Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Cycling Policy

Gino Kenny

283. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the final outcome of the review of national cycling policy framework, NCPF, implementation which was at an interim stage in 2013; his proposals for completing the implementation of the 19 objectives and 109 actions of the NCPF, having regard to the NCPF criteria for success (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31186/16]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times

Gino Kenny

40. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of persons treated by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, who are on a waiting list for treatment from a consultant who also works privately carrying out that treatment for the NTPF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30689/16]

Mental Health Services Staff

Gino Kenny

43. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the way, in the absence of additional funding for mental health in the budget, A Vision for Change can be implemented when secondary mental health services, adult mental health services and child and adolescent mental health services have only three quarters of the recommended staff in adult services and less than half in children's services, while primary care mental health services are grossly under resourced and even non-existent in many areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30693/16]

Medicinal Products Prices

Gino Kenny

53. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to secure cost-effective prescribing, pricing and payment systems; the reason the cost of drugs here is greater than in comparable countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30692/16]

Primary Care Centres Expenditure

Gino Kenny

58. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the percentage of the health budget that is spent on primary care, in particular general practitioners' primary care centres, and allied professionals working in primary care such as occupational therapists and dieticians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30690/16]

Services for People with Disabilities

Gino Kenny

104. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the therapeutic services for children, such as occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, clinical psychology, physiotherapy and dietetics that are available in community health organisations; the way in which parents in local areas can access these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30691/16]

Visa Applications

Gino Kenny

168. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of study visas received, issued and refused by her Department for the years 2013, 2014, and 2015 by country in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30740/16]

Passport Application Refusals

Gino Kenny

346. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a person (details supplied) is being denied an Irish passport, given that her siblings were granted Irish passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30434/16]

Community Employment Schemes Supervisors

Gino Kenny

367. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the claim for an appropriate pension scheme for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors remains unresolved after 14 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30576/16]

Community First Responders Network

Gino Kenny

471. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will remedy the 20% car insurance hike faced by volunteer cardiac first responders who work as part of the HSE national ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30574/16]

Disability Services Provision

Gino Kenny

354. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will make the funding available to St. John of God Kerry services in order that they can build the required additional houses on the existing site in Beaufort, County Kerry, according to HIQA requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29241/16]

Disability Services Provision

Gino Kenny

355. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will officially recognise St. Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, County Kerry, as a community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29242/16]

Disability Services Provision

Gino Kenny

356. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health when residents are moved out of a place such as St. Mary of the Angels, the body or person which has ownership of the site and houses left behind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29243/16]

One-Parent Family Payment

Gino Kenny

8. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is still of the view that the one-parent family payment was not cut by the previous Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28732/16]

Social Welfare Rates

Gino Kenny

47. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the discriminatory cuts to social protection payments to young adults under 25 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28733/16]

Health Services Provision

Gino Kenny

379. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the national lack of paediatric pathology services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28127/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Gino Kenny

388. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to remedy the lack of paediatric orthopaedic consultants; when Tallaght Hospital will have its cancelled fracture clinic reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28199/16]

Health Services Provision

Gino Kenny

389. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the reason parents of children with fractures who attend Tallaght Hospital accident and emergency department need to go through another accident and emergency department such as Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to obtain aftercare for their children; his views on whether this is a waste of resources and an unnecessary stress for sick children and their parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28200/16]

Home Care Packages Funding

Gino Kenny

466. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will fund home care packages on a demand-led basis to reduce the unnecessary suffering and financial costs of delayed discharges from hospital and residential care; if he will quantify these financial costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28592/16]

Abortion Services Provision

Gino Kenny

655. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that women travelling for an abortion are facilitated in having all relevant medical information sent by their doctor here to the doctors in the medical centre abroad where they are to have their abortion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26913/16]

Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment

Gino Kenny

656. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland imports more doctors and has more medical graduates than any other EU state but still has one of the lowest numbers of practising doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26915/16]

Elder Abuse

Gino Kenny

657. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of institutional abuse and neglect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26916/16]

Home Care Packages Funding

Gino Kenny

730. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the lack of funding on a demand-led basis for home care packages is obstructing the HSE's capacity in facilitating timely hospital discharges, leading to unnecessary suffering in the community as well as increased hospital costs; the net cost of budgetary restrictions in home care packages and delayed discharges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27334/16]

Cycling Facilities Funding

Gino Kenny

897. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the recent decision by the NTA to cut funding for cycleways, including segregated cycle paths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26914/16]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Gino Kenny

957. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the arrangements in place for ensuring that in accessing the free preschool education years, there is no discrimination based on date of birth in relation to a child's eligibility for funding at the start of the school year. [26917/16]

Living Wage Implementation

Gino Kenny

68. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to introduce a living wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18801/16]

Prison Medical Service

Gino Kenny

41. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to work with the Department of Health​ to establish a comprehensive review of prison health, with urgency, and to endorse the recommendation of the UN Committee for the Prevention of Torture that prison healthcare services be brought under the responsibility of the Department of Health and operated by the HSE. [21722/16]

Prison Visiting Committees

Gino Kenny

42. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite​ ratification of the optional protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture and to establish effective national preventative mechanisms under the protocol, including reformed and strengthened prison visiting committees. [21723/16]

Prison Medical Service

Gino Kenny

43. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will​ work with the Minister for Health on establishing a review of prison health towards addressing the serious deficiencies which exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21724/16]

School Curriculum

Gino Kenny

75. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite plans to add Mandarin Chinese to the leaving certificate curriculum; if he will address the equality issues related to the differential treatment of Mandarin Chinese in relation to the number of speakers here and the number of speakers internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21728/16]

Prison Medical Service

Gino Kenny

172. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to bring prison healthcare services under the responsibility of his Department and operated by the HSE; if he will expedite these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21721/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Gino Kenny

16. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the recruitment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4; if he will renew the contract of the locum consultant medical oncologist who has a special interest in sarcoma until the post is filled on a permanent basis; if he will agree to meet the Sarcoma Action Group of concerned cancer patients and their families who are seeking an urgent meeting with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20616/16]

Health Services Staff Recruitment

Gino Kenny

72. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the increases in staffing that have been achieved to deal with the crisis in primary care psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20942/16]

Health Services Staff

Gino Kenny

77. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the increases in staffing that have been achieved to deal with the crisis in home help and carer respite services; the number of persons in hospital with their discharge delayed waiting to access these services; the number of carers that have been unable to continue as carers due to the lack of respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20944/16]

General Practitioner Services

Gino Kenny

82. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the action he is taking to progress the development and staff levels and contracts of general practitioners, including the provision of care free at the point of use to children under 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20943/16]

National Carers Strategy Implementation

Gino Kenny

122. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the progress being made on implementing the recommendations of the national carers strategy; when he will publish and fund phase 2 of the strategy between 2016 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18803/16]

Commission on Domestic Public Water Services

Gino Kenny

313. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the public procurement or other procedures that were used to appoint members of the expert commission on water charges; the remuneration that is to be paid to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20780/16]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Gino Kenny

325. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the exclusion of former residents of county homes, other than from a minority of four selected county homes, from giving evidence to the mother and baby homes commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20230/16]

Human Rights

Gino Kenny

36. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the comments of a person (details supplied) that torture and abuse takes place in the prison and that a person not receiving the same level of support that they did; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19352/16]

Middle East Issues

Gino Kenny

55. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children who were arrested without their parents being informed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19412/16]

Middle East Issues

Gino Kenny

328. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children who were arrested without their parents being informed; and his views on the use of unnecessary force in arresting and detaining these children, in some cases beating them and holding them in unsafe and abusive conditions. [19426/16]

Disability Support Services Provision

Gino Kenny

500. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health his plans to develop inpatient rehabilitation services at both national and regional level, to ensure timely access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams, CNT, in each of the nine community health organisations; if he will invest in long-term rehabilitation specific services in the community and provide lifelong support in appropriate settings for persons with neurological conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19302/16]

Infectious Disease Epidemics

Gino Kenny

512. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the public health advice he has issued regarding the 2016 Olympics in Brazil and the Zika virus; how he has publicised this advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15309/16]

Jobseeker's Allowance Payments

Gino Kenny

32. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the lower social protection payment discrimination against young adults under 25 years of age given that those under 25 years of age often have exactly the same expenses for food, rent and other needs as those over 25 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18805/16]

Social Welfare Rates

Gino Kenny

50. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore social protection payments to pre-austerity levels adjusted for inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18804/16]

Disability Allowance Payments

Gino Kenny

51. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish means testing for the carer's allowance, increase the respite care grant and replace the mobility allowance that ceased in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18802/16]

Hospital Consultant Recruitment

Gino Kenny

164. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a commitment to expedite the recruitment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's Hospital; if he will renew the contract of the locum consultant medical oncologist who has a special interest in sarcoma until the post is filled on a permanent basis; if he will agree to meet the sarcoma action group of concerned cancer patients and their families who are seeking an urgent meeting with him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18839/16]

Child Poverty

Gino Kenny

138. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of children living in relative and consistent poverty here; how this compares to the European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14722/16]

Food Labelling

Gino Kenny

185. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the fine of €16,000 imposed on a company (details supplied) for mislabelling the origin of beef products is an adequate response to the food safety and farmer welfare issues involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18569/16]

Child Care Services Staff

Gino Kenny

8. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach the average wage for child care workers; and how this compares to European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures. [17147/16]