Ní féidir ach ceisteanna agus freagraí a foilsíodh tar éis Iúil 2012 a amharc anseo. Is féidir amharc de réir téarma nó dátaí ar leith ó Mhárta 2016 ar aghaidh do Ranna Rialtais. Foilsítear freagraí scríofa de réir mar a fhaightear iad ó Ranna. Chun ceisteanna parlaiminte a foilsíodh roimh Iúil 2012 a fheiceáil, cuardaigh Díospóireachtaí na Dála.
Ceisteanna agus freagraí le haghaidh gach suí
Leathanach 52 de 58
Máirt, 2 Beal 2017
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Health Care Policy
John Lahart
1098. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken by his Department to ensure a better understanding of deaf-blindness by health and social care practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20603/17]
Máirt, 2 Beal 2017
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Health Care Policy
John Lahart
1099. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the data his Department has been compiling on the population of deaf-blind persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20604/17]
Céad, 12 Aib 2017
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Traffic Data
John Lahart
346. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the most recent data available regarding the cost of traffic congestion to the economy; the most recent figures available regarding same in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18572/17]
Máirt, 11 Aib 2017
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Schools Building Projects Status
John Lahart
255. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school building project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18057/17]
Déar, 6 Aib 2017
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Private Rented Accommodation Standards
John Lahart
52. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a wide range of advertisements across social media for multiple beds and bunk bed accommodation in Dublin; the laws that are in place; if legislation is required to combat this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16808/17]
Céad, 5 Aib 2017
oral
Special Educational Needs Service Provision
John Lahart
36. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some schools are being unduly penalised in respect of their special needs teaching allocation under a new departmental circular, such as a school (details supplied). [16496/17]
Céad, 5 Aib 2017
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Schools Building Projects Status
John Lahart
58. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the construction of a school (details supplied) is being delayed. [16497/17]
Céad, 5 Aib 2017
written
Traffic Data
John Lahart
329. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the most recent data available to his Department on the cost of traffic congestion to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17076/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
116. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the involvement of the Garda traffic corps in the false tabulation of the figures that have emerged with regard to the controversy over breath test statistics and fixed notice fines. [16112/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
117. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detail of the figures related to the roadside breath testing issue and the fixed notice fines from each Garda division, on a regional basis, in tabular form. [16113/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
118. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the step-by-step process and protocols involved from the moment the alcohol level in a driver's roadside breath test exceeds the legal limit. [16114/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
119. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Garda Commissioner failed to inform the Policing Authority of the emerging circumstances since 2014 surrounding the system for recording roadside breath tests. [16115/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
120. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which An Garda Síochána discovered the discrepancies in the figures for roadside breath tests. [16116/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
121. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the State of the administrative errors on the part of An Garda Síochána with regard to the issuing of 14,700 fixed notice fines. [16117/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
122. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detail of the administrative error that occurred with regard to the posting of 14,700 fixed notice Garda fines to recipients for roadside breath tests that never took place. [16118/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
123. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials received correspondence, communications or information from An Garda Síochána concerning the eventual discovery of inflated breath test results; and the chronology of these communications. [16119/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
124. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the solutions An Garda Síochána arrived at to resolve the problems that emerged through the audit of the roadside breath tests. [16120/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Road Traffic Offences Data
John Lahart
125. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the underlying problem and the way in which An Garda Síochána arrived at the solution to the problem of the recording of roadside breath testing, in view of the fact that a solution was implemented in November 2016. [16121/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Credit Unions
John Lahart
163. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance if Regulation 35, as outlined in SI No. 1 of 2016 regarding the Credit Union Act 1997, applies to the accounts of charitable associations that use the credit union to avail of its favourable interest rates or if it applies only to individual savings accounts; if exemptions can be made for charitable organisations whose accounts exceed the limit of €100,000 as set out in Regulation 35; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16048/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Schools Site Acquisitions
John Lahart
264. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that his Department has a permanent site for a proposed school (details supplied) due to open in September 2018; if a temporary school to be provided for post primary purposes in the area will also be located on such a permanent site; if his Department will not proceed with the opening of this proposed post primary school without having a permanent site purchased and secure for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16305/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Northern Ireland
John Lahart
383. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take in the event of the electorate of Northern Ireland voting to join the Republic; if a referendum is required here to allow for such a move; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16040/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Pension Provisions
John Lahart
437. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if persons with modest UK pensions, which entitle the recipients of the pension to a medical card here under EU law, will be affected with the onset of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16304/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Suicide Prevention
John Lahart
520. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if 95% of general practitioners with whom suicidal persons are registered will receive a completed emergency care plan within 24 hours, as recommended by the national clinical programme for the assessment and management of persons presenting to emergency departments following self-harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16294/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Hospital Services
John Lahart
521. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if, based on current individual emergency department data, a target has been set for each emergency departments to reduce the proportion of persons leaving prior to assessment as recommended by the national clinical programme for the assessment and management of persons presenting to emergency departments following self-harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16295/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Health Services
John Lahart
522. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if all persons that arrive in the emergency department are triaged for mental health difficulties in view of the evidence that mental health triage scales reduce waiting times and reduce the proportion of persons that leave the hospital before being seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16296/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Health Services
John Lahart
523. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if 95% of all persons that present with self-harm to the emergency department will either be admitted to a hospital bed or discharged within six hours of presentation and 100% of treatment dispositions will be completed within nine hours, this time to be calculated from when fit for interview by the metal health practitioner, in view of the recommendations from the capital national clinical programme for the assessment and management of patients presenting to emergency departments following self-harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16297/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Health Services
John Lahart
524. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if mental health practitioners assessing persons that present with self-harm will have appropriate training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16298/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Health Services
John Lahart
525. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if the national clinical programme for the assessment and management of persons presenting to emergency departments following self-harm is up and running; the number of key performance indicators following self-harm that are being met; if these key performances are not being met, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16299/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Health Services
John Lahart
526. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if the national clinical programme for the assessment and management of persons presenting to emergency departments following self harm is in practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16300/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Suicide Prevention
John Lahart
527. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the number of suicide crisis assessment nurses that are in place for the Dublin south west area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16301/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Suicide Prevention
John Lahart
528. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the provisions in place for persons that present with suicidal behaviour, self-harm or suicidal ideation in Dublin south west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16302/17]
Máirt, 4 Aib 2017
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Mental Health Services Expenditure
John Lahart
529. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if there is now an information system in place to account for public expenditure on mental health care in view of the fact that it is ten years from the publication of A Vision for Change and that a group (details supplied) has been calling for an information technology based national mental health system since its budget submission in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16303/17]
Déar, 30 Márta 2017
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Garda Strength
John Lahart
6. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken to address the 27% fall in the number of personnel in the Garda traffic corps in Dublin since 2011. [15755/17]
Céad, 29 Márta 2017
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Air Corps Operations
John Lahart
35. Deputy John Lahart asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Air Corps could not provide top cover for the Coast Guard in north County Mayo on 15 March 2017 but was able to provide two helicopters covering a large cash in transit on the M50 towards the mint in Sandyford two days later. [15259/17]
Céad, 29 Márta 2017
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Immigration Policy
John Lahart
57. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to introducing a humanitarian admission programme that would enable refugees, migrants and naturalised citizens apply for their extended family members who are currently displaced to join them here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15564/17]
Céad, 29 Márta 2017
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Family Reunification Policy
John Lahart
58. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to enabling Irish citizens and organisations to co-sponsor a family reunification application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15565/17]
Céad, 29 Márta 2017
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Special Educational Needs Staff
John Lahart
103. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will re-examine the decision to reduce the number of resource teachers at a school (details supplied); his views on whether the new model of allocating resource teachers is unfair due to the component of complex needs being based on one year only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15673/17]
Céad, 29 Márta 2017
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Rural Development Plan
John Lahart
122. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when she expects applications to open for the rural renewal schemes, specifically CLÁR; the amount of funding allocated to each of the schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15676/17]
Máirt, 28 Márta 2017
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Refugee Resettlement Programme
John Lahart
84. Deputy John Lahart asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the 4,000 Syrian refugees that the Government committed to taking in that have been taken as of 28 February 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15008/17]
Máirt, 28 Márta 2017
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Schools Building Projects Status
John Lahart
186. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposed school (details supplied); if the school is going ahead; the progress being made in securing a temporary site for this school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15384/17]
Máirt, 28 Márta 2017
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Architectural Heritage
John Lahart
299. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the detail of the archaeological discoveries adjacent to and in the surrounding area of the Hell Fire Club in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15007/17]
Déar, 23 Márta 2017
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Coast Guard Services
John Lahart
217. Deputy John Lahart asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Air Corps could not provide top cover for the Coast Guard in north County Mayo on 15 March 2017 but was able to provide two helicopters covering a large cash in transit on the M50 towards the mint in Sandyford two days later. [14628/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Pensions Data
John Lahart
212. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance the reason an owner of a minimum approved retirement fund who cannot withdraw it until 75 years of age is not allowed to freeze the account to prevent any further interest charges being applied (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13415/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Special Educational Needs Staff
John Lahart
370. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is still waiting to fill positions for special needs assistants despite the board of management attempting to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13804/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Rental Accommodation Standards
John Lahart
466. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the need to increase and enforce health and safety regulations in respect of houses that are being converted for the rental market; if his attention has been further drawn to the number of houses that are being converted without planning permission and with little regard to the existing planning regulations; the remit under which the enforcement of existing regulations fall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13953/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Water Fluoridation
John Lahart
697. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will report on fluoride in water and the research the Government relies upon that justifies the use of fluoride in water. [13504/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Water Fluoridation
John Lahart
698. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the reason Ireland is not in the majority of countries that continue to use fluoride in their drinking water systems. [13505/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
John Lahart
931. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the reason long term illness benefit is cut off at 16 years of age for mental illness but not for other illnesses; the reason the medical card is withdrawn for persons suffering from mental illness at the age of 16 but not for other illnesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13730/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Mental Health Services
John Lahart
939. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the dementia services available for the under 65s nationally and specifically in the Dublin South-West constituency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13755/17]
Máirt, 21 Márta 2017
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Services for People with Disabilities
John Lahart
956. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health his plans to allocate funding to service providers that accommodate children with disabilities moving into adult services; if so, when this funding will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13825/17]