21. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details about what was discussed at the Investing in Agriculture for Nutrition event in Washington, that was co-hosted by Minister for Development and Trade, Joe Costello. [23220/13]
235. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the costs incurred by his Department in investigating the recent horsemeat scandal. [23278/13]
216. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the extra costs incurred by the Gardaí in investigating the horsemeat crisis. [23279/13]
51. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the success of statewide road safety, his plans to focus to specific road safety blackspots such as the Castlebaldwin to Cloonamahon stretch of the N4 which has been the scene of the loss of 30 lives in recent memory. [22893/13]
29. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his plans to sell off State assets under his control including the public stake in Aer Lingus. [22894/13]
517. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the EU legislation to control the propagation and sale of seed. [22363/13]
119. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 16 October 2012, the number of the 150 posts promised for child and adolescent mental health services that are now in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22573/13]
91. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health if, in relation to occupational therapists appointed in 2012 and 2013 to community mental health teams, he will indicate if these newly appointed staff are receiving supervision from a senior professional from within their discipline who is trained in the area of work being supervised in line with the Health Service Executive's Guidance Framework for Health and Social Care Professionals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22572/13]
235. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting orthopaedic surgery at Kerry General Hospital. [22096/13]
234. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health if there will be an orthopaedic surgeon at Kerry General Hospital in July and August. [22095/13]
12. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her reaction to and the steps that will be taken to address both the historic failures and the contemporary deficiencies highlighted in the recently published reviews of a number of Catholic Dioceses undertaken by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21775/13]
222. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment for an operation. [21689/13]
118. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will have their appeal heard regarding invalidity pension. [21690/13]
22. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the failure of co-ops to extend three months credit to farmers in order to address the fodder crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21508/13]
12. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the ongoing fodder crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21509/13]
5. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consequences the current failure to conclude an agreement on the multi-annual financial framework will have on proposals to reform the farm payments system. [21655/13]
2. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees that a sale of Coillte harvesting rights is now unlikely to proceed. [21654/13]
43. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice and Equality steps that are being taken to ensure incidents of racism are not under-reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20840/13]
15. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private rental prices have increased year on year since he was appointed; his plans to address this problem exacerbated by subsidy of private rental market and current rental properties being repossessed and put up for sale. [20488/13]
124. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the location from which the oil rig that is currently drilling off Dunquin, County Kerry, is being serviced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20197/13]
34. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of language plans that have been agreed as regards languages planning areas under the Gaeltacht Act 2012; if he will itemise these areas with agreed plans on a county basis; the resources being put in place to support the establishment and implementation of such plans; and his plans in relation to agreed language planning areas which have yet to put a plan in place. [19293/13]
41. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the operation of the proposed local authority community employment scheme; if she will provide the timetable for its roll out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18839/13]
34. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of unfilled positions within her Department and their titles; and the dates on which she expects to fill these positions. [18838/13]
378. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for domiciliary care in repsect of a person (details supplied) will be made. [18771/13]
279. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on a home tuition grant will be made in repsect of a person (details supplied) [18772/13]
247. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance if persons paying property tax through the post office are subject to a transaction charge. [18892/13]
132. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure that where there is job creation policy alignment North and South that joint working is developed. [18633/13]
111. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the centrality of business and trade to economic recovery across the island, the proposals he has developed to extend the budget and remit of Intertrade Ireland. [18632/13]
50. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the proposed changes to the Junior Certificate cycle will devalue the status of the exam amongst students, parents and teachers; and if he will respond to the view expressed by the Teachers Union of Ireland that the Junior Certificate is to be downgraded from a high stakes exam to an internal school assessment process. [17577/13]
999. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will legislate to impose a limit on the amount of farm payments accruing to one individual once an agreement has been concluded. [16370/13]
283. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance in the plan to move the Revenue Commissioners payroll from Ennis to the Shared Services Centre in Killarney, if there are any proposals to redeploy staff from Tralee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16628/13]
170. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress achieved towards a resolution of the issue of the proposed transfer of community psychology services from the Health Service Executive to the new Child and Family Support Agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17279/13]
43. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by the Dutch government to ask retail chains in the Netherlands to state the origin of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights; and if he will consider following the Dutch Government’s example. [15532/13]
18. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he discussed issues which are directly affecting the Irish peace process and the difficulties that have been experienced recently with loyalist protest with the American Secretary of State John Kerry during their meeting on 18 March. [15526/13]
45. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he intends to respond to the official data which indicates that overseas visitors to the Republic of Ireland were flat for 2012 when compared with 2011; his plans to ensure growth as opposed to a flattening out or deterioration in the number of overseas visitors for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15309/13]
38. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he acknowledges the unique and rich history of Cobh, County Cork and the town’s potential to become one of the main tourist destinations outside of Dublin; the reason thus far no plans have been put in place by his Department to develop it as an significant tourist destination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15313/13]
514. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of home help hours delivered in County Kerry in 2010, 2011, 2012 and the number that will be delivered in 2013. [14758/13]
115. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the proposal to introduce new legislation, in view of the food contamination cases, to tighten up traceability and country of origin labelling. [14668/13]
111. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that food processors and traders are obliged in future to report the results of tests that they conduct themselves and which indicate irregularities or contamination. [14996/13]
102. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of SFP and other Common Agricultural Policy payments that are paid to registered companies not directly involved in farm production; and if he will support the ending of such payments. [15061/13]
35. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the State awarded Ernst and Young almost €7 million in public contracts in 2011 and 2012, despite the fact the company has an investigation pending from Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board regarding its role as Anglo Irish Bank’s auditors before and during the banking crisis. [14078/13]
77. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health if, in view of the very small numbers applying, he will set aside the scheme of recruitment of fully qualified nurses on two year contracts at 80% of the salaries of their colleagues, and replace it with recruitment of required nurses in the normal manner to address staffing problems in our public hospital system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13786/13]
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 and expand the functions of the Authority in order to achieve the highest standard of food health and safety for consumers through enhancing the traceability and monitoring of food produce origins; enforce stricter labelling criteria for products labelled as produce of Ireland as well as products marketed and distributed within the State
175. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of livestock recorded by his Department or his agents on all farms in receipt of a single farm payment of less than €50 per ha; and the total amount of livestock recorded by his Department or agents on all farms in receipt of a single farm payment of more than €1,000 per ha. [13279/13]
40. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Martin Ferris den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil aon dul chun cinn déanta chun teacht ar shocrú maidir le maoiniú na mbuneagras Gaeilge. [13098/13]
115. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is working with the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht on the implementation in March 2012 of a resolution of Dáil Éireann which called on the Government to engage actively with the European Commission to seek a resolution within the terms of the habitats Directive and to prepare and submit a national raised bog restoration plan to the Commission as a matter of urgency. [12814/13]
31. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on proposals to include productive assets, such as farmland, as part of the assessment for third level grant eligibility; and if he will respond to the views expressed by the Irish Farmers’ Association which has described the methodology for inputting additional household income based on asset values of €750,000 as completely flawed and a proposal that will arbitrarily discriminate against farm families. [11748/13]
26. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it has been clearly demonstrated in a number of studies (details supplied) that have been supplied to his Department that the exclusive use of ABA for some children has proved to be more effective than other eclectic type approaches. [11749/13]