Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Tom Fleming

186. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will appoint a lung specialist to Kerry General Hospital owing to the increase in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as this is the fourth most common cause of death here after lung cancer, heart disease and stroke; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42012/15]

Disability Allowance Applications

Tom Fleming

121. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, given that the person has submitted all relevant information; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41482/15]

Disability Allowance Data

Tom Fleming

137. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for disability allowance received, granted at initial stages, refused, appealed, and subsequently granted following appeal, by county, from 1 January 2014 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41718/15]

Rural Social Scheme Data

Tom Fleming

148. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of rural social workers in County Kerry participating in community schemes; the schemes they are participating in; if she will extend the numbers engaged in these schemes given their benefit to rural towns and villages, the value of the training to participants and the value in terms of supplementing their low income and the greater community demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41813/15]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Tom Fleming

162. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Finance the status of proposals for the provision of finance to small and medium enterprises from the European Investment Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41412/15]

Small and Medium Enterprises Supports

Tom Fleming

164. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Finance the status of proposals for the provision of finance to small and medium enterprises from the European Investment Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41575/15]

IDA Jobs Data

Tom Fleming

183. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the name and location of IDA Ireland-led foreign direct investment companies; the number employed by each company; the percentage of firms by county; the percentage employed by these firms, by county, to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41368/15]

Industrial Development

Tom Fleming

185. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to promote County Kerry as a location for foreign direct investment, given the enhanced and regional aid status given to County Kerry as a disadvantaged region; the progress in attracting jobs to the county since this initiative was introduced in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41411/15]

Startup Funding

Tom Fleming

189. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the €500,000 competitive start fund in encouraging entrepreneurs and members of the diaspora to set up here; the response to date by start-up enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41573/15]

Job Retention

Tom Fleming

194. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene as a State investor for the stalled liquified gas terminal and combined heat and power plant of Tarbert-Ballylongford, County Kerry due to the withdrawal by the Hess Corporation Investment Company from the project, and as Shannon LNG Limited has spent €63 million on the project to date, it is imperative that the Government would ensure that the viability of this development will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41681/15]

Single Payment Scheme Payments

Tom Fleming

269. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine and expedite a single payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41654/15]

Apiculture Industry

Tom Fleming

275. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will develop native honey production as a food product, given that 90% of honey consumption is imported and given that this product has huge potential for job creation if proper supports and specialist training courses for persons who wish to enter this market are put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41770/15]

EU Directives

Tom Fleming

342. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to incorporate the recently introduced EU victims directive into the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41709/15]

Medical Card Applications

Tom Fleming

367. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41260/15]

Accident and Emergency Departments

Tom Fleming

368. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the distribution of funds for the emergency department task force; the allocation provided to each public hospital and public residential home; the number of additional beds sustained in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41282/15]

Hospital Beds Data

Tom Fleming

369. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the positive impact the suspension of the Health Information and Quality Authority regulations have had on the enhancement of the bed complement for this winter season in regard to Kerry General Hospital in Daingean Uí Chúis, Listowel, Kenmare and Killarney community hospitals and in the St. Columbanus home in Killarney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41283/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Tom Fleming

386. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41408/15]

National Lottery Funding Applications

Tom Fleming

387. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will favourably examine an application for a lottery grant to his Department by an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry which is providing excellent and essential services to the youth of County Kerry, regarding all aspects of health and social well being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41409/15]

Medical Card Applications

Tom Fleming

389. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant documentation has been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41467/15]

Mental Health Services Funding

Tom Fleming

408. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding in the 2016 mental health budget (details supplied) in compliance with A Vision for Change, the mental health services report for 2006, which recommended that a minimum of 8.5% of the health budget should be allocated to mental health to implement its recommendations, including a comprehensive 24 hour, seven day community-based service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41588/15]

Medical Qualifications

Tom Fleming

437. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will protect the titles of "physiotherapist" and "physical therapist" as the level of service physiotherapists and physical therapists provide is completely different (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41820/15]

School Curriculum

Tom Fleming

490. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 11 March 2015, the progress in developing a new integrated primary languages curriculum; if this initiative will lead to further extending this programme to incorporate some continental languages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41542/15]

Skills Shortages

Tom Fleming

503. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the 2015 National Skills Bulletin Report by the expert group on future skills needs, which identified a skills shortage in a number of areas, mostly in the information and technology sector, but also in the engineering, science and health sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41587/15]

Student Grant Scheme Applications

Tom Fleming

525. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently examine and expedite a grant review by Student Universal Support Ireland for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41819/15]

Private Rented Accommodation Standards

Tom Fleming

533. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce regulations to enable the reintroduction of bedsits into the rental housing stock, to alleviate the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41326/15]

Hydraulic Fracturing

Tom Fleming

571. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of funding the State expended on research into hydraulic fracturing, which is environmentally damaging and commercially non-viable; the results of the research in regard to the effects on human health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41700/15]

Invalidity Pension Eligibility

Tom Fleming

50. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite a review of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant documentation has been submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40810/15]

Disability Allowance Appeals

Tom Fleming

150. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine an appeal under the disability allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40363/15]

Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals

Tom Fleming

151. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an appeal under the domiciliary care allowance scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40419/15]

Carer's Allowance Applications

Tom Fleming

167. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry as all relevant documentation has been submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40556/15]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Tom Fleming

187. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for farm assist granted and refused from 1 January 2015 to date, by county and in tabular form; the average waiting time for decisions on appeal; the number on appeal referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentage of these approved and refused. [40655/15]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Tom Fleming

191. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for family income supplement granted and refused; the average waiting time for decisions on appeal; the number on appeal referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentages of these approved and refused, by county and in tabular form, from 1 January 2015 to date. [40735/15]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Tom Fleming

192. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for the domiciliary care allowance granted and refused; the average waiting time for decisions on appeal; the number on appeal referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentages of these approved and refused by county, from 1 January 2015 to date, in tabular form. [40736/15]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Tom Fleming

193. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for disability allowance granted and refused; the average waiting time for decisions on appeal; the number on appeal referred for independent oral appeal; and the percentages of these approved and refused, by county from 1 January 2015 to date, in tabular form. [40737/15]

Medical Card Applications

Tom Fleming

375. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40169/15]

Medical Card Applications

Tom Fleming

376. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40170/15]

Hospitals Capital Programme

Tom Fleming

397. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the necessary funding to upgrade the operating theatre in Kerry General Hospital, given that no funding has been provided to carry out necessary structural improvement to the theatre since the hospital opened in 1985; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40322/15]

Medical Card Applications

Tom Fleming

442. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, who has submitted all relevant information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40498/15]

Hospital Appointments Status

Tom Fleming

461. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40640/15]

Student Grant Scheme Applications

Tom Fleming

511. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and expedite an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry to Student Universal Support Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40129/15]

Road Safety

Tom Fleming

631. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to consult with the Road Safety Authority regarding a submission (details supplied) on the advantages of rear-facing children's car seats, as their usage would be a cost-effective way of reducing injury and death, as per statistics in other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/15]

National Roads Authority Projects

Tom Fleming

634. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to immediately review the current road works on the N71 Muckross Road in Killarney in County Kerry, due to drastic reductions in the width of the road, which is of major concern to local residents and businesses, and is a highly trafficked tourism transport system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40677/15]

Film Industry Promotion

Tom Fleming

40. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans that are being implemented to promote Ireland as a film location and, in particular, to highlight all locations of panoramic and aesthetic significance similar to the way Sceilg Mhichíl was for the Star Wars film; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39259/15]

Social Welfare Schemes

Tom Fleming

55. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine an application for a hearing aid grant by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39888/15]

Financial Instruments

Tom Fleming

91. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation; if he will implement the proposals requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39870/15]

Agriculture Scheme Payments

Tom Fleming

109. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarification regarding additional top-up moneys from the Exchequer to boost the €13.7 million European Union crisis fund; if he will dispense the funds to enable viability to those engaged in farming regarded as vulnerable who have endured dramatic income losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39872/15]

Citizenship Applications

Tom Fleming

124. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine and expedite an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39829/15]

Farm Assist Scheme Appeals

Tom Fleming

42. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite a farm assist appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant information has been submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39697/15]

Jobseeker's Allowance Payments

Tom Fleming

49. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an overpayment of jobseeker's allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant information has been submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39767/15]

Broadband Service Provision

Tom Fleming

69. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will prioritise County Kerry in the broadband intervention strategy, as the county has had significant underinvestment by the State and the market in its telecom infrastructure, which is manifestly obvious from the national broadband plan survey data map; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39198/15]