Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Northern Ireland

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom around the political talks leading up to the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4358/15]

Industrial Disputes

Richard Boyd Barrett

40. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to intervene in the ongoing industrial dispute at a site (details supplied) in west Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6119/15]

Pension Levy

Richard Boyd Barrett

20. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on talks and-or negotiations with the public sector unions regarding the abolition of the pension levy and how this relates to the commitment in the Croke Park agreement to use savings to the Exchequer from this agreement to restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5747/15]

Public Sector Staff Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

26. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the agreement under the Croke Park agreement deal that savings made from the deal would restore pay to those earning under €35,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5746/15]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

11. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the meetings he attended during his visit to New York in November 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4355/15]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

12. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate at any of his meetings in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4356/15]

National Monuments

Richard Boyd Barrett

144. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht , in view of the fact that she has previously stated in relation to Moore Street that her only responsibility is to protect the national monument, the steps she is taking to protect the national monument; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5520/15]

Exceptional Needs Payment Applications

Richard Boyd Barrett

187. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will allow an exceptional needs payment in respect of a person (details supplied) to pay for an outstanding deposit for their current accommodation in order to ensure they are not made homeless. [5792/15]

Hospital Beds Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

474. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds available across the country, broken down by area, for children with mental health difficulties; if he will provide a comparison between these numbers and the numbers over the past five years; the way these numbers have changed since the inclusion of 17-year-old and 18-year-old children in the category of child and adolescent mental health; and his views that this group of vulnerable patients are adequately catered for. [6106/15]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

475. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an emergency inpatient bed in an appropriate unit in respect of a person (details supplied). [6107/15]

Hospital Beds Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

476. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of children in the child and adolescent mental health services that are currently waiting for inpatient beds, after being referred for admission; and if children are still being admitted to adult mental health wards. [6108/15]

Hospital Beds Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

477. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of child mental health inpatient beds recommended by his Department; and the way this compares with actual provision. [6109/15]

Water Conservation Grant

Richard Boyd Barrett

565. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the water conservation grant, if this payment will be paid annually for the period of the capped charge. [6110/15]

One-Parent Family Payment Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

11. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind the upcoming changes to the one-parent family payment which will see single parents, often looking after a disabled child or parent, losing up to €86 per week; the additional income supports that will be available to these parents who are unable to work because they are full-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4969/15]

Social Welfare Appeals Delays

Richard Boyd Barrett

38. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to address the delays, often months, in the individual section review process and social welfare appeals process due to delays in getting files from different social welfare departments to the appeals office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4970/15]

Economic Growth

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he discussed with Christine Lagarde at their recent meeting in Dublin, economic stagnation in Europe and the IMF's downgrading of growth prospects for Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3377/15]

Debt Conference

Richard Boyd Barrett

24. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he discussed with Christine Lagarde at their recent meeting in Dublin, the suggestion of Syriza in Greece that a debt conference should be held to discuss the debt burden affecting Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3376/15]

Housing Adaptation Grant Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

166. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the adaptation of council homes for tenants with disabilities; and his views on whether the funding is adequate, considering a tenant who applied for a walk-in shower, with all supporting occupational therapy documentation in July 2014, cannot be put on the works-list until 2016, at the earliest. [5130/15]

Taxi Regulations

Richard Boyd Barrett

179. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the 547 submissions made to the National Transport Authority as part of the public consultation on the taxi fare increase, known as the taxi fare review, are publicly available; if he will provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5069/15]

Sale of Aer Lingus

Richard Boyd Barrett

150. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on widespread concern that the possible takeover of Aer Lingus by IAG could result in large job losses and threaten connectivity to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4365/15]

Child Poverty

Richard Boyd Barrett

228. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department has undertaken any impact analysis studies on the effect on children of the cut to the lone parent allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2179/15]

Public Transport Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

634. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the tendering out process of Dublin Bus orbital routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4364/15]

Renewable Energy Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that we must significantly expand the number of district energy schemes and co-operatives generating renewable energy as a means to developing sustainable energy and creating employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3959/15]

Climate Change Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

5. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the input he had into the climate action and low carbon energy Bill; if he or his Department will be represented on the expert advisory council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3960/15]

Energy Conservation

Richard Boyd Barrett

12. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that Ireland is significantly underperforming in the development of a substantial insulation and retrofit programme as a means to conserve energy and create employment. [3912/15]

Public Service Obligation Levy

Richard Boyd Barrett

20. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the companies that are benefitting from public service obligation funding; the amounts each company received since 2001 broken down by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3913/15]

Appointments to State Boards

Richard Boyd Barrett

22. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the criteria used to select the new board members of Ervia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3914/15]

Property Tax Administration

Richard Boyd Barrett

34. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Government's housing strategy; and if he will provide an indication when councils will receive notification on how to spend property tax ring-fenced for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3629/15]

Hospitals Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

97. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if extra funding will be found for Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in view of the fact that the orthopaedic surgeon has said that level of funding for the hospital has been nowhere near sufficient to look after persons in a timely way and this lack of funding is preventing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 from having an urgent hip replacement which they are in critical need of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4016/15]

Programme for Government Implementation

Richard Boyd Barrett

6. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47832/14]

Teachers' Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

155. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason the Government has breached the terms of the Haddington Road agreement with the non-payment or delayed payment of incremental salary increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3379/15]

Deportation Orders

Richard Boyd Barrett

290. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) a Somalian national was deported to Tanzania; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3416/15]

Deportation Orders

Richard Boyd Barrett

291. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought an explanation from the Tanzanian Government following the death of a person (details supplied); and if she has contacted the family of the deceased to apologise on behalf of the State; the steps she has taken to ensure a similar incident will not take place again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3417/15]

Human Rights

Richard Boyd Barrett

16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the specific measures he is taking, in addition to the matter being raised by the EU, to support writer and blogger Raif Badawi who has been flogged in Saudi Arabia for merely setting up a website to encourage debate on religious and political issues, particularly in view of the Government's recent statement regarding its commitment to free speech; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2656/15]

Human Rights

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he is taking to secure the release of Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa, a prisoner of conscience, detained with 493 others in Egypt following protests in August 2013, in view of the fact that their trial has been postponed for a third time and the communications this Government has had, including responses with the Egyptian regime in addition to representations made at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2657/15]

Home Help Service

Richard Boyd Barrett

137. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will review the case of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin who have been refused home help but are unable to cope at home alone. [3092/15]

Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the growing crisis in hospital accident and emergency departments across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2382/15]

Accident and Emergency Departments

Richard Boyd Barrett

20. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he accepts the views expressed by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and other health professionals that the deepening crisis in accident and emergency departments and unacceptably long waiting lists may only be addressed by a significant increase in funding to the health service and the re-opening of thousands of closed hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2383/15]

Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration

Richard Boyd Barrett

201. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistants have not received their increments; the reason it has taken six weeks to rectify the matter; and if she will confirm the problem will be rectified by the next pay cycle and increments will be backdated and not subject to taxation. [2977/15]

Appointments to State Boards

Richard Boyd Barrett

9. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the processes and protocols in his Department for appointments to State boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47831/14]

Child Poverty

Richard Boyd Barrett

119. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his Department's plans for measures to tackle child poverty here in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2180/15]

JobsPlus Scheme

Richard Boyd Barrett

218. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseekers that have been employed under the JobsPlus scheme since it was commenced; if she will provide a breakdown of the numbers in the 12 months to two years unemployed category and the two years or more unemployed category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2782/15]

Labour Activation Measures

Richard Boyd Barrett

219. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the monitoring and enforcement regime around the JobBridge scheme to ensure the scheme is not being abused by employers; if she will also provide any available figures on the numbers of complaints, infringements, checks, penalties or investigations relating to the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2783/15]

Services for People with Disabilities

Richard Boyd Barrett

489. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if his Department's attention has been drawn to the system of waiting lists for residential rehabilitation care in Cluain Mhuire's Oropesa recovery programme which is run in conjunction with St. John of God's Housing Association; his views on a case of a person (details supplied) who is on its waiting lists for a placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2863/15]

Momentum Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

36. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the difficulties persons may have being forced onto MOMENTUM courses while not being able to afford the cost of getting to class for the placement; if she will indicate the use of these courses in the Dún Laoghaire area, the practice of the Department of Social Protection Intreo centres and local employment services having to meet targets and quotas to fill these places; and the number of persons in the Dún Laoghaire constituency currently in placements in MOMENTUM courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49532/14]

Criminal Prosecutions

Richard Boyd Barrett

403. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the legality behind a case where a property owner may be brought to a criminal court on charges of trespassing on their own property; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49598/14]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Richard Boyd Barrett

404. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to do away with non-convictions showing up on Garda statements issued in response to Garda clearance requests from employers or colleges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49599/14]

Commissions of Investigation

Richard Boyd Barrett

464. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the terms of reference of the commission of inquiry arising out of the Guerin report can or is it likely to be extended at any stage to include any other cases, such as the cases being reviewed by the panel of council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1582/15]

Momentum Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

758. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the use of MOMENTUM courses and the progression rates of persons getting work from these courses, the reason there is no extra payments for the purpose of public transport or child care for participants in these courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49531/14]

Momentum Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

759. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills the difficulties persons may have being forced on to MOMENTUM courses while not being able to afford the cost of getting to class for the placement; if she will indicate the use of these courses in the Dún Laoghaire area, the practice of the Department of Social Protection Intreo centre and local employment services having to meet targets and quotas to fill these places; and the number of persons in the Dún Laoghaire constituency currently in placements in MOMENTUM courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49533/14]