Parliamentary questions

HSE Agency Staff Expenditure

Martin Kenny

195. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the total agency spend at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years 2013 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40351/16]

Hospital Staff Data

Martin Kenny

196. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of whole-time-equivalent nursing positions in place at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2009 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40352/16]

Hospital Beds Data

Martin Kenny

197. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of beds operational at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2009 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40353/16]

Hospitals Data

Martin Kenny

198. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of outpatient hospital cancellations at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2013 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40354/16]

Hospitals Data

Martin Kenny

199. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient hospital cancellations at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years 2013 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40355/16]

Hospital Beds Data

Martin Kenny

200. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient and outpatient "did not attends", at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2013 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40356/16]

Hospitals Data

Martin Kenny

201. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of theatres operational at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2011 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40357/16]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Martin Kenny

202. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the capital projects agreed and funded at Sligo University Hospital; the details and an overview of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40358/16]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Martin Kenny

203. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the cost of each capital project funded by the HSE and or his department at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2009 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40359/16]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Martin Kenny

204. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol was initiated at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2011 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40360/16]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Martin Kenny

205. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions that the full capacity protocol was initiated at Sligo University Hospital for each of the years, 2011 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40361/16]

Disability Allowance Payments

Martin Kenny

273. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will prioritise the case of a person (details supplied) in order that they will receive payment in time for Christmas. [39393/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals

Martin Kenny

280. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for a jobseeker's allowance will be prioritised for a person (detail supplied); and if a decision will issue before Christmas 2016. [39445/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Administration

Martin Kenny

2. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the restoration of the national reserve for entitlements under the basic payments scheme for farmers, with particular reference to new entrants to farming, returning emigrants, farmers under 40 years of age who were not farming in reference years and old young farmers. [37869/16]

Agriculture Scheme Eligibility

Martin Kenny

13. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the inclusion of young farmers that are new entrants to farming in the animal welfare sheep scheme as the payments are based on average ewe numbers possessed in 2014 and 2015; and when, in the case of an entrant to farming in 2016, they will be included in such a scheme. [37722/16]

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Martin Kenny

15. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether, with the advent of digital mapping, that to penalise farmers for overclaims, which were not deemed to be overclaims in the past, by freezing their whole payment and not just the portion in question, is harsh at a time when many farmers are facing a cash crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37694/16]

Commonage Framework Plans

Martin Kenny

17. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason, under the GLAS scheme, common framework plan, farmers within GLAS are now expected to inform on their non-GLAS commonage neighbours with regard to stocking density or be penalised. [37695/16]

Dairy Sector

Martin Kenny

20. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with the forthcoming increase in stock in the dairy sector and its inevitable impact on the beef market. [37696/16]

Live Exports

Martin Kenny

36. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to remove trade barriers to the live trade to Northern Ireland and Britain in the context of Brexit. [37697/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Administration

Martin Kenny

499. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and value of basic payment scheme entitlements transferred in 2016 in a number of categories (details supplied), by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35902/16]

Bus Services

Martin Kenny

547. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to upgrade the bus service between Rosses Point and Strandhill, County Sligo and the Sligo town service which is in need of an extension of its timetable and greater frequency of service for growing population of Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36243/16]

Commonage Land Use

Martin Kenny

633. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Commonage Implementation Committee last met. [34494/16]

Appointments to State Boards

Martin Kenny

634. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a new chairperson will be appointed to the Commonage Implementation Committee. [34495/16]

Health Services Staff

Martin Kenny

303. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if the vacancies in the south Leitrim early intervention team have been filled; and if not, when he expects to have the south Leitrim early intervention team fully staffed. [33320/16]

Health Services Staff

Martin Kenny

304. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if cover was provided earlier in 2016 while a person (details supplied) was on maternity leave. [33321/16]

Speech and Language Therapy

Martin Kenny

305. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will consider approving the recruitment of an additional speech therapist to the Ballyshannon health centre (details supplied). [33322/16]

Garda Operations

Martin Kenny

57. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fishing vessels that were raided by various Departments and agencies and the port in which they were berthed on 5 October 2016 and for an unknown number of days thereafter. [32570/16]

Garda Operations

Martin Kenny

58. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of undocumented fishermen that were identified on fishing vessels which were raided by various Departments and agencies on 5 October 2016 and for an unknown number of days thereafter. [32571/16]

Garda Operations

Martin Kenny

59. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the planned follow-up actions she will take with regard to the employers concerned and the undocumented fishermen identified during raids on 5 October 2016 and for an unknown number of days thereafter. [32572/16]

Garda Operations

Martin Kenny

60. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that when fishing vessels were raided on 5 October 2016 by various Departments and agencies it was necessary to involve armed gardaí and dogs in the searches. [32573/16]

Garda Operations

Martin Kenny

61. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason it was necessary to seal off the harbours at Castletownbere and Howth during raids on fishing vessels on 5 October 2016, and for an unknown number of days thereafter, by various Departments and agencies. [32574/16]

Agriculture Schemes

Martin Kenny

379. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider making a grant available to persons on marginal land for a drainage scheme to improve grass production and management which would help prevent a fodder crisis in the future. [32582/16]

Horse Racing Ireland

Martin Kenny

2. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, considering the statements of the chairman of Horse Racing Ireland to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, admitting that proper procedure was not followed in the appointment of its CEO and calling into question the legality of that appointment and considering his approval of that appointment in those circumstances and the statement by the HRI chairman that he would make the same appointment in the same manner if given the opportunity, he plans to reconsider Government funding of €64 million to this semi-state body. [32348/16]

Harness Racing Industry

Martin Kenny

11. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide funding to the Irish Harness Racing Association following its provision of a training course to encourage participants in the sport to come off-road and use safer regulated facilities. [32186/16]

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Martin Kenny

12. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he will take to include the group of farmers known as "old young farmers" who are excluded from entitlements due to their having been farming before 2009 but who are still under 40 years of age. [32185/16]

Afforestation Programme

Martin Kenny

26. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale behind allowing the same level of grant aid and tax relief on forestry-related activity to non-farmers and farmers; if his attention has been drawn to the effect this is having on land prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32183/16]

Fodder Crisis

Martin Kenny

37. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions that will be made, especially for farmers in the north west, in view of the pending fodder crisis in the area. [32187/16]

Renewable Energy Incentives

Martin Kenny

49. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has considered grant-aiding agrifood enterprises, such as chicken farms and mushroom growers, to support them in switching to biomass sources of energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32184/16]

Social Welfare Benefits Applications

Martin Kenny

295. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind the demand for the long version of birth certificates from persons who are already in the system but who are making a new claim, despite possession of other documents such as passports, driving licences and short version of birth certificates, in the context that applicants do not necessarily want to reveal all the details included in the long version of the birth certificate, for example, the fact that they were adopted. [31469/16]

Údarás na Gaeltachta

Martin Kenny

29. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she is aware that the two former executives of Údarás na Gaeltachta who handled the sale of Arramara Teoranta to a company (details supplied) were then employed by the company; if the sale was completed by ministerial order; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21284/16]

Vaccination Programme

Martin Kenny

467. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the Gardasil vaccine is totally safe; and the reason the information from Gardasil is not included as part of the information to parents before vaccination (details supplied). [29772/16]

Vaccination Programme

Martin Kenny

469. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that up until 2012, reporting of suspected vaccine reactions including Gardasil vaccine here depended on the voluntary submission of a report from a doctor, consultant or medical professional (details supplied); and his views on whether the incidence of adverse reactions is under-reported in view of the fact that most doctors will not acknowledge any connection between a vaccine including the Gardasil vaccine and a subsequent serious medical condition that manifests in the weeks or months afterwards. [29774/16]

Tax Reliefs Data

Martin Kenny

137. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons and companies and associated amount of income and gains, in increments of €5,000, in receipt of tax relief related to woodlands here, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28273/16]

Forestry Grants

Martin Kenny

507. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons or companies, and the associated amount of income or gains in increments of €5,000, in receipt of grant aid related to the ownership of woodlands and all woodland activity from 2009 and 2015 in tabular form and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28274/16]

Water Quality

Martin Kenny

355. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason he continues to allow the sewage treatment plant to dump excess waste into the Grange river which flows into Streedagh beach; and his plans to cease this practice (details supplied). [27202/16]

Vaccination Programme

Martin Kenny

658. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if a vaccine (details supplied) has been withdrawn from use; and, if so, the date on which it was withdrawn from use. [26923/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Appeals

Martin Kenny

830. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by persons (details supplied). [27191/16]

Mobile Telephony Services

Martin Kenny

861. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason areas of Cloone, Aughavas, Carrigallen and Drumrielly in south Leitrim remain without mobile phone coverage from companies (details supplied); and his plans to improve the coverage in these areas. [27204/16]

Semi-State Bodies

Martin Kenny

902. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the guidelines on contracts for CEOs in commercial semi-State bodies were last updated; and the number of times they have been breached since its introduction. [25170/16]

Semi-State Bodies

Martin Kenny

903. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the maximum length of service for CEOs in commercial semi-State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25172/16]