Written answers
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
10. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a situation that has arisen with regard to Garda vetting of early education and child care training programmes;...
- Penalty Points System
11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the person that undertook the internal audits of fixed charge notice cancellations in November and December 2013; the method used to carry out...
- Protection for Whistleblowers
13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the experiences of the Garda whistleblowers, if he is satisfied with the manner in which the position of the confidential recipient is...
- Insolvency Service of Ireland Data
14. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deals concluded under the new personal insolvency regime to date; the number sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Magdalen Laundries
15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for the Magdalen redress scheme that have been processed; the payments made and the contribution to date of the four...
- Asylum Applications
16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the new form and letter that has been sent to persons seeking asylum regarding applications for subsidiary protection; if his...
- Sexual Offences
17. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure that solicitors protect the interests of their clients particularly in relation to child victims of sexual abuse....
- Magdalen Laundries
19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the implementation of the Magdalen laundry redress scheme. [5272/14]
- Insolvency Service of Ireland Administration
20. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding credit union loans under the new personal insolvency regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5300/14]
- Services for People with Disabilities
21. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his priorities for the disability sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5292/14]
- Stardust Fire
22. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will now initiate the establishment of a brief commission of investigation to examine outstanding issues that have not been conclusively...
- Criminal Justice Issues
23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be an inquiry into the death of a baby (details supplied) in Dalkey in 1973 and the circumstances surrounding the death; and if he...
- Garda Investigations
24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a reported alleged crime regarding Oireachtas envelopes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5252/14]
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Remit
26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider establishing a Garda Síochána independent board with monitoring, supervisory and oversight functions over An Garda...
- Magdalen Laundries
28. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the terms of the ex gratia scheme to which eligible women must agree if they are to receive...
- Court Procedures
30. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will be reforming the law in relation to the use of the court poor box, particularly for persons charged with road traffic offences. [5337/14]
- Garda Complaints Procedures
31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress he has made in relation to cases of Garda malpractice handed in to his offices in October 2013 from citizens across the State in...
- Garda Youth Diversion Projects
32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children engaged in the Garda diversion programme; the number with juvenile liasion officers; his plans to review and develop the...
- Garda Resources
34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has reviewed Garda resources in view of the spate of violent crimes committed in January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Prisoner Numbers
35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of republican prisoners being held at present in prisons here; the number of these that are serving sentences; the number on remand;...
- Crime Investigation
36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will replace his plans for a senior counsel review of the cold case inquiry into the murder of Fr. Niall Molloy with a proper independent...
- Subsidiary Protection Administration
37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the introduction of the new subsidiary protection system; and if he has considered the introduction of legislation for a single...
- Garda Operations
38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether a report should be produced to provide information on the terminated offences that have no information placed in the...
- Proposed Legislation
39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the progress of the creation of the new Irish human rights and equality commission; when the new commission will commence its...
- Irish Prison Service
40. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on implementing the Irish Prison Service Strategic Plan 2012–2015 and implementation of its key...
- Charities Regulation
41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the creation of a charities regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5299/14]
- Immigration Status
42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the circumstances of a family (details supplied) in Dublin 8 and their current immigration status and housing status. [5193/14]
- Judicial Appointments
43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will undertake a review of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board so as to further ensure its complete independence from political...
- Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
44. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which educational and rehabilitative training remain available throughout the prison service with particular reference to the...
- Proposed Legislation
45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce the Scrap and Precious Metals Bill 2013 as a matter of public urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5253/14]
- Immigrant Investor Programme
46. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that have been received and approved for the immigrant investor programme and the start-up entrepreneur programme; and...
- Judicial Council Legislation
48. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider incorporating a model based on the sentencing council in England and Wales within the new judicial council Bill expected this...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Consular Services Provision
49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will arrange for Irish embassy officials to visit an Irish person (details supplied) who is currently being held in a...
- Department of Finance
- Tote Licences
50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the upcoming renewal of the licence for the tote, currently with Horse Racing Ireland, if this licence will be up for public tender in order to...
- Universal Social Charge Exemptions
51. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare should be exempt from the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5723/14]
- Banking Sector Issues
52. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the transfer from Dublin to Edinburgh of Ulster Bank's mortgage arrears unit will adversely affect the ability of the bank to meet its...
- Consultancy Contracts
53. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 28 January 2014, the nature of each consultancy contract; and the description of the work carried out in each...
- Mortgage Repayments Issues
54. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland sets down guidelines for financial institutions in respect of the level of home mortgage which is regarded as...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
55. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for his recent statement that he feared that persons involved in the legal tobacco trade were also involved in the illegal trade; if he has any...
- Department of Education and Skills
- SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a place on the Naas technology project SOLAS course will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Schools Building Projects Status
57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update regarding the location and development of a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Site Acquisitions
60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 3 October 2013, the further progress that has been made regarding the acquisition of a site required...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be reconsidered in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford;...
- School Accommodation
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the number of students that are educated in prefabs in the academic year 2013-14; the breakdown per county in tabular form; the overall...
- School Enrolments
63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the mainstream primary schools in each county; the number of pupils currently enrolled in each; the number of...
- Teacher Statistics
64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form indicating the academic year the mainstream primary schools in each county that have lost a teacher as a result...
- School Accommodation
68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of classes at primary level that are accommodated in prefabs; the total number of classes at primary level that are accommodated...
- Schools Amalgamation
72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the proposed merging of three schools (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the...
- European Globalisation Fund
73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the final reports to the European Commission on all closed European globalisation fund programmes; the total...
- National Council for Special Education
74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason staff at the National Council for Special Education are not responding fully to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Leader's Allowance Issues
75. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the amount paid to each independent TD under the leader's allowance payment since 1997; if any...
- Public Sector Staff Issues
76. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if full-time public service employees with a disability are obliged to work the additional two working hours as set out in the context of...
- Official Engagements
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will visit at an early date Rossbeigh, Incharea, Cromane Lower and other parts of County Kerry where homes, businesses and...
- National Monuments
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence regarding funding in respect of a monument (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of microenterprises that have received funding through Microenterprise Ireland; the number of jobs this has created and the...
- Companies Law
80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the penalties that apply to a person trading under the name of a company that has been dissolved for over four years, having never...
- Employment Rights Issues
81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding employment rights in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Rent Supplement Scheme Data
83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons 23 years of age and younger in receipt of rent allowance from her Department for each of the past five years; and if she will...
- State Pensions Reform
85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 3725/14 in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7, the options available to them in respect of...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will raise the cap on rent allowance in view of increasing rents throughout certain parts of the country. [5760/14]
- Redundancy Payments
87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the time limit for applying for statutory redundancy; if a person who left work because they became terminally ill may apply for statutory redundancy...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review as a matter of urgency an application for rent allowance and supplementary welfare payments in respect of a person (details...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 30 January 2014, if she will outline exactly where in primary legislation the back to education allowance...
- Social Welfare Schemes
91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 30 January 2014, the number of schemes and payments in her Department that are paid out with...
- Civil Registration Legislation
92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation to allow the civil registration for granddaughters or grandsons when death occurs as a result of an accident to a...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan has been waiting over two months on the outcome of an appeal against the decision to refuse...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
94. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Pensions Reform
96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 28 January 2014, if a pensionable service tapered table dealing with service and recognising different...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Commemorative Plaques
97. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider funding or co-funding a statue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin city centre on the 30th...
- Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Eligibility
98. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will agree to compensate those with turbary rights over sites which were designated SACs and who complied with his Department's...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Usage
99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of electricity consumed in Ireland that was generated from renewable sources since 2007; if he will provide...
- Green Paper on Energy Publication
101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects his Green Paper on energy to be published; if he is willing to take submissions on this paper; and if he...
- Consultancy Contracts Data
102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide copies of all the tender notices that were published on the website or in the OJEU by Bord Gáis...
- Better Energy Homes Scheme Expenditure
103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of home owners that have benefitted from the better energy homes scheme; the number of jobs it has created and...
- Digital Television Service Provision
104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the Oliver and Ohlbaum report Prospects for Commercial Digital Terrestrial Television in the Republic of...
- Broadcasting Service Provision
105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has been in contact with TG4, the Irish Film Board and the Houses of the Oireachtas in relation to the provision of...
- Broadband Services Charges
108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who faces extra charges as part of the national...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure
109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will have the Office of Public Works look at the damage done during the recent storms at a location (details...
- Irish Water Funding
110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the overall amount of money allocated to Irish Water to date; if he will provide a breakdown of the sources of that...
- Local Authority Finances
111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure for appointing members to the audit committees of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Motor Tax Exemptions
112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding car tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5743/14]
- Planning Issues
113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the future plans for the old Ballymun Garda station, swimming pool and health centre. [5755/14]
- Water Charges Introduction
114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the inclusion of group water schemes in any free allowance of water which may be provided for by the...
- Local Authority Staff Numbers
115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of outdoor-based staff and indoor-based staff in counties Louth, Meath,...
- Local Development Companies Funding
116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the total allocations to each of the 50 local development companies and partnerships...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will rank each local authority by the percentage change in the proportion of housing stock made up of social housing...
- Irish Water Establishment
118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5786/14]
- Dog Licences
119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and types of dog licences issued by each local authority in 2013; and the amount of revenue raised through the...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Data
120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when application forms for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability and the housing aid for older...
- Irish Water Establishment
122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the salary each member of the board of Irish Water receives; and the payments, if any, each member received in 2013. [5842/14]
- Irish Water Staff
123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the current staffing levels at Irish Water, broken down into different categories of engineers, call...
- Building Regulations Compliance
124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 28 January 2014, if persons who self-build their homes will be required to...
- Irish Water Administration
125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 29 January 2014, if he will confirm the reason contractors must have a...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Equipment
126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied with regard to the availability of the necessary resources to An Garda Síochána to facilitate ongoing upgrading of...
- Legal Aid Service Reform
127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which it is intended to improve the efficiency of the legal aid services notwithstanding the ongoing economic situation; and if he...
- Criminal Prosecutions Data
128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners remanded on bail on foot of charges relating to serious criminal activity in each of the past 12 months to date; and if...
- Garda Stations Refurbishment
130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which it is likely to be possible to improve or upgrade Garda stations as necessary throughout the country in the current year; and...
- Garda Recruitment
131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the Garda recruitment programme is progressing in accordance with expectations; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Criminal Assets Bureau
132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which adequate resources remain available to the Criminal Assets Bureau; the extent to which that body can combat organised crime...
- Organised Crime
133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which An Garda Síochána continues to have access to adequate resources to combat organised crime; and if he will make a...
- Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners currently in receipt of educational or rehabilitative training in each of the prisons throughout the country; the number...
- Prison Security
135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners remaining untraced having absconded prior to the completion of their sentence; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Courts Service
136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which backlogs in the court system are likely to be overtaken in the short and medium term; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Crime Levels
137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the statistics show fluctuation in the levels of various crimes reported in County Kildare in each of the past five years to...
- Legal Services Regulation
138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to reform of the legal profession; the extent to which negotiation continues with respective interest groups; and...
- Legislative Programme
140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in respect of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5742/14]
- Court Procedures
141. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide for the inclusion of deaf persons as members of Coroners Courts juries; if such an exclusion to date has made Ireland de facto...
- Coroners Service
142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will undertake a review of the Coroner's Act 1962 specifically those aspects of the Act which allow members of An Garda Síochána...
- Civil Legal Aid Issues
143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review his decision to implement statutory instrument SI 346 of 2013, Civil Legal Aid Regulations 2013, particularly his decision to...
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Reports
144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 10 December 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5770/14]
- Road Traffic Offences
146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 704 of 11 June 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5810/14]
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues
147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that several members of the GSOC have had their penalty points wiped out, is it lawful and fair that those same persons are...
- Charities Regulation
148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 29 January 2014, if he will obtain the net profit by lottery type for the years 2011 and 2012; and...
- Protection of Whistleblowers
149. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his response to public comments made by a former member of GSOC (details supplied) regarding shortcomings in the manner in which the Garda...
- Courts Service
150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in the interests of open and transparent justice and in view of the fact that €16 million was spent in installing...
- Deportation Orders
151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence regarding a deportation case (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5873/14]
- Magdalen Laundries
152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of applications received for compensation from the Magdalene fund; the number and amounts paid out to date and the length of...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Fish Farming
153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide wave height data from and the exact location of the buoys mentioned by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in the press release of...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when moneys due under the single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
- Forestry Grants
156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid for the construction of harvest roads on planted land will be continued under the new Common Agricultural Policy...
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an area aid payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [5814/14]
- Horse Racing Ireland Operations
158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the profits from Tote Ireland for the years 2009 to 2013, inclusive. [5826/14]
- Bord na gCon Operations
159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the profits from the greyhound tote for the years 2009 to 2013, inclusive. [5827/14]
- Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if results of a review sought by a person (details supplied) in County Galway in relation to land excluded for single farm payment...
- Control of Horses (1 comment)
161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that an additional fee, on top of the microchip and passport fee, has been imposed on organisations and persons...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child Care Services Expenditure
162. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total average cost per annum for each type of care provision for children; the numbers in each category at present; and if she will...
- Social Workers Recruitment
163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number and percentage of WTE social worker vacancies in each local unit; the steps being taken to address this shortfall; and if...
- Ombudsman for Children Expenditure
164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost to her Department of running the office of the Ombudsman for Children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5835/14]
- Ombudsman for Children Investigations
165. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of cases referred to the Ombudsman for Children for each of the past five years relating to complaints against school...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a situation that has arisen with regard to Garda vetting of staff in early education and child care...
- Department of Health
- Medical Card Appeals
167. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will intervene in this case; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Admissions
168. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Beaumont Hospital informed the Health Service Executive that a person (details supplied) was admitted on 18 December when they were not; and the...
- Medical Card Appeals
169. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of an appeal of a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5739/14]
- Hospice Services
170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in the 2014 Acute Services Health Plan the progress with respect to the proposed hospice for County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement...
- Debt Collection
171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the amount that has been spent by public hospitals in 2013 on the services of debt collection agencies. [5759/14]
- Dental Services Provision
172. To ask the Minister for Health when Loughrea dental clinic and school dentist service will be available again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5767/14]
- Departmental Funding
173. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money the Health Service Executive and his Department have paid to a group (details supplied) in County Mayo under the section 39 grant for 2009...
- National Drugs Strategy Budget
174. To ask the Minister for Health the funding received by an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 5 from his Department for the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive. [5772/14]
- Health Insurance Prices
175. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the recent VHI premium increases, when he was first informed of same; if he took any action to stop it; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
176. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be included in a methadone rehabilitation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5776/14]
- Hospitals Funding
177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the financial allocation for each hospital in 2013 and in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5788/14]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
178. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [5796/14]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
179. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive policy regarding the cost of the provision of incontinence wear; if any associated cost is passed on to the service user of the...
- Hospital Procedures
180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public outpatient, inpatient and day cases performed in private hospitals in each quarter of 2013; the cost in each category in each quarter; and...
- Health Services Provision
181. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the condition commonly known as EDS Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome; if his attention has been drawn to the fact there is no...
- Disabled Drivers Grants
182. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the mobility allowance scheme and the motorised transport grant scheme will be completed; if details will be provided on the scheme; and if...
- Health Services Expenditure
183. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's calculation of the actual annual spend on health in each of the past three years, 2011 to 2013, inclusive, across each of the following: the...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the condition Attention Deficit Disorder in the long term illness card scheme. [5841/14]
- Health Reports
185. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the report of the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, to be published [5844/14]
- Mental Health Services Provision
186. To ask the Minister for Health further to an independent report commissioned into the relative merits of retaining acute psychiatric beds in St Brigid’s Ballinasloe or Roscommon...
- Ambulance Service Provision
187. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the emergency medical service provided to residents of East Cork; his views on the circumstances of a recent incident (details...
- Primary Care Services Provision
188. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding transport assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 [5850/14]
- HSE Properties
189. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the interest a club (details supplied) has in acquiring land [5856/14]
- Disease Awareness
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate an awareness campaign in relation to the signs /symptoms of type one diabetes particularly in relation to children, along the lines of the...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
191. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that with regard to the practices used by the Health Service Executive in the employment of psychologists that only those with the specific...
- Nursing Home Accommodation
194. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the programme of work planned for St. Joseph's Nursing Home, Ardee, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5880/14]
- Nursing Home Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing levels at St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Ardee, County Louth. [5882/14]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
202. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Ireland had the highest usage in the world per head of population of DePuy hip implants; and the reason there was such high usage of these implants...
- Orthodontic Services Provision
203. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway was declined orthodontic treatment at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway; if this decision will be...
- Patient Statistics
204. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular format the number of public patients for whom private treatment was procured in 2013; the hospitals-clinics where such procedures...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Transport Issues
205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a bus shelter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5728/14]
- Driver Licences
206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in relation to the discussions between the Road Safety Authority and the individual provinces in Canada with...
- Driver Licence Applications
207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the delays in issuing driver licences by the National Driver Licence Service; the steps that are being...
