Parliamentary questions

Constitutional Convention Recommendations

Brendan Howlin

5. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to hold referendums that arise from the outstanding recommendations of the Constitutional Convention. [15196/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

9. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit will next meet. [15197/17]

Mental Health Services Provision

Brendan Howlin

367. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health his plans to extend the limited number of places in the Central Mental Hospital which are currently available to the Irish Prison Service for persons in custody who require residential mental health treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15165/17]

Home Care Packages Provision

Brendan Howlin

368. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide sufficient funds to ensure that adequate home care package hours will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15166/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of the European Council meeting of 9 and 10 March 2017. [13188/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Trump and his other engagements during his visit to the United States of America for St. Patrick’s Day. [13186/17]

Airport Security

Brendan Howlin

85. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person or body that will undertake the review of the pre-clearance arrangements in Shannon and Dublin airports; and when he expects it to be completed. [8427/17]

Freedom of Information Data

Brendan Howlin

1. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department in 2016; the number of staff working in the relevant section; the number of requests that have been refused; and the number appealed. [11759/17]

Northern Ireland

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his conversation and discussions with Prime Minister May following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. [13187/17]

Fiscal Data

Brendan Howlin

216. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a revised estimate of Ireland's gross and net debt to gross domestic product, GDP, ratio, in view of the publication by the Central Statistics Office of Quarterly National Accounts Quarter 4 2016 and Year 2016 (Preliminary) on 9 March 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13483/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to include items, or if he has sought the inclusion of items, on the agenda of the next European Council meeting of the EU Heads of State or Government; and if he will report on his plans for this meeting. [11756/17]

Northern Ireland

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to engage with the political parties in Northern Ireland following the Assembly elections. [12046/17]

Economic Policy

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the other new engagement structures he envisages working with and their remit and membership, particularly in view of the statement in his Department's recent Strategy Statement 2016-2019 (details supplied). [10031/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

9. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate change last met and the plans to meet. [11757/17]

Coastal Protection

Brendan Howlin

371. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the application of Wexford County Council to co-fund coastal protection works at Rosslare Warren Middle, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11960/17]

Services for People with Disabilities

Brendan Howlin

601. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health the number of service users who are currently on the waiting list to access full-time adult residential care places in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11810/17]

Prisoner Health

Brendan Howlin

31. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports being provided to a person (details supplied) who is on the waiting list for admission to the central mental hospital; when the person will be admitted to the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10975/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

5. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he has instructed his Department or has plans to prepare a White Paper on the Government’s position and policy objectives on Brexit. [10033/17]

Brexit Issues

Brendan Howlin

1. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made and outcomes from the all-island civil dialogue on Brexit. [8420/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform will next meet. [10034/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

82. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met. [10035/17]

Magdalen Laundries

Brendan Howlin

102. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued any alert to Irish embassies since October 2014 on the Magdalen restorative justice scheme; if not, the reason this is the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9607/17]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Brendan Howlin

103. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies in regard to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9609/17]

Financial Services Sector

Brendan Howlin

225. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Finance if he has raised Ireland's bid to secure the European Banking Authority with his EU counterparts in bilateral meetings. [2781/17]

Commissions of Investigation

Brendan Howlin

455. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has issued any alerts to Irish embassies in regard to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9610/17]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Brendan Howlin

803. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will contact all those persons that have contacted her Department regarding adoption and mother and baby homes in recent years to inform them of the existence of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9611/17]

Commissions of Investigation

Brendan Howlin

3. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the status of the commission of investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC; and the projected costs. [7363/17]

Central Statistics Office Reports

Brendan Howlin

20. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he has commissioned any bespoke work from the Central Statistics Office in the past 12 months. [2782/17]

Gaeltacht Policy

Brendan Howlin

3. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht has met since October 2016; and when it is planned to meet next. [7047/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met; and when it will meet again. [8421/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

9. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Beata Szydło in Warsaw, Poland. [7046/17]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility

Brendan Howlin

482. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can access treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8619/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

1. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he raised any issues during the exchange with ECB President Mario Draghi at the most recent EU Council. [5691/17]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if his Department has prepared any position paper regarding Ireland’s concerns on Brexit for presentation to EU leaders at the Malta summit in February 2017. [5692/17]

US Travel Restrictions

Brendan Howlin

109. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the name of the organisation appointed to carry out a review of US pre-clearance arrangements in Shannon and Dublin Airports; and when she expects it to report. [7048/17]

Programme for Government

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the agreements in place to support the Government and the role of his Department in overseeing them. [6037/17]

Urban Renewal Schemes

Brendan Howlin

7. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the status of the interim report from the Dublin north inner city task force. [6038/17]

National Economic and Social Development Office

Brendan Howlin

9. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to transfer responsibility for the National Economic and Social Development Office Act 2006 from his Department to another Department of State; if the National Economic and Social Development Office (Amendment) Bill under preparation and referenced in the Government legislation programme proposes to effect such a transfer of responsibilities to another Department; if not, if his statutory responsibilities in relation to social partnership, as set out in that Act, will remain with him; if questions regarding social partnership are accordingly properly addressed to him; and his plans to further develop relations with the social partners in the context of his statutory responsibilities. [5690/17]

Fisheries Protection

Brendan Howlin

599. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the impact exploration and seismic vessels undertaking activities in Irish waters are having on the prawn fisheries in the Porcupine basin and on the behaviour of albacore tuna shoals; if his attention has been drawn to the additional costs this has caused to fisherman affected; his plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7252/17]

Fisheries Protection

Brendan Howlin

612. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an open and transparent environmental consent process has been put in place prior to consent being granted to exploration and seismic survey companies to operate in Ireland's maritime jurisdiction that takes into account the impact on fish and prawn species; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7253/17]

Offshore Exploration Licences

Brendan Howlin

613. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if Directive 2013/30/EU on offshore safety has been transposed into law; the way in which this is applied to applications for offshore exploration activity and protection of marine stocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7254/17]

Brexit Issues

Brendan Howlin

1. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit last met and next plans to meet. [4130/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

8. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will take place; and the persons that attend. [6039/17]

Departmental Records

Brendan Howlin

9. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the number of files withheld by his department in respect of the files transferred to the National Archives in respect of the year 1986; and the number withheld under sections 8(4)(a), (b) and (c), respectively, of the National Archives Act 1986. [4270/17]

Commissions of Investigation

Brendan Howlin

85. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach the status of the commission of investigation into IBRC. [6040/17]

Local and Community Development Programme Staff

Brendan Howlin

153. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 29 November 2016, if the comprehensive legal advice referred to has been fully analysed; if a decision has been made in the matter of providing ex gratia payments to former employees of LCDP companies, made redundant and whereby no moneys were available to fund payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6168/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

2. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on regional and rural affairs last met; and when it is planned to meet next. [4272/17]

Constitutional Amendments

Brendan Howlin

4. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to hold constitutional referenda during 2017. [3241/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

86. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy, Trade and Jobs last met; and when it plans to meet next. [5693/17]

Cabinet Committee Meetings

Brendan Howlin

87. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach when the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure, Environment and Climate Action will occur; and the persons who will attend. [5694/17]