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Wed, 9 Dec 2015
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Local Authority Housing Data
Paul Murphy
190. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the new builds and acquisitions to be completed and the new units to be provided by housing associations under the capital assistance scheme by local authority area in the second half of 2015 in tabular form. [44272/15]
Wed, 9 Dec 2015
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Local Authority Housing Data
Paul Murphy
191. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the figures provided to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on 24 November 2015 projecting 950 local authority new builds and acquisitions and 440 new units under the capital assistance programme by the end of 2015 when compared with the latest on his Department’s website for the first six months of the year showing 246 local authority new builds and acquisitions in the first half of 2015, including 20 new builds and 226 acquisitions, and 157 new housing association units, mean that there will be 704 local authority new builds and acquisitions in the second half of 2015, including in excess of 180 local authority new builds, plus 283 new units provided by voluntary housing associations under the capital assistance scheme; and if not, to provide alternative figures broken down under these headings. [44273/15]
Wed, 9 Dec 2015
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Housing Data
Paul Murphy
192. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has analysed the proportion of council homes purchased under previous tenant purchase schemes that have ended up owned by landlords in the private rented sector; and how many of these are rent supplement, housing assistance payment or rental accommodation scheme tenancies. [44274/15]
Tue, 8 Dec 2015
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Child and Family Agency Services
Paul Murphy
340. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will request Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, to meet with representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43811/15]
Tue, 8 Dec 2015
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HSE Funding
Paul Murphy
381. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to meet with the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of funding for their special needs programme and for a clinical director of counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43809/15]
Tue, 8 Dec 2015
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Respite Care Services Availability
Paul Murphy
382. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who needs respite care from St. Michael's House and the Health Service Executive. [43810/15]
Tue, 8 Dec 2015
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Adult Education Provision
Paul Murphy
505. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to meet representatives of the Target project in Donaghmede in Dublin 13 to discuss the restoration of a dedicated literacy co-ordinator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43812/15]
Thu, 3 Dec 2015
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Disability Services Provision
Paul Murphy
11. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 22 October 2015 regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, the status of the serious delays in the provision of occupational therapy and other treatments from the school age team in the Dublin South-West area; the measures that were taken to improve the Health Service Executive's situation; his views on the staffing issues in Galro which are resulting in delays in the provision of important treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42716/15]
Thu, 3 Dec 2015
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Hospital Staff
Paul Murphy
20. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health the status of the situation in Tallaght Hospital in Dublin 24 for staff who engage in whistle-blowing, as in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42939/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
Paul Murphy
22. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, if he has met with the Respond Housing Association to discuss and resolve the issue of funding for Cuan Álainn. [42651/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
Paul Murphy
33. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 21 October 2015, his progress in resolving the issue of funding of Cuan Álainn women's refuge in Tallaght, Dublin 24. [42650/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Schools Building Projects Status
Paul Murphy
155. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposal for a school campus at the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, and of the planning application made by the Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board for a primary-secondary school campus at the site; the Department or other body that is currently dealing with this application and the related school campus proposal; if she is pursuing this site as the preferred site for the proposed school campus, notwithstanding the objections raised by the planning department of Kildare County Council and upheld by An Bord Pleanála to the training board's proposals; and if she has any other sites in mind for a primary or a secondary school on the Dublin Road, the Hazelhatch Road or the Newtown Road side of the Liffey in Celbridge. [43135/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Site Acquisitions
Paul Murphy
156. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the Commons on the Hazelhatch Road in Celbridge, County Kildare, site was purchased; who purchased this site; who authorised its purchase; the amount paid; the zoning status when purchased, that is, agricultural, residential or strategic infrastructure; if the site has been re-zoned; and if the purchase was agreed subject to planning permission for the intended use. [43136/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Schools Building Projects Status
Paul Murphy
157. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans and intentions with regard to a Gaelcolaiste in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43137/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Departmental Contracts
Paul Murphy
170. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government given freedom of information documentation (details supplied) from his Department which shows a meeting between himself and a bidder for contracts for the senior alert scheme while an agency under his Department's remit was deciding on the tenders for those contracts, if this represents a breach of normal procedures in a tendering process, as is indicated in previous correspondence from his Department to bidders for those contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43138/15]
Wed, 2 Dec 2015
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Departmental Contracts
Paul Murphy
171. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it is normal procedure for minutes of meetings to be taken when Ministers meet with bidders for State contracts under the remit of their Departments; why minutes of a meeting between himself and representatives of a company in the process of bidding for contracts under the Senior Alters Scheme were not taken (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43139/15]
Tue, 1 Dec 2015
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Garda Operations
Paul Murphy
49. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was any investigation within her Department regarding a surveillance programme within An Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; the approach taken by An Garda Síochána to surveillance of protesters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42694/15]
Tue, 1 Dec 2015
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Traveller Community
Paul Murphy
69. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures she will take to tackle the discrimination faced by members of the Traveller community; if she will support the establishment of a Traveller agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42395/15]
Tue, 1 Dec 2015
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Animal Welfare
Paul Murphy
298. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if whales and dolphins in Ireland's 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zone are adequately protected under the European Union habitats directive and national legislation, given the four super trawlers currently fishing in this area; and if observers from his Department or other State agencies are observing the impact of the super trawlers on whales and dolphins and their habitat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42958/15]
Tue, 1 Dec 2015
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Fishing Industry
Paul Murphy
299. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any super trawlers have been boarded for inspection by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority or by the Irish Naval Service this week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42959/15]