Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments

Eamon Scanlon

506. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a person's (details supplied) 2015 area aid payment. [29385/16]

Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Applications

Eamon Scanlon

507. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an area aid payment application by a person (details supplied). [29416/16]

Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children

Eamon Scanlon

49. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives being taken by the Government to protect unaccompanied minors in Calais following the announcement that the camp is to be demolished by the end of the year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29044/16]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Eamon Scanlon

122. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views relating to difficulties in the State agency Caranua; the actions being taken to address such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29099/16]

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Eamon Scanlon

232. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 812 of 27 September 2016, if any indication can be given as to the timeframe the examination process will take; if the payment process will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29058/16]

Agriculture Scheme Penalties

Eamon Scanlon

233. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a 2015 area aid payment for a person (details supplied). [29059/16]

Mental Health Services Data

Eamon Scanlon

195. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents waiting for an appointment for the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) in counties Sligo and Leitrim; the current waiting times from initial referral in counties Sligo and Leitrim; the efforts being taken to reduce the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28943/16]

Home Help Service Data

Eamon Scanlon

196. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Cavan currently listed as waiting for home help hours; the number of hours included in the waiting list per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28944/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Eamon Scanlon

197. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for additional home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28945/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Eamon Scanlon

198. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the status of an application for home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28946/16]

Medical Card Applications

Eamon Scanlon

199. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application for a person (details supplied). [28947/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Appeals

Eamon Scanlon

207. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme. [28868/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Appeals

Eamon Scanlon

208. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme. [28869/16]

UK Referendum on EU Membership

Eamon Scanlon

26. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the role her Department will play in minimising the effect of Brexit on Sligo-Leitrim. [27404/16]

Community Policing

Eamon Scanlon

75. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the suggestion by the Garda Inspectorate that community policing in more rural areas is suffering disproportionately in view of the fact the resources are not assigned to sustain community policing units. [27405/16]

GLAS Payments

Eamon Scanlon

812. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a GLAS payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27084/16]

Media Mergers

Eamon Scanlon

862. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will intervene and review the sale of a newspaper (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the takeover may breach the cross media ownership regulations set out in the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27211/16]

Haulage Industry

Eamon Scanlon

909. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a road haulage operator licence is required to transport livestock more than a distance of 30 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27100/16]

Water Services Data

Eamon Scanlon

551. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding will be allocated which has been approved under the Rural Water Multi-Annual Funding Programme 2016-2018 to a group water scheme (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24875/16]

Disability Allowance Applications

Eamon Scanlon

676. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied). [24356/16]

Carer's Support Grant

Eamon Scanlon

677. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's support grant by a person (details supplied). [24357/16]

Respite Care Services Provision

Eamon Scanlon

1336. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the number of respite beds closed in County Sligo since 2013; his plans to provide additional respite beds in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25761/16]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments

Eamon Scanlon

1500. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment under the agricultural environment options scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24385/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Applications

Eamon Scanlon

1501. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application under the basic payment scheme by a person (details supplied). [24412/16]

Organic Farming Scheme

Eamon Scanlon

1579. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the organic farming scheme will open again for applications for new entrants and for existing producers and manufacturers. [25839/16]

TAMS Applications

Eamon Scanlon

1580. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a farm building grant. [25851/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility

Eamon Scanlon

342. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a payment to a person (details supplied) under the jobseeker's allowance scheme was stopped in January and May 2016; the documentation, if any, that remains outstanding in respect of the current application; when the person can expect to receive correspondence from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23826/16]

TAMS Applications Data

Eamon Scanlon

698. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current processing time of applications under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, from date of submission to final approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23399/16]

TAMS Applications

Eamon Scanlon

748. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm building grant application for a person (details supplied). [24272/16]

Action Plan for Jobs

Eamon Scanlon

37. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans in place to tackle unemployment in rural Ireland in view of the delay in awarding contracts under the national broadband plan. [22536/16]

Unemployment Levels

Eamon Scanlon

55. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to address the high levels of unemployment in the north west; and if she is aware that almost 120,000 persons in rural Ireland are still without jobs. [22550/16]

Agriculture Scheme Eligibility

Eamon Scanlon

396. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the value of a person’s farm entitlements has been reduced (details supplied). [23271/16]

Passport Data

Eamon Scanlon

487. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Passport Office can confirm that the details pertaining to the passports of persons (details supplied) were used illegally by a third party elsewhere in Europe; if the United States authorities referred this matter to the Passport Office as the passport holders were denied a visa to visit the United States of America on the basis of the attempted illegal use of this passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22574/16]

Commercial Property

Eamon Scanlon

912. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to tackle commercial vacancy rates, particularly in the north west where they are the highest in the country. [22535/16]

Middle East Issues

Eamon Scanlon

134. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the open letter from Palestinian civil and political society sent to all Oireachtas Members; the action he will take to exert pressure on the State of Israel to end its illegal occupation of Palestine and to grant the Palestinian people rights in accordance with UN resolutions and international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21734/16]

Milk Quota

Eamon Scanlon

228. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set down the numbers of farmers in County Sligo who were levied for over-supply of milk in 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21735/16]

Motor Insurance Regulation

Eamon Scanlon

97. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Finance if he will meet with stakeholders involved in the liquidation of Setanta Insurance to discuss the issues affecting claimants; if he will investigate the roles of the Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland, the Insurance Compensation Fund, the Central Bank and his Department in the event of another insurance company collapsing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21400/16]

Library Services

Eamon Scanlon

122. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will suspend the national library procurement tender process that is scheduled to be published in September 2016 by a period of 12 months to allow time to put through a new Bill with clear cultural exemptions for library procurement; if he is aware that the procurement policy will force the closure of bookseller library suppliers and long-established businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21462/16]

Labour Activation Projects

Eamon Scanlon

133. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to scrap the Gateway local authority labour activation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21389/16]

Hospital Services

Eamon Scanlon

98. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a catheterisation laboratory at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20947/16]

Hospital Facilities

Eamon Scanlon

573. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a catheterisation laboratory at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21109/16]

Single Payment Scheme Payments

Eamon Scanlon

653. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) whose single farm payment was reduced in 2013 is entitled to be reimbursed for moneys not paid in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20507/16]

Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments

Eamon Scanlon

705. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo under the rural environment protection scheme. [21270/16]

State Pensions

Eamon Scanlon

124. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reverse the changes introduced to the State pension in 2012 which disproportionately affects women and their ability to qualify for a full State Pension (Contributory); the full year cost in 2016 of reversing these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18567/16]

State Pensions

Eamon Scanlon

125. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has conducted research on or an impact assessment of the changes introduced to the State pension in 2012, with particular reference to the impact on women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18568/16]

Preschool Services

Eamon Scanlon

564. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a second year of free preschool under the early childhood care and education scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18414/16]

Citizenship Applications

Eamon Scanlon

63. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Muslims who have applied for Irish citizenship in the past three years; the number of these who are legally living here for the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17652/16]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Eamon Scanlon

95. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 8 June 2016, if he will expedite the release of funding as a matter of urgency in order for the refurbishment at the school (details supplied) to be completed by September 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16264/16]

Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding

Eamon Scanlon

265. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application by Leitrim County Council for funding for a sewerage scheme for Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, including when he will provide this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15903/16]

Special Educational Needs Staff

Eamon Scanlon

231. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to employ a second special educational needs teacher or a special education assistant in a school (details supplied) in which there are four children with special educational needs but only one special educational needs teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14726/16]