Written answers
Thursday, 11 February 2010
- Department of Health and Children
- Medicinal Products
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce reference pricing; when this will be introduced; the estimated savings from same; and if she will make a statement...
- Organ Transplants
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of heart and lung transplants conducted here in 2009; if she is satisfied with the number of heart and lung transplants that...
- Health Service Plan
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has approved the Health Service Executive draft service plan for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6749/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reform hospital laboratory services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6936/10]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that financial assessment required for some applicants in respect of the fair deal scheme is...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce risk equalisation legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6899/10]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the situation in hospital accident and emergency departments constitutes a national emergency in view of the fact...
- Health Services
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has commissioned reports or studies to look at the long-term health consequences of the decision to abolish the PRSI scheme for...
- Substance Misuse
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce legislation to regulate head shops and the products sold within head shops; the timeframe for same; and if she...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the recruitment of the next chief executive of the Health Service Executive; the number of candidates that have expressed interest in...
- Hospital Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to close 1,100 hospital beds in 2010; the location of these beds; her views on the impact this will have on patient services;...
- Medical Training
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there will be an increase in the number of general practitioners training places offered in 2010 in order to address the shortage of...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Human Tissue Bill will be published; the further information she will put into the public arena in relation to the use of...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether, as a matter of policy, it is preferable that children with severe disabilities are looked after in the family home...
- Primary Care Strategy
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary care teams at advanced functioning stage at the end of January 2010; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has had discussions with a view to reducing the price of generic medicines; if she expects such price reductions to follow on from...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for the fair deal scheme; the number of applications approved for the scheme; the number of applications...
- Medical Cards
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average time it takes to process medical card applications in the centralised service; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if pharmacists will be reimbursed for the full cost of drugs purchased prior to 1 February 2010 when the new lower rates were introduced;...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the long-term illness scheme will be reviewed, including consideration of other appropriate illnesses being added to the list; and...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the decision that has been made regarding the application of pay reductions to public servants to persons that work for voluntary and...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Treatment Purchase Fund limits the number of procedures it undertakes on behalf of individual hospitals; if so, the...
- Child Protection Services
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the review of Services for Children and Families 2008 published by the Health Service Executive discloses a failure by the State to...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to publish legislation on assisted human reproduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6987/10]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the decisions that have been made regarding the construction of a new Central Mental Hospital; if funding is available for this purpose;...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to the State of the H1N1 vaccination programme; the amount of vaccine that was surplus to requirements; the amount that was...
- Health Service Staff
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in addressing the inadequate number of social workers in the health service; and if she will make a...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to the payment of funds into patient private property accounts under the provisions of the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act...
- Medical Cards
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being encountered by persons in accessing information and having their applications...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of savings there will be as a result of the reduction in the price of branded medicines announced in February 2010; the steps...
- Hospital Services
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure the provision of resources to allow the reopening of the 25 bed St. Joseph's ward at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the roll-out of the national colorectal screening programme; when screening will commence; and if she will...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the legislation which will statutorily establish eligibility for health and social services will be published; and if she will make...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps the Health Service Executive will take to set up its own law office while at the same time outsourcing its legal service needs;...
- Mental Health Services
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of adult health community teams that have been established; the progress that she expects for 2010 to increase this number in...
- Hospital Services
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that installation of the new CT scanner at Monaghan General Hospital will commence in the week beginning 15 February...
- Youth Services
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to review the operation of the Youth Work Act and the national youth work development plan; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Insurance
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will fulfil her legal obligation to bring the VHI within the remit of the Financial Regulator by the end of March 2010; and if she...
- Health Service Staff
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new consultants appointed within the public health care system in 2009; the number in each of the categories designated...
- Medical Cards
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who qualified for a full medical card on 31 December 2008; the number of persons who qualified for such a card on...
- Hospital Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is resolution to the problem of reclaiming funds for public hospitals in relation to beds designated for public patients being...
- Health Insurance
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of health insurance over each of the past seven years and to date in 2010; the degree to which competition in the market has...
- Dental Treatment Services
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the cap on the dental treatment services scheme will operate; if its implementation will mean that medical card holders that need...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 64: 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 make...
- Health Services
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in providing isolation facilities and other appropriate services for people with cystic fibrosis; and if she will make...
- Hospital Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of delayed discharge patients in hospitals at the end of 2009 as compared to the end of 2007; and if she will make a statement...
- Smoking Ban
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to further restrict smoking here; her views on the proposal to ban smoking in cars which are carrying children; and if she will...
- Child Protection Services
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take to address the failures in child protection services disclosed in the Health Information and Quality...
- Health Service Reform
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is seeking to re-engage with the trade union on implementing a reform plan for the health service which was agreed in principle in...
- Departmental Reports
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take arising from the recent report of the Ombudsman for Children regarding conditions under which more than 120...
- Health Services
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the delivery of health services in the future with particular reference to the next three years and based on the experience...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the transitional arrangements which will be proposed by way of amendment by herself to the Adoption Bill, as announced (details...
- Mental Health Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of child and adolescent psychiatric community teams that are in place; the number of those teams that have their full cohort...
- Counselling Agencies
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish a regulatory framework applicable to crisis pregnancy agencies, a licensing system and a code of ethics similar to...
- Health Service Properties
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to sell any land or property in 2010, the profits from which will be used in the mental health services; the funds that have...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be considered for inclusion in a community employment scheme;...
- Company Closures
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress that has been made with the sale of a factory (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the...
- Job Protection
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support a matter (details supplied). [7356/10]
- Public Sector Pay
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, notwithstanding her recent confirmation that the Health...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amounts of venture capital disbursed under the seed and venture capital programme 2007 to 2012. [7391/10]
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 4 February 2010, when her Department will be able to provide the...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding an application for payment of redundancy in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who registered with FÁS in September 2008 has still...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanism her Department has in place for a person who has been made redundant in September 2009, has not...
- Department of Finance
- Insurance Industry
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he or the Government has for a Government scheme to indemnify householders who cannot get insurance cover as a result of their houses being...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the data he has on the distribution of bank liabilities across the different categories of deposit or other instruments; the average interest payment...
- Employment Rights
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding bullying in the wider public service; if complaints of bullying must be against a named person or if cases can be taken...
- Credit Unions
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that credit unions are charging borrowers 12% interest on loans; his views on whether this is an...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money paid for the site purchased at Knock Airport, County Mayo, for the purpose of decentralisation; and if there was associated costs...
- Flood Relief
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7396/10]
- Car Scrappage Scheme
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a car scrappage scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if, in view of the circumstances they...
- Tax Code
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals he has to extend mortgage interest relief to the full term of qualifying loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7401/10]
- Car Scrappage Scheme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will qualify under the motor scrappage scheme. [7403/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if the 2010 element of emoluments announced in budget 2010 will be recalculated on the full rate of pay for the purposes of calculating pensions in...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which contact has been made or established with a person (detail supplied) in County Kildare whose car was damaged by a falling tree...
- Flood Relief
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the allocation of funding for flooding defence in Carrick-on-Shannon and Leitrim village, County Leitrim. [7562/10]
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether many of the maternity hospitals here are overcrowded and inadequate for their purpose; when proposals to replace...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will introduce legislation to regulate and inspect disability services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7229/10]
- Health Services
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a drug to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [7320/10]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will give a commitment that the number of community respite beds available in community hospitals and used by persons living in...
- Ambulance Service
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason weekly transport has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Longford to attend Longford-Westmeath General...
- Complementary Therapies
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date on the commitment to promote greater use of and regulation of complementary therapies, in particular in the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made to date in the Programme for Government commitment to promote and ensure coexistence of complementary...
- Medical Cards
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [7346/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if figures are available for the number of persons awaiting outpatient appointments, medical and surgical, nationally and who are...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a matter (details supplied). [7355/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the cases of medical card arrears in the Dublin area and specifically the position regarding the renewal of an...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be called for surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7385/10]
- Drug Treatment Programme
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical detox beds available for rehabilitating drug addicts; the location of these beds; the cost of each bed; the...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the locations available for long-term 24/7 care for young patients in a coma here; if, in relation to the case of a person (details...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied) which shows that the cost of the medical prescription Omeprazone...
- Patient Private Property Funds
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 10 December 2009, the value of payments made to date in 2010; the number of payments which...
- Child Care Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 7 July 2009, if, in view of the less than projected uptake of the early children care and...
- Medical Cards
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to reduce the waiting time for medical card applications; if the Health Service Executive will temporarily...
- Health Service Executive Reports
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 16 December 2009, the progress made regarding a report (details supplied); and if she will...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the nursing home support scheme....
- Medical Cards
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the incentivised early retirement scheme for the Health Service Executive; if she has received a request from the...
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received an application from Wicklow County Council for funding in respect of road improvements and repairs; the details of this...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Stations
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the damage to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Mayo caused by burst water...
- Departmental Staff
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 688 of 3 November 2009, the position regarding the case of a person (details...
- Asylum Applications
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the residency situation of cases; the number of this category that were given the right to stay; if...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will release a copy of the original letter sent to a person (details supplied) outlining their permission to stay...
- Garda Stations
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide resources to Tallaght Garda Station, Dublin 24, to allow for special attention to be afforded to the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding assessment for eligibility for residency or naturalisation and subsistence payment in the case of a...
- Residency Permits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of residency or family reunification in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Asylum Applications
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress regarding a residency application and the procedure to be followed in respect of naturalisation in the case of...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7512/10]
- Residency Permits
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will defer deportation and review the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 in the aftermath of a recent...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency or application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- International Protocols
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of interdepartmental consultation on signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a farm assist application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that her Department is correct in its interpretation of section 100 (1) (A) of the Social Welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) has had their lone parent allowance ceased. [7316/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding farm assist appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) County Donegal. [7321/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an appeal will be heard in relation to disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. ...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an application for invalidity will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick.
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be informed of the outcome of an oral appeal for carer's allowance. ...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 cannot qualify for back to education or back to work schemes despite being in...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person on one parent family allowance may obtain income from employment without loss of payment; the amount by which the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if early payment of jobseeker's benefit or allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 217: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [7318/10]
- Animal Welfare
Question 218: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is capital funding available from his Department for voluntarily run services for dog protection;...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 219: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the works that will be covered by remedial funding in 2010 for the refurbishment of a housing estate (details...
- Housing Grants
Question 220: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grants and funding that are available for a person that wishes to re-thatch their home which has a...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 221: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons that have been prosecuted under the legislation implementing the nitrates directive...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 222: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence for a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the Planning...
- Departmental Staff
Question 223: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will commence employment with his Department; and if he...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the company (details supplied) appointed to roll out broadband...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason REP scheme payment approval has not been forwarded to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon who has...
- Departmental Staff
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he plans to appoint an overseeing inspector for County Roscommon at locations in which schemes and plans are held up...
- Grant Payments
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has received a copy of the Flood report regarding the National Stud; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he will take to restore a special needs assistant that has been taken away from a school (details supplied) in County Meath;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for major capital works in respect of a school (detail supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if a decision to approve this application has been...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 4 February 2010, if the tender report has been completed; if the preferred contractor...
- Third Level Education
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the review into third level education here, he will include the possibility of providing a third level education...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the case of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [7410/10]
- School Services Staff
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the grants paid to primary schools for secretaries and cleaners has been cut back; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reply to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7412/10]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if additional resources will be provided to County Dublin Vocational Education Committee to allow it to deal with the backlog with...
- School Staffing
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the process and criteria for appointing a deputy principal, assistant principal and special duties posts in greenfield site schools...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is committed to a new multidenominational primary school for the Dublin 6 and 8 catchment areas; his views on whether there is...
- State Examinations
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare cannot be facilitated in seeking to have assistance with their forthcoming...
- Schools Recognition
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received unrestricted recognition in view of the fact that the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a meeting will be arranged with his Department officials to meet with the board of management of a school (details supplied) in...
- Grant Payments
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grants available to assist in funding the cost of installing a lift or hoist for disabled access to a swimming pool in a school...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the Teaching Council refuses to recognise the City and Guilds further and adult education teachers certification; and if he...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for funding in respect of building works at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; when...
- Grant Payments
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will arrange to have a home tuition payment processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
- School Staffing
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary teachers who took up their first appointment in primary schools between 1 September 2009 and the end of December...
- School Patronage
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the view expressed in the OECD Review of Migrant Education in Ireland report, published in December 2009, that in a...
- School Enrolments
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number or primary schools with an enrolment of fewer than 50 pupils on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of personnel who were paid at the untrained rate for primary substitute teaching during each month from September 2009 to...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the numbers expected to graduate as primary teachers from all the colleges of education here in the calendar years 2010, 2011 and...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements that have been made to provide technical support to schools in the area of information, communication and technology...
- School Enrolments
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of section 29 appeals taken in each of the past five years at primary level; the reason for these appeals; the outcome of...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special classes for children with autism at primary level on a county basis; the name and address of each school making...
- School Staffing
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of untrained personnel employed in a teaching capacity in primary schools on a permanent or temporary basis; the details of...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of DEIS one primary schools on a county basis; the name and address of each school; the enrolment of each school; the...
- Grant Payments
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the details of all grants payable on an annual basis to primary schools by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Third Level Fees
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for a third level back to education course; and if he will make a statement...
