181. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Finance to provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to his special advisers; to provide details for requests, if any, for an increase above the special advisers' pay cap as set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24314/16]
180. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Finance the number of miles claimed for and the travel expenses paid to him and each Minister of State in his Department in respect of their functions as a Minister in his Department between 1 January 2016 and 10 March 2016; between 11 March 2016 and 6 May 2016; and since 7 May 2016. [24297/16]
92. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Finance the figures for his Department on the percentage of working days lost to sickness absence through certified leave and uncertified leave in each year from 2011 to 2015, inclusive. [23412/16]
89. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to her special advisers; if she will provide details for requests, if any, for an increase above the special adviser's pay cap as set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24318/16]
88. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of miles claimed for and the travel expenses paid to her and each Minister of State in her Department in respect of their functions as a Minister in her Department between 1 January 2016 and 10 March 2016; between 11 March 2016 and 6 May 2016; and since 7 May 2016. [24301/16]
49. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently assigned to each divisional drugs unit in tabular form. [23605/16]
45. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the figures for her Department on the percentage of working days lost to sickness absence through certified leave and uncertified leave in each year from 2011 to 2015, inclusive. [23416/16]
432. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in addition to sports capital grants, there are any alternative grants available to sports clubs; to outline any such grants; if there are grants available for coaching programmes for soccer clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23301/16]
606. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the name of the CEO or equivalent of each hospital and each hospital group on 1 July 2013, 1 July 2014, 1 July 2015 and 1 July 2016 for each public and voluntary hospital within each hospital group; the number of these who received their appointment following an open competition; the number holding the position in an acting or temporary capacity in each appointment on each date; if any of the appointed persons on each date has subsequently been appointed to other roles within the HSE or hospitals; if so, the details of such subsequent appointments; and if these subsequent appointments were the result of open competition. [22204/16]
602. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy for section 38 health agencies to disclose the salaries of their staff; if these agencies have been advised by the HSE not to reveal staff salaries if requested through a freedom of information request or by a journalist or by any other person, as reported recently; and if so, the reason this advice was given and the number of section 38 health agencies it was given to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22147/16]
161. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive is seeking to have the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform review the officially sanctioned salary rates for senior management posts in teaching hospitals and in hospital groups. [21653/16]
160. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if the salaries on offer for senior management positions in teaching hospitals and in hospital groups are acting as disincentives to securing suitable candidates; and the number of vacant senior management positions in teaching hospitals and hospital groups. [21652/16]
132. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in China; the actions he has taken to address this disturbing practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21655/16]
766. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a driving test centre in the Dublin 15 area given the population, demand and the young demographic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21083/16]
553. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase between December 2015 and May 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in Connolly Hospital. [20966/16]
552. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the way he plans to deal with the increased waiting times at general practitioner clinics; his further plans to extend free general practitioner care with the current difficulties in meeting existing demand in general practitioner clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20453/16]
79. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health when regulations will be introduced to provide for the introduction of suboxone as an alternative to methadone. [20967/16]
57. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health to halt the devolution of control of hospitals to trusts as part of the new ten-year health plan; and his plans to put hospital trusts on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20452/16]
5. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the criteria for appointment to senior hospital management positions and for board appointments in each of the hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21105/16]
534. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that independent research undertaken by the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre states private nursing homes are the majority providers of specialist dementia care; if he is further aware that three quarters of persons who avail of nursing home care are of high or maximum dependency, with 80% of the care provided by the private and voluntary nursing home sector; if he accepts the Health Service Executive claims that it is providing more specialist care as the reason for its higher cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19399/16]
533. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health his plans to act on the report, Accounts of the Public Services 2010, published in 2011 where the Comptroller and Auditor General informed him that the cost of care in Health Service Executive nursing homes was significantly higher than in private nursing homes; if his attention has been drawn to the comments in the report that residents were wrongly charged some €52 million for medicines and therapeutic services in public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19398/16]
532. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with his Department's implementation of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009; if he is aware that under the Act private and voluntary nursing homes are being forced to provide care for fees that are on average 58% below those paid to their public counterparts nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19397/16]
531. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he will seek the policy reasons from the Health Service Executive as to why it refuses to publish revised costs of care in public nursing homes; if he is aware that this is outstanding for five years; if he is concerned about transparency in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19396/16]
440. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the development of national training standards for all those involved in the provision of substance misuse services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19083/16]
439. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a clinical and organisational governance framework for all treatment and rehabilitation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19082/16]
438. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of trained level one and level two general practitioners per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19081/16]
437. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of pharmacies participating in methadone programmes per county over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19080/16]
436. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner clinics participating in methadone programmes per county over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19079/16]
435. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on a methadone programme per county over the past ten years; the number on waiting lists for a methadone programme for the same period; to provide the methadone completion numbers, that is, those who successfully came off the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19078/16]
434. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of advanced nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist role; the number of such roles which have been created in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19077/16]
433. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the national drug rehabilitation implementation committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19076/16]
432. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the needle exchange programme; the number of persons which have taken part in the programme over the past ten years per county; if the programme has been rolled out to 65 new locations, as outlined in the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19075/16]
431. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of cases of substance abuse treated in the past ten years per county, in tabular form; the number of these which received methadone treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19074/16]
430. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of moves towards the provision of an integrated treatment service for all substance users as outlined in the national drug strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/16]
239. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allow a person (details supplied) to be included in the tenant purchase scheme; the criteria of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19178/16]
238. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allow a person (details supplied) to be included in the tenant purchase scheme; the criteria of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19177/16]
215. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of three schools (details supplied) which share a campus for funding purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19629/16]
179. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure funding is made available for repair work on the roof of a school (details supplied) where rain water is entering through loose membranes in the roof which may compromise the building's structural integrity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19168/16]
178. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure funding is not removed in respect of two prefabricated buildings rented by a school (details supplied); to ensure that any permanent replacement buildings are the same size as the existing prefabs and not half the size, as previously suggested; to ensure funding is immediately made available for other prefab buildings owned by the school or that funding is made available to replace these pre-fabs with permanent buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19167/16]
83. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19176/16]
44. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the details of recent developments at the Blanchardstown Centre for the Unemployed community employment scheme including the efforts he has and will make to ensure it continues. [18701/16]
38. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Social Protection why he is continuing to issue correspondence urging recipients under the jobseeker's benefit scheme to use financial institutions instead of using the post office to collect payments. [18700/16]
175. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health the status of the working group that was meant to be established to enhance the prevention pillar in non-school settings in the national drugs strategy. [18744/16]
174. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health his views on the efficacy of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18743/16]
172. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health for an update on the prevention pillar of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18741/16]
169. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health why a report promised in a reply to a Parliamentary Question in February 2015 has not been published; his views on the review of costs undertaken and its conclusions; and if he agrees with the former Minister who stated the review would lead to good practice and value for money actions being embedded within spending for care in Health Service Executive nursing homes. [18666/16]
168. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he has concerns regarding breaches of competition law by his Department and the Health Service Executive in relation to the cost of care in State run nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18665/16]
167. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 requires the Health Service Executive (HSE) to place the cost of care in long-term residential care and for the components that make up the cost before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and why this has not happened since March 2011 when the HSE last published the fees payable to its nursing homes for care provision. [18664/16]
98. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the teaching of social, personal and health education and its progression as a subject on the curriculum for the senior cycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18740/16]
97. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have a substance misuse strategy; if he liaises with schools as to the way to implement and manage their substance misuse strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18739/16]