Parliamentary questions

Jobseeker's Allowance Applications

Denis Naughten

279. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a jobseeker's allowance application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49374/19]

Water Services Funding

Denis Naughten

287. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when funding will be provided to local authorities for the upgrade of domestic wells; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49358/19]

Ambulance Service

Denis Naughten

89. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve ambulance services on foot of recommendations in the report of the trauma steering group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48784/19]

Ambulance Service Response Times

Denis Naughten

100. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve ambulance response times in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48785/19]

EU Funding

Denis Naughten

174. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to centralise European Regional Development Funds in Dublin; the implication of such a decision on the northern and western region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48588/19]

School Transport Eligibility

Denis Naughten

210. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/19]

National Dementia Strategy Implementation

Denis Naughten

265. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that each person diagnosed with dementia has access to a dementia adviser; the counties which do not have a dementia adviser to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48575/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Denis Naughten

272. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for surgery; the average waiting list time for such surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48603/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Denis Naughten

291. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48695/19]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Data

Denis Naughten

301. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the number of NTPF appointments provided to ENT patients to date in 2019; the effect this has had on individual hospital waiting lists; his plans to address such waiting lists in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48739/19]

Greenways Development

Denis Naughten

22. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the planned greenway from Athlone Castle to Eyre Square, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48011/19]

Tourism Policy

Denis Naughten

41. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the development of Ireland's Hidden Heartlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48012/19]

Hospital Transfers

Denis Naughten

124. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48278/19]

Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility

Denis Naughten

260. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason local authority tenants cannot purchase Part V houses under the tenant purchase scheme; if there are exceptions; if this applies to those that were tenants prior to the introduction of the 2016 legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48318/19]

Sexual Offences Data

Denis Naughten

28. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform the monitoring of sex offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47457/19]

Sexual Offences Data

Denis Naughten

39. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to tag sex offenders following their release from prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47458/19]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Denis Naughten

60. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to enhance supports for children with a learning disability within the education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47441/19]

Education Policy

Denis Naughten

84. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47442/19]

Beef Industry Irregularities

Denis Naughten

500. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 426, 427 and 428 of 12 November 2019, the month in which the factory concerned breached the excess carcase trimming specification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47745/19]

Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility

Denis Naughten

672. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a person is eligible to apply for the housing aid for older people scheme if they have lifetime right of residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47612/19]

Wastewater Treatment

Denis Naughten

673. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the grant aid available to support the construction of a wastewater treatment facility for group sewerage schemes; the results of the previous pilot scheme completed on group sewerage schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47621/19]

Irish Water Funding

Denis Naughten

675. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to provide funding in 2020 to Uisce Éireann for the provision of a sewerage system for Ahascragh, County Galway in view of the fact that it is the only midland wastewater treatment facility discharging raw sewerage into a watercourse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47628/19]

Public Procurement Regulations

Denis Naughten

11. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the public procurement threshold will be increased from €25,000 in view of the impact same is having on SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46498/19]

Public Procurement Regulations

Denis Naughten

22. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if green procurement will be incorporated into the public procurement code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46499/19]

Renewable Energy Generation

Denis Naughten

156. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to support the production of domestic biomass to supply Lanesboro and Shannonbridge power stations in advance of the decision by the ESB not to proceed with planning for both plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46928/19]

VAT Rate Application

Denis Naughten

72. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Finance the reason for the difference in the VAT registration threshold for the sale of services versus the sale of goods; if he will review the anomaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46497/19]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Denis Naughten

80. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider providing income tax relief for the long-term lease of residential homes to address security of tenure in view of the success of a similar measure in the agricultural sector under section 664 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 as amended by the Finance Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46496/19]

Female Genital Mutilation

Denis Naughten

45. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made to ban female genital mutilation at both EU and UN level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46479/19]

Visa Agreements

Denis Naughten

49. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if progress has been made on establishing an E3 visa agreement between Ireland and the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46480/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

83. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Taoiseach the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city. [46301/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

88. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46291/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

102. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46295/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

124. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Finance the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46294/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

144. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46299/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

179. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46292/19]

Schools Building Projects

Denis Naughten

203. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 2 October 2019, the status of acquiring a site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46543/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

248. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46298/19]

Probate Data

Denis Naughten

257. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the average and longest waiting time in each probate office for applications by solicitors and personal applicants, respectively; the number of applications on hand in each office; the timeline for the eProbate project to go live in each office; the status of the project; if the Revenue Commissioners have been incorporated and gone live on eProbate; the status of the implementation of each recommendation in the report of the probate services review group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46398/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

285. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46287/19]

Hospital Car Parks

Denis Naughten

301. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health his plans to address the matter of hospital parking charges; the status of the implementation plan; the next steps that will be taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46020/19]

Autism Support Services

Denis Naughten

322. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the waiting time for access to a service (details supplied); the number of children on the waiting list; his plans to address waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46138/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

353. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46296/19]

Maternity Services

Denis Naughten

368. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of each of the recommendations of the review of maternity services in Portiuncula Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46400/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

421. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46286/19]

Beef Industry Irregularities

Denis Naughten

426. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has failed to publish the conformation and fat score data from all cattle from both the old and new machines in the carcase classification trial; if he will now publish the data in view of the urgent need to restore confidence in the beef grading system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46401/19]

Beef Industry Irregularities

Denis Naughten

427. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances in which mechanical grading was suspended in meat plants in cases in which a machine was found to be working outside of tolerance and manual grading is instigated to date in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46402/19]

Beef Industry Irregularities

Denis Naughten

428. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the instances of non-compliance with the carcase trim specifications his inspectors have identified in beef plants each month in 2019; the plants involved; the payments made to the farmer supplier to reflect loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46403/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

447. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in civil service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46289/19]

Energy Efficiency

Denis Naughten

452. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has received conclusions from research carried out by a body (details supplied) on the operation of the deep retrofit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46404/19]

Waste Disposal

Denis Naughten

453. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the roll-out of brown bins to all homes nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46405/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

475. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in civil service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46302/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

505. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46288/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

515. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46300/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

548. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46293/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

576. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to his Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46297/19]

Vacant Properties

Denis Naughten

580. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the impact of delays in probate in releasing vacant homes to the housing market has been assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46399/19]

Departmental Offices

Denis Naughten

591. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacant desk spaces available in accommodation allocated to her Department in Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46290/19]

VAT Rate Application

Denis Naughten

132. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Finance his plans to review the rate of VAT applied to food supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44635/19]

School Transport Eligibility

Denis Naughten

203. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied) which issued to his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44241/19]

Proposed Legislation

Denis Naughten

225. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the planned provisions of the education (miscellaneous provisions) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44552/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Denis Naughten

419. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a surgical procedure; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44197/19]

Autism Support Services

Denis Naughten

478. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 440 of 5 February 2019, his plans to address a waiting list for the autism services concerned; his further plans to appoint additional staff to the service; his further plans for budget increases for the services; the alternatives available for those awaiting the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44414/19]

Hospitals Funding

Denis Naughten

513. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the budget received by each hospital and CHO to provide non-emergency hospital transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44549/19]

Hospital Services

Denis Naughten

514. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the hospitals and CHOs which could provide non-emergency hospital transport to outpatient appointments for those that cannot fund transport from their own resources; the amount spent by each hospital and CHO on providing such non-emergency hospital transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44550/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Denis Naughten

516. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the initiatives being undertaken at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore to reduce ENT outpatient waiting times; the current waiting time for an outpatient appointment at the hospital; if a reduction in waiting times has taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44557/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Denis Naughten

517. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting outpatient ENT appointments in each Saolta group hospital; the length of time those patients have been waiting; the initiatives being undertaken to reduce waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44558/19]

General Practitioner Services

Denis Naughten

518. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the reason general practitioners have had the electronic referral pathway for CT and MRI tests removed from them; his views on whether it is appropriate that patients requiring urgent scans are being referred to emergency departments; his plans to reverse this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44560/19]

State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility

Denis Naughten

1064. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if joint savings in respect of a person applying for an adult dependant allowance on the State pension (contributory) of his or her spouse are fully assessed or if they are assessed on half basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44821/19]

Schools Building Projects Status

Denis Naughten

186. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for construction of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/19]

Dental Services Provision

Denis Naughten

285. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health if certain dental work (details supplied) is provided to children in schools in County Galway; if the treatment they are receiving differs from that of children attending schools in neighbouring counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42972/19]

Health Care Infrastructure Provision

Denis Naughten

322. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when the new framework for design teams will be approved by the HSE; the reason for the delay in approving this framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43144/19]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Denis Naughten

40. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support the children identified in the counties of Roscommon and Mayo audiology misdiagnosis within the education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41801/19]

Small Schools

Denis Naughten

56. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to support rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41800/19]

Teaching Contracts

Denis Naughten

133. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the campaign for one management day per week for teaching principals; his plans to implement same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42831/19]

Electricity Generation

Denis Naughten

44. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with the CEOs of Bord na Móna and the ESB on the future of West Offaly and Lough Ree power stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41798/19]

Just Transition Fund

Denis Naughten

72. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to protect employment in the midlands in view of the ceasing of the PSO on West Offaly and Lough Ree power stations in December 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41799/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

58. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the steps he is taking to implement the agriculture motion adopted by Dáil Éireann on 26 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41796/19]

State Properties Data

Denis Naughten

167. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacant desk spaces in each State-owned Civil Service accommodation outside Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41836/19]

Hospital Appointments Status

Denis Naughten

357. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41756/19]

EU Directives

Denis Naughten

476. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a dedicated sectoral regulator to enforce the EU directive on unfair trading practices in the agricultural and food supply chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41049/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

477. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 to carry out a market study and analysis in the beef market and make recommendations as appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41050/19]

Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications

Denis Naughten

653. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41864/19]

Health Services Reform

Denis Naughten

42. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to implement the reform of trauma services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41171/19]

Health Services Access

Denis Naughten

92. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health his priorities in the capital plan to address the delays in accessing elective surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41172/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

321. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to implement the provision in the agriculture motion adopted by Dáil Éireann on 26 September 2019 to implement the recommendation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of 28 May 2019 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40780/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

322. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to implement the provision in the agriculture motion adopted by Dáil Éireann on 26 September 2019 to request the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission under section 10(4) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 to carry out a market study and analysis on the nature and scale of consumer and beef farmer issues in the beef market and make recommendations, as appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40781/19]

Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments

Denis Naughten

326. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the first instalment of an ANC payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40550/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

351. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to implement the provision in the agriculture motion adopted by Dáil Éireann on 26 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40779/19]

Beef Industry

Denis Naughten

352. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to implement the provision in the agriculture motion adopted by Dáil Éireann on 26 September 2019 to ensure that his Department convenes a cross-sector implementation group to establish a publicly owned and controlled national beef supply blockchain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/19]

Ministerial Meetings

Denis Naughten

379. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date for his forthcoming meeting with the chief executives of the ESB and Bord na Móna to set out a future direction for a power station (details supplied) following the refusal of planning by An Bord Pleanála; when he last held a meeting with each chief executive on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40783/19]

Air Ambulance Service Data

Denis Naughten

132. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to secure the air ambulance service at Custume Barracks, Athlone; the number of missions flown in each year of operation and to date in 2019; if assurance will be provided that its role will be expanded on foot of the operation of the second air ambulance in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40270/19]

Ambulance Service Data

Denis Naughten

133. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the amount paid to a service (details supplied) for operations tasked by the National Ambulance Service in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, respectively; the average cost per mission in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40271/19]

Hospital Appointments Delays

Denis Naughten

138. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; the reason for the seven-year delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40188/19]

Hospital Discharges

Denis Naughten

165. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health if funding under the winter initiative will be released to provide respite services in nursing homes to allow for the discharge of older persons from acute hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40272/19]

Health Reports

Denis Naughten

166. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the steps which have been taken to implement recommendation 21 of the trauma steering group report; the plans to fully implement this recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40273/19]

Air Quality

Denis Naughten

282. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to bring the clean air strategy to Government for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40233/19]

Bord na Móna

Denis Naughten

283. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure a just transition in Bord na Móna in view of further concerns regarding the future of 2,000 jobs by the group of unions following a meeting with management at the end of September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40257/19]

Schools Building Projects

Denis Naughten

126. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in developing a purpose-built school for the pupils of a school (details supplied) further to the Private Members' debate in Dáil Éireann of 25 September 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40005/19]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data

Denis Naughten

185. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents availing of the saver transitional arrangements under the nursing home support scheme; if the saver provision also applied to persons in long-term residential psychiatric care on the day the nursing home support scheme came into force that subsequently transferred to long-term geriatric care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40094/19]

School Services Staff

Denis Naughten

211. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement since 16 September 2019 with unions representing school secretaries in an effort to resolve the dispute; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39579/19]