Parliamentary questions

Bus Services

Robert Troy

136. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport the reason a company (details supplied) has not increased its service following the discontinuation of another service. [25127/24]

Schools Building Projects

Robert Troy

256. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24605/24]

Departmental Programmes

Robert Troy

360. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on the application for funding of a group under the cultural capital grant scheme (details supplied). [25203/24]

Housing Schemes

Robert Troy

389. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason local authorities are now seeking P21s for pensioners in relation to housing adaption and housing aid grants (details supplied); and his views on whether this is waste of resources across various Departments and that local authorities need to be instructed to cease seeking this information. [24801/24]

Disability Services

Robert Troy

595. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed update on the timeframe for the re-introduction of the motorised transport grant. [24591/24]

Direct Provision System

Robert Troy

598. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that residents of direct provision accommodation cannot be moved for no justified reason, aware of residents who have resided in the same location for years being transferred without any engagement. [24594/24]

Direct Provision System

Robert Troy

599. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure that where a direct provision centre is located in a rural setting or a location with no public transport, transport would be provided at appropriate times to support people into employment and education. [24595/24]

Direct Provision System

Robert Troy

600. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to ensure operators of direct provision centres are flexible when it comes the numbers of nights a resident can be away, i.e., a resident living in an isolated centre, with no access to public transport where they find work would be supported, rather than penalised, for finding work. [24596/24]

Dental Services

Robert Troy

710. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure orthodontal surgery is expedited for a patient (details supplied). [24788/24]

Mental Health Services

Robert Troy

788. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if Turas, a mental health course delivered by the National Learning Network, can be made available in Athlone to all residents, given that Athlone is split into two separate CHO regions and, at present, this course is only available to residents in one of these regions. [25130/24]

Home Help Service

Robert Troy

797. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25182/24]

Culture Policy

Robert Troy

12. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will outline funding opportunities to support cultural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24303/24]

Tourism Promotion

Robert Troy

43. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the plans in place to market the national famine walkway internationally; if there any plans to introduce a grant scheme to support product creation along the route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24302/24]

Housing Schemes

Robert Troy

77. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider introducing statutory timeframes for the implementation of housing schemes under the remit of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/24]

Housing Schemes

Robert Troy

124. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will convene a forum between senior officials in his Department and senior officials from across the local authorities to examine where housing schemes are not working or need to be amended to ensure Government policy is being implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24308/24]

National Broadband Plan

Robert Troy

141. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied). [24569/24]

Public Transport

Robert Troy

157. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the pilot public transport proposal between Delvin and Mullingar. [24565/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Robert Troy

219. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Social Protection the measures that have been taken to address an issue (details supplied). [24564/24]

Road Safety

Robert Troy

54. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport if he will urgently review the practice of switching off sections of motorway junction lights in the interest of public safety, given particular concerns have been raised regarding the lighting of junctions on the M6 at Kilbeggan and Moate. [24253/24]

School Textbooks

Robert Troy

86. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education when her Department entered into any negotiations with a book provider to reduce the cost, rather than passing it over to the parent, considering the reduction in the schoolbook grant (details supplied). [24223/24]