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Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Rail Network Expansion
Shane Cassells
546. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent costing for the construction and provision of phase 2 of the Navan to Dublin rail line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5851/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Mountain Rescue Service
Éamon Ó Cuív
547. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the objective criteria used to allocate funding to mountain rescue teams here; if there is a published scheme outlining these criteria; if so, the location from which it can be accessed; his plans to allocate each team a minimum of €14,815 in 2018 in view of the fact that the grants in 2008 were as high as €23,185 and gross government voted expenditure in 2018 will be broadly similar to 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5885/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Road Projects Status
Jonathan O'Brien
548. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed upgrade of Tinker's cross junction in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5900/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Road Projects Status
Jonathan O'Brien
549. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed northern ring road in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5901/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Child Safety
Tony McLoughlin
550. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures taken to prevent and identify potential abuse on Ireland's athletic teams in view of recent events surrounding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5936/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Asylum Support Services
Tony McLoughlin
551. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he plans to further encourage the integration of refugees and asylum seekers into sport teams throughout Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5937/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Roads Maintenance Funding
Tony McLoughlin
552. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if sufficient provisions have been set aside for the fixing of roads in need of repair in view of the upcoming British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly plenary in Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5940/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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School Transport Eligibility
Ruth Coppinger
553. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public transport provision will be expanded to cater for the requirements of persons in a school (details supplied). [6036/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Childcare Services
Michael Harty
554. Deputy Michael Harty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the request by a resource centre (details supplied) in County Clare that the licence for childcare services be removed from a company allowing the resource centre to continue working with families and disadvantaged communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5505/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Education Welfare Service
Eugene Murphy
555. Deputy Eugene Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the guidelines provided to educational welfare officers in Tusla in relation to the point at which a family is brought before the court to force a child to attend school in view of the fact the parents are being deemed to be unco-operative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5717/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Childcare Services Administration
Clare Daly
556. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention was drawn to concerns in counties Laois and Offaly social work service by Tusla management in the two years prior to May 2015 (details supplied); and if so, the number of such alerts received. [5812/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Childcare Services Administration
Clare Daly
557. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention was drawn to concerns in the counties Laois and Offaly social work service by Tusla management in the two years prior to May 2015 (details supplied); and if so, if copies of all alerts received and the dates on which they were received will be provided. [5813/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Childcare Services Administration
Clare Daly
558. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there were regular meetings in April and May 2015 between her Department officials and senior management in Tusla to discuss operational matters (details supplied) and to provide early warnings on matters that might escalate. [5814/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Departmental Communications
Clare Daly
559. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if copies of all communications and or emails from a person (details supplied) in regard to a matter will be provided; and the responses thereto. [5815/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Departmental Staff Data
Clare Daly
560. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of secondees from companies (details supplied) that are working in her Department. [5829/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Departmental Data
Jonathan O'Brien
561. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the postal and printing services outsourced to the private sector in 2017 by her Department; the purpose of the service; the cost involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5902/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Childcare Services Data
Jonathan O'Brien
562. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adolescent residential beds in Munster both private and public in each of the years 2011 to 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5903/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Public Procurement Contracts
Catherine Connolly
563. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role played by his Department in ensuring that local authorities adhere to appropriate procurement procedures in tendering for dog control services and pounds; if he has satisfied himself that all local authorities are compliant with national and EU law in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6063/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Local Improvement Scheme
Éamon Ó Cuív
564. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason persons living in the rural areas of Galway city and Cork city councils were not eligible to lodge applications under the 2017 local improvement scheme; the reason funding was not made available under the scheme to these local authorities; his plans to amend this rule in respect of the 2018 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5452/18]
Tue, 6 Feb 2018
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Rural Transport Programme
John Deasy
565. Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the concerns among operators regarding the proposed transfer of local link services provided under the rural transport scheme from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to his Department; the progress that has been made in implementing this recommendation from the 2017 report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht on sustaining viable rural communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5518/18]