Parliamentary questions

Language Schools

Joan Collins

33. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether English language teachers will be crucial to the expected 25% growth of international students in the next four years; his further views on whether these jobs must be quality jobs; and his plans to include minimum employment conditions for English language teachers in the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Amendment) Bill. [31627/17]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Joan Collins

75. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Ireland will meet its climate change targets by 2020; and if not, his plans to ensure the targets are met between 2017 and 2020. [29800/17]

National Mitigation Plan

Joan Collins

77. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the national mitigation plan on climate change has been brought to Cabinet; and when it will be brought to Dáil Éireann for debate. [29799/17]

National Monuments

Joan Collins

322. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a group (details supplied) was not included in the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29825/17]

National Monuments

Joan Collins

323. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a group (details supplied) was not included in the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29826/17]

National Monuments

Joan Collins

324. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason an association (details supplied) founded in 1926 was not included in the consultative and advisory group on Moore Street. [29827/17]

National Monuments

Joan Collins

325. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she accepts the consultative group's report on Moore Street; if she accepts all of its recommendations; and the recommendations that she does not accept. [29828/17]

Departmental Legal Costs

Joan Collins

326. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount it has cost in legal fees to date in 2017 to challenge the High Court ruling against the Minister and a company (details supplied) of March 2016; the origin of the moneys used; the amount to which her Department has costed the case if it is heard in the Court of Appeal or in the Supreme Court; and the location from which that finance is coming. [30006/17]

National Monuments

Joan Collins

327. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount the State has given in grants to property developers in Moore Street regarding the national 1916 historical monument. [30007/17]

Climate Change Policy

Joan Collins

473. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the national dialogue on climate change is being processed; when it will commence; the way in which it will be implemented; and his plans to bring this dialogue into communities and workplaces. [29928/17]

Waste Management

Joan Collins

479. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 23 of May 2017, if the review he referred to regarding an incentivised system in regard to waste management has been completed; if the situation that ensued in 2016 whereby families were charged more for their waste collection than previously will not recur; if there is a provision in the review for infirm or disabled persons who use nappies and so on; and the timeframe for the new system be rolled out. [30075/17]

Housing Policy

Joan Collins

635. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if the report is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017; and if he has a target date of the third quarter of 2017. [30086/17]

Housing Policy

Joan Collins

636. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, and in particular the second paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the persons who are on this expert group; the terms of reference of the group; and if an organisation (details supplied) has been asked to be on it. [30087/17]

Housing Policy

Joan Collins

637. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the second last paragraph which refers to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, the scale of the cost of the rental agency being considered; and his views on whether it should be aiming at €10,000 to €20,000 per annum. [30088/17]

Housing Policy

Joan Collins

638. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 25 May 2017, in particular the reference to action 12 of the strategy for the rental sector, if it will be a semi-State company that progresses the cost rental model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30089/17]

Hospital Staff

Joan Collins

1397. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if there are staff shortages in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital. [28288/17]

Hospital Complaints Procedures

Joan Collins

1435. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital complaint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28389/17]

Departmental Information

Joan Collins

43. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to launch information campaigns advising persons of payment pending wages or the fast tracking system for persons that sign off to take up employment or training for a short period, that is, up to 12 weeks, or family income supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25973/17]

Social Welfare Code

Joan Collins

47. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if he was referring to persons who rely on social transfers from his Department to keep them out of poverty when he referred to those who contribute nothing and want everything free. [25931/17]

Back to Work Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Joan Collins

62. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department is encouraging recipients of social welfare payments to become self-employed through the back to work enterprise allowance scheme, in view of the amount of bogus self-employment in the construction sector and the loss to the State related to the wrongful designation of workers (details supplied); and when he plans to cease this practice. [25976/17]

Construction Industry

Joan Collins

65. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated loss in employers' PRSI payments to his Department for the year ending 31 December 2015 in view of the amount of bogus self-employment within the construction sector, which has been identified in a report (details supplied), in which it has identified a loss of €83 million in tax and PRSI payments to the State; and the mechanism he or his departmental officials have put in place to end this PRSI avoidance measure by unscrupulous employers in the construction sector that only engage workers on a bogus self-employed basis. [25975/17]

Construction Industry

Joan Collins

84. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection when the report on the intermediary type employment structures and self-employment arrangements will be released; and if this report is essentially bogus self employment in the construction industry. [25930/17]

Unemployment Data

Joan Collins

317. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of craft workers relevant to the construction industry now in receipt of social welfare payments (details supplied). [26024/17]

Unemployment Benefits Data

Joan Collins

318. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving a jobseeker's payment under 26 years of age; and the number of persons receiving the payment in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016. [25932/17]

Maternity Benefit Applications

Joan Collins

320. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will report on the delays in processing maternity benefit claims; the time it now takes to process the postal claims and online claims; and the number of claims that take two weeks, a month, two months or longer, respectively. [25929/17]

Housing Policy

Joan Collins

23. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to set up a national housing company of Ireland; and his plans to develop this type of policy for up to 700 sites owned by local authorities and other State-owned lands, particularly the Dublin City Council land initiative plan at St. Michael's, O'Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. [24791/17]

Emergency Accommodation Data

Joan Collins

42. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation as of 20 May 2017; the number of persons that are in hotels; the number in bed and breakfast accommodation; and the locations in which these families will be housed on 1 July 2017. [24792/17]

Flood Risk Assessments

Joan Collins

163. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an address (details supplied) is mapped as a flood risk area; his views on the situation whereby persons cannot get insurance for a home they are looking to buy in these circumstances; and the options available for the persons involved. [25192/17]

Waste Disposal Charges

Joan Collins

245. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on bin collection companies introducing a pay by weight system on waste over a certain weight; and if this been agreed with him and the waste industry. [25111/17]

Housing Data

Joan Collins

301. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of family hubs which have been set up; the locations where hubs have been set up; the number of families that have been facilitated in each hub; the criteria for allocations; and the facilities that are provided in these hubs. [24618/17]

Waste Disposal Charges

Joan Collins

586. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is pursuing the policy of freezing the introduction of pay by weight for waste collection in 2017; and the measures he has put in place to ensure the situation which occurred in 2016 will not happen again (details supplied). [24651/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

221. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on the inpatient waiting list for the urology department in St. James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months, respectively. [23481/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Joan Collins

477. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels that should be in place in the urology department in St. James's Hospital (details supplied); and the current staffing levels in place. [23232/17]

Energy Schemes

Joan Collins

524. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the better energy warmer homes schemes; if his attention has been drawn to this situation; and his plans to change the criteria to address this situation. [22903/17]

Services for People with Disabilities

Joan Collins

66. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the serious lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in a special needs school (details supplied); the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in the school; the length of time since his attention was drawn to the problems accessing speech and therapy, access to swimming, access to the July provision, no health nurse provision and access to multidisciplinary teams; and the action he has taken to date to resolve this problem. [14829/17]

Commemorative Medals

Joan Collins

412. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces are being ordered to wear the new 1916 commemorative medal (details supplied); if this is an unintended mistake; if he will correct this anomaly by ensuring the service medals of 1916 and the War of Independence are inexorably listed to the fore of any official precedent here involving State primary service medals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18974/17]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Joan Collins

413. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to implement reimbursement for Defence Forces personnel for the mounting of medals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18975/17]

Hospital Beds Data

Joan Collins

271. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of beds in the public hospital system; and the number of beds reserved for the private patients of consultants. [18440/17]

Teacher Data

Joan Collins

179. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers in voluntary secondary schools in receipt of the supervision and substitution allowance. [17551/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

51. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether ASD, autism spectrum disorder, units in mainstream schools for children with autism is the preferred educational environment for children; and his plans with regard to developing and working with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and the Minister of State with special responsibility for disabilities to further ASD units. [14830/17]

Hospital Appointments Delays

Joan Collins

160. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15717/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

161. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the outpatient waiting list for appointments to attend the service of the urology department in St. James's Hospital for six months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months and 48 months. [15724/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

152. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of parents who have contacted him regarding problems accessing services in a school (details supplied); the length of time since his attention has been drawn to problems accessing speech and therapy, access to swimming, access to the July provision, no health nurse provision and access to multi-disciplinary teams; and the action he has taken to resolve this problem. [14951/17]

Medical Card Eligibility

Joan Collins

409. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health whether it is under his remit to reinstate items (details supplied) on the medical card; if not, the person or body that can do so; and if it requires legislation to include extra items onto the medical card. [15393/17]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

323. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding special needs assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13523/17]

Hospital Procedures

Joan Collins

914. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the next appointment for surgery will take place in respect of a person (details supplied); and the way the person can receive priority surgery. [13627/17]

Health Services Provision

Joan Collins

948. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a €75 public charge was introduced for an appointment for necessary chemotherapy treatment; and if this is a policy of any hospital that provides this necessary public health service. [13812/17]

Health Services Expenditure

Joan Collins

18. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if his Department estimated that the health budget would need to be increased by 25% in 2017 to compensate fully for the austerity cuts made from 2009 to 2014 and to take account of demographic change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12341/17]

Services for People with Disabilities

Joan Collins

41. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on the lack of services for children with complex and non-complex intellectual and physical disability needs in St. John of God special needs school in Islandbridge, Dublin 8 (details supplied). [12062/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

103. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for scoliosis surgery in Galway University Hospital for six, 12, 18, 24 and 48 months; and the reason a person (details supplied) is still waiting for surgery. [12034/17]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Joan Collins

634. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 6 May 2015, if he will provide an update on the appointment of an orthopaedic surgeon, anaesthetist and support staff to maximise utilisation of available theatre sessions in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; when the second theatre will be in operation for surgery; the staff levels required to run the two theatres; and if staff levels are in place to run the two theatres. [12158/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joan Collins

637. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been on the waiting lists for scoliosis surgery in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, for six, 12, 18 and 24 months. [12167/17]

Housing Data

Joan Collins

356. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that his Department is depending on ESB network connections to the electricity supply to verify the number of new house completions; his further views on whether this method is not a true reflection of the number of new house builds over the past number of years; and his plans for an alternative method to extrapolate a more comprehensive data on housing flows, new builds, completions and estimated net additions to total national stock in addition to a breakdown of these into private, voluntary and local authority components. [9670/17]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

507. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen laundries who live overseas (details supplied). [9772/17]

Homelessness Strategy

Joan Collins

51. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress to date on his commitment to a group (details supplied), that all homeless families in emergency accommodation will be housed by July 2017; and the number of families registered as homeless seeking emergency accommodation since he made that commitment. [8978/17]

Housing Finance Agency Funding

Joan Collins

62. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount that has been lent to local authorities from the Housing Finance Agency for public housing build since it was set up; the detail of the local authorities that have drawn down the moneys; and the projected house build from these loans to date. [9012/17]

Magdalen Laundries

Joan Collins

99. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has established the fund to provide access for Magdalen laundries survivors to complementary therapies under the ex gratia scheme (details supplied). [9383/17]

Magdalen Laundries Report

Joan Collins

290. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date on the mechanism to deal with health care for survivors of the Magdalen Laundries that live overseas, as referred to by the previous Minister on 24 September 2014. [9382/17]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

197. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE high level officials group has made a recommendation on the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group of persons with cystic fibrosis eligible for these vital drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8974/17]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

198. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE's approval of the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two to five age group and the R117h group is contingent on additional funding being provided by the Government to the HSE. [8975/17]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

199. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the Cabinet will be making the final decision relating to the reimbursement of Orkambi and the extension of Kalydeco for the two-to-five age group and the R117h group; if so, when; and if not, the body that is making the final decision. [8976/17]

Social Welfare Appeals Data

Joan Collins

310. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the annual figures since 2005 for appeals lodged with the social welfare appeals office querying a refusal based on the habitual residence condition, broken down by Irish citizens and non-Irish nationals. [8738/17]

HSE Funding

Joan Collins

437. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the total number of contracted service providers from the NGO, charity, religious bodies and voluntary sectors to the HSE; and the total sum provided for that service provision in 2016. [8294/17]

School Staff

Joan Collins

151. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7766/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Joan Collins

202. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of persons aged between 65 and 69 years of age who had a routine mammogram as per BreastCheck since January 2016. [6555/17]

Nursing Staff Provision

Joan Collins

76. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) concerning unsafe staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4260/17]

Health Services Data

Joan Collins

92. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his views on data from a recent OECD report showing that Ireland has 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 of the population compared to an OECD average of 4.8, while Ireland has 2.7 doctors per 1,000 of the population compared with an average of 3.3; and his plans to remedy this situation [4258/17]

Addiction Treatment Services

Joan Collins

270. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health when a full-time co-ordinator will be allocated to the South Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force (details supplied). [4797/17]

Hare Coursing

Joan Collins

613. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE endorses hare coursing, which has been banned in many jurisdictions (details supplied); and his views on whether public moneys should be withdrawn for this project. [4259/17]

Foreshore Licence Applications

Joan Collins

140. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when his Department will issue the foreshore licence, which he approved in principle in December 2016, to Sligo County Council in respect of the development of the proposed pier and pontoon scheme in Rosses Point, County Sligo; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the council requires the foreshore licence as a matter of urgency in order to allow it make an application for grant aid for the project to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3350/17]

Local Authority Housing Provision

Joan Collins

141. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council purchased a house in 2015 to house a family (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the council sought approval for funding from his Department in October 2015 to construct an extension to the house in compliance with the recommendation of the HSE’s occupational therapy service; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the family will not be allowed to move into the house until such time as the extension is constructed; if it normally takes 15 months for his Department to process and approve funding for such extensions; when it is expected that a decision will be made on the council’s submission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3351/17]

Traveller Community

Joan Collins

100. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will introduce legislation to recognise Traveller ethnicity. [2645/17]

Medicinal Products Availability

Joan Collins

454. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of talks between a company (details supplied) and the HSE regarding the drug Orkambi [2816/17]

Courts Service Data

Joan Collins

160. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons under 18 years of age that have been brought before District Courts in County Kerry in 2015. [1097/17]

National Drugs Strategy

Joan Collins

1020. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans for the community pillar to have a direct input into the national drugs strategy; and his plans for it to have an integral role in the process of developing the future national drugs strategy. [41606/16]

Coroners Service

Joan Collins

113. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support an immediate inquest followed by a commission of inquiry into the case of a person (details supplied). [39770/16]

Asylum Applications

Joan Collins

139. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who requested permission to leave the State temporarily under section 9(4)(a) of the Refugee Act 1996 since 2011, in tabular form; the gender of these persons; the country that these persons travelled to; and the reasons permission to leave the State temporarily was granted or refused. [40084/16]

Foreshore Licence Applications

Joan Collins

242. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received an application from Sligo County Council for a foreshore licence in respect of the development of the proposed pier and pontoon scheme in Rosses Point, County Sligo; when it is expected that the license will be signed and issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39649/16]

Ministerial Meetings

Joan Collins

438. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will reply to an appeal for a meeting with him and CF Ireland or if the meeting has been set up (details supplied). [39640/16]

Animal Welfare

Joan Collins

564. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to initiate legislation to ban animal circuses here, in view of the fact that other countries are introducing legislation to ban these circuses. [40085/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

18. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the status of the negotiations between the HSE, Health Service Executive, and NCPE, National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, and a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) regarding Orkambi for cystic fibrosis, in view of the fact it is 24 weeks since the original decision was made not to recommend Orkambi based on cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37780/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

98. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason and the basis on which the medicines management programme is ceasing the reimbursement for products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37781/16]

Hare Coursing Regulation

Joan Collins

42. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the treatment of hares is humane in view of recently reported incidents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37400/16]

Hare Coursing Regulation

Joan Collins

43. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the comments of the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (details supplied) during the debate on the Animal Protection (in relation to hares) Bill 2015, his views on the matters expressed by the Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37401/16]

Statutory Instruments

Joan Collins

543. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there has been a change to statutory instrument No. 654 of 2004, Maternity Protection (Protection of Mothers Who Are Breastfeeding) Regulations 2004, specifically the timeframe from six months to two years; and if school principals and boards are obliged to facilitate mothers who wish to pump breast milk during their working day. [37164/16]

Lansdowne Road Agreement

Joan Collins

5. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the Lansdowne Road agreement, dealing with pay restoration for public service workers, is now unsustainable; and his further views on whether it is urgent that the Government sets a date for talks with trade unions representing public sector workers early in 2017 to discuss a new agreement to replace the Lansdowne Road agreement. [36599/16]

Regeneration Projects

Joan Collins

114. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount a project (details supplied) has been granted by Limerick regeneration in 2016. [36608/16]

HSE Expenditure

Joan Collins

186. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a significant financial contribution is directed towards the costs of a new build (details supplied) from the HSE's capital estate fund; when a final, beneficial decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36516/16]

Direct Provision Payments

Joan Collins

66. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection when the recommendations in the June 2015 McMahon report that the direct provision weekly allowance be increased, to €38.74 for adults and to €29.80 for children, will be acted on. [35974/16]

Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme

Joan Collins

73. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness that a targeted use of mortgage interest supplement be restored to assist persons with a short-term mortgage arrears problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35973/16]

Fuel Allowance Eligibility

Joan Collins

78. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the hard means test of €100 over a person's social protection payment to receive fuel allowance (details supplied). [36030/16]

Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme

Joan Collins

85. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to restore the mortgage interest supplement to assist persons with a short-term mortgage arrears problem. [36002/16]

Fuel Allowance Eligibility

Joan Collins

93. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider changing the means test for the fuel allowance (details supplied). [36018/16]

Direct Provision System

Joan Collins

138. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are reports that a person (details supplied) is on hunger strike in the Globe House direct provision centre, Sligo; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern in regard to the deterioration in the person's health; the action her Department is taking in regard to the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35971/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Joan Collins

588. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove a tablet (details supplied), which is prescribed for macular degeneration of the eyes, from the hardship scheme. [34991/16]

Medicinal Products Availability

Joan Collins

589. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove any item now accessible under the hardship scheme from the hardship scheme. [34992/16]

Traveller Accommodation

Joan Collins

193. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of applications for funding for Traveller specific accommodation submitted to his Department in 2015 and 2016 by Sligo County Council; the decisions made to date on these applications; if these applications were granted or refused; if refused, the grounds under which they were refused; when decisions on the remainder of the applications will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33431/16]

Traveller Accommodation

Joan Collins

194. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding sought and allocated to Sligo County Council in each of the years 2011 to 2015 and in 2016 to date in respect of Traveller accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33432/16]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

125. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who requires a special needs assistant, SNA; and the process for accessing an SNA for preschool children. [32554/16]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Joan Collins

478. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) who requires a special needs assistant, SNA; and the process for accessing an SNA for preschool children. [32553/16]