Parliamentary questions

Ambulance Service Response Times

Catherine Murphy

147. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the response times of a HSE ambulance and emergency ambulance to a residential property in response to a call via the 911 emergency services, by vehicle type and county in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10482/18]

Health Services Data

Catherine Murphy

165. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if, when a voluntary cardiac first responder group is dispatched to a cardiac arrest call following an emergency services call on the 911 system, the arrival of the initial voluntary first responder stops the clock as a response count per the HIQA response time requirements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10684/18]

Labour Activation Programmes Data

Catherine Murphy

243. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of adult dependants on a social welfare labour activation scheme in each of the years 2010 to 2017, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10508/18]

Data Protection

Catherine Murphy

116. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of section 4 of the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2003 applications for access to copies of personal data processed by An Garda Síochána in the past five years; the number of applications granted, part granted and refused respectively; the number of appeals processed for a refusal to release data; the number of cases that were appealed to the Data Protection Commissioner's office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10227/18]

Garda Data

Catherine Murphy

117. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of audits conducted by the Garda professional standards unit, GPSU, of the PULSE system and other data systems in the past three years and to date in 2018; the number of audits conducted by the GPSU regarding access by officers to case files and hard copy data files over the same period; if irregularities were identified; the number of officers that have been disciplined for non-business access to data systems electronic or hard copy during the same period by district and division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10232/18]

Irish Prison Service

Catherine Murphy

131. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the compensation payments made by the Irish Prison Service to prison officers, other prison staff and members of the public in 2016 and 2017, by year, amount paid and the general nature of claim made for the payment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10394/18]

JobPath Programme

Catherine Murphy

219. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies subcontracted by companies (details supplied) to provide information sessions to persons on the JobPath scheme network personnel; the expenditure to date on subcontracted work in the context of the delivery of JobPath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10284/18]

Local Authority Housing Data

Catherine Murphy

226. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of single stage process projects below €2 million for the delivery of social housing units under way nationally by local authority and municipal district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10269/18]

Local Authority Housing Data

Catherine Murphy

227. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of four stage process projects for the delivery of social housing units under way nationally by local authority and municipal district; the stage each project is at; the names and locations of each site in the four stage process stream of projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10271/18]

Planning Guidelines

Catherine Murphy

228. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of information sessions for local authorities and approved housing bodies on the principles and requirements arising from the quality housing for sustainable communities and the design manual for urban roads and streets that were held in the context of standards and oversight in 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10276/18]

Local Authority Housing Data

Catherine Murphy

233. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if caps are placed on budgets for four stage process projects to deliver social housing units; the way in which funding is released or withheld in the context of projects in the four stage process; the way in which a budget is set for projects that are one bedroom apartment units contained within a subdivided structure, terraced housing and multi bedroom apartment units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10333/18]

Public Services Card

Catherine Murphy

210. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the expanded use of the public services card; the services that will require presentation of the card to access State services and products in each of the years 2018 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9456/18]

Proposed Legislation

Catherine Murphy

340. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 30 January 2018, if he has read the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality; the status of the preparation of a new Communications (Retention of Data) Bill; the timeframe for its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9900/18]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

444. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to situations whereby front-line health workers trying to access the shorter working year scheme are being declined (details supplied); the number of front-line workers that have successfully availed of the scheme in the past five years in its current and former form, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9591/18]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

452. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby persons working in front-line health care trying to access the shorter working year scheme are being declined (details supplied); the number of front-line staff that have successfully availed of the scheme in the past five years. [9646/18]

Aquaculture Licence Applications Data

Catherine Murphy

534. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an environmental impact assessment has been conducted for a shellfish aquaculture licence here in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; if so, the relevant licences; if an appropriate assessment was or was not required in respect of those licences; the non-shellfish aquaculture licence applications since 1 January 2015 for which an environmental impact statement was required to be submitted and for which an environmental impact assessment was conducted; the number of aquaculture licence applications received; the number of licences and renewals granted respectively since 1 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9315/18]

Aquaculture Licence Applications Data

Catherine Murphy

535. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture installations operating in Lough Foyle; the number of these that are licensed by the State or by authorities in Northern Ireland respectively; the aquaculture installations in Lough Foyle for which an appropriate assessment has been undertaken by authorities here; the actions being taken to deal with unlicensed operations; the State's position regarding the tabling of the sensitive issue of Lough Foyle in the context of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9316/18]

Aquaculture Licence Data

Catherine Murphy

536. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture installations operating in Lough Swilly; the number of these which are licensed here; the aquaculture installations in Lough Swilly for which an appropriate assessment has been undertaken by the authorities; the actions being taken to deal with unlicensed operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9317/18]

Driver Licence Renewals

Catherine Murphy

636. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a current and valid driver licence is an acceptable form of identification to obtain a new and or replacement and or renewal driver licence; if the public services card is the only acceptable form of identification to obtain a new and or a replacement and or renewal driver licence; his plans to amend the forms of identification that are accepted when applying for a new, replacement and or renewal driver licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9781/18]

Public Services Card

Catherine Murphy

689. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the forms of photographic identification a person can use to obtain a public services card. [9782/18]