Parliamentary questions

Limistéir faoi Mhíbhuntáiste

Éamon Ó Cuív

210. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den Aire Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar achomharc faoi scéim na limistéar faoi mhíbhuntáiste 2012 atá déanta ag duine i nGaillimh (sonraí tugtha); cén fáth go bhfuil móill leis an gcinneadh seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [19175/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

211. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19209/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

212. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the month by month profile for his Department's 2013 capital expendiuture;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19225/13]

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Paudie Coffey

213. Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to fund the dredging of Dunmore East Harbour, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19411/13]

Single Payment Scheme Payments

Michael Creed

214. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current position regarding a 2011 single farm payment claim in respect of a person (details supplied); if his Department has received correspondence from the forestry company involved outlining the nature of the mistake made on the 2011 single farm payment application; if his Department accepts the explanation offered for the error in the application which identified lands which had a technical approval as forestry land for 2011 and these lands were in fact only planted in the Spring of 2011 and included in the 2012 single payment as forestry land; if he will make arrangements top pay outstanding moneys on the 2011 claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19430/13]

Coillte Teoranta Lands

Dan Neville

215. Deputy Dan Neville asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding Coillte (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19435/13]

Departmental Reports

Robert Troy

216. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for 2012; and if so when she will publish same. [19187/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

217. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if any of her Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19211/13]

Departmental Expenditure

Sean Fleming

218. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the month by month profile for her Department's 2013 capital expendiuture;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19227/13]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Martin Heydon

219. Deputy Martin Heydon asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the proposed allocation of €2.75 million under the childcare capital funding programme, if applications will be considered from childcare facilities that have not previously received funding under other capital programmes; if not, the other funding alternatives available for such facilities that wish to access the capital funding programme but find themselves excluded in view of the fact that they are not previous recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19297/13]

Inter-Country Adoptions

Brian Walsh

220. Deputy Brian Walsh asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Irish Adoption Authority will engage with its counterpart in the Philippines with a view to removing or increasing the recently applied limit on the number of Filipino children approved for adoption by Irish parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19337/13]

Youth Services Provision

Tom Fleming

221. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will give priority to addressing the shortfall in funding to a youth service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19380/13]

Youth Services Provision

Tom Fleming

222. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will prioritise funding in respect of an application by a youth service (details supplied) in County Kerry for the development of a youth cafe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19388/13]

Childcare Education and Training Scheme Administration

Éamon Ó Cuív

223. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason persons on the jobbridge schemes are treated differently from other persons on activation schemes and persons in receipt of social welfare for the purposes of the childcare subvention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19409/13]

Inter-Country Adoptions

Sean Fleming

224. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs under the standardised framework for intercountry adoption assessments her understanding of the assessment process in relation to prospective adoptive parents in relation to their body mass index requirements; if the BMI target which was originally at 45 was reduced in 2010 to 40 and subsequently in 2012 to 35, her views on whether people who are above this level should be prohibited from being approved under the adoption assessment process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19415/13]

Youth Services Provision

Micheál Martin

225. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community run youth service for Cabra, Dublin, is being put at risk because her Department has not signed off on the funding allocation for 2013 and that independent auditors have advised the community board of management that they are unable to sign off on the youth service's accounts and budgets because her Department has not approved funding for 2013; when her Department will make a further decision on finding; the youth services in Dublin for which she has approved funding; the ones that are still pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19470/13]

Missing Children

John Halligan

226. Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the European Wide Missing Children's Hotline 116000, if the proposed move of the missing children's hotline from a pilot basis to a full time 24/7 operational basis will take place as planned in May 2013; if her Department has any plans to make funding available for the national promotion and advertisement of this hotline; if she will make a commitment to have this hotline fully operational here before the end of our Presidency of the European Union; and if she will call on all other Member States to follow our example. [19476/13]

Blind Welfare Allowance Applications

Paudie Coffey

227. Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Health when an application for blind welfare allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be awarded;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19410/13]

Prescription Charges

Sean Fleming

228. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Health if prescription charges apply to persons with long term illness cards; if prescription charges apply to persons with medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19167/13]

Substance Misuse

Terence Flanagan

229. Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for Health the number of alcohol related deaths that occurred here over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19174/13]