Parliamentary questions

Commemorative Events

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

62. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to reinstigate an Oireachtas decade of centenaries committee under the auspices of her office, as was the practice before (details supplied). [22975/17]

Commemorative Events

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

70. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the Decade of Centenaries commemorative events she has attended since 26 March 2016; and the commemorative events she hopes to attend during the remainder of 2017. [22974/17]

School Management

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

638. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body which ran a school (details supplied); the body which funded it; the way in which referrals were made; the organisation that inspected and oversaw it; and the courses that were taught in the school. [28926/17]

Hospital Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1234. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of children with diabetes attending Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, diabetes service in 2015 and 2016; the amount of whole-time equivalent consultant time that was dedicated to this service in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27479/17]

Hospital Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1235. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the waiting time in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, to put children with type 1 diabetes of five years of age and under on insulin pump treatment; the waiting time to put children with type 1 diabetes between six and 16 years of age on insulin pump treatment; the number of children on the waiting list for insulin pump treatment; the age of these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27480/17]

Hospital Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1236. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the number of new referrals of children with diabetes by county which were received by the diabetes service in Our Lady’s Children Hospital, Crumlin, in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27481/17]

Hospital Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1237. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the ratio of whole-time equivalent dietitians per patient in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street diabetes services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27482/17]

Hospital Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1238. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the whole-time equivalent psychology professional time dedicated to the diabetes service in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; the number of patients who have availed of this service in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27483/17]

Hospital Staff

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1239. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the agreed retirement date of a person (details supplied) at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin; the date on which their replacement will take up the post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27484/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

2278. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will instruct an independent third party to carry out an investigation into the reason Forbairt inspection reports dating from the 1990s cannot be found in view of his Department's failure to locate the Forbairt files and in further view of the possible significance of these missing documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26895/17]

Military Archives

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

2285. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all records pertaining to the siege of Jadotville in 1961 remain within the military archives. [27509/17]

Nursing Home Accommodation Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

182. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason the residents and staff of a nursing home (details supplied) temporarily moved out to Mount Carmel Community Hospital while their facility was being refurbished; if they were promised that they were due to move back in February 2017; the new timeframe for staff and residents moving back into the nursing home; the number of beds which are in the refurbished unit; the number of respite beds which will be available in the refurbished unit; if there is a day care facility in the unit; and the number of public and private respite beds which are available in the Dublin 8 area; the bed capacity of each; and the current staff complement in each. [26462/17]

Military Aircraft

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

101. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person that has the ultimate responsibility for allowing RAF jets to fly over Irish airspace on intercept missions; the details of the bilateral agreement reached by his Department and the Irish Aviation Authority and its British counterparts (details supplied) that permits such missions; if RAF planes are allowed to conduct armed operations over Ireland in the event of a terrorist attack, real or suspected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23194/17]

Flood Risk Insurance Cover Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

142. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance the options available to vendors who, despite having home insurance themselves, cannot sell their home due to the prospective purchasers not being able to get the required home insurance (details supplied). [25362/17]

Departmental Staff Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

259. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed by his Department in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the details of the current staffing levels and vacancies in all locations in tabular form; his views on the way the effective delivery of services in his Department has been affected by the restrictions on staffing levels imposed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25273/17]

Departmental Staff Recruitment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

260. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to recruit permanent staff to deal with current delays in all areas of his Department's services in view of difficulties in the processing of maternity benefit claims in County Donegal. [25274/17]

Hospital Appointments Status

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

424. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be given an urgent hospital appointment. [25405/17]

Home Care Packages Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

427. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a home care package for a person (details supplied). [25461/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

656. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the 2014 internal Air Corps report was made available to the independent third party appointed to investigate protected disclosures regarding health and safety issues at Casement Aerodrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25557/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

657. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or his predecessor were provided with the 2014 internal Air Corps report on health and safety issues at Casement Aerodrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25558/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

658. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department or the military authorities have provided the reason Air Corps inspection reports carried out by Forbairt in the 1990s have gone missing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25559/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

659. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the 2014 internal Air Corps report on health and safety issues at Casement Aerodrome prompted a review of health and safety management at the aerodrome at the time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25560/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

266. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a military police investigation has been commenced to ascertain under whose orders documentation of Air Corps air quality tests were destroyed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24894/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

267. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a military police investigation has commenced to ascertain whether the failure to maintain health and safety standards and the subsequent illnesses caused to staff of the Air Corps breached military law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24895/17]

General Practitioner Services

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

475. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if persons (details supplied) can be taken on as medical card patients at a surgery. [24293/17]

Naval Service Vessels

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

680. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date the last survey was carried out on the LÉ Aisling; the survey’s findings regarding the seaworthiness of the vessel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24535/17]

Naval Service Vessels

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

681. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the agreement reached between his Department and Malta when the LÉ Aoife was gifted to the Maltese naval service; when the last survey was carried out on the LÉ Aoife; and the survey’s findings regarding the vessels seaworthiness. [24536/17]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

682. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of officers, excluding those posted abroad or involved in training and staff courses, who were available for operational duties at home, by month, in 2014 to 2016, inclusive and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [24537/17]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

683. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of officers who were posted abroad or were participating in training or staff courses in 2014 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [24538/17]

Defence Forces Personnel

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

684. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of recorded suicides of personnel serving in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps from 2010 to date, in tabular form. [24001/17]

Ministerial Travel

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

690. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the 44 locations to which the Government Learjet travelled to and from in 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [24230/17]

International Agreements

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

691. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Ireland was one of the 27 EU member states that agreed a legal mandate in preparation for an EU military headquarters; the nature of the proposed legal mandate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24242/17]

Defence Forces Records

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

693. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on claims in a newspaper (details supplied) that his Department is unable to locate copies of technical reports from the 1990s which raise concerns regarding health and safety conditions at Casement Aerodrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24407/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

699. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider removing the ban on non-commissioned officer, NCO, pilots in order to address the pilot shortage, as was done in the 1940s during the Emergency. [24454/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

318. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, when an Air Corps CASA aircraft was refused entry into Swedish airspace, this was due to the fact the submitted paperwork completed by his Department failed to meet the necessary requirements of the Swedish authorities; if he will provide the requirements that must be met when filing paperwork for an Air Corps plane to enter foreign airspace; and the reason on this occasion those requirements were not met. [23788/17]

Ministerial Transport

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

32. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a decision was taken in 2016 to prioritise the ministerial air transport service over the provision of top cover for search and rescue missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23355/17]

Air Corps Equipment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

50. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the support the Air Corps has been able to provide when assisting emergency services dealing with serious gorse and forest fires; the type of equipment available to the Air Corps when attempting to extinguish such fires; and his plans to upgrade or modify its existing air fleet in order that it is better equipped to assist in tackling out-of-control fires in view of the damage caused by gorse and forest fires in recent weeks. [23195/17]

Army Barracks

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

58. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has been contacted by a group (details supplied) seeking to use Mullingar barracks as temporary accommodation to house homeless veterans; his views on these requests; his further views on using Mullingar barracks for such purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23193/17]

Protected Disclosures

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

59. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received and read a recent protected disclosure on serious breaches of health and safety procedures at Casement Aerodrome, including claims that personnel have died prematurely as a result of handling hazardous chemicals without adequate protection from retired Air Corps personnel who worked on the base; and his plans to deal with these latest revelations. [23196/17]

Defence Forces Contracts

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

62. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on drones and other equipment procured from Israel since 2013; his future plans on procuring equipment from Israel; and his views on whether in view of Israel’s appalling human rights record it is unethical and against the wishes of the vast majority of persons that Ireland continues trading with Israel. [23197/17]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

272. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the other social welfare assistance a person (details supplied) would be eligible to receive in view of the fact that the person is currently struggling financially. [23094/17]

Disability Allowance Applications

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

290. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of a person’s (details supplied) application for disability allowance; and when they can expect a decision on their case. [23275/17]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

611. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 1476 of 2 May 2017, if he will reconcile this with his answer to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1474 and 1475 of 2 May 2017, which used whole-time equivalent, as recorded by the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22672/17]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

612. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the definition of "whole-time equivalent" as used by the Defence Forces; the hours per week that constitute whole-time equivalent, as used by the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22673/17]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

613. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the average hours worked per week per person in ranks (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22674/17]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

614. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Permanent Defence Forces members who earned a basic pay, without military service allowance, of less than €24,518 per annum in each of the years 2008 to 2016 by rank, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22675/17]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

615. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Permanent Defence Forces members who earned basic pay, with military service allowance, of less than €24,518 per annum in each of the years 2008 to 2016 by rank (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22676/17]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

277. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if an Air Corps plane was prevented from entering Swedish airspace due to a failure to submit the necessary paperwork for clearance to a foreign country; the person or bodies responsible for this error; if there will be an investigation into the events; if the aircraft was low on fuel when making the return trip; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22424/17]

Naval Service Vessels

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

278. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the LÉ Eithne was delayed from leaving Haulbowline to help Italian authorities rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea; the length of time the LÉ Eithne was forced to remain in dock; if there will be an investigation into the events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22425/17]

Illness Benefit Eligibility

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

147. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will be called for medical assessment. [22200/17]