Parliamentary questions

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

142. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the inpatient and outpatient care services provided at St. Joseph's Community Hospital in County Donegal in each year from 2005 to 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43188/15]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

143. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds at St. Jospeh's Community Hospital in County Donegal in each year from 2005 to 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43189/15]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

144. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels, including details of positions and job titles, at Saint Joseph's Community Hospital in County Donegal, in each year from 2005 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43190/15]

Medical Card Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

145. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if a family income supplement is taken into consideration when assessing an application for a discretionary medical card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43195/15]

Motor Tax Collection

Pearse Doherty

172. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a rebate scheme for truck owners who paid their motor tax at a higher rate before the Court of Appeal ruling of 21 October 2015 to allow them to recoup overpaid tax' if hauliers who were paying at this rate before 21 October 2015 are entitled to a rebate; the reason for the discrepancy in treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43145/15]

Wastewater Treatment

Pearse Doherty

173. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the findings of the urban wastewater treatment in 2014 report by the Environmental Protection Agency in which inadequate wastewater treatment infrastructure was found to exist at a number of agglomerations and locations in County Donegal; the action he will take to resolve the issues identified by the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43147/15]

Wastewater Treatment

Pearse Doherty

174. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the findings of the urban wastewater treatment in 2014 report by the Environmental Protection Agency in which wastewater discharge was found to have contributed to pollution at a river (details supplied) in County Donegal; the action which is being taken to address pollution at the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43148/15]

Vehicle Registration

Pearse Doherty

180. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in processing a log book for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for tax purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43171/15]

Unemployment Data

Pearse Doherty

122. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach the number of persons under the age of 24 who were unemployed and on the live register, who were in employment, who were on activation schemes and who were in tertiary education, over the past 18 months, in tabular form. [42604/15]

Unemployment Data

Pearse Doherty

123. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach the number of persons under the age of 34 who were unemployed and on the live register, who were in employment, who were on activation schemes and who were in tertiary education, over the past 18 months, in tabular form [42605/15]

Community Employment Schemes Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

151. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on widening the eligibility for community employment schemes in areas where places are unfilled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42594/15]

Community Services Programme

Pearse Doherty

153. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a recently submitted application for funding by a community and enterprise centre (details supplied) in County Donegal, which sought funding through the community services programme for additional staffing for the centre and which funding was only partially granted, will be re-appraised; if she is aware that the facility requires these additional staff members if it is to continue to provide services to the local community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42617/15]

Mortgage Lending

Pearse Doherty

197. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance when he or the Central Bank of Ireland will review the current lending restrictions on mortgage lending and, in the context of such a review, if he will consider extending the base 10% first-time buyer deposit limit to second-time buyers who are seeking to trade up to larger homes to accommodate increased family size. [42557/15]

Universal Social Charge Yield

Pearse Doherty

206. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the projected revenue from the universal social charge for 2015 and for 2016 [42826/15]

Corporation Tax Regime

Pearse Doherty

207. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 24 November 2015, the amount of corporation tax paid in 2014 by the bands identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42837/15]

Health Services Funding

Pearse Doherty

384. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the funds allocated to the Travel2Care scheme for 2016. [42305/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Pearse Doherty

417. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42595/15]

Dental Services Waiting Lists

Pearse Doherty

419. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a dental appointment; the reason for the delay; the waiting time for children in Counties Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42602/15]

Home Care Packages Provision

Pearse Doherty

432. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health why a care worker to provide morning care at appropriate times to a person (details supplied), as indicated by a care assessment, (details supplied) in County Donegal has not been appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42703/15]

Medical Card Applications

Pearse Doherty

450. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42830/15]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

460. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the details of inpatient and outpatient care services provided at Lifford Community Hospital in County Donegal, for each year from 2005 to 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42932/15]

Hospital Services

Pearse Doherty

461. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the details of the number of inpatient beds at Lifford Community Hospital in County Donegal, for each year from 2005 to 2015 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42933/15]

Disability Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

462. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for appointments for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy in County Cavan and in County Monaghan for six months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, and 24 months plus, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42934/15]

Disability Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

463. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the status of the Cavan and Monaghan implementation plan for progressing disability services for children and young people, and the accessibility of therapy services and assessments for children in these counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42935/15]

Disability Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

464. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the time frame for the services that are being restructured and proposed under the Cavan and Monaghan implementation plan for progressing disability services for children and young people; how this will help those children on waiting lists of over 29 months to get access to critical therapies in the short to medium term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42936/15]

Disability Services Provision

Pearse Doherty

465. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the status of the additional posts that have been allocated to the specific services that are being restructured and proposed under the Cavan and Monaghan implementation plan for progressing disability services for children and young people in County Cavan and in County Monaghan; how these will be filled; how the network teams are being developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42937/15]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

514. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a person qualifies for a special rate student grant if he or she is within the threshold and meets all qualifying conditions but is in employment for two days a week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42596/15]

Student Universal Support Ireland Administration

Pearse Doherty

515. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number ​of outstanding applications under the ​Student Universal Support Ireland scheme that​ remain to be processed despite all necessary documentation having been received; when the students who qualify will​ ​receive their grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42597/15]

Leader Programmes Funding

Pearse Doherty

555. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of European Union funding from the Leader programme for the periods 2014 to 2020 and for 2008 to 2014, to allow for a comparison of funding for both periods. [42301/15]

Commercial Rates

Pearse Doherty

561. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of compensation that will be paid to each local authority as a result of the global rates revaluation, in tabular form; the amount each local authority stands to lose as a result of the process, before compensation; the way the level of compensation was calculated in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42514/15]

Fáilte Ireland Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

611. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Fáilte Ireland’s spend on the marketing campaign for the Wild Atlantic Way. [42298/15]

The Gathering Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

612. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the spend on the recent marketing campaign for the The Gathering. [42299/15]

Airport Development Projects

Pearse Doherty

613. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is committed to the current application by the Ireland West Airport Knock for 90% Exchequer funding for the expansion plans associated with the operation of the airport, and to further business proposals to facilitate the ongoing development of the airport and the region; and if these expenditure measures are included in the capital expenditure programme. [42302/15]

Rail Network

Pearse Doherty

614. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has established the timeframe for the completion of the western rail corridor and its associated cost. [42303/15]

Road Projects Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

615. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has established the cost of upgrading the N4 road between Cloonamahon and Castlebaldwin in County Sligo to enhance the Sligo to Dublin link; and if this cost has been included in the capital expenditure programme. [42304/15]

Credit Union Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

57. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans to dissolve the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42050/15]

Credit Union Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

58. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans for the estimated €230 million that will be available to the Exchequer on the dissolution of the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42051/15]

Credit Union Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

62. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the drawdown to date by the Credit Union Restructuring Board; its estimated final drawdown, and the remaining funds available to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42136/15]

Credit Union Restructuring

Pearse Doherty

63. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the funding to date for the Credit Union Restructuring Board; the source of this funding, with each source's contribution specified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42137/15]

Credit Unions

Pearse Doherty

64. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions subject to lending restrictions; the nature of these restrictions, by number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/15]

Building Regulations Amendments

Pearse Doherty

212. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to current planning rules which allow for the exemption of small-scale domestic property extensions from acquiring planning permission prior to construction, if he will clarify if it is the case that this exemption does not extend to properties located within special areas of conservation, SAC; the options available to owners of such properties who are unaware of this, and who unknowingly proceed with a domestic extension without first obtaining planning permission; if the option of obtaining retention planning permission for such unauthorised developments is not available to owners of properties within an SAC; if he will consider amending existing legislation in order to allow for retention planning permission to be granted to property owners in such incidences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42063/15]

Citizen Information Services

Pearse Doherty

66. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to citizens information centres, and to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, in each of the past five years. [42010/15]

Departmental Agencies Staff Data

Pearse Doherty

67. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of staff in citizens information centres and in the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, in each of the past five years. [42011/15]

Mortgage Lending

Pearse Doherty

151. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the percentage of the space permitted for exemptions from the deposit rules used by the banks to date, subject to the Central Bank of Ireland's macro-prudential mortgage lending rule, by regulated bank in tabular form; the value of these exempted loans; the average mortgage within this set of exempted mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41178/15]

Corporation Tax

Pearse Doherty

165. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of companies that paid corporation tax in the bands €0 to €50,000, €50,000 plus to €100,000, €100,00 plus to €500,000, €500,000 plus to €1 million, €1 million plus to €5 million, and €5 million plus, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41606/15]

Corporation Tax

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the average increase in corporation tax paid in 2015 to date, by the top 20% of companies; and the equivalent amount at this point in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41607/15]

Government Expenditure

Pearse Doherty

167. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance further to Question No. 208 of 17 November 2015, if he will list the number of other calls on the central fund referred to in the reply. [41634/15]

Public Sector Staff Data

Pearse Doherty

174. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of exemptions requested by individual Departments, State agencies and local authorities to the moratorium on recruitment and promotion since its introduction in March 2009, by request, including the name of the requesting body and the reasons given; the number of exemptions granted for promotions, recruitments and redeployments; the decision reached; the costs incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41167/15]

Valuation Office

Pearse Doherty

179. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date that each local authority was advised in writing by the Valuation Office regarding the global revaluations in 2015; if any advance notice of this intended revaluation was issued; and if so, when. [41684/15]

Local Authority Functions

Pearse Doherty

263. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 3 November 2015, whereby the local implementation group of the 2011 Killybegs Jobs Initiative has been reporting to Donegal County Council as part of its work, the nature of this co-operation between the group and the local authority; the role the local authority has played in the initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41594/15]

Departmental Bodies Data

Pearse Doherty

277. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of companies in County Donegal which have received funding and grant aid from Bord Iascaigh Mhara, by name and by the total amount received for each year from 2005 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41784/15]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments

Pearse Doherty

278. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41785/15]

Personal Insolvency Act

Pearse Doherty

318. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the new legal measures to allow a debtor to challenge a bank's veto in insolvency arrangements have been used; the results in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41399/15]

Blood Donations

Pearse Doherty

401. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health his plans to remove the ban on blood donations from males who have previously engaged in sexual intercourse with other males, as enforced by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service; if the details of the data source used to justify and base this exclusion, which has been cited as necessary in order to reduce the risk of infected blood entering the blood supply; the potential increase in donations if the ban is lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41534/15]

Blood Donations

Pearse Doherty

402. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health his plans to lift the permanent deferral policy currently enforced by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in which persons who have resided for 12 months or more in total and cumulatively in Britain and or the six counties between 1980 and 1996 are excluded from making a blood donation; the data source used to justify and base this exclusion which has been cited as necessary in order to reduce the risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, CJD, transmission; the potential increase in donations if the ban was lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41535/15]

Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times

Pearse Doherty

423. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health why more than 2,600 persons have been on trolleys in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal since 1 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41683/15]

Home Help Service Eligibility

Pearse Doherty

433. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health why the home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal were withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41801/15]

Medical Card Delays

Pearse Doherty

434. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing a discretionary medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41802/15]

Schools Building Projects Status

Pearse Doherty

466. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills when construction on a new school building project (details supplied) in County Donegal will commence, and will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41280/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

512. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a ceiling on the amount of the €2.49 million Lufthansa Technik European Commission funding that can be spent on supports for the 200 people not in education, employment or training. [41676/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

513. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding the project web access international European globalisation adjustment fund application seeks from the European Commission; the matching Government component if the bid is successful; and when a decision is expected from the European Commission. [41677/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

514. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will formally request from the European globalisation adjustment fund, EGF, managing authority responsible for the Lufthansa Technik EGF programme the total amount of European Union funds spent as of 1 November 2015; and if she will provide this figure. [41678/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

515. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the €2.49 million European Commission contribution to the Lufthansa Technik European globalisation adjustment fund programme will be spent by the September 2016 deadline; and the measures she has put in place over and above those already in place for previous programmes to ensure the 40% return rate of European funding across previous EGF programmes is not replicated with the Lufthansa Technik programme and that all of the money allocated is spent. [41679/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

516. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the 200 people not in education, employment or training, NEET, in the Lufthansa Technik European globalisation adjustment fund, EGF, programme are named persons in the application, or a target to be reached from the overall NEET population in the area of the Lufthansa programme; and if the latter is the case, the criteria by which young persons may be deemed eligible for access to EGF support. [41680/15]

European Globalisation Fund

Pearse Doherty

524. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the Lufthansa Technik Airmotive, Andersen Ireland and PWA International Limited European globalisation adjustment fund applications and make them available to Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas and on the EGF website. [41800/15]

Commercial Rent Reviews

Pearse Doherty

556. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details, dates, attendees and agendas of all meetings between his Department, the Valuation Office and officials from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in respect of a revision of rate valuations in the local authority area. [41685/15]

Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service

Pearse Doherty

33. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of her announced independent financial advice service (details supplied); the number of persons who have availed of the service; the number of accountants who are members of the panel and who were members of the panel during any given year; the number of persons on the panel from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland, the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants, respectively, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40988/15]

Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

58. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to each of the State-backed banks of the financial advice scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40929/15]

Mortgage Interest Relief Application

Pearse Doherty

59. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the proposal to allow 100% mortgage interest relief to some landlords, as per the Government announcement of 10 November 2015. [40952/15]

Banking Sector Regulation

Pearse Doherty

61. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the action he is taking in response to the recent report from the Financial Stability Board in Switzerland which described how improved monitoring of shadow banking here will require increased regulatory oversight and co-ordination across jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40990/15]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data

Pearse Doherty

63. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of properties sold by AIB, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB through both the approved housing body mortgage-to-rent scheme and the local authority mortgage-to-rent scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41041/15]

Food Safety Standards

Pearse Doherty

120. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how the new requirements introduced by the Chinese authorities in which cadmium levels for live brown crab have been set at 0.5 mg per kilogram will impact on the issuance of health certificates by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority to exporters of live consignments of brown crab to China; the assistance which is being provided to exporters, given these new requirements; if he is aware of the negative impact which these requirements will have on the industry; the action he is taking to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41118/15]

Community Alert Programme

Pearse Doherty

137. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated to the community and text alert and neighbourhood watch schemes in 2015 to date. [40957/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Pearse Doherty

162. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40913/15]

Home Help Service Provision

Pearse Doherty

194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 392 of 10 November 2015, why a person (details supplied) in County Cavan is only receiving an exercise programme as part of home help hours; the issues that will be taken into account in the re-assessment; and if consideration will be given to the person's needs, considering the family circumstances. [41114/15]

Home Help Service Provision

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) in County Cavan is not in receipt of home help hours; his plans to make provision for this service; the issues that will be taken into account ; if consideration will be given to the person's needs, considering the family circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41115/15]

Emigrant Support Services

Pearse Doherty

201. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated to emigrants and the diaspora for 2016. [40958/15]

Emigrant Support Services

Pearse Doherty

202. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total funding allocated to organisations (details supplied) for 2016. [40959/15]

Schools Building Projects Status

Pearse Doherty

219. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has met with the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, along with the design team, for the stage 2a stakeholder meeting, as part of the planning process of a building project; if the project has been authorised to stage 2b - detailed design stage; when construction will commence; if she is aware of the urgent need to have this project completed, given of the school's increasing enrolment numbers, as well as recent flooding in the vicinity of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41116/15]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration

Pearse Doherty

229. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a procedural agreement that exists between lenders and approved housing bodies in respect of the mortgage to rent scheme in which cases are exited from the scheme and subsequently not offered to the approved housing body panel for consideration without at least a 15% reduction on the open market value of the property; of the hugely negative impact that such an agreement has on the likelihood of individual applications being successful under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40911/15]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Funding

Pearse Doherty

231. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government how the €20 million fund announced (details supplied) was spent; if any of the fund remains; through which local authorities was it drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40954/15]

Better Energy Homes Scheme

Pearse Doherty

249. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of altering the better homes scheme so as to reimburse the contractor rather than the household which had the work done, thereby assisting those on low incomes who have a lack of cash flow. [40963/15]

Haulage Industry

Pearse Doherty

257. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts made to date in opposing the imposition on the haulage industry of the lorry road user levy introduced in the Six Counties in 2014; the continued action he is taking to oppose the application of the charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40912/15]

Local Improvement Scheme Funding

Pearse Doherty

262. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of restoring funding to local authorities under the local improvement scheme for community involvement schemes for non-local authority roads. [40960/15]

Rural Transport Programme Funding

Pearse Doherty

263. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of increasing funding for the rural transport programme by 15%, and of expanding the service to areas currently neglected, or under-serviced, by ensuring at least once-daily services are in operation in all rural areas. [40961/15]

Mortgage Arrears Proposals

Pearse Doherty

2. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans for additional measures to tackle the ongoing mortgage crisis and the repossession crisis, including through legislative and policy changes. [40616/15]

Central Bank of Ireland Investigations

Pearse Doherty

26. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the status of the Central Bank of Ireland’s investigation into tracker mortgage infringements by banks; the number of banks being investigated, and where issues have been found; and when the investigation will be completed. [40344/15]

Property Tax Exemptions

Pearse Doherty

27. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans to exempt a complex (details supplied) and other residential complexes that are unsafe to live in from the local property tax. [40342/15]

Credit Union Regulation

Pearse Doherty

38. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans to engage with the credit union movement before the commencement of the remaining element of the 2012 Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseers Regulators Act. [40340/15]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Pearse Doherty

40. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of banks that have decreased their standard variable interest rates in 2015; the size of these changes; and his plans to legislate to allow the Central Bank of Ireland to cap these rates. [40343/15]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data

Pearse Doherty

166. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties that have been successfully purchased by local authorities through the local authority mortgage-to-rent scheme, by local authority, in tabular form. [40848/15]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data

Pearse Doherty

167. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties which have been successfully purchased through the mortgage-to-rent scheme, ABH and LAMTRs, since 1 July 2015, by county, in tabular form. [40849/15]

Commissions of Investigation

Pearse Doherty

109. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Taoiseach the costs to date of the Commission of Investigation into Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and the overall anticipated budget and cost to complete its work and to report. [40040/15]

Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme

Pearse Doherty

195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the current qualifying criteria for access to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme for persons with disabilities; if he has given consideration to provide for additionality to the scheme to allow for applicants with other conditions to access it; his views on the huge benefit that access to the scheme would provide to those currently excluded from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40053/15]

Tax Residency

Pearse Doherty

196. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the procedures in place to ensure that those who are not tax resident here do not breach the conditions of non-residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40072/15]

Budget Measures

Pearse Doherty

205. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of items in the Finance Bill 2015 or pending from previous years still awaiting European Union approval, such as under state aid regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40279/15]

Financial Services Sector

Pearse Doherty

206. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the number of Irish collective asset management vehicles established to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40324/15]

Budget Measures

Pearse Doherty

208. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the expected fiscal space permissible in each of the next five years and cumulatively over this time; and the main factors that might cause these parameters to change. [40436/15]

State Banking Sector

Pearse Doherty

209. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the income from dividends and other sources from the State’s holding in Allied Irish Banks and in other banks expected in 2016; and how the sale of shares in these banks might affect this income in 2016 and in further years. [40437/15]

VAT Rate Application

Pearse Doherty

212. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance how child care is treated for the purposes of value added tax, including the purchase of equipment required for special needs purposes by a private family and by a child care centre. [40470/15]