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Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Mental Health Services
Richard Boyd Barrett
589. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if emergency assessments by staff with child mental health qualifications are available for children, with identified mental health emergencies, who attend accident and emergency departments [34654/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Mental Health Services
Richard Boyd Barrett
590. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his views on comments made (details supplied) that adequate arrangements had been made for transferring children of 16 or 17 years of age to the child and adolescent mental health service; and if not, if he will clarify the matter [34655/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Mental Health Services
Richard Boyd Barrett
591. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the arrangements that have been made to resource the expansion of the child and adolescent mental health service, outlined in the new Health Service Executive child and adolescent mental health services standard operating procedure, to include children of 16 to 17 years of age; children with moderately severe mental health concerns; children referred by a wider group of professionals than previously [34656/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Mental Health Services
Richard Boyd Barrett
592. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the position on the child and adolescent mental health service being unable to accept referrals because of a lack of resources; the degree to which this issue is widespread; and the way this issue is being addressed [34658/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Mental Health Services
Richard Boyd Barrett
593. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of catchment areas that have no permanent child and adolescent mental health service consultant; and the number of those areas that are using a locum doctor who is not on the child psychiatry specialist register of the Medical Council; and if he will provide a list of these areas [34659/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Building Regulations
Richard Boyd Barrett
730. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views that staff shortages in local authorities are a contributing factor to the small number of part VIIIs that have been agreed across all the local authorities. [34639/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Richard Boyd Barrett
731. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of National Asset Management Agency properties, broken down by local authority area, that have been identified by the agency as suitable homes for inclusion in the social housing list; the number, that have been offered to each of the local authorities; that have been transferred to the local authorities; and the scheme under which have they been transferred, for example rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, social housing leasing initiative, etc. [34640/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Rental Accommodation Scheme Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett
732. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount paid out by his Department in each local authority area for the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, and social housing leasing initiative; the number of homes that are provided under each scheme in each local authority for each month in 2015; and if he will compare the amount to the same months in 2014. [34642/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Capital Assistance Scheme Funding
Richard Boyd Barrett
733. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been provided from his Department to each local authority through the capital assistance scheme; the number of homes that have been provided in each of the local authority areas over the past year. [34643/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Building Regulations Compliance
Richard Boyd Barrett
734. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government since the announcement of Strategy 2020, the number of part VIIIs that have been agreed by each local authority; the number of one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes that are in each agreed part VIII; if he will provide details of part VIII's in the pre-agreed stages, by local authority; and the timeframes for the allocation of these planned homes. [34644/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Richard Boyd Barrett
735. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homes that have been acquired by local authorities through the part V scheme over the past year; and the number he projects for 2016. [34645/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Richard Boyd Barrett
736. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government given his targets for 2015 in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, which included 1,400 to be built or acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies, 3000 to be provided through the social housing leasing initiative, 1,000 through vacant units returned to use, 2,000 through the rental accommodation scheme and 8,400 through the housing assistance payment; if he will provide a full breakdown for each local authority, confirming the number that have been delivered in 2015 to date; and if he expects to meet his targets by the end of 2015. [34646/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Richard Boyd Barrett
737. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his targets for 2016 under the Social Housing Strategy 2020 in each of the funding models, including construction and acquisition. [34647/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
Richard Boyd Barrett
738. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, by category, and by local authority, of the spend on social housing support, including each of the different funding models, social housing construction, and acquisition, in each year since 2011 to date in 2015; and the projected funding for each of the various models in the coming years to 2021. [34648/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Departmental Funding
Richard Boyd Barrett
739. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that was allocated from his Department to the Social Housing Strategy 2020; the amount of this that was, transferred from other budgets; new funding; collected from the local property tax; the amount of this revenue that was spent; is projected to be spent over the lifetime of the strategy; and if he will provide details of the breakdown of this funding, by each funding model of the strategy. [34649/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Foreign Policy
Richard Boyd Barrett
740. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will bring to the attention of the European Commission, which, through European Union Council Regulation EC No. 2368/2002, represents Ireland and all other European Union member states in the Kimberley process certification scheme, of the urgent need for reform of the definition of a conflict diamond, in order that diamonds which generate revenue for government forces guilty of war crimes or crimes against humanity, blood diamonds, are no longer allowed to contaminate the diamond market masquerading as conflict-free diamonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34227/15]
Tue, 6 Oct 2015
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Arts Funding
Richard Boyd Barrett
791. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the average annual expenditure on the arts as a percentage of gross domestic product; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34484/15]
Wed, 30 Sep 2015
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Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls
Richard Boyd Barrett
46. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the ever-increasing number of landlords who are refusing to accept rent allowance, and the extremely low level of the rent caps in view of rising rents; the reasons these issues are contributing significantly to the rising levels of homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33041/15]
Wed, 30 Sep 2015
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Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
Richard Boyd Barrett
48. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending rent allowance support to those persons who are working full-time and who are on very low incomes in view of rapidly rising rents and the growing phenomenon of the working homeless and bearing in mind that the Government's policy is to move to the housing assistance payment scheme, which allows for recipients to work full-time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33042/15]
Wed, 30 Sep 2015
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Irish Water Funding
Richard Boyd Barrett
155. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out, in tabular form, the expected revenues from Irish Water in respect of domestic water charges for 2015, and for 2016; if he will provide details of the subventions to Irish Water from the Government for these years, indicating the sources of those subventions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33459/15]