Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Animal Identification Schemes

Martin Kenny

41. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if electronic tagging will be introduced for all lambs as part of the proposed new sheep scheme. [21287/16]

Public Procurement Contracts

Martin Kenny

49. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the tendering process in his Department for the supply of electronic identification tags for bovine animals involves a technical specification for only one kind of anti-tamper device which is patented to one company; if the process is going ahead again in 2016 in these circumstances; the reason for postponement of the process on two occasions; the reason the State uses only one supplier, as opposed to multiple suppliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21283/16]

Agriculture Schemes

Martin Kenny

58. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include a rolling reference year for young farmers and commonage farmers in the proposed sheep scheme to assist young farmers who are trying to build up their flock and also commonage farmers who may have to adjust their flock numbers due to new commonage framework plans. [21285/16]

GLAS Eligibility

Martin Kenny

68. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if will he amend the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS, application criteria for hill farmers who own their own parcel of land due to the fact under the current measures for accessing GLAS these farmers are prohibited because the land is owned and it is not eligible for any other schemes. [21286/16]

Health Care Policy

Martin Kenny

105. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the research that is being conducted specifically on universal health care; if he is aware of research being undertaken by other groups outside his Department on universal health care; if he will bring these strands together to ensure co-operation, information exchange and economies of scale. [20936/16]

Health Care Policy

Martin Kenny

106. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 2 June 2016, if the research being undertaken by his Department and the Economic and Social Research Institute three-year programme on health reform will be available to the new joint Oireachtas committee that has been established to develop cross-party consensus on the future of the health service over ten years, as per the programme for Government and Government approval; if he will make available the research undertaken to date to the committee; if he will designate a liaison officer within his Department in order that members of this committee may direct queries specific to the committee work to that person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20937/16]

Fire Service Staff

Martin Kenny

303. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason firemen are not being recruited in Bundoran and Ballyshannon, County Donegal. [20556/16]

Transfer of Entitlements

Martin Kenny

707. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of transfer of entitlement cases that are not completed due to suspension; the reason for the suspension; the length of time of same and when it will be lifted. [21306/16]

Beef Exports

Martin Kenny

708. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 42% of our beef exports that go to the British market are under threat as a result of a British exit from the European Union; and his plans to combat losses in beef exports. [21307/16]

Food Labelling

Martin Kenny

709. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to actively pursue a voluntary all-Ireland agrifood label which would be of benefit to farmers North and South of the Border. [21308/16]

Live Exports

Martin Kenny

710. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase live exports of cattle, which are down 25% on 2015. [21309/16]

Health Services Staff

Martin Kenny

243. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health to outline his views on the reason the national recruitment service national social worker professionally qualified panel removed a person (details supplied) from the panel because the person turned down a position because of an inability to take it up at that particular time for personal reasons; and if the person can now be reinstated to the panel. [20221/16]

Respite Care Services

Martin Kenny

261. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was charged for respite care. [20283/16]

Basic Payment Scheme

Martin Kenny

281. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of transfer of entitlement cases held up, not completed due to suspension; the reason there is a suspension; if it is the case that this suspension is in place since May 2016; and when the suspension will be lifted (details supplied). [20222/16]

Insurance Costs

Martin Kenny

9. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that returned emigrants and immigrants are not discriminated against in the provision of car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17511/16]

Statute of Limitations

Martin Kenny

35. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Finance if he will act to remove the blanket six-year Statute of Limitations on financial complaints, which reportedly may hinder persons whose tracker mortgages were wrongly removed from them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17510/16]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Martin Kenny

129. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills to approve the July provision for a person (details supplied). [17567/16]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions

Martin Kenny

484. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that contracts are being terminated where soil sample analyses are late even by a few days, even though soil sample analysis can take ten days to complete and weather conditions can cause delay under the agri-environment options scheme. [17024/16]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions

Martin Kenny

485. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will apply a period of grace on the deadline for submission of soil analyses under the agri-environment options scheme or under the basic payment scheme. [17025/16]

Library Services Provision

Martin Kenny

114. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for the amalgamation of library services in counties Leitrim, Sligo and Roscommon, which implies a drastic reduction in library services for those counties; the cost savings of this amalgamation; and the cost of necessary new builds to compensate for the closure of small local libraries. [16332/16]

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Martin Kenny

502. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive pig sector crisis funding. [15497/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Applications

Martin Kenny

503. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has fined a person (details supplied) and reduced the person's payment under the basic payment scheme. [15498/16]

Garda Youth Diversion Projects

Martin Kenny

17. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered advocating for the services of the Garda youth diversion projects to be extended in north inner city Dublin, as part of a long-term plan to stem the flow of young persons becoming involved in crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14850/16]

Youth Services Funding

Martin Kenny

19. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the funding to youth services nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14851/16]

Mortgage Book Sales

Martin Kenny

47. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consequences for Irish farming of the sale by a bank (details supplied) of €100 million of agricultural loans to vulture funds, thereby removing this land from the control of Irish farmers; if he has met the bank to discuss this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14833/16]

Fisheries Offences

Martin Kenny

54. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to annul SI No. 125 of 2016, which imposes penalty points on sea fishery licences. [14502/16]

Milk Quota

Martin Kenny

63. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to intercede and have the EU postpone superlevy fines and increase the intervention price to at least the cost of production, given that Irish farmers are experiencing a severe cashflow crisis due to the ongoing crisis in the dairy sector. [14501/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Martin Kenny

468. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on priority waiting lists for home help hours in the north Leitrim area; the number of hours which would be necessary to provide home help to these persons; the number of home helps employed by the HSE in the area; and the number of hours of home help they are providing now. [14756/16]

Home Help Service Provision

Martin Kenny

469. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if the allocation of home help hours in the north Leitrim area is based on need and not on budgetary constraints. [14757/16]

Forestry Sector

Martin Kenny

806. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of County Leitrim under forestry. [13212/16]

Forestry Sector

Martin Kenny

807. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for forestry planting in County Leitrim; and if his Department has a county by county or regional target for afforestation. [13213/16]

Rural Social Scheme

Martin Kenny

180. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of an additional 500 places on the rural social scheme. [12233/16]

Farm Assist Scheme

Martin Kenny

213. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring farm assist to pre-2013 conditions of payment based on current numbers and allowances. [12229/16]

Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure

Martin Kenny

333. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of paying a ewe premium of €10 per head where stocking density is over six ewes per hectare and €20 where there is a stocking density of five ewes or fewer per hectare. [12225/16]

Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure

Martin Kenny

334. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to the Exchequer of the sheep grassland scheme in 2012, 2013 and 2014. [12226/16]

Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure

Martin Kenny

335. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of the re-introduction in 2017 of the sheep grassland scheme based on current stocking rates and numbers in the national flock. [12227/16]

Sheep Census

Martin Kenny

336. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the national flock and the ratio of upland and lowland numbers. [12228/16]

Sugar Industry

Martin Kenny

337. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role of the State enterprise bodies in the reinstatement of the sugar beet processing industry. [12230/16]

Sugar Industry

Martin Kenny

338. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the logistical and financial supports that will be available for the reinstatement of the sugar beet processing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12231/16]

Suckler Welfare Scheme

Martin Kenny

339. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of the re-instatement of the animal welfare recording and breeding scheme for suckler herds at a rate of €200 per head, and at a rate of €80 per head. [12232/16]

School Funding

Martin Kenny

199. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills to issue the final letter of terms and conditions to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to facilitate getting the works under way. [11792/16]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Martin Kenny

270. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills why the level 7 course in child care run by Carlow Institute of Technology which has been sanctioned by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs for the higher level of capitation under the early childhood care and education scheme in early March 2016 was removed from the higher capitation grant at the end of March 2016 (details supplied). [9673/16]

Ambulance Service

Martin Kenny

697. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the Lightfoot report into the national ambulance service of Ireland emergency service baseline and capacity review which the Health Service Executive commissioned; if time will be set aside in Dáil Éireann to debate the report’s findings and recommendations into the delivery of ambulance response cover performance; and if the Health Service Executive has considered or implemented any of the findings or proposals contained in the client draft that was published on 14 November 2014. [9736/16]

National Broadband Plan Implementation

Martin Kenny

1088. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on recent reports that the Government’s €275 million national broadband plan to connect 1.8 million citizens to a minimum of 30 MBps broadband by 2020 is to be delayed for a year until 2017 and that it could be 2022 by the time all homes here have high-speed broadband; and the status of the projected completion date. [9687/16]

Telecommunications Infrastructure

Martin Kenny

1089. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the body which has ownership of the copper telephone wiring and additional infrastructure that is used to connect residential properties to the fixed line telephone network. [9689/16]

National Broadband Plan Implementation

Martin Kenny

1092. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the practicality and necessity of replacing the existing copper wiring connecting residential properties to the telephone network with fibre optic cabling as a way of providing high-speed broadband to rural communities. [9688/16]

Basic Payment Scheme Administration

Martin Kenny

179. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of unused funds from the 2015 National Reserve and from the clawback arising from the sale of entitlements without land in 2016 for the National Reserve to deal with the demand from young farmers in 2016; if this amount will be sufficient to meet the demands of young farmers in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6427/16]