Written answers
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
- Department of Finance
- Tax Yield
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the impact on VAT receipts of the planned reduction in June in the lower rate of VAT from 13.5% to 12%. [5422/11]
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans for the six financial institutions under the bank guarantee scheme; when it is envisioned that the public stakes in the banks will be...
- Fiscal Advisory Council
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which the Fiscal Advisory Council will be appointed; the number of members who will be appointed to this council; the frequency with...
- Flood Relief
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to address the summer flooding in the Shannon Callows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5413/11]
- Fiscal Policy
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Finance the planned aggregate adjustments that will be made in the economy each year from now until 2015; if he will provide a draft summary of the...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will proceed with the standardisation of tax reliefs as set out in the national recovery plan; the property tax reliefs, tax reliefs and...
- State Banking Sector
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance when the Strategic Investment Bank will be set up; the staff requirements needed in the new bank; the branch structure envisioned for the new bank;...
- Public Service Staff
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to shed 25,000 jobs in the public sector in the period up to 2015; the cost savings he hopes to achieve; the schemes that will be...
- Mortgage Arrears
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assist families in mortgage difficulty; the discussions he is planning with the Irish Family Services Regulatory Authority on the issue;...
- Bond Yields
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on the fact that the ten year bond yields have reached record high levels since the publication of the programme for Government; his plans...
- Jobs Fund
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will announce his plans for a jobs budget. [5423/11]
- Departmental Reports
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance when the McCarthy Review Group on State Assets will publish their report; if he has received a copy of this report; when it is envisioned that he...
- EU-IMF Fund
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that he and other representatives from the Department of Finance have had within the past few weeks with the International Monetary...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for completion of the solvency stress tests of the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5393/11]
- Expenditure Reviews
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance when the comprehensive spending review will be undertaken; the persons who will make up this comprehensive spending review; the deadline for the...
- Public Service Recruitment
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance the personnel from outside the current system that will be brought into the public sector as per the programme for Government; the number of new...
- Economic Governance
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made to finalise the work on the Commission's six legislative proposals on economic governance; the progress made in implementing...
- Legislative Programme
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance the Government's policy is on the NAMA (Amendment) Bill 2010. [5419/11]
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance the medium-term, affordable, official financing that will be made available to the banks as per the programme for Government; the source of this...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to restructure the boards of the banks and replace the directors as per the programme for Government; when the review into the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Economic Partnership Agreements
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the Economic Partnership Agreements; if there will be flexibility in the discussions on these...
- Overseas Development Programmes
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has received representations from non-governmental organisations on their concerns at the low capacity of developing...
- Department of Finance
- Fiscal Policy
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the status of the fiscal targets set out in the National Recovery Plan 2011- 2014 [5519/11]
- Departmental Appointments
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance if all 14 of the candidates selected for the OPW/RIAI architectural graduate training scheme will be offered positions considering seven applicants...
- State Banking Sector
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Anglo Irish Bank is tendering for new IT systems and the way this can be justified in view of the...
- Motor Fuels
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration is being given to the impact of escalating oil prices on the transport industry; if any temporary taxation adjustments or other...
- School Services Staff (1 comment)
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the directive requiring a 5% cut in pay for low paid school-based non-teaching staff considering in most cases, and certainly...
- Tax Code
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford and their spouse with students at third level cannot receive tax relief on rents paid for...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Training and Work Experience Programmes
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a scheme which would facilitate apprentices who have been made redundant in the completion of their...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant application for inclusion in the summer works scheme in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding tuition and supports. [5521/11]
- Pension Provisions
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to an issue regarding a pension raised in correspondence (details supplied). [5527/11]
- School Staffing
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the proposal in the new circular, 0019/2011, with regard to the way that temporary and substitute teachers are dealt...
- Institutional Child Abuse
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the delay in various educational establishments receiving payment from the education finance board for the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons denied a welfare payment due in 2010 due to failure to satisfy the habitual residence condition. [5456/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals filed in 2009 and 2010 against refusals to provide a payment on the basis of the habitual residence condition, and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had rent supplement suspended; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider her decision not to allow a person (details supplied) to participate in a community employment scheme given that...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the difficult financial situation for all new homeowners, he will, as a matter of urgency,...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 65: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all local authorities have complied with the requirements of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act...
- Turbary Rights
Question 66: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their agreed payment for the sale of turbary...
- Grant Payments
Question 67: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a grant will be awarded in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Deportation Orders
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of parents of Irish citizen children deported in each of the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to which...
- Garda Deployment
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to re-instate gardaí engaged in the plain clothes anti-drugs squad in the Longford area, who were very successful in...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding a family reunification case in respect of a person (details supplied) [5532/11]
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in payment of the 2010 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Animal Welfare
Question 78: 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....
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the new REP scheme [5533/11]
- Grant Payments
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application for the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo...
- Department of Health
- Preschool Services
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will reverse the decision which disallowed the flexibility for children with a disability to avail of their entitlement to...
- Medical Cards
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available for the provision of day care commencing in September in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Hospital Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive a date for their operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will receive an appointment. [5467/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be granted without delay in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and if the application will...
- Hospital Staff
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when he expects the vacant consultant paediatric endocrinologist post to be filled at Cork University Hospital; the stage the recruitment...
- Hospital Services
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children in which hospitals or other medical centres paediatric and adolescent diabetes care is provided by the Health Service Executive; the...
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding respite patients at a centre (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Programmes for Government
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will set out his programme of legislation for the implementation of the commitments on health care in the programme for Government;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when he intends to establish the special delivery unit in the Department of Health to assist in the reduction of hospital waiting lists;...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to begin negotiations for a new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5555/11]
- Primary Care Strategy
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the primary care fund will be established and the estimated amount of money that will be placed in the fund and over what period;...
- Hospital Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to restore any or all of the services cut from Monaghan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5557/11]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans regarding ending the policy of co-location; his plans regarding current contracts for co-location; and if he will make a...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driving Tests
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Transport if the cost of a driving test has increased by €10 to €85, and if so the reason for this increase; and if he will make a statement on the...
