Parliamentary questions

School Transport Availability

Peadar Tóibín

252. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available to assist with the transportation of children from economically disadvantaged areas with low school completion levels who live just under the necessary distance for regular bus transportation. [21635/19]

Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks

Peadar Tóibín

180. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of houses in County Donegal affected by mica; if this includes council houses, State buildings, retaining walls, extensions, conservatories and so on; the estimated amount it will cost to resolve; and if the scheme will be open ended. [21277/19]

Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks

Peadar Tóibín

181. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if families that have had remedial work carried out on their houses receive a certificate of being clear of mica in view of the fact that persons do not want to register with a group (details supplied) for fear their houses will be devalued or they will not be able to obtain insurance for their property. [21278/19]

Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks

Peadar Tóibín

182. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if families affected by mica will have to continue to pay the local property tax; if families have to pay mortgages and rent if they are forced to move out; if the funding covers compensation to families; the effect the crisis will have on the provision of local authority houses in County Donegal; and the number of local authority houses set aside for families from mica houses. [21279/19]

Home Care Packages Provision

Peadar Tóibín

15. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the overall number of persons waiting for home help services by county; and the average and longest wait. [20920/19]

Emergency Departments

Peadar Tóibín

19. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the future of the 24-hour emergency department in Navan hospital will be guaranteed. [20921/19]

Third Level Fees

Peadar Tóibín

142. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is acceptable that a family that was forced to emigrate to Australia in 2012 due to the recession and has now returned home is liable for international fees in third level institutions here (details supplied); and his plans to ensure that this charge is changed and that persons who have had to emigrate are not affected in such a manner. [20724/19]

Hospital Appointments Status

Peadar Tóibín

85. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the status of pending surgery for a person (details supplied). [20169/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data

Peadar Tóibín

101. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the waiting list for CAMHS appointments by CHO area and region; the length of time each child has been waiting; the waiting list for inpatient CAMHS beds by CHO area and region; the length of time each child has been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/19]

Garda Transport Data

Peadar Tóibín

544. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles within the force in each of the past ten years by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19802/19]

Disability Services Funding

Peadar Tóibín

786. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/19]

Disability Services Funding

Peadar Tóibín

973. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 9 April 2019, when a response will issue. [19850/19]

Departmental Records

Peadar Tóibín

1214. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if files have been stolen from his Department in the past six years; and if so, if the matter has been reported to An Garda Síochána. [18604/19]

Free Travel Scheme Administration

Peadar Tóibín

1264. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the road passenger service routes that are operated under the LocalLink funded scheme for which the operator receives a direct payment from his Department for the carriage of passengers under the free travel scheme; and the reason such payments are made for services already fully funded by the National Transport Authority. [18505/19]

Water Services Data

Peadar Tóibín

1407. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she signed into law section 11 of the Water Services Act 2014; the data collected prior to the signing of this legislation into law; the reason these data were collected; the length of time personal data were collected by her Department; the reason it took her four years to sign section 11 of the Act into law; if Irish Water still has this information; and if not, if it has been expunged. [18689/19]

Irish Water

Peadar Tóibín

1507. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an exemption from state aid rules has been sought from the EU for Irish Water and its assets; the reason he has not sought a referendum for the public ownership of Irish Water to be held in May 2019; the annual income of Irish Water; the loans Irish Water entered into; and the annual cost of servicing these loans. [18690/19]

State Properties Data

Peadar Tóibín

1615. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the properties that remain under the ownership of the State within the area of a site (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and the plans in place for their future use and development. [19432/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Peadar Tóibín

199. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [18244/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Peadar Tóibín

200. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on pain clinic waiting lists; the average wait time; the longest wait time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18245/19]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Peadar Tóibín

271. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive assistance from the HSE in the payment and processing of the payments for the provision of the oxygen supply and sleep apnoea machine. [17221/19]

Home Care Packages Data

Peadar Tóibín

395. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated under the home care package in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17720/19]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Peadar Tóibín

124. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure a person (details supplied) has their operation for tonsillectomy; the number of persons on waiting lists for tonsillectomy in each county; the average wait in each county; and the longest wait in each county. [17050/19]

Bus Services

Peadar Tóibín

183. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 115A bus morning and evening peak period through service will be reinstated as promised by the NTA in November 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17183/19]

Brexit Preparations

Peadar Tóibín

156. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the amount he expects to spend in each of the next ten years on making Ireland Brexit-ready; the estimated financial implications of Brexit for the next ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16383/19]

Statutory Instruments

Peadar Tóibín

163. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the location in which the original version of S.I. No. 125 of 2009 is kept. [16502/19]

Brexit Preparations

Peadar Tóibín

177. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount he expects to spend on making Ireland Brexit ready for each of the next ten years; the estimated financial implications of Brexit for the next ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16394/19]

School Patronage

Peadar Tóibín

219. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if parents will have a vote on the question of patronage of their schools; the proportion that will determine the outcome; if parents will know the new patron in advance of a vote; if a vote is passed, the arrangements made to provide for the ethos-based education originally selected by parents for their children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16506/19]

Brexit Preparations

Peadar Tóibín

300. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount she expects to spend on making Ireland Brexit ready for each of the next ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16391/19]

Disability Services Funding

Peadar Tóibín

309. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if funding is available for electric prosthetics from the HSE in counties Louth and Meath; if a person (details supplied) is entitled to apply for this medical technology; if funding is available; and, if so, the reason the funding was not granted. [16046/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Peadar Tóibín

384. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the charges that persons with disabilities attending HSE care or rehab centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan will cover; if this includes insurance and; the rationale for such a charge in view of the fact that it is an additional expense for vulnerable persons and their families. [16326/19]

Physiotherapy Provision

Peadar Tóibín

430. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied). [16537/19]

Diplomatic Representation

Peadar Tóibín

78. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the Syrian Government or its embassy in relation to a person (details supplied); and if intelligence in relation to the actions of the person in Syria was sought. [15135/19]

Brexit Expenditure

Peadar Tóibín

88. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount which has been spent to date on Getting Ireland Brexit Ready; and the amount expected to be spent on making the country Brexit ready for each of the next ten years. [15048/19]

Community Employment Schemes Supervisors

Peadar Tóibín

138. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when community employment supervisors will receive the pension provision the Labour Court agreed they were entitled to ten years ago; the reason they have not received it to date; the reason there is a refusal to engage with their unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14986/19]

School Transport Provision

Peadar Tóibín

181. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills if €54,000 will be allocated to provide a critical bus service in Navan, County Meath (details supplied). [15154/19]

Paramilitary Groups

Peadar Tóibín

213. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, or the paramilitary groups involved in Syria and Iraq are proscribed organisations here; and if it is a criminal offence to be a member of these organisations and to be involved in atrocities committed by these paramilitary organisations. [15011/19]

Public Transport

Peadar Tóibín

442. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the impact that the BusConnects policy will have regarding the restriction of traffic flow and access to the area of the national children's hospital has been given due consideration; if local residents' objections to BusConnects have been noted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14972/19]

Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications

Peadar Tóibín

554. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied). [15065/19]

Road Projects Status

Peadar Tóibín

167. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the western corridor has been reinstated in the TEN-T funding programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14602/19]

Insurance Costs

Peadar Tóibín

103. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if an emergency support package will be provided to children's soft play centres until a functioning insurance market is developed here in view of the imminent closures of a large number of profitable children's soft play centres and in further view of the lack of material change to the insurance industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14292/19]

Civil Service Renewal Plan

Peadar Tóibín

250. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each reform outlined in the Civil Service renewal plan been implemented; if not, the reforms outstanding; if all civil servants have clear job specifications, productivity objectives and regular performance reviews; if not, the groups, sectors or areas that do not have same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14181/19]

Civil Service Staff Data

Peadar Tóibín

251. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of new recruits to the Civil Service recruited from the private sector each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14182/19]

Teacher Supply

Peadar Tóibín

415. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers not being replaced by substitute teachers due to the difficulty in employing substitute teachers (details supplied); and the prevalence of same in English language schools and Gaelscoileanna. [14135/19]

Immigration Controls

Peadar Tóibín

541. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if exit checks are carried out on passengers who leave here through ports and airports; if he has made use of the European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC; and if so, the number of occasions. [13631/19]

Services for People with Disabilities

Peadar Tóibín

640. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to replace the travel schemes (details supplied) that were ceased in 2013 due to incompatibility with the Equal Status Acts; if an alternative scheme is available; the status of the interdepartmental group that was asked to develop detailed proposals, including eligibility criteria and administrative arrangements; the number of times the group met; when the last meeting took place; the outcome of the group; the findings of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12914/19]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Peadar Tóibín

53. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 5 March 2019, the breakdown of the expenditure on capability development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11959/19]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Peadar Tóibín

109. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the capital allocation for defence in 2019; the expenditure allocations for defensive equipment, major capital infrastructural projects, the Naval Service, Air Corps, Army vehicles, equipment and protective suits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10806/19]

Vehicle Registration Data

Peadar Tóibín

45. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the number of cars on the roads with foreign registrations at any one time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10044/19]

Banking Sector Data

Peadar Tóibín

51. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if all existing banks here have a full and valid banking licence. [10077/19]

Banking Sector Data

Peadar Tóibín

52. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance if all loans existent here in the hands of commercial banks were issued with complete banking licences. [10078/19]