Parliamentary questions

Capital Expenditure Programme

Gerry Adams

355. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on funding allocations from the 2015 €9 million investment scheme for arts and cultural centres including which arts and cultural centres will be upgraded. [18363/16]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Gerry Adams

356. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional arts funding is being made available as part of the capital investment framework 2016-2021. [18364/16]

Arts Funding

Gerry Adams

357. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her objectives for arts funding in the coming years; the specific commitments that are in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18365/16]

Arts Council Funding

Gerry Adams

358. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding in the years 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 that the Arts Council allocated to projects in County Louth. [18366/16]

Arts Council Funding

Gerry Adams

359. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocations that were made by the Arts Council to each county on a per capita basis in the years 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016. [18367/16]

North-South Ministerial Council

Gerry Adams

197. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the agenda for the next meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council; and if European Union funding for cross-Border bodies and the Narrow Water Bridge is available. [16860/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Gerry Adams

2. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach his plans for visits to Britain. [16858/16]

Northern Ireland

Gerry Adams

6. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach to report on his visit to Belfast. [16859/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Gerry Adams

54. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach to report on his visit to London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14466/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Gerry Adams

55. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach to report on the meetings he had with Irish groups while in London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14467/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Gerry Adams

56. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach to report on meetings he had with British politicians during his visit to London; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14468/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Gerry Adams

58. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the security concerns expressed at the European Union Council at the implications of the possible British exit from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14495/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Gerry Adams

357. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the waiting time and the number of persons on the waiting list for computed tomography, CT, scans in the Louth hospital in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16731/16]

Hospital Appointments Status

Gerry Adams

207. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [16428/16]

Seanad Reform

Gerry Adams

1. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the status of proposals to reform Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12980/16]

Seanad Reform

Gerry Adams

2. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach his progress in furthering the proposals in the Manning report on reform of Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12981/16]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Gerry Adams

9. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the religious leaders he has met with in 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14494/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

1. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the dates of the last meeting and the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears. [11762/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

2. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears in 2016 to date. [12982/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

3. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears took place. [12983/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

10. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the dates of the last meeting and the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on health. [11763/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

11. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on health in 2016 to date. [12985/16]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Gerry Adams

12. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [12986/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

18. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach when he established, or will establish, the Cabinet committee on justice reform and the dates of meetings already held and of planned meetings. [11764/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

20. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on justice reform in 2016 to date. [12987/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

21. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on justice reform took place. [12988/16]

Fáilte Ireland

Gerry Adams

66. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support the provision of specific Fáilte Ireland offices in tourism hubs which are not in close proximity to the existing office for that region, such as the County Louth coastline, which is served by an office in Mullingar, County Westmeath. [15617/16]

School Transport Data

Gerry Adams

208. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible and concessionary pupils in County Louth availing of school bus transport. [15872/16]

Medicinal Products Availability

Gerry Adams

440. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 2 June 2016, the types of cancer that are suitable for treatment using the combined nivolumab-ipilimumab therapy; if he will provide this combined therapy to suitable cancer sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15720/16]

Hospitals Data

Gerry Adams

451. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of hazard, incident and near-miss reports indicating stress as a cause of the issuing of reports that were submitted, by hospital, in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date, in tabular form, under the Health Service Executive’s policy for preventing and managing stress in the workplace. [15905/16]

HSE Data

Gerry Adams

452. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals the management of the Health Service Executive made on behalf of the staff of its occupational health department and its employee assistance and staff counselling service in each of the years 2011 to 2015 and in 2016 to date, in tabular form, under its policy for preventing and managing stress in the workplace. [15906/16]

HSE Expenditure

Gerry Adams

453. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the cost of maintaining the Health Service Executive’s occupational health department and employee assistance and staff counselling service in each of the years 2011 to 2015 and in 2016 to date. [15907/16]

EU Funding

Gerry Adams

205. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current procedure for notifying stakeholders of domestic and EU funding calls and if he will endeavour to contact all agricultural and aquaculture businesses to notify them of funding opportunities going forward. [15182/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

4. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet sub-committees he has chaired since the beginning of 2016. [11758/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

5. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the programme of Cabinet sub-committee meetings he plans before the summer 2016 recess. [11759/16]

Cabinet Committees

Gerry Adams

6. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the number of previous Cabinet sub-committees he will retain and the new committees he will establish. [12984/16]

North-South Ministerial Council

Gerry Adams

343. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the agenda for the North-South Ministerial Council meeting on 10 June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14492/16]

North-South Ministerial Council

Gerry Adams

344. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his preparatory work for the North-South Ministerial Council meeting on 10 June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14491/16]

North-South Ministerial Council

Gerry Adams

345. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress, especially in respect of the infrastructure goals that were agreed, since the last North-South Ministerial Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14493/16]

Obesity Strategy

Gerry Adams

413. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 301 of 20 April 2016 the number of bariatric surgeries that have been performed by the HSE in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14399/16]

Cochlear Implants Provision

Gerry Adams

467. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of an issue with children under six years of age and over awaiting sequential and bilateral cochlear implants at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if funding allocated to the cochlear implant programme has been reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14750/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Gerry Adams

475. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently undergoing dialysis in the North of Ireland; if this person will be included on the transplant waiting list in the North of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14784/16]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Gerry Adams

476. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health his plans to create an all-Ireland transplant waiting list; if he has discussed this with the Minister for Health in the North of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14785/16]

Health Services Data

Gerry Adams

477. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list for kidney transplant. [14786/16]

Health Services Data

Gerry Adams

478. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of kidney transplants which have been performed each year since 2011. [14787/16]

Clinical Trials

Gerry Adams

100. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if any patient not involved in the ongoing clinical trial is currently receiving combined nivolumab-ipilimumab therapy; his plans to make combined nivolumab-ipilimumab therapy available to all suitable cancer patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13711/16]

Clinical Trials

Gerry Adams

111. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of international trials which have indicated substantial results experienced by patients in receipt of combined nivolumab, Opdivo and ipilimumab, Yervoy cancer treatment; if he is aware of the 20 Irish persons currently participating in a clinical trial, under the direction of a person (details supplied); if he will provide statistical information on the progress of this trial, which has been ongoing since August 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13710/16]

Hospital Equipment

Gerry Adams

228. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of patient hoists located at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth, and whether one is permanently located in its emergency department. [14010/16]

HSE Staff

Gerry Adams

229. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive staff on sick leave due to work-related stress. [14011/16]

HSE Staff

Gerry Adams

230. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive staff in County Louth on sick leave due to work-related stress. [14012/16]