114. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of alternative methods of identity verification which could release hard-working gardaí from this administrative duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37839/15]
101. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will abolish the waiting period for the JobBridge scheme to ensure that all those in receipt of jobseeker's payments and wishing to gain experience can do so without delay; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36885/15]
51. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is aware of the overcrowding issue at its health care facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will arrange to have an immediate assessment of the premises undertaken; his plans to provide temporary accommodation to deal with the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36466/15]
34. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of staff shortages within the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, which is causing a backlog in the number of nursing applications being processed; his views on whether this is having a knock-on effect on hospitals which desperately need to recruit nurses to deal with the overcrowding issue; his plans to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36265/15]
626. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a teacher (details supplied) in County Kildare will be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36024/15]
450. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to give direction to local authorities that a condition of planning of all new housing developments includes e-fibre connectivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35356/15]
420. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to give direction to local authorities that a condition of planning of all new housing developments includes e-fibre connectivity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35355/15]
460. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive estates that are delaying the tendering process for the new endoscopy unit at Naas General Hospital in County Kildare; if this matter can be expedited without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33313/15]
408. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if he will sanction an increase in funding and staffing at Naas General Hospital in County Kildare to facilitate the proposed increase in the number of beds available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32771/15]
33. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the provision of a public swimming pool for Kildare North, particularly considering the long delays to date and the recent closure of the pool at the National University of Ireland Maynooth; his views that all efforts need to be made to provide sporting facilities, such as public swimming pools, to local communities to encourage a more active lifestyle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31806/15]
7. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the upgrading of the N7; when works will be scheduled to commence; the expected completion time for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31805/15]
105. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that the current tariffs imposed on biodigesters are uncompetitive; his plans to raise these tariffs in order to encourage all sources of renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31691/15]
709. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of total waste; and of electrical waste, re-used and recycled; his views that targets should be set for re-use, where possible, particularly with regard to electrical equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29596/15]
890. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current capacity for wind generation, hydro-electric generation, biomass generation, bio-digester generation and solar generation within the Irish grid system; at capacity, the percentage of our 2020 targets that are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28210/15]
807. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish, as a statutory instrument, her Department’s document primary online database, inclusive of all forms and regulations governing the operation of same; if she will replace the item entitled pupil religion in the database with one which asks parents whether or not they wish their child to receive religious instruction in the school; if she will provide an update on the accessibility of information from the database, or any component of it, to third-parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28924/15]
143. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Taoiseach with regard to next year's census, if he is satisfied that the question on the religion of each citizen ought not to be changed to a question on the practising of a religion, if any, given the growing disparity between stated religion and actual life practice; if the question on religion ought to be asked of each citizen above a certain age, for example 15 years, and should it be answered directly by that citizen, rather than by the head of household, hotel, or school manager, etc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28916/15]
102. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a community welfare office will be opened in Naas in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28183/15]
70. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update as to when a community welfare office will be opened in Naas, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28191/15]
66. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 6 May 2015, if his Department had any further communication with the Revenue Commissioners regarding the 5,300 Standard Life shareholders whose option to receive money from the sale of the business as a capital investment was not received in time due to postal delays; if he will issue an instruction to the Revenue Commissioners to grant an exemption to these persons from the tax liability they now incur through no fault of their own; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27803/15]
534. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised planning guidelines for wind development will be published; the reason for the excessive delay; if he will commit to the publication of the revised guidelines before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27121/15]
133. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Finance given the analysis being carried out by a company (details supplied) on the possible sale of Allied Irish Banks shares, depending on the advice received, if it is envisaged that this money will be used to reduce the national debt or if it will be invested in capital projects; if a cost-benefit analysis and an analysis of the economic benefits of investing in capital projects has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26119/15]
31. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if analyses are made of the economic benefits of capital projects versus the interest charged on Government borrowings over time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26118/15]
598. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to concerns raised by homeowners, if he, Dublin Fire Brigade or the relevant local authority has received a fire safety report on a development (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if he is aware that the contents of the audit have not been made available in full to homeowners in the development; if he accepts that should there be deficiencies homeowners cannot rectify them, given that the report is being withheld from them by the management company; the rights homeowners have to receive this report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25725/15]
401. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if Irish nuns and priests who are engaged in missionary work abroad are entitled to a medical card for the months they return to Ireland between missions; if not, the reasons for same; if those over 70 years of age will be entitled to the over 70s general practitioner visit card when it is introduced in August 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25686/15]
259. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Finance in view of the demand for social housing, if his Department has examined the possibility of a tax incentive scheme as a means of encouraging more landlords to let their properties to tenants in receipt of rent supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26205/15]
220. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Finance when he expects to receive a review of the operation of local property tax; when he expects to rectify the anomaly whereby pyrite-affected homeowners are expected under the legislation to pay for expensive core sample testing, completely unnecessarily, in order to avail of their entitlement to the exemption from the tax; his views on whether such testing is excessive and unnecessary given that the Revenue Commissioners' staff are not trained to interpret either X-ray diffraction or petrographic testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25697/15]
648. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he anticipates running a new round of the local authority swimming pool programme; the criteria that would need to be met for a swimming pool to be granted in an area; and if the pronounced regional demographic growth in areas such as north Kildare will be taken into consideration in the allocation of funding. [24729/15]
500. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Irish humanitarian aid allocated for health care can be used to provide abortions for women and girls raped in conflict areas; if there is any prohibition in the use of development aid in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24518/15]
148. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer if there was a budgetary increase to the State pension of €5 and €10 per week respectively. [24511/15]
79. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of Allied Irish Banks' plans to outsource work and staff from its application and development management teams within the information technology division to third party providers; if he is confident that any such move would not pose a risk to key areas such as payment processing and online banking, as was demonstrated by failures in Ulster Bank; the assurances he will provide that jobs will be protected in the bank's plans to outsource this work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24064/15]
698. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 158 to 160, inclusive, of 28 May 2015, the reason for the decision not to continue providing a derogation to the junior certificate school programme which supports teachers and students in over 230 disadvantaged DEIS schools; her views that the proposed staffing levels and expertise for August 2015 will still be in a position to support all aspects of the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23068/15]
163. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that no community physiotherapy service for children with rheumatoid conditions exists in the Kildare and west Wicklow area, if children in this area can avail of treatment abroad under the European Union Cross-Border Directive; if so, if he will direct the Health Service Executive to actively inform patients of the alternative options available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22793/15]
127. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Health Service Executive actively informs patients on waiting lists of their rights to access medical treatment abroad, under the cross-border Directive 2011/24/EU; the reason the executive has to date failed to do so in spite of the threat of European Union sanctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22800/15]
1024. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the development of a civic amenity site in north Kildare to provide adequate recycling services for the large towns and growing population of the constituency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21279/15]
910. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Israel's plans to forcibly relocate up to 7,000 Palestinian Bedouins from 46 communities in occupied Palestine, and in view of the assertion by the Secretary-General of the United Nations that, if implemented, these plans would represent a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, if his Department will call on the Israeli Government to halt its plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22258/15]
831. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of the various hospital groups, in particular the Royal College of Surgeons group; if he will provide a timeframe for when he expects it to be possible for staff to transfer between non-Health Service Executive and Health Service Executive hospitals once the groups are established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22171/15]
692. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health the reason for the very significant funding cuts to the Barrymore House residential programme; in view of the clear demand for the service, if funding will be made available via the Health Service Executive to replace the loss of two facilitators in order to maintain the current level of service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/15]
663. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health the total number of children with rheumatology conditions currently waiting for physiotherapy services in the Kildare and west Wicklow area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21395/15]
994. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the British Government's commitment to abolish onshore wind farm subsidies and growing public resistance to wind farm development, if his Department will follow suit and review the high level of subsidies provided for wind farm development here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20662/15]
228. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection with regard to the domiciliary care allowance if she will provide a breakdown for 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015 of the number of applicants whose children suffer from Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, hyper mobility type; the number of these applications that were granted or refused; the criteria used to assess the severity of the condition in determining eligibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20597/15]
96. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if additional funding will be provided to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in view of the Government's announcement to strengthen the service's role, as part of a suite of measures to address mortgage arrears; if so, if she will provide details of funding increases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19733/15]
163. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health following the internal Health Service Executive investigation of an independent midwife (details supplied), if further investigations of this midwife are taking place; if so, if he will provide details of the investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18879/15]
162. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 6 May 2015, if he will confirm with a "Yes" or "No" reply if his Department has undertaken any research to identify any possible negative effects of industrial wind turbines on human health. [18862/15]
613. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources when rural areas such as Thomastown and Enfield in County Meath, which appear to be beyond the reach of Eircom's commercial efibre roll-out, may expect to have access to efibre broadband, under the Government's national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18513/15]
612. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources when e-fibre broadband will be available to residents on the Timahoe-Hodgestown Road near the Coolcarrigan mast in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18512/15]
599. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown in tabular form of public funding used to date for the establishment and running of Irish Water broken down by year and source of funding. [18573/15]
488. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 25 November 2014, when physiotherapy services will be available in the Kildare and west-Wicklow area for children with referrals from rheumatoid paediatricians; and in view of the long delays experienced by children in accessing treatment as a result of the withdrawal of these services by Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12, the steps he is taking to ensure that, in the future, services will not be withdrawn by hospitals before appropriate alternatives are available at community level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18539/15]
451. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Health if his Department was consulted on the revision of the wind energy guidelines, which are due to be published shortly; if his Department made a submission, or if his officials had any input into the review; if so, if he will provide the details of his Department's involvement; if the advice given, or submissions made, are publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18197/15]
418. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current level of Garda coverage for Celbridge in County Kildare; her views that current resourcing is adequate for the town; if she envisages any new recruits being allocated to the area in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18686/15]
527. Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication of the revised wind energy guidelines; the reason for the delay in their publication; when he expects the new guidelines to be published; if the new guidelines will apply to strategic infrastructure development projects, where the planning application has already been submitted to An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17353/15]