Written answers
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason delays are continuing to be experienced in her Department in deciding claims for carer's allowance; the number of cases that...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the size of the cuts she envisages will be made to her Department's budget each year to comply with the commitment to the EU and IMF to...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement detailing the consultancy reports or research commissioned by her Department in 2011; and the cost of same. ...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will assure Dáil Éireann that there will be no further reductions in social welfare allowance. [21425/11]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the proposals for converting the Money Advice and Budgeting Service into a strengthened personal debt...
- Departmental Staff
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the degree if any to which further staff redeployments are required or have been requested to deal with the extra social welfare payments...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement on the recently established advisory group on tax and social welfare, including the expected timeframe for and...
- Employment Support Services
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social Protection is she is satisfied that the measures in place to reduce the number of persons on the live register are adequate; and if she will make a...
- Social Insurance
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will be detailing changes to social insurance-related appropriations in aid in the outcome of her negotiation with other Departments...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to put the household benefits package out to tender. [21431/11]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she has taken to reform the operations of FÁS in so far as it falls under her remit. [21324/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has satisfied herself that the automated service of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance is only making payments to...
- Customer Service Standards
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has reviewed or plans to review customer service standards; if she has concerns about the capacity of her Department to adequately...
- Wage-Setting Mechanisms
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the impact assessment that she is carrying out in relation to reforms of the joint labour committee system; and if...
- Job Creation
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the jobs initiative has had an impact on the live register to date. [21428/11]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement elaborating on and updating her plans to introduce a partial capacity scheme. [21323/11]
- Personal Public Service Numbers
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the revelation that there are 7.2 million PPS numbers in issue while the population stands at just 4.58 million. [21433/11]
- Data Protection
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has met the Data Protection Commissioner to discuss the additional security measures required to accompany the increased...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown on the number of applications for each of the disability-related payments in her Department in 2010; if all...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has identified the barriers to successful implementation of the placement and internship programme; and if so, her proposals to...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 53: To ask the Taoiseach the hourly rate paid for fees due to barristers who provided counsel at junior and senior level, respectively, for the Office of the State Solicitor and for the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of financial aid that will be provided to the escalating emergency in east Africa; if any additional...
- Passport Applications
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 28 June 2011, if he will support a matter (details supplied). [21488/11]
- Department of Finance
- Vehicle Registration Tax
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an application made to the Revenue Commissioners to delete a certain vehicle registration (details supplied). [22033/11]
- Departmental Reports
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance the specific date on which the report from the Office of Public Works-chaired working group regarding the former ISPAT site at Haulbowline, County...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance the provision that has been made at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, following the merger of Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance when mortgage interest relief will be increased to 30% for first time buyers between 2004 and 2008 as committed to in the Programme for Government;...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if all financial institutions in receipt of State support have provided cost-cutting plans to him to avoid increases in interest rates as described...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 7 June 2011, the reason he refused to release information on the bonuses awarded to staff of the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider establishing a commission of inquiry into the way the ACC bank was run and its alleged connections with republican subversives,...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent ECB interest rate increase, the implications and costs of this for Ireland in respect of the interest rate charged on our...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he would introduce legislation to promote recourse mortgages and handing back of keys and loans to mortgage companies to avoid the current...
- Government Debt
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total debt to GDP ratios for 2011 to 2015, inclusive; if he will indicate whether national debt levels of over 80% of GDP are...
- EU-IMF Programme
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will renew his valuable current efforts to secure a cut in interest rates on EU loans for the bailout programme; his views that Ireland should...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the growth rate for Ireland in quarters 1, 2, 3 and 4 of 2011 and for the same quarters of 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned by the apparent disconnect between Irish savings and investment as outlined in recent Central Bank and Department reports; the way...
- Employment Levels
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if he agrees with various celebrity economists that Irish employment levels will fall steadily to 2016 and beyond to 2021; and if he will make a...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the possible tax implications for Ireland's positive external balance in comparison with other eurozone peripheral countries; if he agrees that the...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the ongoing deterioration of Irish competitiveness as revealed in the harmonised competitiveness indicators; the steps he and...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the current level of the Irish structural deficit; how this has changed in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; his targets to eliminate...
- Interest Rates
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the views expressed by him and colleagues in relation to the recent ECB interest rate rise; his view on whether the rise was helpful to struggling...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total cost to the Exchequer and the Irish people so far of the bank bailout; if he is concerned at reports that another €35...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the full impact of the new loan-to-deposit, LTD, ratio of 122.5% on Irish banks; the parallel strategy he will undertake to...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount paid to senior bondholders in the covered institutions since Q4 2008, especially including the amounts paid in 2011 and up to the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident that the two pillar banking model will survive through the ongoing banking crisis and if he has given any consideration to the...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether major write-downs plus equity for bondholders are crucial elements of the recapitalisation and restoration of Irish banks; and...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering in the context of budget 2012 encouraging competition in the Irish retail bank market including incentives to attract major new...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full report on the recent establishment of the Credit Union Commission; the persons he has appointed to the commission; the...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the number of illicitly imported tobacco products that have been seized by An Garda Síochána and Revenue officials in 2007,...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed merger of EBS and AIB; if all the EBS staff will transfer to AIB; if the EBS and AIB branch system will be...
- Financial Services Sector
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons currently employed in banking and financial services here in 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of outstanding loans lent by Irish-based legal moneylenders as notified to the Financial Regulator in 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011;...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which he will publish the Betting (Amendment) Bill 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21846/11]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Graduate Retention
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has undertaken any research on the number of postgraduates who have been awarded higher research degrees in the areas if science...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [21453/11]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delays in compensation for loss of hours and redundancy for specifically for special needs assistants. [21484/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the tender at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath for construction of a new school building; and...
- Grant Payments
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants made through National Lottery funding under the heading of locally based community grants and community development...
- Schools Statistics
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full list of primary and secondary schools in County Cork; and if he will further provide a breakdown of the...
- School Transport
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown on a school basis of the number of children availing of the school transport scheme in County Cork for...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a third level education grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mature students receiving the maintenance grant throughout the country, specifically in the counties of Galway and Mayo...
- Teaching Staff
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason substitute work completed prior to September 2008 is no longer considered when assessing teachers' eligibility to join...
- Third Level Participation
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the most recent figures on participation in third level education on a county basis and by postcode in the Dublin...
- School Staffing
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in each school in Dublin 5, Dublin 13 and Dublin 17 in September; and if he will make a...
- School Accommodation
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is committed to guaranteeing that eight places will be available for the children of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 as...
- School Transport
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the withdrawal of school transport in school (details supplied) in County Cork, if he will clarify the number of...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the mid-term review of the national plan for equity of access to higher education; if the review outlines...
- School Curriculum
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of the junior cycle; if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by teachers of history and...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he proposes to publish the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill; when the legislation is likely to be enacted; and if he...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application by a school (details supplied) in County Cavan for permanent accommodation; and if he will make...
- Literacy Levels
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent OECD Pisa Digital Literacy Test. [21773/11]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the skills agency will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21774/11]
- School Curriculum
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the roll-out of project maths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21775/11]
- School Transport
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the proposal to withdraw the existing school transport arrangements for the traveller community at a location...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that is being used for selection of headquarters for the newly configured vocational educational committees. [21779/11]
- School Staffing
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list, on a county basis, the numbers of special needs assistants working in schools in the academic year 2009/2010; and the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which has applied for major capital funding; the timeframe for...
- School Transport
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school transport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21832/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for building works in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when a decision...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for building works by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when a decision will...
- School Accommodation
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in implementing his decision to reopen a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils attending primary school by county in 2010; the number of special needs assistants positions by county; the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Departmental Bodies
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider allowing accredited researchers and genealogists to photograph for research purposes documents including...
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is currently examining any proposals for new public private partnerships; if he will indicate which public private...
- Official Engagements
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to attendance at...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how he plans to prioritise investment in school buildings, non-national roads, health care; and when this investment will...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 14 July 2011, if he will answer the first part of the question and explain the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Job Creation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will estimate the total number of citizens in employment in Quarter 1, 2007; Q1, 2008; Q1, 2009; Q1, 2010; Q1, 2011,...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is concerned at the ongoing deterioration of Irish competitiveness as revealed in the Harmonised Competitiveness...
- State Agencies
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ensure that the IDA Ireland Border-area headquarters remains in Cavan town; and if he will make a statement on...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding, by county, allocated to the county enterprise boards for 2010 and 2011; the number of grants offered and taken...
- Department of Social Protection
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of unemployed persons availing of the FÁS work placement scheme in north-west Dublin; the details of the local employers...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will find the €55 million of savings elsewhere in her departmental budget rather than eroding the progress made for our senior...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 12 July 2011, if she will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Staff
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff that are employed as community welfare officers (details supplied) both part and full time; her plans to reduce these...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a back to school clothing and footwear application 2011 form in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when this person will expect to be called for an oral...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when this person will expect a decision. [21467/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when this person will expect a decision. [21474/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when this person will expect a decision. [21475/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if she will...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 3 May 2011, if there has been further progress with her plans for community employment...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal of illness benefit claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [21549/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; if same is being paid;...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if...
- Photographic Identification
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the categories of social welfare recipients that will be required to produce photographic identification in order to pick up their...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an oral hearing arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) was cancelled; and if another early date will be set for the...
- Community Work Placements
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Tús programme places available locally in Dublin north-west; the community organisations availing of those places; and if...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, in view of recent investigations into social welfare fraud, the amount that can be deducted from convicted fraudsters under current...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent that she has examined the impact of the economic downturn on various persons who may not, for whatever reason, qualify for a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects to increase the budget for her Department under various headings in the coming year in order to combat...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the number applying for various payments administered by her Department increased in the past 12 months; and if she...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if habitual residency clause criteria, as applied here to persons born in the UK, is similarly applied to Irish persons applying for...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when it is likely that all appeals pending can be determined within a reasonable time, with particular reference to those on appeal in...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Art Collections
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has an inventory of the art collections held by the various covered financial institutions; if he will request the...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to attendance at...
- Offshore Islands
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will make a budget available to Donegal's offshore islands in the years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; his proposals for...
- Commemorative Initiatives
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has been in contact with the British authorities with a view to securing the return of any personal items, papers or...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telephone Hacking
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the security arrangements in place for Government Ministers, senior officials in the civil and public sector,...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the changes announced to the greener homes scheme; the categories of item now included in this scheme; the...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that a fair and equitable market will be created between existing wind farms and renewable...
- Fuel Poverty
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he proposes to take to address the persistent problem of fuel poverty in Irish society; if he will...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if concerns have been raised with him over ComReg's proposal to turn off the 900 MHz GSM voice and text service...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the national digital switchover; when the national information campaign will commence;...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Noise Pollution
Question 217: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the rules and guidelines his Department has issued in relation to noise pollution created by home owners and...
- Planning Issues
Question 218: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the new proposal which will see planning permission required to reclaim land; and if he will...
- Official Engagements
Question 219: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 220: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a sum of €445,000 of regeneration funding is to used for...
- Waste Management
Question 221: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Fingal County Council's plan to spend €90 million on the construction of a super-dump is a valid use of...
- Building Regulations
Question 222: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, in view of widely available civil engineering publications from 1987 (details supplied) all of which...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 223: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the social housing waiting list in County Cork; if he will provide a breakdown of...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 226: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposals to extract water from the River Shannon for the midlands and greater...
- Flood Relief
Question 227: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he received a request from a county council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fire Stations
Question 228: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the proposed new fire station in Glencolmcille in County Donegal will start construction stage; if he...
- Litter Pollution
Question 229: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 31 May 2011 and No. 283 of 7 June 2011, his views on an...
- Water Charges
Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has performed a cost benefit analysis on the feasibility of a national water metering...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 231: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the allocations that were made by local authority from the Local Government Fund in 2010 and 2011; if...
- Local Authority Services
Question 232: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the home adaptation and essential repairs grant allocations that were made by local authorities, in 2010 and...
- Tax Collection
Question 233: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts that were collected in motor tax on a county basis in 2009 and 2010, both online and directly...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 234: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost in 2010 of administering the County and City Managers' Association; if those funds were raised from...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will seek a common approach by local authorities to persons who have or are due to lose their homes...
- Voluntary Housing
Question 236: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the allocations that were made to housing associations, by association, in 2010; the capital projects are...
- Unauthorised Developments
Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent of live unauthorised development cases on a county by county basis; the number of same that are...
- National Housing Development Survey
Question 238: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses in housing estates, on a county basis, that are under construction and not yet taken in...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the final position has now been agreed in regard to a grant for refurbishment works of an area (details...
- Local Authority Services
Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider giving directions to all local authorities on the need to ensure the sustainable future...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 243: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to permit local authorities to refuse to release the bonds that are...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Citizenship Applications
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to previous parliamentary questions regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who is now on the list for three years,...
- Crime Levels
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women who have been arrested for soliciting in the Bridewell Garda district area for each of the past ten years; the...
- Official Engagements
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in attendance at Ministerial Councils for...
- Crime Levels
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidences of farm-related crime, including theft of machinery, oil and cattle rustling, reported to the Garda on a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied). [21524/11]
- Crime Levels
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of tiger kidnapping offences committed in each of the past five years; the number of prosecutions that have been initiated...
- Firearms Licences
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 23 June 2011, the reason the statistical information sought is not readily available, in...
- Control of Firearms
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will explain to Dáil Éireann the reason the wording of chapter 39 of the Garda code, which sets out the extent of the...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reply to a matter (details supplied) regarding the introduction of identifying stickers on cans and bottles. [21589/11]
- Garda Stations
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been brought to the fact that the Office of Public Works and the Garda authorities have been in consultation with...
- Deportation Orders
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for leave to remain in the State in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
- Garda Investigations
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reassure ACC Bank customers whose complaints (details supplied) are currently being investigated by the Garda that the...
- Garda Vetting Service
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address the backlog in respect of Garda vetting of persons applying to be personal assistants in independent living centres....
- Proposed Legislation
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the criminal justice (forensic investigations) Bill will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21752/11]
- Garda Operations
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda checkpoints established in the years 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011 to facilitate random breath checks on...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 November 2010, if the report is now available; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Official Engagements
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Defence the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to attendance at Ministerial Councils for...
- Irish Red Cross
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether issues regarding the corporate governance of the Irish Red Cross should be referred to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence...
- Civil Defence
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Defence the consequences for a Civil Defence building (details supplied) arising from his decision to abolish the board of the Civil Defence and reverse the...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Departmental Staff
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on a proposal (details supplied) that would address personnel shortages within the Department of Agriculture,...
- Forestry Sector
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he is taking to ensure that replanting orders issued to private land-holders are fulfilled with the 12 month...
- EU Directives
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has had or plans to hold discussions with his European counterparts and the EU commission regarding the EU directive...
- Official Engagements
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to attendance at...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will appoint temporary staff to the Bord Iascaigh Mhara, BIM, training school in Castletownbere, County Cork, to allow...
- Freedom of Information
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will examine the files that became available to a person (details supplied) under the Data Protection and Freedom of...
- Grant Payments
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amounts of grant payments made, on a county basis, under the various farm payments in 2010; the way same changed from...
- Horticulture Sector
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the value of the horticulture industry, on a county basis, in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21651/11]
- Grant Payments
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will issue on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if a copy of...
- Milk Quota
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) in County Offaly for additional milk quota; when a...
- Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will take steps to expedite an application by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath under the Farm...
- Bovine Disease Controls
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the procedures that were followed in the transfer of herd number (details supplied); if the herd number was transferred...
- Department of Health
- Official Engagements
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in her Department in respect of attendance at ministerial...
- Children in Care
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in State care on a regional basis; and if a comprehensive study will be undertaken to ascertain the...
- Foster Care
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 15 June 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [21858/11]
- Foster Care
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 544 of 15 June 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [21859/11]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of the accident and emergency department at Galway University Hospital; the actual capacity up to July 2011 based on the level of...
- Hospital Staff
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health the membership of the Review Group on Guthrie Cards; the professional background of these individuals; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Mortality Statistics
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in the State from hypothermia in winter 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. [21446/11]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges the accuracy of the figures produced by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation showing that almost 1,900 acute hospital beds...
- Hospital Services
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health if it is still the case, as stated by the Health Service Executive in May 2011, that there are no plans to remove any services from the Midland...
- Ambulance Service
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself that the catchment of Roscommon County Hospital presently complies with the Health Information and Quality Authority...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the prescription levy has not been removed by now. [21490/11]
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health if he will be establishing targets and outcomes in the new campaign to reduce cigarette smoking here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Official Engagements
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department regarding to attendance at Ministerial Councils for which...
- Health Services
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of service to teenagers suffering form type 1 diabetes; and his further views on whether a reorganisation of diabetes...
- Hospital Services
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a date for surgery for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21521/11]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health if an inquiry by the Health Service Executive into contract awards to two building companies, Owenbee Services and Mallerwood Construction, was...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the general medical scheme of a product (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21545/11]
- Ambulance Service
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding provision of ambulance services for Carnew, County Wicklow; the ambulance cover that is provided; and if there are plans to...
- Hospital Services
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding the regrading of hospitals here in terms of module four, module three, module two and module one; the position regarding same;...
- Hospital Staff
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that a number of locum junior doctors will be leaving their posts in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, in the...
- Health Services
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health the date that the interim funding for the local drugs task force will be released; if he will be prepared to offer letters of comfort to the projects...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health when a fair deal application for nursing home support in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved; and if he will make...
- Health Services
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health the financial assistance or services available to persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; if he will expedite a reply from the Health Service...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the breakdown of the €13 million allocated for the development of St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; the amount allotted to each...
- Health Services
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Health if support and equipment required as notified to the Health Service Executive will be provided as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details...
- Medical Cards
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card under appeal will be approved and expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [21674/11]
- Hospital Procedures
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health when the special delivery unit will be in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21839/11]
- Health Services
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the present closure of the ten-bed ear, nose and throat ward in Sligo General Hospital; and the savings this can incur when...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Roads Network
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to continue the local improvement scheme; if existing schemes will continue to be supported in the event of its...
- Rail Network
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual subvention to Irish Rail; and the way this is divided between track, rolling stock, services and fuel. [21457/11]
- Public Transport Projects
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the position regarding the metro north; if he will ensure same will go ahead due to the potential opportunity to create 4,000...
- Official Engagements
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the level of participation and responsibility of each Minister of State in his Department in relation to attendance at...
- Road Network
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if funding under the specific improvements grants scheme will be allocated for the realignment of Garrycastle Bridge in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport when he will have the initial estimates for the current and capital transport budgets for 2012; and if he will make a statement...
- Public Transport Projects
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport when the public will know if the metro north, the rail interconnector and the Luas BX and Luas link-up will proceed; and if he...
- Road Traffic Legislation
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if the heads of the Bill for the proposed new road traffic Bill No. 3 have been drawn up yet; the broad scheme of measures that...
- Road Safety
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the number of motorists that have been charged and found guilty of driving under the influence of illegal drugs each year since...
- Vehicle Testing Centres
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he has received a report from the Road Safety Authority on their investigation into alleged illegal practices at some...
- Driver Testing Service
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport the pass and failure rates at each driving test centre around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Travel Tax
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the measures to abolish the air travel tax under the recent jobs initiative; if an agreement has been...
- Taxi Regulation
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent proposals from the National Transport Authority for the taxi industry including a uniform fleet, fleet...
- Consumer Protection
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce legislation specifically to prohibit the practice of tampering with a vehicle's odometer; if he will...
- Public Transport
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the integrated ticketing system will be fully implemented on the bus, Luas, DART and rail system across the greater Dublin...
- Road Safety
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned at the number of incidents in which vehicles have collided with Luas trams, in view of the massive...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the Department of Justice and Equality on bringing new legislation forward targeting anti-social...
- Maritime Safety
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if EU Directive 95/21/EC on enhancing maritime safety, including pollution prevention and shipboard living and working...
- Port Development
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding proposals to develop Bremore Port, Fingal; if proposals for long-term co-operation between Dublin Port...
- Ferry Services
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is taking any initiatives to enhance Ireland's ferry connectivity with our British, Scandinavian and continental European...
- Rural Transport
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the erection of bus shelters with bus timetables in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, and the surrounding...
