Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Hospital Waiting Lists

Seamus Healy

394. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact that the urology outpatient waiting list at Waterford University Hospital is now 48-plus months, the proposals he has to rectify the situation. [2541/17]

Medical Card Administration

Seamus Healy

198. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health when children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance will be issued with a full medical card as announced in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38969/16]

DEIS Review

Seamus Healy

227. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for Delivering Equality of Opportunities in Schools, DEIS, status and funding going forward with regard to the review of DEIS; if there are changes to the component of DEIS; the most relevant information in supporting a submission; the timeframe for the roll out of the new DEIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37515/16]

DEIS Review

Seamus Healy

228. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the rank that Tipperary town has regarding the review of Delivering Equality of Opportunities in Schools, DEIS, in view of the fact that no primary school in Tipperary town has DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37516/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Seamus Healy

230. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37533/16]

Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data

Seamus Healy

294. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the criteria for the mortgage-to-rent scheme with a view to increasing the number of distressed mortgage holders who would qualify to avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37509/16]

Road Network

Seamus Healy

737. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available to urgently address the need for a bypass of Tipperary town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37511/16]

Minor Works Scheme

Seamus Healy

135. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will pay the minor works grants to primary schools here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35532/16]

Mental Health Services Provision

Seamus Healy

577. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the construction of a crisis house for the mental health service at Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34970/16]

Wind Energy Guidelines

Seamus Healy

111. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the publication of new guidelines for wind turbines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33964/16]

Foras na Gaeilge

Seamus Healy

143. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of budget for Foras na Gaeilge for 2017; if this funding is an increase or decrease on the 2016 figure; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that approximately 120 jobs are dependent on this budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33990/16]

Youth Services Funding

Seamus Healy

199. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the application for €1.2 million in capital funding for Scouting Ireland for developments at Larch Hill and Killaloe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33968/16]

Garda Stations

Seamus Healy

105. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the position regarding the provision of a new Garda station for Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33710/16]

VAT Exemptions

Seamus Healy

129. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to exempt rescue and safety equipment purchased by voluntary organisations, such as Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue, from the payment of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33796/16]

Disadvantaged Status

Seamus Healy

152. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for DEIS status for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33670/16]

DEIS Status

Seamus Healy

164. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, status for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33693/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Seamus Healy

252. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will recommend to Government that the €780 in pension restoration due on 1 January 2018 to public service pensioners be brought forward to 1 January 2017 and paid together with the €500 due on that date (details supplied); if he will bring forward the date for full restoration of all public service pensions to 1 January 2018 in view of the fact that Teachtaí Dála will have become entitled to further pay restoration of in excess of €5,400 by that date and that 60% of public service pensioners currently living will have died by 2021; if he will base the pension award to survivors of deceased public servants on the pension of the deceased as if it had been fully restored before the date of death; if he will ensure that this measure will come into effect from 8 November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33555/16]

Hospital Services

Seamus Healy

387. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the preparation of a development control plan for South Tipperary General Hospital site at Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33722/16]

Roads Maintenance

Seamus Healy

488. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make funding available for urgent essential repairs and upgrading to Ardfinnan Bridge, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33795/16]

Wage Subsidy Scheme

Seamus Healy

224. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of the recent review of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32833/16]

School Accommodation

Seamus Healy

232. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32108/16]

Lansdowne Road Agreement

Seamus Healy

376. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in view of the fact that the FEMPI Act 2013 pay reductions for serving higher earners, over €65,000 per annum will be restored in two stages, the first half of the reduction will be restored on 1 April 2017, the second half of the reduction will be restored on 1 January 2018, the equivalent pensioner will receive an increase equivalent to that of serving peer on those dates; if by 2 January 2018 all public service pensioners with full service will have had their pensions restored to 50% of the salary of serving peer; if the traditional principle of parity of public service pension increases with pay increases of serving peer will be honoured by the Government into the future; his views on whether pension restorations are particularly urgent in view of the much reduced life expectancy of older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32140/16]

Tenant Purchase Scheme

Seamus Healy

76. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will amend the new tenant purchase scheme to allow residents of houses that were built under Part V agreements to be included in the scheme and allow them to purchase their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31002/16]

Traveller Accommodation

Seamus Healy

319. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when funding for a demountable will be made available in respect of persons (details supplied). [26482/16]

Vaccination Programme

Seamus Healy

1403. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25963/16]

Tax Reliefs Availability

Seamus Healy

99. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the tax breaks and incentives, if any, available to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/16]

Company Closures

Seamus Healy

857. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the grants, if any, that were paid to a company (details supplied); if any grants have been repaid; the grants that remain unpaid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23743/16]

Company Closures

Seamus Healy

858. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of the liquidation process at a company (details supplied) and the details of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23744/16]

Redundancy Payments

Seamus Healy

452. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of a company (details supplied) regarding redundancy repayments; when redundancy payments will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22595/16]

Mental Health Services Provision

Seamus Healy

662. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the status of the proposed development of the Jigsaw programme in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22598/16]

Company Closures

Seamus Healy

888. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to clarify the status of the closure of a company (details supplied) and in particular the reason the parent company appears to absolve itself from its responsibility to make redundancy payments to the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22596/16]

Deposit Guarantee Scheme

Seamus Healy

115. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that small shareholders be compensated by the State, at least to the extent of the entitlement of depositors under the bank deposit guarantee scheme, given the conviction of two former executives of Anglo-Irish Bank on a charge of conspiring to defraud investors, that Government and his Department, the office of the regulator and the Central Bank were all aware of the relevant transaction in advance of the publication of the misleading accounts of the affairs of the bank and the other evidence and remarks of the judge in court (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17886/16]

Banking Sector

Seamus Healy

108. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will recommend that small shareholders be compensated at least to the extent of the entitlement of depositors under the bank deposit guarantee scheme given the conviction of two former executives of Anglo Irish Bank on a charge of conspiring to defraud investors, the fact that the office of the financial regulator was aware of the relevant transaction in advance of the publication of the misleading accounts of the bank and the other evidence and remarks of the judge in court (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16592/16]

Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility

Seamus Healy

80. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance to amend the regulations on eligibility under the primary medical certificate scheme, given that they are excessively prohibitive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16139/16]

Banking Sector

Seamus Healy

175. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will insist that a bank and its subsidiary (details supplied) which are in majority State ownership desist from seeking repossession of family homes through the courts and withdraw all such existing applications before the courts; and in the event of the bank and its subsidiary refusing to comply, if he will call a special general meeting of shareholders and use his majority shareholding to dismiss and replace the directors who refuse to comply with his instruction. [16000/16]

Private Rented Accommodation Evictions

Seamus Healy

86. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding an eviction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14291/16]

Home Repossessions

Seamus Healy

132. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a repossession. [14295/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Seamus Healy

92. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for an extension by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12336/16]

Roads Maintenance Funding

Seamus Healy

604. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the necessity for urgent repairs to the bridge at Ardfinnan in Clonmel, County Tipperary; if he will provide funds to carry out the work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11605/16]

Vaccination Programme

Seamus Healy

897. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health the current position regarding the shortage of the BCG vaccine in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10452/16]

Hospital Services

Seamus Healy

250. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Health to outline his plans to open the new vacant 40-bed unit at Our Lady's County and Surgical Hospital in Cashel, County Tipperary, given the ongoing crisis at South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Seamus Healy

420. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a request for an extension by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2830/16]

Home Repossessions

Seamus Healy

3. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he will insist that Allied Irish Bank and its subsidiary the Educational Building Society and Permanent TSB, which are in majority State ownership, desist from seeking repossession of family homes through the Courts and withdraw all such existing applications before the Courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1426/16]

Tax Code

Seamus Healy

5. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance if he has read the most recent Credit Suisse global wealth report; if so, his views on the staggering inequalities it suggests in the distribution and concentration of wealth here; if, given this report it is now a matter of urgent priority for the Government to establish a database on wealth distribution and to place a wealth tax on assets of households in excess of €1 million to ensure greater equality in the distribution of wealth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1427/16]

Tax Code

Seamus Healy

11. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance given that the richest 10% and the poorest 10% pay approximately the same proportion of their income in all taxes, if he will urgently introduce tax reform measures which will ensure the richest 10% pay a significantly higher proportion and the poorest 10% pay a significantly lower proportion of their respective incomes in all taxes than is currently the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1320/16]

Lobbying Data

Seamus Healy

12. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the number of representations made to him in 2015 by representatives and lobbyists from all sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1317/16]

Tax Code

Seamus Healy

17. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance given that net financial assets of households, including shares and bank deposits, are well above peak boom level, if he will place a tax on such assets above €500,000 per household to fund much-needed investment in health and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1319/16]

Tax Yield

Seamus Healy

31. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the figures on income tax, in bands of €10,000 ranging from €0 to €2 million plus, including the gross income, the numbers, the percentage of total numbers, the average income, the income tax paid, the universal social charge paid, the total tax including universal social charge, the total income after all tax paid, the average income after all tax paid, and the effective tax rate on all income after all taxes, including universal social charge paid, in each band, for each of the years 2013 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1316/16]

House Prices

Seamus Healy

34. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance his views on the continuing upward spiral in house prices and rent in 2015 and the increasing concentration of property ownership in the hands of a small number of large corporate investors, in terms of macroeconomic stability and the capacity of ordinary families to access affordable accommodation; his proposals to deal with this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1318/16]

Pensions Data

Seamus Healy

59. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons, other than public service occupational pensioners, receiving annual occupational pensions exceeding €12,000 per annum, €24,000 per annum, €36,000 per annum, €48,000 per annum, €60,000 per annum, €80,000 per annum and €100,000 per annum; this group including private sector occupational pensioners and retired employees of commercial State companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42075/15]