Written answers
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
- Department of Transport
- Travellers' Protection Fund
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions he has had with the aviation regulator regarding the Travellers' Protection Fund; if additional funding has been requested for...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of advisers in his Department; the number of high level appointees to committees annually since 2007; the amount each receives; and if...
- Budget Submissions
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has prepared a budgetary submission for the Department of Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26668/10]
- Public Transport
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his decision to award a Galway to Dublin licence for 14 services a day to a company (details supplied) while the company's...
- Port Development
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the impact of the recent refusal by An Bord Pleanála to the proposal by Dublin Port for a 21 hectare infill plan for the port and...
- Public Transport
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions he has had with all State agencies and companies regarding integrating the use of public transport more efficiently; when he last...
- Transport 21
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport if Transport 21 will meet its final completion dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26719/10]
- Rail Network
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has completed its investigation into the collapse of the Broadmeadow Bridge, County Dublin; if he will immediately publish this...
- Road Safety
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce legislation to outlaw the practice of tampering with a vehicle's odometer; the estimates of the number of vehicles on Irish...
- Transport Policy
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which road, rail, air and sea transport is being co-ordinated or will be co-ordinated to ensure an efficient, reliable, cost...
- Port Development
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he has taken to address the allegations of serious lapses in proper corporate governance procedures at the Shannon Foynes Port Company;...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport when the Commission on Taxi Regulation will be amalgamated into the National Transport Authority; if the staff at the taxi regulator will be...
- Road Network
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has sanctioned a request for additional funding to the National Roads Authority for road maintenance or any other road related expenditure;...
- Defective Vehicles
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of defective vehicles that have been identified and recalled on Irish roads in the past year; if he has action taken at EU level or if...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 18 May 2010, if he will report on the meeting between officials from his Department, the National...
- Cycle Facilities
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the national cycling campaign federation (details supplied) in relation to the National...
- Road Safety
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has raised any concerns with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Department of Finance regarding the impact of reduced...
- Travel Trade Sector
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received representations from the Irish Travel Agents Association regarding the bonding arrangements currently in place for the industry;...
- Air Services
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps that have been taken with the UK and the EU to address the recent volcanic ash crisis; if guidelines or new protocols have been...
- Light Rail Project
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm reports that the 25 km metro west project linking Tallaght to Dublin Airport via Clondalkin, Lucan, and Blanchardstown is in...
- Road Network
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy in relation to the need for rest stops for fuel, refreshment or otherwise on the motorway from Dublin to Cork; and if he will make a...
- Light Rail Project
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions he has had with the Department of Finance on upcoming funding decisions for public expenditure on metro north; if his Department...
- Road Safety
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the recent international road safety conference on speeding facilitated by the Road Safety Authority at Dublin Castle; and if...
- Value for Money Reviews
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Transport the oversight mechanisms in place in his Department to ensure value for money in respect of the Exchequer funding of more than €2.5 billion in...
- Transport 21
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received the Chambers Ireland recent submission, Transport 21, A Review; if he is considering any of the recommendations made in the...
- Car Tests
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been briefed by the Road Safety Authority on its proposal to fine the operators of the national car testing system (details supplied) if...
- Public Transport
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the integrated ticketing scheme in the greater Dublin area; the amount that has been spent on this project to date; the...
- Road Safety
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received and reviewed a copy of the recent North review of drink and drug driving (details supplied) for the British Government; if he is...
- Road Network
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is concerned for national road safety in view of the fact that a recent AA survey found that more than 22% of drivers had experienced enough...
- Air Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Transport the information he has received from the Government appointed directors to the board of Aer Lingus on any proposed reactivation of routes to the UK...
- Regional Airports
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that support for regional airports, including Galway Airport, through the public service obligation programme will continue...
- EU Directives
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason EU Directive 95/21/EC on enhancing maritime safety including pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions on ships...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Employment Rights
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the options open to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to resolve their case; if there is existing or promised...
- Work Permits
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a decision will issue on an appeal for a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; the...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is entitled to redundancy payment. [27082/10]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27059/10]
- EU Directives
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 45 and 46 of 9 June 2010, if he will oppose any alterations to the Council's test on Article 35 of the...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed by the public service by ministerial Vote group for each year 2002 to 2009; his estimate of the number that will be...
- Departmental Reports
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance if he accepts the recommendations of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes in respect of supply chain management in...
- State Agencies
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the rationalisation of State agencies that has taken place since 1 January 2009, either arising from the recommendations of the Special Group on...
- Department of Health and Children
- Medical Cards
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [26930/10]
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for funding will be approved in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Carlow. [26931/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an appeal for a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; [26932/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment for an operation at Waterford Regional Hospital will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Medical Cards
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an appeal on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited and...
- Hospital Staff
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 1 June 2010, when a reply will issue. [26950/10]
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding granted to an organisation (details supplied) in County Carlow under section 39 over the past four years; the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a surgical procedure will be arranged as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny at...
- Health Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will deal with the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [27027/10]
- Community Care
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of long-term stay beds and respite care beds in use at Maynooth community care unit, the Harbour, Maynooth, County Kildare;...
- Health Services
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an application was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 15 June 2010, if she will provide the names and addresses of all nursing homes that have...
- Smoking Ban
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the draft guidelines for article 9 and 10 of the framework convention for tobacco control; if she supports the...
- Hospital Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she can arrange to have the medical records of a person (details supplied) released from St. James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the BCG vaccination for newborn children is currently unavailable in the Dublin 24...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason Huntington's disease is not on the list of illnesses that qualifies people for a long-term illness card; her plans to change...
- Mental Health Services
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 15 June 2010, the efforts being made to deal with the delay in processing assessments for...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent on the National Treatment Purchase Fund since its establishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27080/10]
- Care of the Elderly
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [27085/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason five boxes of medical card appeals have been allowed to languish in the Health Service Executive appeals office in...
- Health Services
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if medication will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Redress Schemes
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to initiate a redress board for victims of wrongful incarceration under the 1945 Mental Health Act. [27130/10]
- Health Service Staff
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if progress has been made in the provision of a school dentist for the Loughrea-Portumna district of County Galway which has been...
- Department of Transport
- Rail Services
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Transport if commuter rail passenger numbers currently reflect the projections referred to when he launched Transport 21; and if he will make a statement on...
- Transport Policy
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Transport his air transport plans and policy over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26983/10]
- Parking Facilities
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Transport the full extent of car parking spaces currently available at each rail station throughout County Kildare; the extent to which this is sufficient...
- National Development Plan
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which the various projects identified by his Department in the context of the national development plan are on time and within cost;...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Transport the criterion under which funding directly or indirectly is provided by his Department to any bodies or groups under his aegis; and if he will...
- Transport 21
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which Transport 21 represents an integrated air/sea/rail and road transport system; the extent if any, to which he has examined any...
- State Airports
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Transport the degree to which the operational costs at each airport here compare with similar airports throughout the rest of Europe; and if he will make a...
- Rail Network
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the western rail corridor, including passenger and freight facilities; his proposal in this regard over the next...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Proposed Legislation
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects that the Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009 will be fully enacted. [27129/10]
- Misuse of Drugs
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 15 June 2010, the number of headshops that the Garda are aware of that shut...
- Work Permits
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the options available to a person who has permission to remain here on a Stamp 3, with his spouse on a Stamp 1, to take up...
- Vetting of Personnel
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for Garda vetting in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and...
- Asylum Applications
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds will be approved in respect of a person in County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action being taken to clear the backlog of the passport office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27407/10]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps that he has taken to ensure the safety and release of a person (details supplied); if diplomatic representations have been made on...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views regarding a submission (details supplied); his plans to address the issues expressed; if he plans to meet...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to persons who have had their houses repossessed in terms of their qualification for rent supplement; and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of job facilitators and their location in each social welfare office at year end 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he will make...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse their application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing
Question 168: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider allowing the purchase of local authority houses by those tenants qualified to do so but...
- Departmental Funding
Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding, if any, available for rain water collection and recycling systems in schools; his plans to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the range of options available to local authorities regarding applicants for housing; if consideration will...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be awarded a payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be included in the disadvantaged area scheme; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Science
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the details regarding the agreement reached with the religious orders for the transfer of assets and cash in compensation...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the funding of Church of Ireland schools; if she will accept the need to review the level of funding being...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she provides any policy direction to primary schools, in the case in which multi-grade classes are necessary by virtue...
- Water Conservation
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if capital funding is available for schools to enable them to install rainwater collection and recycling systems; and if...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the factors that led to the ongoing delay in providing a building capable of accommodating 1,000 pupils for a school...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 3 June 2010, if she will direct the National Council for Special Education...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the changed...
