Written answers
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Agencies
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 10 February 2010, if he will provide details of the employment packages and benefits provided to the...
- Road Tolls
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will amend the Roads Act 2003 to compel the National Roads Authority to seek toll decreases in line with the consumer price index on roads...
- Rural Transport
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on rural transport provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12849/10]
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has decided to downgrade Waterford search and rescue helicopter services to a 12 hour service; the impact this will have in an...
- State Airports
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department in the tendering process for terminal two at Dublin Airport which has now been abandoned; when the tendering...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the new mutual recognition of disqualified drivers that is now in operation between the Republic of Ireland and Northern...
- Airline Restructuring
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the restructuring plans of Aer Lingus; the discussions he has had with the board on its proposed job cuts; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been briefed by Bus Éireann on the second round of cutbacks to services and routes that will be implemented from 28 March 2010; his...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he plans to take to address the abuse of the penalty points system by those not holding an Irish or UK driving licence; and if he will...
- State Bodies
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is undertaking a further review of the governance structures at a company (details supplied); if he has been briefed by this company in this...
- Weather Damage Repairs
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a detailed assessment of the €180 million cost for repairing damage caused by recent weather conditions as estimated by county...
- State Airports
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Transport his preferred options for the future development of air transport with particular reference to Dublin Airport; the extent to which he sees airlines...
- Traffic Signs Manual
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will push the revised traffic signs manual; the reason there is such a delay in publishing this updated manual which had publication...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will list the bodies under the aegis of his Department for which freedom of information legislation does not apply; when he expects the...
- Marine Transport
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Transport the support his Department has provided to the new Cork Swansea passenger ferry service; the steps that he is taking to enhance national marine...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he has taken to ensure that the 33 agencies and bodies operating under the aegis of his Department perform in the most efficient and cost...
- Driving Tests
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the Road Safety Authority driver testing service; his further views on...
- Light Rail Project
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the development of light rail systems in Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford; if he has been in contact with Galway City Council on...
- Marine Transport
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the new guidelines for accessible maritime passenger transport that he published in conjunction with the National Disability...
- Industrial Relations
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has met Aer Lingus senior management and staff in the context of current industrial relations problems; his views on the staff and salary...
- Procurement Practices
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps that he has taken to oversee the implementation of the recommendations which were contained in the CIE-commissioned report on alleged...
- Transport 21
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which the objectives he set out in the context of Transport 21 have been achieved to date; the degree to which it is intended to meet...
- Vehicle Safety
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of cars that have been recalled by all Irish based car manufacturers due to faults or design flaws; if he has met or been briefed by the...
- Public Transport
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the rolling out of integrated ticketing and real time information systems on bus services across the greater Dublin area; when...
- Road Safety
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received submissions from road safety campaigners on the current provisions in law for the mandatory testing of all drivers involved in...
- Road Network
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the €240 million allocation for regional and local road maintenance and upgrade for 2010; if the regional and local road...
- Parking Regulations
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport the representations he has had from Dublin City Council regarding the possibility of permitting parking on pavements under certain strict criteria;...
- Weather Damage Repairs
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he has taken to provide the necessary additional funding to county councils to ensure that the damage caused to roads as a result of the...
- Rail Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on plans by Irish Rail to withdraw the critical Waterford to Rosslare commuter rail service; if he has been briefed by Irish Rail...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport if the cross-Border pilot project on enforcing toll charges and parking fines has begun; the details of the pilot project; the cost of same; the...
- Rail Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12800/10]
- Ports Security
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is reviewing any new procedures or updated security arrangements for our national ports in liaison with the Department of Justice, Equality...
- Weather Damage Repairs
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the implications for national public road safety if local authorities are unable to undertake the amount of road works necessary to...
- Road Safety
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any requests or submissions from Dublin City Council or any other local authority for the urgent introduction of updated speed...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Redundancy Payments
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their redundancy claim from the social insurance...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will intervene in order to ensure that Aer Lingus is not allowed proceed with its plans to decimate its current cabin...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person received a gift or inheritance under the then capital acquisitions tax threshold in a given category is liable for capital acquisitions...
- Department of Health and Children
- Departmental Staff
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the policy of non-recruitment of staff in the County Kerry area to compensate for increased levels of retirement....
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the arrangements that are in place for the contracting of interpretation services; if it is the case that travel time to and from the...
- Children in Care
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the hotline for missing children which is already in use in 11 European Union member states; if she...
- Early Childhood Education
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the provision of an extra preschool year for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [13222/10]
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a transition period for parents who have undertaken substantial preparation for a proposed adoption from Ethiopia; and if...
- Child Care Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children who are with Beechpark services who progress to a secondary school placement,...
- Medical Cards
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13262/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied). [13263/10]
- Grant Payments
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for respite grant in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Preschool Services
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [13269/10]
- Mental Health Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make immediate contact with the Health Service Executive with regard to the care required by a person (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Records
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the enquiries she has made into the circumstances surrounding an alleged burglary of 15 Health Service Executive laptop computers at the...
- Health Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will enquire from the Health Service Executive the reason for the decision made to close down the emergency HSE unit for troubled...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of referrals to private nursing homes of senior citizens by the Health Service Executive in the Kildare and west Wicklow...
- Hospital Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of referrals to St. Vincent's Hospital in Athy, County Kildare, or any other such hospital by the HSE from Naas General...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the school setting is the appropriate place for the Gardasil vaccine to be administered in view of the possible...
- Health Services
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [13324/10]
- Department of Transport
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has given consideration to highlighting road speed cameras or traffic control vans as is the case in other jurisdictions arising from which...
- Airline Restructuring
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether the current restructuring at Aer Lingus is likely to affect any of his projections set out in Transport 21; and if he will...
- State Airports
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Transport the degree to which costs, including landing fees, at Dublin, Shannon and Cork Airports, or other airports, compare with other EU locations; and...
- Transport Policy
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which his plan for air, rail, road and sea transport conforms to the institutional concept of an integrated transport policy; and if...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport when his proposals to redress the issue of non-Irish registered drivers who fail to pay tolls will come into effect; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Transport if there is an Irish and European international minimum level of strength needed to drive a manual car following a traffic accident when such a...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Property Management Fees
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the policy changes which he plans to introduce in relation to the management fees charged by owners of property in...
- Repatriation of Non-Nationals
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the supports available to allow an unemployed non-national worker return to their home country. [13357/10]
- Community Alert Schemes
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the community alert schemes here; and the funding he has allocated to the schemes for 2010....
- Neighbourhood Watch Schemes
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the neighbourhood watch scheme; and if there are changes envisaged to the scheme. [8405/10]
- Community Alert Schemes
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the amount of community alert schemes in County Kildare. [8406/10]
- Student Immigration
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he plans to reform the regulations governing foreign student employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Rent Levels
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn of instances in which high nominal rents are being maintained in order to force the hand of...
- State Airports
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the investigation into the security incident at Dublin Airport when dangerous explosive materials...
- Garda Operations
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 2 April 2009, if he requested the report from the Garda authorities on the...
- Visa Applications
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing the visa application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 17 February 2010, when the promised notice required to clarify arrangements...
- Residency Permits
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the practice that requires non-nationals living outside Dublin to have their fingerprints taken before...
- Garda Vetting
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a decision on their application; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he...
- Child Abuse
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of the Garda inquiry into the issues raised in the Murphy report into child abuse in the Dublin diocese; when...
- Garda Operations
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the remarks by a judge (details supplied) that he could not understand the reason an...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will clarify a matter (details supplied). [13217/10]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he raised the slaughter of innocent civilians in Afghanistan with the US authorities during his St. Patrick's day visit. [13277/10]
- Passport Applications
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the case of persons (details supplied). [13283/10]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the allocation of funds for investment in sports facilities in 2010 from all sources; the source of these funds; and the allocation...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13224/10]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Insurance
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his progress to date in establishing an employer job PRSI incentive scheme; the eligibility criteria for this scheme; when the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will explain and rationalise the position in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) and the withdrawal of their...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for respite grant in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an illness benefit application appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a claim for jobseeker's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Pension Provisions
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to the announcement of the extension of retirement age under the national pensions framework, if it is her intention to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons on back to work enterprise schemes with a breakdown by scheme type (details supplied). [13358/10]
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will reply to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13284/10]
- Legislative Programme
Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will exclude packs of hounds maintained by the hunt clubs from the terms of the Dog Breeding...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons who were approved by local authorities for the rental assistance scheme, who are under...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Departmental Schemes
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date by which the warmer homes scheme will be extended to the region of Erris in north Mayo; the efforts...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Harbours and Piers
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application by a community group (details supplied) for funding to upgrade a harbour in County...
- Meat Processing Sector
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 556 of 16 February 2010 and the audited accounts provided by applicants to the beef...
- Grant Payments
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme four will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will engage in full consultation with all stakeholders before the proposed animal health and welfare Bill is...
- Departmental Staff
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will appoint a district inspector in the Kerry area to approve and sign off on hundreds of REP scheme plans; and if he...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Recognition
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science when she will respond to an application for a post-primary school in County Waterford, lodged in October 2008 by Educate...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science her views on the implications of her decision to end the substance misuse prevention programme dedicated support service...
- Psychological Service
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will report on whether the moratorium on recruitment in the public service will be lifted to fill a position...
- School Staffing
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to the needs of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13221/10]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if a person in receipt of a back to education allowance and a maintenance grant who will complete a post-leaving...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the works that are proposed in the summer school building programme for an area (details supplied); and if she will make...
- Health Services
Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if he will support a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [13278/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the amounts spent in current and capital budget in each of the education sectors in 2009. [13314/10]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the sections and subsections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 which would need to be...
