Parliamentary questions

Registration of Births

Billy Kelleher

209. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the information that is recorded on a person's birth certificate; and if it includes the mother's date of birth. [8129/15]

Garda Deployment

Billy Kelleher

324. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of gardaí assigned to each divisional drug unit for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [7868/15]

Charities Regulation

Billy Kelleher

343. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Charities Regulatory Authority is inviting applications from schools and other education bodies; if guidance on the registration process for these charities has been developed; and if they will have to pay registration and annual filing fees. [8133/15]

Adoption Records Provision

Billy Kelleher

364. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the mother's date of birth would ordinarily have been recorded on her file when she was placing her child for adoption; and if, for this or other reasons, the Adoption Authority of Ireland or adoption agencies are likely to have a record of the date of birth of each woman who placed a baby for adoption here since the enactment of the Adoption Act 1952. [8130/15]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

401. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of public and voluntary hospitals that have single or common waiting lists, a combination of public and private patients combined; if such waiting lists in any of the hospitals are confined to certain specialties; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7675/15]

National Drugs Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

423. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when he last chaired a meeting of the Oversight Forum on Drugs; the number of times it has met in 2015; the number of times it met in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7844/15]

National Drugs Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

426. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, an update on the implementation of each of the 63 actions in the 2009 to 2016 National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7858/15]

National Drugs Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

427. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year, since 2010, by the Health Service Executive, to support implementation of the National Drugs Strategy. [7861/15]

Local Drugs Task Forces Funding

Billy Kelleher

428. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year since 2010 to each of the local and regional drugs task forces. [7862/15]

Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

442. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, based on local health offices-areas and indicating those of 16 years of age and under, and those above 16 years of age, the numbers waiting for orthodontic treatment, at the end of December 2014. [7922/15]

HSE Agency Staff Expenditure

Billy Kelleher

452. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff in January 2015; the proportion of the agency's anticipated expenditure on agency staff in 2015 that was incurred in January 2015; how the January 2015 expenditure on agency staff compares with that for January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7964/15]

HSE Staff Remuneration

Billy Kelleher

453. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to cover increments for staff in 2015; the level of funding that will be required to pay such increments in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7965/15]

Hospital Consultant Remuneration

Billy Kelleher

454. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to pay increased salaries to hospital consultants, who were employed on lower pay rates after October 2012. [7966/15]

Health Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

470. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to decline the Resorcylidene Aminoguanidine, RAG, application in respect of a child ( details supplied) in County Cork. [8112/15]

Pupil-Teacher Ratio

Billy Kelleher

519. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that is legally considered to be big; if there is such a provision in law; and when an extra teacher is required to be provided to a primary school by her Department. [7724/15]

School Staff

Billy Kelleher

520. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that entitles the class to a classroom assistant. [7725/15]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Billy Kelleher

528. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns (details supplied) by parents of a child with Down's syndrome; if children with Down's syndrome will be provided with an individualised right to resource teaching hours, outside the general allocation system, similar to those whose needs her Department classifies as low incidence. [7892/15]

Disability Support Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

548. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to decline the application for assistive technology in respect of a child ( details supplied) in County Cork. [8078/15]

Medical Card Data

Billy Kelleher

158. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health as of 1 February 2015, the number of medical cards issued; the number of general practitioner cards issued; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis. [7614/15]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times

Billy Kelleher

159. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason his predecessor's instruction that the National Treatment Purchase Fund publish its monthly waiting list report, at the same time as the Health Service Executive publishes its monthly performance report, is no longer in force. [7615/15]