Written answers

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Garda Data
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Clare in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Marriages of Convenience
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ban dowries here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15368/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to renew funding to a cultural centre (details supplied); his views on the evidence that shows that persons that have...
    • Garda Data
      47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Westmeath in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that there may be potential security risks for the State in the near future due to the ongoing presence of...
    • Direct Provision System
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the current management and conditions of direct provision centres here; his plans to initiate a review into the use...
    • Garda Data
      51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Louth in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of contact that took place between his Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and An Garda...
    • Legislative Reviews
      54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of his Department's review of existing personal insolvency Acts; the main aspects of the current legislation he plans...
    • Garda Data
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Kerry in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Expenditure
      58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the investment by his Department in CCTV since the commitment given in the confidence and supply agreement to invest in CCTV;...
    • Parental Leave
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce shared paid parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8405/18]
    • Garda Data
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in County Limerick in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date...
    • Departmental Operations
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure in his Department for logging all contact and communications with senior management in An Garda...
    • Family Law Cases
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the difficulties many unmarried fathers are facing with the in camera rule and the need to resolve these issues;...
    • Gambling Legislation
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status on the working group examining the gambling control Bill; his plans to bring this legislation forward in a timely...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has requested the Garda Commissioner to explain when and the way in which the information contained in the intelligence...
    • Garda Data
      65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda recruits assigned to each Garda station in counties Longford and Roscommon in each of the years 2014 to...
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the role his Department plays in An Garda Síochána's ICT governance board; the person that represents his Department...
    • Community Policing
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position on expanding community policing and increasing the number of community gardaí in the Laois-Offaly division....
    • Departmental Communications
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a policy in his Department regarding the use of non-departmental or personal email for departmental or Government...
    • Garda Recruitment
      69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Garda recruitment; his plans for additional recruitment; the number of new gardaí that have been...
    • Gender Equality
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the introduction of legislation to narrow the gender pay gap similar to that introduced in the UK whereby large...
    • Garda Data
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to core Garda units in the Cork city Garda division compared to 2010; and his views on same....
    • Immigration Status
      73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if correspondence in relation to persons (details supplied) will be responded to; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the roll out of his Department's community CCTV schemes; and his plans to ensure schemes can proceed. [16540/18]
    • Immigration Status
      75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for naturalisation; the reason for the delay in this regard; and if...
    • Independent Review Mechanism
      77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the statutory inquiries initiated as a result of the Independent Review Mechanism; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Recruitment
      78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps An Garda Síochána has taken at senior level to encourage a multi-cultural force reflecting the different...
    • Data Protection
      81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether it is insufficient to rely on digital consent as a means to protect children’s data in view of the...
    • Immigration Policy
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be permitted to enter the State if travelling with their Irish spouse and child; and if he...
    • Direct Provision System
      83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to ensure that residents of direct provision centres are being advised of their right to vote in local...
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the measures being taken on foot of the recommendations of the State Ombudsman’s report on the Magdalen...
    • Garda Reports
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the report of An Garda Síochána into the fatal shooting of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure for An Garda Síochána to validate the type of licence held by a driver involved in a fatal or serious...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of measures being taken to curb the recent upsurge of joyriding and associated serious anti-social behaviour in some...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the number of cases referred to the Garda Youth Diversion Programme in each year since 2010 are accurate;...
    • Departmental Funding
      91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the work of the integration centres in Tallaght and Clondalkin; the reason his Department has...
    • Garda Reserve
      92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to strengthen the Garda Reserve to deliver on the commitment to visible and responsive policing in communities...
    • Legislative Measures
      93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if further legislative measures are required to facilitate An Garda Síochána in combatting crime and in particular...
    • Restorative Justice
      94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered putting in place restorative justice schemes for offenders. [15335/18]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if surveys are being carried out on a site (details supplied) with a view to the construction of a new courthouse; and if he...
    • Crime Investigation
      96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether further resources or initiatives are required to deal with the issue of criminal gangs, such as proscribing...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider renewing and extending Garda based CCTV systems in view of the poor uptake in grant applications to date for...
    • Garda Operations
      98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the meeting which had been scheduled for 28 February 2018 of interested bodies and parties to discuss the issue of problem...
    • Garda Stations
      99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the new Garda station in Macroom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16485/18]
    • Independent Review Mechanism
      100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the publication of the report carried out by a person (details supplied) that was published on 27 March...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Strategic Communications Unit
      101. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of the €5 million budgeted for the Strategic Communications Unit in Budget 2018 which will remain; the areas in which these remaining funds will be...
    • Ministerial Allowances
      105. To ask the Taoiseach if a ministerial allowance is claimed in respect of his ministerial role at the Department of Defence. [15443/18]
    • National Security Committee
      106. To ask the Taoiseach the details of all meetings of the National Security Committee; and the dates the committee met. [15969/18]
    • Labour Market
      109. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons that were classified as in employment part-time or part-time underemployed as a percentage of the number employed on an annual basis in each of the...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      110. To ask the Taoiseach if training has been delivered in his Department on the use of social media (details supplied); and the frequency and cost of this training. [15073/18]
    • Cabinet Committee Meetings
      112. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F (National Security) last met. [15075/18]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      113. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department has spent on social media training and consultancy in each year since 2016. [15080/18]
    • Departmental Contracts
      114. To ask the Taoiseach the value of contracts for services awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department since 2010, in tabular form; and the type of work undertaken by the...
    • Project Ireland 2040 Expenditure
      115. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 73, 75, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 112, 115, 120, 125, 126, 127, 129, 135, 136 and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      116. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department in those years; the...
    • Law Reform Commission
      118. To ask the Taoiseach the number of pieces of legislation, both enacted and published, by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in each of the past...
    • State Visits
      119. To ask the Taoiseach the number of official State visits his Department has been involved with for each of the past four years; and the costs associated with same. [15598/18]
    • Central Statistics Office Administration
      120. To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the CSO was misrecording personal details when inputting census returns, in particular surnames and personal names which...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      121. To ask the Taoiseach an raibh sé ar an eolas go raibh foireann de chuid na Príomh-Oifige Staidrimh ag ionchur sonraí pearsanta sa Daonáireamh is déanaí go...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      122. To ask the Taoiseach the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; and if these officers will be offered permanent...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Expenditure
      123. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his...
    • Air Corps
      124. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to address the retention issue in the Air Corps, in particular for pilots and technicians; and his plans to offer...
    • Law Reform Commission
      126. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Defence Forces Data
      127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of retirees from the Defence Forces at all ranks in each of the years 2007 to 2017. [15404/18]
    • Cyber Security Policy
      128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are proposals to participate in a cyber security project at EU level under PESCO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15413/18]
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the person with responsibility for final sign-off of Army Pensions Board decisions; and if the Minister of State with special responsibility for...
    • State Visits
      130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of official State visits his Department has been involved with for each of the past four years; the costs associated with same; and...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of an application to install an automatic external defibrillator at a location (details supplied) in County Louth. [15701/18]
    • Departmental Properties
      133. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on a matter regarding a property (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/18]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of the 14 separate commitments assigned to his Department in the Programme for Partnership Government that have been commenced,...
    • White Paper on Defence
      135. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of the 88 projects committed to in the 2015 White Paper on Defence that have been commenced, completed, abandoned and are ongoing;...
    • Defence Forces Data
      136. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of personnel at each rank throughout the Permanent Defence Force; the number by gender and age; the number for the Reserve Defence...
    • White Paper on Defence
      137. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the projects engaged by the defence enterprise committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15957/18]
    • Defence Forces Data
      139. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number and rank recruited to the Defence Forces in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of projected recruits in...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures or initiatives planned to encourage more persons to seek a career in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether it is acceptable that families of Defence Forces members are dependent on family income supplement payments to cover...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      144. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of former PDF members in receipt of disability allowance as a result of injury sustained from their time served with the Defence...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the detail of the sale of all military equipment in each of the past five years; the type of equipment sold; the amount received; the date the...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme Review
      147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the submission made by his Department to the capital review undertaken by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which seeks a...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      148. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the detail of the sale of all lands owned by the Defence Forces in each of the past five years; the location of the lands; the amount received;...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      149. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cash escorts involving the Defence Forces undertaken in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the costs incurred and recouped by the Defence...
    • Air Corps Operations
      152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the ministerial air transport services operations undertaken in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naval Service Vessels
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the sales and acquisitions by the Naval Service's vessel replacement programme; the cost of each sale and acquisition; and if he will make a...
    • Air Corps Operations
      155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the emergency aeronautical support operations undertaken in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15976/18]
    • National Risk Assessment
      156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the national risk assessment; if it has been sent to the European Commission as specified on page 33 of the ministerial briefing...
    • EU Battle Groups
      157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the Defence Forces' planned involvement in the German-led battle group in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Emergency Planning
      158. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details on all meetings of the Government task force on emergency planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15979/18]
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the reconvened malaria chemoprophylaxis working group has reported back to him; if he will publish this report if completed; and if he will...
    • Army Barracks Closures
      160. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the running and maintenance costs of Columb Barracks, Mullingar, across headings (details supplied). [16066/18]
    • Overseas Missions
      161. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Army Ranger Wing have ever served in Afghanistan; the overseas missions in which members of the unit have served; and if these...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      162. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will be...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Registration of Births
      163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the statutory footing which compels those seeking a foreign birth registration certificate to provide State identification in order for...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials were contacted by the Russian ambassador. [15077/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of contingency planning under way within his Department and State agencies for the impact of Brexit. [15079/18]
    • Location of Victims' Remains
      166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to contact the authorities in Northern Ireland to have the missing body parts of a person (details supplied) returned...
    • Consular Services Representations
      167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in the United States of America. [15644/18]
    • Passport Applications Administration
      168. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that passport forms do not note that in cases of passports out of date for more than five years...
    • International Sanctions Application
      169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials have considered transposing the Magnitsky Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15024/18]
    • International Election Monitoring
      172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the financial and technical support his Department is providing either directly or through the EU in the run-up to the presidential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his...
    • Human Rights
      175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an Irish-registered non-governmental organisation (details supplied) is seeking to obtain...
    • Law Reform Commission
      176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to open an embassy in Iran in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15389/18]
    • Human Rights Cases
      178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken or will take to ensure that the Israeli authorities are contacted to express the opposition of the Houses of the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      179. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the diplomatic steps he has taken against Israel in order to express the Irish population's outrage at the slaughter of civilians in Gaza...
    • State Visits
      180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of official State visits his Department has been involved with for each of the past four years; the costs associated with same;...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being adopted to escalate the processing of passport applications; if the passport services made available to Members of the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions being taken to help provide a long-term peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in view of continued Israeli...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      188. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the decision to expel a Russian diplomat from Ireland was premature and unwarranted (details supplied); if he will be...
    • Passport Services
      189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on correspondence (details supplied); and if additional resources will be allocated to this service. [15837/18]
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he plans to take regarding a complaint this Deputy made to him on behalf a person (details supplied) who was prevented from...
    • Human Rights
      195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a video (details supplied); and the actions he will take in this regard. [16222/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will...
    • Immigration Data
      197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an estimate has been made as to the number of unaccounted for American citizens currently resident here, that is, Irish citizens who...
    • Visa Data
      198. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of working holiday authorisations granted to American citizens who have applied through Irish embassies and consulates in the...
    • Passport Applications Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passport applications received and approved through each application channel; and the applicants’ countries of...
    • Passport Services
      200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to restore the free passport scheme for persons over 66 years of age that was discontinued as a cost saving measure in 2011 in...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the length of time to process an adult passport renewal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16689/18]
    • Passport Services
      202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communication process in place for a person looking for an update on their passport application; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Applications Administration
      203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the new online passport portal is delivering passports in the time guaranteed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16691/18]
    • Foreign Policy
      204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent parliamentary election result in Hungary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16744/18]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that will be taken by the EU following the recent chemical attack in Douma, Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Northern Ireland
      207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent efforts to restore the Executive in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16747/18]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove VAT and VRT from advanced driver assistance systems on new or older vehicles to incentivise the public to drive much safer vehicles and...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change legislation on the disabled drivers scheme in view of the fact the qualifying conditions seem to be rigid and inflexible and may be...
    • Home Repossessions
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of family homes that have been repossessed by financial institutions each year since 2000; the steps being taken to reduce this number; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT charges will be removed from the rental of disability aids during the interim period when the person is awaiting the delivery or installation of same;...
    • Tax Reliefs Abolition
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if, when the decision was reached in 2011 to abolish tax relief on union subscriptions, there was agreement to have the decision reviewed in 2016; if this...
    • Fiscal Data
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 30 November 2017 and Table 4 in the summer economic statement in 2017, if the planned investment in the rainy day...
    • EU Regulations
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy in place at each of the State-backed banks regarding Part 9 of the European Union (Consumer Mortgage Credit Agreements) Regulations 2016,...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost if a member state's contribution to the EU budget was to increase by 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, of gross national income, GNI, for...
    • Tax Rebates
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance when a refund of tax will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15001/18]
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the Central Bank's print works in Sandyford; the timeframe proposed for its possible closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Applications
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15105/18]
    • Tax Credits
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15146/18]
    • Tax Rebates
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount due back in tax returns from the Revenue Commissioners to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15150/18]
    • Tax Code
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the standard cut-off income rate for PAYE taxation is different for married couples with one income as distinct from married couples with two...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if dividends from each of the State-supported banks are deemed under EU fiscal rules to be financial transactions; if the receipt of dividends is recorded as...
    • State Banking Sector
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of dividends received by the State from banks (detail supplied) in 2017; the amount scheduled to be received in 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax relief on union subscriptions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15183/18]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department in those...
    • Revenue Commissioners Data
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide information in respect of a series of queries regarding consultants and information technology external resources contracted to undertake...
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are investigating a number of accountancy and financial firms that have set up companies on behalf of Russian citizens; the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the Central Bank surpluses are factored into the fiscal space for the coming period; if an expected decline in the surplus is factored into...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank is disposing of the Government floating rate note bonds at a quicker rate than necessary to avoid failure to comply with Article...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected Central Bank surplus for each of the next five years on the basis of the minimum required rate of sale of Government floating rate note bonds to...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if first time buyers that purchased their home, paid their deposits and signed their contracts in 2008 but their first mortgage repayment was not until early...
    • Law Reform Commission
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in each of...
    • Living City Initiative
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the uptake of the Living City Initiative in each designated city and town since its introduction. [15393/18]
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release figures or statistics on mortgage arrears on a county basis incorporating 3, 6 and 12 month arrears data, respectively. [15394/18]
    • Tax Code
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance his views in relation to the excise of heated tobacco products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15412/18]
    • Insurance Industry
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank decided to discontinue the blue book for the insurance industry; if the Central Bank will reinstate it; the document or programme...
    • Tax Code
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated budgetary implications of the delay in introducing the sugar tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15459/18]
    • Energy Policy
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if an energy roadmap document from a person (details supplied) will be examined; if he will relay the document to the relevant officials in his Department; if...
    • State Savings Schemes
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter regarding a person's (details supplied) State savings bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15611/18]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application under the disabled passenger scheme by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15645/18]
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the protections that are available to a buy-to-let mortgage holder that is seeking to hold onto a tracker rate of interest as part of a restructuring of the...
    • Vehicle Registration
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a concession in vehicle registration tax when the vehicle in question is a public service vehicle such as a hackney; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Forms
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to consider rewording the incapacitated child tax credit form (details supplied). [15740/18]
    • Insurance Coverage
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has raised with the insurance industry the practice of refusing car insurance cover to drivers; the number of drivers refused insurance in 2017 and to...
    • Stamp Duty
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is entitled to consolidation relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15847/18]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will liaise with the Central Bank to ensure that appropriate legislation is brought forward in order to compel vulture funds upon acquiring loan books...
    • Community Banking
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the report on the community banking; the reason for the delay in publishing the report; if the delay is being caused by a disagreement between...
    • Financial Services Sector
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the regulation of personal contract plans for car purchase finance; the level of this financial debt; the role of the Central Bank in this...
    • Mortgage Data
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage holders that are more than 18 months in arrears on their family homes; the steps being taken to assist these persons; and if he will...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 16 January 2018, the position regarding proposals to prohibit the payment of fees, commissions or non-monetary...
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the delays in the Revenue Commissioners issuing certificates for the employment investment incentive scheme to enable...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase the amount of country money tax relief available to persons or to alter the conditions of the relief; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Stamp Duty
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the anticipated revenue from commercial stamp duty is not materialising with regard to the latest Exchequer figures; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure on public relations firms or media consultants for each of the State backed banks in each of the past five years, by firms, advisers and...
    • Mortgage Insurance
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of life loans and life mortgages in respect of residential properties in issuance here; the amount owed on these loans; if such loans are still...
    • Banking Sector
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department has analysed the costs and benefits of the move of a bank (details supplied) to new premises in Dublin city centre and Leopardstown;...
    • Insurance Industry
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking to address the situation whereby some insurance companies are refusing to insure vehicles over ten years old with a valid NCT...
    • Tax Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of corporation tax collected for each of the years 2014 to 2017 from companies in respect of the close company surcharge applying to net of tax...
    • Rental Sector
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if the options set out in the report of the working group on the tax and fiscal treatment of rental accommodation providers dated September 2017 have been...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will be offered...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of tax relief provided to employers for employer contributions to pension schemes based on the most recent data available between occupational...
    • Pension Provisions
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has developed a costed proposal for a SSIA type scheme for pension contributions whereby the State will join the individual by contributing...
    • Insurance Costs
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the financial strain being placed on community, voluntary and charitable organisations and groups in meeting the costs of...
    • Tax Rebates
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if a refund of income tax is due in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16749/18]
    • Tax Compliance
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there are problems with tax compliance in the farm contracting sector; and his further views on whether compliant contractors are at a...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax relief on membership subscriptions to trade unions as applies to costs for membership or subscriptions to professional bodies; and...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Staff Retirements
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the public service superannuation (miscellaneous) provisions (amendment) Bill will be published and presented to the Houses of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of public and State grant aid to an organisation (details supplied) since 2015; the level of projected State support to the...
    • National Development Plan
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the planned investment for Athlone as part of the national development plan, NDP; the timeframe for delivery of this investment; and the...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when progress is expected on the delivery of a €3 million property and exhibit store for Naas Garda station; and if he will make...
    • Flood Risk Management
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the CFRAM plans affecting an area (details supplied) has been carried out with particular reference to new residential...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of works at a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16766/18]
    • Public Sector Pay
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans and timeframe to address remaining pay inequality issues in view of the fact that the report to the Houses of Oireachtas on...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the proposed car park at a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15133/18]
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Civil Service administrative officers recruited per annum; and the number of such staff in service per annum from January...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his...
    • Legislative Measures
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Legislative Programme
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Data-Sharing and Governance Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15651/18]
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the OPW's plans to address coastal erosion in Laytown, Bettystown and Mornington, County Meath; if he will publish details on the impact...
    • National Lottery Regulator
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ban or regulate third party bookmakers whose business model consists of taking bets on the national lottery; and if he will...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the recent change in flood risk assessment (details supplied) for Johnstownbridge, County Kildare will be reviewed; and if he will...
    • Tourism Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual visitor numbers at the County Donegal locations under the care of the OPW which are staffed to accomodate the public. [16072/18]
    • Office of Public Works Staff
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons employed by the OPW in County Donegal that have a role in tourism or the accomodation of visitors; and the...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has made efforts to secure new properties or previously owned properties along the Border in preparation for Brexit. [16081/18]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Data
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of applications that have been made under the flood relocation scheme by county; the number that have been successful and...
    • Garda Station Expenditure
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the investment made by the Office of Public Works on Malahide Garda station since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Data
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers...
    • Drainage Schemes Status
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 18 January 2018, the status of works on the river (details supplied). [16515/18]
    • State Properties Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State owned properties in each county, including property owned by local authorities; the acreage of land owned by the...
    • Office of Government Procurement
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of tendering projects the Office of Government Procurement is managing with regards to the construction of residential...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if flood alleviation funding will be made available for flood prevention works in Ballybay, County Monaghan; when work will commence; if...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Foirne Scoile
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuair sé comhfhreagras a sheol scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí tugtha) chuige chun a gcás eisceachtúil a chur...
    • Third Level Expenditure
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget for psychotherapy services for September 2018 in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14947/18]
    • Oireachtas Members' Remuneration
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the payments made to each Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas under the Oireachtas leave scheme for teachers in each of the years 1985 to...
    • Court Judgments
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the seven settlements made as part of the ex gratia scheme set up following a judgment (details supplied) that were as a result of...
    • School Patronage
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to the divestment of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport Provision
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an eligible or concessionary school ticket can be facilitated for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Education and Training Boards
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date on the construction of a new headquarters for counties Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (details supplied); and...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives or strategies under way or planned to recruit more teachers into secondary school subjects in which there is a shortfall in...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to amend the requirements for acceptance on a professional master of education, PME, course in order that recognition of prior learning...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14987/18]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to regularise the situation of teachers with regard to equal pay for equal work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14991/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the hours of special needs assistants in a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14992/18]
    • DEIS Status
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a school (details supplied) can apply for DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15062/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria employed when allocating specialist autism places to children for primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation Provision
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in order to qualify for future capital funding for a school, such as summer works or capital works, that the school must have provision for...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a specialist autism unit for a school (details supplied); if it will be ready for the academic year commencing in...
    • Schools Facilities
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if each school in County Wexford that does not have a physical education hall will be provided with same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the construction of the new building for a school (details supplied); and when students will occupy same. [15137/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) who has provided evidence of a need for a SNA will be considered for such support while waiting for formal...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capacity for a community school in an area of disadvantage to offer PLC courses if it wishes to do so; the steps the community school must...
    • Schools Building Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Topical Issue No. 2 on 21 March 2018 regarding provision for a location for a school (details supplied), the timescale for the...
    • Third Level Fees
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which an Irish citizen who has not been resident for the purpose of Irish and EU college fees for the required period of...
    • School Staff
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter regarding teachers at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15280/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places created and capital expenditure, both nationally and by county, on school building projects since 2010, in...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the proposed butcher apprenticeship; when it will be launched and available for interested parties to apply to; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of legislative measures both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission...
    • Physical Education
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools being included in the trial of physical education being taught as a leaving certificate subject; the number of these schools that are...
    • Special Educational Needs
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special needs in an area (details supplied) who do not have an appropriate primary or second level school place in...
    • Bullying in Schools
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school inspectors are reporting on the implementation of the anti-bullying policies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the proposed special school for County Louth that will merge two schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding two projects at a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork. [15392/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a scheme in place which a PLC student can access to assist in meeting accommodation costs while studying. [15419/18]
    • Departmental Meetings
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of meetings officials from his Department have had with Kildare County Council in the past five years regarding the provision of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15440/18]
    • School Staff
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter regarding a school (details supplied) will be reviewed to ensure that his Department allocates an additional teacher to the school;...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied) relating to appeals under section 29 of the Education Act 1998; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Management
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the success rate for facilitators appointed by the section 29 appeals committees in circumstances in which such committees considered that it may...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the application for a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15483/18]
    • School Funding
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an assessment of an application for funding for a new build for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been received for a school building for a school (details supplied); if so, if the application has been assessed; and if he...
    • School Playgrounds
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of an application for funding for the reconstruction of the schoolyard at a school (details supplied) can be carried out in view of...
    • School Patronage
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a roll number will be assigned to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15490/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a SUSI rule (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15492/18]
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the priority he attaches to the provision and refurbishment of sports halls in second level schools particularly in view of the introduction of...
    • Aitheantas Scoileanna
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén difríocht a dhéanfadh sé do scoil ó thaobh maoiniú agus leibhéal foirne de (sonraí tugtha)...
    • School Transport Availability
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport route (details supplied) will be amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15577/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 20 January 2018, the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15580/18]
    • Departmental Legal Cases Data
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of legal actions currently being taken against his Department; the general nature and cause of the action; the county from which the...
    • School Patronage
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on the future patronage and-or ethos of the proposed new secondary school for Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6W. [15595/18]
    • Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil aon iniúchadh déanta ag a Roinn maidir le Gaelscoil a bhunú i mBaile Átha Cliath 12; agus mura bhfuil, cad iad na...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the summer works scheme for 2018. [15625/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school's (details supplied) planned extension and refurbishment; the work carried out to date; the next steps in this regard; the...
    • Schools Establishment
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to support the provision of an Educate Together national school in Whitehall, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied) in County Cork; and when construction will commence. [15722/18]
    • Student Accommodation
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the recent 27% year-on-year increase in rent at a student residence (details supplied); and his plans to...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to audit school physical education and sports facilities in order that capital provision may be made for upgrading and construction of...
    • Schools Establishment
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Swords area of County Dublin as announced in November 2015; if locations for the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school for the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin as announced in November 2015; if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress on a new school building project for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Site Acquisitions
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new site for a school (details supplied) as announced in November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) and the progression of a building project; and if the school has progressed onto the schools...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools for which new prefab rentals were arranged during the course of 2017, in tabular form. [15818/18]
    • Schools Property
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if information can be provided with regard to a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15823/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the number of steps that were due to happen for a school (details supplied) have not yet occurred; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application by a school (details supplied) for emergency works has been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15886/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding for the construction of a classroom which is required as a matter of urgency for a school (details...
    • School Transport Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus route (details supplied) will be amended in order to allow students to disembark at a school; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to establish a recognised standard of training for practitioners of acupuncture as outlined in a report (details supplied); if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of a new school (details supplied); and if it will be completed on time. [15988/18]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the summer works scheme will be re-opened for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16012/18]
    • Site Acquisitions
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development and location for a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to demand for school places in this...
    • Literacy Programmes
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve access to adult literacy and numeracy classes; his Department's current budget and projected budget in the period ahead; and...
    • Schools Establishment
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a second level Educate Together school in County Galway in view of the fact there are five such primary schools in the...
    • Higher Education Courses Applications
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to enrol on a programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16057/18]
    • Summer Works Scheme
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a summer works scheme in 2018; when the details will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16062/18]
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why painter and decorator apprentices from County Cork must travel as far as Ballyfermot Training Centre, Dublin 10, for the 20 week SOLAS...
    • School Furniture Provision
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if successful contractors supplying furniture and equipment under the school bundle 5 contract will have their contracts honoured in view of the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure the awareness of dyspraxia amongst teachers in publicly funded schools. [16076/18]
    • School Transport
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the privatisation of bus routes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16078/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the additional accommodation application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16101/18]
    • Schools Building Projects
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the tender process and awarding of a contract to construct a new school building (details supplied) will proceed as soon as possible; and if...
    • School Transport
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of individual contracts for school buses (details supplied) in each county; if there are large differences from county to county; and...
    • Site Acquisitions
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the site acquisition process in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; when a planning application will be lodged;...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to meet the temporary accommodation requirements of a school (details supplied) in County Cork for the 2018-19...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the construction of a secondary school will commence on the old greyhound track in Harold's Cross; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the number of industrial relations cases that are ongoing in QQI at present; and if he will make a statement...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Expenditure
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of outside consultants engaged by QQI for the purpose of drafting reports on the function, governance and structure of the...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Staff
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the number of secondees from QQI; the locations in which they are working; the role and grade of each; if they...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the QQI budget for 2017; if there has been a shortfall; if so, if this shortfall has been remedied by...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new school building for a school (details supplied) will be progressed in view of the fact that there has been no movement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Data
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of delivery of new school buildings under the ADAPT 18 programme; the number of new schools that have been delivered; the status of...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16388/18]
    • Physical Education Facilities
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a request has been made by the LMETB for resources to develop playing pitches at a school (details supplied); when this work will commence;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the planned new school development at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16392/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a permanent extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16411/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the likely impact on a construction project (details supplied) following the appointment of an examiner to a group; if the completion date will...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will be...
    • School Funding
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant fund that was received by a former school (details supplied). [16465/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the delivery of new schools (details supplied) in County Kildare. [16469/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to cut funding to a centre (details supplied) resulting in its likely closure; if the decision will be reversed; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funds will be released to a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16612/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received a capital funding application by a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school build that a company (details supplied) was working on; the implications the examinership of the company will have for the...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a training scheme for teachers at both primary and secondary levels in the use of emergency medicines such as EpiPens and...
    • Schools Site Acquisitions
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made in locating a permanent site for a school (details supplied); if Dublin City Council has secured such a site; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 13 February 2018, the status of the progression on the project to date; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in approving a project in respect of an emergency works scheme application by a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further consideration will be given to an application for a special class by a school (details supplied) in view of the enrolment of children...
    • School Staff
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the additional teaching posts that have been applied for by a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be sanctioned; his views on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce an apprenticeship or traineeship in the farm contracting sector. [16753/18]
    • School Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the allocation of teachers to a school (details supplied) in County Cork for the 2018-2019 school year; and if he...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16761/18]
    • School Accommodation Provision
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the revised plans for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare have been received, examined and approved; and if he will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the project to upgrade, improve and extend facilities at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport Applications
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the determination of application for school transport in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools can offer core curriculum subjects as alternatives for students that opt out of religious instruction (details supplied); and if he...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Policy
      484. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the statute to prevent persons that have abused international human rights to enter Ireland or from doing...
    • Judicial Appointments
      485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his officials have concerns regarding the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017; and if he has met or spoken with...
    • Departmental Reviews
      486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the findings of the recent counsel-led review of his Department; if he plans to publish this report; and the...
    • Parental Leave
      487. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation will be introduced regarding parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15267/18]
    • Passport Controls
      488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is planned to install self-scanning passport machines at the passport gate in Cork Airport to ease passenger...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fatalities that have been recorded for hit and run road traffic accidents which occurred in the Mallow Garda...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful criminal prosecutions for each Garda sub-district in regard to hit and run incidents in each of the...
    • Bankruptcy Data
      494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have availed of bankruptcy each year since the change of the law in recent years to shorten the term...
    • Personal Insolvency Arrangements
      495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications under the personal insolvency arrangements that have been completed each year since inception; the...
    • Money Laundering
      496. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the fourth EU anti-money laundering directive will be transposed into legislation here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      497. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers convicted of an offence under section 38(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1961, as amended by the Road Traffic...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has recently met persons (details supplied) in regard to the tragic death of their son. [16809/18]
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers who failed to surrender their licence and were summoned to court for the offence; the number of drivers...
    • Residency Permits
      501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14986/18]
    • Garda Data
      502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspectors in the Cavan and Monaghan Garda division in each of the years 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018 in...
    • Visa Applications
      503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a review can be undertaken of the refusal of an application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Immigration Status
      504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15028/18]
    • Direct Provision System
      505. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the checks and oversight exercised to ensure that direct provision centres are maintaining appropriate standards of health and...
    • Parental Leave
      506. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the age of a qualifying child in relation to parental leave from eight to 12 years of age; and if he will...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      507. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 22 March 2018, the reforms needed for Ireland to ratify the Optional Protocol to...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the Irish Youth Justice Service, IYJS, proposals to alter their service delivery model whereby one Garda youth...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      511. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sworn members of An Garda Síochána that were disciplined for internal Garda breaches in 2017; the...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      512. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of funding the Garda youth diversion projects in 2017; the way in which that funding is distributed; and if he will...
    • Community Alert Programme
      513. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding text alert rebates (details provided); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15162/18]
    • Public Services Card
      514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána accepts the public services card as a form of identification for forms it administers and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of expenditure on consultancy by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of...
    • Departmental Reports
      517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made with regard to releasing the Crowley report into the death of a person (details supplied); if...
    • Garda Investigations
      518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a model investigative team here equivalent to the historical enquiries team established in Northern...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason permission to install a transmitter for a community CCTV scheme on a redundant Garda mast at Littleton Garda...
    • Asylum Applications
      523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for asylum. [15270/18]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      524. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive naturalisation papers. [15271/18]
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when PULSE will be updated to enable gardaí to differentiate between full driver licences and learner permits; and if he...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      526. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional bed space on medical grounds will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Deportation Orders Re-examination
      527. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed. [15291/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legislative measures enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law...
    • Direct Provision Data
      529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons residing in each of the country's direct provision centres by category (details supplied). [15383/18]
    • Immigration Status
      531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the determination of permission to remain, stamp 4 eligibility or otherwise in the case of a person...
    • Leave to Remain
      532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a visa by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15426/18]
    • Leave to Remain
      534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Protected Disclosures
      535. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason his Department is not adhering to the protected disclosure policy within the Irish Prison Service; and the reason he...
    • Immigration Status
      536. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when residency status and citizenship will be confirmed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • State Visits
      537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of official State visits his Department has been involved with for each of the past four years; the costs associated...
    • Departmental Funding
      538. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for the decision to stop funding a centre (details supplied); the amount of funding provided by his Department to...
    • Garda Equipment
      539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of speed vans to monitor speed on roads around the country in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Penalty Points System Data
      540. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penalty points accumulated for speeding during 2017; the number of speeding fines paid during 2017; the amount in...
    • Garda Operations
      541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the matter of drug dealers who are informers being allowed to sell drugs in communities; if this is an official...
    • Garda Deployment
      542. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extra gardaí that will be required post-Brexit if there is a hard or soft border; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Common Travel Area
      543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of meetings of the Common Travel Area Forum since the United Kingdom triggered Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon;...
    • Fines Data
      544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of unpaid court imposed fines in 2017; the percentage of these that were imposed for burglary offences; and if he...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been involved in recent European Union, EU, discussions on the process of extradition of persons alleged to have...
    • Fines Data
      547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the monetary value of the outstanding court fines owed to the Exchequer for the past five years in each court district; and if...
    • Data Protection
      548. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it was a decision by the drafters of the Data Protection Bill 2018 not to specifically refer to closed-circuit television,...
    • National Awards Scheme
      549. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if special consideration can be given to awarding a person (details supplied) with a national bravery award for their swift...
    • Passport Services
      550. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a passport scheme exits whereby a person making a very substantial investment here by way of an enterprise or community...
    • Prison Service Data
      551. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the daily regime which is currently undertaken by detainees in the prison system. [15844/18]
    • Garda Data
      552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the reported serious deficiency in the numbers of trained forensic collision investigators in An Garda...
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of serious traffic collisions and injuries in the Dublin region from 2014 to date; his views on recent reports that...
    • Garda Investigations
      554. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the operational guidelines for forensic traffic investigators have been updated since 2007; if a review and urgent update of...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
      555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 133 of 15 November 2017 and 172 of 28 March 2018, if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Probate Applications
      556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a probate application (details supplied); the number ahead of it in the queue; and when he expects this...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the commencement of provisions in the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 whereby efficient...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme Eligibility
      558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are circumstances in which a non-national person legally living here under a time limited visa may be eligible to be...
    • Leave to Remain
      560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children with leave to remain at the end of March 2018 that are still living in direct provision....
    • Direct Provision System
      561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are, as per the McMahon report, befriending subcommittees in each direct provision centre in County Kerry; and if so,...
    • Departmental Funding
      562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the capital allocation for his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the areas in which this funding will be spent in...
    • Garda Remuneration
      563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of bringing all gardaí on salaries below €32,000 per annum up to that wage. [16099/18]
    • Adoption Legislation
      564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to remove the anomaly that exists under legislation providing for paid adoptive leave to enable same sex couples to...
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the recommendations of the report by a person (details supplied) into the Childcare Act 1991, published in May 2017 will...
    • Garda Operations
      566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 272 of 13 February 2018 and 340 of 20 March 2018, if the matter has been referred to the...
    • Coroners Service
      567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the persons that are legally permitted to formally identify a deceased person in instances in which a person dies unexpectedly...
    • Garda Reports
      568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 244 of 23 January 2018, 322 of 30 January 2018 and 136, 137, 138, 139 and 248 of 7...
    • Garda Data
      569. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and community gardaí stationed at Clondalkin, Lucan, Ronanstown, Ballyfermot and Rathcoole in...
    • Garda Operations
      570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if serving Garda personnel may assist with voter registration on third level campuses or institutes of technology; and if he...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the options open to an American citizen (details supplied) to live and work here on a full-time basis; and if he...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of applications from counties Sligo and Leitrim that were made to his Department for funding under the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of...
    • Visa Applications
      575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa for a person (details supplied) will be extended. [16449/18]
    • Community Courts
      576. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his plans to implement community courts as an alternative to formal legal proceedings; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if passports supplied with recent documentation in the case of a person (details supplied) will be returned as a matter or...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of certificates of naturalisation that have been granted to UK citizens by the Irish Naturalisation and...
    • Prison Education Service
      579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the number of days in the past academic year since September 2017 on which education and training workshops in the...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      580. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his plans to increase funding to the Garda youth diversion programme in the north inner city in view of the...
    • Garda Deployment
      583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the manning levels as of 1 March 2018 in all Garda stations in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly; and if he will...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      585. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the further steps that need to be taken for Ireland to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and...
    • Residency Permits
      586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline his plans to offer stamp 4 residency status to applicants who have spent more than five years in this jurisdiction...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      587. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of non-Irish born applicants who have been approved for naturalisation in each of the past nine years to...
    • Garda Strength
      588. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the strength of An Garda Síochána; the way in which this compares to the average over the past ten years;...
    • Garda Remuneration
      589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason garda inspectors newly promoted to the rank of superintendent receive a higher remuneration than existing...
    • Garda Promotions
      590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant posts from the rank of sergeant upwards in An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Information and Communications Technology
      591. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which adequate modern technology is available to An Garda Síochána in the context of the fight against...
    • Crime Data
      593. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes committed by prisoners while on bail in each of the past ten years to date; the number in respect of which...
    • Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
      594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who have not been given educational or rehabilitative training in any year in the past ten; and if he...
    • Prisoner Data
      595. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal gang members serving prison sentences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16703/18]
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and location of Garda stations deemed to be in need of an upgrade; the number of those likely to receive attention...
    • Crime Data
      597. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the various categories of crimes continue to be reported in all Garda divisions and districts in County...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      598. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full extent of the scale and value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, in the past five years; if all such...
    • Garda Deployment
      599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in Whitehall Garda station at the time of its closure; the number of gardaí stationed...
    • Departmental Reports
      601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the scoping exercise regarding a SAVI II report; the findings of the scoping group report which was due before...
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      602. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the instrument of amalgamation with regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,...
    • Gangland Crime
      603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which An Garda Síochána can engage with and offer support to local communities that have suffered or...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Skills Shortages
      605. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the critical skills list will include the need for planners in view of the housing crisis; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits Applications Data
      606. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for employment permits by persons at a centre (details supplied) made since the Supreme Court ruling...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of expenditure on consultancy by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by her...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Funding
      608. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has been requested by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement for extra resources in 2017 or 2018; if...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Expenditure
      609. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement is allowed to use unspent moneys set aside for legal fees for other purposes...
    • Work Permits Applications
      610. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 27 March 2018, the status of a work permit in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Legislative Measures
      611. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of legislative measures both enacted and published by her Department that originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Enterprise Ireland Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies supported by Enterprise Ireland in County Donegal in each of the years 2000 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15941/18]
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      615. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of individual site visits in County Donegal organised by the IDA for potential investors in each of the years 2000 to 2017...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      616. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the regulation of personal contract plans for car purchase finance; the role of the Competition and Consumer Protection...
    • Business Regulation
      617. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the requirements relating to the publication of accounts in respect of Irish operations by suppliers of energy to domestic and...
    • Work Permits Applications
      618. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16259/18]
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      619. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the options open to an American citizen (details supplied) to live and work here on a full-time basis; and if she will make a...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      620. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA-sponsored site visits to County Louth in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in her Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these...
    • Work Permits Data
      622. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of general employment permits in circulation among non-EU or European Economic Area citizens; and the number being used...
    • Work Permits Eligibility
      626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of eligibility for employment permits (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Job Creation
      627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the start-up and job creation in Newcastle West, County Limerick, by a company (details supplied) as announced...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      628. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA supported site visits made to date 2018, by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Enterprise Ireland Data
      629. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that have availed of Enterprise Ireland lean business supports which aim to strengthen the competitiveness and...
  • Department of Health
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      630. To ask the Minister for Health when the motorised transport grant will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14982/18]
    • Food Labelling
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland is confined to only EU regulations on nutritional labelling or if there is scope for member states to introduce further minimum standards in respect...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of students in preschool facilities, primary level and second level, respectively, who are awaiting an assessment of need in each county in tabular...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      633. 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. [15650/18]
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reversal of the Haddington Road agreement under the financial emergency measures (details supplied). [15658/18]
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised vehicle grant for persons with disabilities which was discontinued a number of years ago will be reintroduced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychotherapists employed on full-time permanent contracts by the HSE nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14944/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the large discrepancies in fees payable to the HSE and private nursing homes under the fair deal scheme in County Wexford;...
    • Hospital Equipment
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if each of the 12 hospitals which had the a fetal monitor (details supplied) in use will be reviewed individually to ascertain if safety was compromised at...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      642. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14958/18]
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      643. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to find interim solutions to the overcrowding in the emergency department at University Hospital, Limerick; if modular units are under consideration;...
    • Hospital Charges
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if patients that spend the entirety of their stay at a hospital on a trolley are subject to the €80 levy; the revenue that was raised from this levy in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they will receive a hospital appointment. [14966/18]
    • HSE Staff Data
      646. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 8 March 2018, the name, title, level and division of each person within the HSE's management structure of CHO5,...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if home supports will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14988/18]
    • General Practitioner Training
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number by which the specialist training scheme in general practice was over or under subscribed in each of the past ten years; the number of places in each...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the health or other benefits of cigarettes versus nicotine reducing cigarettes (details supplied) or vaping; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff Data
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic procedures in the public system that were carried out by a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and their team (details supplied) at...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting and the length of time they have been waiting for an appointment with an orthopaedic surgeon (details supplied) at University...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to the various drugs and alcohol taskforce groups nationally since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/18]
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      657. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the misuse of drugs within the Traveller community; the steps that have been taken to deal with this matter; the additional resources that have...
    • Drugs-related Deaths
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the increasing number of drug related deaths and suicides taking place in south-west County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [15021/18]
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the status of reforms to the general practitioner contract in view of his recent public statement committing to same. [15030/18]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Data
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a medical card in County Louth assigned to a general practitioner by the HSE having been unable to find a general practitioner...
    • Medical Card Data
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth who hold a medical card and a general practitioner only card, respectively. [15044/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth awaiting a decision on a medical card application. [15045/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      677. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment for over three years can expect to secure treatment; and if he will...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      678. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a leg brace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15063/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      679. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15064/18]
    • Occupational Therapy
      680. To ask the Minister for Health if an occupational therapy assessment required for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; if the required services will be implemented following this...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be made for a person (details supplied). [15086/18]
    • Hospital Services
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract for dialysis services in County Kilkenny is being put out for tender; the length of time the current operator was reviewed over the past four...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility
      683. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include outpatient, CAMHS and child psychology appointments to be converted under the National Treatment Purchase Fund in order to address...
    • Respite Care Services Data
      687. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of respite care offered to families of children with disabilities provided by each of the local health offices in each community healthcare...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages provided by each of the local health offices in each community healthcare organisation area in each of the years 2012 to 2017...
    • Dental Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if a dental service (details supplied) is to close; if so, the location to which existing clients will be directed; his views on whether this is best practice...
    • Hospital Staff
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the person providing anaesthesiology services at Bantry General Hospital; the location at which he or she is based; the level of specialist training he or she...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15132/18]
    • Respite Care Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding to provide respite care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15134/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the delays in developmental appointments for babies in the Ballymun health care facility; and the detail of the nurse shortage...
    • Respite Care Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious funding issues at an organisation (details supplied) at which an extensive waiting list for all forms of respite...
    • Health Services Access
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment of need for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15144/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      697. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish the review of pricing system for long-term residential care facilities as per recommendations made within the review of the fair deal...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      698. 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. [15149/18]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      699. To ask the Minister for Health when COPD will be made a long-term disease in order that persons with same will be entitled to access the long-term illness book; and if he will make a...
    • Counselling Services Provision
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in County Mayo receiving counselling and services from CAMHS; the number of staff who are providing these services in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      701. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15159/18]
    • Hospital Admissions
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15160/18]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Payments
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding per patient under the NTPF for a facility (details supplied) in County Cork; and if there will be an increase in the NTPF payment. [15170/18]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by his Department in those...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if the long delays for operations and outpatient appointments in the urology department in St James's Hospital (details supplied) will be examined. [15214/18]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding being provided in the 2018 health budget to open the 28 additional inpatient beds in University Galway Hospital; when these beds will be...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the number of winter home care packages provided during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15221/18]
    • Health Services Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transitional care beds provided during the winter periods 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, respectively, by county and in tabular form. [15225/18]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      713. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 27 February 2018, when the tender process will be completed and a contractor appointed in view of the fact that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      720. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have cataract surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15250/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the status of work within his Department to address the concerns of persons affected by the use of mesh implants; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug and Alcohol Task Forces
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a task force (details supplied) has been without a co-ordinator for some time and this is affecting the...
    • Pharmacy Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the direction he plans to give the HSE in relation to a matter (details supplied); when the instruction will be given; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the overtime rate for interns in each hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15276/18]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the counties that do not take emergency primary care psychology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15284/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Versatis plasters and patches are not covered by the medical card. [15290/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a surgical procedure for a person (details supplied); if a date for this appointment will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in finding a replacement for a person (details supplied) who has retired; if there is a start date for a new consultant; the steps he...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      730. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 26 September 2017 and further to a request made by the HSE to the islands division to acquire an identified site...
    • Mental Health Services Staff
      731. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstitute the position of a full time psychiatric nurse at the health centre in Easkey, County Sligo in view of the inadequacy of the health...
    • Emergency Planning
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the reason health centres in west County Sligo were told by the HSE not to provide dinners in the centres to old and vulnerable persons during Storm Emma; and...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of nursing home owners in relation to the disparity of fees payable under the fair deal scheme between HSE and...
    • Health Services Provision
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE are examining ways to ensure that persons with conditions such as multiple sclerosis, MS, have timely access to life changing...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many general practitioners' practices particularly in the north County Dublin area are charging persons with...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to extend the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system to the entire population for persons with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness...
    • Mental Health Services Data
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, area who were awaiting a child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS appointment...
    • Mental Health Services Expenditure
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of agency fees spent within mental health services from June 2017 to December 2017 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15338/18]
    • Legislative Measures
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in each of...
    • Hospital Procedures
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a procedure for a person (details supplied) took much longer than usual; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15358/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Tallaght Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15359/18]
    • Hospital Facilities
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the laundry department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; the short to medium term plans for the department; and if he will...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      747. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 28 March 2018, the future of the provision of this service at Sligo University Hospital beyond 2019; the reason...
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the status on the provision of respite care in County Louth following the recent HSE forum held to include the recommendations from key stakeholders and...
    • Hospital Car Parks
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the process of the recently announced review of hospital car park charges; the estimated date of completion and other details that relate to same; and if he...
    • Medical Card Data
      750. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the fact that the charges imposed on medical card holders by some general practitioners for the completion of forms such as a driver...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre monitoring system will be made available under reimbursement to children with type 1 diabetes who receive insulin from an insulin pump...
    • Health Services Staff
      753. To ask the Minister for Health further to a deferred reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 444 and 452 of 27 February 2018 by the HSE (details supplied), if a further breakdown of the table...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to access for all type 1 diabetes patients to the FreeStyle Libre device under the reimbursement scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Grades
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time staff at AP level working in his Department's mental health unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15435/18]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to his Department's mental health unit in 2017; the funding spent by the unit in 2017; the 2018 budgetary allocation to the unit in terms...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the draft legislation, law or policy that each AP in his Department's mental health unit has worked on during 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Grades
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at AP level working in his Department by actual numbers and whole-time equivalents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15439/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Alzheimer’s unit located in a day centre (details supplied) in Dublin 15; his views on concerns that the HSE is planning to cut funds...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues with regard to the fair deal scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15455/18]
    • Hospital Services
      762. To ask the Minister for Health when the consultation process being conducted by his Department in respect of the delivery of clinical services at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise,...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      763. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of general practitioners here with particular reference to the lack of same in the Fingal area of County Dublin; and the strategies in...
    • Palliative Care Services Provision
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if palliative care in the home will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15475/18]
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to reduce the lead-in time for reimbursement of a new medicine by the HSE in order to ensure speedy access to new and effective...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15491/18]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with the representative organisations representing general practitioners regarding his proposal to deliver a general practitioner led...
    • Liostaí Feithimh Ospidéal
      771. To ask the Minister for Health cad é an t-am feithimh le haghaidh coinne ag clinic cluas, sróine agus scornaí na n-othar seachtrach in Ospidéal an Mater. [15576/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if treatment will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15578/18]
    • Hospital Facilities
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has received an application to provide a modular catheterisation laboratory at WRH; his plans to provide funding for such a...
    • Health Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to resolve the issues raised by the family of a person (details supplied) regarding the care of the person and the high level of medication the...
    • Pharmacy Services
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the reason pharmacists are obliged to ask patients to return weekly to collect regular medication when it is deemed necessary for safety and compliance reasons...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      777. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [15593/18]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      779. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a difference which exists in the cost of medications purchased on prescription through the drug payment scheme and the same medication purchased...
    • Health Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce an information campaign on the contribution calcification testing could play in reducing the incidence of heart attacks; and if he will...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      782. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide cannabis-based medicine for epilepsy under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15606/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who failed to attend new and review hospital appointments in 2017, by hospital; if this was an increase or decrease in numbers from 2016...
    • Health Services Funding
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the approved annual budget of Cavan-Monaghan HSE and Meath-Louth HSE; and the amount spent by Cavan-Monaghan HSE and Meath-Louth HSE on transport for patient...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that decades of underinvestment in neurological services has resulted in Ireland having the lowest ratio of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      786. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to create multidisciplinary centres to help in the management of neurological conditions such as Huntington's disease and advanced Alzheimer's; and...
    • Hospital Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2018, the current position with the development of the neurolink service at St. Vincent's University...
    • Health Services Provision
      789. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2018, the stage the development of nurse-led clinics is at; the geographical spread of the clinics; and...
    • National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
      791. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010–2019, in tabular form. [15626/18]
    • Health Services Funding
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in each year since 2010 for the implementation of the national cardiovascular health policy, in tabular form. [15627/18]
    • Hospital Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals providing cardiac rehabilitation, in tabular form. [15628/18]
    • Hospital Staff
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if all hospital cardiac units have positions (details supplied); and if not, the positions unfilled in each hospital cardiac unit, in tabular form. [15629/18]
    • Hospital Services
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the status of cataract treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/18]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      796. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the dedicated cystic fibrosis unit at Beaumont Hospital; when this unit will be completed and fully operational; and if he will make a statement...
    • Proposed Legislation
      797. To ask the Minister for Health when the Human Body Organs and Human Tissue Bill 2008 will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15636/18]
    • Hospital Services
      798. To ask the Minister for Health when the seven pre and post transplant rooms in the Mater hospital will be operational and fully staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15637/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) is waiting for an operation; the reason for the delay in a hospital appointment;...
    • Maternity Services
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations that have been fully implemented and yet to be fully implemented, respectively, of the total of 33 recommendations that were made in three...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration Boards
      801. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1077 of 11 September 2017, the status of the establishment of a registration board for regulation of counsellors and...
    • Hospital Services
      802. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parlimanetary Question No. 453 of 30 May 2017, if autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation treatment for multiple sclerosis will be made...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed at Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe. [15662/18]
    • Emergency Departments Data
      808. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances in each of the years 2009 to 2017, and to date in 2018, at Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe. [15666/18]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15667/18]
    • Emergency Departments Data
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on hospital trolleys in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018 at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe. [15668/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      811. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatient hospital cancellations at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [15669/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the spending on agency staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15670/18]
    • Hospital Transfers
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients outsourced from Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe to other hospitals in each of the years 2009 to 2017; the speciality concerned in each...
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the annual operational spend at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15672/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting up to three months for a CT scan at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15674/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of procedures cancelled in which a patient did not attend for Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2009 to 2017....
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if a text alert system to remind patients of their upcoming appointment is in place at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway. [15685/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatres and operational theatres at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2009 to 2017. [15686/18]
    • Hospital Facilities
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the status of all theatres at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway. [15687/18]
    • Patient Data
      830. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons placed in nursing homes who were patients at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15688/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      831. To ask the Minister for Health the number of radiology examinations and procedures carried out at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2011 to 2017. [15689/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; and the procedure and associated waiting times involved....
    • Hospital Car Parks
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money collected through parking charges at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in each of the years 2015 to 2017. [15691/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for scans at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, in 2017. [15692/18]
    • Health Care Professionals
      835. To ask the Minister for Health if members of an association (details supplied) are recognised to gain employment with the HSE; if not, the reason therefore; if they will be recognised once...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff on sick leave at University Hospital Kerry; the amount it is costing to agency backfill as a consequence of this leave; and if he will make...
    • Patient Data
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons registered with coronary arterial disease and peripheral arterial disease around the country; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Data
      844. To ask the Minister for Health the amount a general practitioner receives per annum for each category of a general practitioner card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15710/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Provision
      845. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will have an assessment by an occupational therapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15720/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if an emergency appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15721/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Action Plans
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the serious increase in hospital waiting lists over the past seven years; if his Department is making proposals to the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      850. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of children disability teams under the progressing children disability services report; if managers have been appointed to...
    • HSE Reports
      851. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to receive the HSE review of section 39 organisations and be in a position to lay the review before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the additional staffing resources that will be provided at a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15755/18]
    • Respite Care Services Provision
      857. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be provided with respite or long-term care. [15783/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      859. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a MRI in Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [15785/18]
    • Primary Care Centres
      860. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the closure of the Dunleer health centre is due to health and safety concerns or a lack of infrastructural investment in the centre over...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      862. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for cataract surgery in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. [15809/18]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      863. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home help hours can be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15825/18]
    • Hospitals Data
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the number of colonoscopy procedures performed in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in each public hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      865. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has been waiting over two years and three months for a MRI can be seen under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      866. To ask the Minister for Health when construction will commence in Sacred Heart Hospital, Roscommon; the expected completion date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15845/18]
    • Health Services Data
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for assessment for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy in County Kildare; the measures that will be taken to end same; and...
    • Hospitals Data
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the thrombolysis rates in each hospital providing the service here in each of the years 2011 to 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Contracts
      869. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the difference being quoted by his Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the HSE and organisations (details supplied) as...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of an electric powered wheelchair will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15853/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the high waiting list for ENT assessments in County Cork; if the replacement consultant has been appointed following the...
    • Prescriptions Charges
      872. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 13 March 2014, when persons will be fully reimbursed for prescription charges as a result of the then Minister's...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      873. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who has been on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment for some time can expect to secure treatment; and if he will make a...
    • Psychological Services
      874. To ask the Minister for Health if increased funding and necessary resources will be available to deal with the significant waiting lists for psychology treatment for young persons in view of...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      875. To ask the Minister for Health when the demand for PD-L1 biological markers in the licensing of Pembrolizumab by the HSE will be removed for patients suffering from lung cancer; and if he...
    • Community Pharmacy Services
      877. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of continuous glucose monitoring for all type 1 diabetics and not just persons under 18 years of age will be considered; and if he will make a...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      878. To ask the Minister for Health if cannabis based medicines will be made available to terminal lung cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15907/18]
    • Abortion Services Provision
      879. To ask the Minister for Health if a costed plan has been made by his Department for the potential number of abortions that will take place here if the eighth amendment is repealed; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      881. To ask the Minister for Health if information is kept on the varying cost of emergency contraception; his views on establishing a maximum price; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Departments Services
      882. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline on the deployment of the modular unit project at South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel, County Tipperary. [15921/18]
    • Health Services Funding
      885. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be granted to a day care centre (details supplied) for two full-time staff members to meet its obligations under health and safety legislation;...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      886. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Entresto has been withdrawn from the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15933/18]
    • Disabilities Data
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children diagnosed with dyspraxia in each county in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15934/18]
    • Disability Diagnoses
      888. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible within the public health service for the diagnosis of children with dyspraxia; and the desired length of time that the process...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      889. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied); and the steps whichh will be taken to ensure the appointment is maintained. [15982/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he must take to make the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor available to all persons with diabetes based on clinical need at the discretion of their...
    • Disability Services Provision
      891. To ask the Minister for Health when an early intervention team service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay in providing the service; his...
    • Vaccination Programme Data
      892. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination rates for vaccines (details supplied) in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      893. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of funding in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be expedited. [15992/18]
    • Respite Care Services Availability
      894. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in north County Cork who avail of respite care have been advised that their respite care is being...
    • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if an allowance can be made available to a person (details supplied) for respite care. [15994/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      896. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 417 of 3 October 2017, if all persons with type 1 diabetes irrespective of age will be able to avail of the FreeStyle Libre glucose...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      897. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have been made by the HSE to fill the medical officer position at St. Patrick's Community Hospital, Fermoy, County Cork. [16001/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a specific HSE service (details supplied) is being withdrawn from north County Cork; and his plans to ensure...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      899. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16005/18]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who is currently attending an autism unit until May 2018 will be provided with a replacement service prior to this date; and if...
    • Mobility Allowance
      901. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement scheme for the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be announced; the remaining steps that need to be taken in order to...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      902. 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. [16015/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      904. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring systems for diabetics;...
    • Physiotherapy Provision
      905. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the lack of physiotherapy service on a school age disability team based in Dublin 8; and if the case of a person (details...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment in CUMH for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16030/18]
    • EU Directives
      907. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a proposal (details supplied); his plans to implement same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16032/18]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      908. To ask the Minister for Health his views on queries raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system; and if he will make...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which a condition is included on the long-term illness list; the previous occasion on which an additional condition was included on the list;...
    • Hospital Services
      911. To ask the Minister for Health the action taken by the HSE to address issues outlined (details supplied) by the general manager of University Hospital Waterford in correspondence dated 19...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      912. To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be issued to all persons with haemochromatosis based on their needs and requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      913. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre blood glucose monitor will be made available based on clinical need for all persons with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      914. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 961 of 16 January 2018 and 419 of 6 February 2018, the position regarding the consideration by HSE estates at the HSE...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor; and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Directives
      916. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s discussions with an association (details supplied) regarding the approval of amendments with respect to the...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the technical and legal issues which require clarification to allow Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Families Relationship Act 2015 to be commenced; the...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      918. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 12 December 2017, the status of his plans for the HSE to fund PrEP in view of the fact that these drugs became...
    • Health Services
      919. To ask the Minister for Health if opticians that provide eye tests for children between the ages of eight and 16 that are the holders of medical cards are entitled to claim a reimbursement...
    • Rape Crisis Network Funding
      920. To ask the Minister for Health if funds will be available to facilitate the creation of a rape crisis outreach centre in Navan, County Meath (details supplied)....
    • Respite Care Services
      921. To ask the Minister for Health if a building (details supplied) for respite services will be included in the commissioning of respite houses in 2018 in view of the fact that a section 39...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      922. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitor is not being made available to persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      923. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment for dental surgery at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. [16136/18]
    • Hospitals Funding
      924. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a funding request for a hospital (details supplied); when he expects the request to be answered; the reason it has yet to be answered in view of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      925. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be placed in adult services. [16154/18]
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      926. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the women's refuge in Rathgar has been closed; his plans to re-open same; his further plans to open other women's refuges in the Dublin...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      927. To ask the Minister for Health if home help will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16161/18]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      928. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the general practitioner visit card scheme to persons in receipt of carer's allowance as announced in December 2017; and if he will...
    • Primary Care Centres
      930. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has invited tenders for the sale of the old Keadue health centre, County Roscommon; the position regarding this issue; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      931. To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours which have been allocated but have not been filled will be filled in the case of a person (details supplied). [16196/18]
    • National Children's Hospital
      932. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body with which responsibility for the children’s hospital parking arrangements currently resides; the reason there is a recent survey of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      933. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) is awaiting an operation in Tallaght Hospital; the length of time the person is waiting for an appointment date for the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      934. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) will receive an ENT clinic appointment in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16200/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      936. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals of persons in County Wexford to the department of psychiatry in Newcastle Hospital in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of...
    • Hospitals Data
      937. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations which have been cancelled in the past year in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, and Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, due to beds...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      938. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a business case prepared for the proposed redevelopment of a facility (details supplied) for adults with disabilities in County Donegal; when the...
    • Health Services Provision
      939. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to further expand specialised hospital supports and increase specialist staff for persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; and if not, if resources will...
    • Hospital Procedures
      940. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for surgery while receiving chemotherapy; and when this operation will be expedited. [16247/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      943. 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. [16261/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      944. To ask the Minister for Health when a full residential place will be provided for a person (details supplied). [16235/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      945. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make FreeStyle Libre glucose monitors available to all persons with diabetes based on clinical need at the discretion of their diabetes consultant...
    • Vaccination Programme
      946. To ask the Minister for Health the training programmes provided by his Department to general practitioners in detecting adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine; the directive under which...
    • Vaccination Programme Data
      947. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine reported by general practitioners to the HPRA in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      948. To ask the Minister for Health if the income limits for persons over 70 years of age will be increased in order for them to receive a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Card Data
      949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons over 70 years of age who are in receipt of a full medical card; the number of persons over 70 years of age in receipt of a general...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      950. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in providing primary care centres in Clondalkin and Lucan villages by means of a public private partnership; and if he will make a...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      952. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the allocation of €55 million in 2018 to fund the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address waiting lists; the amount of this...
    • National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
      953. To ask the Minister for Health if changes are being proposed to the national cardiovascular health policy; if reconfiguration of services is being carried out or proposed; if all hospitals...
    • Service Level Agreements
      954. To ask the Minister for Health the number of service level agreements that exist between the HSE and religious orders to deliver services; the nature of services delivered by order and...
    • Mental Health Policy
      955. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a redress scheme for persons who were forcibly committed by the State prior to the enactment of the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      957. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of issues in regard to a service (details supplied) in County Cork. [16373/18]
    • Maternity Services Provision
      958. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of 20-week anomaly scans for all expectant mothers at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar. [16374/18]
    • General Practitioner Data
      959. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners required based on the population of a town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16377/18]
    • HSE Properties
      960. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the refurbishment to the HSE-owned property on Drogheda Street, Monasterevin, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Parliamentary Questions
      962. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 5 December 2017, the reason it took his Department from 27 November 2017 until 5 March 2018 to provide a reply to...
    • Medical Register Administration
      963. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the issue of doctors working in hospitals as consultants who are not on the Medical Council’s specialist register as...
    • HSE Data
      964. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the redevelopment of sites (details supplied) will commence; the number of beds in operation at the facilities; the number of beds to be made...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      965. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the development of a proposed new primary care centre to serve the Laytown and Bettystown areas of County Meath; the amount spent...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
      966. To ask the Minister for Health when work on the development of the new public nursing home facility at St. Brigid's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth, will commence; the number of long-term...
    • Birth Certificates Administration
      967. To ask the Minister for Health if after implementation through the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017, a partner in a same-sex relationship and parent to a child who was born before the...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      968. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase staff numbers in the cross-border directive office in view of the volume of applications it is receiving; if applications can be...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      969. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and crews covering Sligo town throughout the day on a 24-hour basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16401/18]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      974. To ask the Minister for Health when additional ambulances and crews will be made available to County Sligo and Sligo town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/18]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      975. To ask the Minister for Health the geographical areas of County Sligo and Sligo town ambulances and crews cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16407/18]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      976. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered comprehensive services from CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16420/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers will be offered...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      978. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for excluding persons over 21 years of age with type 1 diabetes from accessing the FreeStyle Libre device which will assist in their health...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      980. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be called for a medical procedure. [16468/18]
    • Disease Management
      981. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to implement a similar practice to that in Germany for the detection and treatment of Lyme disease; his further plans to improve follow up care...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      982. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Ocrelizumeb will be approved for MS sufferers here (details supplied). [16504/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      983. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that more than 900 children are on the waiting list for three years in Crumlin children’s hospital to be...
    • Paediatric Services
      984. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend or abolish the terms of loco parentis in paediatric home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16517/18]
    • Cross-Border Health Services Provision
      987. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision on their application to the Cross Border Directive for reimbursement of expenses for...
    • Paediatric Services
      988. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Primary Care Steering Group (details supplied); the status of the abolition of the loco parentis clause in paediatrics homecare packages; and...
    • Disease Management
      989. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 174 of 14 December 2016 and 227 of 24 May 2017, the status of the work of the Lyme borreliosis subcommittee; his plans...
    • Protected Disclosures
      990. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the refusal by the management at Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross to accept a protected disclosure from members of its...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      991. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for additional hours of home help; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16599/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      992. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package awarded to a person (details supplied) will be put in place. [16601/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      993. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an assessment of needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16603/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the number of minors under 18 years of age in adult psychiatric units by CHO in January, February and March 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      996. To ask the Minister for Health the bed capacity numbers allocated for minors under 18 years of age by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16614/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      997. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for minors under 18 years of age to be admitted to age-appropriate mental health facilities by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      998. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons between 80 and 90 years of age who have been on trolleys by CHO for periods of up to 6, 12, 24 and in excess of 24 hours in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health if funding has been approved for a powerchair for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if so, when funding will issue; and if he will make a...
    • Disease Awareness
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health when the Lyme disease subcommittee of the scientific advisory committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, will publish its report on the...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays in the intra-hospital transfer of a person (details supplied) requiring urgent treatment in the hospital they...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      1005. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community ophthalmic physicians, orthoptists, nurses and administration staff assigned to primary care eye services in each local health office...
    • Waste Disposal
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is statutorily obliged to assess and monitor the risk to human health should An Bord Pleanála approve a company's (details supplied)...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric rheumatologists and associated staff teams by hospital and location; his plans to increase the number in this regard; if his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list for two years of more in all children's hospitals waiting for a diagnosis and treatment for juvenile...
    • Home Help Service Data
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed as home help by the HSE in counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly at the end of each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018;...
    • Disease Management
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for persons with Lyme disease. [16651/18]
    • Legislative Reviews
      1011. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the Mental Health Act 2001 in regard to the recommendations by the expert group review of the Mental Health Act 2001 in 2015; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 20 March 2018, the reason for the high number of cancellations in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in the...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of measures in place to recruit and retain highly skilled nurses here and abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Suicide Prevention
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated for the provision of applied suicide intervention skills training, ASIST, courses; the number of such courses held to date since January...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      1018. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to resolve the underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Delays
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16721/18]
    • Home Care Packages
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health if the abolition of the in loco parentis clause with regard to paediatric home care packages will be reviewed. [16724/18]
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      1021. To ask the Minister for Health if he with the HSE will secure an additional paediatric rheumatologist for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, in view of the fact that there are over...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding parent representation on the HSE primary care steering group for children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have orthodontic treatment carried out. [16736/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in Cork city and County Cork on a waiting list for orthodontic assessment and orthodontic treatment, respectively; the...
    • Health Services Provision
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the necessary steps can be undertaken with a view to early diagnosis in the case of a person (details supplied); if arrangements will be...
    • Health Services
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health the status of works planned for a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16754/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16756/18]
    • Emergency Departments Data
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department new attendances at Cavan General Hospital in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018 in tabular form; and if he...
    • General Practitioner Services Provision
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the proposed out-of-hours general practitioner service for north County Wicklow; if a service provider has been selected; the...
    • Disease Incidence
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research conducted by the HSE to ascertain the prevalence of sickle cell disease in the State; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health the system the HSE has in place to enable it to deal with persons living with sickle cell disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16775/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on outpatient waiting lists in each of the years 1999 to 2010, in tabular form. [16776/18]
    • Hospital Charges
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health if the imposition of the €80 charge on sufferers of haemochromatosis will be reconsidered in view of the impact it is having on persons requiring...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16819/18]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Hare Coursing
      1040. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department will take in view of renewed calls to ban hare coursing and hare hunting following a warning from wildlife...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1041. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the report that wind farm developers (details supplied) forecast they will make a €100 million profit from a...
    • GLAS Payments
      1043. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers will receive the balance of GLAS payments due since December 2017. [14942/18]
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Eligibility
      1044. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the need to assign disadvantaged status to lands owned by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be examined in view...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      1045. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      1046. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 17 October 2017, if a response was received by his Department in respect of an...
    • GLAS Payments
      1047. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons waiting for GLAS payments; the number of part payments issued; and his plans to have the outstanding payments...
    • Commonage Division
      1048. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review rules setting the minimum and maximum agricultural activity for commonage in view of these rules impacting on...
    • Knowledge Transfer Programme
      1049. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a knowledge transfer payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15143/18]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1050. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      1051. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether it is realistic to expect that a shortfall from Brexit in the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, 2020 will be...
    • Coillte Teoranta Activities
      1052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numbers of Coillte farm partnerships in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15263/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      1054. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding that has been made available to beekeeping organisations over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      1055. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will release the names of farmers involved in Coillte partnerships to an organisation (details supplied) to ensure that the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      1056. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15318/18]
    • Fisheries Protection
      1057. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the consultation process as part of the consultation paper to review the options for more restricted access for large fishing...
    • Legislative Measures
      1058. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of legislative measures both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law...
    • Fish Farming
      1059. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an incident (details supplied) was reported to the relevant authorities; if so, when; the authority to which it was reported; the...
    • Trade Agreements
      1060. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to visit Iran to explore possible trade links; his plans for greater Irish-Iranian agri-trading relations; and if he will...
    • Fish Landings
      1061. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of fish landings at the State fishery harbour centre in Dunmore East in each of the years 2010 to 2017. [15396/18]
    • Afforestation Programme
      1062. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications granted by county under the afforestation grant and premium scheme in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and...
    • Forestry Data
      1063. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications granted by county under the woodland reconstruction scheme in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date...
    • Woodland Improvement Scheme
      1064. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications granted by county under the woodland improvement scheme in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Forestry Data
      1065. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications granted by county under the native woodland establishment scheme in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to...
    • Bord na gCon
      1067. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 21 March 2018 (details supplied), if he will address the fact that a greyhound which he...
    • Inshore Fisheries
      1069. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the consultation document which is under preparation regarding inshore waters is likely to be published and put on public...
    • GLAS Payments
      1071. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farm payments for persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15467/18]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Payments
      1072. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farm income supplement payment for a person (details supplied) for February 2018 will be reinstated; and if he will make a...
    • Fodder Crisis
      1073. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to rollout a meal voucher scheme to enable farmers to purchase feed for their livestock; and if he will make a statement...
    • GLAS Data
      1078. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in counties Mayo and Galway that were in GLAS in 2017; the number in each county that have received their 85%...
    • Animal Welfare
      1079. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department will take to ensure that the welfare of animals is maintained and protected during spells of extreme...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      1080. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the amounts payable to individual farmers following the 2017 judgment of the European Court of Justice on the excess levies paid...
    • GLAS Payments
      1082. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15861/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      1088. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15869/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      1089. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15870/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      1090. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15871/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1091. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the status of a basic payments scheme payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • GLAS Payments
      1092. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15873/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1094. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a basic payments scheme payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tillage Sector
      1095. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering derogation from the three-crop rule for 2018 due to the late planting season ruling out certain crop choices;...
    • GLAS Payments
      1096. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15883/18]
    • Sheep Welfare Scheme
      1097. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15885/18]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      1098. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of an agri-environment options scheme payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • GLAS Payments
      1099. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15897/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      1100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment to farmers in County Kerry, whose payments were reduced due to gorse fires for which they were not responsible, will be...
    • GLAS Payments
      1101. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15899/18]
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      1103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if advice will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15916/18]
    • Agriculture Scheme Penalties
      1104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the fine imposed on a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15953/18]
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      1105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress and timeframe for the introduction of mandatory electronic tagging of cattle; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • GLAS Payments
      1106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will issue to a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay to date for the payment not issuing; if the...
    • Agricultural Production Costs
      1112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to have tariffs and duties removed from fertiliser costs in the EU in order to reduce the cost of fertiliser...
    • Ash Dieback Threat
      1113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a report which has to be compiled by an official in his Department concerning the ash dieback disease in a person's (details...
    • Transfer of Entitlements
      1114. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer that as part of an agreement to lease land transfers their BPS entitlements to the leasee can recover these entitlements...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      1116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal for a farm payment by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16160/18]
    • Transfer of Entitlements
      1117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a transfer of entitlements has been completed for a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • GLAS Payments
      1118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16195/18]
    • Greyhound Industry Data
      1120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of individual registered and unregistered greyhound pups born each year to litters registered with organisations (details...
    • GLAS Payments
      1122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16255/18]
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      1123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the official policy and protocols regarding the seeking of application for planting forestry in a special area of conservation; and...
    • Departmental Staff Relocation
      1125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the office of his Department in Ros'a Mhíl, Contae na Gaillimhe is not included as a transfer location in the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these...
    • GLAS Payments
      1127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a farmer (details supplied); the reason for the delays in processing this payment, which are...
    • Food Industry Development
      1129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the range of specific financial and-or advisory supports available to small indigenous and artisan food producers from his...
    • National Raised Bog Management Plan
      1130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that have been taken to explore new crop production techniques such as paludiculture by his Department since...
    • Achomhairc Talmhaíochta
      1131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar athbhreithniú atá iarrtha ag a Roinn ar chinneadh a rinne an tOifigeach...
    • GLAS Payments
      1132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the 2017 GLAS scheme; the reason for the delay in...
    • Tillage Sector
      1133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding tillage farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16715/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      1134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16734/18]
    • Farm Safety
      1135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether in the interests of public safety and legal compliance the business of farm and agricultural contracting should...
    • Drainage Schemes
      1136. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce grant aid for land drainage for farmers due to severe wet weather; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      1138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of plans to introduce reform of the forestry programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16755/18]
    • Fodder Crisis
      1139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received from counties Cavan and Monaghan and the rest of the country under the fodder transport scheme...
    • GLAS Payments
      1140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in counties Cavan and Monaghan waiting for GLAS payments; the number of part payments issued; and his plans to...
    • Brexit Issues
      1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to offset the impact of Brexit on farmers in counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      1143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the percentage of lands in counties Cavan and Monaghan and the entire country used for a purpose (details...
    • Farm Inspections
      1144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farm (details supplied) has not been assessed; the status of the farm; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fodder Crisis
      1145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the transport subsidy will be applicable to all fodder sourced from outside our jurisdiction including Northern Ireland; and if...
    • Agrifood Sector
      1147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek measures to be implemented at EU level to support pig producers in view of ongoing downward pressure on prices and...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Waste Disposal
      1148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the €75 allowance for households with medical waste will come into effect; the way in which persons will...
    • Energy Policy
      1149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an energy roadmap document from a person (details supplied) will be examined; if he will relay the document to the...
    • Fishing Licences
      1150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when salmon fishing licences will be issued to those that were not part of the salmon hardship fishing group and have...
    • Inland Fisheries
      1153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which salmon numbers in the various rivers here continue to be monitored; if there has been a noticeable...
    • Renewable Energy Projects
      1154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the entitlement to compensation of residents affected by a development in view of reports (details...
    • Cyber Security Policy
      1156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget allocated to cybersafety and cyberdefence by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years from 2015 to 2017; the number of...
    • Illegal Dumping
      1158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount allocated to Cork County Council for clean-up projects to tackle illegal dumping in each of the years from...
    • Law Reform Commission
      1161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of pieces of legislation enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      1162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend the natural gas pipeline to Dungarvan, County Waterford; if there are no plans the reason...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the meeting with officials of his Department and EirGrid to discuss the proposal by the company...
    • Recycling Policy
      1164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a recycling deposit scheme for plastic containers following the example of the UK and EU member...
    • Environmental Policy
      1166. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions his Department has had in respect of an EU plastics tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      1167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to amend legislation pursuant to section 14 of the Waste Management Act 1996, and specifically under article...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      1169. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons who have evaded paying their television licence between 2015 and 2017 and to date in 2018; his...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      1170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he is taking to advance the development of solar energy here; the amount of solar power he anticipates...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      1174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to address problems with broadband provision in the Dublin mountains; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      1175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he plans to update legislation that takes into account recyclable plastics as a usable product and not a waste...
    • Warmer Homes Scheme Data
      1176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that have availed of the warmer homes scheme in each of the years since its existence. [15712/18]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1178. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the level of energy being produced each day from renewable sources; his targets for wind and solar generated power by...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      1179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cé na céimeanna atá glactha aige lena chinntiú go mbeidh Raidió Rí-Rá ar fáil...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Conservation
      1180. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if detailed information on the deep retrofit grant scheme will be provided; the way in which households qualify for...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the capital allocation for his Department in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the areas in which this funding will be...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      1183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding allocated to the delivery of the Celtic interconnector project with France in each of the years 2019 to...
    • Renewable Heat Incentive
      1184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the introduction of a renewable heat incentive scheme in 2018; when he expects the scheme to be...
    • RTÉ Staff
      1185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the orchestral review; if cross-departmental responsibility will be taken for developing a national...
    • Bituminous Fuel Ban
      1186. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date Polish coal can no longer be sold here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16090/18]
    • Recycling Policy
      1187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he is taking to promote the development of facilities here for the recycling of soft plastics; and the...
    • Mobile Telephony Use
      1190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to safety concerns from being constantly exposed to mobile phones or Wi-Fi; if studies...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service;...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of broadband for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16460/18]
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      1194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when Eir's broadband and landline services will be available at an address (details supplied). [16472/18]
    • Waste Management Data
      1195. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if each residential dwelling here has a refuse account and bin collection service; the number that do not have a...
    • Environmental Regulations
      1196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if An Bord Pleanála is required to assess potential breaches of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Remit
      1198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the EPA is compelled to monitor and assess risks to health from carcinogenic dioxins that may be emitted from...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of broadband services in Ballymore, County Westmeath; if work is still scheduled to be...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the eel fisherman compensation scheme. [16660/18]
    • Nuclear Plants
      1201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland will support the findings and recommendations of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, which found...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      1202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, under the current section 145 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, a statutory body can be appointed at his discretion as...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Tolls
      1203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vehicles under each heading that use the Dublin Tunnel (details supplied). [15123/18]
    • Departmental Offices
      1204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) - who has been waiting for more than two months - will receive a certificate of competency from the...
    • EU Funding
      1205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding received from the EU in each year since 2000 to date for the purposes of specifically assisting the provision of...
    • Trans European Transport Network Programme
      1206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the decision in 2011 to remove projects from the application for EU Trans-European Transport Network, Ten-T funding; the...
    • Public Transport Data
      1209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times delays occurred on the Luas due to medical emergencies in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      1210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding being provided in 2018 and 2019 for the provision of cycle lanes; if there is a scheme open to local authorities to apply...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date it was decided to have an appeals process for sports capital applications; if there was an appeals process for previous...
    • Traffic Data
      1215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sources for his Department's information on congestion times in Dublin; the way in which this information is arrived at and...
    • Appointments to State Boards Data
      1216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that two worker directors at Dublin Port and Shannon Foynes Port were discriminated against...
    • Bus Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the ongoing disruption to a commuter service (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will contact Bus Éireann on the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expenditure on consultancy and contractors by the Irish Aviation Authority in each of the years from 2015 to 2017, respectively; the...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      1224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the report into the feasibility of the western rail corridor (details supplied); the terms of reference of the report;...
    • Parking Provision
      1225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding coach parking in Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Airport Development Projects
      1226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 27 March 2018, the legal basis upon which the DAA is permitted to withhold public...
    • Haulage Industry
      1227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the number of non-EU work permits to allow an organisation (details supplied) to fill vacancies in the truck...
    • Legislative Measures
      1228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Bills both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in...
    • Greenways Provision
      1229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed Boyneside cycleway trail project for Drogheda and east County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety Authority Campaigns
      1230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had engagement or consultation with the Road Safety Authority regarding the one meter clearance when overtaking a cyclist in...
    • Road Projects Status
      1231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Ardee bypass project; the projected end date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15375/18]
    • Regional Airports
      1232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding Waterford Airport has received from his Department under the capital expenditure grant scheme in each of the years...
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      1233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated by sport or governing body since the sports capital programme was introduced; and the percentage each sport has...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      1234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the delivery of projects (details supplied) in each of the years from 2019 to 2023, respectively. [15414/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of spot checks on capital projects in the past three years under the sports capital programme and swimming pools; the number...
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      1236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of sports capital grant applications received in 2016 and 2017; the number for those years that were declined; the number of...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      1237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to trying to free up funds from the unclaimed prize...
    • Sport Ireland
      1238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the national evaluation and its outcomes that Sport Ireland carried out of the various programmes developed and funded in...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the capital grant application of a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15428/18]
    • Road Toll Operators
      1240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 8 March 2018, if he will notify officials in the relevant section of his Department that a...
    • Road Safety
      1241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of proposed minimum passing distances to increase the safety of cyclists; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport
      1242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the delivery of improvements in public transport infrastructure referenced in his budget 2018 speech in each of...
    • Sports Facilities Expenditure
      1262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the delivery of the national velodrome and badminton centre in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated...
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      1264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund in each of the years 2019 to 2023; and the projects planned to be...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      1281. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the delivery of the A5 road development in each of the years 2019 to 2023; the estimated cost of delivering the...
    • Seirbhísí Iompair
      1283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil i gceist aige rialacha nó dlí a thabhairt isteach lena gcuirfí iallach ar sholáthraithe...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      1284. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the review of the feasibility of opening the second phase of the western rail corridor from Tuam to Claremorris will commence in...
    • Road Network
      1285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the number of times the Limerick tunnel was closed in 2016 and 2017 and to date in 2018, due to over...
    • Public Transport
      1287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision to reduce the trams on the Luas Red line (details supplied); his further views on the impact on the frequency...
    • Harbour Authorities
      1288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a company (details supplied) is compelled in line with the Government ports policy to take on overall responsibility for Dún...
    • Road Safety
      1289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will hold discussions with the motor industry and promote policies to ensure that all new cars and commercial vehicles have...
    • Driver Test
      1290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to address concerns over the high level of no-shows at driver tests; the way in which he will encourage...
    • Airport Authorities
      1292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department has undertaken to operate a piece of equipment (details supplied) at airports here; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Services
      1293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is standard practice for Irish Rail to confiscate a return ticket from a student (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • National Driver Licensing Service
      1294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of the 9,449 drivers disqualified in court in 2017 that surrendered their licence to the RSA's NDLS. [15793/18]
    • Driver Licences
      1295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers that obtained their learner permit on or after 1 August 2014 that were since disqualified having reached...
    • Swimming Pool Programme
      1296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for a public swimming pool in north County Kildare in view of the fact no such facility exists; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects Status
      1297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a road project (details supplied); the proposed timeline for progression; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sport Ireland
      1298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if matters related to an organisation (details supplied) will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15838/18]
    • Airport Passenger Data
      1299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the market share of each airport here for each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15852/18]
    • Driver Licence Applications
      1300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the identification documents required when applying for a driver licence or learner permit in view of the recent different reports from...
    • Bus Services
      1301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposals for BRT between Swords and Dublin city centre in view of the recently announced MetroLink plans; if the BRT...
    • Greenways Development
      1302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to launch the National Greenways Strategy; the reason for the delay in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      1303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a HGV driver licence is now only issued for five years in view of the fact that a regular driver licence is issued for ten...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      1305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the second round of Fáilte Ireland grants will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16047/18]
    • Road Projects Data
      1306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the major road projects planned to be completed before the end of 2021 under the current national development plan, NDP; the progress to...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      1307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rail projects planned for completion before the end of 2021 under the national development plan, NDP; the progress to date with the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      1308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to launch the next round of the sports capital grant programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16061/18]
    • National Transport Authority
      1309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA has prepared a code of practice providing practical guidance regarding compliance with the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 and the...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      1310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the proposed independent review into the western rail corridor will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Transport Authority
      1311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority’s national rail review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Safety
      1312. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter regarding safety improvements at a road junction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      1313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of quality bus corridors in Dublin that constitute 100% of the route from terminus to terminus; and if he will make a...
    • Traffic Management
      1315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to date to alleviate city centre traffic congestion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16300/18]
    • Road Network
      1316. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding road markings in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Safety Authority Campaigns
      1317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by the Road Safety Authority, RSA, in 2017 and to date in 2018, on promoted social media advertisements and content by...
    • Rail Services Provision
      1318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the frequency of trains on the Maynooth to Connolly route will be increased in view of the number of large scale developments planned...
    • Bus Services
      1319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a more direct bus route to connect western areas of County Dublin and the south side of Dublin city centre will be deployed; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers...
    • Coast Guard Services
      1321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of missions carried out by Irish Coast Guard helicopter crews by search and rescue base in 2017; and if he will make a...
    • Project Ireland 2040
      1323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans under Project Ireland 2040 for Waterford Airport; his plans in the short term to extend the runway; and if he will make a...
    • Roads Maintenance
      1324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans in the short term to address poor road quality, potholes and so on in rural areas as a result of the extreme weather events...
    • Road Projects
      1325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when upgrade works to the N4 will be carried out; the timeframe for these works. [16742/18]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
      1326. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time the women's refuge in Rathmines has been closed; when it is planned to reopen; her plans to open additional refuges in...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      1327. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason requests by individuals and groups to have their evidence heard in public have been refused by the Commission of Investigation...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1328. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of family resource centre funding applications received under the last round of funding by county in tabular form; the criteria...
    • Children First Guidelines
      1330. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has written to employers of persons designated as mandated reporters under the Children First Act 2015; and if she will...
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      1335. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the criteria by which Tusla social workers assess a child protection welfare concern that has been reported to the agency at the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1336. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of expenditure on consultancy by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged by her...
    • Legislative Measures
      1337. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of legislative measures both enacted and published by her Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      1338. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of permanent staff employed by Tusla in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [15581/18]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1340. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child born on 1 January 2016 will be eligible to enrol in the ECCE programme commencing in September 2018 in view of the fact that a...
    • Children in Care
      1342. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adults and children who spent time in Tusla funded domestic violence refuge and step down accommodation in 2017 and the...
    • Family Support Services
      1343. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the methodology and criteria that her Department and Tusla used to select the locations of the 11 new family resource centres; the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1345. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in her Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these officers...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      1346. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reintroduce the three enrolment points to the ECCE programme in view of the fact that some children will wait an inordinately...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Local and Community Development Programme Expenditure
      1347. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount spent on the local and community development programme in each of the years 2015 to 2017 by county in tabular form. [15227/18]
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      1348. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of local improvement scheme applications made in 2017 that will be funded via the €1 million allocated for 2018;...
    • Community Services Programme
      1349. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be sourced for a centre (details supplied) in County Leitrim which provides essential community services to older...
    • Legislative Programme
      1351. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of Bills both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in...
    • Library Services
      1352. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans for Ballygar library, County Galway, which remains closed after the retirement of its librarian in the past weeks; and if...
    • Community First Responders Network
      1353. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams accessible by local authorities and voluntary responder groups to equip communities with the essential equipment...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      1354. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of Leader funding which has been issued to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15463/18]
    • CLÁR Programme
      1356. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to review the CLÁR areas based on the result of the 2016 census; if so, when this review will be completed; and if he...
    • Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation
      1358. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 8 March 2018, when the next six-monthly progress report will be published on the...
    • Recreational Facilities
      1359. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to implement the recommendations of the review of Comhairle na Tuaithe which was completed in 2016; and if he will make a...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      1361. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the approvals to date by each local action group of funding for projects under the Leader programme; the amount of expenditure to...
    • Community Banking
      1362. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his views on the report on the community banking; the reason for the delay in publishing the report; if the delay is being caused by...
    • Recreational Facilities
      1363. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made since March 2011 regarding the rollout of the mountain access project and in particular the rollout of the project...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      1364. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the grants for refurbishing old buildings in rural communities that were announced in the action plan for rural development will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1366. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason the gross expenditure for his Department was 35.5% behind schedule at the end of March 2018, including 71.1% behind...
    • CLÁR Programme
      1368. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an application for CLÁR funding for a group (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      1369. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these...
    • Community Services Programme
      1370. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an organisation (details supplied) will receive feedback for a failed community services programme application; and if he will...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Employment Support Services
      1371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policies and supports in place to encourage employers to engage persons with disabilities, particularly persons with...
    • Gender Recognition
      1372. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there is provision for Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland to obtain a gender recognition certificate from the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1373. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      1374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      1376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      1380. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      1383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied). [14980/18]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      1384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1385. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      1387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance for a person (details supplied). [14993/18]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1394. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer’s allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      1396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been paying class B PRSI contributions as opposed to class A from 1998/99; if the...
    • Public Services Card
      1397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 544 of 8 March 2018 and 972 of 20 March 2018, the way in which customers with...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      1400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an oral hearing will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      1403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payments will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15145/18]
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      1404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures taken by her Department to ensure that the attention of those on community employment schemes is drawn to their...
    • Pensions Data
      1405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of qualified adults over 66 years of age to which the primary payment is the State pension; and the gender...
    • Widow's Pension Data
      1408. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of men and women in receipt of the widow’s, widower’s or surviving civil partner’s pension....
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of men and women in receipt of death benefit. [15176/18]
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      1410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of expenditure on consultancy by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants...
    • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
      1411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to abolish the six-year rule for participants in the rural social scheme over 55 years of age; and if she will...
    • Tús Programme
      1413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reverse proposed cuts to the Tús scheme which would reduce the current national quota of 8,500 to 6,500...
    • Labour Activation Programmes
      1415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether feedback to implementing bodies on the experience and effectiveness of JobPath is largely negative; her...
    • Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service
      1416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schemes in place to help a person who is struggling to meet monthly mortgage repayments; and if there is a scheme to...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      1417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the partial capacity benefit for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Data
      1418. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer's allowance in circumstances in which the payment is paid in respect of a carer...
    • Legislative Programme
      1419. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of Bills both enacted and published by her Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform...
    • Poverty Data
      1420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent Social Justice Ireland poverty focus 2018 report on poverty levels among workers includes the circa 57,000...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      1421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the removal of a household benefits package for a person (details supplied) can be re-examined with a view to reinstating...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      1422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of savings a person may have and still qualify for a means-tested payment or part thereof; and if she will make a...
    • JobPath Programme
      1423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full extent and scale of the services provided to her Department by Seetec Ireland; if she has received complaints...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      1424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision to refuse invalidity pension will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      1427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disability allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Private Pension Levy Collection
      1428. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of non-public service class D workers impacted by the private pension levy; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Working Family Payment Data
      1430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the family income supplement in January and February 2018; the spend on FIS in each of...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data
      1431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who received a supplementary welfare payment for clothing in each of the years 2014 to 2017...
    • Public Services Card Authentication
      1432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an adoption certificate is still required for all public services card applications in view of recent media reports of a...
    • Back to Education Allowance Applications
      1433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a back to education allowance application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Back to Education Allowance Appeals
      1434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the appeals process in place for a person who wishes to appeal a back to education allowance decision; and if she will make...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      1435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their application for partial capacity benefit; and if a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      1436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rewording of the domiciliary care allowance form, the carer's allowance and benefit form and the carer's support...
    • Carer's Benefit Payments
      1437. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase the length of carer's leave for persons caring for children in view of the fact the length of leave...
    • JobPath Programme
      1438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures regarding JobPath and the signing of a personal progression plan; if the procedure has been changed or...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1439. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15788/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Benefit Eligibility
      1441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter in relation to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Maternity Benefit
      1442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a maternity benefit claim by a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Review
      1443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision to disallow carer's allowance to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance Data
      1444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 406 and 407 of 29 March 2018, the full year cost of increasing all social insurance...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the moneys spent by her Department for work done a company (details supplied) in relation to the restructuring of the CIB;...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      1446. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a partial capacity benefit application by a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue; and if she...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16079/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      1448. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) will be determined and expedited; and if she will...
    • JobPath Implementation
      1450. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a situation in which a person (details supplied) was not allowed to seek employment outside that being offered by Seetec...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      1451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension claim by person (details supplied). [16197/18]
    • Tax Data
      1452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the contribution rate for PRSI class K; the benefits that accrue from same; the number of workers that pay PRSI class K; and...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 1453
      1453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • State Pensions
      1454. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct level of State pension and dependent allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) and their...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      1455. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average wait time for social protection payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fuel Allowance Payments
      1456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action she is taking through her Department or through the Citizens Information Board to ensure there is greater uptake...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      1457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a PPS number; and if the application will be expedited....
    • Fuel Allowance Payments
      1458. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the fuel allowance payment for an additional three weeks in view of recent poor and cold weather; and if...
    • Tús Programme
      1459. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce measures that will allow for Tús participants working with community groups extend their...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      1460. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position on the means test for jobseeker's allowance for adult children living at home with their parents; if the income...
    • JobPath Programme
      1461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consequences for a jobseeker who does not want to sign a contract with a private company for a JobPath scheme or...
    • Low Pay Commission
      1462. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to review the operation of the Low Pay Commission; if she will publish the terms of reference for such a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      1463. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension claim by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      1464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce changes to the wage subsidy scheme for persons with brain injuries in view of the fact that the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in her Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if...
    • Direct Provision Payments
      1466. 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 €21.60 per week to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
      1468. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing payments (details supplied) by €5, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      1469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing rent supplement limits by 10% on average; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      1473. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing expenditure on the school meals programme by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%, respectively, in tabular...
    • Living Wage Expenditure
      1474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the expenditure on the Living Wage Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16481/18]
    • Pensions Data
      1475. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of defined contribution schemes; the net asset value of these schemes; the average return on these schemes; the...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      1476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend eligibility for child benefit to those children over 18 years of age that are still in full time...
    • Legislative Measures
      1477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when legislation will be brought forward to give effect to the approach that was announced to correct the anomalies in...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      1478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances under which or reason a person can avail of ten years credited contributions, which is distinct from the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      1480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16692/18]
    • Bereavement Grant
      1482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce a non-means tested grant for children's funerals under 16 years of age in view of the tragic...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility
      1483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the operation of the invalidity pension and the payment of partial capacity benefit with regard to a person being...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      1484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the statutory basis for the fuel allowance scheme, the household benefits package and the free travel scheme. [16771/18]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      1486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for a survey or consultation process with persons with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Water Quality
      1487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to address a serious risk to the highly vulnerable aquifer posed by a company's reinforcement project...
    • Library Services Data
      1489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of librarians in the past five years by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rent Controls
      1491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections he will introduce for students reliant on affordable accommodation making specific reference to a case...
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation
      1492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position with regard to the so-called Dublin array of offshore wind turbines; the status of the proposal; and if he will...
    • Housing Data
      1493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans that have been applied for since 1 February 2018, by county, in tabular form; and...
    • Postal Voting
      1497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend postal voting rights to persons who are due to be abroad on holidays on 25 May 2018; and if he will make...
    • Planning Issues
      1498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the statutory authority under which he issued ​circular letter PL 02/20189 (details supplied). [14948/18]
    • Local Government Audit Service
      1503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the town and borough councils that had an auditor's report prepared and issued by the Local Government Audit Service for...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      1505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change section J3 of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; if so, when the change will be made; and...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is a conflict of interest that a person (details supplied) is also a board member of an organisation;...
    • Fire Safety
      1507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the hospitals in the Dublin region that were assessed for compliance under the early risk categorisation procedure undertaken...
    • Vacant Properties Data
      1511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the accuracy of figures for vacant housing in view of the fact that the CSO refused to publish Garda figures for...
    • Fire Service
      1512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Dublin Fire Brigade has the ability to deal with fires that break out in high rise developments in Dublin. [15067/18]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants...
    • Planning Issues
      1517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning permission for a strategic infrastructure development will be amended by An Bord Pleanála while the planning...
    • Planning Guidelines
      1518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the system for controlling environmental impact statement and appropriate assessment documents which underpin planning...
    • Fire Safety
      1519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the early risk categorisation of buildings was carried out in view of the fact that cladding on high rise...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new affordable housing scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15272/18]
    • Planning Issues
      1521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the obligations an applicant is under in respect of the new fast-track planning application process directly to An Bord...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      1522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the pyrite remediation scheme will be carried out with a view to including all homes with a category one...
    • Residential Property Sales
      1524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislative proposals are being considered to examine the legal principle of caveat emptor in respect of property...
    • Legislative Programme
      1526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the...
    • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
      1527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application by a company (details supplied) for a foreshore licence to harvest seaweed off the coast of...
    • Legislative Programme
      1528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013. [15365/18]
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available through the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, LIHAF, or other viable funding...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      1530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the loan interest rates currently available under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to existing...
    • Housing Assistance Payment
      1531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord is discriminating against a tenant by not signing up to the housing assistance payment in certain circumstances...
    • Fire Stations Upgrade
      1532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of funding for fire stations (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Water
      1533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request Irish Water to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Services
      1534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made in identifying and registering assets which belong to the public water system. [15431/18]
    • Planning Data
      1535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 13 February 2018, the number of applications made to An Bord Pleanála to...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility conditions that apply for separated or divorced applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be allocated to Galway County Council and Galway City Council in respect of the 2018 housing aid for older...
    • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
      1539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to update the maritime area and foreshore laws particularly for seaweed harvesting; if prior to...
    • Local Government Reform
      1540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to make a decision on the report regarding the amalgamation of Galway City and County councils; if legislation...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      1542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report on the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 will be published; the reason for the delay in doing so; his...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
      1543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses sold by local authorities to date in 2018 under the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 by local...
    • Water Services Infrastructure
      1544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of domestic wastewater systems here in tabular form; the number of other private housing estate...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide a free desludging service to all domestic wastewater systems (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Wastewater Treatment Facilities Inspections
      1546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections carried out each year since the introduction of mandatory registration of single house wastewater...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      1547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to abolish the means test for the private wastewater upgrade grant and increase the grant to 100% in view of the...
    • Ceadúnas Imill Trá agus Dobharshaothraithe
      1550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil cás dlí á thabhairt nó an bhfuil bagairt dlí déanta in aghaidh na breithe ón...
    • Register of Electors Administration
      1551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates for applying for inclusion on the supplementary register of electors; the latest date for applying for postal...
    • Water Services Infrastructure
      1553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding drinking water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15624/18]
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available to persons, who had hoped to obtain a house purchase loan from a local authority and had saved the 3%...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority tenants are liable for the cost of repairing internal leaks found by Irish Water; if not, if it is the...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      1557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources and personnel he plans to allocate to An Bord Pleanála; the cost and timing of these additional...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      1558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies in operation; the names of the bodies; the annual allocation each received in 2017; and...
    • Irish Water
      1559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of Irish Water’s figures on the first fix free scheme for each quarter in 2017; and if he will make a...
    • An Bord Pleanála Data
      1562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ask local authorities to provide full details of planning permission decision appeals to An Bord Pleanála...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      1563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP recipients in each county in 2017; the value paid to landlords by county in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      1565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the local area boundary committees that have been charged with making recommendations in respect of the local electoral...
    • Rent Pressure Zones
      1566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the way in which rent pressure zones are performing has been completed; and the future plans for these zones....
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      1567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the definition of net income as applied to a self-employed person and-or farmer in the context of the local authority housing...
    • Electoral Reform
      1568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend voting rights to Irish citizens living abroad; the consideration given to this matter to date; and if he...
    • Rental Sector
      1570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the growing problem of access to the rental market for older persons in view of the fact...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and proposed outputs for public housing for older persons with supports; when such housing will be delivered; the...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      1572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the grant funding for housing adaptations will be returned to 2010 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
      1573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for grant funding for housing adaptations in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of these...
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      1574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when legislation will be brought forward for the implementation of longer term leases; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Loans
      1576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason persons who purchased a house under the affordable housing scheme are unable in practice to switch the mortgage...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
      1578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications under the mortgage to rent scheme that have been completed each year since its introduction; the...
    • Local Authority Housing Applications
      1580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the bidding system for local authority housing has not been introduced in Sligo County Council to date; if a...
    • Mayoral Election
      1581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and timeframe to establish an elected mayor with executive powers for the Dublin region; and if he will make a...
    • Local Government Reform
      1582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to overhaul local government management structures in the four Dublin local authority areas in order to expedite...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to create a Dublin housing executive with executive powers and dynamic leadership to address the levels of...
    • Housing Policy
      1584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the Dublin region needs a housing tsar to lead a regional housing executive with wide executive powers...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      1585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 22 March 2018, the work being undertaken by his Department to encourage those...
    • Water Services Provision
      1586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a water fountain scheme for towns and cities here similar to the one established in London; the amount such a...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      1587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the national quality standards framework and inspection regime for homeless services. [16083/18]
    • Homeless Persons Data
      1588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults, families and children who spent time in emergency homeless accommodation in 2017; and the average...
    • Rental Sector Strategy
      1590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the short-term letting working group; the number of meetings held by the group; the number of...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      1591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeless families with young children are being allocated access to emergency accommodation after 8 p.m.; the number of...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      1596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless families in emergency accommodation that do not have an allocated support worker; his plans to address...
    • An Bord Pleanála
      1597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that An Bord Pleanála is using threats of legal costs to force a community...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      1598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to alter the conditions of the housing aid for older persons to include persons under 66 years of age that...
    • Fire Safety Regulations
      1599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the review for fire safety in the multi-storey social housing sector which was requested from local...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      1601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop guidelines for planning authorities with respect to solar farm projects; the criteria used in the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of applications that have been processed and approved under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to review the income thresholds under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme for couples (details...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the steps being taken by his Department to ensure the opening of a facility (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Fire Safety
      1608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the position regarding assistance to owners of houses who do not comply with fire safety standards; and if he will...
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding regarding the local infrastructure housing activation fund will be made available in view of the fact that south...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the credit policy 2018 which is used in respect of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be provided; the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the revised local authority social housing construction targets; if they...
    • Construction Industry
      1614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reason for the delay in publishing the reports by the Housing Agency and his Department regarding construction...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the status of the establishment of the expert group on the Traveller accommodation programmes. [16458/18]
    • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
      1617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the criteria used by his Department and local authorities to determine if applicants for the local infrastructure...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will issue....
    • State Properties Data
      1619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State owned properties in each county including property owned by local authorities; the acreage of land owned...
    • Repair and Leasing Scheme
      1622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform the repair and leasing scheme; the annual target for units; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Data
      1624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected number of affordable homes under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to be completed in 2018; the number...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      1625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 636 and 642 of 27 March 2018, if continuous employment as outlined on the website...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when section 28(1) of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 will be commenced; and the...
    • Housing Data
      1627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential units built by each local authority in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
      1628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the new tenant purchase scheme will be finalised; the changes which are proposed as a result of the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Commemorative Events
      1629. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to make 6 December a national holiday to commemorate the signing of the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      1630. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times planning applications have been referred to the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, for comment as a...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      1633. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the mechanism available to protect a priority habitat as defined in the habitats directive in view of the fact that National...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1634. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants available to assist an individual to renovate a 100 year old property which was left to them by a family member; and...
    • National Monuments
      1635. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will designate Emmett Hall, Inchicore, as a national monument in view of the role played by the building in the period...
    • Appointments to State Boards Data
      1637. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of all State board appointments since the general election in 2016; the person who recommended each appointment; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1638. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of expenditure on consultancy by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants engaged...
    • Waterways Ireland Funding
      1639. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of spending on Waterways Ireland in the past five years. [15278/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      1640. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 26 September 2017 and further to a request made by the HSE to the islands division...
    • National Monuments
      1641. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the national monuments located in County Kerry in the care of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      1642. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by her Department that originated in work carried out by the Law...
    • Deer Culls
      1643. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to cull deer in an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15607/18]
    • Gaelscoil Issues
      1644. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided to carry out substantial refurbishment works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Architectural Heritage
      1645. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is funding available that a voluntary group can apply for that would assist financially in the restoration of a building...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1646. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the dates of meetings held with officials or by officials with other Ministers on the issue of funding for a project (details...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      1647. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén plé atá déanta aici nó ag a Roinn leis an Aire Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na...
    • Wildlife Control
      1648. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will implement measures to control the seagull population in Howth, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
      1650. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the inspection of a bog has been carried out in line with an application for the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme...
    • Arts Promotion
      1651. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the orchestral review; if cross-departmental responsibility will be taken for developing a national strategy for...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      1652. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1085 of 20 March 2018, the details of expenditure of the €54 million in additional...
    • National Planning Framework
      1653. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1085 of 20 March 2018, the details of expenditure of the €75 million in additional...
    • National Development Plan
      1657. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projected spend on the €460 million phased investment programme in the national institutions in each of the years 2018...
    • Arts and Culture Capital Scheme
      1658. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projected spend on the arts and cultural capital scheme in each of the years 2018 to 2027. [16206/18]
    • National Development Plan
      1659. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projected spend on the €285 million investment on natural heritage, biodiversity and built heritage respectively, in...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1670. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in her Department on temporary contracts by years of service; if these...
    • Archaeological Sites
      1671. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the stage the development plan for Brú na Bóinne is at; when it will be published; the necessary investment in this...
    • Built Heritage Investment Scheme Funding
      1672. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16466/18]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1673. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the assessment, priority ranking, indicative costs, duration and exact scope of research required, which was to be developed by...
    • National Parks
      1674. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding staffing at Killarney National Park; and if she will make a statement...

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