Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2011
- Department of Health
- Medical Cards
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health his staffing plans for opening the Primary Care Reimbursement Service in Finglas, Dublin 11, to ensure speedy processing of medical cards; and if he...
- Health Service Staff
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health if there are any chief executive officers of hospitals, health facilities or organisations funded by the State who are paid bonuses on an annual...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in placing the National Quality Standards for Residential Services for People with Disabilities on a statutory...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the bed complement available to the Health Service Executive in each region throughout the country; the extent to which the beds...
- Health Insurance
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken since his appointment to address waste and inefficiency in the health system in order to finance his plans for universal...
- Hospital Services
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health if he will implement the recommendations of Health Information and Quality Authority's Report and Recommendations on Patient Referrals from General...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the excessive waiting list for orthopaedic treatment at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Reports
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his consultations with the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology regarding symphysiotomy; if the independent academic...
- Hospital Staff
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health if he will elaborate on his statement that smaller hospitals will struggle to cope in the context of the non consultant hospital doctor shortage; and...
- Hospital Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin, and/or Temple Street, Children's Hospital in Dublin, is unable to support the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the value of home help and the issue of the cutting of their hours and the detrimental effect that this is having on highly dependent...
- Hospital Services
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding persons awaiting treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; his plans to ensure that waiting times will not get...
- Nursing Home Services
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to provide a more rigorous regulatory regime for nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17911/11]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health if he has begun a full review of the nursing homes support scheme; and if this will be completed before the end of 2011. [17886/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce amending legislation to discontinue the practice of compulsory fluoridation of public water supplies; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to improve the provision of neurological care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17905/11]
- Health Services
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give an assurance that medication is not being used to subdue patients exhibiting challenging behaviour at residential institutions; and...
- Health Service Reform
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the report of Amnesty International Healthcare Guaranteed? The Right to Health in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health his policy on the practice in some hospitals of contracting routine clerical work outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore confidence by outlining, the way the funding through the fair deal scheme will be provided; the amount over the coming years...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health the person he will be charging with making the final decision on the negotiation of the new General Medical Services contract. [17892/11]
- Hospital Equipment
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Health Service Executive in relation to the opening and staffing of the PET CT scanner unit in Cork University...
- Health Service Staff
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider lifting the moratorium on recruitment to appoint the staff necessary to run the Primary Care Reimbursement Service in Finglas,...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether health authorities moved sufficiently promptly to address concerns regarding the standard of care for patients at a nursing home...
- Nursing Home Staff
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health if he will find alternative positions for the staff of a nursing home (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who bravely drew attention to the inadequate...
- Health Services
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health if there have been changes for those who are being cared for under the long term illness scheme whereby some medications associated with their...
- Hospital Staff Remuneration
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health the salaries that are paid to chief executive officers of all hospitals, both voluntary and those funded by the Health Service Executive; the annual...
- Health Information and Quality Authority Reports
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations outlined in Health Information and Quality Authority's update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Ennis Report...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Human Rights Issues
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the human rights situation in Nepal; if he has had, or will have, discussions with his European...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise his concern with the Brazilian Ambassador on the recent deaths in the past month of Amazon forest...
- Departmental Funding
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the proposed closure of accommodation and conference facilities at a centre...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on customers seeking to move to a different insurer must pay the health insurance levy for the unexpired part of the year that this could...
- Tax Code
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance if incoming tour operators who bring business into Ireland will be included as a category in the forthcoming jobs initiative scheme to be...
- Garda Stations
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 7 June 2011, if he has given consideration to a lease arrangement for the provision of new premises for...
- European Financial Stability FAcility
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a need to establish a European Bank restructuring agency funded from the European Financial Stability Facility; and if he will make a...
- EU-IMF Fund
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of Ireland's compliance with the IMF/ECB bailout, his views on the present spread between Irish and German tenure bonds; and if he will make...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the redundancy packages available to public service workers in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Flood Relief
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance if funding has been ring fenced to subsidise the flood relief works in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18045/11]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management has put in place a strategy with local authorities to protect period buildings and protected structures under the...
- EU Funding
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to obtain additional structural funds in view of the grant of one billion euros being made available to Greece due to...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles in AIB's fleet of company cars for staff members; and the number of new vehicles purchased or leased for each of the years...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all the costs incurred to date and expected to be incurred in the coming months on the establishment of the new...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance the action being taken by him to enact legislation that will make bankers accountable for their actions over the past number of years; and if he...
- Flood Relief
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the four impediments (details supplied) in the Camlin and Shannon Rivers which cause severe flooding in the Longford and...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a company should struggle to keep VAT and PAYE and other taxes paid, be unable to pay their own wages and yet have to see public servants...
- Financial Institutions Remuneration
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of his investigation into the practise of purchasing company cars for management personnel in credit institutions which are in receipt of...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the possibility of increasing the fine to be imposed on credit institution employees found to have committed the offence of...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for a P60 in respect of each of the past four income tax years to be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. ...
- Tax Code
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm when the review of the universal social charge promised in the Programme for Government will commence; the terms of reference of...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the losses carried forward at the end of 2010, for each of the financial institutions participating in the National...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to publish the results of the Central Bank's stress tests of the credit union sector. [18140/11]
- EU-IMF Programme
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance if, as part of the negotiations currently underway regarding a reduction in the interest rate on our EU / IMF Programme, he will ensure that Ireland...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details, including the dates of the relevant Oireachtas committee meetings, of the oversight to date by the Oireachtas of the...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if any bonus payments have been paid to the Chief Executive or any of the management team at Anglo Irish Bank in respect of the 2010 calendar year;...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Building Projects
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise stage of architectural planning of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; the way the application has progressed since...
- School Curriculum
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the recent junior cycle review carried out by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, when he expects the...
- School Transport
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the proposed changes to the school transport programme, if there will be concessions to the €200 per pupil charge...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when details of the 2011/ 2012 higher education grant scheme will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- State Examinations
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers involved in oral Irish examinations, oral French examinations, oral German examinations and oral Spanish...
- School Staffing
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact he has had with a school (details supplied) in County Kildare regarding staffing levels; the way he will honour...
- School Transport
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents can expect a reply on whether their children will qualify for school transport (details supplied). [18068/11]
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the vocational training opportunities scheme allowances are being curtailed, in view of the fact that this is affecting...
- Employment Support Services
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the closure of the Jobfit programme at the end of June, the body from which unemployed persons will receive the support...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student studying graduate entry medicine in UCD is not eligible for a student grant because the course does not represent...
- School Grants
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when primary schools will be advised of allocations under the minor works grant scheme 2011-2012; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Employment Rights
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the issues of the catering industry in respect of the employment regulation orders and...
- Job Losses
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the action being taken regarding the announcement by a company (details supplied) that it is moving more than 130 jobs in...
- Job Creation
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the action being taken by him, Forfás and enterprise agencies to create economic growth in County Longford, which has...
- Research and Development
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the action being taken by him to improve the low levels of expenditure on research and development in the Longford and...
- Science Foundation Ireland
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider the possibility of creating a world class research base at a former school (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the employees of Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Agency who are physically based in...
- Health Insurance Levy
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his views on the VHI's treatment of the health insurance levy whereby customers seeking to move to a different insurer must...
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in respect of Government plans to increase the retirement age to 66 in 2014, there is a provision for those who are contractually...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding rent allowance and other supports in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [18010/11]
- Employment Support Services
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 23 June 2011, where it is stated that a TD is not a legal entity and therefore ineligible to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will receive a disability allowance, which they applied for following their illness...
- Departmental Reports
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she expects to publish the Gender Recognition Advisory Group Report; when does she expect that legislation will be introduced to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite supplementary income supplement in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) regarding back pay. [18133/11]
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Turbary Rights
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will facilitate the domestic peat turf cutters on the proposed new Peat Council (details supplied) recently...
- Wildlife Protection
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will bring back the hedge cutting season from the 1 of September to the 1 of August, as it is in the UK and the rest...
- Coiste Idir-Rannach
Question 128: To ask the an Aire Ealaíon; Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfoilseoidh sé ainmneacha na ndaoine a d'fhreastail ar an gcruinniú den fhochoiste idir-rannach ar an nGaeilge; agus...
- Interdepartmental Committees
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of persons who attended the meeting of the inter-departmental sub committee on the Irish Language. [17994/11]
- National Parks
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action the National Parks and Wildlife Service are taking to promote angling amongst visitors to Killarney National...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of broadband for Leitrim village. [18064/11]
- Inland Fisheries
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he will allay fears amongst anglers regarding rumours of the introduction of a rod licence for trout; and...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to whether performance bonuses have been paid to the Chief Executive and...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- National Spatial Strategy
Question 136: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government when it is envisaged that he will review the National Spatial Strategy 2002 - 2020 which is based around a...
- Western Development Commission
Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if County Longford will be included in the Western Development Commission, which is responsible for social...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 138: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 267 of 21 June 2011, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 139: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will advise of the status of a CAAS application by an organisation (details supplied) in County...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 140: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 26 May 2011, if the legislation being prepared that relates to...
- Commercial Rates
Question 141: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 16 June 2011, the classes of property that fall under the...
- Building Regulations
Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the options available to a person (details supplied). [18042/11]
- Local Authority Services
Question 143: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to relax the regulations in relation to signage being used by...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
Question 144: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will consider a better estates scheme to encompass non-council unfinished estates in which residents'...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the position regarding funding for the insulations of local authority houses in 2011, in view of the fact...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board
Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will increase the penalties that will apply to landlords who fail or refuse to register their...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider reversing the fee for obtaining a special exemption order to pre-2008 levels, half the price of the current fee. ...
- Commercial Rents
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation will be implemented to end upward only rent reviews for existing lease holders; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Strength
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members in the Garda Reserve and the functions they are serving. [17999/11]
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way a person becomes a Peace Commissioner. [18000/11]
- Judicial Appointments
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of known vacancies, due to statutory retirement, that are expected to arise for members of the judiciary within the...
- Garda Powers
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce powers for members of An Garda Síochána to enable them to confiscate alcohol from persons drinking in public....
- Defence Forces Training
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will ask the military authorities to desist from carrying out late night military manoeuvres at Magee Barracks, Kildare Town, close to...
- Army Barracks
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding plans for the future of Connolly Barracks, Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18099/11]
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Departmental Agencies
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to whether performance bonuses have been paid to the Chief Executive and senior management...
- Grant Payments
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food the position regarding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied). [18004/11]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food his plans to achieve a better targeting of aid in the form of less favoured areas payments, to farmers who work within...
- Farm Consolidation
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Offaly has been refused a Farm Consolidation Certificate on the erroneous...
- Grant Payments
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food when an overdue payment under the agri-environment option scheme for 2010 will issue in respect of a person (details...
- Departmental Staff
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food if he will rectify the mistake made with regard to a persons (details supplied) rightful position on the panel of...
- State Agencies
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food the value of the various components of Coillte; the value of the following, the timber stock, the property, the potential...
- Grant Payments
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding headage payments. [18123/11]
- Department of Health
- Departmental Funding
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow time to pay back a Pobal grant on hardship grounds, until the facility concerned, which is being forced to close due to the...
- Social Services Staff
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which adequate numbers of social workers are available to meet requirements throughout the health service; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the issue of senior staff increments for nurses; the senior staff nurse position having been included under the Government...
- Hospital Staff
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken to address the shortage of junior doctors in emergency departments here; if these measures will be in place by the 11...
- Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding speech therapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Health Service Staff
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many of the qualified physiotherapists on the panel are in private employment or abroad and this...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the ban on blood donations by gay men; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18022/11]
- Nursing Registration
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 385 of 21 June 2011, if the Health Service Executive identified any nurses who were in breach of various...
- Hospital Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health if he would review a case in which the admission of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to the Mater Hospital, Dublin, has been delayed...
- Medical Cards
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had their medical card and that of their family changed to a general practitioner only...
- Official Engagements
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health if he has met recently with an organisation (details supplied) or if he has had a request for a meeting; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health the assurances he will give to the general public that it is safe to attend accident and emergency services at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin; and if he...
- Health Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health if he will have investigations made into the reason Tallaght Hospital, Dublin has been outsourcing the typing of documents to the Philippines for a...
- Medical Cards
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health if a Primary Medical Certificate will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Health Service Staff
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to fill 12 vacant psychiatric nursing posts in the Dublin North East region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Medical Internships
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the internship for junior doctors to two years as per the requirement in the UK where junior doctors must work...
- Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date which the Health Service Executive National Clinical Programme for Diabetes has made in developing a National Clinical...
- Health Insurance
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the purpose of a €50 administrative charge introduced by VHI in view of the fact that it seems that this is the only insurance...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health the current or likely position in respect of the location of the new children's hospital notwithstanding expenditure to date in respect of the Mater...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health the total complement of staff at all levels available to the Health Information Quality Authority; the extent to which this number has fluctuated...
- Hospital Expenditure
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of budgetary overrun at various public hospitals throughout the country at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Hospital Staff
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health the number of junior hospital doctors currently available for duty in the various public hospitals throughout the country; the degree to which this...
- Hospital Acquired Infections
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health the number of reported incidents of MRSA or similarly transmittable infections that have been reported throughout public and private hospitals in...
- Medical Training
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which young health professionals are encouraged to specialise in particular areas with particular reference to disciplines which show...
- Health Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants currently engaged in or specialising in the areas of the various forms of dementia; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of medical card holders has fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to a review of the fair deal scheme with particular reference to the need to address any anomalies; and if he...
- Hospital Staff
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which all staffing requirements at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, are being met having particular regard to the need to ensure...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Departmental Bodies
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the number of Iarnród Éireann employees holding contracts of indefinite duration who have had those contracts terminated;...
- Rail Network
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the proposed figure expected to fund the upkeep, maintenance and any other works on the Irish Rail Network bridges following...
- Driving Licences
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport his plans regarding the format of the Irish drivers licence; his views on a smaller wallet size and card similar to that...
- Salvage Operations
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if the receiver of wreck can insist that a security provision for a wreck is provided by the owner of the wreck which has been...
- Departmental Funding
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he or any of the agencies under his remit provide any funding for marketing to new start up tourist businesses. [18118/11]
- Tourism Promotion
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will commission a report into the way Ireland can be promoted as an angling tourism destination; and if he will make a...
