Written answers
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for orthodontic treatment for children in each of the Health Service Executive regions; and if she will make a...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the fair deal scheme to date in 2010; the number of applications that have been processed to...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients currently receiving IVF treatment through the Health Service Executive; the average cost involved per patient; and...
- Health Services
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department is carrying out an evaluation of the effects on dental health of cutbacks to the dental treatment services scheme and...
- Health Service Funding
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the deficit in the Health Service Executive west; the action being taken to address this deficit; if she will give...
- Medicinal Products
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her plans to introduce reference pricing; the amount that will be saved from the introduction of reference...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total number of children and adults waiting to have a hearing aid fitted; the average waiting times to have a hearing aid fitted; the...
- Departmental Reports
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she endorses the report of the expert working group on the financing of health services; if she intends to implement its proposals;...
- Capital Spending Programmes
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount by which the capital budget for her Department has been reduced under the revised capital programme 2010 to 2016; and if she...
- Medical Cards
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons that medical card applications in the south Dublin area are taking approximately 20 weeks to be processed when submitted...
- Health Services
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will consider introducing a national foot screening programme as part of the treatment of diabetic foot disease; the estimated...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy in relation to TB prevention; the measures in place in her Department to ensure that incidents of TB are detected and kept...
- Health Service Funding
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total amount of money owed by private health insurers to Health Service Executive west; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to her decision to hire an additional 270 social workers, the number that have been recruited to date; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current situation regarding the centralisation of the processing of medical card applications; the level of service that will remain...
- Health Insurance
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the timing for the capitalisation and sale of VHI; if expert advice has been obtained; the steps to be taken in...
- Medical Cards
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current waiting times for those persons applying for medical cards or general practitioner only cards; and if she will make a...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a progress report on the roll-out of the breast check screening programme; the number that have been screened per...
- Health Service Staff
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy on the replacement of speech therapists in the context of the moratorium on recruitment; if her attention has been drawn to...
- Health Service Funding
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money owed by private health insurers to the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Service Staff
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the sanctions, if any, underway in relation to consultants known to have breached the private practice terms of their contract; and if...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the relationship between her Department and the Health Information and Quality Authority; if she will outline the established protocols,...
- Health Service Staff
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action that will be taken to ensure an adequate number of junior hospital doctors are maintained in hospitals here; and if she will...
- Health Service Funding
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the current funding being made available to the rape crisis centres nationally and the percentage increases and decreases per centre from...
- Health Service Staff
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the national referral centre for paediatric immunology has no full-time consultant immunologist; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress being made to reduce the waiting lists for those patients waiting to access dermatology services; the number currently...
- Health Service Staff
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of community welfare officers currently employed in each Health Service Executive region; if there are any plans to make...
- Health Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she accepts that the Health Service Executive dental policy which advises not to fill cavities in children's teeth puts children's...
- Mental Health Services
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of the 99 child and adolescent mental health teams that have been committed to that have been delivered to date; of the child...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the proposed site for the national paediatric children's hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has given instructions to the Health Service Executive to encourage and develop the home help service as much as possible, so as...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there has been a change in the procedure whereby health professionals provide reports which form the basis for the allocation of...
- Hospital Services
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the basis of the Health Service Executive decision to cease surgery at Navan Hospital, County Meath; the clinical reasons behind this...
- Health Service Staff
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of physiotherapists currently employed or contracted by the Health Service Executive in each HSE region; her plans to increase...
- Health Services
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children to ensure that the budgets for community care are protected in order that elderly and disabled persons currently receiving home help or...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision has been made on the location of the new central mental hospital; when this decision will be made; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Health Service Executive posts currently unfilled, by region, as a result of the recruitment embargo; and if she will make...
- Hospital Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she proposes to address the extra demand on maternity services; if resources will be provided to relocate maternity hospitals in...
- Health Service Funding
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount the health budget will be reduced by in 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34727/10]
- Vaccination Programme
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will give a progress report on the provision of the HPV cervical cancer vaccine per Health Service Executive region; the numbers...
- Health Services
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in the provision of an after office hours social worker service; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in her Department; if that number has decreased; if the moratorium has been applied in the case of any Department...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the illnesses covered by the long-term illness scheme; if she will, in particular, include irritable bowel disease;...
- Departmental Staff
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in the transfer of community welfare officers from her Department to the Department of Social...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the co-location policy; if she is concerned that the VHI will not cover its customers in co-located private...
- Health Services
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the cutbacks to the dental treatment services scheme and the dental treatment benefit scheme in view of the hardship...
- Hospital Staff
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent of which nursing or other posts need to be filled at each public hospital here in order to ensure the availability of the full...
- Medical Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the latest figures for those in receipt of medical cards and general practitioner only cards; the number of cards issued to date in 2010;...
- Hospital Staff
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the spend on agency staff in hospitals for each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and the estimated total spend during 2010; and if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds currently out of use for whatever reason or purpose at each public hospital here; the relevant number of...
- Prescription Charges
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the manner in which prescription charges in excess of €10 per month will be reclaimed by medical card holders; if she has an estimated...
- Mental Health Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money that has been raised from the sale of psychiatric institutions and lands in 2010; if it is intended to subvent this...
- Constitutional Amendments
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the level of consultation, if any, that she has engaged in with other Departments since the publication of draft...
- Hospital Acquired Infections
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in designing and implementing modern hygiene practices in hospitals in order to reduce and eradicate MRSA and other...
- Residential Care Services
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding step-down beds being made available in the major urban centres in order that patients in acute hospitals who are...
- Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the high level of general practitioner fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34707/10]
- Health Service Staff
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of microbiologists in place per Health Service Executive region in view of the high level of hospital infections; and if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and location of positron emission tomography scanners; the number of same which are operational at present; the number of PET...
- Departmental Reports
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the case that she agreed with the Minister for Health (details supplied), Social Services and Public Safety in the Six Counties...
- Hospital Services
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds that have now been removed from the overall bed numbers per Health Service Executive region; and if she will...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Unemployment Levels
Question 89: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the most accurate measure of unemployment in the State with reference to the live register and the Central Statistics Office quarterly national...
- EU Directives
Question 90: To ask the Taoiseach the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU Commission in each case to...
- Departmental Staff
Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach the role of the better regulation unit in his Department; the number of staff working in the unit in each of the years 2004 to 2010 inclusive; the unit's...
- Department of Education and Science
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take with FÁS in respect of funding for apprenticeship jockeys that was reduced substantially which...
- EU Funding
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will deal with the following matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34951/10]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new school building (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps in place to help discover cases of dyslexia in primary schools; if a national test will be undertaken in order...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on an application for funding under the capital works programme by a school (details...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the availability of funding for works to a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork....
- Site Acquisitions
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the acquisition of a site to facilitate the construction of a primary school (details supplied) in...
- School Accommodation
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the demographic pressures that exist in Midleton, County Cork regarding the provision...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional funding for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary to complete an essential fire...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of courses provided in the FÁS centre at a location (details supplied) in County Donegal; the courses...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding her Department's dealings with a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; will she note the concern...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the funding required for roof works at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the eligibility for a third level grant for new entrants in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if contracts have been signed for the purchase of a site for the construction of a school (details supplied) in County...
- School Transport
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of her inquiries in regard to the school transport situation for pupils (details supplied) in County Mayo....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed new national school (details supplied) for Stonepark, County Longford; and if she...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been refused a third level grant or waiver of registration...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Third Level Courses
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide free university places for the long-term unemployed to allow them to retrain and re-enter the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied). [34838/10]
- School Transport
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was not granted a bus ticket and if assistance will be offered to them; and if she...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary to complete a fire safety and...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of broadband connectivity of schools in County Donegal; the number of schools that have...
- Official Engagements
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on her Department's engagement with a Minister (details supplied) from Northern Ireland; and if she...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be awarded their third level grant; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if all students affected by dyslexia in second level schools are entitled to a laptop; the criteria necessary for...
- EU Directives
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in her Department; the reasons for the delays; and the...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in deciding on an application for incremental credits in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop an education campus (details supplied) in County Cork; and the timeframe for its overall development...
- Adult Education
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposal concerning senior Traveller training centres, and the Government's intention...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance if an individual PAYE taxpayer who takes on an employee as a nanny, carer or [i]au pair[/i] is responsible for making PAYE and PRSI payments for the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the situation in Iceland where a cross-party committee was set up to assess the role of certain Ministers in the...
- Tax Yield
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected from the air travel tax to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34482/10]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the agreement to accommodate a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay in formally allocating these...
- Tax Code
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance if further legislation to give effect to the taxation changes is required following the passage of the Civil Partnership Bill 2009, ; and if he will...
- Road Network
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding works planned for the main road in the Phoenix Park which were promised to the finance committee during the Estimates...
- Job Creation
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of jobs so far created and the number projected to be created by the capital investment plan with a breakdown by year. [34657/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons over 70 years who no longer qualify under the revised terms for medical cards and who...
- Pension Provisions
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who do not have a yearly pension income of at least €12,700 are only allowed on maturity...
- Cycle to Work Scheme
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cycle to work scheme does not allow for participants to purchase a child helmet or child seat...
- Departmental Staff
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance if the new circular 13/2010 regarding parental leave will be extended to public servants, and if so, when this will happen; and if he will make a...
- Tax Yield
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue over the past two years that has been lost in taxes as persons from here shop in the Northern Ireland; and if he will make a...
- National Heritage Areas
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 6 July 2010, if he will supply the information requested. [34857/10]
- Tax Collection
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax rebate for 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34884/10]
- Tax Yield
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown on the amount that has been collected in stamp duty on homes from first time buyers and second-hand home purchasers...
- Tax Code
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if an old age pensioner, who is in receipt of a housing adaptation grant from a local authority for a stairlift, is entitled to claim back VAT even...
- EU Directives
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU Commission in...
- Tax Code
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the increase in vehicle registration tax on a vehicle (details supplied) between November 2009 to August 2010; and if he will...
- Departmental Staff
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to re-introduce the incentivised career break scheme in the public sector in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 439 of 29 September 2010, if he will state if discussions are ongoing between his Department, the Northern...
- Official Engagements
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times he has met with the Taoiseach regarding Government business during the Dáil recess; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of the promised ten per cent increased lending capacity that has been made available to small and medium sized business by Bank of...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the EU Economics Commissioner regarding achieving specific budget and reform measures during the next four years; if...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to reports that migrant women facing domestic violence have been denied social assistance for failure to...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that over 46,000 patients are on hospital waiting lists here; that this figure will increase significantly as a...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children and adults waiting to have a hearing aid fitted; the average waiting time to have a hearing aid fitted; the cost...
- Health Service Funding
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money owed by private health insurers to the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34441/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultant orthopaedic surgeons contracted within the public health service; her views on whether the numbers are adequate...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason community welfare officers are permitted to deny supplementary welfare allowance for failure to satisfy the habitual...
- Child Care Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of full-time and part-time child care places made available to participants attending back to education initiative, FÁS,...
- Health Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the efforts that are being made to ensure that babies are receiving crucial developmental screening before the age of ten months in view...
- Medical Cards
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34512/10]
- Residential Care Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans, if any, to staff a unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34515/10]
- Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34520/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34528/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will consider implementing a more favourable patient pricing structure to allow for the continuing viability of Cobh Community...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding given to an organisation (details supplied) in 2008 and 2009; the amount that will be given in 2010; if there will...
- Health Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [34556/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, as a matter of urgency, she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 has the additional supports sanctioned so that...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when will work commence on the new accident and emergency unit at Kerry General Hospital. [34578/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the community nursing home unit will open at Kerry General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34579/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on...
- Mental Health Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if any attempt has been made to quantify the cost that has been incurred for providing mental health services to asylum seekers who have...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view and the view of the Health Service Executive regarding the establishment of separate accommodation for single women in the...
- Medical Cards
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will award a medical card to a person (details supplied) in view of his changed circumstances; and if she will make a statement...
- Health Services
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34614/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons for delays in scheduling orthopaedic surgery for patients attending the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore and the...
- Residential Care Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of long-term stay beds and respite care beds in use at a care unit (details supplied) in County Kildare; the reason there is...
- Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will deal with the following matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34645/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a matter regarding a hospital (details supplied). [34649/10]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, at present, the school age disability speech and language therapy service in Dublin...
- Misuse of Drugs
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the investigations carried out on the headshop product referred to as "whack"; and if it will form part of a future ban. [28766/10]
- Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioners that have undertaken training under the methadone protocol levels 1 and 2 in County Kildare. [28763/10]
- Fluoridation of Water
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out a study on the total fluoride intake of the population here as contained in the renewed programme for Government;...
- Medical Cards
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card had been withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
- Pre-school Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider the conditions of the free preschool year, where many parents are unable to avail of the scheme because of the...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the costs to the Health Service Executive each year as a result of falls in the home by older persons; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will change the medical card eligibility rules to allow the public service pension levy to be deducted in assessing eligible...
- Pre-school Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children availing of the early child care year in County Laois; the number of providers of this service in County Laois;...
- Hospital Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the trained professionals or multi-disciplinary teams that are in place on a 24-hour basis within accident and emergency departments to...
- Hospital Staff
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make provision for a nationally recognised transfer scheme for nursing staff within the Health Service Executive; and if she...
- Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a person (details supplied) in County Cork called at the earliest date possible to a specific facility in...
- Hospital Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the basis upon which a decision has been taken to limit access to the Orthopaedic Hospital in Cork and refer patients with prosthetics...
- Health Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34919/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the limitations now in place with regard to dental procedures for medical card holders; the circumstances in which...
- EU Directives
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in her Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU...
- Health Service Staff
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers currently in the Health Service Executive north-east region; the way in which this figure compares with the...
- Child Abuse
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of child neglect that have been reported to the Health Service Executive in 2009 and to date in 2010; if she will...
- Children in Care
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who are currently in the care of the Health Service Executive in the north-east region. [34948/10]
- Health Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for a specific item to be provided to an elderly person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34952/10]
- Mental Health Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [34956/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the protocol in place when a medical card is issued but a decision is subsequently taken that the holder is not eligible and when the...
- Health Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a medical assessment in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
- Pre-school Services
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available to provide grants for pre-school personnel who are adding to their existing qualifications in early...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a breakdown on the amount the Health Service Executive spends on care for the elderly in the categories of home...
- Hospital Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a dedicated stroke unit for the Health Service Executive south. [35006/10]
- Health Services
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [35007/10]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to introduce legislation in the area of assisted human reproduction. [35010/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35012/10]
- Health Services
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for assessment at child services, Naas; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons medical card holders are experiencing continued difficulties accessing dental services since April 2010; and if she will...
- Medicinal Products
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to ensure pharmacies are passing on the benefits of savings on the price of commonly used drugs to...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will guarantee the continuation of the cervical cancer screening programme; the measures she intends to take to improve public...
- Hospital Staff
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the total number of nursing posts currently vacant or waiting to be filled throughout the private and public hospital sectors; if the...
- Hospital Services
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all of the facilities, including theatres, funded by her Department at Tallaght hospital are fully operational; those that are not;...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent, if any, to which she and or her Department has examined the importance and value for money provided by the home help...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which the cost of the various procedures at public and private hospitals varies between those funded directly or funded by...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and location of hospitals in the public and private sectors throughout the country currently experiencing delays at accident...
- Health Services
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she ever again intends to reply directly to a parliamentary question relating to what the Health Service Executive might refer to as...
- Department of Transport
- State Airports
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of U.S. troops that have passed through Shannon Airport in each year since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34443/10]
- Road Network
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the construction of a new road between Dublin and Derry; the type of road envisaged; the timescale involved; the work that has been...
- Road Safety
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport the efforts being made by his Department to counter the number of road deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34491/10]
- Coast Guard Service
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that officers at other coast guard stations will not be transferred to Dublin coast guard radio to fill the positions that will...
- Rural Transport Services
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for rural transport in County Tipperary, particularly relating to a particular town (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- EU Directives
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the European...
- Taxi Regulation
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made to date with regard to targets for wheelchair accessible taxis; and if he will indicate if and when the Commission for Taxi...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will give consideration to extending the deadline, beyond 1 October 2010 for 15 m to 24 m fishing vessels to meet the requirements for the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Asylum Support Services
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the joint Health Service Executive and Reception and Integration Agency forum was established; and the number and frequency of...
- Child Abduction
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [34607/10]
- Garda Records
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to the Hutchinson report into the Claudy bombing, if a person (details supplied), ever came into contact with the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide information regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Strength (1 comment)
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of gardaí in the State at present; the number of recruits that will be taken on; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 may expect to receive an answer regarding their citizenship application; and if he will...
- Vetting of Personnel
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their Garda vetting; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Citizenship Applications
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [34456/10]
- Coroner Service
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the service provided by the Living Links committee in the County Meath coroner's service; if such...
- Garda Equipment
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the cost of servicing and repairing all Garda vehicles for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 and to date in 2010; the number of new...
- Garda Investigations
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [34497/10]
- Departmental Properties
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the new State pathologist and Dublin city coroner's complex in Marino, Dublin 3, will be completed and the approximate cost of...
- Residency Permits
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the criteria for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) who wishes to return to Ireland; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Contracts
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the services that are being outsourced by the Land Registry to companies outside the State and list the services and locations of the...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 30 June 2010, if he has received correspondence from a centre (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Properties
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if lands (details supplied) in Dublin 17 have been rented by or for the use of An Garda Síochána; the purpose for which any such...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applicants for Irish citizenship whose applications are awaiting decision; the number of applicants whose applications...
- Asylum Applications
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals who have been refused entry permission to the State in each of the past five years. [34831/10]
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals who have illegally entered the State and who are to be deported who are currently in prison or in a...
- Public Order Offences
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [34840/10]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when he anticipates the publication of the draft heads of the Bill for the regulation of the gaming sector, which was due to be...
- Prison Service
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if the Irish Prison Service has put the purchase of tractors out to tender; if he will confirm the number of tractors it proposes to...
- EU Directives
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the average delay in the processing of applications for citizenship; the reasons for such delays; if these delays can be reduced; and...
- Commercial Rent Reviews
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps he has taken to implement the recommendations of the report of the working group on transparency in commercial rent...
- Official Engagements
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will give details of his recent meeting with the Stormont Minister for Justice and the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Commemorative Events
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the initiatives being planned by the Government to mark the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012; and if he will make a statement on...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, further to the Hutchinson report into the Claudy bombing, if he will confirm if the Irish Government or the authorities here ever received...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raise a matter at U.N. and E.U. levels. [34664/10]
- EU Directives
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Irish citizens who have been refused supplementary welfare allowance over the past 12 months for failure to satisfy the...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if additional human resources are to be allocated to the money advice and budgeting service to cope with unprecedented demands on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will explain the decision to refuse rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if he will reinstate...
- Civil Registration Service
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a death certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) and if he will expedite the matter. ...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of an illness benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [34455/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures that apply in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is in receipt of rent allowance who wishes to...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a mortgage interest supplement appeal made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of exit from jobseeker's payments, for example, the number who left a jobseeker's allowance or jobseekers benefit payment as a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of interviews or consultations a person must attend during the course of his or her jobseeker's claim; when such interviews...
- Departmental Offices
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the new Department control office for Portlaoise which will be the base for deciding officers; the time frame of...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois in view of length of time...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for mortgage relief in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will...
- EU Directives
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of farmers currently in receipt of farm assist; the number of applications received during 2009 and to date in 2010 for farm...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [34994/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide details of the planned new work and welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35003/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of rent supplement with a breakdown by duration at intervals of three months. [35040/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who applied for carer's allowance in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when disability allowance will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- National Museum
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will provide funding for a minimum expenditure model of works to open the two closed floors of the Natural History Museum...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she is in receipt of an application for national lottery funding for a club (details supplied); if she is in a position to...
- Grant Payments
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of projects in Cork county that have received assistance from the Department since January 2010; details of these...
- Commemorative Events
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the money she contributes towards the running of Dublin's St. Patrick's Day parade each year; and if she will make a statement on...
- EU Directives
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in her Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- National Spatial Strategy
Question 358: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider a change in policy on access to funding for hub-designated towns under the national...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of homes repossessed by local authorities in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Major Emergency Management
Question 361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the emergency response procedures in place to deal with severe weather conditions this winter should such...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 362: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be released for a new local authority development (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
- Waste Management
Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the privatisation of the waste collection service operated by Cork County Council; and if he...
- Planning Issues
Question 364: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of empty housing units, both habitable and derelict or dilapidated in County Longford, including...
- Turbary Rights
Question 366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements that have been made by the Government to compensate those affected by the cessation of turf...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when proposed amendments to planning regulations will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify the situation regarding the ability of local authorities to sell apartments to tenants; if...
- Fire Stations
Question 369: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application made by Longford County Council to his Department to appoint two...
- Grant Payments
Question 370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the financial assistance that is awarded annually to BirdWatch Ireland; if it is compensated for work it does...
- Waste Disposal
Question 371: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of households here that are availing of a wheelie bin service and the number of houses who are not...
- Planning Issues
Question 372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the legislation pending regarding unfinished estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34889/10]
- Property Management Companies
Question 373: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify the situation regarding residents living in estates managed by management companies; if it...
- EU Directives
Question 374: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays;...
- Motor Taxation
Question 375: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will deal with the following matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 376: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1515 of 29 September 2010, if an application has been received from...
- Foreshore Licences
Question 377: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No 479 of 6 July, if a decision has been reached yet on the eight...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding implementing the monitoring of the quality of broadband initiative, encompassing...
- Energy Conservation
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the warmer homes scheme; the number of persons who have been contacted in connection...
- Electricity Transmission Network
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will meet the County Monaghan anti-pylon group to discuss issues regarding the planning process and the...
- EU Directives
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding broadband for an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their payment under the cow suckler scheme; and if he will make...
- Legislative Programme
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the Animal Health and Welfare Bill will come before the Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34506/10]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will expedite the area aid maps process and to deliver overdue area aid payments to farmers as quickly as possible;...
- Grant Payments
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason full payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; when lands will be digitalised; and...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of years that a contractor (details supplied) has been engaged by his Department for the purposes of providing...
- Pension Provisions
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Carlow is entitled to a pension. [34626/10]
- Afforestation Programme
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34637/10]
- Domestic Abattoirs
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress to date in implementing the findings of the review steering group regarding staffing for the hygiene package;...
- Grant Payments
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a payment has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when this payment will be...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of staff that have decentralised to Portlaoise as part of the current decentralisation programme; the number of...
- Farm Incomes
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide an outline of farm incomes in 2010 compared with 2009; his views on prices for milk, grain, sheep and...
- Veterinary Services
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will clarify the situation regarding the factual numbers of district veterinary offices in the country (details...
- Grant Payments
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a person who is availing of the entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Longford or...
- EU Directives
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction...
- Grant Payments
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry may expect to receive the remainder of their payment. [34963/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the recommendations outlined by the Report of the Special Group on Public...
- Share Farming Agreements
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers currently engaged in a share farming agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34972/10]
- Grant Payments
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will review his decision in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway, who has received penalties under...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amounts of funding allocated to harbour development works at Doolin, County Clare in each of the years 2005 to 2010; the...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when early retirement scheme payment will be made (details supplied). [35038/10]
- Afforestation Programme
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a felling licence will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) will be paid the appropriate payments under the cow welfare scheme; and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- EU Funding
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if Ireland is taking up the opportunity to participate in the EU's European Progress Microfinance facility which offers...
- Industrial Development
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will support a matter (details supplied). [34603/10]
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of persons, on a whole-time equivalent basis, employed in each county enterprise board. [34604/10]
- Job Creation
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs created to date from the Innovation Fund Ireland; and the number projected to be created with a...
- Employment Rights
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of applications received by the Employment Appeals Tribunal as at 30 September 2010 awaiting allocation of a...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the process for appointing persons to the Employment Appeals Tribunal, who have been appointed to the Employment Appeals...
- EU Directives
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction...
- Business Regulation
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his Department's progress with regard to reaching the target of reducing administrative burdens on business by 25% by 2012;...
- Industrial Development
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the measures available to help struggling small businesses in the strategy, Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy; and...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will report on the outcome of eight regional meetings with business groups over bank credit that were held over the...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if the 17 members of the research prioritisation steering group will be awarded remuneration for their work; the level of...
- Insurance Industry
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he will take to regulate the practice whereby customers of a company or a business are being steered to preferred...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when redundancy payment, wages and holiday pay will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Agencies
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs when Pobal was first set up; the reason it was established to administer public funds; to provide a breakdown of...
- Community Development
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs to provide details on the latest progress regarding the change in structure of the community development programme...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a detailed breakdown in tabular form of the recommendations outlined by the report of the...
- Community Development
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will arrange for officials of his Department to meet with the board of management of a community development...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide details of the proposed transfer of rural development funds from the Leader programme to the...
- EU Directives
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding capital funding for an organisation (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will...
- Department of Defence
- EU Directives
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of EU directives awaiting transposition into law in his Department; the reasons for the delays; and the reaction of the EU Commission in...
