Parliamentary questions

Public Sector Pensions Data

Róisín Shortall

369. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of public service pensions in 2015, including any lump sums payable to persons upon retirement; the number of recipients at the year's end; and the projected equivalent figures in 2016, 2020, 2025 and 2030. [36346/16]

Property Registration Authority

Róisín Shortall

96. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in assigning a case to an officer with regard to a file submitted to the Property Registration Authority of Ireland (details supplied); the timeframe for when this will be assigned; when a final decision may be expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35570/16]

Industrial Disputes

Róisín Shortall

217. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills if non-union teachers on short-term contracts who are available for work will be paid by his Department for the period their schools are closed due to industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34601/16]

Departmental Funding

Róisín Shortall

368. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 18 October 2016, if he will clarify a matter raised by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34439/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance

Róisín Shortall

387. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection if non-union teachers on short-term contracts will be entitled to claim jobseeker's allowance while their schools are closed due to industrial action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34600/16]

General Practitioner Services Provision

Róisín Shortall

460. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a petition (details supplied); if he will maintain this vital service at its current level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34492/16]

Home Help Service Data

Róisín Shortall

554. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the number of persons receiving home help hours in each community healthcare organisation, CHO; the number on waiting lists in each CHO for home help hours as of October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34904/16]

HSE Documents

Róisín Shortall

618. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the circumstances which led to the production of a reported memo issued to nurses regarding the removal of public patients from hospital beds; the person or persons responsible for approving the issuing of this memo; the steps which will be taken to establish accountability for this error; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35171/16]

Pharmaceutical Sector

Róisín Shortall

619. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health further to a media report (details supplied) if he will report on all moneys paid by the pharmaceutical industry to the HSE, the Department of Health or any agencies under the auspices, in each of the past five years; and the circumstances and purpose of these payments. [35172/16]

Pharmaceutical Sector

Róisín Shortall

620. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health his views on the appropriateness or otherwise of the pharmaceutical industry providing payments to doctors within the public health service; his views on whether such payments constitute a significant conflict of interest; his views on the Government policy in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35173/16]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data

Róisín Shortall

140. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 3 November 2016, if he will report on each of the 48 properties transferred to the State under the residential institutions redress agreement of 2002; the details of those properties which have been sold on; and the details of the person or organisations that have beneficial use of the property in the case of properties in the ownership of the state. [34154/16]

Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance

Róisín Shortall

215. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if Irish language versions have been published in all cases of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas over the past five years; if not, the reason; if she is satisfied with the overall quality of the Irish language versions; and, if not, the steps she is taking to address this matter. [34218/16]

Family Resource Centres

Róisín Shortall

340. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 25 October 2016 and notwithstanding the forthcoming 2017 Tusla business plan, her plans with regard to increasing funding to support the day-to-day running costs of family resource centres in line with the 5.5% increase in funding for the agency that was announced in budget 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34157/16]

Departmental Funding

Róisín Shortall

72. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make resources available within her Department to support and facilitate a centre (details supplied) in view of the improving economic conditions. [34085/16]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Róisín Shortall

105. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to encourage post-primary mainstream schools to establish ASD special classes; his views on the reluctance of many schools to establish such classes despite requests from the NCSE through their network of SENOs; the total number of ASD classes in post-primary schools broken down by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34009/16]

Departmental Funding

Róisín Shortall

107. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make resources available within his Department to support and facilitate a centre (details supplied) in view of the improving economic conditions. [34087/16]

Mental Health Services Expenditure

Róisín Shortall

152. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the total amount of spending on mental health as recently announced in budget 2017 broken down by capital and current spending, in tabular form; the percentage and absolute spending change in each category from budget 2016; the total projected budget for new services coming on stream in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33906/16]

Hospital Services

Róisín Shortall

158. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will establish the circumstances of a case (details supplied); if he will address the apparent system failures in the handling of this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33956/16]

Departmental Funding

Róisín Shortall

202. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will make resources available within her Department to support and facilitate a centre (details supplied), in view of the improving economic conditions. [34088/16]

Road Traffic Legislation

Róisín Shortall

102. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 676 of 23 April 2013, 427 of 7 May 2013 and 104 of 9 December 2015, if she will provide an update on the issue of quad bikes and scramblers in view of the public safety and anti-social issues concerned; if consideration will be given to an initiative to discourage parents from buying these for children for Christmas in view of the public safety and anti-social issues concerned; the status of her Department's engagement with the Garda on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33665/16]

School Staff

Róisín Shortall

149. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to clause 7 of Circular 71/2016, if ASTI members who had previously opted out of the supervision and substitution scheme under clause 18 of Circular 0006/2015 are still deemed to be opted out of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33649/16]

Property Tax Data

Róisín Shortall

54. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 26 October 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of the interest paid in the last full year for which figures are available by each of the same local authorities as set out in the reply [33172/16]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data

Róisín Shortall

69. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all cash sums and properties, with their values, transferred to the State by the religious orders under the institutions redress scheme, in tabular form; the total cash amount outstanding and, in the case of property, the total estimated value of property and the location of each property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33225/16]

Apprenticeship Data

Róisín Shortall

161. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices in construction-related trades in 2016; and if he will provide the equivalent figures for each of the past ten years with a breakdown by trade. [33021/16]

Public Procurement Contracts

Róisín Shortall

259. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the monitoring and reporting arrangements in his Department to track tender price inflation for publicly funded projects; if his Department routinely collects and publishes such information; and if he will provide any statistics available to his Department on tender price inflation. [33020/16]

Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals

Róisín Shortall

96. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive a decision in respect of a review of a domiciliary care allowance application, as the estimated completion date for the review has passed. [32397/16]

Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children

Róisín Shortall

55. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 16 September 2016, the steps she will take to offer asylum to the 200 unaccompanied children who are resident in the so-called jungle migrant camp in Calais, which is scheduled to be dismantled; the further steps she can take to offer asylum to other residents of the camp; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32262/16]

Property Tax Data

Róisín Shortall

62. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance the total number of persons, with a breakdown by county and within Dublin by postal district, availing of the deferral option under Part 12 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended). [32274/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility

Róisín Shortall

89. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will address the serious anomaly for lone parents in receipt of maintenance payments and also rent supplement in that they receive no benefit from maintenance payments due to the means test rules operating for rent supplement; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases a parent in these circumstances may suffer a net loss due to receiving maintenance payments; and the way he will address this issue. [32272/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Data

Róisín Shortall

90. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement and in receipt of one parent family payment and jobseeker transition payment respectively. [32273/16]

Immigration Policy

Róisín Shortall

96. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage with his French counterpart in order to request that work to dismantle the so-called jungle migrant camp in Calais be halted until a comprehensive plan for the resettlement of the residents of the camp is finalised. [32261/16]

Public Sector Allowances

Róisín Shortall

110. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the operation of the PCW 1% allowance within the Civil Service; the purpose of this allowance; the basis on which it is awarded; and the person or persons with responsibility to award this allowance. [32330/16]

Civil Service Management

Róisín Shortall

111. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the Civil Service grievance procedure Circular 11/2001, if he will clarify if there is any requirement that a staff member must be a member of a trade union in order to pursue such a procedure; the options open to a complainant where the employer does not comply with Circular 11/2001; and the person or body which ultimately is charged with adjudicating on the matter. [32331/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Róisín Shortall

306. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of each of the expenditure savings that have been earmarked for his Department in 2017; the value of the saving in each case; the basis on which the value was estimated; and the way it differs from the 2016 mid-year expenditure report. [31542/16]

Civil Service Management

Róisín Shortall

375. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grievance procedure available to civil servants; if all staff have a right to have grievance addressed separately and not as a part of any pay or allowance related proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32139/16]

Hospital Staff Data

Róisín Shortall

398. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of consultants currently working at a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the numbers on the outpatient waiting list for each consultant; the average waiting time for surgery for each consultant from a general and priority list respectively; the steps that he is taking to improve access to orthopaedic surgeons and to reduce orthopaedic waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31540/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Róisín Shortall

399. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the details of each of the expenditure savings that have been earmarked for his Department in 2017; the value of the saving in each case; the basis on which the value was estimated; and the way it differs from the 2016 mid-year expenditure report. [31543/16]

Hospitals Capital Programme

Róisín Shortall

423. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health his plans for the future use and development of the three community hospitals in Lifford, Ramelton and St. Joseph's, Stranorlar; the amount of funding he proposes for these hospitals in the current and coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31651/16]

Horticulture Sector

Róisín Shortall

528. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 602 of 18 October 2016, the way in which he intends to follow up on the Teagasc research mentioned in the reply; and the plans to develop an industrial hemp-based economic sector and to promote the development of adequate processing facilities for such an industry here. [32018/16]

Waste Management

Róisín Shortall

541. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements he plans to put in place to ensure householders do not have to pay by weight for adult incontinence pads; the arrangement in place to ensure that waste management companies comply with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32013/16]

Waste Management

Róisín Shortall

542. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to raise public awareness and understanding of customers of the new pay by weight system (details supplied); the proposed structure of the intended review; the person he proposes would carry out this review; the terms of reference in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32014/16]

Waste Management

Róisín Shortall

543. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the full details of the terms of the agreement reached with the Irish Waste Management Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32015/16]

Departmental Data

Róisín Shortall

556. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a database available to his Department of 3G pitches in use here. [31544/16]

Departmental Data

Róisín Shortall

557. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the standards attached to grants provided by his Department for the provision of 3G pitches; and if, in particular, any standards relate to the types of recycled material that may be used in the manufacture of such pitches. [31545/16]

Departmental Data

Róisín Shortall

558. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to ensure that 3G pitches in use here are safe; and the way he proposes to respond to concerns that some pitches may contain carcinogens arising from the types of material used in the manufacture of such pitches. [31546/16]

Family Resource Centres

Róisín Shortall

610. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding for family resource centres will increase in 2017 in line with the increase of 5.5% announced in the budget for Tusla; if she will commit to ring-fencing the FRC national programme budget within the €712.9 million allocated to Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31652/16]

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments

Róisín Shortall

78. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance his plans to recommend that the strategic investment fund divests itself of fossil fuel investment as part of the autumn review of its strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31232/16]

Fiscal Policy

Róisín Shortall

81. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance his Department's estimates of Irish GDP, GNP and GNI for 2017 and 2018, assuming average euro-sterling exchange rates (details supplied). [31254/16]

Excise Duties Yield

Róisín Shortall

82. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an analysis of the expected yield of excise duty for 2017 by sub-group, that is, VRT, tobacco, alcohol and so on; the percentage increase over the expected 2016 outcome; and if he will publish the underlying assumptions used in calculating the figures published in table 9, page c.24 of the economic and fiscal outlook published on budget day. [31255/16]

Excise Duties Collection

Róisín Shortall

83. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance the likely loss of excise duties and VAT in 2017 for scenarios (details supplied) arising from the current and ongoing weakness in sterling and the methods used to calculate the response to the scenarios. [31257/16]