Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Commissions of Investigation

Eoghan Murphy

237. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the commissions of investigation, inquiries and similar investigations established under his Department during the past 12 months or being considered for establishment during the next 12 months, and in each case the person or persons conducting the inquiry and the timeframe, including start and end date envisaged. [38341/14]

Commissions of Investigation

Eoghan Murphy

240. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of the commissions of investigation, inquiries and similar investigations established under her Department during the past 12 months or being considered for establishment during the next 12 months, and in each case the person or persons conducting the inquiry and the timeframe, including start and end date envisaged. [38328/14]

Private Rented Accommodation Costs

Eoghan Murphy

563. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce further protections in so far as dramatically increasing rents over a short period of time are concerned for long-term renters, specifically families, so that they can realistically choose to rent long term, where buying a home is either not an option or a preference, so that families cannot be effectively evicted from their homes with the resulting upheaval to their families’ lives, for example, moving a child out of school and so on. [38199/14]

Sports Capital Programme Expenditure

Eoghan Murphy

6. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be another round of sports capital grants in 2015. [36662/14]

Sports Events

Eoghan Murphy

43. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Rugby World Cup bid. [36663/14]

Disability Allowance Data

Eoghan Murphy

160. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the more than 100% increase in the number of recipients of disability allowance over a ten-year period between 1996 and 2006, from 37,054 recipients to 83,697 recipients, and the subsequent more than 40% increase in recipients over the following eight year period until 2014, with an estimated 108,274 recipients expected to receive the allowance this year; if there is a precedent in other countries for such an increase; and the way in which the figure of 108,274 persons on disability allowance, as a percentage of the overall population, compares to other countries. [36891/14]

Illness Benefit Applications Data

Eoghan Murphy

161. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the decrease in the number of recipients of illness benefit from a 20-year high of 81,253 people in 2010, to an estimated 58,468 recipients in 2014, a ten year low. [36892/14]

Defence Forces Review

Eoghan Murphy

262. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Defence when deliberations on the new White Paper on Defence will commence. [36890/14]

Water Charges Administration

Eoghan Murphy

588. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the under 18s water allowance to third-level students living in the family home. [37122/14]

Youth Services Provision

Eoghan Murphy

165. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has designated or will designate a point of contact in his Department to liaise with youth educators on the various departmental schemes across Government, in place to assist children in education and fitness, and the various eligibility criteria and so on to help youth educators better navigate the system. [36319/14]

School Funding

Eoghan Murphy

231. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of funding awards currently available from her Department for primary schools. [36318/14]

Water Charges Exemptions

Eoghan Murphy

248. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons with an ileo anal pouch will qualify for an increased water allowance. [36321/14]

Parking Provision

Eoghan Murphy

287. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his discussions with the National Transport Authority on the feasibility of a pilot partial footpath parking scheme for a limited number of specific locations in Dublin, as per previous replies. [36320/14]

National Debt

Eoghan Murphy

164. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of interest repayments on the national debt; the changes in comparison to the previous year and forecasts for next year; the amount these interest repayments will increase as a result of borrowing to fund the deficit in 2015. [35631/14]

Passport Services

Eoghan Murphy

420. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the conditions or circumstances in which an Irish person can obtain a second passport. [35718/14]

Foreign Policy Review

Eoghan Murphy

16. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Defence in view of recent hostilities in eastern Europe, his plans to review the State’s defence doctrine and resources, in particular the triple-lock policy which may impede future peacekeeping or other deployment needs in eastern Europe. [34545/14]

Defence Forces Operations

Eoghan Murphy

26. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Defence in view of recent hostilities in eastern Europe, his plans to review the resources allocated to the Defence Forces for peacekeeping operations, either in relation to equipment or the recruitment of additional personnel into the forces for possible future peacekeeping operations along Europe’s border with Russia. [34544/14]

NATO Membership

Eoghan Murphy

114. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Defence in view of recent hostilities in eastern Europe, if he has held talks with any NATO members on the developing situation in Ukraine; and his plans to increase Irish co-operation with NATO or to formalise it through an application for membership. [34543/14]

Tax Code

Eoghan Murphy

241. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will address the following biases in the tax code vis-à-vis self-employed persons (details supplied). [33732/14]

Garda Powers

Eoghan Murphy

620. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will regulate the use of house alarms in order that that they have automatic shut-off times and give the required powers to gardaí to turn off such alarms when they malfunction and cause a noise nuisance. [33729/14]

Garda Deployment

Eoghan Murphy

621. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allocating additional resources to the gardaí so that they may increase the number of gardaí on active duty in Dublin city centre; and if she will consider bringing forward zero tolerance legislation and regulations when it comes to certain activities, including public street drinking, drug use, begging, breaches in planning law, and cycling on footpaths. [33730/14]

Health Screening Programmes

Eoghan Murphy

962. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy on foetal abnormality testing; the State support provided; and the guidelines or policy that is in place for the HSE in dealing with religious and cultural beliefs that may be at odds with the welfare of women in this State. [33731/14]

Health Services

Eoghan Murphy

991. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health his views on implementing best practices regarding hereditary angioedema (HAE) which have been outlined in a report (details supplied), and adopted in most European Union countries, specifically to make home infusions of C1-INH protein standard practice; his views on the report's positive cost-benefit analysis of said practice and to educate medical professionals of the symptoms of HAE. [33815/14]

Proposed Legislation

Eoghan Murphy

1662. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce regulations that will permit local authorities to enact by-laws pertaining to the trailing of leads over public roads, footpaths and car parks (details supplied). [33170/14]

Parking Charges

Eoghan Murphy

1675. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to bring forward regulations or primary legislation that would give local authorities the right to forgo, extinguish or transfer an income stream arising directly from a designated zoned area of permit parking for which it has entered into a contract under the applicable by-law with members of the public/residents; his further plans to bring forward regulations or primary legislation which would give local authorities the authority to cancel that pre-existing contract to move that beneficial interest in the value of the permit parking/fee out of the public domain directly as a consequence of serving or facilitating the needs of a private commercial vendor to become the sole beneficiary of that beneficial interest. [33060/14]

Flood Risk Insurance Cover

Eoghan Murphy

161. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies refusing home insurance, including but not limited to flood insurance, to householders in Dublin based on a supposed risk of flooding, even though there is no history or projected risk of flooding in the area in question. [30767/14]

VAT Rate Application

Eoghan Murphy

173. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering a VAT rate of 23% on health products; and if this will include food or drink products that are viewed as natural remedies to certain conditions, or are taken as alternatives to other similar foods because of dietary requirements. [30977/14]

Departmental Funding

Eoghan Murphy

268. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on potential funding awards in her Department, either from the national lottery fund or other, that could be granted in respect of fitness (details supplied), at primary school level; and if he will provide a relevant point of contact for accessing such funding. [30769/14]

Departmental Funding

Eoghan Murphy

277. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on potential funding awards in her Department, either from the national lottery fund or other, that could be granted in respect of projects in the area of science, engineering and fitness (details supplied), at primary school level; and if he will provide a relevant point of contact for accessing such funding. [30768/14]

School Curriculum

Eoghan Murphy

282. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the work undertaken to date by the programme officer charged with developing the new curriculum on education about religion and beliefs and ethics for primary schools following the Report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector; when a curriculum will be published; her plans to provide appropriate in-service and resources to facilitate the implementation of this new curriculum when published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30979/14]

Data Protection

Eoghan Murphy

566. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to any Government agencies that have direct access to the networks of telecommunications companies; the number of court orders that were obtained in the past three calendar years to directly access the calls and e-mails of citizens; her plans to introduce new legislation to protect the privacy of telecommunications and to ensure that Government agencies are only given access to such data on foot of a High Court warrant; and if Government agencies that are accessing the privacy of telecommunications without a court order are complying with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. [30665/14]

Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit

Eoghan Murphy

573. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is concerned regarding reports of errors in the property price register; if these errors are fraudulent or accidental; and the way the errors are monitored, detected and corrected. [30978/14]

HSE Funding

Eoghan Murphy

640. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of February 2014, if the response from the Health Service Executive includes its involvement in the creation of new posts at an organisation (details supplied); and if not, if the Health Service Executive will indicate the amount of money it has put into these new posts and the timeframe for same. [30975/14]

Professional Ethics

Eoghan Murphy

641. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if it is the case that members of the dentistry profession or any medical profession have to disclose gifts received by industry, for example, hospitality, entertainment or travel; the way such disclosures are policed or regulated; and if he is satisfied with current practice in this area. [30976/14]

Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage

Eoghan Murphy

696. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will consider adding the multiple sclerosis drug Fampyra to the drug payment scheme. [31511/14]

Sports Events

Eoghan Murphy

11. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the proposed bid for the Rugby World Cup. [27316/14]

Tourism Industry

Eoghan Murphy

15. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the performance of the tourism sector here to date in 2014, in comparison with the previous two years and projecting forward for the rest of the year, including the increased numbers in employment. [27315/14]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Eoghan Murphy

60. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide assurances that he will not allow banks here to impose any further increase in variable rate mortgages while the ECB rate remains as low as it is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27629/14]

Employment Rights

Eoghan Murphy

177. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering regulating the live-in au pair market as in other European countries to reduce the occurrence of abuse in the sector; if her attention has been drawn to the exploitation in the live-out au pair market where au-pairs regularly have no protection due to the fact that this type of employment tends to subsidise foreign students whose visas do not permit employment; if she will consider bringing this sector out of the black economy by way of legislation akin to JobBridge and make the necessary provisions in law by amending the visa scheme. [27611/14]

Criminal Law

Eoghan Murphy

136. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Irish definition of hatred as per the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 does not include gender as its basis, or gender identity or expression, as per EU law. [27580/14]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Eoghan Murphy

191. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health when and the way the Health Service Executive is to clear the waiting list for bariatric surgery in Loughlinstown weight management clinic; if additional funding will be provided; and if he is committed to reducing the waiting list for bariatric surgery to a maximum of one year [27570/14]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Eoghan Murphy

272. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons receiving disability allowance, illness benefit and invalidity pension this year, and every year since 1994, broken down by benefit category; the total number of persons in receipt of one or more of these allowances each year; and the total cost to the Exchequer for each of these years. [26734/14]

Crime Prevention

Eoghan Murphy

448. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider making provision in regulations for the introduction of a new bike scheme (details supplied). [27013/14]

Health Services

Eoghan Murphy

193. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding hereditary angioedema; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26324/14]

Parking Provision

Eoghan Murphy

205. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding his engagement with the National Transport Authority on the possibility of a pilot partial footpath parking scheme. [26318/14]

Tax Compliance

Eoghan Murphy

153. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance to outline his views on whether the Revenue Commissioners should be paying the same attention to hospital consultants and medical professionals as it does to sole traders in terms of auditing their accounts and in view of the high number of medical practices that accept only cheque or cash payments; if a system of spot-checks on those who apply for tax back on medical expenses each year by furnishing their receipts might be a way of initiating this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25423/14]

English Language Training Organisations

Eoghan Murphy

249. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills his view on correspondence which has arisen with students of a college (details supplied) and other similar institutions. [25666/14]

English Language Training Organisations

Eoghan Murphy

578. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence which has arisen with students of a college (details supplied) and other similar institutions. [25667/14]

Public Transport

Eoghan Murphy

757. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the involvement he has in the introduction of the new bus rapid transit between Blanchardstown and UCD; his views that the new BRT should be introduced in a way that makes the operation of the service compatible with pedestrian and cyclist safety in order that it does not have a negative impact on residents living in the city centre, particularly in the city’s historic Georgian quarter; and if he will consider the merits of a policy (details supplied). [25380/14]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Eoghan Murphy

41. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons in the covered institutions, by institution, on a variable rate mortgage; if he has spoken to any of the public interest directors in these institutions in relation to the matter of increasing variable rates, in contradiction to the trend of rate reductions from the ECB in the past three years; if he will provide the percentage of mortgage holders, by institution, in default or mortgage distress that are on variable rate mortgages; if the Regulator carried out an impact analysis in 2011 on this issue as instructed by Government; and if the banks have justified to the regulator or the Central Bank of Ireland the reason for the increase in variable rates, and his views on same. [24886/14]

Asylum Applications

Eoghan Murphy

126. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide information on a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2 in the asylum process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24887/14]

Skills Shortages

Eoghan Murphy

57. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the position regarding upskilling and retraining in the area of Java programming (details supplied). [23778/14]

Building Regulations Application

Eoghan Murphy

115. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide clarification regarding the position of self-builders after the introduction of the recent building regulations, SI 80, which came into effect on 1 March 2014; if he will shed light on the position of certified suppliers such as small quarries supplying stone gravel or small family joinery shops in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23779/14]

Preschool Services

Eoghan Murphy

137. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to plans to close the crèche in Tallaght hospital; the way this will affect parents and children who avail of the crèche facility; and if he has seen or will publish the report commissioned by the hospital management. [23445/14]

Mortgage Schemes

Eoghan Murphy

113. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering adopting a similar approach to the UK in its implementation of a recent mortgage market review that aims to place more responsibility on mortgage lenders and prevent the development of poor lending practices. [22541/14]

Mortgage Schemes

Eoghan Murphy

171. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered proposals for restructuring lending practices in the mortgage market whereby mortgage lending would be calculated in terms of the average value of a house over a fixed period, say 20 years, for which the money is being borrowed, rather than calculating the loan in terms of the present-day value of the house which may not reflect the longer-term value of the asset. [23321/14]

Water Charges Exemptions

Eoghan Murphy

542. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if persons with an ileo-anal pouch will qualify for an increased water allowance. [22652/14]

Lease Agreements

Eoghan Murphy

572. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Dublin City Council have not met its responsibilities under the management company agreement and specify the actions it has taken to ensure that the developer and their agent, Ballymun Regeneration, complete the transfer of the leases to Gateway Management Company (details supplied). [23322/14]

Planning Issues

Eoghan Murphy

577. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the current process in regard to objecting to or appealing planning applications is not unfairly weighted against the objecting parties (details supplied). [23400/14]

Sports Capital Programme Eligibility

Eoghan Murphy

14. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position of the 2014 sports capital programme. [21487/14]

Light Rail Projects Status

Eoghan Murphy

43. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the progress being made on the Luas cross city project. [21488/14]

Traffic Regulations

Eoghan Murphy

261. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 13 February 2014, when he plans to introduce regulations permitting local authorities to introduce by-laws that would designate electric vehicle charging points on public roads as electric vehicle parking only, as well as permitting local authorities to assign dedicated public parking spaces as car club only spaces. [21899/14]

Local Authority Housing

Eoghan Murphy

461. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide information as to the reason Dublin City Council has failed to meet its contractual requirements and transfer title to a company (details supplied). [21160/14]

Legislative Process

Eoghan Murphy

580. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health when the draft misuse of drugs (amendment) regulations, which will amend the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988, will be submitted for Government approval to notify the draft regulations to the EU Commission; the reason for the delay in submitting the draft regulations for Government approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20934/14]

Parking Provision

Eoghan Murphy

238. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1190 of 16 July 2013, if he will introduce a pilot scheme in Dublin city to trial the use of partial footpath parking in residential areas. [20700/14]

Foreign Conflicts

Eoghan Murphy

35. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 8 April 2014, the Government’s position regarding the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and UN allegations regarding his involvement in Congo. [19013/14]

Mortgage Schemes

Eoghan Murphy

119. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the additional measures he is considering to assist and prioritise first-time home buyers over investors when purchasing property. [19655/14]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Eoghan Murphy

120. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if there has been any progress by his Department or by the office of the Financial Regulator or by the Central Bank of Ireland in dealing with the banks on the issue of variable rate mortgages, the cost of which has risen disproportionately in recent years and contrary to market forces. [19661/14]

Public Sector Pensions Data

Eoghan Murphy

225. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons in receipt of two or more pensions from the State and the cumulative value per annum paid to these persons. [18622/14]

Water Charges Introduction

Eoghan Murphy

444. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the water metering of apartments; when this is likely to commence; if it will be possible to have individual metering for all units in an apartment block; when this is likely to be completed; if persons living in apartments will be charged before then; and if so, the way in which this will be done. [18606/14]

Visa Agreements

Eoghan Murphy

631. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to make it easier for visitors from China to obtain a tourist to visit here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19709/14]

National Monuments

Eoghan Murphy

963. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the policy of closing national monuments, buildings and exhibitions on public and bank holidays is counterproductive for our tourism strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19677/14]

IBRC Staff

Eoghan Murphy

199. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if the better than expected sale of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation assets will result in improved redundancy conditions for former staff of IBRC, as originally provided for upon the establishment of IBRC and prior to these terms being changed to facilitate the wind-down of IBRC. [17809/14]

Tax Yield

Eoghan Murphy

208. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures on the expected loss to the Exchequer in income tax if the entry point to the marginal rate of tax is increased by €10,000; if he will provide figures on the way the potential increase in a person’s disposable income as a result of such a change might be distributed within the economy, for example, the amount that might be returned to the Exchequer through indirect taxation, and at what amount; what the anticipated impact on employment might be; the expected changes in the national deficit, and in the general Government debt position; and if he will provide these forecasts at every additional hypothetical increase of €10,000 in the entry point to the marginal rate until that entry point is €82,800. [18042/14]

Garda Recruitment

Eoghan Murphy

461. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is his intention that the open competition for the new Garda Commissioner will be conducted by the new independent policing authority; and if this authority will also appoint the new Commissioner. [17811/14]

Judicial Appointments

Eoghan Murphy

486. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the consultation process on judicial appointments. [17810/14]

Energy Infrastructure

Eoghan Murphy

111. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 1 April 2014, in view of the real and potential impact on communications and energy distribution for large parts of the country as a result of inadequate infrastructure, something which is not an operational day to day issue, if he will ask his Department to consider the necessity of introducing guidelines for a new standard of infrastructure based around concrete that would be more durable during severe weather events. [16874/14]

Foreign Conflicts

Eoghan Murphy

63. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's position regarding Rwandan President Paul Kagame and UN allegations regarding his involvement in Congo. [16107/14]

Electric Vehicle Grants

Eoghan Murphy

133. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a scheme whereby home owners can have a free electric vehicle charger installed at their home regardless of whether they have an electric vehicle, as is currently the case in the UK, and which may be provided for through EU funding (details supplied). [15761/14]

Public Bike Schemes

Eoghan Murphy

52. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the extension of the city bikes scheme to counties Cork, Galway and Limerick. [15064/14]

Sports Capital Programme Administration

Eoghan Murphy

58. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the sports capital programme. [15063/14]

Tax Relief Availability

Eoghan Murphy

171. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering making primary school fees tax deductible particularly in areas where there is insufficient capacity in local free schools to meet local demand. [15008/14]

School Patronage

Eoghan Murphy

209. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate the percentage of primary schools in the country that will be Educate Together or multidenominational schools by 2016; the number of these schools that currently exist; the number that will be established by the State; the number that will be created as a result of an existing school changing patronage; and if he believes this percentage will be improved after 2016 and how. [15009/14]

Energy Infrastructure

Eoghan Murphy

327. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has held or will hold any discussions with energy and communication providers in the country on the possibility of moving to more weather-durable infrastructure provision through the use of concrete posts, as is the practice in other countries and was previously the practice here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/14]

Building Regulations Qualifications

Eoghan Murphy

358. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the transitional arrangements detailed in SI 105 extend only to educational and health care projects (details supplied). [15006/14]

Social Insurance

Eoghan Murphy

544. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the following issue regarding entitlements under PRSI (details supplied). [15005/14]

Bank Charges

Eoghan Murphy

198. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if it is the case that there is a charge from the Government for cancelling a credit card with a bank in this jurisdiction; the amount that charge is; the way it is calculated; and the justification for the charge. [12924/14]

Waste Management

Eoghan Murphy

650. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a person is in contravention of Part III Section 6(1)(c) of the Household Food Waste and Bio-Waste Regulations 2013 where there is no company offering such a service, as mandated under Part II Section 5(1) of the same regulations; if they are in contravention does the liability fall to the company that is in contravention of Part II Section 5(1); if the services as required under Part III Section (2)(b) are available in every local authority. [12923/14]

Immigration Policy

Eoghan Murphy

781. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is concerned that funds from the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals, that is, non-EEA nationals, may be used to support those other than the target group Third Country Nationals (details supplied). [13726/14]

Inter-Country Adoptions

Eoghan Murphy

935. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are delays in sending dossiers for adoptions to India; if so, the reason for same; and the action being taken to remedy the situation. [12922/14]

Community Enterprise Centres

Eoghan Murphy

210. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the total spend from his Department to community enterprise centres, including funding to the National Association of Community Enterprise Centres, since the scheme was launched in 1989, broken down by year, and the corresponding number of jobs created; the number of persons in employment directly in CECs, including the NACEC; and the cost of this per annum from 2002 to the end of 2013. [12122/14]

Building Regulations Compliance

Eoghan Murphy

344. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 18 February 2014, where he states it is not clear what useful purpose would be served by imposing a requirement for independent verification of design or construction by a third party, his views on whether this is consistent with departmental insistence on such systems for the upholding of standards in fire safety and universal access, for example, as regulated by Part B and Part M respectively of the building regulations. [11666/14]

Building Regulations Application

Eoghan Murphy

345. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 18 February 2014, when the IT lodgment system is expected to be available for testing by ordinary members of the regulated professions in view of the implementation date of 1 March 2014. [11667/14]

Departmental Expenditure

Eoghan Murphy

387. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of total spend from his Department including via local authorities to community enterprise centres, including funding to the National Association of Community Enterprise Centres, since the scheme was launched in 1989, broken down by year, and the corresponding number of jobs created; the number of persons in employment directly in CECs, including the NACEC; and the cost of this per annum from 2002-end 2013. [12123/14]

Property Tax Exemptions

Eoghan Murphy

56. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all exemptions to the local property tax. [11406/14]

Property Tax Administration

Eoghan Murphy

170. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government where funds already raised through the local property tax will be spent in 2014. [11401/14]

Election Monitoring Missions

Eoghan Murphy

9. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 11 February 2014, if he will provide details of the election missions in which the OSCE specified that a second relevant local language, other than Russian, would be desirable for missions in 2013 and 2014 and the language in question for each mission; if marks were awarded to applicants claiming to have such languages as part of the assessment process; if he will detail the way language abilities claimed by applicants were tested as part of the selection process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10361/14]

Fuel Rebate Scheme

Eoghan Murphy

57. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to cease the practice of colour coding diesel and replace the current scheme for farmers with a rebate system, or some other system, in order to eliminate the illegal diesel smuggling industry which operates at a huge cost to the State in terms of revenue forgone and the waste of Government resources. [10030/14]

Third Level Fees

Eoghan Murphy

101. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 4 February 2014, if he will consider including registration fees for third level institutions as a qualifying fee for tax relief under the current scheme. [10134/14]

Tobacco Control Measures

Eoghan Murphy

244. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he has any concerns regarding the possible impact of e-cigarettes on young people in terms of encouraging them to become smokers; if he is concerned that tobacco manufacturing and same companies are investing in and procuring e-cigarette companies; if it is his health policy that the e-cigarette industry be subsidised in any way here through grant aid, agency support and so on. [10031/14]