the specific arrangements made regarding children in care who are placed in residential and-or therapeutic facilities in the United...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Control of Dogs
      613. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an out-of-hours dog warden service will be introduced in County Louth. [12109/19]
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      616. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the action he has taken arising from a report (details supplied); the options for funding being considered; if there is a timeframe...
    • LEADER Programmes Data
      618. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of total expenditure by each LEADER group on administration and animation in the 2009 to 2014 programme; and if he will...
    • LEADER Programmes Expenditure
      619. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the planned level of administration and animation expenditure over the lifetime of the current LEADER programme for all LAGs, both...
    • Grant Payments
      623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grant schemes available for items (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12027/19]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • National Minimum Wage
      626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to put a trainee wage rate in place (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11510/19]
    • EU Directives
      627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the need for mediation between the Department of Finance and her Department over differences in the proposed...
    • Social Insurance
      629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the level at which the higher rate of employer PRSI commences at to €452.20 a week;...
    • Departmental Records
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all issues related to identity have been resolved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Data
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for appeal for all social welfare payments in tabular form. [11513/19]
    • Local Employment Service
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work undertaken on the future of the local employment service; and the initial work being carried out in respect of the...
    • Community Services Programme
      634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to make changes to or end a community employment scheme (details supplied) in view of plans for development at the...
    • Brexit Issues
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all those in receipt of the winter fuel payment from the UK will continue to receive the payment in circumstances in which...
    • School Meals Programme
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in receipt of the school meals programme; the number that do not have DEIS status; and if she will make...
    • Blind Person's Pension Eligibility
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the blind pension is not paid after a recipient reaches 66 years of age even though the recipient can receive it...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the length of time jobseeker's payments will be paid to two years for those obliged to retire by contract...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the claim of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11627/19]
    • Departmental Staff
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for the appointment of a new community welfare officer for Ardee, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Offices
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that have been taken to source alternative accommodation for the community welfare service in Dunleer, County...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the plans in train to provide new social welfare services for the mid County Louth area; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for disability allowance applications; and the work being done to reduce this processing time. [11633/19]
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a project (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11644/19]
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns that those engaged with the services provided by Turas Nua and who are employed in part-time...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer's allowance or benefit will continue to issue to a person (details supplied); the other financial supports available...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will arrange for details in the case of a person (details supplied) to be sent to the illness benefit section from a...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of community employment supervisors (details supplied); if further discussions have taken place with unions on...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the island allowance of €12.70 per week was increased to €15.50 per week; and...
    • Public Services Card Authentication
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a recent opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor (details supplied) in the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Support Grant
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the carer's support grant was increased from €1,700 to €2,000. [11817/19]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it has taken over three months to review an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); when a...
    • Public Services Card Provision
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Cork can obtain a public services card while the person's original...
    • Departmental Programmes
      665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage at which the national action plan for social inclusion 2019 to 2025 is at; the reason it is not yet published; the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the cut-off age of seven years for lone parents in receipt of the one-parent family payment in order to...
    • Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
      667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending the cut-off age for the jobseeker's transition payment until the youngest child...
    • Working Family Payment Eligibility
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to reducing the number of hours necessary to qualify for the working family payment from 19...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report by an organisation (details supplied) into the employment and living conditions...
    • Working Family Payment Data
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the working family payment, formerly the family income supplement, in each of the years...
    • One-Parent Family Payment
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a comprehensive strategy of the long-term vision for lone parent families; and if she will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the Social Welfare Commission Bill 2018; her views on the objective of the Bill; if...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all correspondence from her Department will be provided to a person (details supplied) who has had an ongoing case...
    • Public Sector Staff Grades
      674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who has worked in a section 39 funded position for the past 12 years but who was not directly paid by the HSE...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the impact the abolition of training rates is having upon small businesses that are under...
    • Citizens Information Board
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in a full year if the budget for Citizens Information Services increased by 8%. [12043/19]
    • Social Insurance
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount that would be generated if the 2.6% PRSI rate of classes B, C or D increased to 3% or a minimum of €300....
    • Tús Programme
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans under development to extend the Tús scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12056/19]
    • Poverty Data
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the recent report from an organisation (details supplied), which found that the rate of in-work poverty among...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) that was appealed in...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when jobseeker's benefit will be extended to self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12157/19]
    • Child Benefit Applications
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who fails on an appeal in respect of a payment (details supplied) can further appeal or opt for a mediation...
    • Free Travel Scheme Applications
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if discriminatory elements (details supplied) of the domiciliary care allowance scheme will be addressed; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Property Registration
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which should be taken when a folio regarding a derelict property is registered in a now deceased person's name and...
    • Building Regulations
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the use of electric vehicles has given rise to reassessment of health and safety in design, construction and operation of...
    • Property Tax Data
      689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the revenue received by each county from the local property tax each year since its introduction, in tabular form; the amount...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the provision of funding in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Planning Issues
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be introduced to make it compulsory to keep leylandii trees under control; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authority Functions
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the associated regulations on the holding of plebiscites for place names will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas...
    • Local Authority Housing
      694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schemes and supports in place to help a person to relocate from a Dublin to a rural local authority house; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the working family payment will be re-examined as part of assessable means when determining a rent review, HAP or a social...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be made available to Meath County Council. [11588/19]
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Clare County Council has been informed that it can no longer purchase private dwellings for its social housing...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he was first informed that the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme was oversubscribed and that local authorities were...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding Traveller accommodation that is lying idle at Cabragh, Thurles, County Tipperary; the expenditure on...
    • Residential Tenancies Board
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government where a complaint can be directed regarding poor customer service by a client that had a very negative experience in dealing...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations for the specific parking on local authority owned property of so-called touring caravans under the Traveller...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an affordable housing scheme; the likely principles of such a scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Defective Building Materials
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to carry out a survey of homes to examine if persons are living in unsafe properties as highlighted in a report...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 22 January 2019, if he has finalised the regulations for the affordable purchase...
    • Property Registration
      713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a backlog in registrations in the Land Registry; if such a delay is holding up the sale of...
    • Housing Regeneration
      715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the final cost of a regeneration project in Ballymun, Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12177/19]
    • Local Authority Housing
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to respond to correspondence issued to him on 13 February 2019 regarding concerns about procurement of...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of income eligibility for social housing supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all new home turn-key purchases and costs by each local authority in 2018; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average wait time for approval for an applicant to the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme from the time the application...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced in respect of decisions by An Bord Pleanála by which...
    • Local Government Reform
      731. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when details of the powers and functions to be assigned to directly elected mayors will be published; if it will be ensured...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Deer Hunting
      732. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a licence to shoot deer will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11507/19]
    • International Conventions
      733. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Ireland is a signatory of the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe, Granada, 1985; and if...
    • Arts and Culture Capital Scheme Funding
      734. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will seek an update from Fáilte Ireland and the Chief State Solicitor's Office with regard to the ongoing problems...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      735. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an líon iomlán de chliantchomhlachtaí de chuid Údarás na Gaeltachta i ngach contae a bheadh...
    • Hedge Cutting Season
      736. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to extend the burning season (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12307/19]

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