Parliamentary questions

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

228. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26020/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

229. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26021/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

230. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26022/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

231. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26023/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

232. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26024/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

233. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26025/13]

Home Help Service Provision

Pat Deering

234. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 20 December 2012, the reason home care hours have been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a review of the situation has taken place; and when the results of the review will be communicated to the person. [26026/13]

Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision

Dominic Hannigan

235. Deputy Dominic Hannigan asked the Minister for Health when he expects to implement a national neurorehabilitation strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26029/13]

Medical Card Appeals

Sandra McLellan

236. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Health the reason it took from August 2012 until February 2013 for a person (details supplied) in Cork with a severe chronic illness to receive a decision on their medical card application; the reason that person was refused and was not considered on discretionary grounds in view of the fact that they suffer from Crohn's disease; if he will approve and expedite this person's appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26041/13]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Ciaran Lynch

237. Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health when a mobility aid will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26045/13]

Health Services

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

238. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health if he will review the supports in place for persons (details provided) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26049/13]

Tobacco Industry Lobbying

Patrick Nulty

239. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he has met with the tobacco industry or lobbyists on their behalf in 2013; if he will outline who was present at these meetings; the matters that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26052/13]

Health Services

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

240. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 30 April 2013, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive. [26053/13]

Hospital Appointment Status

Sean Fleming

241. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health when an appointment for a CT head scan will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26060/13]

Health Services Expenditure

Jim Daly

242. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of compensation paid out to settle claims from users of the health service for any reason either through the courts or through private settlements for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26073/13]

Abortion Services

Andrew Doyle

243. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Health regarding the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013, if there is a cut-off in the timeframe with regard to when medical experts suggest a termination would be allowed; the person that will decide that a mother is suicidal or expressing suicidal ideation; if a baby may be terminated three weeks before term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26158/13]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Charlie McConalogue

244. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dungloe community hospital, County Donegal, has reduced its beds from 35 to 25 as a result of staffing pressures; the steps he is taking to ensure that the beds are immediately reopened; if he will allow the recruitment embargo to be relaxed in order to recruit additional staff to the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26185/13]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Charlie McConalogue

245. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Carndonagh community hospital, County Donegal, has had its community hospital beds reduced from 30 to 24 and its Alzeimher's unit beds reduced from 16 to 12 as a result of staffing pressures; the steps he is taking to ensure the beds are immediately reopened; if he will allow the recruitment embargo to be relaxed in order to recruit additional staff to the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26186/13]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Charlie McConalogue

246. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Health his plans to relax the recruitment embargo in the health service in order to ensure that community hospitals do not have to close beds due to staffing pressures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26188/13]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

247. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, has not paid moneys owed to agency nursing staff as a result of a European court ruling, despite the fact that all other similar hospitals have settled; and if he will intervene to ensure that these moneys are paid without further delay. [26189/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Finian McGrath

248. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many families of adults with an intellectual disability are not satisfied at being forced out of their service to other services in view of the fact they need the stability and are happy in their current service (details supplied). [26196/13]

Services for People with Disabilities

Finian McGrath

249. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Health the position regarding a disability service in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [26197/13]

Health Services

Finian McGrath

250. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Health if a social worker will support and advise a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [26198/13]

European Council Meetings

Éamon Ó Cuív

251. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health to name the Minister or Minister of State who represented Ireland at the Ministerial Council meetings of the European Union during the Irish Presidency of the Council to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26215/13]

Parliamentary Questions Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

252. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the number of parliamentary replies issued by him to this Deputy in 2013 containing an undertaking to provide extra information requested; the date of the question in each case; the date on which the information was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26230/13]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Dan Neville

253. Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for Health if he has considered the addition of Addison's disease to the long term Illness scheme on the basis that Addison's patients require life long daily steroid replacement medication for adrenal failure in the form of hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone. [26281/13]

Expert Group on the A, B and C v. Ireland Judgment

Billy Timmins

254. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health if the nominations from the Irish Institute of Obstetricians and the general medical practitioners were on the expert group on the A, B and C case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26285/13]

Aviation Issues

Andrew Doyle

255. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the legal status and legislative basis for the Federal Air Marshal Service of the Transportation Security Administration of the United States Department of Homeland Security and their passage through airports here; if they are required to notify his Department of their possession of foreign registered firearms when arriving or departing on flights between Ireland and the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26150/13]

Road Safety

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

256. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to bring forward or amend legislation dealing with the failure to stop and remain at the scene of an accident following the recommendation to do so by the jury at the inquest into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan after they were struck by a car on the N2 Dublin to Derry road between Carrickmacross and Castleblaney at Tollyvara Upper on 2 August 2011. [26175/13]

EU-Israel Aviation Agreement

Andrew Doyle

257. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the details of the EU-Israel Aviation Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/13]

Roads Maintenance Funding

Kevin Humphreys

258. Deputy Kevin Humphreys asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 22 May 2013 in which he indicated that the sections of national road that lie within the M50 C ring, namely, N1 to Whitehall, N2, N3, N4, N11 to Mount Merrion Avenue and N81 were reclassified from national to regional roads, the extra funding that has been provided to Dublin City Council for the maintenance and upkeep of these regional roads since responsibility was removed from the National Roads Authority. [26072/13]

Road Tolls

Dominic Hannigan

259. Deputy Dominic Hannigan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to engage in discussions with Eurolink who operate the M3 motorway to offer road hauliers a free month of use on the M3 as happens on the M6 in England for the month of July as an incentive for them to make more use of the motorway network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26076/13]

Sports Capital Programme Eligibility

Sandra McLellan

260. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason funding was refused to Dublin City Council under the sports capital programme for work at Brickfields Park, Bushy Park, and St. Anne's Park when the Chief State Solicitor's office has confirmed that his Department is fully aware that the council's titles are capable of supporting a charge registered or unregistered title and, accordingly, are suitable for grants from the national lottery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26109/13]

Sports Council Funding

Sandra McLellan

261. Deputy Sandra McLellan asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport in view of recent concerns regarding the financial situation of Irish hockey and the loss in excess of €200,000 that it made in 2008, if he will provide details of audits of the Irish Hockey Association that have been carried out by the Irish Sports Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26110/13]

Sports Council Funding

Gerry Adams

262. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the procedures and checks that have been put in place to monitor the way the Irish Hockey Association spends public money it receives from the Irish Sports Council; and if the ISC has increased its monitoring of Irish hockey since financial concerns were raised in the media in late 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26113/13]

The Gathering Expenditure

Dessie Ellis

263. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the way that the €336,335 allocated by his Department for programme administration of The Gathering will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26115/13]

The Gathering Events

Andrew Doyle

264. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the complete list of projects and events as part of The Gathering 2013 in an area (details supplied) that have received funding from his Department either directly or indirectly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26154/13]

Government-Church Dialogue

Andrew Doyle

265. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his recent contribution to the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, on 24 May 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26184/13]

Parking Provision

Andrew Doyle

266. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the car parking facilities at the Cherrywood and Brides Glen Luas stops to begin construction, in view of the fact that the sites that are there at present are awaiting development; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in spite of no car parking facilities at the last two stops on the Luas green line, the local authority, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, is in the process of installing parking bays and has begun the initial steps of installing paid parking metres outside the Cherrywood Luas stop; his views on whether this will prevent people from availing of this public transport facility and instead pressure them to drive in their cars into Dublin and further into the city; if he will liaise with the local authority to prevent paid parking metres being installed until the car parking facilities at either one of these Luas stops is complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26187/13]

Sports Capital Programme Expenditure

Brendan Smith

267. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is proposed to launch another sports capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26191/13]

European Council Meetings

Éamon Ó Cuív

268. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to name the Minister or Minister of State that represented Ireland at the Ministerial Council meetings of the European Union during the Irish Presidency of the Council to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26220/13]

Parliamentary Questions Data

Éamon Ó Cuív

269. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of parliamentary replies issued by him to this Deputy in 2013 containing an undertaking to provide extra information requested; the date of the question in each case; the date on which the information was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26235/13]

Traffic Calming Measures

Colm Keaveney

270. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with reference to recent traffic calming works carried out on the N17 at Carraghy, Knockdoe, County Galway, if he will confirm that the National Roads Authority is the body that supplied and-or approved the design of the works; the regulations and-or guidelines to which such works should conform; if he will confirm that an engineer completed a report to confirm that the design conformed to such regulations and-or guidelines; if he will provide Dáil Éireann with a copy of that engineer's report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26237/13]

Education and Training Provision

Bernard Durkan

53. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which studies have been carried out to determine the educational skills and requirements needed to meet demands in the modern workplace; the extent to which such skills are adequately available in this jurisdiction; his plans, if any, to address any shortcomings in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25455/13]

Higher Education Reform

Charlie McConalogue

54. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of proposed higher education reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25475/13]

School Staffing

Seamus Kirk

55. Deputy Seamus Kirk asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests his Department has had from secondary schools for additional career guidance allocations; the number of such requests granted by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25507/13]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Timmy Dooley

56. Deputy Timmy Dooley asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include capital assets in assessing maintenance grant eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25486/13]

School Patronage

Éamon Ó Cuív

57. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his efforts on changing the patronage of some primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25495/13]

School Curriculum

Jonathan O'Brien

58. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand on comments he made recently when speaking at Tullamore College, County Offaly, when he said that science would be compulsory if there were laboratories in each of the State's 723 post primary schools; and the measures he intends to take to address this matter. [25398/13]

Student Grant Scheme Design

Catherine Murphy

60. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the measures which have been taken to address the problems encountered by students using the Student Universal Support Ireland online student grant application system; if he will confirm that a workable triage system has been incorporated into the process to handle the volume and urgency of individual applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25459/13]