Parliamentary questions

Unemployment Data

Brian Stanley

126. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Taoiseach the number of people deemed to be economically inactive, that is either not working, not being able to work, or otherwise unavailable for work; and if he will provide a breakdown of the different categories such as students, those with disabilities and so on. [36626/14]

Prescriptions Charges

Brian Stanley

379. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a person's medication dose for some drugs is increased on their prescription, that is Butrans, from 20 mg to 30 mg they are charged €5 twice because the patch only contains 20 mg. [36755/14]

Water Supply Leakages

Brian Stanley

578. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total spent between 2011 and 2013 in repairing and replacing leaking water pipes. [37003/14]

Prison Accommodation Provision

Brian Stanley

115. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual costs of running the prison service for each year since 2005; and the average cost per person imprisoned in each of those years. [36177/14]

One-Parent Family Payment Payments

Brian Stanley

46. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that are currently in receipt of one-parent family payment. [36015/14]

Appointments to State Boards

Brian Stanley

2. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the appointment to the State planning board of individuals who had previously been involved in framing controversial proposals such as the Poolbeg incinerator. [34566/14]

Climate Change Policy

Brian Stanley

37. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to bring forward the promised Climate Change Bill. [34306/14]

Planning Issues

Brian Stanley

40. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will open a full inquiry into planning irregularities in County Wicklow. [34302/14]

An Bord Pleanála Appointments

Brian Stanley

45. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the appointment to the State planning board of persons who were previously involved in framing controversial proposals such as the Poolbeg incinerator. [34305/14]

Motorised Transport Grant Eligibility

Brian Stanley

974. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health when he will announce the outcome of the review into an alternative to the motorised transport grant-mobility allowance. [33772/14]

Local Government Fund

Brian Stanley

1544. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if allocations to local authorities from the Local Government Fund will remain the same as in 2014 for 2015. [34030/14]

Motor Tax Yield

Brian Stanley

449. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of motor tax that was collected in counties Laois and Offaly shown separately in 2013. [30779/14]

Appointments to State Boards

Brian Stanley

496. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of his appointees to An Bord Pleanála who have appeared before the environment committee; the names of these persons; and the dates on which they were appointed. [31318/14]

Planning Issues

Brian Stanley

504. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects the report on matters raised by a person (details supplied) to be made available. [31412/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations

Brian Stanley

505. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the office of planning regulator as recommended by Mahon report will be established. [31413/14]

Health Services

Brian Stanley

161. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that time sheets for ambulance crews in Mullingar, Edenderry, Birr, parts of Laois and Tullamore are being collected by taxi from Longford, when ambulances travel to the same locations on a daily basis. [30427/14]

Ambulance Service Provision

Brian Stanley

162. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that fire service ambulances in Mullingar are often taken off the road for several hours while transporting and waiting for patients whom they carry 400 m between St. Mary's day care centre and Mullingar hospital; and his views on whether this is an efficient deployment of resources. [30428/14]

Compulsory Purchase Orders

Brian Stanley

338. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department has not conducted an investigation of claims made by a person (details supplied) in relation to the compulsory purchase order by Wicklow County Council of lands at Greystones. [30310/14]

Waste Management

Brian Stanley

339. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his officials have found a file titled the Ballybeg file which contains claims relating to planning in County Wicklow; and if the gardaí were asked to assist. [30313/14]

Illegal Dumping

Brian Stanley

340. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action his Department has taken in High Court revelations regarding the conduct of Wicklow County Council in the Brownfield case. [30315/14]

Local Authority Staff Remuneration

Brian Stanley

547. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form the current salaries paid to all city and county managers of local authorities. [29806/14]

Local Authority Staff Remuneration

Brian Stanley

548. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the annual saving to the Exchequer if salaries across all local authorities were capped at €100,000. [29808/14]

Local Authority Staff Remuneration

Brian Stanley

549. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities, public sector workers in receipt of salaries within the bands (details supplied). [29809/14]

Medical Card Eligibility

Brian Stanley

726. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to over 70 applicants who are a few euro over the income limit (details supplied). [29419/14]

Medical Card Eligibility

Brian Stanley

728. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to applicants over 70 years who are slightly over the income limit (details supplied). [29425/14]

Sports Funding

Brian Stanley

811. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the clubs in Dublin that have yet to draw down moneys from previous rounds of sports funding; the names of the clubs; and the amount each club is to draw down. [29347/14]

Sports Funding

Brian Stanley

812. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the clubs in Cork that have yet to draw down moneys from previous rounds of sports funding; the names of the clubs; and the amount each club is to draw down. [29348/14]

An Bord Pleanála Remit

Brian Stanley

119. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether there was a conflict of interest in the decision by An Bord Pleanála to approve the Cullenagh wind farm, and the fact that one of the board members (details supplied) worked for a company that drew up the proposal for the wind farm. [28600/14]

Proposed Legislation

Brian Stanley

189. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce legislation to impose on-the-spot fines on persons caught cycling on pedestrian pavements. [28642/14]

Electromagnetic Fields Studies

Brian Stanley

320. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if studies have been conducted regarding the possible emission of microwave radiation from smart meters; and if he is satisfied that they present no danger to householders. [28092/14]

Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments

Brian Stanley

507. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the annual cost of running the private Primary Care Reimbursement Service, including the cost of staff, premises, consultancy and any other costs related to the operation of the service. [28111/14]

Planning Issues

Brian Stanley

134. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the current investigation into planning which was set up following the publication of the review in June 2013. [27609/14]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Brian Stanley

184. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a second redress scheme will be introduced for those survivors of institutional abuse who, for various reasons, did not avail of the Residential Institutions Redress Board. [26815/14]

Climate Change Policy

Brian Stanley

383. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the plans he requested from relevant Departments and agencies on climate change; and if these will be published prior to the publication of the promised climate change Bill. [26864/14]

Community Development Initiatives

Brian Stanley

384. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the chaos surrounding the rolling out of the social inclusion and community activation programme; if he has received reports of the insufficient information supplied to voluntary and community organisations currently delivering local community development programmes; if he is aware that this process and the uncertainty generated thereby are causing grave damage to local and community development across the country; the steps he will take to rectify the situation; if he will reconsider his decision to tender the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26903/14]

Public Procurement Regulations

Brian Stanley

385. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the directive he cites, 2004/18/EU, to justify the tendering of the social inclusion and community activation programme was repealed before the notice of the tender was issued; if the tendering of the programme still has a safe legal basis; if he will outline the nature of that legal basis; in view of the legal uncertainty, if he will abandon the tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26905/14]

Public Procurement Regulations

Brian Stanley

386. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the tendering of the social inclusion and community activation programme, if he has read European Directive 2014/24/EU; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is now the current law on public procurement in Ireland; if he has read preamble 7, which sets down that the directive is without prejudice to the freedom of member, national, regional and local authorities to provide, commission and finance services that pursue public policy objectives and specifies that the directive does not apply to systems of grant aid, in particular in the social field; if he has read preamble 114 which sets down that member states and public authorities remain free to organise social services in such a way that does not entail the conclusion of public contracts; if he has contrasted these preambles with his earlier statements to Dáil Éireann that he was legally obliged to tender the programme; if he will, in view of current European law, abandon the tendering of the social inclusion and community activation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26906/14]

Public Procurement Regulations

Brian Stanley

387. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland is the only country in the European Union which has put its national local community development programme or analogous programme out to public tender; the reason this is necessary in Ireland but not in any other member state; if he asked for or commissioned any advice, impact statement or study as to the consequences of that decision; if he will make any such papers available to Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26907/14]

Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Brian Stanley

63. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the plans that have been put in place to address the shortage of social housing in County Laois; and if he will to set out a timeframe to address the issue. [25601/14]

Private Rented Accommodation Deposits

Brian Stanley

79. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the development of legislation to provide for a deposit retention scheme to protect tenants from the illegal withholding of security deposits by landlords. [25448/14]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Brian Stanley

81. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the climate Bill will be introduced. [25449/14]

Planning Issues

Brian Stanley

90. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that Westmeath County Council was told it could not impose restrictions on wind farms, despite the new regulations, following public consultation, not yet being put into place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25446/14]

NAMA Portfolio

Brian Stanley

96. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the portion of the units offered by the National Asset Management Agency for social housing but not used by local authorities that were on the basis of concerns over social mix in an area; if he will provide a breakdown of each council areas, detailing the number of units and the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25447/14]

Property Tax Administration

Brian Stanley

107. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will guarantee that all of the receipts from the local property tax in 2015 will be made available to local authorities for the purpose for which it was intended. [25445/14]

Universal Social Charge Application

Brian Stanley

300. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the universal social charge is not taken into account or disregarded when calculating means for social welfare payments. [24088/14]

Animal Welfare

Brian Stanley

527. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of dog licences that were issued in 2013. [22367/14]

Property Tax Yield

Brian Stanley

61. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance the amount each individual local authority received from the local property tax in 2013. [21689/14]

IBRC Liquidation

Brian Stanley

65. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance the commitment that has been given by Oaktree and Lone Star Fund VIII who have bought the loan book of 13,000 Irish Nationwide Building Society mortgages from KPMG; and the protection that exists for these mortgage holders. [21676/14]

Foreshore Issues

Brian Stanley

124. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has held consultations on the proposed new Foreshore Act in the context of seaweed licences; and with whom he has consulted. [21667/14]

Ministerial Meetings

Brian Stanley

125. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has recently met representatives of Atlantic Harvest; and the subject of his discussions. [21668/14]