Parliamentary questions

Schools Establishment

Eamon Ryan

204. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Skills how he will meet the growing demand for school places in the Harold's Cross and Terenure areas, including current demand for primary school places, current demand for secular non-religious schools and the demand for secondary schools. [17075/16]

Television Licence Fee

Eamon Ryan

13. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when he will replace the television licence fee with an alternative funding mechanism; if he is satisfied with the performance of An Post in collecting the current licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16112/16]

Climate Change Policy

Eamon Ryan

36. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for a national dialogue on climate and energy, as set out in the White Paper, Ireland's Transition to a Low Carbon Energy Future 2015 to 2030; when it will occur; the persons who and the bodies which will be involved; the outcomes he is hoping to achieve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16111/16]

Inland Waterways Development

Eamon Ryan

381. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has corresponded with Waterways Ireland on the disposal of the Grand Canal graving docks in the Grand Canal Basin; her long-term strategy for developing boating facilities on the Grand Canal; and if she supports the preservation of such dry dock facilities as part of the historic infrastructure in the Grand Canal Basin. [15353/16]

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Inspections

Eamon Ryan

494. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the status of the investigation of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and his Department into elevated polybrominated diphenyl ethers concentrations in milk samples, as outlined in the Environmental Protection Agency 2010 and 2012 dioxin reports on dioxin levels in the Irish environment; if he has identified the source of the contamination and whether milk from the sites affected was allowed into the food chain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15350/16]

Postal Codes

Eamon Ryan

537. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a role for other postcode applications alongside Eircode; and the basis upon which he decides to promote any such technology via his Department's website and Twitter account. [15347/16]

Hydraulic Fracturing Policy

Eamon Ryan

538. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has analysed the potential reputational damage for Ireland as a green tourism and agrifood country, given the introduction of hydraulic fracturing. [15349/16]

Road Safety

Eamon Ryan

554. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances under the Road Traffic Acts or regulations in which young children are allowed to cycle on footpaths due to the danger of mixing with motorised traffic on roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15348/16]

State Airports

Eamon Ryan

555. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assumptions in relation to global action to reduce greenhouse gases he has relayed to the Dublin Airport Authority in predicting future passenger demands and in deciding on increasing runway capacity. [15351/16]

State Airports

Eamon Ryan

556. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analysis he has carried out of the cap of existing airport infrastructure other than in Dublin Airport to meet passenger demand; the economic and cost-benefit analysis of these options. [15352/16]

Trade Agreements

Eamon Ryan

70. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his meetings with the Irish food industry regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. [14245/16]

Pesticide Use

Eamon Ryan

76. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides and the State's monitoring of the reduction in bee numbers; the bee population in the years 2006 to 2016 to date. [14246/16]

Health Strategies

Eamon Ryan

60. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the measures taken to reduce the amount of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions; and if he will consider the creation of a special task force to assess and mitigate the growing threat of antibiotic resistant infections. [13770/16]

General Practitioner Contracts

Eamon Ryan

74. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the status of negotiations on general practitioner contracts; the timeframe envisaged; and his vision for the revised general practitioner contract. [13769/16]

Hazardous Waste Removal

Eamon Ryan

193. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the remediation works carried out on the former Irish Glass Bottle site have identified all the chemicals on and being released from the site, including methane; and if the current contamination levels are safe or if further remediation works are necessary. [14162/16]

Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Eamon Ryan

194. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the requirement to provide social housing as part of the Spencer Dock development project on North Wall Quay in the Dublin docklands; if he has agreed the use of a site at the junction of Sheriff Street Upper and New Wapping Street for the provision of such social housing; the legal status for such a requirement to provide social housing units in circumstances where the ownership of a development may have changed hands; and if there are any circumstances where such an obligation may be removed. [14164/16]

Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum

Eamon Ryan

195. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will establish the Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum; the members of the forum he has selected under the provisions of section 39 of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Act 2015; when the first meetings of the forum will take place; and if he will lay formal advice or proposals the forum presents to Dublin City Council before Dáil Éireann. [14165/16]

Departmental Functions

Eamon Ryan

113. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the functions assigned to his Department that are due to be transferred to other Departments; the date the transfers will occur; the staffing arrangements for the change-over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12471/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Eamon Ryan

434. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of vacancies which have been filled by hiring agency staff in the Health Service Executive and in organisations it funds, including voluntary hospitals and agencies in each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date. [11332/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Eamon Ryan

435. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure promotional opportunities are not denied to existing staff within Health Service Executive funded organisations; the measures in place to ensure European Union tendering legislation is complied with and that the cost of employing agency staff provides value for money; and the total number of days lost to each health care profession due to delays in recruitment practices in these organisations. [11333/16]