Written answers

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Grocery Industry Regulation
      66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the perceived deficits in legislation and regulations relating to the welfare and export of greyhounds; his plans to...
    • Brexit Preparations
      67. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the provisions made by his Department to offset a Brexit crash-out; and if he will...
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      68. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to dredge Howth Harbour; the timeframe and budget for the project; if the local stakeholders and Fingal County Council have...
    • Agriculture Industry
      69. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to move agriculture here towards a model that is less reliant on synthetic inputs and a model that would help restore...
    • Beef Exports
      70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the initiatives he has taken to open up Irish beef to the Iranian market particularly in view of the crisis in the sector. [13916/19]
    • Brexit Preparations
      71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingencies being operationalised and supports that will be in place to safeguard farmers here and the agrifood sector for all...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      72. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the second Topical Issue of 6 March 2019, the steps he is taking to ensure the integrity of beef carcase grading in meat...
    • Beef Industry
      73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the price beef farmers are receiving for their produce from factories; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Trade Agreements
      74. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the latest Mercosur talks; the steps he is taking to protect farmers here by ensuring that beef does not form...
    • Beef Industry
      75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether, regardless of events in the House of Commons, the beef sector has already taken a massive hit from Brexit; the...
    • Brexit Supports
      76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions in place to facilitate the agrifood sector in the aftermath of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Coillte Teoranta Activities
      77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is undertaking to ensure that Coillte is researching and engaging in continuous cover forestry practices in view of...
    • Brexit Supports
      78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to make beef farming a viable option for farmers in the context of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Live Exports
      79. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to deal with the issues relating to exporting dairy calves; his plans in order to ensure that Ireland does...
    • Brexit Supports
      80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts regarding the impact WTO tariffs will have on Irish exports to the UK if a hard...
    • Carbon Sequestration
      81. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to increase carbon sequestration through soil management in the farming industry; and if he will make a...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the comments made to the Oireachtas Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine that his Department is...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in receipt of more than €60,000 from the basic payment scheme in 2018; the amount of BPS and greening...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has revisited the herd expansion plans in view of the report of the IPCC on climate change and recent calls for drastic action...
    • Aquaculture Regulation
      85. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedure for certifying Lough Foyle oysters after production as they enter the market; the body responsible for carrying out...
    • Agriculture Scheme Data
      86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in receipt of a combined payment of more than €60,000 from the basic payment scheme and the greening...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to address the 2.9% increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector in 2017 in view of EU...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure marts and factories will be required to install EID electronic tag readers for sheep in order to eliminate...
    • Greyhound Industry
      89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if progress been made by the Irish Greyhound Board towards creating a separate body for the registration of racing greyhounds in order...
    • Brexit Issues
      90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Brexit is an opportunity to commence the diversification of the agriculture sector here away from the...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the concerns of farmers are being taken seriously regarding herd devaluation, compensation and the role of deer in the spread of...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a €60,000 BPS ceiling for direct payments under the next CAP in order to safeguard small and medium-sized farmers;...
    • Laboratory Facilities
      93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the review and cost-benefit analysis of the regional veterinary laboratory in County Kilkenny that serves the farmers of...
    • Beef Exports
      94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with an organisation (details supplied) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding opening up...
    • Live Exports
      95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions and discussions being carried out with his French counterpart by his Department and Bord Bia to expand the lairage...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is time to commission an independent review of the Forestry Act 1988, which established Coillte (details...
    • Greyhound Industry
      98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a media report (details supplied) that greyhound racing here is perceived as lacking integrity in view of concerns such...
    • Brexit Preparations
      99. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of SPS and fisheries control officials that will be operational on 29 March 2019 of the planned recruitment of 116 staff...
    • Brexit Supports
      100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the compensation package being negotiated with the EU for beef farmers will be applied retrospectively; and if he will make a...
    • Beef Industry
      101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether Ireland should prioritise protected geographical indication status for suckler beef in order that it could be...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional measures put in place to confine the spread of disease in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of samples taken at slaughter plants from bovine herds in counties Roscommon and Galway in 2017 and 2018 that have...
    • Beef Industry
      104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which he plans to prevent beef factories absorbing benefits targeted at farmers in the production of beef; and if he will...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Exports Data
      105. To ask the Taoiseach the number of SMEs that account for total exports of goods and services on a percentage basis by each country in 2017 and 2018; and the number of persons employed in...
    • Citizens Assembly
      106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for the Citizens' Assembly. [11965/19]
    • Brexit Issues
      107. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May since the beginning of March 2019; and if so, the issues that were discussed. [13889/19]
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      108. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the undocumented Irish when attending meetings in the United States of America. [13890/19]
    • European Council Meetings
      109. To ask the Taoiseach if Hungary was discussed at the March 2019 EU Council meeting. [13891/19]
    • Departmental Consultations
      111. To ask the Taoiseach the public consultations planned in his Department over the coming months. [11967/19]
    • Northern Ireland
      112. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with Ms Arlene Foster and Ms Michelle O'Neill recently. [14285/19]
    • National Minimum Wage
      113. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on a wage at or below the minimum wage level by gender and age. [12757/19]
    • Legal Costs
      114. To ask the Taoiseach the solicitors and barristers that received payments from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the Office of the Attorney General during 2018 and to date in 2019;...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      115. To ask the Taoiseach the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; and the membership composition of each. [13573/19]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      116. To ask the Taoiseach the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the outcome of such complaints; and...
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      118. To ask the Taoiseach if Cabinet committee A, economy, has met recently. [11936/19]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      122. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting he hosted with the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Mr. Saulius Skvernelis; the areas they visited; and the issues that were discussed....
    • Citizens Assembly
      123. To ask the Taoiseach the costs incurred by the Citizens' Assembly from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the remuneration level of paid members. [14162/19]
  • Department of Defence
    • Commemorative Events
      124. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Volunteer Reserve Force the precursor to the Reserve Defence Forces; and if...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      125. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the use of competitions will be broadened for direct entry officers to include those with specialist dental, legal and other professional...
    • Defence Forces Ombudsman Complaints
      126. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the difference between a chapter 1 complaint and a chapter 2 complaint in the context of complaints lodged under administrative instruction A7....
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of former members of the Defence Forces that were awarded damages in respect of injuries received while in the Defence Forces who...
    • Defence Forces Data
      129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Frontex officers working with the Defence Forces or other bodies under the aegis of his Department; and the number that will be...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      132. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of officers, NCOs and privates serving on a monthly basis for the past 12 months. [13578/19]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      133. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the outcome...
    • Air Corps
      134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the time it takes, that is, days, weeks and months, from the date a member of the Defence Forces submits a request for discharge from the Air...
    • Air Corps Expenditure
      135. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on replacing or purchasing specialist fire service vehicles for the Air Corps fire services in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019,...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      136. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or the Defence Forces will undertake a recruitment campaign abroad to attract military doctors to join the Defence Forces medical corps;...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to support a UN binding treaty on business and human rights in 2019. [13004/19]
    • Brexit Issues
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the meetings he had with Mr. Michel Barnier on the weekend of 9 and 10 March 2019; the issues that were discussed on...
    • Brexit Documents
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all papers from the discussions between EU officials and the UK on the most recent attempts to get a resolution to the withdrawal treaty...
    • Brexit Issues
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he met or spoke with the DUP on the weekend of 9 and 10 March 2019; if Mr. Michael Barnier met or spoke with the DUP when he was in...
    • Human Rights
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will join the Norwegian and Cuban Governments, which are guarantor countries to the Colombian peace process, in urging the Colombian...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding reopening the Irish Embassy in Tehran to facilitate future co-operation and trade; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Communications
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been contacted by his EU colleagues with regard to the use of 5G technology by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the position of the Brazilian President, Mr. Bolsonaro, to expand agriculture into lands occupied by indigenous communities....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the reconciliation fund increased by 10%. [13259/19]
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a disability accommodation will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13362/19]
    • Passport Applications
      160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in the determination of an application for a passport via the foreign births registration process in the case of a...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will make...
    • Human Rights Cases
      166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing concerns relating to the treatment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Consular Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which an Irish citizen who is due to marry a Filipino citizen in the Philippines fulfils the person's obligations under the...
    • Departmental Data
      170. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the...
    • Departmental Funding
      173. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) from 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports by an organisation (details supplied) of severe malnutrition in refugees and migrants in Libyan...
  • Department of Finance
    • Customs and Excise Staff
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the recruitment process for new customs officials. [14164/19]
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Administration
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman is sufficiently resourced to handle the complaints it receives in a timely manner; and...
    • Employment Data
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of jobs multiplier models used for employment forecasts; the latest forecast for each year in the 2020 to 2025 period; and if he will make a...
    • VAT Rate Application
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance when proposals to change the VAT rules will be advanced through the European Union; if defibrillators are liable for VAT at the standard rate; the reason...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with a bank (details supplied) regarding 6,000 customers who were denied a tracker mortgage despite a contractual right to one; if...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 12 February 2019, the detail of the numerous statutory provisions within the taxes Acts providing for particular...
    • Help-To-Buy Scheme
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are circumstances in which persons (details supplied) could be eligible to apply for the help-to-buy initiative; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance if a detailed evaluation has been undertaken of the impact of rising costs for providers of hairdressing services in particular VAT rates; if the size of the...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of corporation tax paid in each of the years 2014 to 2018, from international companies registered in the Dublin docklands area; and his views on...
    • VAT Rate Increases
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 14 November 2018, the reason this is the case in view of information (details supplied) on the website of the...
    • Revenue Commissioners Audits
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit by the Revenue Commissioners of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if the process will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on...
    • VAT Rate Application
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to allowing VAT on houses built for the rental residential market to be claimed as a cost of the building against corporation...
    • Home Building Finance Ireland Remit
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to task Home Building Finance Ireland with an expanded remit to issue loans to owner management companies to cover remedial building costs; and if...
    • Motor Insurance Costs
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has taken and plans to ensure that the cost of car insurance is reduced here relative to other EU countries; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Pensions
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that married State pensioners with additional occupational pensions do not benefit greatly from the usual...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 12 March 2019, the EU contributions to be made by Ireland in each of the next five years if the contributions...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a person (details supplied) in circumstances in which a claim by a company settled in October 2018 has not been paid to date and the...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the net tax take from IREF dividend withholding tax in 2017 and 2018. [13337/19]
    • National Vehicle and Driver File Registration
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the registration of all-terrain vehicles as part of the maintenance of the national vehicle and driver file; the way in which the...
    • Tax Credits
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered extending the home carer tax credit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13371/19]
    • Insurance Industry
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customers impacted by the failure of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13397/19]
    • VAT Exemptions
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove VAT from silicone menstruation cups and other reusable products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13438/19]
    • NAMA Investigations
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints NAMA has received arising from alleged breaches of section 172(3) of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 since its...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Frontex officers working with the Revenue Commissioners; and the number that will be working with it after 29 March 2019. [13450/19]
    • Tax Data
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of rulings the Revenue Commissioners have made in respect of golf, soccer, rugby or other recognised sports in each of the years 2014 to 2018,...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the net cost to the Revenue Commissioners of maintenance, security and related expenditure on homes, vehicles, ships or other items seized by the Revenue...
    • Departmental Consultations
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 14 February 2019, the amount of the gross cost of €73,031.25 related to VAT and to expenses incurred; and if...
    • Tax Code
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of interest the Revenue Commissioners use in calculating liability to capital acquisitions tax in respect of loans from parents to their children; if...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Insurance Costs
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeframe for his proposed and much needed four major measures to address the rising costs of insurance for householders, drivers, small businesses and...
    • Brexit Preparations
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if the up-to-date statistics for the number of businesses that have applied for the key customs registration, the economic operators registration and...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume and value of seizures of smuggled solid fuel to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13752/19]
    • Departmental Data
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the outcome of such...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the policy of State-backed and other lenders adding the legal fees to the mortgage in arrears in legal cases; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans of the Revenue Commissioners to tackle the issue of lost revenue due to the operation of illegal gambling machines; and if he will make a statement...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of illegal gambling machines seized or otherwise put out of service in each of the past five years by county; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the action taken further to correspondence (details supplied) of 5 March 2019 further to his invitation to send on further information; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Exemptions
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of the commuter Taxsaver scheme allowance in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form. [13860/19]
    • Brexit Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the definition of a natural or other disaster as outlined in section 5 of the National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018; if a...
    • Liquor Licence Fees
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the cost of renewal of a retailer off-licence increased from €500 to €700; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he holds the title to an abandoned piece of open ground at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if an application for a deed of waiver from Dublin...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the operation of the key employee engagement programme; the number of SMEs that have received assistance under the programme by county; and if...
    • Insurance Industry
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the communication the Central Bank has had with homeowners who have lost cover for latent defect insurance after the failure of a company (details supplied);...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to implement pension provisions for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12784/19]
    • Garda Station Expenditure
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of the provision of security and upkeep of Garda stations that are not in service; the costs accrued per station; and if he...
    • Garda Stations
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the ownership of the former Garda station at Tubbermore Road, Dalkey, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop the Customs House as a tourist facility; if his attention has been drawn to the potential of the site as a tourism...
    • EU Regulations
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an electronic identification framework has been put in place in order to comply with the eIDAS Regulation (EU) 910/2014; the details...
    • National Monuments
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the ongoing closure of the Casino in Marino. [13938/19]
    • Civil Service Renewal Plan
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each reform outlined in the Civil Service renewal plan been implemented; if not, the reforms outstanding; if all civil servants have...
    • Civil Service Staff Data
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of new recruits to the Civil Service recruited from the private sector each year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the provision for unpaid leave for domestic reasons contained within Circular 05/2010: Force Majeure and Other Urgent Family Reasons...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason some retired civil servants have not yet received pension increments as per the public sector pay deal; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Enniscorthy flood defence scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13254/19]
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 14 February 2019, the amount of the costs for 2015 and 2018 related to VAT; the amount...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a project (details supplied) is on course to proceed; if it has been delayed; the reason if delayed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Electronic Commerce
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of the digital signatures working group; if recommendations been made by the working group; if not, when recommendations...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the situation by which home caring credits apply to the State pension (contributory) but do not apply to the pensions...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme Implementation
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital projects and amount each cost that were delivered to County Kerry in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Civil Service Accountability
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to formally abolish the Civil Service Accountability Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13623/19]
    • Public Services Provision
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the planned number of meetings per annum of the Public Service Leadership Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13625/19]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if planned flood relief schemes on the lower section of the river Shannon (details supplied) will progress as planned; if they are to be...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of car parking spaces controlled by the Office of Public Works in Dublin 7 and 8; the Department or other body that leases...
    • Departmental Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the...
    • Civil Service Staff Data
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a response will issue to correspondence previously exchanged (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13808/19]
    • Building Regulations
      269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the cell specification tender documents issued to contractors, external architects, engineers and quantity surveyors over the...
    • Road Projects
      271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW provided funding to Kerry County Council to repair a public road after major works on the banks of the River Maine at a...
    • Public Service Pay Commission
      272. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Public Service Pay Commission report on the Defence Forces will be completed. [13896/19]
    • Garda Stations
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in completing upgrading and improvement works to an area (details supplied); and if the works will be completed...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projects and proposed measures in the flood risk management plans for County Westmeath in tabular form; the cost of each project;...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Eligibility
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to a query (details supplied) raised with the school transport section of his Department and Bus Éireann; and if he...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the records from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of autistic spectrum units that will be provided at schools (details supplied) in County Kildare when a campus opens in September...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a contract has been awarded for the supply of temporary prefabricated accommodation for ten new start-up schools which are due to open in...
    • School Staff
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board has advertised for the recruitment of a principal for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a general purpose room will be granted for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12728/19]
    • Educational Supports
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 7 March 2019, if a child (details supplied) is on a waiting list to be assessed for an exemption; the...
    • Adult Education Provision
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the participation rate here in lifelong learning in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the EU average rate for same based on...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an autism spectrum unit will be provided at a school (details supplied); if not, the location in which female students completing primary...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the opposition by the relevant...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 5 February 2019, if tenders have been invited from the shortlist of contractors; the closing date...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when there will be an autism spectrum disorder unit for post-primary schools in Nenagh, County Tipperary. [12806/19]
    • School Equipment
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants and sources of funding available to schools to apply for funding for musical instruments; and the criteria of each scheme. [12811/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12818/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be allocated a suitable place in an ASD unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Multidenominational Schools
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each multidenominational primary school; the location of each interdenominational primary school; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Patronage
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide an educate together school in Nenagh, County Tipperary; the timeframe for the proposal; the location of same; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a planning application has been submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [12918/19]
    • Medical Internships
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason universities receive payment during the work placements of medical students (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when new capital works will take place at a school (details supplied); the funding for capital projects and minor works the school has received...
    • Special Educational Needs
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a separate system of allocations of special education teaching for developing schools that more accurately reflects their...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) on the NCTE critical list; the timeframe expected before this school will be offered appropriate...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the development of a new permanent school building for schools (details supplied); the timeline for the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on the development of a new permanent school premises for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12980/19]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools respectively, that have high speed broadband; the cost arrangements that are in place for the...
    • School Curriculum
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding geography in the junior certificate curriculum; his views on the concerns raised by the heads of departments of geography...
    • Legislative Programme
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Retention of Records Bill 2019; if he will reconsider his plans and include the relevant records under the existing...
    • School Transport Appeals
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request for school transport by a person (details supplied) will be reassessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13080/19]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 19 February 2019, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the freedom of information...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide an ASD unit to secondary schools in Limerick city (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13090/19]
    • School Accommodation
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children at both primary and second level in non-permanent school accommodation by county in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • In-service Training
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the in-service training in respect of the new junior certificate dedicated to enabling those children with disabilities to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his efforts to resolve the industrial relations issues in relation to individual education plans at schools for children with special educational...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the inspection requirements of teachers concerning individual education plans. [13150/19]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the allocation to the Higher Education Authority that will cover pay restoration in 2019; and the amount same is projected to cost...
    • School Staff
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure all schools have more than one adult working in the school. [13154/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be moved to a more central and accessible location. [13156/19]
    • School Patronage
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be divested by September 2019; and if not, if it will be possible to move a student to another local school...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child who is in receipt of SNA assistance in a particular school and moves from that school to another location or school during the same...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding primary and post-primary schools receive from the initial point of opening the ASD class and throughout the operation of an ASD class...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a major building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13208/19]
    • School Enrolments
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the issue of oversubscription at a school (details supplied) for the 2019 school year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide funding to ensure the continuation of services by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that funding has...
    • Education Policy
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to have an education promotion mission to India later in 2019. [13262/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times his Department has had to retender building projects to date in 2019; the projects affected; the location of those projects;...
    • School Enrolments Data
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new places that will be required at second level in 2020 by county; the current provision of places; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to deliver a new school building for a school (details supplied) in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of the permanent site for a school (details supplied); if the acquisition of the site has been completed; the number of classrooms...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request for additional classroom space by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13313/19]
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 26 February 2019, the reason SOLAS continues to place additional conditions above and beyond the...
    • School Management
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make it mandatory to have SNAs on school management boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13354/19]
    • School Enrolments Data
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need for a new school (details supplied) on foot of increased demand due to recent demographic changes will be investigated; and if he...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can be placed on a panel for SNA positions. [13404/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to open new ASD units in the Fingal area of County Dublin. [13406/19]
    • School Enrolments Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated number of children that will commence national school in September 2019, by year of birth and local authority. [13431/19]
    • Schools Establishment
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish a new primary school in a location (details supplied) in County Cork; when the school will be established; the position...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for an amalgamation of two schools in a town (details supplied) in County Cork; if a new school building will be provided; and if he...
    • Departmental Bodies Reports
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the findings of the review of the governance, funding and accountability arrangements of his Department for education centres conducted in...
    • School Staff
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when corrections will be made to the employment record of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal to allow the Revenue Commissioners to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when emergency repair works will commence at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13508/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) will receive learning support measures. [13509/19]
    • Child Abuse
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to date of establishing a redress scheme for victims of sexual abuse in primary schools; the number of applicants that have been...
    • Schools Building Projects
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in providing funding for the emergency works at a centre (details supplied); if funding has been approved by his...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school building for a school (details supplied); the stage at which the project is at; when construction will...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a three year old child who has been diagnosed with ASD can be allocated home tuition hours even if there is a place available in an early...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to issues affecting a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13649/19]
    • Schools Building Projects
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the extension and refurbishment of a school (details supplied) will proceed to the tender and build stage without further delay by granting...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new school building project for a school (details supplied); if the acquisition of a new site for the school has...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13682/19]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the progress on a new school building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new site for a school (details supplied) as announced in November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the works to provide a new school building for a school (details supplied) in addition to the associated refurbishment works will commence as...
    • Departmental Properties
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school building (details supplied) was completed; the final price paid; the body that is the owner of the building; the site it sits on;...
    • School Patronage
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the patronage survey process for a new school in Donabate, County Dublin will commence. [13698/19]
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 5 February 2019, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that staff delivering the ETB (details...
    • ERASMUS Programme
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that Irish students domiciled in Northern Ireland will have access to Erasmus programmes here and elsewhere after 2021; if...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Data
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies for NEPS psychologists; the length of time of each vacancy by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the repayment of incorrectly charged taxes for primary school teachers; the number of teachers overcharged by county; the number...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for deep retrofits of schools; the number of schools which have had retrofits completed since 2016; the location of the schools; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications Data
      386. 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, by county; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the completion of 42 new schools announced in April 2018, in tabular form. [13749/19]
    • School Transport Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of cases in which taxis are engaged to transport children to schools; the number of school children involved; and the amount spent...
    • School Staff Appeals Mechanism
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal for a third teacher will be considered for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the post project reviews for PPPs (details supplied); when the reviews were completed; and if they have not been completed, when completion and...
    • School Funding
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a funding application by a school (details supplied); if a decision will be expedited; the timeframe involved for consideration and...
    • Departmental Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the outcome of...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tuition will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13816/19]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter in relation to the qualifications of a German citizen (details supplied) to teach at a primary school here; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process a national school in County Sligo needs to undertake in order to seek funding towards the development of indoor sports and...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when children (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for an assessment from the National Educational Psychological...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding being made available in the capital programme for special autism units and in the current expenditure programme for special need...
    • Schools Building Projects
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the options for ensuring a one site school for an existing primary school (details supplied) will be investigated which under current plans...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Staff
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unpaid primary school psychologists in employment; the policy in relation to recruiting unpaid positions; and if he will make a...
    • Teacher Supply
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the final report on teacher supply in Ireland, "Striking the Balance", by the Teaching...
    • After-School Support Service Provision
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider passing legislation, regulations or guidelines thatwould encourage primary schools to make space available to private or...
    • School Transport Provision
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter relating to school transport (details supplied) in County Cork will be examined; and if a compromise can be reached. [13965/19]
    • School Enrolments
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties in securing a secondary school place for boys in the Clontarf, Dublin 3, area; the reason a...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places available in the ASD unit at a secondary school (details supplied) for the pupil intake in September 2019; his views on...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the company and type of technology being used to deliver broadband in each primary school by county; the expected bandwidth down and...
    • Adult Education Provision
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the FET guidance strategy following a review by an organisation (details supplied) that was completed in September 2018; and...
    • Schools Health and Safety
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the testing of water quality in a school (details support) which resulted in the school closing; the assistance given to the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a progress report on the provision of an extension for a school (details supplied) will be provided; if the brief change report submitted has...
    • Teacher Supply
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers not being replaced by substitute teachers due to the difficulty in employing substitute teachers (details supplied); and...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the primary schools in Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock that currently have ASD units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14141/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish additional ASD units in the primary schools in Kinsealy, Malahide and Portmarnock; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 26 February 2019, if tenders have been sought for the appointment of a design team for a new school...
    • School Admissions
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 26 February 2019, if a decision has been made on the application for co-educational status; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 26 February 2019, the reason a new invitation to pre-qualify has not commenced for a new school...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been invited from the shortlist of contractors for a new college (details supplied); if so, the closing date for receipt of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tenders have been invited from the shortlist of contractors for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if so, the closing date for...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 26 February 2019, the reason for the delay in the completion of the acquisition of the site in view...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Courts Service Properties
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the OPW has carried out a recent assessment of Carndonagh courthouse, Carndonagh, County Donegal; if issues have been...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers disqualified in court in 2016, 2017 and 2018 that appealed the disqualification; the outcome of the...
    • Parental Leave
      426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the two extra weeks paid leave for parents of a child in the child's first year announced in budget 2019 will be implemented...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when sections 95 and 99 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Data
      429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for decisions to be issued by the ministerial decisions unit regarding recommendations on international...
    • Asylum Applications
      430. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a decision will issue regarding an application by a person (details supplied) for international protection. [12747/19]
    • Gambling Legislation
      431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Gambling Control Bill 2018 and the establishment of the gambling commission; and if he will make a statement...
    • Crime Data
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the assaults on non-nationals in Dublin; if An Garda Síochána traces the number of...
    • Human Rights
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to address and raise awareness around the issue of modern day slavery (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Garda Deployment
      434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the planned deployment at divisional level for gardaí that graduated on 8 March 2019 from Templemore; and if he will make...
    • Garda Data
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Garda in each division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12829/19]
    • Garda Resources
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated to the traffic corps in 2018 in each Garda district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12830/19]
    • Garda Transport Data
      437. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional marked and unmarked Garda cars and vehicles allocated to each Garda division in 2018 and to date in...
    • Visa Applications
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an appeal for a long-stay visa in the case of a person (details supplied); when the...
    • Student Visas Applications Data
      439. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received from foreign students pursuant to the Luximon judgment; and the number that have been...
    • Garda Data
      441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of the Garda Reserve in the Dublin metropolitan region north and Dublin metropolitan region north central...
    • Crime Data
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes per annum, by type of offence, for each of the years from 2009 to 2018 and to date in 2019 in Dublin...
    • Garda Recruitment
      457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the maximum age limit of 35 years of age for normal entry into An Garda Síochána in order to...
    • Garda Transport Data
      460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and type of Garda vehicles attached to Dublin metropolitan region north and Dublin metropolitan region north central...
    • Garda Civilian Staff Data
      462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civilian staff attached to Dublin metropolitan region north and Dublin metropolitan region north central in each...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda youth diversion projects in Dublin metropolitan region north and Dublin metropolitan region north central...
    • Criminal Prosecutions Data
      472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons prosecuted under section 2 of the Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act 1989; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Corruption
      473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda anti-corruption unit was established; the number of personnel assigned to the unit; the rank of each; and if it...
    • Garda Data
      474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of trainee and fully qualified gardaí, respectively, that have left the force prior to the retirement age in...
    • Wards of Court
      475. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have asked in each of the past five years to come out of the wards of court procedure; the number...
    • Irish Prison Service
      477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the precise purpose of the governor's discretional account within each prison in the Irish Prison Service; and if he will make...
    • Prison Facilities
      482. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of tuck shops in operation across the 12 prisons in the Irish Prison Service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Refugee Status Applications
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a proposal and application pursuant to the Irish refugee protection programme,...
    • Deportation Orders Re-examination
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the deportation order against a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and reversed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Election Management System
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to ensure that persons resident in the Mosney direct provision centre, County Meath, are being...
    • Crime Data
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding tackling violent crimes involving knives; the new initiatives under way to address this issue; and if he...
    • Fire Safety
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a fire (details supplied) was due to the failure of the safety system; the number of requests for maintenance lodged by...
    • Student Visas Applications
      493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cause of the delays in processing applications under the special student scheme; and the steps that can be taken to speed...
    • Immigration Status
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for a travel document in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Residency Permits
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13182/19]
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the establishment of therapeutic communities in prison settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application to remain here can be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the case of a person (details supplied) facing extradition to Lithuania in view of the conditions faced by...
    • Immigration Status
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for a travel document in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Residency Permits
      502. 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. [13219/19]
    • Family Reunification
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will exercise his discretion such that a person (details supplied) may be reunited with the person's sibling here. [13231/19]
    • Crime Investigation
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if research or investigations have been undertaken or commissioned on the occurrence of familicide here; his plans to establish...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide funding to ensure the continuation of services by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact...
    • Garda Transport Data
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of four-wheel drive Garda vehicles attached to each Garda division in Dublin as of 22 February 2019; and the number...
    • Garda Vetting
      509. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concerns being expressed regarding the delays in dealing with Garda vetting relating to...
    • Garda Data
      510. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of behaviour warnings issued to children and adults, respectively, in 2018 by Garda division. [13268/19]
    • Immigration Status
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the difference between a person being granted refugee status and an order for subsidiary protection; and the factors taken into...
    • Garda Data
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí allocated to County Limerick over the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Fines Data
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value and number of unpaid fines in each of the years 2013 to 2018; the value and number of fines imposed by the courts in...
    • Fines Administration
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the number of persons who failed to pay fines imposed by the courts increased from 20,104 in the three years from 1...
    • Fines Data
      516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the offence categories in respect of which fines were imposed by the courts in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the offence...
    • Prison Service Data
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 12 March 2019, if data can be recorded centrally for future record keeping. [13355/19]
    • Naturalisation Eligibility
      520. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is provision for one or more of the conditions for naturalisation, such as for two of the five years' reckonable...
    • Prison Medical Service
      521. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of doctors directly employed by the Irish Prison Service; the prisons they are employed in; the number of prisoners...
    • Judicial Appointments
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information regarding the Court of Appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Asylum Applications
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13396/19]
    • Visa Applications
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a working visa by a person (details supplied). [13401/19]
    • Wards of Court
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for delays within the Office of Wards of Court which are impacting on the purchases of properties. [13422/19]
    • European Border and Coast Guard Agency
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Frontex officers working with An Garda Síochána or bodies under the aegis of his Department; and the...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 4 December 2018, when he will provide the assessment of the caseload of the...
    • Garda Data
      530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources available to the National Economic Crime Bureau; the personnel strength of the bureau by rank and civilian grade;...
    • Data Retention
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the communications (retention of data) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13478/19]
    • Garda Expenditure
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 114 of 14 February 2019, the amount of the €249,924 paid to a company (details...
    • Alcohol Sales
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of special exemption orders granted since 2008 to date in tabular form; his plans to amend the legislation; and if...
    • Liquor Licence Data
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of publican's licences (ordinary) theatre licences granted since 2008 to date in tabular form; his plans to amend...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if...
    • Student Visas Applications
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 671 of 11 September 2017 and 568 of 7 November 2017, the number of type 2 and 2A visas...
    • Crime Data
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 583 of 16 January 2018, the number of bicycles reported stolen in the Dublin region in...
    • Garda Recruitment
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 24 April 2018, when the post of the head of training and development within An...
    • Garda Data
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 3 July 2018, the number of vehicles seized for having no tax in An Garda...
    • Immigration Data
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 10 July 2018, the number of persons refused permission to enter the State via...
    • Immigration Controls
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if exit checks are carried out on passengers who leave here through ports and airports; if he has made use of the European...
    • Immigration Policy
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a change in the visa policies and procedures rules for ministers of faith from various different...
    • Courts Service Properties
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans of the Courts Service for the two or three storey over basement red brick buildings at a location (details supplied)...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 9 October 2018, for which no reply was received, the measures being taken to...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 9 October 2018, for which no reply was received, the number of persons charged...
    • Garda Warrants
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 13 November 2018, for which no reply was received, the number of warrants issued...
    • Garda Data
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 11 December 2018, for which no reply was received, the number of vehicles seized...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a criminal injuries application by a person (details supplied). [13696/19]
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a Garda vetting application for a person (details supplied). [13707/19]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the post-project reviews for projects (details supplied); when the reviews were completed; and if they have not been completed,...
    • Family Mediation Service
      551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons waiting on mediation through the free legal aid system; the length of time they are waiting; the waiting...
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the completion of refurbishment works for courthouses contained within the National Development Plan 2018-2027;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fully completed standard applications for citizenship received in each of the past five years; and the average...
    • Fire Safety
      555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints regarding safety issues that were reported to the management of the Midlands Prison by staff in 2018...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect...
    • Family Law Cases
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if concerns will be addressed that the operational model of the family law courts is not fit for purpose; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Data
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the services being provided in the new Garda divisional headquarters in County Galway; the number of staff stationed at the...
    • Garda Reserve
      559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expand and promote the use of the Garda Reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13853/19]
    • Firearms Licences
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review firearms licensing regulations in view of the recent tragedy in New Zealand, particularly in relation to...
    • Firearms Certificates
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of firearms training certificates held by 14 to 17 year olds; the increase or otherwise in the number of firearms...
    • Domestic Homicide
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the findings of the review of domestic homicides by An Garda Síochána will be published. [13939/19]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their application for citizenship; and if he will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider offering British citizens who are working and living here for an extended period Irish citizenship,...
    • Garda Equipment
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of having automatic number plate recognition installed in each remaining Garda roads policing unit vehicle;...
    • Garda Deployment
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of shifts over which community gardaí in the R district Dublin are spread; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Accommodation
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding will be provided for the development of property and evidence management stores in the Dublin metropolitan region...
    • Visa Applications
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 9 December 2014, the reason a visa application by a person (details supplied) was...
    • Proposed Legislation
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline in relation to the Parental Leave (Amendment) Bill 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 12 March 2019, if only two cases are under active consideration by the Criminal...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been provided in 2019 to purchase additional Garda mountain bikes; if so, when the bikes will come into the...
    • Garda Data
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug driving arrests made by county in the south-eastern Garda division from 2014 to 2018, inclusive, and to date...
    • Courts Service
      581. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 23 January 2019, if a decision has been made on the future delivery of court...
    • Legal Aid Service Staff
      582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of solicitors employed by the Legal Aid Board in each of its law centres in each of the past five years; and the...
    • Legislative Process
      584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Judicial Council Bill 2017 will be moved in Seanad Éireann in March 2019; if not, when he expects to move the Bill;...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Work Permits Applications
      586. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied). [13433/19]
    • Brexit Issues
      587. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which she and her EU colleagues have taken into account and treated seriously the recent implied indicators of a trade...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      588. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date in the identification of sites as being suitable for the location of large-scale data centres; and if she will...
    • Regional Development Policy
      589. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the A programme for A Partnership Government commitment to prioritise balanced regional development which will aim to...
    • Job Creation Targets
      590. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regional job targets and unemployment rate projections under A Programme for A Partnership Government for 2020 and Enterprise...
    • Employment Data
      591. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of young persons aged between 15 and 29 years of age classified as not in employment, education or training; the percentage...
    • Enterprise 2025
      593. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of jobs multiplier models used for employment forecasts in Enterprise 2025 Renewed; the latest forecast for each year...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
      594. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of recommendations made in the Report on the Cost of Doing Business published by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
    • Imports and Exports Data
      595. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the volume and value of imports on a percentage basis in 2017 and 2018, by country, in tabular form. [12763/19]
    • Brexit Issues
      598. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to fulfil the commitment to report to Dáil Éireann on non-exporting indigenous local business as set out in...
    • IDA Ireland
      599. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details on matters (details supplied) in relation to IDA supported jobs in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Supports
      600. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses in County Louth and east County Meath that have applied for working capital under the Brexit loan scheme...
    • IDA Ireland Data
      601. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the capital budget allocation to IDA Ireland in 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [13263/19]
    • Brexit Supports
      602. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports in place for Irish exporters to the UK in context of Brexit. [13398/19]
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      603. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the working groups established in her Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Data
      604. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints submitted to her Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the...
  • Department of Health
    • Protected Disclosures
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a former section 39 employee (details supplied) had their request to make a protected disclosure dismissed without examining the details of the...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in approving reimbursement under the long term illness scheme of Sativex spray in view of its benefit to persons with MS; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an appointment in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12730/19]
    • Hospitals Data
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries and procedures cancelled by specialty at Cork University Hospital for each month in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the status of posts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12735/19]
    • HSE Expenditure
      614. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE capital plan will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12748/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12759/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if full-time residential care will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12780/19]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults, respectively, waiting for initial speech and language and occupational therapy assessments in counties Cavan and Monaghan;...
    • Medical Conditions
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if supports and treatment options for persons suffering with a condition (details supplied) will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Industrial Disputes
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an ongoing dispute between a union (details supplied) and the HSE in the north west since December 2017 specifically involving ambulance staff in...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [12793/19]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be reviewed in view of the deterioration in circumstances in the case of a person (details supplied); if the special bed can be...
    • Autism Incidence
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with ASD in Dublin 12. [12817/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      625. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the staff vacancies in each of the six sexual assault treatment units; the length of time each position has been vacant in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has to wait so long to receive home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12836/19]
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the follow-up steps taken by HIQA to ensure that the serious and potentially deadly failures in the management of CPE at Cork University Hospital found in its...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number and types of surgical procedures and treatments carried out in 2018 by each public and private hospital under the NTPF scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [12862/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the services available for a care facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12863/19]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the issue of dual diagnosis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12865/19]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the policy developed for the provision of services for persons with gambling addiction; the level of funding allocated to the HSE and other agencies for the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which farmers (details supplied) are being assessed for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12894/19]
    • Medical Internships
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the available placements with the HSE for a student (details supplied) studying medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12902/19]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of respite services in Tullaghan, County Leitrim; if the unit has been approved by HIQA; and if he will make a statement...
    • Assisted Decision Making
      638. To ask the Minister for Health when Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be fully implemented and all sections enacted; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the review of scans at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12913/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to replace the travel schemes (details supplied) that were ceased in 2013 due to incompatibility with the Equal Status Acts; if an...
    • Health Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be increased for sepsis diagnosis and awareness (details supplied); the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12946/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      642. To ask the Minister for Health when 2019 applications for funding under section 39 will be accepted, considered and approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12948/19]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      643. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be fitted for orthotics; and the reason the County Cork waiting list for children is still merged with the adult waiting...
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 120 complaints about nursing homes in County Cork sent to HIQA in the past two years that resulted in action being taken; the specific action...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      645. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 341 to 343, inclusive, of 19 February 2019, the progress made on the issues raised. [12954/19]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of conferences, nationally or internationally, attended by representatives of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in the period from June...
    • Health Services Staff
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied). [12956/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting stage 1, assessment officer component, of the assessment of needs under the Disability Act 2005, in each county; the length of...
    • Hospital Groups
      651. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to align the south-east CHO area with hospital groups; the Department examining the issue; the consultation being carried out with hospital...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the additional staff that will be recruited at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, to facilitate the opening of the new Dunmore wing at the hospital, by...
    • Hospitals Funding
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding which will be made available to University Hospital Waterford, UHW, to open and manage the 72 isolation beds that form part of the new...
    • Hospital Groups
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding which will be provided to the community healthcare organisation, CHO, in the south east to manage the two floors providing palliative...
    • Hospitals Data
      658. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the mortuary at University Hospital Waterford, UHW; if a business case has been presented for same; the estimated cost; if it is a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      661. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a transfer to a local treatment centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12975/19]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place for the conversion of agency nurses to be employed directly by the HSE in hospitals and in the community setting; the difference in...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the form the mediation settlement followed for the appointment of the National Ambulance Service director; the person who signed and ratified the settlement on...
    • Health Services Data
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent survey conducted by an organisation (details supplied) which showed a severe lack of services and large out of...
    • Care Services Provision
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent survey conducted by an organisation (details supplied) which showed the strain that family carers of persons with...
    • Medical Card Data
      666. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13054/19]
    • Health Services Data
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours for the 6,009 persons awaiting funding for new or additional home support services at the end of January 2019. [13066/19]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      669. To ask the Minister for Health when a primary care centre (details supplied) will be approved. [13070/19]
    • Medical Conditions
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if fibromyalgia will be recognised as a disability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13075/19]
    • Cancer Services Provision
      671. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 645 of 6 November 2018, the status of the familial risk assessment clinic for breast cancer at St. James’s...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      672. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to raise the financial threshold in order that families have greater access to medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13081/19]
    • Medicinal Products
      673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the European Medicines Agency progresses its assessment of authorising a particular drug (details supplied) for persons under 18 years of...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the outpatient building at Connolly Hospital used by diabetes patients, which requires upgrade works under a capital investment programme;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      675. 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. [13091/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for a couple to have IVF treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13136/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      677. To ask the Minister for Health when a bed will be made available for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13137/19]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the commissioning plans and funding for the 60-bed modular unit at University Hospital Limerick; the length of time commissioning will take once construction...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the model of development that will be used to provide the proposed primary care centre at Tulla Road, Ennis, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13146/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health when a bed will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13155/19]
    • Hospital Equipment
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the measures he is taking to reduce the risks to public health from continuing to utilise ageing and obsolete medical equipment in hospitals and...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed primary care centres for Clondalkin village, Rowlagh, north Clondalkin and Lucan; the timeline for commencement and completion of...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter with regard to the cross-border directive scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13191/19]
    • Defibrillators in Schools Provision
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a defibrillator to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13192/19]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home help services in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13193/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the reimbursement status of the drug Tagrisso; if it has been discussed by the HSE drugs leadership group; when he expects it to be available; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter will be investigated in the case of a person (details supplied). [13195/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the average time it takes to reimburse oncology medicines from initial application by the pharmaceutical company; the way in which this compares on a European...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      697. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13197/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the reason high-tech medicines for small patient populations are increasingly not recommended for reimbursement here despite their availability across the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds in the psychiatric units in counties Roscommon and Galway; the out-of-hours or weekend psychiatric services available to persons in the...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      700. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the systems, structures and resources in place to support the decision making process for the reimbursement of medicines; if this review...
    • Nursing Education
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being made to provide funding for practice nurse education; the reason no funding is available for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13207/19]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      703. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a home care package. [13209/19]
    • HSE Planning
      704. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE capital plan for 2019 will be finalised and published [13213/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      705. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a procedure; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13216/19]
    • Health Services Reports
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13218/19]
    • HSE Funding
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the funding to be provided by the HSE to an organisation (details supplied) in 2019; the number of advocacy cases dealt with by it in 2018; the number of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      708. 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. [13227/19]
    • Hospital Staff
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if there are vacancies in the ophthalmology section of the primary care centre in north Drogheda; if the vacancy will be filled in the short term; the...
    • Emergency Departments Data
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children presenting at Wexford General Hospital emergency department with self-harm injuries, suicide attempts and-or overdoses in each of the...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children hospitalised in either Wexford General Hospital or University Hospital Waterford for mental health conditions in each of the years 2014...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding locating blood clinics within CAMHS locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13239/19]
    • Fire Safety
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding fire safety procedures at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13240/19]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding improving working conditions within a CAMHS location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13241/19]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if work has been undertaken to ascertain the reason there is a dearth of applications while vacancies elsewhere are filled in view of the difficulties in...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an email (details supplied); his views on the issues raised therein in regard to the corporate governance of the NMBI; and...
    • National Cervical Screening Programme Inquiry
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received, granted and refused, respectively, for the ex gratia payments of €2,000 to the 221 women in particular to allow...
    • National Cervical Screening Programme Administration
      721. To ask the Minister for Health if the CervicalCheck steering committee will be in situ until the Scally report recommendations are fully implemented; if the terms of reference need to be...
    • Hospital Internships
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if medical students who graduated in Latvia are ineligible for internships in hospitals here as they are deemed to have completed their basic medical training;...
    • Disease Management
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to persons suffering from Lyme disease; his plans to expand available treatment and specialist care for the disease; the number of...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the time frame for planning and construction of the new primary healthcare centre at Buncrana, County Donegal. [13293/19]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      725. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE and his Department will release the funding for Letterkenny University Hospital to extend the renal dialysis unit to incorporate space already...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE did not provide funding to reopen all 20 beds at the short-stay ward of Letterkenny University Hospital as applied for by the management of...
    • Brexit Preparations
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been earmarked and set aside to prepare the health service for Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13296/19]
    • Childhood Obesity
      728. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to turn the recommendations of the report on tackling childhood obesity into legislation and, specifically, that no fast food outlet be built within...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the projects that will be affected by the €24 million cut to the health capital budget; if the cut will result in further delay to persons with...
    • HSE Properties
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to engage with a committee (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13306/19]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      731. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the vacant nursing post at a centre (details supplied) in County Westmeath, which was vacated over two months ago; and if filling the post...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      733. To ask the Minister for Health whether the psychiatrist tasked with covering child referrals from a centre (details supplied) in County Westmeath responsible for covering the county is...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a lengthy period for a dental appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13312/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      735. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a hip operation in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      736. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to offer a free vaccine against the meningococcal B virus for children born prior to 1 October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Healthcare Professionals
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact the SouthDoc in Youghal, County Cork is not in use; the rationale for same; his plans to rectify the issue; and if...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      738. To ask the Minister for Health when the report reviewing the system for setting nursing homes prices under the nursing home support scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fibromyalgia Support Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Ireland does not maintain a registry of persons with fibromyalgia; and when a registry will be established. [13331/19]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the reason fibromyalgia is excluded from the long-term illness list in view of the fact it is a long-term and debilitating illness; and when it will be placed...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      742. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a date for respite care in an adult metal health facility; the reason for multiple...
    • Respite Care Services
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult mental health respite care facilities in CHO1 for persons living in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13335/19]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding EU citizens here who hold MD degrees in another EU country and Medical Council registration but cannot start an internship, which is...
    • Health Services Provision
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the reason family members of residents in the Rosalie unit in County Roscommon were given such short notice that independent clinical assessments were to be...
    • Female Genital Mutilation
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to establish an interagency committee to develop a national action plan on female genital mutilation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      747. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the HSE invests in increased neurology services for persons with neurological conditions such epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received further correspondence regarding the possible introduction of restrictions on the role of pharmaceutical assistants who have contributed to...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      749. To ask the Minister for Health if a general practitioner visit card holder over 70 years of age is entitled to choose a new practitioner in cases in which the existing doctor retires or...
    • Disability Services Provision
      750. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be called for an ASD assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13368/19]
    • Hospital Services
      751. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 560 of 6 November 2018 to outline the status of his plans to invest in neurology services in Letterkenny University...
    • Health Services Provision
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the reason treatment such as bracing for young persons with the pectus carinatum condition is not available through the HSE; if the HSE plans to provide this...
    • Disability Support Services
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons here referred to a service (details supplied) in the UK in each of the past ten years; the number of persons from here with disabilities...
    • HSE Properties
      754. To ask the Minister for Health when a premises (details supplied) will be offered for sale on the open market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13379/19]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the reason new increased rostering measures have been introduced in the ambulance service in County Monaghan (details supplied) but the six additional staff...
    • Ambulance Service
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of a new ambulance in County Monaghan to facilitate new rostering that came into affect recently for staff (details supplied);...
    • Emergency Departments Data
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency room presentations per hospital emergency department for injuries caused by knives notified to An Garda Síochána in each of...
    • Primary Care Centres Staff
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent psychologist vacancies in primary care by community healthcare organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Surveys
      760. To ask the Minister for Health when bulletin seven of the prevalence of drug use and gambling survey 2014 to 2015 will be published in view of the fact it was due for publication in January...
    • Nursing Staff Data
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if an aged based analysis of nursing staff employed in the HSE by grade will be provided in tabular form (details supplied). [13409/19]
    • Dental Services Provision
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of dental services for post-primary children in an area (details supplied); the days the service is in operation; the days the...
    • Medical Card Drugs Availability
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nicotine replacement therapies provided by the HSE through the medical card scheme in 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned Drimnagh primary health care centre; if it will proceed in 2019; if not, if alternative plans are being drawn up; when such plans...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 12 March 2019, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that dispersing this group of deaf persons will not...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health services available to persons with autism; the process for a child or adult in accessing these mental health services; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Home Fees
      772. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the review of the system for setting nursing home prices under the nursing home support scheme. [13436/19]
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the new general practitioner contract for nursing homes. [13437/19]
    • Mobility Allowance
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determining the appropriate scheme to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if further consideration has been given to the funding of a dementia adviser in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13465/19]
    • Hospital Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health when an outreach clinic (details supplied) for patients in County Donegal will be reinstated; the reason this has not taken place to date; the efforts being...
    • HSE Staff
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to review the working arrangements of a person without prejudice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the 20 bed CF inpatient unit at Beaumont Hospital will proceed; the amount of funding allocated to this project; if his attention has been...
    • Dietician Service Provision
      781. To ask the Minister for Health when a dietician will be appointment to King's Island Medical Centre, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13488/19]
    • Home Help Service Data
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home help in south central areas of Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13489/19]
    • HSE Staff Data
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care workers in south central areas of Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13491/19]
    • Pharmaceutical Sector
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the new rules in relation to pharmaceutical assistants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13495/19]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      789. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to provide free access to termination of pregnancy services for women from Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      791. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the activities of a centre (details supplied); his further views on the provision of ultrasound services by persons without appropriate training;...
    • Health Services Provision
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the terms of reference and membership of the working group on contraception; if the group will examine the free provision of long-acting, reversible...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a fair deal application by a person (details supplied); if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13503/19]
    • Organ Donation
      794. To ask the Minister for Health when a soft opt-out organ donor consent system will be introduced to replace the opt-in system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13504/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      795. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13505/19]
    • Occupational Therapy Provision
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if an occupational therapy appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13506/19]
    • Medical Card Applications
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was closed in view of the fact that the applicant was a cross border worker and is entitled to a medical card under EU...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours will be approved for a person (details supplied). [13516/19]
    • Hospital Services
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term care plan on an inpatient basis will be put in place for a person (details supplied). [13518/19]
    • Vaccination Programme Data
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the HPV immunisation uptake statistics provided by the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre for the school year 1 September 2017 to 1 June...
    • Health Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a transfer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13527/19]
    • Health Services Access
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which patients in the Kilkenny area can access dermatology services; if St. Vincent's University Hospital is the designated hospital for this...
    • Health Services Provision
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if dermatology service outpatient clinics are held in County Kilkenny; if so, the number of times; the number of dermatologists who are employed at St....
    • Health Services Staff Data
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dermatologist consultants who are employed in the health service; the way in which this compares with other European countries; and if he will...
    • Health Services Data
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of skin cancers being diagnosed here has increased in the past few years; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels for CAMHS teams, by community healthcare organisation and local health office, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding plans that were in train in 2011 for a primary health care centre in Ardee, County Louth, to replace the interim primary care centre...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the dedicated funding that will be available in 2019 to support the development of neuro-rehabilitation services [13552/19]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities and options available for persons with an acquired brain injury in view of the lack of investment in neurology services and staff shortages in...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      817. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 28 November 2017, the amount collected in accident and emergency charges from Beaumont Hospital in 2015, 2016 and...
    • Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
      818. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 22 March 2018, if he will report on the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council’s fitness to practice...
    • Hospitals Data
      819. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 24 April 2018, the number of inpatient and outpatients who did not attend Beaumont Hospital in 2016, 2017 and...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      820. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 2 October 2018, the number of persons in CHO 9 waiting for podiatry care; the numbers waiting between zero to...
    • Autism Support Services
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available to families for the provision of specialised autism-specific services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13589/19]
    • Mental Health Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who suffers with depression has had the person's emotional support suddenly withdrawn without explanation; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      823. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 688 of 6 November 2018, the position of the HSE regarding the provision of the drug; if there has been further contact...
    • Midwifery Services Provision
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a service (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the HSE is actively seeking potential interested midwives in order to offer...
    • HSE Staff
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if a HSE employee (details supplied) has the option of paying into a public service pension now or buying back their pension entitlements; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Policy
      826. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the role of art therapist as a designated position in an updated A Vision for Change policy on mental health; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if it is required by the HSE that medication not be put into a single blister pack for medical card patients by pharmacists. [13610/19]
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      828. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider signing the new rules in relation to pharmaceutical assistants and seek to have amendments included in the Regulated Professions (Health...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2016, 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services Provision
      830. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13620/19]
    • Mental Health Services
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on the development of adult and child mental health intellectual disability teams. [13621/19]
    • Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
      832. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the HSE to provide a drug detox and rehabilitation facility in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13627/19]
    • Hospitals Data
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the number of head injuries arising from cycling road traffic incidents that have been treated in hospitals in the past 12 months by county in tabular form....
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      839. To ask the Minister for Health the failures of the HSE with regard to taking every reasonable precaution to prevent persons from contracting infectious diseases while in Galway University...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      843. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 9 October 2018, for which no reply was received from the HSE, the number of homeless beds for persons leaving...
    • HSE Properties
      844. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 8 November 2018, for which a reply was received from the HSE on 22 November 2018 but not received from Beaumont...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy
      845. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 20 November 2018, for which no reply was received from the national clinical programme for rare diseases, if he...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      846. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 5 December 2018, for which no reply was received from the HSE, if he has received a report regarding the number of...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      847. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to each drugs task force for each year since 2008; the population covered by each task force; and his plans to increase core funding for...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend home care support services to include public holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13689/19]
    • National Carers' Strategy Funding
      849. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appropriate and dedicate funding for family carers in view of their essential work in the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13690/19]
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of an association (details supplied) regarding the new draft rules to be incorporated into the Regulated...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      851. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be scheduled as a matter of urgency at St. James's Hospital, Dublin, for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the construction timeframe and date of opening of the 20-bed cystic fibrosis patient unit in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      853. To ask the Minister for Health if patient advocacy groups will be included in the terms of reference for the mini-review by his Department of the drugs approval process here; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      854. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to act on the proposals for a centralised common general practitioners' contract for performing vasectomies, put forward in 2016 by a working group...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the commencement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; when he plans to commence the provisions relating to minimum unit pricing; and...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Commission of Investigation (Certain matters relative to a disability service in the South East and related matters); if he will...
    • Hospital Procedures
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13715/19]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons living in Skerries cannot register with general practitioner services in the town due to the lack of...
    • Water Fluoridation
      860. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the review of the expert body of the study, entitled "Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children at 4 and 6 to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      861. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a series of matters relating to an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied); when the application will...
    • Disability Services Provision
      862. To ask the Minister for Health if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13736/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the campaign for the approval of pembro for persons in cases in which the consultant has confirmed that the drug would make a marked...
    • Disability Services Provision
      864. To ask the Minister for Health if all documentation including bank statements requested by persons (details supplied) will be made available; if it will be ensured that the documents cover...
    • Emergency Services
      865. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum mileage allowed on an emergency vehicle under HSE protocol ; and the steps taken to ensure a vehicle which has reached this level of mileage is...
    • Ambulance Service
      866. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a replacement ambulance to St. Joseph's Care Centre, Longford; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the vehicle on site...
    • Departmental Data
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the outcome of such...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      868. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13791/19]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      869. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at hospital consultant level in CHO area 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13794/19]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that construction work on the proposed new 27 bed inpatient unit for acute mental health at Sligo University...
    • Autism Support Services
      871. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will have an ASD assessment; the position of the child on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      873. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) with extensive care needs will be awarded a homecare package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13815/19]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      874. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be provided for a person (details supplied); if a long-term placement will be provided for them at a facility; if the HSE will fund such a...
    • Health Services Provision
      875. To ask the Minister for Health the options available in the public health system for the treatment of cystic fibrosis spastic diplegia; if patients with the condition can avail of the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a scan for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13823/19]
    • Ambulance Service
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the reason ambulances (details supplied) can be used to transport patients to hospital but other ambulances are not authorised to transport patients; and if he...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      878. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 253 of 9 October 2018 and 194 of 13 March 2019, if he will make a new offer of a meeting with the family of a person...
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      880. To ask the Minister for Health the number of physiotherapists employed by the HSE and-or children's physiotherapy services in County Galway; if there are vacancies for physiotherapists...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if respite will be allocated closer to the home of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13837/19]
    • HSE Expenditure
      883. To ask the Minister for Health the quality assurance procedures the HSE has in place to transparently acknowledge to contractors the date on which it receives a particular invoice; if these...
    • HSE Data
      884. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a contractual agreement between the distribution contractor and the product contractor under a contract (details supplied); if so, when such an...
    • HSE Expenditure
      885. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters in respect of HSE contracts (details supplied). [13843/19]
    • Departmental Contracts
      886. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 302 and 303 of 5 March 2019, if the contractor awarded the contract is an established supplier and payee with the HSE...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      888. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13848/19]
    • Medical Card Applications
      889. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the matter will be expedited; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a programme (details supplied); the efforts he has made to work with the initiative through the Department of Health in...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      891. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of multidisciplinary intervention services to the pupils of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the planned primary health care centre in Drimnagh, Dublin 12; the proposed opening date of the facility; the reason for the delay on this...
    • HSE Staff Data
      893. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unpaid assistant psychologists working in the HSE; the policy of the HSE on recruiting unpaid positions; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time to access the early intervention teams covering the Dublin 5, 13 and 17 areas; if plans will be put in place to increase the capacity of the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if the Rotunda Hospital will move to a new location at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; if so, when the process will commence and be completed; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      899. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been problems in recruiting staff for the new satellite unit of the national children’s hospital at Connolly Hospital; if this is causing...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if step-down care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/19]
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      901. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision on signing the draft new rules on temporary cover for pharmaceutical assistants into law will be paused in order to consider amending the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      902. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) is provided with transport to enable the person to attend an adult day service; and if he will...
    • Occupational Therapy Staff
      903. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalents employed in the occupational therapy service in County Wexford in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      904. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of needs form must be submitted before a child receives an early intervention assessment through the HSE; if this is made clear to parents...
    • Psychological Services
      905. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 13 November 2018, if a replacement has been provided to cover the maternity leave. [14030/19]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Staff
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time equivalent speech and language therapists in the HSE by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14031/19]
    • Health Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish an independent investigation into the complaints made by a person (details supplied); if a reply will issue in detail to correspondence...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      908. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the proposed changes to the work practices of pharmaceutical assistants; if he has engaged with organisations (details supplied) on their...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeons active here that are suitably qualified to perform the complex surgery often required to treat endometriosis. [14036/19]
    • Data Protection
      910. To ask the Minister for Health the reason appointments to the consent declaration committee are behind schedule; the steps he is taking to nominate a committee chair; when this nomination...
    • Health Research Board Funding
      911. To ask the Minister for Health if he will strengthen research capacity here in women's health allowing his Department or related agencies such as the Health Research Board to apply for...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      912. To ask the Minister for Health the reason frontotemporal dementia is not on the long-term illness scheme; his plans to review the illnesses that qualify for the scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      913. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting methadone treatment in an area (details supplied); the number of patients on treatment but awaiting transfer for treatment...
    • Occupational Therapy Staff
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the fact that latest figures indicate there are currently 1,429 children and young persons waiting more than two years for an...
    • HIQA Investigations
      915. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA has undertaken investigations specifically into the management of CPE in Limerick University Hospital; and if not, if it plans to do so. [14054/19]
    • Medical Card Administration
      916. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency call-out ambulance is covered by the medical card; the instances in which a person would be charged a fee of €100 for an ambulance from...
    • Orthodontic Services Data
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for orthopaedic surgery in each of the CHO areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14064/19]
    • Mental Health Commission Reports
      918. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 13 March 2019, the training the staff in St. Luke's Hospital were provided with in regard to the rules governing...
    • Nursing Education
      919. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland changed the minimum entry requirements for degree programmes in nursing and midwifery; and if...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      922. To ask the Minister for Health the status of works to redevelop and upgrade nursing homes (details supplied) in County Donegal; the timeline for the completion of the works; and if he will...
    • Health Services Charges
      923. To ask the Minister for Health the possible reimbursement routes for a person (details supplied) who has had emergency surgery carried out privately in view of the lengthy waiting list for a...
    • Occupational Therapy Data
      924. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an occupational therapy appointment in County Wexford in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      925. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14101/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      926. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and school leavers in County Meath on a waiting list for training services. [14104/19]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      928. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cease the long-term illness scheme in view of the review of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14107/19]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      930. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the 20-bed cystic fibrosis, CF, inpatient unit in Beaumont Hospital is being delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14109/19]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      931. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will finalise its capital plan for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14130/19]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of a primary healthcare centre in Lucan (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14131/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      933. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); if the person can avail of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Children's Hospital
      936. To ask the Minister for Health his role in the appointment of a new project director (details supplied) for the national children's hospital; the number of resignations from the National...
    • Medical Conditions
      938. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recognise fibromyalgia as a disability here; if it will be included on the long term illness list; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      939. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work that has been undertaken by the dual diagnosis national clinical care programme to date; the reason that the national clinical lead is...
    • Home Help Service Eligibility
      940. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14157/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      941. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medicine (details supplied) is not covered by the medical card; if consideration has been given to amending same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Staff
      942. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the growing number of resignations from CAMHS services here; his plans to counter the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14213/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      943. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for a person (details supplied) receiving a consultation at the orthopaedic department, University Hospital Limerick; and if he will...
    • Health Services Provision
      944. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the curtailment of eligibility for services (details supplied) which have been identified as replacement for hospitalisation or institutional...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Animal Welfare
      945. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of charges, prosecutions, convictions and sentences under sections (details supplied) of the Animal Health and Welfare Act...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Review
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to propose a review of the EU Common Fisheries Policy post Brexit to manage the changes that Brexit will bring to fishing...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a copy of all sales and marketing strategies by an organisation (details supplied) from 2013 to date in 2019 will be provided; if...
    • Bord na gCon Administration
      949. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request an organisation (details supplied) to provide a copy of its organisational structure; the positions vacant in the...
    • Animal Slaughtering Standards
      951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if mechanical grading machines' tolerance for fat class is at least 88% of the predictions should be within one sub-class of the...
    • Beef Exports
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the beef export markets that demand a 30-month slaughter limit on animals; the effect non-compliance would have for those markets;...
    • Beef Industry
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is monitoring the situation of Brazilian authorities relocating their embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the...
    • GLAS Issues
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will intervene with an organisation (details supplied) under the terms of GLAS that has failed to provide a certificate of...
    • GLAS Payments
      966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if GLAS payments will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12807/19]
    • Credit Availability
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if information (details supplied) will be provided regarding the future growth loan scheme. [12810/19]
    • Greyhound Industry
      968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on whether the Greyhound Racing Bill 2018 currently before...
    • Exports Growth
      969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase beef and lamb exports to Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12952/19]
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      970. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reintroduce the voisinage agreement; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of fishermen in relation to this...
    • Fish Farming
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that have been put in place for the proposed mussel farm in Kinsale, County Cork; his views on the proposals; and if he...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the options a person (details supplied) has to buy entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13190/19]
    • Food Safety Standards Inspections
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a premises (details supplied) will be inspected as part of an application; if a new application process must be completed; and if...
    • Greyhound Industry
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the provisions in relation to the commitment provided to him by the Irish Greyhound Board regarding the expansion of...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter regarding the case of the person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13466/19]
    • Forestry Sector
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to implement the commitments given in the mid-term review of the forestry programmes 2017 and in particular, the...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he...
    • Greyhound Industry
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 12 March 2019, the breakdown of the employment figures including the number of full-time...
    • TAMS Payments
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a supplementary TAMS payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Meat Processing Plants
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meat processing plants that have applied for CNC licences to export beef products to China; the length of time CNC...
    • Greyhound Industry
      985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 475 and 481 of 12 March 2019, in which he claimed there were 5,058 full and part-time jobs in...
    • Harbours and Piers
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the dredging of Howth Harbour and in particular on reported plans to utilise the 225,000 cubic metres of dredged silt...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Appeals
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a mater in relation to an appeal by persons (details supplied) to a decision regarding areas of natural constraints will be...
    • Departmental Data
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to...
    • Fodder Crisis
      989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proactive measures being taken to prevent a repeat of the fodder shortage that occurred in 2018; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Properties
      990. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the relocation of laboratories under the aegis of his Department; and the projected timeframe for completion...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      991. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of herds with feedlot designation under the tuberculosis eradication programme that applied for derogation in each of the...
    • Nitrates Usage
      992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of feedlots that have exceeded the amount of 250 kg nitrogen per hectare as required by SI No. 65/2018 - European Union...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13850/19]
    • Achomhairc Talmhaíochta
      994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar athbhreithniú atá iarrtha ag a Roinn ar chinneadh a rinne an Oifig Achomhairc...
    • Food Industry Development
      995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount provided in 2018 and to date in 2019 for the construction of a new national food innovation hub; and if he will make a...
    • Greyhound Industry Data
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider publishing yearly lists outlining the number of greyhounds exported and the countries they were exported to; his...
    • Animal Welfare
      997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a review of a case (details supplied) drawn to his attention by a person will be undertaken; and if the original complaints by the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the appeal process in the case of a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if a positive response will issue in view of the...
    • Live Exports
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a ship (details supplied) was permitted to carry livestock from Greenore to Turkey on 7 March 2018, 10 April 2018 and 9...
    • Horse Slaughtering Data
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses slaughtered for human consumption in 2018 and to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Labelling
      1002. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which traceability, quality, husbandry and production requirements continue to be met in respect of all food and food...
    • Herd Data
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strength of the national beef herd, dairy herd, pig herd and the sheep flock; the extent to which numbers have fluctuated over...
    • Poultry Industry
      1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor the poultry sector with particular reference to threats to the industry; the degree to...
    • Food Marketing Programme
      1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to encourage new markets for food and food products with particular reference to switching to new...
    • Alternative Farm Enterprises
      1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current extent of deer farming, domestic and-or export markets for venison; the extent to which the industry has fluctuated in...
    • Farms Data
      1007. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor the cost of farm production inputs with a view to maintaining a livelihood for farm...
    • Agrifood Sector
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which food producers, with particular reference to beef, lamb or pigmeat, can expect to compete on international...
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      1010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he is satisfied regarding the adequacy of laboratory facilities here to meet bovine and equine requirements; and...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      1011. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the trend discovered regarding the extermination of bovine tuberculosis; the areas in which a breakdown seems to have occurred and...
    • Agrifood Sector
      1012. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which objectives and targets as set out by Food Harvest 2020 and Food Wise 2025 are being achieved; and if he will...
    • Tillage Sector
      1013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which the future for cereal growers remains attractive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14266/19]
    • Animal Welfare
      1014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he continues to monitor all aspects of animal welfare including canine and non-sporting equines; and if he will...
    • Food Imports
      1015. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which the importation of food and food products continues to be checked and inspected for violations of Irish and EU...
    • Beef Industry
      1017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the fifth quarter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14270/19]
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      1018. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the issue in relation to retired workers from the ESB that claim that they have not had pension increases for the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      1020. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the necessary repair work will be undertaken on the e-car charge stations at the Red Cow Luas stop which are out of...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      1022. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on campaign and enforcement costs as they relate to the purchase and renewal of television licences...
    • Climate Change Policy
      1023. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on campaigns to raise awareness of climate change and promote environmentally friendly practices in...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      1024. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of an annual support towards the cost of pay by weight bin charges for households...
    • Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme Applications
      1025. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application (details supplied) for an extension to REFIT 2 deadlines; and if he will make a statement...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      1026. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding a matter in relation to broadband (details supplied). [12981/19]
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      1027. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been contacted by his EU colleagues with regard to the use of 5G technology by a company (details supplied);...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      1028. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated timeframe for an adequate broadband connection to the broadband blackspots throughout County Louth; the...
    • Air Quality
      1031. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of air monitors in County Limerick; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that air monitors stopped...
    • Angling Sector
      1033. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount and percentage of national strategy for angling development funding handed back in each of the years 2015...
    • Broadcasting Legislation
      1034. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of changes to the broadcasting Acts to support independent radio stations; the timeline for such changes...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      1035. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 14 February 2019, the amount of the cost details provided for each year...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      1036. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership of each; and if he...
    • Television Licence Fee
      1037. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 30 January 2018, if the proposal has been taken under further...
    • Air Quality
      1038. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans and timelines for making air quality data available to the public in an accessible manner as is the case...
    • Grant Aid
      1039. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a grant is available for a boiler to be fitted for a person (details supplied). [13735/19]
    • National Broadband Plan
      1040. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to his comments on 19 February 2019, if he has met with companies (details supplied) to discuss the impact of...
    • National Broadband Plan Data
      1042. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of premises contained within amber areas of the national broadband plan by county. [13742/19]
    • Broadcasting Service Provision
      1043. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position with regard to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and...
    • Departmental Data
      1045. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1047. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the extension of the roll-out of high speed broadband in areas marked in light blue on the high...
    • Departmental Reports
      1049. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the terms of reference for the report on just transition due in early 2019 (details supplied); and the date for the...
    • Waste Management
      1050. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position with regard to the commissioning of a waste characterisation study of litter, street cleanings and street...
    • Climate Change Policy
      1052. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he plans to take to address the issue of climate change in view of the scale and engagement of school...
    • Postal Services
      1055. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the financial supports given to An Post in each of the years 2010 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Coast Guard Services
      1056. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason voluntary rescue services have been informed they are unable to use blue flashing lights and sirens in emergencies; and if he...
    • EU Directives
      1057. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that Ireland meets its compliance requirements under EU Directive 2015/413/EU. [13265/19]
    • Motor Tax
      1058. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated additional revenue that would be generated if the motor tax band F increased from €1,200 to €1,360; and if...
    • Rail Services Data
      1059. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of tenders received by the National Transport Authority for the provision of pre-owned diesel multiple unit vehicles for...
    • Rail Network Maintenance
      1060. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the IMMAC heavy rail programme; the details of expenditure under the programme since 2014; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rail Network
      1063. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the heavy rail enhancement programme; the planned expenditure under the programme over the coming years; and if he will...
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      1064. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of planned investment in cycling infrastructure in each year of the next five years. [12720/19]
    • Railway Stations Upgrade
      1065. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the commitment to reroof Pearse Station. [12721/19]
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      1066. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that has been provided in roads funding to each county in the past four years in tabular form. [12722/19]
    • Public Transport Fares
      1067. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of efforts to introduce credit and debit card ticketing on State transport operators. [12723/19]
    • Driver Licences
      1068. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Irish driver licences in Northern Ireland post Brexit; if licences issued here remain valid; and if driver insurance...
    • Motor Tax
      1069. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a person can retrospectively apply for a refund of road tax due to the longer than anticipated illness of an owner when...
    • Road Tolls
      1070. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the level of tolling of the M3 motorway is excessive and discourages motorists to use the motorway; and his further...
    • Public Transport Fares
      1071. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Leap cards are usable in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12843/19]
    • Railway Stations
      1072. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned train station for Pelletstown and Ashington, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12859/19]
    • Local Authority Staff
      1073. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cycling officers in each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12906/19]
    • Sport Ireland Funding
      1075. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a team (details supplied) receives State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13067/19]
    • Ports Traffic
      1076. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the changes his attention has been drawn to regarding the number of cruise ships arriving at ports here; the actions he is taking to...
    • Ports Facilities
      1081. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the cruise ship terminal will proceed at Dublin Port; the plans he has been informed of regarding same (details supplied); and if he...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      1083. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and TII can further assist in establishing when urgent works are due to commence to alleviate flooding problems on two properties...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      1084. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding road hauliers being fined in Germany when a truck licensed in a different EU member state carries a trailer...
    • Road Safety
      1086. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding Germany rejecting the validity of RSA-issued trailer certificates of roadworthiness; and if he will make a...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Expenditure
      1087. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of the budget allocation of his Department in 2019 that will be allocated to the local authority swimming pool programme....
    • Driver Test Centres
      1088. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that enough driver testers are in place to meet the demand for driver tests; his plans to recruit additional driver...
    • Driver Licence Applications
      1089. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources including funding of pay, additional staff or other measures that have been introduced to cope with the...
    • Driver Test Centres
      1090. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test centre will be established in Fermoy, County Cork in view of the number of persons applying for tests and the long...
    • Road Signage
      1091. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to ensure that Ireland West Airport Knock is receiving adequate motorway signage and exposure on the M6, M17 and...
    • Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles
      1092. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish a wheelchair accessible bus route between County Donegal and Sligo IT for students living in County Donegal...
    • Ports Traffic
      1093. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to accommodate cruise ships berthing here in view of the fact that the new Dublin Port cruise berthing policy will reduce the...
    • Greenways Development
      1094. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparatory work undertaken when deciding upon the emerging preferred route for the Royal Canal greenway; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      1095. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a pedestrian crossing adjacent to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      1096. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the transfer of a UK driver licence to an Irish licence will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety Authority Data
      1098. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drivers disqualified in court in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in circumstances in which the Road Safety Authority was unable to...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he will...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      1102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of subscribers to the regional bike scheme in Galway, Cork and Limerick, respectively, at the end of 2018; and if he will...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      1109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason pedestrian crossings for schools (details supplied) are being held up by TII. [13605/19]
    • Vehicle Registration
      1110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is mandatory for ATV and scrambler motorbikes that are used on public roads to be registered with the national vehicle and driver...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if responsibility for the application and assessment of all sports capital grants will be allocated to a fully independent body in the...
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      1114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the technology used in the new tests with regard to the new drug driving legislation tests for traces of CBD or just THC. [13710/19]
    • Driver Test Centres
      1115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority is considering closing or moving the driver test centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Light Rail Projects
      1116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the low frequency of peak-hour trams serving Broombridge on the Luas green line; and his plans to...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the post-project reviews for public private partnerships, PPPs, (details supplied); when the reviews were completed; and if they have...
    • Departmental Data
      1119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the...
    • Brexit Preparations
      1120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being prepared in order to meet the challenges raised by the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and if he...
    • Brexit Issues
      1121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if drivers here who hold Northern Ireland driver licences will still hold valid driver licences here in the event of a no-deal Brexit;...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      1122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the score allocated to a recent application for national lottery funding will be re-examined in view of the fact the club (details...
    • National Transport Authority
      1123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in publication of the National Transport Authority rail census survey conducted in November 2018; when the...
    • Road Tolls
      1124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to intervene or review the cost of using toll roads nationally; and his views on whether the cost of using the toll road on...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if works are currently or have recently been ongoing on the R149 road westwards past Confey, County Kildare, to survey traffic volumes,...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Expenditure
      1126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full cost to date for the maintenance of the unopened private service stations on the M11 at Ballyellin, Inch, Gorey, County...
    • Airport Development Projects
      1127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a project to lay a pipeline that would supply fuel to Dublin Airport will be considered (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Arts Funding
      1128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a tender process will take place regarding an art project for a new road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Organisations
      1129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has requested clarification from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the concerns relating to its accounts; and if he...
    • Brexit Issues
      1132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he has met with representatives from the cruise industry regarding the potential impacts of Brexit on that industry...
    • Ports Facilities
      1133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process through which Rosslare Europort could be brought into the control and ownership of the State; if payments to the British...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a series of matters regarding a grant-in-aid to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Service Vehicles
      1135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has responded to queries from an association (details supplied) regarding fraudulent small public service vehicle, SPSV, licence...
    • Rail Services Data
      1138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional train carriages purchased since 2000 for the Irish Rail commuter and intercity fleet. [14059/19]
    • Driver Test
      1139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver test for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14088/19]
    • Sports Funding
      1140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times he or his officials directly corresponded with Sport Ireland in 2017 regarding additional funding to an association...
    • Public Transport Subsidies
      1142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated increase in PSO subvention needed to reduce average Dublin Bus ticket prices by a quarter and by a half; and the estimated...
    • Public Transport Expenditure
      1146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of increasing public transport capacity by 25%, 50% and 100%; and the national public transport total, with specific...
    • Driver Test Waiting Lists
      1148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for a driver test in each driver test centre in County Galway; the number of days in each week on which tests are...
    • Sports Funding
      1149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions on which he has made representations to Sport Ireland since his appointment in respect of issuing funds to...
    • Driver Test Data
      1150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications for jeep and trailer driver tests currently with the driver test centres by county in tabular form; the...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding
      1151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a source of funding from Pobal that could save a service (details supplied) which has planning permission for a temporary...
    • Child Abuse Reports
      1154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the recent country report by the UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children...
    • Residential Institutions
      1155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the meetings of the collaborative forum have been suspended; if so, the reason therefor; and when she will publish the report of the...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the comments made by the UN rapporteur regarding concerns over the limited scope of the Commission of...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the family resource centres in an area (details supplied); if new applications have been made for centres in the area; the areas they have...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
      1159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for Ireland to ratify the Second Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. [12898/19]
    • National Childcare Scheme
      1160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects to make the additional transition support payment to childcare providers under the national childcare scheme; the value...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      1161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of full-time equivalent social worker vacancies by county in tabular form. [13027/19]
    • Children in Care
      1163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and percentage of children in care with an allocated social worker by county in tabular form. [13029/19]
    • Foster Care Data
      1168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of a private foster care place versus a public foster care place in tabular form. [13034/19]
    • Child Protection Services Provision
      1169. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection cases awaiting the allocation of a social care worker by priority level and county in tabular form. [13035/19]
    • Family Resource Centres
      1170. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to each family resource centre in each of the past four years in tabular form. [13036/19]
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      1172. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has engaged with the Minister for Education and Skills or her other ministerial colleagues regarding training additional social...
    • Childcare Legislation
      1176. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the review of section 3 of the Child Care Act 1991. [13042/19]
    • Child Protection
      1178. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection and welfare referrals made to Tusla that await screening. [13044/19]
    • DEIS Scheme
      1179. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made on the proposed DEIS model for childcare services operating in areas of high disadvantage; the proposed date for...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      1180. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 13 March 2019, if the cost on an annual basis of placing a child in private residential care...
    • Childcare Services Funding
      1181. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a childcare centre (details supplied) in County Kerry will be permitted to apply for strand A capital funding; and if she will make a...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Data
      1184. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children on a waiting list for an ECCE place by county. [13272/19]
    • Area Based Childhood Programme
      1186. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to each ABC centre in 2018; and the amount budgeted for 2019, in tabular form.; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Data
      1187. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of AIM grants provided to each county since 2015, by AIM level and year, in tabular form. [13275/19]
    • Children in Care
      1193. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children placed in residential care abroad in each year since 2011, by country of placement. [13287/19]
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      1194. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the counties that do not have emergency refuge accommodation for victims of domestic violence and their children, in tabular form. [13288/19]
    • Foster Care Data
      1198. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children are ever placed in foster care abroad rather than locally; and if so, the number of children placed abroad in each year since...
    • Adoption Data
      1199. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children are ever placed by the Adoption Authority of Ireland in adoptive families abroad; and if so, the circumstances in which this...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1200. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has refused to provide persons with a copy of their testimony to the...
    • Childcare Services
      1201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the concerns outlined and respond to same; and if she will make...
    • Preschool Services
      1202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is possible for parents to sign a legal disclaimer to protect their child's place in a crèche that is being instructed by Tusla...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Data
      1203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated number of children who will be in ECCE in September 2019, by year of birth and local authority. [13430/19]
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the working groups currently established in her Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if she will...
    • Childcare Services
      1205. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a response will issue to correspondence from an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13618/19]
    • Architectural Heritage
      1206. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the partial demolition of a historic 19th century stone folly on the grounds of the former Bessborough...
    • Departmental Complaints Procedure
      1207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of complaints submitted to her Department in 2017 and 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to the...
    • Childcare Services Regulation
      1208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the findings of a report by an organisation (details supplied) in relation to childminders; and if she...
    • Childcare Services Provision
      1210. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13820/19]
    • Children in Care
      1211. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children in the care of Tusla are accommodated in emergency situations at locations provided for adult homeless services; if so, the...
    • Child Custody and Access
      1212. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if child contact centres will be established to enable the supervised access to children without a parent who is a victim of domestic...
    • Youth Services Funding
      1213. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the avenues of funding and grant support open to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14027/19]
    • Departmental Reviews
      1214. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will publish the independent review of the cost of delivery of quality childcare; and if it will be published before Easter 2019...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1215. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the purpose of the payments; the...
    • Childcare Services Funding
      1216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding will be restored to a childcare provider (details supplied) to 2017-2018## levels under the community childcare subvention...
    • Domestic Violence
      1217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget for domestic sexual and gender based violence services in 2017 and 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14085/19]
    • Departmental Data
      1218. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date research on placement stability (details supplied) collated by Tusla with statistics published in other jurisdictions will be...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost of the mobile phone black spot pilot project his Department is co-funding in Malin Beg with a company (details supplied) and...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      1220. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to establish a digital development office in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Control of Dogs
      1221. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the most recent tender issued by a local authority (details supplied) regarding operating its dog pound and warden service; when the...
    • Community Services Programme
      1222. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a person (details supplied) can extend their participation on a community services programme after their 66th birthday; and if he...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      1223. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the options under consideration for volunteer centres that are underfunded; the timeframe in which a decision may be reached...
    • Community Services Programme
      1224. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to make changes to or end a community employment scheme (details supplied) in view of plans for development at the scheme...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1226. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if he...
    • Departmental Data
      1227. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1228. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the contract his Department has in place with Pobal; the services Pobal provides on behalf of his Department; if the contract was...
    • Departmental Funding
      1229. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the avenues of funding and grant support open to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14026/19]
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      1234. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budget allocation in 2018 and 2019 for the senior alert scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14148/19]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to include fibromyalgia as an illness to be considered for the disability allowance payment; and if she will make...
    • Guardian's Payment
      1236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the situation regarding grandparents that are caring for their grandchildren in terms of options in terms of legal...
    • National Minimum Wage
      1237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on concerns expressed by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the sub-minimum rates introduced on 4 March...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a disability allowance will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [12798/19]
    • State Pensions Payments
      1239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of a State pension have the option to receive the payment on a monthly basis; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme
      1240. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is a policy for community welfare officers to inform those on rent supplement that the payment may be impacted if they...
    • State Pensions Reform
      1241. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to introduce changes to pensions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12846/19]
    • Back to Work Allowance Eligibility
      1242. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) does not qualify for the back to work allowance; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Working Family Payment Payments
      1243. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a working family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Carer's Allowance Review
      1244. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) which has been marked for review since...
    • Carer's Allowance Waiting Times
      1245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting period for dealing with new applications for carer’s allowance; the waiting period for dealing with...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      1246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given towards the adequate rest periods of retained firefighters in receipt of jobseeker's benefit...
    • State Pensions
      1247. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter regarding persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12964/19]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to move to a total contributions approach for the State pension (contributory) for all pensioners in the future;...
    • Pensions Data
      1249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews completed by county by 28 February 2019 in respect of the review of the 2012 pension changes; the...
    • Social Insurance Rates
      1250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of hours per week an employee works in order to receive a full class A stamp; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      1251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for domiciliary care allowance appeals; and the work being carried out to reduce the processing time....
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      1254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an illness benefit application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [13072/19]
    • Invalidity Pension Reviews
      1255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review of an application by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); if same will be expedited; and if she...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      1257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cut-off for entitlement to children's allowance to allow children who turn 18 years of age and who are still in...
    • Working Family Payment Applications
      1258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a working family payment application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the...
    • Customer Verification Procedures
      1259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all issues relative to their identity have been resolved in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Low Pay Commission Remit
      1260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she has taken to strengthen the role of the Low Pay Commission in respect of the gender pay gap. [13189/19]
    • Photographic Identification
      1261. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the form of identification a person should use instead of a public services card if that is the only form of identification...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      1262. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to recruit and divert more appeals officers to the social welfare appeals office to deal with the backlog of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Data
      1263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare appeals that were lodged in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019 by type of appeal per scheme; the...
    • Citizens Information Services
      1264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of community employment workers and volunteers working in citizen's information centres and services; the number...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a matter will be addressed regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Job Initiatives
      1266. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns for the privacy of individual jobseekers that may arise when her Department organises events...
    • Public Services Card
      1267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) about the public services card will be addressed; her plans to...
    • Community Employment Schemes Administration
      1268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding community employment schemes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1269. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the processing of reassessment of pensions; the reason some persons receive increases a few days after they...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged from 18 to 25 years of age in receipt of a jobseeker's payment. [13423/19]
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      1271. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the progress of the youth employment support scheme; the number of persons aged from 18 to 24 years of age who...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data
      1272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged from 18 to 25 years of age who have sought assistance through the supplementary welfare allowance...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      1273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the stage the review and report into the reduced jobseeker's rates for persons aged from 18 to 25, which was due to be...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      1275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged from 18 to 25 years of age who are in receipt of rent supplement. [13428/19]
    • Working Family Payment
      1277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a working family payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [13455/19]
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a carer’s allowance application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      1279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for carer's allowance applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13486/19]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      1280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on the application of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for an invalidity pension;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      1281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer's allowance and domiciliary care allowance will be backdated to cover the period of time the benefits would have...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Payments
      1282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had illness benefit payments cut from €198 to €155 per week; and...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13521/19]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an assessment will be made on the pension of a person (details supplied). [13528/19]
    • Employment Support Services
      1285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans for community employment schemes and the local employment services; the efforts she will make to safeguard same;...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      1286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that all issues relating to illness benefit are now resolved; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      1287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to avert further strike action by community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the working groups currently established in her Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      1289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the payments to a person (details supplied) have ceased; when they can expect to receive payments; and if she...
    • Labour Activation Programmes Data
      1290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the practice by Turas Nua of requesting companies declining jobseekers work to issue a letter with the...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review of a decision on a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      1292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of sanctions applied to jobseekers' payments in each of the years 2009 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular...
    • Departmental Offices
      1293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Finglas and Ballymun social work offices are to be relocated to a premises on the North Circular Road; and if she...
    • Public Services Card
      1294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce proof of disability allowance on the public services card (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Data
      1295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased contributory State pension will be awarded to a person (details supplied) who has recently submitted a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      1296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when arrears will issue in respect ofa disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance claim by a person (details supplied) will be backdated to the date of the person's 16th birthday....
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      1298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) on a community employment scheme who will exhaust his or her six-year entitlement on that...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1299. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied). [13705/19]
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      1300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason child benefit was not paid to a person (details supplied) for the past three months before they turned 18 years...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Delays
      1301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a reply to an appeal; and when a decision will issue. [13733/19]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increase to the contributory pension will be awarded to a person (details supplied) as part of the review by her...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      1303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a participant in a community employment scheme (details supplied) can be considered for an extension of working time in...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a reply to an appeal; and when a decision will issue. [13759/19]
    • Carer's Support Grant
      1305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's support grant will issue to a person (details supplied). [13770/19]
    • Departmental Data
      1306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints submitted to her Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      1307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when disability allowance arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review correspondence (details supplied); her views on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pensions Data
      1309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews conducted and completed to date in counties Roscommon and Galway relating to the changes made to the...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      1310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Pensions Data
      1311. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress on the reviews of the entitlements to contributory pensions for those born after 1 September 1946; and when...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
      1312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a rescheduled hearing will take place in respect of a jobseeker's benefit appeal in the case of a person (details...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      1315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive a full illness benefit payment recently; and if she will make a...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      1317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in forwarding the file of a person (details supplied) to the social welfare appeals office; when...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1318. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position with regard to an application for disability allowance and or disability benefit in the case of a person...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      1319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a disability allowance payment ceased for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1321. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address matters in regard to disability allowance while abroad on an internship (details supplied); and if she...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      1324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for rent allowance by a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a decision on their...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      1325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if money awarded to a person due to a legal compensation case is considered as means (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme
      1327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for a back to work enterprise allowance for over a year; and if she...
    • JobPath Programme
      1329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who works part-time, is caring for a partner and has completed JobPath less than 12...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      1330. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in dealing with contributory pensions of persons receiving them on a reduced basis since 2012; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Data
      1332. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level and number of exceptional needs payments that have been made in 2018 and to date in 2019, by county in tabular...
    • Working Family Payment Applications
      1333. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a working family payment will be awarded to a person (details supplied). [14165/19]
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      1335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      1341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      1342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      1345. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      1346. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1347. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Benefit Appeals
      1348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Working Family Payment Payments
      1349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a working family payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) since October 2018; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • National Planning Framework
      1350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to meet settlement strategy objectives in unserviced rural towns and villages that are identified...
    • Planning Issues
      1352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether changes are needed to the strategic infrastructure planning process in order to prevent applicants...
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      1353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 5 February 2019, if approval has issued to appoint a consultant to bring the...
    • Commercial Rates Calculations
      1354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reductions available to businesses that pay commercial rates and are owner-occupiers; the options available to persons...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who has exited bankruptcy may be considered a first-time buyer for the purposes of a Rebuilding Ireland mortgage...
    • Vacant Sites
      1358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role of the Land Development Agency in regard to the purchasing of vacant sites and units that have the potential for...
    • Emergency Accommodation Data
      1359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of supported temporary accommodation facilities funded by each lead authority; the service provider in each case;...
    • Planning Issues
      1360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on a stage 3 application for voluntary housing submitted by Galway County Council for a...
    • Irish Red Cross Awards
      1362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when medals will be awarded to service workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12845/19]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      1363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant purchase sales approved in each year since 2000, in tabular form. [12847/19]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      1364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) informed Dublin City Council 28 days prior to 7 March 2018 that the site on which the...
    • Local Authority Rates
      1370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether local authority archives services should be exempt from paying local authority commercial rates; if...
    • Fire Safety Regulations
      1371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the revelations made in the media on 10 March 2019 (details supplied) relating to fire safety standards; and if...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding and loans issued by the Housing Finance Agency under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by local...
    • Water Conservation
      1374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he has taken to introduce a BER-style water conservation rating for buildings in line with the recommendations...
    • Building Regulations
      1377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a new building standards and consumer protection agency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Agency Data
      1379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the €70 million rolling Housing Agency fund by county; the number of units delivered per annum since...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a rolling fund for land purchases for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the enhanced leasing scheme by county; the number of units to be delivered under current agreements by county;...
    • Housing Finance Agency
      1386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount issued by the Housing Finance Agency to approved housing bodies per annum from 2011 to date; the number of units...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an applicant that has been approved for a mortgage under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan can receive an extension after...
    • Planning Issues
      1389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timetable for the application for planning under the IROPI process for Lough Talt, County Sligo (details supplied); and...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by Sligo County Council in 2018 and to date in 2019; if...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      1391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 18,000 HAP figure for new HAP tenancies by local authority in each of the years 2016 to 2018. [13176/19]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the Shanganagh Castle social and affordable housing development; the position of the project within the...
    • Emergency Accommodation Data
      1394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households that exited emergency accommodation in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number of homeless...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide funding to ensure the continuation of services by an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      1396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps persons (details supplied) must take in June 2019 when they must leave the family home; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to improve the quality of customer service to customers of Irish Water; his views on the present quality of...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if affordable home purchasing initiatives will be introduced that will not be limited to first-time buyers only; and if he...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      1400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on community sewerage schemes; the reason rural towns that want to establish a community sewerage scheme have been...
    • Vacant Sites Data
      1401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant site levy implementation progress reports received from local authorities to date; and if he will make a...
    • Fire Safety Regulations
      1403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish a fund to assist owners of apartments dealing with serious fire safety issues and building defects; if...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the quarterly social housing construction pipeline report will include Traveller-specific accommodation from the next...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting times for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme in the Cork County Council area by three, six, nine and 12...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the working groups currently established in his Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      1413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a revised total amount of €1.9 million in funding can be allocated for housing adaptation grants by Sligo County...
    • River Basin Management Plans
      1415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 13 March 2019, if he will address the specific question asked as to the specific...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      1416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the pyrite remediation scheme will be expanded to include houses damaged by pyrite in the blockwork; and if he will make a...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the planned establishment of the office of the planning regulator, which was scheduled for January 2019; and if...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      1418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to reduce the amount of underoccupancy in local authority stock, such as offering incentives, a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No....
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
      1420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount each local authority returned unspent in housing adaptation grants for persons with a disability, the mobility...
    • Departmental Data
      1421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of complaints submitted to his Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      1422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13792/19]
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
      1423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if landlords providing properties under the RAS scheme to local authorities were given rent increases in excess of the 4%...
    • Housing Estates
      1424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the taking in charge of estates with developer provided infrastructure; if the report has been...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme
      1425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline of the renovation of a property (details supplied); if measures are being taken to resolve the funding issues in...
    • Garda Vetting
      1427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there a requirement by the local authorities to Garda vet persons who are in receipt of housing assistance payment, HAP;...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
      1428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local council officials can override or ignore recommendations in cases in which an application is lodged with a local...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      1429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a series of matters relating to proposed planning for a company (details supplied) will be considered; and if he will make...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Funding
      1430. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the convention centre in Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14071/19]
    • Archaeological Sites
      1432. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the precedents for finds (details supplied); the nature of the find in historical and archaeological terms in respect of...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      1434. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the working groups currently established in her Department; the focus of their work; the membership composition of each; and if...
    • Departmental Data
      1435. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of complaints submitted to her Department in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of appeals made with respect...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1436. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost if the funding for each national cultural institution is increased by 12%; and if she will make a...

All of 2019's answers « Previous day Next day »

Answers this month

March 2019
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

See all of 2019

What are Written Answers?

The parliamentary question is a great way for TDs to discover information which the government may not wish to reveal. Ministers reply via written answers, a list of which gets published daily.

We let you vote on whether or not the answer given is adequate.