Written answers
Thursday, 11 June 2009
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Support Services
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs clubs nationally; the number of clients they have dealt with individually for each of the...
- Environmental Levies
Question 2: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a fairer deal will be negotiated for the importation of stones from Northern Ireland and the UK; and if she...
- Vetting of Personnel
Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the delay with FÁS before submitting applications for vetting clearance to the appropriate...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 4: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the situation of confining mortgage interest tax relief to the first seven years of a mortgage in view of the number of families...
- Court Accommodation
Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed extension to Waterford Courthouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23417/09]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate if section 35 of the Credit Union Act 1997 is proving restrictive regarding the renegotiation of over five years; and if he...
- Tax Code
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason, in the case of persons (details supplied) who are residing together for 18 years and who are jointly assessed for jobseeker's benefits,...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners are taking steps to close the Revenue Commissioners office in Mullingar, County Westmeath; if this decision will...
- Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if correspondence has been received from an association (details supplied) outlining the concerns regarding the proposed scheme for a...
- Adoption Services
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the provision of alternative routes to assessing prospective adoptive parents in view of the delays experienced by many such...
- Medical Cards
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average time it takes to process an over 70s and under 70s medical card application per local health office; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the three additional consultants in emergency medicine posts added in 2009 have been filled; if not, when they will be filled; and if...
- Social Services
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers assigned to areas (details supplied) in County Dublin within office working hours and out of hours; and if...
- Health Services
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if dental treatment will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Ambulance Service
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount the national ambulance office has spent on procurement in each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a decision on an application for the backdating of a domiciliary care allowance payment to a person (details...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite the provision of a wheelchair to a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
- Food Safety Authority
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Food Safety Authority of Ireland will furnish funding to Roscommon County Council for the inspection of abattoirs; and if she...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to address the situation whereby County Roscommon is the only county which is not providing enhanced nursing home...
- Medical Cards
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for an over 70s medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will be processed. [23427/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, is losing breast cancer specialised services and patients are being referred to different...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 6 May 2009. [23440/09]
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Reports
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will implement the recommendations of the Deloitte report; if so, the timeframe for the implementation of the report's recommendations; and...
- Rail Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will bring forward a new national rail strategy to encourage the provision of passenger and freight rail services; and if he will make a...
- Air Accident Investigations
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will support a matter (details supplied). [23426/09]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the legal services ombudsman will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23403/09]
- Sexual Offences
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Carrigan commission in 1930 drew attention to the increase in recorded sexual abuse; and the reason action was not...
- Criminal Assets
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make...
- Garda Operations
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on Operation Archer; the number of persons arrested and charged to date under Operation Archer; the number...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was refused their application for an Irish passport in May 2008; and if he will...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that a grant is still available to a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding is available in respect of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of a...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Cork can expect to receive payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Offices
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in finalising the lease on accommodation in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin for the temporary...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [23425/09]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her proposals in regard to the guidelines used by her Department in policy documents to prescribe disabilities (details supplied);...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be approved and awarded farm assist. [23434/09]
- Pension Provisions
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will award contributory old age pension credits to carers who have provided care for ten years or more; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will introduce further improvements in respect of the level of payments under family income supplement; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently on disability allowance; the number who have been disallowed in the past four years; and if she...
- International Agreements
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has made overtures to countries with which Ireland has a bilateral agreement with a view to speeding up the process of...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will ease qualification requirements for back to education allowance in view of the current economic situation; and if she...
- Rural Transport
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will offer assistance to the development of rural transport in areas where public transport does not exist; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way the value of a second house which has been left to the spouse of a person who is seeking jobseeker's allowance is valued...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Building Energy Rating
Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to building energy rating certificates, his attention has been drawn to the fact that law...
- Planning Issues
Question 60: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the role he envisages for local authorities in dealing with developers who have failed to complete residential...
- Housing Adaptation Grants
Question 61: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a local authority (details supplied) has applied for further funding; and if he will make a statement on...
- Election Management System
Question 62: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 19 May 2009, the exact location in Clonmel, County Tipperary at...
- Motor Taxation
Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of revenue generated through motor tax in each county in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he...
- Local Authority Mortgages
Question 65: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the European Central Bank interest rate cut of 0.25%, announced on 7 May 2009, will be passed on in full...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school at Nurney, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23365/09]
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to recognise and sanction a conversion course in respect of Montessori trained teachers who are currently teaching within the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will have its sketch design for a new school building approved; if his attention has...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a grant application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant will be appointed for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement...
- School Transport
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will ensure a student (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be provided with school transport. [23463/09]
- School Accommodation
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a grant will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Cork for a prefab and play facilities as previously indicated; and...
