Written answers
Thursday, 18 November 2010
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- UN Conventions
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason Ireland has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; if this is to be ratified imminently; if...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka presented by a person (details...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there has been any discussion of the recent Basque peace process initiative at an EU level; if he has been in contact with the Spanish...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the case of Shawan Jabarin, the director of the human rights agency Al-Haq, who is a graduate of the Irish Centre for Human...
- Iraqi Tribunal Death Sentences
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of any expression by Ireland or the EU in relation to the death sentence that was recently announced in relation...
- Humanitarian Aid Convoys
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on a recent incident involving two Irish citizens on the Road to Hope's ship which was en route to Gaza; and if he will...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on recent reports of mistreatment and abuse of the rights of prisoners in Iraq at facilities under the control of British troops....
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he proposes to expand Ireland's diplomatic presence in South America. [43138/10]
- EU Treaties
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has been in contact with the President of the European Council, Mr. Herman Von Rompuy, in relation to the consultation process on...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made at EU level in monitoring the recommendation of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the recommendations of the...
- Humanitarian Aid
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the support being provided by the EU to assist Haiti following the recent cholera outbreak; and if he will make a...
- EU Accession
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding recent developments on the accession process for new member states into the European Union. [43327/10]
- EU Budgets
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if agreement has been reached on the EU budget for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43326/10]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the most recent information related to the ongoing imprisonment, and the prospects for the release of, Sgt. Gilad Shalit who is being...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will give an outline of the development section of the recent G20 leaders' talks which were recently held in Seoul; and if he will make...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on recent threats made against Chaldean Christians in Iraq [43140/10]
- European External Action Service
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of the number of Irish persons employed or recruited to the new external action service of the EU, headed by...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made to date on resolving the issue of undocumented Irish in the US; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43095/10]
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the implications for the peace process of recent discoveries of explosives being found in public places in Northern Ireland. [43155/10]
- Middle East Peace Process
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports that there has been no material change for the people of GAZA following the easing of restrictions...
- United Nations Iniatives
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on UN reform, in particular in light of the US President's recent call for India to form part of an expanded Security Council....
- Human Rights Issues
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the precise manner of monitoring, and ensuring compliance envisaged, in relation to human rights in the proposed EU and Colombia agreement....
- United Nations Initiatives
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions that have flowed from the process known as the Dialogue Between Civilisations, initiated by the UN some years ago. [43154/10]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on recent developments in Yemen and statements made by the European Union in that regard. [43153/10]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress being made to ban female genital mutilation at both EU and UN level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43096/10]
- United Nations Initiatives
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he supports proposals which have been made for a universal TV, media, education network aimed at explaining and encouraging interest in...
- Overseas Elections
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the impact the EU report on last May's parliamentary elections in Ethiopia which found that those elections failed to meet international...
- G20 Summit
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he outline the G20 leaders talks which were recently held in Seoul with a view to seeking ways of rebalancing the world economy, the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Languages Programme
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if funding is being made available to schools or colleges to assist foreign nationals to learn English and, if so, the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school building projects sanctioned in County Donegal for the years 2005 to date in 2010; the capital...
- School Accommodation
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the number of prefabs in use and the amount spent per school in the provision and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school building projects sanctioned in County Cork for the years 2005 to date in 2010; the capital spend...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied) [43413/10]
- School Patronage
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the process of establishing a new secondary school in Gorey, County Wexford, if she will confirm that all...
- Schools Recognition
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the process of establishing a new secondary school in Gorey, County Wexford, the measures that were taken...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school's (details supplied) request to expand their school which is overcrowded and is no longer...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) who has been providing home tuition in respect of a...
- School Accommodation
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo for aiding in the provision of hot food...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo for aiding in the provision of new...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Cork which is part of the school building programme; when...
- Third Level Courses
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the participation rate in third level education for each county in each of the years 2000 to date in...
- School Enrolments
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the enrolment as of September 2010 of each of the primary schools (details supplied) in east Cork; if...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications received for higher education grants; the number granted to date; the number not processed to...
- Department of Finance
- Economic and Monetary Union
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that sufficient steps have been taken to ensure that all member states in the EU are fully committed to the EU project, with...
- Informal Economy
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the size of the black economy and the amount lost to the Exchequer [43410/10]
- Flood Relief
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ascertain from the Office of Public Works if its officials met an engineer from Mayo County Council regarding the flooding problem at a...
- Carbon Budget
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue in a full year for the Exchequer from the auctioning of carbon allowances post 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Solidarity Bond
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the way the funds invested in the national solidarity bond are managed by the National Treasury Management Agency; if...
- National Lottery
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money accrued to the Exchequer from the National Lottery in 2009 and to date in 2010; the way in which this funding has been expended;...
- Tax Yield
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total amount collected in vehicle registration tax for 2009 and to date in 2010; the amount of VRT collected from the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue which would have been saved in a full year if he implemented the findings of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration as indicated during...
- Tax Yield
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected since the introduction of the carbon tax including a breakdown for each category of taxed fuel; the amount expected to be...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if he will...
- Company Law
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a company director who cannot afford the amount demanded to liquidate their company regarding their family home which was...
- Department of Health and Children
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated from the National Treatment Purchase Fund to referrals from Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 in 2008 and 2009...
- Hospital Staff
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultant plastic surgeons attached to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the average waiting times to see a plastic surgeon in...
- Health Services
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the policy in each Health Service Executive area for the provision of special needs assistants to children attending preschools; if she...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy on the provision of special needs assistants to preschool children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43385/10]
- Health Services
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [43422/10]
- Mental Health Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on the development of community-based mental health services as envisioned in the A Vision for Change...
- Ambulance Service
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the withdrawal of the Swords ambulance as notified by Dublin City Council management and in view of the fact that...
- Mental Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide funding to open the residential house in Ballymahon, County Longford for persons with intellectual disability...
- Health Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite financial assistance to a person (details supplied) to avail of intensive physiotherapy; and if she will make a...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she and the Health Service Executive will ensure that the new wing of Letterkenny Hospital including 72 beds, a medical assessment...
- Health Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a certain vaccine for a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [43474/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will meet with a group (details supplied) to discuss an issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43479/10]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under her remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010;...
- Medical Cards
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be approved on appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the reason the card was granted and...
- Department of Transport
- Environmental Policy
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding in place for the smarter travel programme and if this funding is national funding or European funding. [43418/10]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if he will...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the current backlog of applications in the Garda central vetting unit; the way he intends to tackle this backlog; if he is aware that...
- Joint Policing Committees
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a committee (details supplied) will be established. [43387/10]
- Missing Persons
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the date on which he gave the go-ahead for the establishment of an AMBER alert system; the progress to date on this matter; and if he...
- Garda Equipment
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 5 October 2010, if he will provide further details (details supplied); and if he will...
- Residency Permits
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the length of time it normally takes to change a person's status from stamp 2 to stamp 3. [43417/10]
- Cash for Gold Schemes
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views on the recent proliferation of cash for gold shops; if persons selling gold to these shops need to provide personal...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to continue funding for a programme (details supplied). [43394/10]
- European Union Accession
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the possibility of Albania becoming a member of the European Union. [43396/10]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if...
- EU Enlargement
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the current and likely future position in respect of EU enlargement with particular reference to the Western Balkans; and if he will make a...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the degree to which he and his EU or UN colleagues continue to engage with the authorities in Iran regarding addressing human rights issues...
- EU Enlargement
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding discussions on EU enlargement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43521/10]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the level of discussion he has had with his EU colleagues regarding the situation in Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which he directly or through the aegis of the EU has encouraged improved relations between the EU, the US and Cuba; and if he...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress in the matter of conflict resolution, alleviation of starvation, genocide and human rights abuses at various known locations in...
- EU Treaties
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the current or expected position regarding a further EU treaty; the extent to which the issue of suspension of voting rights has been...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive the one parent family payment. [43375/10]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reconsider the decision which came into effect in June 2009 regarding maintenance being assessed as income for family income...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 135: 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...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseeker's application in respect of a person (details supplied). [43475/10]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the position regarding payment of a grant amount to a club (details supplied) in County Cork under the sports capital grant...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under her remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Planning Issues
Question 141: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide assistance on a matter (details supplied). [43416/10]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a scheme developed by him to accommodate persons who have purchased under his Department's...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 143: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the value of a council's equity in a house sold under shared ownership reduces in proportion to the fall...
- Animal Welfare
Question 144: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied all aspects of animal welfare are being considered by the Ward Union in relation to moving...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the average waiting time for local authority tenants who are due to get a home...
- Retail Sector Developments
Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the context of the recent proliferation of cash-for-gold shops, if planning approval or change of use...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding arrangements with financial institutions in his Department's various housing schemes;...
- Turbary Rights
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the sale of bogland in a special area of conservation in respect of a person (details...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a sewerage treatment plant (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit from...
- Planning Issues
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government regarding provisions in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 for the extension to existing...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Tax Yield
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the expected revenue for the Exchequer from the carbon windfall tax introduced by the Electricity Regulation...
- Postal Services
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the situation regarding the third postal directive; the way this matter is being dealt with;...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008,...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Sugar Industry
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason decisions relating to the cessation of the sugar industry in Ireland and other EU member states was taken on foot...
- Oyster Industry
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he is taking to monitor the importation of sea oysters from France and the possibility of diseased stock being...
- Departmental Offices
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the transfer of his Department's offices from Galway City to Athenry, County Galway; if this transfer...
- Grant Payments
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43419/10]
- Tax Reliefs
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the value of stock relief, agricultural relief and retirement relief to the farming sector in each of the years 2007, 2008,...
- Animal Welfare
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food the position regarding the introduction of an Animal Health and Welfare Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Harbour Projects
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the project for the redevelopment of Dunmore East Harbour, County Waterford; the amount of funding...
- Grant Payments
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers in Roscommon and Leitrim still awaiting payment of their advance on the single farm payment and...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Industrial Relations
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43402/10]
- Redundancy Payments
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding a redundancy claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [43478/10]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding allocated to the Irish Red Cross by the Exchequer each year since 2007 respectively; if the organisation receives directions...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 28 October 2010, the cost of private security firms used to secure property vacated by the military...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of external reports and reviews commissioned by State agencies and boards under his remit in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; if he will...
