Parliamentary questions

Hospital Waiting Lists

Éamon Ó Cuív

60. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the status of providing an operation for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8606/16]

Scéimeanna Fostaíochta

Éamon Ó Cuív

17. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den an Tánaiste agus Aire Coimirce Sóisialaí cad iad na socruithe atá déanta lena chinntiú go bhfuil sé ar chumas an chomhlachta “Seetec”, a bhfuil conradh aige chun seirbhísí a chur ar fáil don Roinn, a sheirbhísí a sholáthar don phobal i nGaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [8123/16]

Scéimeanna Fostaíochta

Éamon Ó Cuív

18. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den an Tánaiste agus Aire Coimirce Sóisialaí Coimirce Sóisialaí cén fáth nach bhfuil “Seetec“, atá ag cur seirbhísí ar fáil don Roinn ar chonradh, ag tabhairt rochtain do dhaoine a bhíonn ag baint úsáid as a sheirbhísí ar shuímh eagraíochtaí Gaeilge ar nós Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Ros na Rún, agus iad ag cuartú fostaíochta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [8124/16]

Scéimeanna Fostaíochta

Éamon Ó Cuív

19. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív den an Tánaiste agus Aire Coimirce Sóisialaí cén fath nach nglacann “Seetec”, a bhfuil conradh aige lena Roinn, le haisteoireacht, ealaín agus obair eile trí mheán na Gaeilge mar fhoinse d’obair atá inmharthana buan; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [8125/16]

Social Welfare Schemes

Éamon Ó Cuív

31. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of farm assist, and under the rural social scheme, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8199/16]

Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility

Éamon Ó Cuív

107. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners pay the banks through the tax relief at source scheme in the event of mortgage holders not paying either some or all of their mortgage payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8344/16]

Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility

Éamon Ó Cuív

108. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Finance if the Financial Regulator, the Revenue Commissioners, the Comptroller and Auditor General or any other State body carries out an audit on the banks to ensure that they fully pass on the tax relief at source to customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8346/16]

Drainage Schemes

Éamon Ó Cuív

120. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason works have not been carried out, given that they were promised as part of the planned works for 2014 in correspondence (details supplied) dated 30 August 2013 from the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works; when they will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8196/16]

Public Procurement Contracts

Éamon Ó Cuív

152. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the call for tenders for the supply of cattle tags will be delayed until a new Government is appointed to afford an opportunity for the Oireachtas committee on agriculture to discuss the merits of both a single supplier approach and a multiple supplier approach and to make a recommendation to him on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8116/16]

Public Procurement Contracts

Éamon Ó Cuív

153. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 6 April 2016, the stakeholders consulted by his Department as part of the consultation with stakeholders in relation to bovine tags; if, in relation to each stakeholder, he or she was in favour of a single supplier or multiple suppliers and the reason given in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8117/16]

Public Procurement Contracts

Éamon Ó Cuív

154. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name of the plastics expert used to evaluate bovine tags supplied as part of the market sounding exercise that was published in December 2015 carried out by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8118/16]

Rural Development Programme

Éamon Ó Cuív

158. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 6 April 2016, when the information in relation to the rural development programme, as promised, will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8198/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Applications

Éamon Ó Cuív

159. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of an overpayment assessed against a person (details supplied); the amount clawed back to date by withholding payments; if there is an appeal on hand against this penalty; if so when he will make a decision in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8200/16]

Courts Service

Éamon Ó Cuív

221. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the scale of the salary paid to county court registrars and the fees paid to sheriffs for the collection of debt; the remuneration arrangements in place where both of these positions are held by the same person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8345/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Éamon Ó Cuív

263. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8022/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Éamon Ó Cuív

271. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8067/16]

Ambulance Service

Éamon Ó Cuív

294. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Health the decisions he or the Health Service Executive have taken on foot of a meeting he held in 2015 in relation to improving the ambulance services in west Connemara, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8202/16]

Schools Building Projects Status

Éamon Ó Cuív

386. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills when she will provide funding for a replacement school at a location (details supplied) County Galway for students with intellectual disabilities; the progress to date on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8156/16]

Schools Site Acquisitions

Éamon Ó Cuív

387. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills her progress in providing of an Educate Together School in Claregalway, County Galway; if she has identified and acquired a site; if not, her efforts to do so, given her commitment in correspondence dated 25 October 2011 to the Board of Management that the process of identifying a suitable site commenced recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8197/16]

Special Educational Needs Staff

Éamon Ó Cuív

388. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant can continue working while studying to qualify as a primary student teacher on the distance learning course run by a college (details supplied); if a student can work as a special needs assistant in combination with teacher training practice in the same school, but during different hours; if not, the rule that prevents this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8201/16]