Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Schools Building Projects

Jackie Cahill

412. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1162/17]

Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility

Jackie Cahill

464. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the exceptional circumstances provided for in legislation which would allow persons (details supplied) to be included on the housing list of Tipperary County Council if they did not meet the standard criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41243/16]

Housing Agency Portfolio

Jackie Cahill

500. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of land (details supplied) which is owned by the Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency (HSCA); if the board of management of a school (details supplied) can investigate the purchase of the land parcel, which will facilitate much needed and already planned development of accommodation at the school and would resolve the provision of sporting facilities and end a dangerous car and bus parking issue at the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1244/17]

National Broadband Plan Implementation

Jackie Cahill

746. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the funding for an officer with specific responsibility for broadband will be provided to Tipperary County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41698/16]

Health Services Provision

Jackie Cahill

814. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that a centre of excellence is established in Saint James' Hospital in 2017 for sufferers of unique narcolepsy disorder; if funds will be set aside and ring fenced for that centre of excellence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41056/16]

Hospital Services

Jackie Cahill

825. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the restrictions at Nenagh accident and emergency department, County Tipperary in the diagnosis and treatment of a five year old child with a fractured arm; the reason these restrictions exist in a HSE accident and emergency facility; the other restrictions there are on the staff in the diagnosis and treatment of children at this facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41102/16]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Jackie Cahill

889. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate making the FreeStyle Libre available on the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41232/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Jackie Cahill

1008. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when the position of registrar for births, deaths and marriages at the civil registration department in Thurles, County Tipperary, will be filled by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41529/16]

Occupational Therapy

Jackie Cahill

1016. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will address the lack of resources in St. Mary’s medical clinic, Thurles, County Tipperary, namely, the lack of an occupational therapist, which is making it impossible for staff to do their work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41594/16]

Imports Data

Jackie Cahill

1382. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep imports into the Republic of Ireland for each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41531/16]

Imports Data

Jackie Cahill

1383. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of milk imports into the Republic of Ireland for each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41532/16]

TAMS Payments

Jackie Cahill

1449. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an application for a TAMS payment is being held up in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1542/17]

Mobile Telephony Services

Jackie Cahill

1482. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for introducing a licensing regime for repeaters in 2017 that will allow householders and businesses to install high-quality signal repeaters on their buildings to boost in-house signals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41697/16]

Road Improvement Schemes

Jackie Cahill

1566. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding for the Ballina-Killaloe bridge is ring-fenced; the value of the funding; when the project will commence; the estimated timeframe for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41668/16]

IDA Ireland Portfolio

Jackie Cahill

1650. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide the research and statistics, including a listing of possible sites, that IDA Ireland holds for the old urban district council area of Tipperary town, County Tipperary, which can be made available to a prospective foreign direct investor that is being shown the opportunities in that region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1143/17]

IDA Ireland Site Visits

Jackie Cahill

1651. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of visits by the IDA with prospective foreign direct investors to the old urban district council area of Tipperary Town, County Tipperary, each year from 2010 to 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1144/17]

DEIS Eligibility

Jackie Cahill

158. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills the general criteria used to have a school or a group of schools included in the DEIS programme up to now and prior to the review which is due in 2017; the guidelines that were issued to assist applicants; the supporting information that was required to process an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40551/16]

DEIS Review

Jackie Cahill

159. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed starting date for the review of the DEIS programme in 2017; his plans to have a target date for the conclusion of this review; when he anticipates the approximate date when the new programme will begin roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40552/16]

DEIS Data

Jackie Cahill

160. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills the ranking of Tipperary town in terms of level of need in the current DEIS programme, as an urban centre and the individual ranking of the schools in the town, based on information and research in the possession of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40553/16]

Nitrates Usage

Jackie Cahill

197. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the transitional arrangements for pig farmers can be allowed to continue in the current format until the full review of the nitrates regulations in 2017 is completed, in view of the fact that this is necessary to ensure that pig slurry is not disenfranchised and to promote its use as an environmental alternative to imported chemical slurry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40530/16]

Crime Data

Jackie Cahill

80. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prosecutions and convictions, separately, for trespass on private property, in the courts for each of the years, 2011 to 2016, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40336/16]

Tourism Promotion

Jackie Cahill

44. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made to develop Ireland’s Lakelands brand, with specific reference to the Ballina Killaloe area, as a separate proposition to sit alongside the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Ancient East; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38656/16]

Educational Disadvantage

Jackie Cahill

150. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include Tipperary town and schools (details supplied) in the DEIS programme 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38498/16]

Tourism Industry

Jackie Cahill

470. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made to develop the Ireland Lakelands brand as a separate proposition to sit alongside the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Ancient East, with specific reference to the Ballina-Killaloe area and Lough Derg to Portumna Bridge taking in villages and Nenagh along the way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38562/16]

Emergency Departments

Jackie Cahill

17. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase in emergency department overcrowding in South Tipperary General Hospital over the past two years. [38047/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Jackie Cahill

96. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the increase in home help hours Tipperary local health area can expect in 2017. [38046/16]

Middle East Issues

Jackie Cahill

389. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will, along with his EU Council of Minister colleagues, press the Israeli authorities for an immediate moratorium on demolitions and confiscations and request compensation for confiscated or demolished EU assets in area C of the West Bank; if he will raise the concern regarding the urgent spike in demolitions and confiscation of EU-funded structures in area C of the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37659/16]

Middle East Issues

Jackie Cahill

390. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will, along with his Council of Minister colleagues, mandate the European External Action Service, EEAS, to publish and proactively disseminate the biannual EU Representative in Jerusalem's, EUREP, report on demolitions and confiscations of EU-member state funded structures and put pressure on the EEAS to mandate the EU delegation in Jerusalem to step up its role in co-ordinating demarches with heads of missions after demolitions and urge continuing support for aid operations in area C financially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37660/16]

General Practitioner Services Provision

Jackie Cahill

514. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will address the issue of securing general practitioners for provincial town practices in which a client bank of 800 medical cards is not deemed to be economically feasible or attractive enough, resulting in no applications being received for a position which has become vacant due to a general practitioner retirement in Thurles, County Tipperary (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36941/16]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility

Jackie Cahill

544. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will instruct the HSE to immediately engage with the PKU Association of Ireland in view of the fact that PKU is a rare metabolic disorder which requires a low-protein diet and prescribed low-protein foods are a key part of the diet due to its limited nature (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37169/16]

Public Health Policy

Jackie Cahill

578. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the planned changes to the public health nurse service in west Tipperary that is the ending of the public health nurse attending at local health clinics at Bansha, Cappawhite, Emly and Dundrum; if the public health nurse is to be centrally based only in Tipperary town and if the public health nurse will continue to make house calls to elderly patients on a regular basis or if they will have to visit the nurse at the central location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37453/16]

Nitrates Action Programme Review

Jackie Cahill

673. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the transitional arrangements for pig farmers can be allowed to continue in the current format until the full review of the nitrates regulations in 2017 is completed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37665/16]

Excise Duties Collection

Jackie Cahill

170. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the excise duty collected on a pint of beer served over the counter at a licensed premises; the excise duty collected on a 500 millilitre can of beer purchased in an off licence premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35828/16]

Minor Works Scheme

Jackie Cahill

221. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant for primary schools is being paid to primary schools in 2016; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36166/16]

Flood Relief Schemes Funding

Jackie Cahill

344. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is funding ring-fenced for a flood relief programme in Templemore, County Tipperary; if so, the amount; when it is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35795/16]

Planning Issues

Jackie Cahill

375. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will expedite the review of the archaeological impact assessment of a house (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36169/16]

Care of the Elderly Provision

Jackie Cahill

447. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the services available in County Tipperary for persons who are diagnosed with early stages of dementia in the area of counselling, physical therapy and other quality of life services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36154/16]

Animal Identification Schemes

Jackie Cahill

507. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a second cattle tag is on the verge of being approved for use here under his Department's tag approval process; the changes that have been made to this tag to allow it to pass on security grounds, considering that it failed to get his Department's approval on a number of occasions in the past after having been closely examined by his Department's experts; if the same security standards will apply in the current tag approval process as applied to the previous tenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36161/16]

House Purchase Schemes

Jackie Cahill

47. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review and amend the criteria of the local authority house purchase scheme to accommodate financial support that families wish to give their parents, who are council tenants, in the purchase of their homes from the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35358/16]

House Purchase Schemes

Jackie Cahill

75. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the income criteria for the local authority house purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35359/16]

Insurance Costs

Jackie Cahill

123. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance if he will address the impact on SMEs of the rising cost of insurance, which if not addressed will result in job losses in an important sector of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35514/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility

Jackie Cahill

182. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to extend the access to rent supplement to those who may not be on a local authority housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35619/16]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Jackie Cahill

212. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason a power wheelchair was sanctioned for a person (details supplied) in July 2016 but was not ordered until October 2016 with a waiting time of 12 weeks for delivery; if the HSE will fast forward the delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35572/16]

Driver Test Centres

Jackie Cahill

266. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out in tabular form the total number of tests taken and the total number of fails for truck licences at each of the driving test centres in County Tipperary, that is, Nenagh, Thurles, Tipperary town and Clonmel, individually by centre and by tester, unnamed, for each of the years 2011 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35529/16]

Civil Defence

Jackie Cahill

291. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are any funding schemes available to voluntary search and rescue units (details supplied) as the work they do in supporting the civil authorities at a time when persons are missing or injured is vital and requires funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35540/16]

Rural Social Scheme Data

Jackie Cahill

164. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of positions from the rural social scheme that will be allocated to County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35409/16]

Hospital Appointments Status

Jackie Cahill

202. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the status of an ear, nose and throat appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35399/16]

Public Order Offences

Jackie Cahill

96. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review, amend and strengthen the trespass laws to protect the rights of land and property owners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34402/16]

Crime Levels

Jackie Cahill

111. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if recorded crime statistics for County Tipperary are an accurate reflection of the reality of crime in the area; if all Garda stations in County Tipperary have access to the PULSE system; if not, the details of the stations without access; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34723/16]

Budget 2017

Jackie Cahill

55. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the reason there was no practical or meaningful package presented in the budget to commence the defence of Irish business interests in view of the fact that as a country, Ireland does business worth €1.2 billion weekly with the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31809/16]