Parliamentary questions

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Clare Daly

666. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a company (details supplied) charging monthly fees to the HSE for use of medical equipment that it failed to collect from a patient; if his attention has been further drawn to similar practices regarding medical units no longer in use that remain uncollected by private suppliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35748/18]

Hospital Acquired Infections

Clare Daly

682. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons infected with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, CRE, in Tallaght University Hospital in 2018, who have died as a result of acquiring same. [35789/18]

Health Services

Clare Daly

726. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if it is planned to revise the consent section of the E112 form (details supplied). [35901/18]

Medical Products Supply

Clare Daly

749. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the drug C1 esterase inhibitor Berinert will be made available by the HSE to persons with hereditary angioedema. [35981/18]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

801. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided to a service (details supplied) in each of the years 2005 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [36155/18]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Clare Daly

813. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the definition of medical equipment will be amended such that it encompasses cooling equipment in circumstances in which an applicant for provision of medical equipment by the HSE suffers with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia in view of the fact that at present the HSE will reject such applications such as in a case (details supplied), despite the fact that cooling equipment is essential medical equipment for such persons. [36208/18]

HSE Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

866. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if, and when, interviews were held by the HSE at University Hospital Limerick for the post of acting or temporary CEO; and if the post was advertised internally within the HSE or through publicjobs.ie. [36457/18]

HSE Staff

Clare Daly

867. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the CEO at University Hospital Limerick has retained a post within the Saolta group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36458/18]

Pesticide Use

Clare Daly

983. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to end the use of glyphosate following a case (details supplied) in the United States of America in summer 2018. [36178/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1066. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department was notified in advance by the embassy of the United States of an aircraft (details supplied) being on contract to the United States military; and the origin of the flight in view of the fact that there is no air base in Roswell with the code ROS. [35500/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1076. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application was made for a flight (details supplied) for exemptions for the transportation of munitions or weapons of war through Shannon Airport to date in 2018 under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order, SI 224 of 1973; and the origin of the flight in view of the fact there is no air base in Roswell with the code ROS. [35499/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1084. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 21 June 2018, if the aircraft was or was not in Irish controlled airspace. [35658/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1085. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 2179 of 24 July 2018, if permission was given for munitions or explosives to be taken through Shannon Airport on an aircraft (details supplied) which landed at the airport on 11 July 2018. [35659/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1086. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 2179 of 24 July 2018, if the attention of authorities and fire personnel at Shannon Airport was drawn to munitions and or explosives on board an aircraft (details supplied) which landed there on 11 July 2018 while it was parked very close to civilian passenger aircraft at the main terminal building; and the special precautions taken to minimise the danger to civilians at the airport. [35660/18]

Road Safety

Clare Daly

1105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is permitted for drivers of coaches to perform tour guiding duties while also driving; if this area is regulated in terms of safety, working hours and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36123/18]

Child and Family Agency Staff

Clare Daly

1150. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla is operating its own internal complaints policy and procedures; and if there are published guidelines for same. [35420/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

1151. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an investigation will be launched into whether the threshold for the reporting of child abuse was reached in the cases shown in a programme (details supplied); and if instances of child abuse not featured in the programme but brought to the attention of the company concerned through content moderation activity and which reach the reporting threshold have all been reported to the appropriate authorities. [35509/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

1152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an investigation will be launched into whether the threshold for the reporting of child abuse was reached in the cases shown in a programme (details supplied); and if instances of child abuse not featured in the programme but brought to the attention of the company concerned through content moderation activity reached that threshhold in these cases. [35510/18]

Child and Family Agency

Clare Daly

1153. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that a company (details supplied) is suitable to act as a major recruiting agent for Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35511/18]

Gender Balance

Clare Daly

1155. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the gender breakdown of the senior management positions in Tusla; and her views on the gender breakdown in her Department in view of the over representation of women in the more junior roles. [35679/18]

Community Employment Schemes Eligibility

Clare Daly

1248. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are circumstances in which a community employment placement may be extended beyond three years such as in the case of a person (details supplied). [36193/18]

Traveller Accommodation

Clare Daly

1336. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the terms of the caravan loan scheme will be reviewed with a view to updating the legislation to make the scheme more accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35479/18]

Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement

Clare Daly

1352. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider proposals to place an obligation on landlords to pre-register a property with the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, prior to conducting viewings in order to make it more difficult for landlords to evade RTB registration once a tenancy has commenced. [35910/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Applications Data

Clare Daly

1369. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing units built or acquired in Rush, County Dublin, in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018. [36254/18]

Naval Service Operations

Clare Daly

54. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if agencies operate and-or investigate on Naval Service ships while they are engaged in Operation Sophia. [33145/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

101. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department was notified in advance by the US Embassy of an aircraft (details supplied) which landed at Shannon Airport on 11 and 12 July 2018 on contract to the US military being refuelled at the airport. [33079/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

102. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 21 June 2018, if the aircraft was or was not in Irish-controlled airspace. [33089/18]

International Election Monitoring

Clare Daly

103. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage weight allocated to languages in the competition for election observers; the reason the languages sought are now more restrictive than in the past with, for example, Russian not being sought despite this being a language of communications in many countries in which elections are observed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33172/18]

International Election Monitoring

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when and the locations in which interviews for places on the new election roster will take place; if video interviews will be offered to those living abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33173/18]

International Election Monitoring

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the current election roster competition excludes permanent residents here that are not Irish citizens; if this will be altered to bring it in line with the more open approach of his Department's rapid response roster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33174/18]

International Election Monitoring

Clare Daly

106. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when activity to undertake a new competition for election observers was first undertaken by his Department; the bodies and organisation that were consulted in relation to the matter; if Irish election observers were consulted; if so, the way in which this was done; the reason for the delay in moving forward the new competition to ensure that it would be in place before the old roster expired in May 2018; when the new roster will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33175/18]

Election Monitoring Missions

Clare Daly

107. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of election observers on the May 2013 roster that have not been on one election observation mission since the roster came into being; the number of such observers that have not applied for one mission in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33176/18]

Educational Supports

Clare Daly

502. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) whose application for assistive technology is still being processed by the National Council for Special Education, having been submitted in April 2018, will now not have a laptop in September 2018 when they start secondary school as a consequence of this lengthy delay. [32982/18]

Prison Accommodation

Clare Daly

673. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 10 July 2018, the number of prisoners on each night in April, May and June 2018 sleeping on the floor in Cloverhill Prison. [32716/18]

Prison Accommodation

Clare Daly

737. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 10 July 2018, the way in which prisoners sleeping on the floor of Cloverhill Prison during April, May and June 2018 are categorised as homeless. [32830/18]

Prison Accommodation

Clare Daly

738. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 10 July 2018, the steps he is taking to address the overcrowding at Cloverhill Prison; and the overall steps he is taking to divert low level criminals away from the penal system towards more appropriate intervention services. [32831/18]

Prison Accommodation

Clare Daly

748. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of nights slept on the floor in Cloverhill Prison by each prisoner who did so in April, May and June 2018, by month and over the entire period. [32921/18]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

806. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the attention of An Garda Síochána was drawn to the fact that an aircraft (details supplied) which landed at Shannon Airport on 11 and 12 July 2018 was on contract to the US military while it was at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33082/18]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

809. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners classified as protection prisoners by each prison and place of detention on the day of the census of restricted regime prisoners in January 2018 and on the day of the census of restricted regime prisoners in April 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33120/18]

Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme

Clare Daly

1310. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has a family relationship with another person that was involved in vaccine trials. [32538/18]

Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme

Clare Daly

1311. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the definition of certain vaccine damage claims referred to in point "b" of the list of broad areas to be examined by the expert group considering alternative mechanisms to the court process for resolving clinical negligence claims. [32539/18]

Disease Management

Clare Daly

1374. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 26 June 2018, if there is a written record in all 45 cases of persons colonised or infected with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, CPE, in Tallaght Hospital in 2018 of their having been informed of this fact. [32593/18]

Disease Management

Clare Daly

1375. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 26 June 2018, the number of persons colonised or infected with CPE in Tallaght Hospital in 2018 who have died as a result of acquiring same. [32594/18]

Maternity Services Provision

Clare Daly

1420. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 10 July 2018, if the legal framework being finalised with regard to the intention to protect the State's investment in the new maternity hospital will be brought before Dáil Éireann before it is finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32846/18]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

1464. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when a similar suspension will be implemented here in view of the acceptance by the UK NHS of a recommendation from the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review to suspend the use of vaginal mesh implants to treat stress urinary incontinence. [33007/18]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

1465. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when it is planned to equip HSE hospitals with the scanning equipment necessary to detect vaginal mesh implants in view of the fact that Irish women suffering complications from mesh must travel to the UK for scans. [33008/18]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

1466. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the chief medical officer's report on vaginal mesh implants will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33009/18]

Ambulance Service

Clare Daly

1481. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason there was no response from either the HSE or Dublin Fire Brigade to a 999 call placed on 11 May 2018 for a sick child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33098/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

2179. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he gave permission for munitions or explosives to be taken through Shannon Airport on an aircraft (details supplied) which landed at the airport on 11 and 12 July 2018. [33080/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

2180. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the attention of the Shannon Airport authorities and fire personnel at the airport was drawn to munitions or explosives on board an aircraft (details supplied) which landed there on 11 and 12 July 2018 while it was parked very close to civilian passenger aircraft at the main terminal building at the airport; and the special precautions taken to minimise the danger to civilians at the airport on 11 and 12 July 2018. [33081/18]

Road Signage

Clare Daly

2181. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedure in relation to the provision of road signage and markings in residential areas; the steps open to residents in cases in which they are of the view that markings are in breach of road traffic regulations; the way in which they can have the situation rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33087/18]

Rural Transport Services

Clare Daly

2182. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the procurement process for contracts for the operation of local transport co-ordination units of the Local Link Rural Transport Programme being restricted to non-profit entities. [33105/18]

Social Welfare Fraud Data

Clare Daly

2435. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of prosecutions which the State took against those suspected of social welfare fraud in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of appeals in relation to either conviction or sentencing taken by the State in relation to such cases; and the cost in pursuing these cases. [33842/18]

Departmental Staff

Clare Daly

2446. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 907 of 10 July 2018, the steps she is taking to ensure that there are adequate staff in her Department to deal with applications for carer's benefit in a timely fashion in order that applicants are not left for weeks with no payment due to processing times of between nine and 11 weeks. [32720/18]

Repair and Leasing Scheme

Clare Daly

2697. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units, by local authority area, that have been acquired under the repair and leasing scheme since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33828/18]

Housing Data

Clare Daly

2698. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units, by local authority area, that have been purchased under the buy and renew scheme since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33829/18]

Housing Agency Portfolio

Clare Daly

2699. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units that have been acquired under the housing agency vacant housing purchase initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33830/18]

Housing Assistance Payment Data

Clare Daly

2700. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies that are now in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33831/18]

Housing Assistance Payment Data

Clare Daly

2701. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenants who have requested that they be included on a local authority transfer list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33832/18]

Housing Assistance Payment Data

Clare Daly

2702. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households previously in a housing assistance payment supported tenancy that have obtained a local authority home as a result of being on the transfer list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33833/18]

Housing Inspections

Clare Daly

2703. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, supported private rented properties that have been inspected within the required eight months of the commencement of the tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33834/18]

Homeless Persons Data

Clare Daly

2704. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households that have presented as homeless having previously lived in a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33835/18]

Homeless Persons Data

Clare Daly

2705. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households that have exited emergency accommodation into a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy and subsequently re-presented as homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33836/18]

Rental Accommodation Scheme Data

Clare Daly

2706. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households supported by the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33837/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Clare Daly

2707. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households supported by the social housing current expenditure programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33838/18]

Homeless Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

2708. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of family hubs in operation in and outside Dublin, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33839/18]

Homeless Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

2709. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of families accommodated in family hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33840/18]

Social and Affordable Housing Data

Clare Daly

2710. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of rapid build homes that have been completed and occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33841/18]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that mink caged at fur farms have adequate access to water for both cooling down and drinking during seasonal weather with above average temperatures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31057/18]

Naval Service

Clare Daly

46. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Naval Service has a written policy in regard to dealing with sexual harassment within the service. [31832/18]

Naval Service

Clare Daly

47. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to issues with regard to sexual harassment within the Naval Service and-or allegations of a culture of impunity in regard to sexual harassment therein. [31833/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

48. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps the Naval Service is taking to retain female officers and ratings and to facilitate them in progressing to higher ranks in their specialties. [31834/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

49. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of female Naval Service personnel in the service in each of the years from 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and the number of male Naval Service members in each of the years from 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [31835/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

50. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of female Naval Service members who left the service in each of the years from 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and the number of male Naval Service members who left the service in each of the years from 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [31836/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

51. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of female chief petty officers appointed in the Naval Service since 1995. [31837/18]

Military Uniforms

Clare Daly

80. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if US army personnel were authorised to wear military combat uniforms in Galway city during the second week of June 2018; if so, the basis for this authorisation; and if not, his plans to address the issue of foreign military personnel wearing uniforms on streets here. [32181/18]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

227. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking on allegations regarding the assault of a person (details supplied) by gardaí in October 2017. [31719/18]

Garda Data

Clare Daly

237. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána on sick leave as a result of bullying and harassment. [31800/18]

Referendum Data

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the proposal to hold a referendum to delete Article 41.2 of the Constitution ignoring the recommendation of the Convention on the Constitution that a referendum on Article 41.2 should be held to replace the present article with one that values the role of care work by persons of all genders. [31956/18]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

347. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 839 of 12 June 2018 to set out the number of candidates approached by the HSE's external contractor prior to the decision being made to engage with a person (details supplied). [31720/18]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

348. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 839 of 12 June 2018 to outline the basis upon which the HSE chose to engage specifically with a person (details supplied) in regard to the post; if the HSE engaged with other persons in this regard; and if so, the number [31721/18]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

349. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 839 of 12 June 2018 if a person (details supplied) was interviewed for the post before appointment; and if the HSE is satisfied that the person has the appropriate experience and skills base to hold the role. [31722/18]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

350. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 839 of 12 June 2018 to indicate the duration of the contract given to a person (details supplied) following appointment to the role; if this contract is renewable; and if so, if it has been renewed to date. [31723/18]

Fire Service

Clare Daly

479. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 5 July 2018, the reason there was no response from either the HSE or Dublin Fire Brigade to a 999 call placed on 10 May 2018 for a sick child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32180/18]

National Cervical Screening Programme

Clare Daly

485. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if women who are concerned in regard to the possibility that a cervical smear test may have returned a false negative, and who wish to see a consultant in order to have their test results reviewed and to clarify the state of their health and choose to do so privately in order to speed up the process, cannot then return to the public system for treatment (details supplied). [32246/18]

General Data Protection Regulation

Clare Daly

672. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 is compatible with new GDPR regulations; her plans to revise the Bill to ensure its compliance; and if she has been advised on the matter. [31718/18]

Tax Compliance

Clare Daly

72. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent GUE/NGL report into efforts by a company (details supplied) to avoid and evade tax across Europe by using Irish tax loopholes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30928/18]

Mortgage Lending

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the banks on negative equity trade-up mortgages in terms of increasing their availability for growing families. [30929/18]

Human Rights

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the UNCERD recommendation in its third and fourth monitoring report (details supplied) has been implemented. [31184/18]

Garda Training

Clare Daly

257. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if members of An Garda Síochána receive dedicated training in dealing with racist crimes and anti-racist culture; if so, the stage of their careers at which they receive this training; if refresher training is obligatory for members; and if so, the regularity with which it must be undertaken. [31185/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

258. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána collects and collates data on hate crimes and-or racially motivated crimes. [31186/18]

Garda Training

Clare Daly

260. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has a written diversity, equality and hate crime policy; and if so, if he will furnish a copy of same. [31231/18]

Garda Training

Clare Daly

261. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has a racist incident strategy in place; and if same has been made available to all stations. [31232/18]

Garda Ethnic Liaison

Clare Daly

262. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if full-time ethnic liaison officers are employed by An Garda Síochána. [31233/18]

Garda Ethnic Liaison

Clare Daly

263. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí working in the Garda racial, intercultural and diversity office; and the highest rank of member working in the office. [31234/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

264. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for the distribution of literature inciting hatred pursued by An Garda Síochána in each of the years 2010 to 2017. [31235/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

274. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only 30% of those reporting racist crimes to an organisation (details supplied) also reported them to An Garda Síochána; and the steps he is taking to ensure that barriers to the reporting of racist incidents to An Garda Síochána by ethnic minorities here are removed. [31450/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure that gardaí record racist motivations for crime on PULSE in line with a definition (details supplied) of same rather than requiring independent evidence of racist motivation before recording a racist incident as such. [31451/18]

EU Directives

Clare Daly

98. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied that a sufficient window for public consultation was allowed in the run-up to the transposition of the EU trade secrets directive; and if further public consultation or review will be undertaken following the coming into force of SI No. 188 of 2018. [30358/18]

Trade Promotion

Clare Daly

100. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the supports for Irish businesses seeking to establish export links with Syria; and the supports offered to Irish businesses seeking to establish export links with Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. [30357/18]