Parliamentary questions

Litter Pollution

Seán Crowe

594. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Kildare County Council can publish the names of those charged and convicted of committing littering offences. [6849/17]

Fisheries Protection

Seán Crowe

595. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if steps are in place to cease the proliferation of dace fish here. [6852/17]

Bord na Móna

Seán Crowe

603. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the possible reduction in the number of jobs in Bord na Móna. [6851/17]

Visa Agreements

Seán Crowe

150. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to possible changes to the J1 visa scheme for Irish citizens; if he discussed the issue on his recent visit to the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6525/17]

Immigration Controls

Seán Crowe

151. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if during his visit to the USA he raised the recent immigration regulation changes regarding the banning of citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; if he criticised the proposal; the details of the meetings he had; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6526/17]

Human Rights

Seán Crowe

152. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Europe’s five largest pension funds (details supplied) have €7.5 billion invested in companies with business activities in and around illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories; and his views on whether all pension funds should disinvest from companies with business activities in and around illegal Israeli settlements. [6527/17]

Human Rights Investigations

Seán Crowe

153. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in January 2017 at least 13 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia (details supplied); and if he will raise this issue with his Colombian counterpart. [6528/17]

EU Issues

Seán Crowe

181. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a decree that was passed by the Romanian Parliament that could free dozens of officials jailed for corruption (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6239/17]

Human Rights

Seán Crowe

182. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read a report from the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) which states that a person (details supplied) and thousands of other peaceful protesters are being illegally imprisoned under the colonial era Assembly Law (Law 10/1914), that CIHRS has discovered was repealed on 30 January 1928; his views on the fact that this law is being illegally implemented 89 years after its formal repeal to the imprisoned person; and if he will formally raise this issue with his Egyptian counterpart and demand the immediate release of the person. [6240/17]

Disability Allowance Applications

Seán Crowe

303. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied). [5534/17]

Northern Ireland

Seán Crowe

340. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the comments of the British Secretary of State, Mr James Brokenshire, on the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when he intensified the British Government's public opposition to properly dealing with the past and that the British Government is trying to write itself out of its responsibility for the conflict and to obscure its central role in the conflict; and his views on whether Mr Brokenshire should cease making such offensive remarks and instead release the funds for legacy inquests, lift the British Government veto on maximum information disclosure and allow the legacy mechanisms to be established immediately. [5535/17]

Human Rights

Seán Crowe

341. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a series of deaths at the Moria asylum camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and that aid agencies have long complained regarding the poor conditions at the camps; and if his Department will provide assistance to improve conditions in the camp. [5606/17]

Israeli Settlements

Seán Crowe

342. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to media reports that the EU Ambassadors to Palestine 2016 annual report said that the number of illegal Israeli settlers moving to occupied East Jerusalem is growing by 3% a year and that it blamed Israel for violence in occupied East Jerusalem; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the report stated that EU countries should impose immigration regulations or visa bans on known violent settlers and those calling for violence; and his views on imposing these sanctions against illegal Israeli settlers. [5607/17]

Immigration Controls

Seán Crowe

343. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the executive order signed by US President, Donald Trump, which bans citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the USA; his further views on whether this order may violate the USA's obligations to accept persons seeking asylum on humanitarian grounds under the Geneva Convention; if he will examine the consequence of President Trump’s executive order for persons with dual citizenship of one of these seven countries and Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5635/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Seán Crowe

470. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a child to see an ophthalmologist in the National Children's Hospital; the longest time a child has had to wait; if some parents have been informed that it may take up to two years or longer; and the steps he proposes to introduce to reduce this long waiting list. [6022/17]

HSE Expenditure

Seán Crowe

33. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health the total subventions paid from the public HSE budget to general practitioners by supplement for employment of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4570/17]

Nursing Staff Recruitment

Seán Crowe

122. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Health to set down the total cost of recruitment for nurses and midwives recruited between December 2007 and December 2016; if he will provide this information in respect of recruitment from EU and non-EU countries, including the costs of any recruitment agency; the cost of HSE staff or voluntary hospital staff who travelled to conduct interviews and adaptation costs for those recruited upon arrival here; the cost of accommodation and subsistence during that period; the cost of HSE and voluntary staff engaged to precept the non-Irish-trained nurses and midwives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4569/17]

Education Grants

Seán Crowe

181. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the difficulty being experienced by many parents hoping to access funding from the secondary education committee, which is means tested, he will outline the guidelines for the scheme; the level of a grant available to aid a person whose parents are on a certain income; the threshold for that income; the level of the grant to that person; the way in which funds are dispensed; the amount involved; the number of persons accessing the scheme; and the guidelines used to determine if a child is in need of the funds. [3964/17]

Departmental Reports

Seán Crowe

351. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read the report by an organisation (details supplied), commissioned by his Department, to examine Irish Aid's programme in Uganda in 2010-2014, which was recently publicly released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4021/17]

Departmental Expenditure

Seán Crowe

352. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department spent more than €70,000 moving works of art between embassies and ambassadors' residences in 2016; if his Department paid the National Gallery €25,504 to move paintings between the old ambassador's residence in Vienna to a new one, a distance of 8 km, in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4022/17]