Parliamentary questions

Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit

Stephen Donnelly

579. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of errors in price details recorded on the residential property price register that have been corrected in the past 12 months; the number of notifications of errors in price details received by the Property Services Regulatory Authority during that period; if she is concerned at the level of errors in price details recorded on the residential property price register; if the Property Services Regulatory Authority has carried out any investigations into the cause of errors; if there are any plans to improve systems at the PRSA to reduce the level of errors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31058/14]

Medical Card Applications

Stephen Donnelly

613. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied), issued earlier this year; if the card is still valid; and if it has been revoked, if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reinstate the card. [30717/14]

Medical Records

Stephen Donnelly

644. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health further to statements in Seanad Éireann on 2 July 2014, when his predecessor stated "I want to put on the record of the House the fact that the Health Service Executive has confirmed that the healthcare pricing office does not - and I repeat does not - make hospital patients' personal records available to pharmaceutical companies, insurers or any other companies or entities"; whether anonymised health records of individual patients are made available to any external entity by the health care pricing office or any division of the HSE or his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30997/14]

Tobacco Control Measures

Stephen Donnelly

653. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health on the back of the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014, if he has considered removing the maximum price on a packet of cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31096/14]

Tobacco Control Measures

Stephen Donnelly

654. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health on the back of research that shows plain tobacco packaging has led to smokers in other jurisdictions choosing cheaper brands, if any research has been undertaken to discover if there are health implications for such substitution among the smoking population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31097/14]

Tobacco Control Measures

Stephen Donnelly

655. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health on the back of the (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014, if he will consider introducing a minimum weight at which rolling tobacco may be sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31098/14]

Special Educational Needs Data

Stephen Donnelly

663. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, on a county basis, the number of children who have requested a special needs assessment for 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the number of children over those periods whose assessment commenced within three months of receipt of application; and the number of children whose assessments were completed within six months of receipt of application. [31181/14]

General Medical Services Scheme Payments

Stephen Donnelly

710. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to reassess the case of a person (details supplied) to investigate if the medical card should be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31590/14]

Equality Proofing of Budgets

Stephen Donnelly

3. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a recent submission to him on equality budgeting, if any of the proposals will be incorporated into this year's budget documents; if he will provide a distributional analysis of the proposed budget to be provided to Dáil Éireann on budget day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29847/14]

Health Services Reform

Stephen Donnelly

5. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has commissioned independent analysis on potential savings in the Irish health system since March 2011; if so, whether this analysis is available; if no independent analysis on potential savings has been undertaken whether he will consider commissioning such analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29667/14]

Public Sector Staff Sick Leave

Stephen Donnelly

22. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his decision to deem all employees, including part-time employees not eligible for the pension scheme, of education and training boards to be public servants for the purpose of applying the sick pay scheme in the sector; if he will provide the funding necessary for the ETBs to cover the cost of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29665/14]

Departmental Budgets

Stephen Donnelly

28. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the 60% decline in central Exchequer funding for the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation between 2008 and 2014, from €1.93 billion to €0.78 billion according to voted expenditure figures; his views on whether this reduction in funding is impacting on that Department's ability to drive job creation and economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29663/14]

NAMA Operations

Stephen Donnelly

49. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 1 July 2014, his views on whether a decision was reversed to raise the threshold for the acquisition of eligible loans by the National Asset Management Agency from Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks on 28 November 2010, the estimate being that NAMA would acquire an additional €16.6 billion of loans with individual values of less than €20 million from the two banks; and if the statement in April 2011 that the transfer of funds below €20 million representing impaired assets from the banking system to NAMA will not now take place amounted to a reversal of this decision. [29977/14]

Promissory Note Negotiations

Stephen Donnelly

50. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109 and 125 of 1 July 2014, when he stated that we have successfully negotiated the promissory notes transaction, the role our partners in Europe had in those negotiations; if it extended beyond the European Central Bank noting that the swap between promissory notes and sovereign bonds had taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29978/14]

Television Licence Fee Payments

Stephen Donnelly

298. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the publication of the RTE annual report 2013, where it is revealed that his Department collected €219 million in licence fees from An Post and the Department of Social Protection in 2013, and that €182 million of this was passed to RTE, the rationale for any increase or decrease in the payment; if he will reveal the organisations that lost out from his decision and the discussions that took place between his Department and RTE on the matter. [29979/14]

Television Licence Fee Payments

Stephen Donnelly

299. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the publication of the RTE annual report 2013, where it is revealed that his Department collected €219 million in licence fees from An Post and the Department of Social Protection in 2013, and that €182 million of this was passed to RTE, the factors that determine the amount of licence fee collected that is paid annually to RTE; if he will provide in tabular form, the amounts for the years from 2009 to 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29980/14]

Road Safety

Stephen Donnelly

399. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if GoSafe speed detection vans may operate in a location that is not listed as a safety zone; to identify the person who decides whether a vehicle is so situated; if there is a protocol for the person to gain clearance before deployment; if An Garda Síochána may use GoSafe vehicles instead of its own vehicles to carry out speed detection duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30030/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Stephen Donnelly

445. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to prioritise the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently awaiting a procedure in Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30385/14]

NAMA Property Sales

Stephen Donnelly

181. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent per annum from the Revenue Commissioners, for a price of between €2 million and €4 million, after NAMA obtained an assessed market value, if NAMA will confirm the terms on which it obtains assessed market valuations; the amount it pays for such valuations; the persons who provide such valuations; if such valuations adhere to valuing standards of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29467/14]

NAMA Property Sales

Stephen Donnelly

182. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent per annum from the Revenue Commissioners, for a price of between €2 million and €4 million, if he has any concerns that the asset was sold for less than its open market value. [29468/14]