210. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the VAT rate that is charged in the hosting and registration of domain names; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9413/14]
143. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the level of consideration that is given to health and safety constraints that exist in schools who apply for funding for remedial works to be carried out; the mechanism in place for schools to submit risk assessments and health and safety statements as part of their application process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9099/14]
104. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the recent reports into the benefit or otherwise of giving homework to children in primary schools, if he will consider engaging with the stakeholders to assess the effectiveness of homework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9098/14]
247. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm for this Deputy that local authorities can invoke section 76 of the 1993 Roads Act in order to remove water from public roads, removing the risk of flooding to private property, that the section allows the local authority to take such action without the need to serve notice on the landowner on or through whose property the water may be discharged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8607/14]
107. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the amalgamation of schools (details supplied). [8649/14]
169. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Defence if he will make the military service records available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8403/14]
134. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 11 February 2014, if an Irish company offered to provide the system without cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8494/14]
24. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on plans to provide new diplomatic missions; and if he will make provision for any other new missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8001/14]
9. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that those charitable and non-governmental organisations that are funded by his Department, partially or otherwise, operate salary systems in keeping with that in the public sector; if he is satisfied that staff in those organisations are not in receipt of top-ups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8002/14]
857. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the aftermath of the closure of the pilot training college in 2012, the measures IAA has put in place to ensure that a similar event cannot happen again; if his Department has undertaken an investigation as to the reasons behind the closure; if an investigation took place, if he will provide the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8373/14]
820. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details to this Deputy of requests that his Department or the National Roads Authority has received from Limerick County Council to upgrade the bridge and junction at Ferry Bridge, Clarina, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8029/14]
819. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide this Deputy with details of correspondence that his Department has received from Limerick County Council in relation to a proposed ring-relief road in Newcastle West, County Limerick; if his Department or the National Roads Authority has been asked to provide funds for the design of any relief-ring road in the town; the date on which the council last corresponded with his Department or the NRA on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8028/14]
816. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of plans to complete the Newcastle West to Barnagh road improvement scheme on the N21 in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8013/14]
797. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if as a result of the proposed merger of the Rail Procurement Agency and the National Roads Authority, he is satisfied that the current legislative and regulatory framework which apply to both organisations is such that both agencies are capable of addressing issues including planning applications and the submission of observations to An Bord Pleanála in respect of major infrastructural projects in the same way; if his Department plans to bring forward requests for legislative changes from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7528/14]
776. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities can invoke section 76 of the Roads Act 1993 to remove water from public roads, removing the risk of flooding to private property; if he will confirm the section allows a local authority to take such action without the need to serve notice on the landowner in whose property the water may be discharged on or through; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8090/14]
746. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposed introduction of measures that will lead to the establishment of minimum standards, qualifications and inspection regimes for private and public providers of home care for elderly persons and vulnerable adults in their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8051/14]
745. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details in tabular form by public hospital of the amounts of uncollected revenue from private health insurance companies for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8043/14]
744. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details in tabular form by hospital for 2011, 2012 and 2013 of the amounts of bad debts resulting from unpaid hospital bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8042/14]
743. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the amounts currently being charged in public hospitals for basic inpatient overnight accommodation in public, semi-private and private beds; if there are different pricing structures for those patients availing of private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8041/14]
742. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the fees paid or to introduce revised fee structures to consultants operating in public hospitals in an effort to address the growing cost of private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8040/14]
738. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of an advocacy-patient safety authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8027/14]
628. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive a 2013 agri-environment option scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7921/14]
558. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to parliamentary Question No. 494 of 26 November 2013, if he has received a reply from the Garda authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7748/14]
519. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be a further redistribution of unspent funds which have been allocated by local development companies under the Leader programme in the near future; if he will prioritise those measures which are aimed at job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8188/14]
486. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide details of the amounts the Exchequer will provide to co-finance the next round of Leader-funded projects in accordance with the recently announced rural development programme for 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8189/14]
470. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason fuel merchants are required to collect information including MPRN from customers in the sale of solid fuels stoves while those outlets who do not sell fuel are not required to collect MPRN information; his views on whether such a requirement on fuel merchants places them at a commercial disadvantage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8033/14]
436. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if local authorities can initiate a process whereby specific areas within their functional area that have particular ecological or habitat areas which currently are not designated and which may be at risk from encroaching due to development can be considered for designation following a request from the local authority as special areas of conservation or of protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7920/14]
357. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale and the basis on which the allocation from Pobal to an organisation (details supplied) for 2014 was determined; if Pobal has taken into consideration the limitations that these reductions will place on the organisation to effectively deliver its service commitments; the scope for the matter to be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8103/14]
347. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on plans that have been put in place for lands in County Limerick which are owned by Shannon Development; the expected legal position of those lands into the future; the safeguards and protective measures he envisages to ensure that the lands are put to the best possible use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8147/14]
242. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the implications for the pension entitlement of a permanent primary teacher who would resign a position to take up a temporary position in another part of the country in the hope of being made permanent at that location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8030/14]
109. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the roll out of the National Driver Licensing Service; if he is satisfied that the delays which were being encountered at initial stages of the roll-out have been rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7529/14]
98. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in the context of the upcoming merger of the National Roads Authority and the Rail Procurement Agency, he will consider amendments to existing planning legislation and regulatory instruments to allow the NRA and or local authorities to engage in pre-planning consultations with An Bord Pleanála in an attempt to avoid money being spent on planning road projects that are subsequently rejected at a cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4840/14]
228. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person on early retirement from farming with two years remaining can purchase agricultural land while under this scheme for the purposes of leasing it out; if this would contravene the terms of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7354/14]
221. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment . [7303/14]
166. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if water is threatening to flood a private dwelling house and the local authority has sourced a solution which involves taking pipes or drains across the property of a third party so as to be drained into a river, whether State agencies, councils or the Office of Public Works have the authority to proceed with such a solution without the consent of the third party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7220/14]
138. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a file will be sent to the Social Welfare Appeals Office from the disability allowance section in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7264/14]
121. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to protect an area (details supplied) in County Wexford from further coastal erosion and flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7298/14]
97. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; if assistance will be offered to call them for an oral hearing as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7047/14]
620. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive personnel assigned to dealing with media queries in respect of matters relating to HSE functions in County Laois and the HSE Dublin mid-Leinster area; and the number of those persons that took leave or were on holiday on 31 January 2014 [6712/14]
455. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, since 2007, of the number of collisions involving Garda vehicles, where the cause was attributed to another vehicle and driver and where the Garda vehicle was withdrawn from service; the numbers of these incidents which were pursued by the State Claims Agency with a view to recouping the cost of replacing the Garda vehicle from the insurer of the other party in the collision. [6628/14]
356. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the context of the introduction of postcodes, if he has received a proposal from an Irish company to introduce post codes into Ireland without any cost to the Exchequer; if he and his Department have reviewed such proposals; and if he will revert to this Deputy on same. [6629/14]
301. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a review is taking place of State non-contributory pension applicants who have capital; if there is an age limit on the applicants being reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6432/14]
298. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Social Protection if a location (details supplied) in County Limerick will be included in any humanitarian relief fund made available to flood victims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6405/14]
223. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an additional accommodation application on behalf of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a decision is likely to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6745/14]
202. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a decision is due to be reached; and the position regarding this Deputy's request for an official from the school buildings unit to visit the school before a decision is reached. [6428/14]
201. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an additional accommodation application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and when a decision is likely to be made. [6426/14]
139. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Wexford in respect of the Revenue Commissioners' CG diesel rebate scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6214/14]
206. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in relation to the discussions between the Road Safety Authority and the individual provinces in Canada with a view to reaching agreement on plans to harmonise the driving licence regime between the two countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5762/14]
114. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the inclusion of group water schemes in any free allowance of water which may be provided for by the energy regulator in the pricing scheme which is to be developed. [5763/14]
109. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will have the Office of Public Works look at the damage done during the recent storms at a location (details supplied) and to quantify the damage done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5816/14]