Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Coroners Service

Gino Kenny

45. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is within her remit to direct an inquest to be held by a coroner; if she can direct an inquest into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36630/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Gino Kenny

180. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria, PKU; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low protein products have been added to the long-term illness card list in more than six years; if he will ensure a full and appropriate updated list of foods prescribed for PKU is added to the reimbursement list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36618/16]

National Treatment Purchase Fund Data

Gino Kenny

402. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been treated in the past 12 months for whom data are available, using NTPF funding, by a consultant doctor who also had persons on his or her waiting list who had been treated in the same period by a different consultant doctor using NTPF funding; the number of persons who were treated using NTPF funding by a consultant doctor working solely in private practice; the number who were treated in total; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35800/16]

Ministerial Travel

Gino Kenny

140. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is appropriate that the Minister of State with responsibility for training, skills and innovation, who has said that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is appalling and unacceptable and would not be tolerated by any other state in the world, would visit Israel and meet a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35613/16]

Water Fluoridation

Gino Kenny

216. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will recommend a public consultation on the issue of fluoridation of public water (details supplied) and consider a plebiscite to ensure a public mandate to continue the policy of fluoridation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35614/16]

General Practitioner Services Provision

Gino Kenny

457. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will support the west Clare community request that all the recently cut Shannondoc primary care medical services be restored to Kilrush, Ennistymon and Killaloe and that the 24-hour emergency department in Ennis General Hospital will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34481/16]

Medicinal Products Availability

Gino Kenny

599. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the arrangements he has made to enable compassionate access to cannabis based medicines for a person (details supplied) and other persons with medical conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35010/16]

Banking Operations

Gino Kenny

41. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Finance his views on the closure by a bank (details supplied) of the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Support Campaign, IPSC, and in particular the potential risk claimed by the bank despite the ISPC's exemplary banking record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31556/16]

Tax Reliefs Data

Gino Kenny

44. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Finance the total level of capital allowances claimed by aircraft leasing firms for each of the years 2011 to 2015; the total tax paid by leasing companies that have benefitted from a 12.5% tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34044/16]

National Digital Research Centre

Gino Kenny

200. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the National Digital Research Centre, NDRC, whose budget is paid entirely from State funds, refused to support an initiative to assist the fledgling start-up ecosystem in Palestine, citing NDRC's purported politically neutral status and yet has provided support and sponsorship to a programme of engagement with the start-up ecosystem of Israel, namely, the recent start-up Tel Aviv event held on the NDRC premises on 29 June 2016; his plans to influence the NDRC to co-operate in extending support to the Palestine start-up ecosystem or to cease support for the Israeli start-up ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34158/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Gino Kenny

23. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost of the defence budget as a percentage of GDP in 2015. [33816/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Gino Kenny

33. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider launching a full investigation into possible negative health effects of drugs used on members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33817/16]

Tax Data

Gino Kenny

90. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Finance the number of aircraft leasing companies that have obtained a trading treatment for leasing activities; the number that have obtained trading treatment for a single leasing activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34043/16]

Child Care Services Provision

Gino Kenny

34. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the new child care scheme is to assist the most disadvantaged in society; the way it is justified that those on TEC schemes will be worse off with the child care subvention scheme, considering that those parents are the poorest in society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33544/16]

Child Care Services Provision

Gino Kenny

35. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether €12 million is substantial enough to support persons on the lowest threshold or income; if the support to be provided is realistic enough to meet the needs of low income workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33543/16]

Services for People with Disabilities

Gino Kenny

311. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the failure of senior officers of the HSE to respond to written communications from Members of Dáil Éireann requesting meetings to address the crises in speech and language, occupational therapy and clinical psychology services for children with special needs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32686/16]

National Treatment Purchase Fund

Gino Kenny

334. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of persons treated by the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, that are on a waiting list for treatment from a consultant who also works privately carrying out that treatment for the NTPF (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32753/16]

Consular Services Representations

Gino Kenny

31. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the presidential decree of law 140 was submitted again for a person (details supplied) in August 2016 and that there is limited time this decree can remain effective; if he will put adequate pressure on the Egyptian Government to ensure the person can be released as many inmates have recently received a presidential pardon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30281/16]

Diplomatic Representation

Gino Kenny

32. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the reports of statesanctioned death squads and vigilantism in the Philippines under President Duterte; the assistance being offered to a person (details supplied) and his or her family in an appeal in the Philippines against a 12-year prison sentence for a trivial offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30277/16]

Immigration Policy

Gino Kenny

37. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of the refugee camp at Calais; if he has made inquiries regarding the health and safety of the more than 10,000 adults and children living there; if he will advocate for the safety of the residents by strongly protesting at any attempts by the French authorities to forcibly move residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30269/16]

Foreign Conflicts

Gino Kenny

55. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will identify to Dáil Éireann the countries which are taking part in, or supplying weapons or military ordnance to support, military aggression in Syria and Yemen; if he will call in the ambassadors of those countries to account for such action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31808/16]

Disabilities Assessments

Gino Kenny

476. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the level of compliance with the Disability Act regarding assessments of need commencing within three months and being completed within three months and assessment reports with service statements being issued; the level of complaints received regarding the process and the timeframe to achieve an outcome with these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31973/16]

Medicinal Products Prices

Gino Kenny

486. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the estimated saving to the health budget and to the out-of-pocket expenses of the public, were drug prices here equivalent to each of the five EU countries with the lowest drug prices, in addition to Portugal and Denmark if they are not included in the lowest five; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32003/16]

Hospital Services

Gino Kenny

487. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the reason a memo has been sent to doctors in St. James's Hospital that the hospital can no longer see patients from other counties for some endoscopy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32004/16]

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]

Direct Provision System

Gino Kenny

26. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the direct provision system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17152/16]

Traveller Community

Gino Kenny

39. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering recognising the ethnicity of Travellers during the lifetime of this Government. [17153/16]

EU Battle Groups

Gino Kenny

24. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for details of the oversight by Dáil Éireann of the participation of Irish troops in a British-led EU battle group in May 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16650/16]

Child Care Services Staff

Gino Kenny

63. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Taoiseach the average wage for child care workers; how this compares to European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures. [14721/16]

Medicinal Products Availability

Gino Kenny

421. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health to clarify the availability of the anti-epilepsy drug Epidiolex here; the arrangements for facilitating access by children with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome; and if he will intervene to improve access. [17166/16]

Home Care Packages Funding

Gino Kenny

431. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently intervene to restore funding for home care packages given that some areas, such as the Beaumont Hospital local catchment area in Dublin 9, have now run out of funding and are unable to discharge patients due to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15593/16]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Gino Kenny

57. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the objective of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is to permit the sale of unlabelled hormone injected beef and unlabelled genetically modified organism products from the US to be sold in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14498/16]

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

Gino Kenny

62. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the European Commission's Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiating position is to abandon the precautionary principle, whereby chemicals and pesticides used in the food system must be proven to be safe for animal and human health prior to use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14497/16]

Patient Transport Provision

Gino Kenny

407. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health how the transport needs of patients from Wicklow have been considered in the opening of the Wicklow primary care health centre to facilitate access to the health services there, particularly for elderly and disabled persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14361/16]

Medical Card Eligibility

Gino Kenny

454. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) receiving €144 per week jobseeker's allowance has been turned down for a medical card because he or she does not reach the €164 which would entitle him or her to one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14649/16]

Medical Card Applications

Gino Kenny

482. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health how a person whose income is less than €164 and who is financially independent of his or her parents can apply for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14795/16]

Sports Organisations

Gino Kenny

619. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Athletics Ireland and the Olympic Council of Ireland with regard to the non-selection of a person (details supplied) to the three-man marathon team to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14359/16]

Sport and Recreational Development

Gino Kenny

634. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason pigeon racing is not recognised as a sport here, given the popularity of pigeon racing and the positive aspects of keeping pigeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/16]

Hospital Consultant Retirements

Gino Kenny

79. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the impending retirement of a consultant who specialises in a number of rare eye disorders in children is causing an extreme amount of concern and stress among the families affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13748/16]

Health Services Charges

Gino Kenny

93. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health his plans to refund the €100 statutory charge to patients who register at emergency departments in the hope of being treated but leave before being discharged because of onerous waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13749/16]

Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage

Gino Kenny

191. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health to include the chronic long-term illnesses Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis on the list of illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme established under the 1970 Health Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14009/16]

Irish Prisoners Abroad

Gino Kenny

8. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he is taking to secure the release of a person (details supplied) from detention in Egypt; the reason for the delay in the person's release; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11902/16]

Trade Data

Gino Kenny

11. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for detailed information on the trade in goods and services between Ireland and Israel, including restrictions on such trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11901/16]

Carer's Allowance Payments

Gino Kenny

41. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection to afford a full stamp to persons who are in receipt of the carer's allowance in order that, in the event of their carer's job ending, they are eligible for full benefits and in recognition of the service they are providing to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11642/16]

Local Authority Housing

Gino Kenny

41. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to immediately provide resources for local authorities to allow them to put emergency tenancy action teams in place that will pursue both the acquisition of local authority houses and tenancies for the housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme so that all available tenancies and purchases are chased down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11594/16]

Teachers' Remuneration

Gino Kenny

22. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills to end the pay discrimination in relation to teachers who took up posts from 2011 onwards and to end unequal pay for new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10830/16]

Direct Provision System

Gino Kenny

36. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform or abolish direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10140/16]

Mortgage Interest Relief Extension

Gino Kenny

181. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Finance the arrangements for taxpayers receiving tax relief at source on mortgage interest payments from 2017 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9477/16]

Health Screening Programmes

Gino Kenny

918. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive has decided to end routine eye screening of fifth and six class primary schoolchildren under the primary schoolchildren optical scheme without offering an alternative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10537/16]

Speech and Language Therapy

Gino Kenny

80. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists available to children with an autism spectrum disorder in the Dublin Mid-West constituency; the number of children who are on the waiting list to see them and the current waiting period. [7963/16]

Speech and Language Therapy

Gino Kenny

81. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists available to children with developmental disorders other than autism spectrum disorders in the Dublin Mid-West constituency; the number of children who are on the waiting list to see them and the current waiting period. [7964/16]