Parliamentary questions

Prisoner Health

Anne Ferris

573. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures for the health care budget allocated to the prison service as a whole in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive; the health care budget allocated to Mountjoy Prison and Wheatfield Prison in the same years; how these figures compare with comparative health care spend in total as well as in each named facility; the respective data per head of prisoner population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22119/15]

Garda Forms

Anne Ferris

574. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the procedures for Form 104 reporting by gardaí to the Central Statistics Office, particularly the manner in which the procedures apply to the recording of suicide statistics; if any difficulties have been identified by Garda management with either the reporting process or the use of the classification system for identifying cause of death; if there are reporting timelines; if there has been any recent study into the overall effectiveness of this element of suicide reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22121/15]

Deaths in Prison

Anne Ferris

575. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the cause of death determination process in use to record causes of death in prisons; the process involved in recording and conveying cause of death statistics from the prison service to the Central Statistics Office, including the timelines involved; if any recent review of the effectiveness of the process has been undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22122/15]

Deaths in Prison

Anne Ferris

576. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of deaths by suicide in Irish prisons in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive; the number of deaths by suicide of released former prisoners on temporary release or remission in the same years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22123/15]

Mental Health Services Funding

Anne Ferris

821. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the total health care budget allocated to the Central Mental Hospital in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014; the health care spend at that facility in each year, and for the data to be presented in total format per annum, and in the format of per head of population within the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22120/15]

Suicide Prevention

Anne Ferris

822. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Health the suicide prevention policies applied at the Central Mental Hospital; the number of suicide-related deaths per year over the past ten years at that facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22124/15]

Commercial Rates

Anne Ferris

1072. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on any proposal to reduce commercial rates obligations on wind farm operators, as well as his views on the necessity to seek European Union state aid approval for any such plan, in view of the fact that the renewable energy feed-in tariff programme required state aid clearance; if any application has been made to seek approval for state aid to wind farm concerns in the form of preferential commercial rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22166/15]

Renewable Energy Projects

Anne Ferris

1109. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a briefing on the role of An Bord Pleanála in fast-tracking European Union renewable energy projects of common interest; the number and identity of applicants to any part of that process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22165/15]

Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation

Anne Ferris

1125. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the offshore renewable energy development plan implementation, with particular emphasis on the status of planned wind farms off the east coast of Ireland, in view of the lack of an import export energy agreement with the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future and the growth of alternative energy sources to meet the United Kingdom's renewable and energy security demands, including Scottish wind energy, increased energy connectivity between England and Scotland and the planned increase in domestic nuclear power capacity in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22163/15]

Wind Energy Generation

Anne Ferris

1126. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on his Department's knowledge about the progress of the Codling Windpark project; if this project still retains European Union common interest status; if so, the reason this is the case, in view of the lack of the necessary import-export plans to the United Kingdom; if the Codling proposal is still seeking support for interconnection via the Irish-Scottish Links on Energy Study; if the Government is supporting any of these initiatives in any way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22164/15]

Rail Services Provision

Anne Ferris

1183. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the Irish Rail ticketing system to ensure that all elderly and other vulnerable passengers who have purchased a ticket will be entitled to a seat during their journey, that all fare-paying passengers will be guaranteed a seat on inter-city journeys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22292/15]

Export Controls

Anne Ferris

1202. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all export licences issued by the National Gallery of Ireland in each of the years from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 date for paintings or other works of art in the ownership of the Alfred Beit Foundation, or were assets of the foundation at the time of the granting of any such licence; the names and positions of the authorising signatories on any such export licence; the regulatory process leading to the grant of any such licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22116/15]

Export Controls

Anne Ferris

1203. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all licences or other permits issued by her Department or by previous Departments with responsibility for arts or culture in each year since 2010 and for 2015 to date to enable the export of paintings or other works of art in the ownership of the Alfred Beit Foundation or that were in the ownership of the foundation at the time of the granting of any such licence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22117/15]

Register of Cultural Objects

Anne Ferris

1204. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any works of art owned by the Alfred Beit Foundation, have at any stage been entered on the national register of cultural objects; the dates of registration and removal from the register of individual paintings owned by the Alfred Beit Foundation; if the Head of A Bearded Man and Venus and Jupiter by Rubens, The Kermesse Scenes by David Teniers the Younger, Adoration of the Shepherd by Adriaen van Ostade, or any works by Francesco Guardi in the ownership of the Beit Foundation are or have been on the register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22118/15]

Export Controls

Anne Ferris

1205. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she granted an export licence to the Alfred Beit Foundation under section 4 of the Documents and Pictures (Regulation of Export) Act 1945; if so, the person who recommended the granting of such a licence; the administrative process leading to the granting of any State licence for export of art work by the Alfred Beit Foundation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22162/15]

Beit Collection

Anne Ferris

1062. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht notwithstanding the fact that the administration of the Beit Foundation, which owns and operates Russborough House, is a matter for the trustees and that her Department has no role in the direct administration of the trust, her views on whether she has, in fact, a role in the arts education of the beneficiaries of the trust, namely, the citizens of Ireland; in view of the fact that the stated charitable intention of this significant bequest is to further the education of fine arts, her views on the clear impact on the role of her Department of the loss to this country of significant assets from the Beit bequest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20695/15]

Beit Collection

Anne Ferris

549. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the intended beneficiaries of the Alfred Beit Foundation are the citizens of Ireland, and that the trust was established with the charitable objective of education in fine arts, her views regarding the risk that further sale of trust assets could be contrary to achieving the overall public benefit objective of the trust; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19524/15]

Heritage Council

Anne Ferris

646. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent announcement that the Alfred Beit Foundation is to auction valuable artwork; if this artwork is part of the works left by the Beits, in trust for the cultural benefit of the Irish State; if other measures have been explored by her Department to fund necessary works at Russborough House in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18653/15]

Planning Issues

Anne Ferris

538. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to update the planning laws in line with Ireland's obligations towards informing communities as set out in the Aarhus Convention; the timeframe for realising such plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17506/15]

Wind Energy Guidelines

Anne Ferris

539. Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which recent increases in the scale and capacity of onshore wind turbines has been considered in the ongoing review of departmental guidance in relation to the minimum siting distances of such turbines from domestic dwellings, schools and other sensitive receptors; the extent to which the national landscape strategy is being linked to same; the types of mitigating requirements being considered in relation to shadow flicker and noise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17507/15]