Parliamentary questions

Forestry Data

Jackie Cahill

396. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated additional cost to the Exchequer based on 2017 participation and planting rates on implementing a proposal (details supplied) over a full year. [20053/18]

Departmental Expenditure

Jackie Cahill

397. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount allocated and expended, respectively, on forestry schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2017, in tabular form. [20054/18]

EU Directives

Jackie Cahill

503. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is technically feasible to introduce a new forestry management protocol covering special protection areas important to the hen harrier which would permit an annual quota of new plantings based on the areas identified as available for planting by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and the barriers that remain from pursing this policy as previously existed. [20048/18]

School Staff

Jackie Cahill

74. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the situation in which the principal at a school (details supplied) is a teaching principal will be reviewed in view of the fact the role of the principal should be that of walking principal to ensure that the staff resources at the school are properly utilised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19355/18]

School Staff

Jackie Cahill

76. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the status of a principal at a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19385/18]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration

Jackie Cahill

117. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason expenses (details supplied) for persons in receipt of the fair deal scheme are not taken into account when calculating their liability to the scheme; his plans to review the scheme to take these expenses into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19149/18]

Agriculture Scheme Administration

Jackie Cahill

3. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the €25 million low-cost loan scheme announced in budget 2018 for farmers and fishermen will open for applications; if the scheme criteria will be published in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18461/18]

Animal Identification Schemes

Jackie Cahill

33. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a clause will be introduced in all agreements under the rules for the movement of animals to bed and breakfast accommodation that all such movements should require the permission of the owner in view of the fact that the current situation does not protect the interests of the owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18246/18]

Milk Prices

Jackie Cahill

50. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to raise the issue of the removal of price support for skimmed milk powder at the EU Council of Ministers in view of the fact that the changes have significantly reduced the price of milk to the primary producer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18247/18]

Community Employment Schemes Supervisors

Jackie Cahill

77. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been set for a meeting of the high level forum on community employment supervisor pensions; if his attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; his views on the fact that their contribution to improving the life chances of scheme participants and to their overall local communities is not being properly recognised at the end of their careers in spite of a Labour Court ruling in their favour; his further views on whether the Government may be undermining the Labour Court by ignoring its recommendation; and the steps he will take to resolve the matter. [18402/18]

Closed-Circuit Television Systems

Jackie Cahill

116. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda superintendent in the Thurles Garda division can act as data controller on the new CCTV scheme in Littleton, County Tipperary; if the new recording system can be stored at Littleton Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18412/18]

IDA Ireland Portfolio

Jackie Cahill

118. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the IDA has carried out a report on the volume of potential data centres that could be located here in view of the fact that a data centre (details supplied) development has not progressed; the number of centres indicated in the report; the geographic locations that have been identified to fill the demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18396/18]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Jackie Cahill

133. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to engage with the consultant neurologists at University Hospital Waterford to commence the process of appointing a Parkinson's disease specialist nurse for the south east in view of the fact it is the only region without this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18350/18]

Home Care Packages Provision

Jackie Cahill

144. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to make a decision on the recommendation of a person's (details supplied) consultants that the person be afforded a seven night a week home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18422/18]

TAMS Payments

Jackie Cahill

166. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of a TAMS payment under the dairy equipment scheme paid and penalised to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18416/18]

Nitrates Usage

Jackie Cahill

224. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the date of the requirement to have 50% of slurry spread will be extended in view of the fact that the cutting of silage will be significantly later due to the late spring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18375/18]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Jackie Cahill

230. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if funding is available to address the issue of unfinished housing estates in which the developer is no longer in business and in cases in which all legal channels have been exhausted in view of the fact that local authorities do not have funds to finance these works; his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18376/18]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Jackie Cahill

231. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing estates in County Tipperary in which all planning requirements were not completed by the developer thereby resulting in the local authority not being able to take them in charge; the number of housing units affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18377/18]

Wildlife Protection

Jackie Cahill

252. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 685 and 686 of 8 March 2018, if all the data requested have been compiled. [18446/18]

Hedge Cutting Season

Jackie Cahill

253. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the hedge cutting season will be extended to 1 April 2018 in view of later springs and wet autumns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18522/18]