Written answers
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Services
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to develop services at Roscommon Hospital and at Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Prescription Charges
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a prescription charge for medical card holders; the level at which this charge will be set; the revenue expected...
- Health Services
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a cervical cancer vaccine scheme; if this issue has received consideration in the deliberations in advance of...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the site for the proposed 60 bed psychiatric unit, for which planning permission was granted, does not impinge on the proposed site...
- Health Service Staff
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if additional resources have been made available to community welfare officers in Health Service Executive west to administer the...
- Health Service Reviews
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the prospectus review of critical care services will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45300/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the number of lives that could be saved and the improvement in the quality of life for large numbers...
- Medical Inquiries (1 comment)
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress she has made in the establishment of an inquiry into the alleged abuse carried out by a doctor (details supplied) in the...
- Family Support Services
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 30 April 2009 if her attention has been drawn to whether the NUI Galway study of...
- Primary Care Services
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of contracts or leases that have been signed by the Health Service Executive with general practitioners in relation to primary...
- Medical Compensation Scheme
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date the Advisory Group on No Fault Compensation for Brain Damaged Infants was established; the reason the group has not been brought...
- HIV Infection
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the increase in the number of persons who contracted HIV or Aids here in 2009; if her attention has...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons waiting more than one year for an out-patient appointment; the maximum waiting time for an out-patient appointment;...
- Departmental Reports
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when and if the recommendations of the Vaccine Damage Steering Group Report, published on 17 November 2009, have been accepted by her;...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has not published the Health Information and Quality Authority Report, which was promised in September 2009, to identify...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the development of a new central mental hospital is still a priority in view of the financial difficulties facing the State; if a...
- Medical Training
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to increase the number of general practitioner training places in 2010; the discussions the Health Service...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the negative effect that recent changes to the CervicalCheck screening programme are having on women's...
- Health Service Regulation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when private medical facilities will be subject to regulation and inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority; and if she...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had and the progress that has been made in reducing the cost of drugs and increasing the use of generic products...
- Health Insurance
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the introduction of the health insurance levy, the stated object of which was to keep the cost of health insurance...
- Departmental Staff
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the number of staff in her Department as proposed in the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure...
- Health Service Staff
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way in which the proposed unpaid leave for public servants will operate within the health services; and if she will make a statement...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the full rollout of the H1N1 vaccine will take up to eight months; the length of time the vaccine programme in schools will take; if...
- Medical Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in receipt of a medical card on 30 November 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45537/09]
- Medical Inquiries
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a list of persons from an organisation (details supplied) who would have the necessary expertise to carry out an...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposed collocated hospitals that will go ahead with associated tax breaks; the tax implications for 2010; when construction will...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to implement the recommendations of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction; when she will publish legislation; and if...
- Medical Cards
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if opticians are entitled to charge full medical card holders for carrying out an eye test in respect of a driving licence application;...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legal issues have arisen in relation to the property elements of the fair deal legislation in the context of carrying out assessments...
- Hospital Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional resources she will provide in 2010 for Crumlin Children's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Expenditure
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive on protecting frontline services while achieving the cuts in the budget...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in her efforts to eliminate hospital based infections such as MRSA and clostridium difficile; and if she will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will implement the recommendations of the report of the Health Service Executive's Diabetes Expert Advisory Group by providing 20...
- Health Service Regulation
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce regulation and licensing for crisis pregnancy agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45562/09]
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if agreement has been reached with nursing home owners to ensure that they do not pass on the inspection fee to their clients; and if she...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legislation has been prepared to allow for the appropriate dissemination of soft information regarding people who may be a threat to...
- Hospital Services
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure the maintenance of acute services at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry; and if she will make...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional measures she has put in place to address the crisis situation in hospitals in the North East region, and the potential for...
- Health Service Reform
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received an interim report from the group she has established on the financing of health services; if reform is envisaged to...
- Youth Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy in relation to the development of youth services; the section of the Youth Work Act 2001 and the national youth work...
- Capital Projects
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new starts expected in the Capital Programme for her Department for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45541/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if general practitioners are allowed to charge for administering a blood test to patients with a full medical card; the circumstances in...
- Health Service Staff
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she expects targets for increased numbers of social workers to be reached in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to prevent the removal of acute services from the Louth County Hospital in Dundalk; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure in place to address the return to Canada of a person (details supplied) to maintain and develop the National Cancer...
- Primary Care Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary care teams in place; the number of teams operating from a single premise; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Employment Statistics
Question 102: To ask the Taoiseach the details for the latest quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2007 of the persons, distinguishing male and female, aged 15 to 24 years, 25 to 29 years...
- Population Statistics
Question 104: To ask the Taoiseach the population of the portion of Dublin that is south of the River Liffey and the portion of Dublin that is north of the River Liffey; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 105: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years; the number of such staff...
- Code of Practice
Question 106: To ask the Taoiseach the State agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the new Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies applies; and if he will make a...
- Regulatory Forum
Question 108: To ask the Taoiseach if the date for the 2010 Annual Regulatory Forum, which is one of the commitments arising from the Government Statement on Economic Regulation, has been set;...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Proposed Legislation
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to introduce legislation to prevent employers in the public and private sectors from retaliating...
- Departmental Staff
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in...
- Local Employment Service
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the process used to evaluate the Local Employment Services; the details of these evaluations; and if she will...
- Employment Support Services
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the jobs club scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45345/09]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the FÁS budget for 1997, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Human Rights Issues
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department is involved in representing Ireland in the European Union's negotiations to sign a free...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the help that is available from her Department for a person planning to start their own business. [45372/09]
- Job Creation
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on creating a jobs taskforces in all areas of high unemployment; and if she will make a statement...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of FÁS course providers or subcontracted FÁS course providers in which evidence has been found...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the community employment schemes that were available in 2008; the duration of each of these schemes; the...
- Job Initiative
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons with disabilities who have been employed through the FÁS job initiative scheme in each...
- Employment Support Services
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of firms in Waterford City and county that have been approved for funding under the employment...
- Job Losses
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of job losses in Waterford City and county in the past three years and to date in 2009; and if she...
- Industrial Development
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits to County Waterford, Dungarvan and Waterford City that have taken place in the past...
- Job Creation
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created by agencies under her remit in Waterford city and county in the past three years...
- Industrial Development
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign investors she has, through the Industrial Development Authority, brought on a county...
- Industrial Relations
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support a matter (details supplied). [45771/09]
- Employment Appeals
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Employment Appeals Tribunal are in a position to deal with excessive delays in dealing with employment...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an application for payment of redundancy of social insurance fund will be processed in respect of a...
- Departmental Guidelines
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, further to previous parliamentary questions regarding the control of unattended petrol dispensing...
- Work Placement Programme
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Waterford City and county that have been approved for funding under the work...
- Enterprise Stabilisation Fund
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Waterford City and county that have been approved for funding under the...
- Job Creation
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in Waterford City and county that have been approved for funding under the growth...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of places on community employment schemes in County Kerry for the years 2007, 2008 and to date in...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he intends to take in conjunction with all relevant Department's to examine a management programme for the Shannon area minimise future...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation to provide for a more open and transparent system for appointments to public bodies as per commitment in the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the provisions of the Code of Conduct for Civil Servants relating to the acceptance of outside appointments and of consultancy...
- Tourism Industry
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the reduction in visitors coming here over the past year, he will take steps to scrap the €10 tourist tax; and if he will make a...
- Flood Relief
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the procedures regarding the removal of silt from a river bed to deepen the river; the licences that have to be obtained; the cost and duration of...
- Tax Code
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that solid fuel suppliers that operate businesses here and in Northern Ireland have in place systems of...
- Flood Relief
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Finance the works planned by the Office of Public Works to prevent flooding at Castleconnell and Montpelier, County Limerick; and if he will make a...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested a report from the board of Anglo Irish Bank into the alleged sale of a substantial property portfolio by the bank to a property...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance the policy he will implement regarding the management of derivative financial instruments to be taken on by the National Asset Management Agency;...
- Departmental Reports
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason conflicting replies (details supplied) were given regarding an ecologist's report; the further reason incorrect information was provided...
- Pension Provisions
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the tax treatment of a personal retirement savings account pension contribution is less favourable...
- Tax Collection
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in refunding deposit interest retention tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will he consider introducing a tax deductible scheme in respect of the installation of flood proof doors for business premises in towns and...
- Tax Collection
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 1 December 2009, the total tax paid; the median tax paid; the mean tax paid and the standard deviation...
- Tax Code
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration he has given to reducing the commercial rates applicable to private child care facilities in line with the commercial rates...
- Budgetary Submissions
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence from a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46042/09]
- Department of Health and Children
- Medical Cards
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card has been withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied). [45442/09]
- Child Care Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recently launched review of the Glen Early Language and Learning Project in Cork city; if she...
- Health Service Staff
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extra staff she has in place to assist community welfare officers in processing the increased applications for mortgage interest...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their back to school allowance appeal. [45750/09]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the negative impact recent changes to the CervicalCheck screening programme are having on women's...
- Medical Cards
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be renewed by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make...
- Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if those who are in receipt of carer's allowance will receive the vaccination against swine flu as a priority; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years;...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cap on cost per patient in the new fair deal scheme for long term residents who have means assessed against them in relation to a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances in which a person who lives in the catchment area of one mental health service can apply for and receive service from...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she was informed of irregularities in the activities of a mediation agency (details supplied) which represents couples seeking to...
- Medical Cards
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who applied for renewal of their medical card in August 2009...
- Youth Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on support for Arts for Young People; her further views on the value of the various programmes for the development of children...
- Medical Cards
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an appeal will be decided regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if consideration...
- Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be called for an MRI; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the case that persons who apply for the fair deal scheme who are not in a nursing home will only qualify from the date of the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the staffing levels for St. Michael's unit in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the number of doctors and nurses posts approved for this unit;...
- Burial Grounds
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish the location of the burial grounds of patients in a former hospital (details supplied) in County Cork particularly...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will have to wait a substantial period for an operation; and in view of the...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a child (details supplied) in County Longford has had their domiciliary allowance withdrawn; and if she will make a statement...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the income and assets of a person wishing to avail of the nursing homes support scheme are taken into account when calculating their...
- Medical Cards
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the outcome of an appeal for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [45462/09]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a patient (details supplied) in County Roscommon will have surgery. [45507/09]
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to clarify the situation of adoption from Vietnam. [40670/09]
- Health Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for an alternative use of a children's facility (details supplied) in Dublin 20 built in 2000 at a cost of €30 million and...
- Health Services
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional supports given to community welfare officers to deal with the increased demand for access to support; and if she will...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a fair deal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if travel costs will be recouped in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the finalised incentivised retirement scheme as it applies to staff in the Health Service Executive and specifically to...
- Hospital Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will receive surgery. [45699/09]
- Health Services
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed primary care health centre for a location (details supplied) in County Donegal; the stage the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on the Health Service Executive (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45780/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who did not qualify for a full or general practitioner only medical card on grounds of income in the period...
- Health Services
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in issuing a response as promised in Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 13 October 2009. [45820/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an application for an over 70 years medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- ARC Cancer Support Centre
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is providing; the catchment area for this centre; the age group it caters for; the...
- Mental Health Services
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria for certain areas to have access to mental health services; the breakdown of services available to areas that meet the...
- Medical Cards
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason there...
- Health Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a commitment to maintain funding for an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath through her Department and...
- Autism Services
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will put in place an enhanced degree quality and scale of support services for children with autism, Aspergers syndrome,...
- Health Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical procedures for which patients were referred to locations outside this jurisdiction in each of the past five years...
- Hospital Services
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which it is intended to bring the standards at all hospitals here up to centre of excellence levels; and if she will make...
- Cancer Incidence
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if research has been undertaken by her Department or the Health Service Executive regarding the most commonly occurring forms of cancer...
- Health Services
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the school medical examinations carried out in all schools at primary and secondary level on an annual basis; the trends that have been...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of long, medium and short-stay beds available at any time; the average bed occupancy; the number of spare beds available to...
- Hospital Services
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the future proposals for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the views regarding the...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical, surgical or other beds available throughout the health services in the public and the private sectors; the number...
- Medical Cards
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the income eligibility for a medical card will be maintained to ensure those in receipt of a carer's allowance retain their...
- Hospital Services
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which Tallaght, Blanchardstown and Naas Hospitals are fully developed in accordance with their respective original...
- Department of Transport
- Flood Relief
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide emergency funding to restore county roads which have been damaged as a result of the recent flooding in County Clare; and if he...
- Public Transport
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding an application for licensing of a bus service (details supplied) between Dalkey and Dublin Airport; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years and the...
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to reorganise or reconfigure the air sea rescue service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45405/09]
- EU Directives
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Transport if EU Directive 1371/2007 on rail passenger rights was transposed into law by 3 December 2009 as required; if he sought derogations from this...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will establish an advisory consumer panel under the aegis of the National Transport Authority as per the commitment in the Government...
- Code of Practice
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport the State Agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the new code of practice for the governance of State bodies applies; and if he will...
- Marine Safety
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport when equipment at Malin Head Coastguard Station, County Donegal, will be upgraded; his views on whether the upgrading of equipment at the Dublin...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Transport his nominees to State and semi-State bodies since June 2007; the qualification of each successful nominee; the income for each nominee from each...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who are working or volunteering with sports organisations that have been vetted as suitable to hold...
- Residency Permits
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) was the holder of a Garda National Immigration Bureau card for 2007; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past...
- Immigration Procedures
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons of the United States that have been refused entry here to date in 2009. [45353/09]
- Asylum Support Services
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which persons who have come here and are seeking regularisation of their status are allocated to various hostels...
- Garda Reserve
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will examine the possibility of allowing retired members of An Garda Síochána retain a level of rank within the...
- Court Procedures
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to change the way in which jurors are summonsed in view of the unreliability of the electoral register; if he has...
- Deportation Orders
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will rescind the decision to deport in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Public Order Offences
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [45772/09]
- EU Directives
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a reasoned opinion from the EU Commission regarding the implementation of the Employment Equality...
- National Disability Authority
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the information that has been communicated to him by the National Disability Authority regarding work it may have carried...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Staff
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years; and...
- Child Abuse
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will summon a person (details supplied) to his Department as a mark of disapproval at the failure to respond to the commission of...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding undocumented Irish in America; the progress made; and the action taken to date by him. [45422/09]
- Official Engagements
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress that has been made on the conference that was held at Farmleigh, Dublin to discuss the economic future here; the cost of this...
- Free Trade Agreements
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has conveyed to the EU Commissioner on Trade his views on EU negotiations for a free trade agreement with Columbia; his approach to...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Staff
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five...
- Tax Code
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the impact of the second home tax on businesses operating holiday cottages; the implications for...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will reopen the local authority swimming pool programme in order to provide funding for the refurbishment of a pool (details...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a club (details supplied) in County Louth are entitled to draw down unclaimed payments that were awarded to the club under the...
- Arts Funding
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to invest in the Europeana project, in order to ensure the continued access to Irish works for all Irish and European...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the sanctioned overdraft and borrowing facility and indebtedness for each agency and semi-State body, commercial and non-commercial,...
- Irish Horseracing Industry
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if Bord na gCon and Horse Racing Ireland have furnished him with abstracts of their accounts in respect of the years 2005, 2006,...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of State boards, agencies, regulators or other bodies under his remit; the cost of these bodies; and if he will make a...
- Tourism Employment
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to encourage the training of persons for the hotel, catering and hospitality industry to include training for employed...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Volunteering Sector
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a volunteers' charter or volunteers' code of practice has been developed; the roles and responsibilities of both...
- Departmental Staff
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding he has made available under the community support scheme in the Cork Area in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and...
- Departmental Subsidies
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the subsidy provided by his Department is solely for the islanders or if it includes companies (details supplied)...
- Community Development
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her views on extending the provision of the scheme of community support for older people to persons under 65 years...
- State Bodies
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of State boards, agencies, regulators or other bodies under his remit; the cost of these bodies; and if he...
- Calafoirt agus Céanna
Question 307: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil iarratas ar dheontas ina Roinn le haghaidh obair dheisiúcháin ar ché (sonraí tugtha), cén uair a rinneadh...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the actions he intends to take in conjunction with all other relevant Departments to alleviate the hardship caused by flooding on...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will give an undertaking that the Health Services Executive will engage with home owners who can demonstrate that they have...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of an appeal for mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [45463/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the criteria for the back to education allowance second level option; the meaning of particular courses not to be a progression in...
- Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support a matter (details supplied). [45773/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the one parent family allowance. [45310/09]
- Social Insurance
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to maintain PRSI contributions and pension contributions for those in receipt of carers allowance; and if she will make...
- Departmental Staff
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an illness benefit appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo.. [45370/09]
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the help that is available from her Department for a person planning to start their own business. [45371/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans regarding the quarterly certification of all children that continue to reside here; if the cost of implementing this...
- Social Insurance
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual cost of the PRSI allowance for each of the past five years; and the amount of revenue that would be raised in 2010 if...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the different stages required to process social welfare appeals; the number of social welfare appeals processed in each of the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of non-Irish nationals in receipt of social welfare payments in Waterford city and county; the number of non-Irish...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 1 December 2009, if she will provide the information requested; if she will explore...
- Departmental Staff
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the work practices and procedures in a section (details supplied) in view of the fact that the section...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is committed to maintaining funding levels at an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath through her Department;...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a respite care grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Defence the nature of vetting procedures applied to applicants when they join the Permanent or Reserve Defence Forces in view of reports concerning the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years; the number of...
- Overseas Missions
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Defence the budgetary cost of continuing Ireland's involvement in MINURCAT in Chad for the 2010 budgetary year; the costs involved in the termination of the...
- Irish Red Cross
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Irish Red Cross intends to introduce compulsory redundancies together with pay cuts, pension...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Government Charges
Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount received under the non-principal private residence charge by each local authority; the amount each...
- Departmental Staff
Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board
Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason no legal arbitrator or independent appeals body exists to mediate between two groups (details...
- Local Government Charges
Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he indicated in a Dáil debate (details supplied) that this...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the clawback provisions regarding affordable houses will come into effect; and if he will make a...
- Fire Stations
Question 354: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of fire stations in each county and their location; the number of full-time and part-time crew...
