Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Early Childhood Care and Education

Peadar Tóibín

132. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of additional early childhood care and education special needs assistants provided for in budget 2016’s related new measures; and any additional measures and resources contained within the commitment to facilitate children with disabilities. [40859/15]

Special Educational Needs Data

Peadar Tóibín

155. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special needs assistants provided for in budget 2016’s new measures, and any additional measures and resources contained within the commitment to facilitate children with disabilities. [40860/15]

Local Authority Rates

Peadar Tóibín

582. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will fill the €21 million funding gap remaining after the reduction in the global commercial rates revaluation to ensure that local authorities are not left underfunded. [40576/15]

Waterways Issues

Peadar Tóibín

642. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she is taking to resolve the ongoing issue in Portaneena in County Westmeath, which has been previously brought to her attention by a person (details supplied). [40464/15]

Mobility Allowance Applications

Peadar Tóibín

159. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Meath is provided with a mobility scooter. [39868/15]

Health Services

Peadar Tóibín

128. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath to find out what happened, and to ensure that it does not happen again; and if he will ensure that any future convalescence and care costs associated with looking after this person are covered by the Health Service Executive [39745/15]

Rail Services

Peadar Tóibín

598. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with this Deputy to discuss the lack of progress of the Navan to Dublin rail line. [39395/15]

Enterprise Support Schemes

Peadar Tóibín

2. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives he will take to ensure large strategically important events such as the Web Summit can be retained in this country. [37224/15]

Legislative Measures

Peadar Tóibín

21. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to prevent tactical insolvencies such as the Clerys debacle. [37212/15]

North-South Implementation Bodies

Peadar Tóibín

23. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reductions in investment in InterTradeIreland over the past five years. [37215/15]

Economic Data

Peadar Tóibín

26. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of local sourcing by multinationals in this State in percentage terms and in real terms, for each of the past four years. [37214/15]

Local Enterprise Offices Staff

Peadar Tóibín

27. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the staffing and financial resource levels provided for local enterprise offices in 2015 in comparison with county enterprise boards in 2013. [37213/15]

Knowledge Development Box

Peadar Tóibín

31. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has sought the input of the indigenous SME sector with regards the development of the knowledge development box. [37211/15]

Ministerial Meetings

Peadar Tóibín

127. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has discussed with the British Ambassador to Ireland or with representatives of the British Government the content of a recent RTE programme (details supplied). [38528/15]

Rent Supplement Scheme Data

Peadar Tóibín

199. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has considered postponing three-monthly and six-monthly community welfare reviews of rent supplement entitlements for tenants, which are providing landlords with the opportunity to increase the cost of the rent mid-lease; if she is aware that many persons are becoming homeless, having run into arrears, while their payments are suspended during these reviews. [37639/15]

Universal Social Charge Exemptions

Peadar Tóibín

321. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Finance the number of additional workers who would be removed from the universal social charge if the exemption rate was increased from €13,000 to €19,572. [37964/15]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Peadar Tóibín

338. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the common chapter which formed part of the national development plan for the south of Ireland and the structural funds plan for the north of Ireland still exists; and, if so, the extent to which it is managed and implemented. [38385/15]

Departmental Agencies

Peadar Tóibín

373. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the integration, on a practical level, that exists between InterTradeIreland and the local enterprise offices, Enterprise Ireland, the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. [38388/15]

Garda Deployment

Peadar Tóibín

576. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours per week that Castlepollard Garda station is without a rostered garda; her plans to permanently increase the staffing complement; and the distance to the nearest available staffed Garda station when this station has no staff present. [37895/15]

Hospitals Building Programme

Peadar Tóibín

661. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when the building of a new laboratory in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Navan in County Meath will take place, as it has been on the estates management construction list for the past seven years. [37407/15]