Written answers

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Live Register Data
      32. To ask the Taoiseach the fall in the number of persons on the live register in County Westmeath since January 2019. [23048/19]
    • Employment Data
      33. To ask the Taoiseach the latest employment figures; the breakdown of the figures in terms of those employed under banded hours categories A-B and A-D respectively; and if the inclusion of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights
      45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 21 May 2019, if officials have visited La Guajira, Colombia to date; if so, if they raised the...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of his input into the ongoing outstanding requests with the British Government regarding inquiries into the Dublin and Monaghan...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the latest efforts to achieve a full two-state resolution and permanent peace for Palestine and Israel; and if he will...
    • EU Migration Crisis
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had or plans to have with his European counterparts with regard to the increased criminalisation of sea rescues of...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the continued violence and humanitarian crisis in Yemen; the steps Ireland is taking at EU level to address the unethical sales...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to halt Israeli policies aimed at the de facto annexation of East Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Policy
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with the Chinese Government on the proposed extradition law being introduced in Hong Kong; his views on the way in...
    • Brexit Data
      54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the volume of imports and exports likely to be disrupted by a disorderly Brexit on 31 October 2019; and the projection of the likely effect...
    • UN Security Council
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council; the amount spent on the bid to date; the estimated total spend; and...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the situation in Venezuela; the efforts being made by the EU and the international community to bring stability to the...
    • International Agreements
      57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the consequences arising for the State and companies here as a result of the withdrawal of the United States from the Iranian nuclear...
    • Foreign Policy
      59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he, along with EU and his UN colleagues, continues to press for humanitarian assistance in the various conflict zones...
    • Northern Ireland
      60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress he has made in discussions with the British and Northern Ireland authorities in persuading them to implement the 2010 agreement...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to develop a roadmap to achieve the 0.7% ODA/GNI target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25178/19]
    • Northern Ireland
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made to date in the recent talks taking place in Northern Ireland to establish the executive there and enable the assembly to...
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with Scottish and British officials on the recent dispute relating to fishing rights around Rockall; and if he will...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to recent events (details supplied) in Sudan; his views on violent attacks on peaceful protesters and reports...
    • Human Rights Committees
      69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the implementation of the business and human rights policy; the regularity with which the committee has met; and the...
    • Northern Ireland
      70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to maintain contact with the principle players involved in Brexit in the UK and Northern Ireland with a view...
    • Foreign Policy
      71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the recent events in Christchurch, New Zealand, with his counterparts in Europe. [16747/19]
    • UN Committees
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a recent report by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that called for the immediate release of...
    • EU Issues
      73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of efforts being made by Ireland and the EU to ensure that the rule of law, space for civic society and democracy is not further...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of doubling Ireland’s global footprint by 2025; his plans for the opening of new embassies, consulates and State agencies...
    • Religious Persecution
      76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the continuing steps he is undertaking to highlight and address the persecution of Christians worldwide with particular reference to the...
    • Passport Applications Data
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the waiting times for passport express and online passport applications; and his views on the level of staffing and resources in the passport...
    • European Council Meetings
      79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Russian missile system being located in Turkey was discussed at the most recent Foreign Affairs Council meeting; and his views on...
    • Brexit Negotiations
      80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts with regard to extending the Brexit deadline beyond 31 October 2019. [25209/19]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Labour Market
      82. To ask the Taoiseach the reason the figure for potential additional labour force in the labour force survey increased from 30,300 in the first quarter of 2017 to 108,200 in the first quarter...
    • Exports Data
      83. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of Irish firms that export to just one foreign market, according to the latest national and international data available. [24844/19]
    • Citizens Assembly
      85. To ask the Taoiseach the terms of reference for the citizens' assembly on gender equality. [25416/19]
    • General Government Debt
      86. To ask the Taoiseach the general Government debt for 2017 and 2018; and the reason the general Government debt increased by €5 billion between 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [25204/19]
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      87. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the First Minister of Scotland on 27 May 2019; the issues that were discussed; and the responses he gave. [24826/19]
    • Departmental Properties
      89. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of land purchased and leased, by size and amount expended, in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per...
  • Department of Defence
    • Public Sector Pay
      91. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will address reports (details supplied) on a delay publishing the report by the Public Sector Pay Commission on pay in the Defence Forces...
    • Defence Forces Contracts
      94. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the contractual service and financial obligations on members of the Defence Forces, by category (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      95. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces report into the standards of height for entry has been presented to him; if so, if he will publish same; if not, when the...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/19]
    • Departmental Properties
      97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of land purchased and leased, by size and amount expended, in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of persons, by gender, in both the Army Reserve and the Naval Service Reserve in each of the years from 2010 to 2018 and to date in...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Brexit Issues
      100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the most recent expert report (details supplied) for the Northern Ireland Civil Service on the impact of...
    • European Council Meetings
      101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke with his EU counterparts prior to the June European Council meeting regarding the need for an extension of the 31 October 2019...
    • Passport Applications
      102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the case of an adopted child (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be reviewed. [24937/19]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent by his Department on the recent visit by the President of the United States in June 2019; and if he will make a statement...
    • Brexit Issues
      104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the concerns of and issues relating to young persons are being considered in the Brexit negotiations (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Northern Ireland
      105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been provided with an update by his officials on the way in which the talks in Northern Ireland are progressing. [24048/19]
    • European Council Meetings
      106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the war in Libya was discussed at the recent EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in May 2019. [22672/19]
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a response from the British Government or his UK counterpart for information they might have on the Dublin-Monaghan...
    • Departmental Properties
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the...
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the implications of the agreement reached between Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2013 regarding the setting of the boundaries of the...
    • Passport Applications
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a person in circumstances (details supplied) who is seeking an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Brexit Staff
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which staffing levels at each embassy throughout the EU and elsewhere are being increased due to the potential demand and...
    • Brexit Issues
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the situation in the aftermath of Brexit can be best contained to achieve maximum benefit from an Irish perspective on...
    • EU Issues
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which positive steps continue to be taken to influence the future of Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Aid
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish aid continues to find its intended target in the various trouble spots globally with particular reference to...
    • Trade Promotion
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which new consulates, trade missions and or embassies continue to vigorously pursue trade with other jurisdictions; and if he...
    • International Terrorism
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the EU and UN remain alert to the threat of Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram; the extent of the success of the international...
    • International Relations
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community remains focused on the various flashpoints globally that are affected by war, starvation,...
    • Western Balkans Issues
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his EU colleagues continue to positively influence the political situation in the western Balkans; and if he will...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the turnaround times for passport express renewal first-time applications and online renewal applications; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Data
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the State subsidises diesel cars and fuel; his views on the health impact of diesel fumes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • VAT Exemptions
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to reduce the unaffordable price of pembrolizumab by removing the cost of the VAT on same to assist in potentially life-saving...
    • Insurance Costs
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter relating to insurance for sports facilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25376/19]
    • Cycle to Work Scheme
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the cap of €1,000 on the bike to work scheme in order to allow for the purchase of e-bikes and cargo bikes that are substantially...
    • European Central Bank
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance the appointment process of the new President of the European Central Bank; the candidates being considered; when the final decision will be made; and the...
    • Tracker Mortgage Examination
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance if the concerns of a person (details supplied) regarding tracker settlements will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24831/19]
    • Tax Residency
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance when a certificate of tax residence will be issued to a person (details supplied). [24832/19]
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Remit
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate regulatory and administrative cost in addition to other potential costs of enabling the SBCI to lend directly to SMEs; and if he has examined...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Data
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of bank and non-bank on lender of SBCI funds in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the amount loaned to SMEs in tabular form. [24840/19]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated saving that would accrue from moving the entire cost of regulation of the financial sector onto the industry with the exception of credit...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report of June 2019; if he has discussed same with his officials; if extra controls on spending will be...
    • Brexit Issues
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received advice from his officials regarding possible tax cuts in view of the threat of Brexit as outlined in the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council...
    • Tax Code
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to be less dependent on income from corporation taxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24930/19]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to stimulate the small and medium enterprise sector following the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report; and if he will make a...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Data
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance if a borrower is still considered a private dwelling house borrower or a buy-to-let borrower in the mortgage arrears statistics of the Central Bank in cases...
    • Departmental Funding
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are restrictions on the way in which Departments can spend funds to be withdrawn from the rainy day fund as envisaged in the legislation going...
    • General Government Debt
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the forecasted general government debt from 2019 to 2023, broken down by component parts, including the component parts that make up the gross national debt,...
    • VAT Rate Reductions
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the increase in the VAT rate for the hospitality sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25315/19]
    • Tax Code
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the country-by-country report of the European Commission recommending that the State limit the scope and number of tax expenditures and broaden...
    • Pensions Reform
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if as part of the work of the interdepartmental pensions reform and taxation group he will ensure that notwithstanding reforms to pension tax relief, the...
    • Departmental Properties
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount...
    • Property Tax Application
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing VAT paid on maintenance fees on apartments to be offset against the local property tax, LPT, in budget 2020; and if he will make...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank is notified by life assurance companies of instances in which claims on policies are not paid out on the basis of non-disclosure; if so,...
    • Credit Register Data
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of records held by the Central Credit Register in respect of individual borrowers by the type of loans collated, the number of borrowers and the...
    • Tax Code
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a super tax on insurance companies in the form of a surcharge on corporation tax or by other means; and if he will make a...
    • Property Tax Data
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of new households which would pay the local property tax, LPT, if the exemptions for properties built in 2013 ceased and if all...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a carpark will be constructed at a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24860/19]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the building in O'Connell Street, Dublin 1, from which a Garda station operated; the level of preservation or renovation...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guards in the Irish Prison Service whose families are in receipt of a carer's allowance...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding directed to the conservation and management of buildings in the care of the OPW in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019,...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of freedom of information requests granted, part granted, refused, transferred to an appropriate body or withdrawn or handled...
    • National Monuments
      159. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount expended in the past three years to date on the upkeep and maintenance of national monuments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he plans to take to address the pension entitlements of female civil servants who left the workforce in job-share...
    • Departmental Properties
      161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      163. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the concerns within his Department on spending in his Department as reported in a newspaper (details supplied); his views on whether...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff employed at the National Construction Training Centre in Mount Lucas, County Offaly; and the courses available there. [25440/19]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken regarding a prefab at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24829/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by schools to determine the need of a child for a National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, assessment; the reason for...
    • State Examinations Commission
      168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (detail supplied) who received violent threats; the duty of care procedures his...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for cutting the number of special needs assistants, SNAs, from a school (details supplied) from 3.5 to 3.2 for September 2019; if he...
    • State Bodies Expenditure
      170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of travel expenses and subsistence paid to each member of the Irish Research Council in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to reduce special needs assistant hours for the coming new school year at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage with a school (details supplied) on the location on the site of a new build for a two classroom autism spectrum disorder unit;...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment with the amalgamation of three primary schools in Tuam, County Galway, has not been agreed by 1 September 2019, if DEIS band 1...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; the progress to date with the proposal;...
    • School Transport Administration
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an earlier drop-off time can be facilitated for buses servicing a school (details supplied) in order that the school can attract more students...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the July provision for children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25040/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the situation in which a school (details supplied) in County Dublin has been informed that it is to lose three special needs...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to provide a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Data
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants, SNAs, for the academic year 2018/2019 in each primary and secondary school in Lucan, County Dublin; the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made regarding a school building project for a school (details supplied) following a revised stage 2b report being submitted...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the acquisition of additional land from South Dublin County Council adjacent to a school (details supplied) will be complete; the timeframe...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made in providing a new school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the project; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools at primary and secondary level in Lucan, County Dublin that have autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units; the capacity in each unit; his...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount remaining in the fund allocated to Caranua for supporting survivors of institutional child abuse with their health, housing and other...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Caranua or another body directly notified or caused to be directly notified in writing, all known survivors of institutional child abuse in...
    • Residential Institutions Data
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Caranua has processed applications for funding from survivors that were received after 1 August 2018; if so, the number of applications...
    • School Accommodation
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address an issue that has arisen at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25157/19]
    • School Admissions
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects reforms of school waiting lists to be implemented as set out in the Education (Admissions to Schools) Act 2018 (details...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request for a school extension by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25259/19]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the crisis regarding a shortage of school places and autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units for children with autism who are...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the reported termination of the employment of six special needs assistants, SNAs, at a school (details supplied); the...
    • School Management
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider representation on boards of management of primary schools for county and city councillors; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Child Protection
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a full review of child protection procedures in relation to schools in view of the experience of a person...
    • Schools Establishment
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new secondary school will be provided in Dunshaughlin, County Meath, in view of recent planning decisions. [25297/19]
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the works that can be applied for under the summer works scheme by a school (details supplied); the deadline for the scheme; and if he will make...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied). [25362/19]
    • Departmental Properties
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease...
    • School Accommodation
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of a project (details supplied); the deadline for the scheme; the criteria for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the practice of secondary schools requiring a deposit to secure a place at the school; the position in relation to the entitlement...
    • School Funding
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifying criteria for post-primary Irish medium schools to be eligible to receive the Irish and bilingual grant of €103 per child;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance available to fund assessments for children who have been identified as potentially requiring additional learning...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs whose employment is terminated as a result of loss of SNA hours in a school will be re-employed should the SNA hours be reinstated on...
    • Special Education Review
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make changes to guidelines which dictate students attending special schools must leave school at 18 years of age whereas students...
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school building projects at an advanced stage of architectural planning stage 2b detailed design in mid-western areas of Dublin;...
    • Energy Efficiency
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that will undergo a deep energy retrofit as part of the major programme of retrofits scheduled to commence in 2022 as...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce class sizes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/19]
    • Capitation Grants
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase capitation grants at primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25541/19]
    • Schools Building Projects
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); the timeline for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25560/19]
    • School Funding
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding approved and or made available for the purchase of properties for school purposes in County Laois in each of the years 2017, 2018 and...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme Administration
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the cycle to work scheme; if the administration of the scheme can be improved in order to ensure that more teachers can...
    • Peace and Reconciliation Programme
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his officials have discussed integrated schools with their Northern Ireland counterparts recently; if so, the status of same; and if he...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Naturalisation Applications
      225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if efforts are being made to ease the high costs faced by UK citizens who have lived and worked here for decades when they are...
    • Parental Leave Framework Agreement
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to allow parents to share unpaid parental leave between them. [25065/19]
    • Proposed Legislation
      227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on setting up a judicial council to review the level of awards for personal injury insurance claims; the timeline for...
    • Prisoner Privacy
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints made by prisoners and or their families regarding breaches of privacy to the Irish Prison Service over...
    • Prison Staff
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prison officers formally disciplined by the Irish Prison Service in response to breaches of prisoner privacy in...
    • Garda Deployment
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the national drugs unit in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of...
    • Garda Expenditure
      231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of the national drugs unit in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the annual cost of each local...
    • Drugs Crime
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money and assets seized as a result of drug-related crime in each of the years 2012 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...
    • Prisoner Complaints Procedures
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints received in 2018 and to date in 2019 that were upheld, not upheld, not proven, terminated or...
    • Garda Station Closures
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his engagement and that of his predecessors with the management of An Garda Síochána regarding the former Dublin...
    • Visa Applications
      236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time a person (details supplied) will have to wait for a visa application to be processed; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent by his Department on the recent visit by the President of the United States of America in June 2019; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person can apply for citizenship in circumstances (details supplied). [24989/19]
    • Prisoner Data
      239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of remand prisoners held alongside persons serving a prison sentence by prison; and the number of remand prisoners...
    • Prisoner Releases
      240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to remove the prohibition on temporary release for those offenders who receive the presumptive mandatory sentence for...
    • Prison Discipline
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents in which control and restraint was used by prison officers from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019; the number...
    • Coroners Service
      242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an inquest into the death of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Private Security Authority
      243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); the date from which it is a requirement for businesses...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and...
    • Departmental Funding
      245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in...
    • Seized Property
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles impounded per Garda division since the commencement of the Clancy amendment on 22 December 2018 in view...
    • Legislative Reviews
      247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review being undertaken by officials of the Irish Prison Service and his Department in consultation...
    • Visa Applications
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if external agencies are employed in different countries to process visa applications from persons who are not Irish citizens...
    • Garda Operations
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Daylight; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful...
    • Garda Transport Data
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional marked and unmarked Garda cars and vans that have been allocated to the Coolock Garda district to date...
    • Criminal Law
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review will be carried out of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 in view of the fact that the intention to review...
    • Community Return Programme
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the number of persons participating on the community return programme has declined since 2014; his plans to carry...
    • Legislative Programme
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of key pieces of legislation in the penal system including the criminal justice (community sanctions) Bill, the...
    • Prisoner Data
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners registered to vote; the number that voted per prison in the presidential election in 2018 and in the...
    • Direct Provision Data
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees staying in a hotel (details supplied); the number of persons there for six, 12 and 18 months,...
    • Asylum Applications Data
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the location at which children (details supplied) applied for asylum in 2018, by county in tabular form; the number that reside...
    • Direct Provision System
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recreational facilities available to persons under 18 years of age housed in direct provision centres by county in tabular...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the committee he requested be established with representatives of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board and his...
    • Departmental Properties
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the...
    • Garda Transport Data
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles by type in the Garda fleet that are leased rather than owned by An Garda Síochána; the cost of...
    • Insurance Fraud
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to tackle insurance fraud; if he will consider setting up a dedicated central Garda resource tasked with...
    • Public Order Offences
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of progress in addressing the issue of scramblers and quad bikes; if he will report on the work of the inter-agency...
    • Wards of Court
      271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason fees charged for a ward of court in circumstances in which the General Solicitor is committee for the person and...
    • Irish Youth Justice Service
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated to the Irish Youth Justice Service in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019 (details...
    • Crime Prevention
      273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 11 June 2019, the location at which it is planned to commence a trial of the...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of claims brought to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal in 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of claims...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the 20 community-based CCTV schemes that have been approved for funding; the location of each scheme; if funding...
    • Garda Transport Data
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the national breakdown by Garda district of all types of vehicle in the Garda fleet, including unmarked vehicles, as of 16 June...
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations that are open on a 24-hour basis and part-time basis, respectively, by county, in tabular form. [25557/19]
    • Coroners Service
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider setting up a service to facilitate families in which a death must be the subject of an inquest; if funding...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Promotion
      279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the jurisdictions with which greatest improvement of trade is likely to be achieved in the aftermath of Brexit; and if she will make a...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the 2018 and 2019 rankings for each metric used for Ireland (details supplied). [24843/19]
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of payments issued to date for successful applications made under the disruptive technologies innovation fund, by county,...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the mid-year review of the occupation lists for employment permits for workers from outside the European Economic Area will be...
    • Parental Leave
      283. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she and her officials made a submission to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the cost impact of...
    • Departmental Meetings
      284. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contacts, meetings and correspondence between her office or her officials and INAB in 2019; and the dates, attendees, participants...
    • Business Regulation
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to help to restore confidence in auditing following a string of corporate collapses; her further plans to implement a public...
    • Health and Safety Inspections Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 255 and 256 of 9 February 2017 (details supplied), the number of such inspections carried out...
    • Departmental Properties
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of...
    • Ticket Touting
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when ticket touting legislation will be brought forward; the reason the Sale of Tickets (Sporting and Cultural Events) Bill 2017 is...
    • Immigration Policy
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for the review and updating of the Employment Permits Act 2006. [25489/19]
  • Department of Health
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      293. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can claim incremental credit for a period of time worked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24910/19]
    • Disability Services Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be put in place to support the work of RehabCare in providing services in view of the fact this service may be withdrawn due to the...
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      295. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for paediatric occupational therapists in the Saolta area; the number of paediatric occupational therapists employed in the Saolta area; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      296. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [24854/19]
    • Hospital Transfers
      297. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred from Waterford University Hospital to Tallaght Hospital for pelvic surgery following an accident. [24855/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      298. 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. [24857/19]
    • Hospital Charges
      300. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce exemptions and cap registration fees in relation to the number of times a child visits the emergency department regarding a life long...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      301. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24869/19]
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      302. To ask the Minister for Health when an approved increase in home support will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [24874/19]
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
      303. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who requires surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24876/19]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      304. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make Spinraza treatment available to SMA sufferers (details supplied); the status of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24879/19]
    • Respite Care Services Availability
      305. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds nationally by CHO; if they are for adults or children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24883/19]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the provision of respite services nationally; if they are run directly by the HSE or by section 39 companies, charity services and or NGOs; and if he will make...
    • Respite Care Services Funding
      307. To ask the Minister for Health the impact on respite services due to budgetary constraints in view of the overspend on the national children’s hospital; if funding for existing beds...
    • Departmental Contracts
      308. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the details of an extended deal with a company (details supplied); if whether there were changes to indemnity arrangements on same; and if...
    • Home Care Packages Administration
      309. To ask the Minister for Health when an increase in home support will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24890/19]
    • Substance Misuse
      310. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in total and for each year of the implementation of Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017-2025 strategy addressing the harm caused by substance...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      311. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for each of the drugs and alcohol task forces in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Health #the location of each of the adult and adolescent medical detoxification units and community based residential detoxification beds, respectively. [24896/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting less than 12, 12 to 24, 24 to 36 and more than 36 months for MRI scans at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      318. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE recruitment freeze which was due to be lifted in June 2019; when the recruitment freeze will be lifted; when recruitment will recommence...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      320. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a procedure in St. James’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24915/19]
    • Childcare Services
      321. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove the in loco parentis clause from HSE policy in view of the fact that it is causing hardship for many families and is perceived as...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      322. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children approved and waiting for treatment on the orthodontic waiting list in counties Kerry and Cork; the number from County Kerry; the details...
    • Legislative Programme
      323. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017; the work his officials are undertaking with regard to a regulatory framework to support such a Bill; when adult...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      324. To ask the Minister for Health if he and his officials received the second Scally report before the contract was extended to include all of the extra cervical tests done in 2018; and if he...
    • Home Help Service
      326. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the lack of home help hours nationally; if the allocation has been spent; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on...
    • Home Support Service
      328. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons approved but still on a waiting list for home support services in counties Galway and Roscommon to date; the number of applications...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an addiction counselling service (details supplied) in County Donegal has ceased to provide service; his views...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      330. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) will have to wait for an appointment to see a neurologist in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      331. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has taken responsibility for a doctor on the supervised section of the Irish Medical Council register to work as an ENT...
    • Hospital Staff
      334. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been informed verbally and in writing that a consultant ENT surgeon left the region before finishing their on-call duties...
    • Hospital Investigations
      335. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) failed to investigate or have investigated the disclosure that over 15 patients had a delayed head and neck cancer...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) determined that serious reportable incidents are not investigated but having opted instead to request a chart review by...
    • Hospital Deaths
      337. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will take accountability and responsibility for their acts and omissions or failures to prevent a death from incompetence with...
    • Hospital Procedures
      339. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) or their subordinates gave direction to members of administration staff at the University Hospital Limerick Group to cancel an...
    • Hospital Services
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the action or omissions or commission a person (details supplied) has taken following cancer diagnosis of a patient which remain unactioned for 18 months after...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      341. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) failed to investigate a serious complaint regarding an unactioned cancer diagnosis; the reason the complaint and incident...
    • Hospital Staff
      342. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) facilitated and aided a junior doctor who has been reported for tampering with notes on several occasions, missing cancer cases,...
    • Hospital Services
      343. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a conflict of interest exists in which medical professionals who have a commercial interest in companies that provide NIPT are also the...
    • Hospital Investigations
      344. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that will carry out the independent review of the tragic case in which a healthy unborn baby was aborted under section 11 of the Health...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      345. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that in future no abortion can be carried out under section 11 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 without...
    • Air Ambulance Service Operations
      347. To ask the Minister for Health when he will issue a decision regarding the date the community rapid response air ambulance can start operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Patient Transfers
      348. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to be transferred from Sligo University Hospital to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will...
    • Maternity Services Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ownership and management including board arrangements of Holles Street hospital maternity services when it is located on the St....
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Data
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the division of spending within the 2018 €50 million NTPF allocation; the financial split that occurred between the public and private hospital systems;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      354. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an ENT appointment at University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/19]
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      355. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the HSE recruitment freeze; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25015/19]
    • Grant Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Health the injury grant awarded to a person (details supplied); when the payment will be made; the timeline over which the payment will continue to be made; and if he...
    • Pension Provisions
      358. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be entitled to recompense for a reduction in pension entitlements as a result of having their hours reduced; and if he will...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation
      359. To ask the Minister for Health the agreements that exist between Ireland and the United Kingdom for the mutual recognition of decisions made by the Irish Medical Council and the General...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not covered under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25041/19]
    • Health Services Funding
      361. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will continue to receive funding. [25060/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      362. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a drug for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25067/19]
    • Primary Care Centres Staff
      363. To ask the Minister for Health when additional staff will be allocated to the primary care centre in Roscommon town to enable medical assessments for the primary medical certificate to be...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Health if the report on a review of the statement of concern that children had been damaged by the HSE orthodontic services in Dublin-mid-Leinster more than a decade...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      365. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint new laboratory scientists for Letterkenny University Hospital; when appointments will be made; the arrangements in the hospital for blood...
    • HSE Funding
      366. To ask the Minister for Health when the 2019 HSE capital plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25079/19]
    • Medical Card Applications
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25084/19]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      369. To ask the Minister for Health if day services will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25089/19]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      370. To ask the Minister for Health if there are age restrictions or otherwise for persons wishing to avail of treatment in view of the fact that Spinraza treatment has been approved; if so, the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      371. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment in order to fill a number of vacancies in a department in a hospital (details supplied) will be approved in order to allow the service to...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in a department in a hospital (details supplied); the full title of the positions that are vacant; the funding required to fill all...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      374. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25108/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      375. 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. [25141/19]
    • Home Help Service
      376. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that the HSE has instructed officials to block new home help applications until at least November 2019 as part of a series of cost cutting...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in hospital in County Louth experiencing a delayed discharge which is dependent on a home care package, home help hours and home support...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      383. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build, plan and increase provision for home care packages and home help hours in County Louth and CHO area 8 in line with the increased demand for...
    • Elder Abuse
      384. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on proposed legislation which would allow powers to be given to State agencies to investigate cases by which an elderly parent or parents are...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      385. To ask the Minister for Health when the 7.5% property rate within the fair deal scheme capped at three years for the vast majority of persons will be extended to farming families; if the...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time permanent nurse posts that Beaumont Hospital offered graduate nurses in each of the years 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      387. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for inclusion on the long-term illness scheme will be granted on appeal to a person (details supplied). [25163/19]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      388. To ask the Minister for Health if a wheelchair will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25164/19]
    • Medical Card Applications
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was closed even though the requested information was submitted on time for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      390. To ask the Minister for Health if all communication, correspondence and documents, or all of the above, between him, his office, his advisers, his Department and a person (details supplied)...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in reimbursement payment by the HSE to a person (details supplied) who availed of the cross-Border directive for a procedure six...
    • Medical Treatment Complaints
      392. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the misdiagnosis and termination of an unborn child at Holles Street following prenatal genetic testing that appeared to originally confirm the...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      393. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that sufficient infrastructural and staff supports are in place to support the implementation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      394. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private companies and organisations providing mental health services under contract with the HSE; the amount paid to same in 2017, 2018 and to...
    • Paediatric Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Health if investigations have been carried out into appointing a paediatric neurology team to an area (details supplied); the service in place for neurology patients...
    • Bed Availability
      396. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-term bed made will be made available to a person (details supplied). [25238/19]
    • Speech and Language Therapy Provision
      397. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate a speech and language therapist for Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25239/19]
    • Hospital Car Parks
      398. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation of the €10 cap on hospital car park charges will be introduced to the car parks in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda,...
    • Medical Conditions
      399. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 26 March 2019, if he will report on the consideration of the report of the working group on the model of care for...
    • Hospital Facilities
      400. To ask the Minister for Health when the building to house the MRI scanner for the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar will commence (details supplied). [25256/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [25258/19]
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the shortage of general practitioner services at Ballymore health centre, County Westmeath (details supplied). [25269/19]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions which can be made for obtaining respite care for a person (details supplied). [25271/19]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive an appointment from the breast clinic in Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      405. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25280/19]
    • Hospital Facilities
      406. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the modular units at South Tipperary General Hospital; when the units will be open for patients; the stage the recruitment process is...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress on the capital project at St. Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; the completion date; the funds allocated and ring-fenced for...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      408. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided following approval of a transport place for a person (details supplied) in order that they can be transported from their...
    • Home Help Service
      409. To ask the Minister for Health when home help providers who have not received mileage costs will receive same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25284/19]
    • Medical Conditions
      410. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used here to diagnose ME as described under G.93.3 WHO, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10); if the HSE will be...
    • Health Services Staff
      411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of specialist consultants for ME patients; his views on whether ME is a multi-system disease involving many areas with many...
    • Medical Conditions
      412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to update its diagnostic and treatment procedures for persons with ME to reflect best international practice; if he will address...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      413. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have an urgently required MRI scan conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25294/19]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment and treatment from the child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      415. To ask the Minister for Health if a health and safety report will be released on a unit which was being used to provide services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied). [25299/19]
    • Protected Disclosures
      417. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether a threat by a person (details supplied) to call the authorities on a whistleblower at University Hospital Limerick to be a form of...
    • Site Acquisitions
      418. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider purchasing a property (details supplied) to be used as a resource for community members, including persons with disabilities; and if he...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      420. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the efficiency of resources in the Cross Border Directive office in view of the volume of claims it receives from patients accessing...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to put in place a consent form to be signed by sperm donors granting permission for them to be added to a central register; when this...
    • Home Help Service Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will communicate with persons on waiting lists to advise them that new and additional hours are suspended; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service
      424. To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of the HSE was drawn to the intention to move to a fair deal type scheme for homecare; if so, the date on which its attention was drawn to...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      425. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has budgeted for the implementation of a ruling by the European Court of Justice (details supplied); if so, the budget allowed for implementation of...
    • Home Help Service
      427. To ask the Minister for Health the additional procedures put in place to safeguard persons in the community that await a service; if the timeframe for reviewing the needs of persons has been...
    • Health Services Staff
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the specific implications for healthcare support assistants in terms of envisioned change to their current working structure or terms and conditions of...
    • Home Help Service
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the decision has been taken to reduce care hours in view of the fact the revised contract in WRC agreements guaranteed additional hours and states...
    • HSE Staff Data
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on HSE staff attending meetings, paperwork, time and travel negotiating and partially implementing the WRC agreement of 2017; the areas this...
    • Open Disclosures Policy
      434. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) allegedly issued a perceived threat against a senior clinician that had requested...
    • Home Help Service
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the purpose the fair deal for homecare income will be used for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25352/19]
    • HSE Expenditure
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours paid to the national committee for the healthcare support assistant staff in addition to HSE staff that were involved in reaching an...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the WRC agreement of 2017 has not been fully implemented to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25355/19]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the ENT outpatient waiting list at Roscommon County Hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form;...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for primary medical certificates in counties Roscommon and Galway to date; the number of applications awaiting assessment in both...
    • Cancer Services Provision
      442. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/19]
    • Health Services Provision
      443. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has paid an interim travel payment as agreed until a procedure is in place in respect of calculating actual travel time to healthcare support...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      444. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to use the WRC agreement of 2017 which sets out a clear vision for the role of healthcare support assistants; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if the full cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment process has been completed in respect of switching to a fair deal model for home care; and if he will...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      447. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add motor neurone disease to the list of illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme; when the long-term illness scheme was last updated;...
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      448. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to access occupational therapy adult services in County Roscommon to date; the number on waiting lists for priority one, two and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited with an orthopaedic surgeon in the Regional Midland Hospital, Tullamore, for a person (details supplied). [25374/19]
    • Court Judgments
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has to ensure a ruling (details supplied) is implemented in full in compliance with legislation for all relevant staff groups; and if he will...
    • HSE Properties
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      453. To ask the Minister for Health when an approved home support package will be in place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25422/19]
    • Court Judgments
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the attention of the HSE was drawn to a ruling (details supplied) and its legislative obligation to implement same; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for wheelchairs nationally; the number on a waiting list for the provision of wheelchairs in the HSE west; the number...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      457. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce financial support or assistance for non-medical card holders who require a wig on a reasonably frequent basis as a result of alopecia;...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Laois and Offaly approved for home help and home care hours; and the number of persons on the waiting list despite having...
    • HSE Funding
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of financial support provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the non-financial supports provided to the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      468. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of need will be carried out on a child (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that ongoing delays in the case are...
    • Health Products Regulatory Authority
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the person or company that is the marketing authorisation holder for sodium valproate marketed here as Epilim; if the Health Products Regulatory Authority is...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the sections of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which have not yet commenced; and the timeline to which he is working for the commencement of each [25480/19]
    • Hospital Services
      474. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the dual diagnosis clinical care programme in the absence of a clinical lead; the amount of the budget that has been spent and remains,...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if women who are eligible for the review of cervical cancer slides by a body (details supplied) are not being included in the review due to the fact their...
    • Departmental Budgets
      476. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether his Department and the HSE will spend more than the budgeted voted expenditure in 2019; his further views on whether his Department will...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours provided in each local health office area for each month to date in 2019, in tabular form; and the way it compares against the...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2019 of the agreement for healthcare support assistants to be paid for the time it takes them to travel to persons' homes; the estimated full year...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all inpatient and outpatient wait times in the south east in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by speciality in tabular form;...
    • Traveller Community
      480. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 29 January 2019, when the national Traveller health action plan will be published in view of the fact a commitment...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the €19.4 million indicated in the Health Service Executive, HSE, national service plan for full year cost in 2019 of 2018 home support...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if the contraception working group within his Department will meet with organisations (details supplied) in the course of its work. [25510/19]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      485. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 21 May 2019, the number of staff working in the health service in each of the years 2008 to 2018, by CHO in...
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      488. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed for treatment through the cross-border scheme. [25531/19]
    • Drugs Dealing
      489. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reintroduce the dial-to-stop drug dealing initiative in view of an increase in drug dealing, intimidation and violence; and if he will make a...
    • Drugs Crime
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed national awareness campaign on drug-related violence and intimidation to be carried out in 2019; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Consultant Contracts
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will facilitate all hospital consultants who were on the 1997 consultants contract that commenced before 2008 to switch to the 2008 contract arising...
    • Hospital Consultant Remuneration
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and HSE salary scale rates for hospital consultants for each of the three types of contracts will be provided; the number of points on each...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken and plans to take following his recent meeting with family members of a group (details supplied); when persons can expect to access the...
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      494. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which delays are impacting the construction of the national children’s hospital; the potential extra cost to the project of the delays;...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out to assess the cost differential between a patient staying in an acute bed versus receiving home help hours; the average...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      496. To ask the Minister for Health if an admission date for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [25563/19]
    • National Children's Hospital
      497. To ask the Minister for Health if the design brief for the national children’s hospital will be published. [25606/19]
    • Health Reports
      498. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) on the separation of public and private healthcare in public hospitals was received; and if the report will be published....
    • Health Services Provision
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no national roll-out of an eye care scheme for children aged more than eight years, in which children are discharged to community...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      501. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a date for a tonsillectomy from Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      502. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be considered for a discretionary medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25614/19]
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      503. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have met with their counterparts recently to discuss shared health services in the North-South area; if there is room for expansion of...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Forestry Sector
      504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the technical standards for the design of forest entrances from public roads will be reviewed; if clear guidelines will be...
    • Harbours and Piers Funding
      505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for funding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25066/19]
    • Fur Farming
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of mink skins (details supplied) exported in each of the years 2014 to 2018. [25203/19]
    • TAMS Appeals
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a TAMS II TCIS review for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24871/19]
    • GLAS Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1194 of 8 May 2019, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to allow farmers to use up and phase out their remaining stocks of mart tags and non-EID factory tags rather than throwing...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Data
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in each county in receipt of the basic farm payment; the number who receive less and more than that amount...
    • Teagasc Administration
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times each Teagasc regional advisory council has met in each year from 2012 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Organic Farming Scheme
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if notice was given to farmers prior to the 19 November 2018 launch of the organic farming scheme; if so, the date of the notice; if...
    • GLAS Payments
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a 2018 GLAS payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/19]
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of oyster licences for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25082/19]
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the EU fixed total allowable catches for all fish species in tonnage in Irish waters, that is, the exclusive economic zone of Ireland...
    • Fish Exports
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount and value of fish exports that are in commodity form in tonnage and as a percentage of total exports from the latest data....
    • Aquaculture Data
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of aquaculture production carried out in each of the years 2005 to 2018, by value and tonnage in tabular form. [25087/19]
    • GLAS Issues
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the dissolution of a farming partnership into a limited company has caused the dissolving of a GLAS contract (details...
    • Brexit Preparations
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the submission made by his Department to the European Commission for emergency Brexit funding for the beef sector will be...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has not invited representatives from the beef plan group to attend meetings of the TB forum; when the next meeting of...
    • Brexit Supports
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the distribution of the €100 million Brexit fund for farmers will be subject to preconditions and-or specific categories of...
    • Animal Slaughtering Standards
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to address the long outstanding issues regarding the mechanical grading and trimming of carcasses of...
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the request raised to attend a forum in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied). [25201/19]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 464 of 19 February 2019, the moneys due to be paid to a person (details supplied) in each of...
    • Departmental Properties
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when aquaculture licences (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25487/19]
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the implications of the agreement reached between Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2013 regarding the setting of the boundaries of...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Television Licence Fee
      530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full breakdown of the 85% of the licence fee that is directed to RTÉ in order for it to carry out its public...
    • EU Directives
      531. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the recast renewable energy Directive will be transposed into law; if it will be part of his forthcoming strategy...
    • Postal Codes
      532. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps persons (details supplied) in County Kerry can take in order to obtain an Eircode; and if he will make a...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      533. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be rolled out at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Properties
      536. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of...
    • Mobile Telephony Services
      538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available to a business in south County Kildare that have poor mobile phone coverage and reception; if he...
    • Petroleum and Gas Exploration
      539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of meetings that have taken place between his officials and representatives of oil and gas companies that...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has recently met his counterpart in Northern Ireland to discuss common areas of interest in cross-Border issues...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the allocations for applications for funding under the specific improvement grants scheme will be announced; and if he will make a...
    • Traffic Management
      542. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected commencement and completion date for traffic management measures by Transport Infrastructure Ireland at Derryquay, Derrymore...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 115A bus will be fully in service (details supplied). [24921/19]
    • Rail Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he plans to take regarding the perceived dangerous overcrowding on Irish Rail services on the Sligo to Connolly route daily...
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the documents submitted with an application for a sports capital grant by a club (details supplied) invalidates the application; and...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
      546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if arrangements or agreements have been entered into by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, or the National Transport Authority, NTA,...
    • Road Projects Status
      547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the M20 Limerick to Cork motorway project; the consultation process, costs and timelines for completion; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Funding
      550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if smaller towns and villages are eligible for funding under the recently announced destination towns funding stream; and the criteria...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a club (details supplied) is waiting so long to get a signature to finish drawing down funding it was granted; and if he will...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a club (details supplied) will be granted funding under the sports capital programme; the details of the funding; and if he will make...
    • Driver Licensing Exchange Agreements
      553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 523 of 9 April 2019, if categories of driver licence can be converted (details supplied). [25279/19]
    • Road Projects Status
      554. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new bridge at Ballina-Killaloe; the stage at which the project is at; the projected dates for completion; the funds...
    • Air Transport Pre-clearance
      555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the operation of the pre-clearance area for the United States at Dublin Airport is subject to United States or Irish law; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the...
    • Regional Airports
      558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions attached to the public funding of Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25518/19]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of an application for assistance from Tusla by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Childcare Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is a mandatory requirement for childcare providers to advertise their rates in a fully transparent manner; if the practice of holding...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Standards
      565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the code of practice or business code of conduct to which recipients of funding must subscribe in order to remain funded by her Department...
    • School Completion Programme
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the need for expanded supports in the school completion programme at schools (details supplied); if her...
    • Departmental Reports
      567. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the final report of the national review panel on the abuse of children in the care of the health board-HSE (2003-2011), the summary...
    • Maternity Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expenditure on baby boxes; the number distributed to date; if baby boxes are available at maternity hospitals nationally; if not, the...
    • Childcare Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied); her views on the opinion expressed that the childcare industry is at...
    • Guardians Ad Litem
      570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of guardians ad litem; the number employed by Tusla in each of the years 2017 and 2018; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Adoption Records Provision
      571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procedure in respect of an adopted person who wishes to trace personal information such as his or her birth certificate and file in...
    • Adoption Authority of Ireland Data
      572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications in each year since 2013 to the adoption contact register; the number that have been successful, the number that...
    • Adoption Data
      573. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated number of improper adoption arrangements by religious bodies, nursing homes and other bodies in which no detailed records...
    • Home Schooling
      574. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the role of Tusla in inspecting home schooling facilities; the contact details for the section related to inspecting...
    • Departmental Properties
      575. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will establish an interdepartmental group to develop a new programme of action and resources for areas experiencing cumulative...
    • Community Enhancement Programme
      578. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the threat to the viability of a community centre (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if assistance...
    • RAPID Programme
      579. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 18 April 2019, if the information has been collated (details supplied). [24990/19]
    • Community Enhancement Programme Funding
      580. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) has been excluded from availing of the grant from the...
    • Departmental Properties
      581. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Direct Provision Payments
      583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid to an adult living in direct provision; the amount given for each child living in direct provision; and his...
    • Proposed Legislation
      584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a general scheme of a Bill to extending social protection supports to the self-employed will be published; and will she...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review entitlement to domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24858/19]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      586. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be prioritised; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      587. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process by which a randomised review will be carried out of the claims of those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance;...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Delays
      588. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in an appeal by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a...
    • Pensions Reform
      589. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the cuts to be made to pensions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24887/19]
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average cost of a community employment scheme employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24903/19]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      591. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application will be expedited for a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied). [24912/19]
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's benefit application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision will be expedited on an invalidity pension claim by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [24920/19]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [24963/19]
    • Carer's Benefit Eligibility
      595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a criterion set out for carer's benefit (details supplied); if she will review and reform the criteria; and if...
    • JobPath Data (1 comment)
      596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons referred to JobPath since 2015; the number referred more than once; and the number of times they have...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Data
      601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had their State pension (contributory) payment reviewed; the number of reviews in which the...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Appeals
      602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeals mechanism is in place in cases in which a State pension (contributory) payment rate is reviewed and no increase...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review recipients of the domiciliary care allowance; the purpose of the review; the nature of the review; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is given to rental costs for recipients of disability allowance in cases in which payment rates are set...
    • Local Employment Service
      605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of plans for the future of the local employment service. [25028/19]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be finalised on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [25061/19]
    • Carer's Support Grant
      607. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) can no longer receive the carer’s grant for their daughter; and if she will...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the possibility of reintroducing an automatic household benefit package entitlement for carers who have been approved for...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance review for a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited; and if she will...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for an illness benefit in the case of a person (details...
    • Widow's Pension
      611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension reduction will be reversed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review of community employment schemes; when the review is expected to be completed and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      613. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the allowance for adults in direct provision from €38.80 per week to...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full year expenditure on the household benefits package by benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25115/19]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing rent supplement limits by on average 10%; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Free Travel Scheme Data
      620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current expenditure on the free travel scheme; the estimated cost of increasing expenditure by 10%; and if she will make...
    • Low Pay Commission Funding
      624. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual expenditure on the Low Pay Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25121/19]
    • Maternity Benefit Data
      626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing maternity benefit from 26 to 30 and 34 weeks, respectively for those that have had...
    • Child Benefit Data
      627. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of paying a double child benefit payment to parents on the birth of a child; and if she will...
    • National Advocacy Service
      629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of advocates in the National Advocacy Services for People with Disabilities; the estimated full year cost of...
    • Bereavement Leave
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of introducing two weeks paid bereavement leave at a rate of €203 per week per parent who...
    • Working Family Payment Data
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of reducing the hours required to qualify for the working family payment from 19 to 15 hours for...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of allowing lone parents in employment whose children are aged between seven and 14 years of age...
    • Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the jobseeker's transitional payment for lone parents until their youngest child...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Data
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment by €10,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the week hours a carer can work or study while receiving carer's allowance,...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of extending the free travel scheme for children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance;...
    • Carer's Allowance Data
      638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of increasing the income disregard for carer's allowance from €332.50 single and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing all social assistance payments by €5, €10, €15, €20, €25...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a jobseeker's benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on the review of further medical evidence submitted in support of a disability allowance appeal...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the delayed illness benefit to a person (details supplied) will be rectified. [25254/19]
    • Tús Programme
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to recruitment difficulties experienced by a Tús initiative in County Tipperary due to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Reviews
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of years that can pass before deeming a social welfare entitlements case out of bounds for review; and if she will...
    • Child Benefit Payments
      647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to restore child benefit for children over 18 years of age who are still attending secondary school; and if she...
    • Departmental Properties
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 in order to include home-schooled children alongside the list of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time for social welfare appeals to be heard by the social welfare appeals office; if the average waiting...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on the review of a disability allowance application in which a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Planning Investigations
      653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take...
    • Electoral Reform
      654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will initiate a report on the issue of spoilt ballots in view of the high level of spoilt votes in the 2019 local and...
    • Planning Guidelines
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the co-living planning regulations will be conducted in view of the likely unintended consequences of such...
    • Animal Welfare
      656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the name of each local authority nationally that directly employs an animal welfare officer in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Housing Funding
      657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount available under the buy and renew scheme; the amount available to each county council; if there is a cap; the...
    • Planning Issues
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of attendees for a public event which would require planning permission; and the regulations in place for events of...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
      661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure to date on the housing adaptation grant; the estimated full year cost of increasing expenditure by 10% and...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put in place a monetary package scheme for local authority and social housing tenants who wish to own their own...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the group within the structure of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless hubs in operation in the Dublin City Council area; the location of each hub; the capacity of each hub;...
    • Departmental Properties
      666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it became policy for carer’s allowance to be considered part of the income of a person when calculating rent for a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide guidelines to the planning authorities with regard to the minimum number of electric car charging points...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme Funding
      671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital assistance scheme, CAS, allocation for 2019 as agreed in budget 2019; the number of applications for CAS funding...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for serviced sites funding; the locations and number of units in each application; the value of the...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the allocation for local authority grants will be forwarded to city and county councils to fund mobility aid and housing...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by Galway County Council for Traveller accommodation for each site around the...
    • Departmental Funding
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of financial support provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past five years; the...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of financial support provided to an association (details supplied) in each of the past five years; and if he will...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Sligo County Council to deliver a scheme to provide bedroom extensions for a number...
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 14 May 2019, the position regarding a foreshore licence for a proposal (details...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the recent findings from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission which said the response to the...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP and RAS units in each local authority; the average HAP and RAS payment being made in each local authority in...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the local authority housing build target of 6,545 units for 2019 to be provided under headings (details...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • EU Legislation
      683. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding EU laws banning lead used in shotgun and rifle cartridges; and if she will make...
    • Heritage Schemes
      684. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding directed to the conservation and management of heritage, both natural and built, nationally in 2017, 2018...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      685. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a person (details supplied) has not received further payments under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme....
    • Departmental Properties
      686. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term...

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