Written answers
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
- Department of Health
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive no longer collects data on waiting times for outpatient waiting lists; his plans to change the criteria; the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the number of consultants who are not complying with the 80:20 public-private mix as outlined in their contracts; the actions that...
- Health Service Plan
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012 stated that the plan will have to be reviewed once the full impact of...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health if he has quantified the level of reduction in day services, residential and respite services as a result of cuts to the budget for disability; and if...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute public inpatient hospital beds closed; the number of wards closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8337/12]
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health if the new institutional arrangements planned for the Health Service Executive will return direct responsibility to him and his Department; if so, the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on all current initiatives to address waiting times and overcrowding in Beaumont Hospital accident and emergency unit, Dublin; and...
- Hospital Staff
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on the survey carried out by the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, which suggests that more than half of registrar...
- Health Service Staff
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health when the promised appointment will be made to the position of director of mental health services in view of the fact that a comprehensive and detailed...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to implement the recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission in relation to the regulation of professional home care, in view of his...
- Health Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which the bulk of the reductions in staff, pay costs and efficiencies that the Health Service Executive is required to deliver in 2012...
- Hospital Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of medical services at St. Vincent's University Hospital, St. Columcille's Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital,...
- Mental Health Services
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health the contingency plan in place to address the staffing crisis in the mental health services as a result of the 400 front line nurses retiring, on top...
- Hospital Staff
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health the number, if any, of maternity staff in Holles Street hospital, the Mid-Western Regional Hospital and elsewhere who will be re-employed following...
- Hospital Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the cystic fibrosis unit in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; his plans to extend the cystic fibrosis services; if he will take...
- Health Services
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health if an exception will be given to the early intervention team in the Health Service Executive north west to hire speech and language therapists in view...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health the role of the special delivery unit; the way that it plans to spend the €85 million in its 2012 allocation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who could be affected by the loss of 192 home help workers following the conclusion of the early retirement scheme; and if he...
- Health Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health the way in which any change in the non-acute budget for the mid-west in 2012 compares proportionally to other areas in Health Service Executive west...
- National Substance Misuse Strategy
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations of the national misuse strategy steering group that he is willing to accept; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8363/12]
- Tax Code
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health if he has liaised with the Department of Finance regarding the introduction of taxes on high fructose corn syrup, sugar, transfats or any other type...
- Health Service Staff
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the cuts in pay and hours that have been applied to personal assistants who provide support to persons with severe disabilities;...
- Health Insurance
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to tackle the increase in VHI premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8360/12]
- Health Service Plan
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health in view of his repeated commitment to enhance the role of smaller hospitals, and in view of the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012,...
- Hospital Services
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health if he will made a statement on the recent major cuts to services at Waterford Regional Hospital. [8347/12]
- Health Services
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health his views on a recent report by the Law Reform Commission which recommends that the Health Information and Quality Authority be empowered to regulate...
- Health Service Staff
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of health personnel excluding administration and management staff currently working in the private health sector; the numbers engaged...
- Health Services
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health if patient groups and local representatives will be involved in advance of any decision by him to close community nursing units; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health if there are contingency plans to address the staffing arising from mass retirements in each of the Health Service Executive regions and hospital...
- Health Services
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health the extra staff and services, over and above those available in 2011, that will be provided by the alleged additional €35 million ring fenced for...
- Medicinal Products
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making Sativex available on prescription through chemists here [8285/12]
- Primary Care Strategy
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health if the new primary care headquarters under construction in area 5 covering Lucan, Clondalkin, Rathcoole, Saggart, Palmerstown and Newcastle, Dublin,...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the setting aside of the decision to close St. Brigid's nursing home, Crooksling, pending a review, whose terms of reference have...
- Hospital Services
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish his report on mortality rates at acute hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8289/12]
- Health Service Staff
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number and cost of re-employing staff following the conclusion if the early retirement scheme at the end of February; and if he will...
- Medical Cards
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the review of the operation of the centralised medical card application facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8331/12]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the proposed national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8338/12]
- Suicide Prevention
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health when the position of director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention will be appointed on a permanent basis. [8281/12]
- Care of the Elderly
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a commitment to retain and resource public nursing homes, including those with fewer than 50 beds; and if he will make a statement on...
- Hospital Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health if he was consulted on or if he intervened in the review of outpatient services at Cavan and Monaghan general hospitals which has resulted in a...
- Disability Support Service
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the programme for Government commitment to address the need for further compensation for victims of Thalidomide; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address overcrowding at Galway and Roscommon hospitals group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8288/12]
- Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of public nursing homes at respective locations throughout the country; the number of patients therein; the number of such patients...
- Hospital Services
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to tackle the distress that alcohol fuelled consultation causes to staff and other patients in hospital accident and emergency...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the aims of the independence movement in Kashmir; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8693/12]
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the annual cost of maintaining the Irish embassies in London, Washington DC, Brussels, Moscow, Buenos Aires and...
- Foreign Trade
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the volume of imports from Israel in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and the percentage of those imports that are from companies...
- EU Presidency
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal...
- Department of Finance
- Pension Provisions
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if she will review section 19 of the Finance Act which forces the average individual with an average pension fund of circa €200,000 to €250,000...
- Motor Vehicle Registration
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance the ways in which it is possible to change the registration number on a vehicle subsequent to its first Irish registration; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct officials in Revenue to make inspections to ascertain if a company (details supplied) has unlawfully claimed relief on import duty...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the benefits that will be allowed for an employee under the special assignee relief programme; and if the employee will be entitled to a medical...
- Tax Code
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 11 January 2012, if he will release the analysis and recommendations provided to him on this issue; if...
- Tax Collection
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a possible revenue raising initiative (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8657/12]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance with respect to the National Asset Management Agency Q3 2011 accounts, the total amount of interest actually received by NAMA for that quarter and...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total number of loans held by the National Asset Management Agency that are performing; the average interest rate being paid...
- State Banking Sector
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by the State-funded EBS and Bank of Ireland in preparing the submissions of their respective chief executives for the Central Bank...
- EU Presidency
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council Presidency...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Meals Policy
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are specific guidelines for schools in relation to the times allowed for school children to eat lunch to ensure that children...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided by him towards the operation of AONTAS for the years 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Schemes
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the future plans for the summer works scheme and minor works grants; if these schemes are being phased out, the funding that will be...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 97: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna cad é an staid reatha i gcás Scoil Náisiúnta Ghort an Choirce, Uimhir 16819T. Gealladh scoil nua do Ghort an Choirce ach anois, nuair...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full list of the allowances and payments referred to in a Circular 003/2012 and corresponding amounts in tabular...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of public funding given by him to subsidise and support the network of Irish summer colleges in 2011; the budgetary...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the work to encourage school book rental schemes; if he will consider implementing a national scheme, or in some way...
- School Accommodation
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of pupils and schools currently being accommodated in prefabricated buildings in the country and in County Wicklow;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that 30 December 2011 is the closing date for applications for submissions regarding resource teachers and not 25...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working directly for the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, that is, constituency staff, and the cost...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review he established in relation to cuts to legacy posts for DEIS schools; if the group tasked with the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has a long-term strategic plan to integrate children with special needs into mainstream classes; and if he will make a statement...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person who owns the premises which were used by Monavalley FÁS centre, Tralee, County Kerry; and what is being done with the...
- Irish Language
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his best estimate of the cost to the Exchequer of teaching Irish in our primary and secondary schools; and if he will make a statement...
- School Staffing
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to his Department for chaplaincy services in secondary schools; noting that their role is different to school guidance...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing transition year to schools; if he will provide the breakdown of the costs incurred to him by transition year; and...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 14 December 2011, the number of legal cases taken against County Cork Vocational Education...
- EU Presidency
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice and legal...
- Educational Projects
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish a database or network of PhD students at universities in the country and details of their work so as to create a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to extend the freedom of information Acts to vocational education committees; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the minimum amount of money spent by a Government Department that must be made public as an individual itemised line in the...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the national development plan is to be reviewed; and his plans for this review. [8775/12]
- EU Presidency
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Departmental Bodies
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of employees in the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; and the total number of ODCE employees...
- Work Permits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the way in which a person (details supplied) from Canada who is authorised because of special skills to...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports in place for persons who wish to set up a business. [8796/12]
- Job Creation
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to provide employment opportunities for County Meath. [8799/12]
- Economic Competitiveness (1 comment)
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that a free and fair market exists for cement in this country; his views on the cost differential per...
- EU Presidency
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice...
- Department of Social Protection
- Redundancy Payments
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a statutory redundancy application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [8546/12]
- Pension Provisions
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funds in additional voluntary contribution schemes can be made available for early draw down thereby creating a more humane and...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a decision on an appeal for domiciliary care allowance. [8504/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making all participants in the CERRS, Tús and CSB schemes the same as social welfare recipients and classify them as...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have an appeal heard. [8518/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied). [8520/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a supplementary benefit appeal will be heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [8524/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Redundancy Payments
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their rebate payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8537/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for farm assist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the enactment of the partial capacity benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8661/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of migrants claiming benefits here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8668/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; if it is being awarded; the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of all community employment schemes in County Louth in tabular form; the numbers of participants per scheme;...
- Departmental Staff
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that community welfare officers have been transferred from the Department of Health to the Department of Social...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update from the group formed in her Department to examine the position of part-time fire-fighters with respect to...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in expediting a decision on an appeal on an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify changes made in budget 2012 to one-parent family payments for applicants who applied after 27 April 2011 and whose...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of qualified adults in relation to whom a payment is being made minus those qualified adults that are of pension age. [8746/12]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide tables updating those contained on pages 96 to 108 of the report on the desirability and feasibility of introducing a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown by age of the number of recipients of one-parent family payment. [8757/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension appeals; the length of time it is taking for decisions to be made on IP appeals; the steps she...
- EU Presidency
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the preparations she has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost to her Department of the provision of external legal services to the Department in respect of legal advice and legal...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of public funding given by him to subsidise and support the network of Irish summer colleges in 2011; the...
- Designated Areas
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of appeals submitted to his Department with regard to proposed SPAs in west County Donegal; if all appeals and...
- EU Presidency
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to the Department in respect of legal advice...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Grant Payments
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not yet received payment under the Sustainable Energy...
- Mobile Telephony
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of complaints ComReg has received in relation to a premium mobile phone number 57675. [8515/12]
- EU Directives
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the pathway for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive for 2020, in view of...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a service under the rural broadband scheme will be offered to persons in County Tipperary (details...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm who will carry out the report into the practice of fracking on his behalf; the...
- EU Presidency
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Planning Issues
Question 195: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the need for a national organisation to support the effective and sustainable strategic...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 199: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of the operation of the Private Residential Tenancies Board; if he will provide a breakdown...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons for applying the household charge to persons who also pay a non-residential property tax; if...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of recognised voluntary housing bodies currently operating here; the number of housing units...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 205: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to introducing a tenant purchase scheme for housing units built under the...
- Foreshore Licences
Question 206: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the lease of the foreshore licence at Burtonport Harbour to Donegal County Council; the date...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 207: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority will only allow payment of the household charge in cash and refuses to accept a credit...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of funding still available in his Department through the dormant accounts fund; and the...
- Fire Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the sectors from within the public service that Dublin City Council intends to fill fire-fighter vacancies...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 210: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the household charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and...
- EU Presidency
Question 214: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 215: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Coroners Service
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the outcome of the coroner's inquest into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he...
- Departmental Funding
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he can make it a requirement that non-governmental organisations that receive funding from him in return for such funding respect...
- Garda Transport
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community Garda vans in operation in each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the stations to which they are attached...
- Charities Act
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not commenced the 2009 Charities Act, which refers to a sector worth €6 billion and employing a similar number of...
- Garda Investigations
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to date of the investigation into Anglo Irish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8784/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total annual budget of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation for the past 12 months; and the total moneys spent by the Garda...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been convicted under provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 due to failure to comply with such an...
- Asylum Applications
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the drop in the rate of positive determinations for asylum protection applications from 38.7% to 2.9% between Q4 of 2009...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will run a recruitment campaign during 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/12]
- EU Presidency
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice and legal...
- Defence Forces Personnel
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel by rank that have indicated their intention to retire before 29 February 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
- EU Presidency
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Defence the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 11 January 2012, if payment has issued to a person (details supplied) in...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place to allay legitimate concerns (details supplied) about the effects of a proposed forest surrounding a...
- Grant Payments
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to farmers in the Gap of Dunloe, Blackvalley, County Kerry who have horses and ponies, will they be able to...
- Agricultural Imports
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of agricultural and horticultural produce imported from Israel in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and the percentage of...
- Fur Farming
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the report and findings of the review group set up by him to review the issue of fur farming; and if...
- Grant Payments
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a grassland sheep payment for 2011 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- EU Presidency
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice...
- Department of Health
- EU Presidency
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preparations she has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total cost to her Department of the provision of external legal services to her Department in respect of legal advice and...
- Medical Cards
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued an over 70 years medical card. [8519/12]
- Water Fluoridation
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health the amount the insertion of fluoride into water costs the State on an annual basis. [8554/12]
- Medical Cards
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a medical card. [8506/12]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a hearing aid. [8507/12]
- Medical Cards
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health when a determination will be made on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
- Mental Health Services
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, by discipline, of all inpatient and outpatient staff in the mental health services that were in place by the end of...
- Medical Cards
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical card. [8547/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for urgent surgical intervention in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Funding
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health the total revenue grant given to the Food Safety Promotion Board, SafeFood, in 2011; his Department's budget provision for revenue grant in 2012; and...
- Health Service Properties
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health the terms and conditions that the Health Service Executive has agreed with Respond Housing Association with regard to development in Dungloe, County...
- Medical Cards
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied). [8659/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health when a cancer patient (details supplied) in County Longford will be called for treatment to Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working directly for the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall - that is, constituency staff - and the cost involved; the number of...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health, in view of the fact that community welfare officers have been transferred from his Department to the Department of Social Protection, the persons...
- Medical Cards
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health the reason Pradaxa was removed from the drug allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8683/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths due to a certain illness (details supplied) at a Dublin hospital in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in respect of their application for a medical card, which has been...
- Departmental Funding
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will provide funding to Dignity for Patients, the support organisation which provides counselling services for...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to calls from Oireachtas Members in counties Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan for an inquiry into allegations of abuse of patients...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health if he will make contact with the primary care reimbursement service with a view to the immediate processing of a change of doctor application...
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which intensive research, or any research, continues to be conducted here with a view to determination of the cause or causes of...
- Medical Research
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of research currently ongoing in respect of the various forms of cancer, heart, lung and-or kidney conditions; the extent to which...
- Health Services
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of long-term patients requiring constant nursing care currently residing in public or private nursing homes; the full extent of the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients currently residing in general hospitals and awaiting transfer to either public or private nursing homes; the extent of...
- Health Services
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of stroke patients currently in private nursing homes and in public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Medical Cards
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health the length of time currently taken to process an application for a medical card; the extent to which the process can be expedited; and if he will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of staff at all levels of management throughout the public health sector; the extent to which such management numbers compares with...
- Health Services
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the total requirement in terms of beds for stroke or Alzheimer's patients has been identified; the provision likely to be made...
- Medical Cards
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health if he will make contact with the PCRS with a view to having an urgent medical card application processed immediately, which was initially submitted...
- Hospital Services
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the status of the closed respite beds in the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary; when...
- Health Services
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health if and when a centre for dialysis treatment will be catered for in north Kildare; his plans if any in regard to same; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Services
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health if there will be any change in service in Dungloe Community Hospital, County Donegal, in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8783/12]
- Health Services
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated in the Health Service Executive West service plan for County Donegal for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012; the number...
- Medical Cards
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [8806/12]
- Health Services
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in developing the clinical care programmes within the Health Service Executive, particularly, with regard to reducing the...
- Medical Cards
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the...
- EU Presidency
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU Council Presidency...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice and legal services each...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- State Airports
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the pre-clearance arrangements being put in place for the US military at Shannon Airport, County Clare; and the practical...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when sports grants will be available for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8510/12]
- Public Transport
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make any funding available in 2012 in respect of a project (details supplied). [8525/12]
- Tourism Industry
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an attraction (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive development funding; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rail Services
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that bikes are not allowed on commuter or DART trains before 10 a.m. and between 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.; the reason...
- EU Presidency
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the preparations he has undertaken for the Irish Presidency of the EU Council in January 2013; the amount of money spent on EU...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost to his Department of the provision of external legal services to his Department in respect of legal advice and...
