Written answers
Thursday, 22 November 2012
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Employment Rights
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will develop the code of practise on access to part-time working to promote the entitlement to additional hours of work. [51894/12]
- Emigration Levels
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the impact on the Labour Market of the increased levels of emigration experienced since this Government came to power....
- Employment Rights
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he intends to safeguard the rights of migrant workers under the workplace relations legislation. [51889/12]
- Enterprise Support Services
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation what has been achieved by promotion of the €10 million fund to attract inward entrepreneurial startups; the number of applications...
- Public Procurement
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to increase access by the small and medium enterprises sector to Government procurement. [51885/12]
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives that his Department is taking to address the structural nature of long term unemployment through job creation. [51896/12]
- Departmental Bodies
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason behind the decision to abolish the office of the Chief Scientific Adviser; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51812/12]
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a timeframe for the introduction of the new workplace relations legislation. [51890/12]
- Skills Shortages
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives he is taking in view of last months report by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which his Department is working with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland to promote job...
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has examined the potential for a national community investment fund as promised in the Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a...
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the consultation he has had with the Department of Social Protection regarding the jobbridge scheme; his views on whether the current...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs announced by the Industrial Development Agency over the past five years and the total number of these additional and new...
- Business Costs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he proposes to reduce costs for businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51850/12]
- Visa Applications
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is considering the introduction of a new, dedicated visa for citizens of other countries to come to Ireland to take up employment in...
- Enterprise Support Services
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to support enterprise development in the midland and western regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which job creation potential has been maximised under the heading of innovation and technology in each of the past three...
- Enterprise Ireland Investments
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made on the women in business startup drive since the end of the application period in September; and if he will...
- Enterprise Support Services
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he proposed to help startups in the healthcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51839/12]
- Local Enterprise Offices
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason business organisations were not included in the consultation group on the future of local enterprise boards; his views on the...
- Scientific and Technological Fund
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the recent claims that demands by Science Foundation Ireland that State supported research must deliver an economic or social...
- Industrial Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the mechanisms that have been developed to promote and deliver early stage investment by the Irish diaspora in new indigenous and inward...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of jobs welcomed by his Department for each of the past three years, and the number of these additional jobs in situ by...
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact recent declines in chemical and related projects may have on employment and Departmental strategy. [51901/12]
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will account for the delay in implementing nine measures of the action plan for jobs that were due in Quarter three of this year....
- Sick Pay Scheme
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the research has been carried out by his Department on the impact on jobs and business viability of increasing the...
- European Regional Grant Aid
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the changed economic environment, if he has sought to renegotiate the European regional grant aid regime that governs the grants...
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of actions in the action plan for jobs that have been implemented to date; his estimate of the number of jobs that have been...
- Local Enterprise Offices
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way funding will be distributed across the proposed LEO network and the way this will reflect local levels of unemployment and need....
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the investment and employment goals that have been achieved by collaboration between Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation having regard to the various job creation initiatives put in place in the past two years, if particular areas of job creation have...
- Credit Availability
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that the small and medium enterprise sector is receiving the credit it needs; the uptake to date regarding the credit...
- Foreign Direct Investment
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is concerned that Ireland is overly reliant on the pharmaceutical sector for its exports; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Youth Unemployment
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken by his Department to create employment for young people who are not in employment, education or training. [51882/12]
- Employment Rights
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is assured that all Exchequer funded construction projects are completed in accordance with registered employment agreements; and if...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his responsibilities in relation to policy on job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44103/12]
- Economic Competitiveness
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a copy of the EU study on competitiveness across the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45659/12]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Diplomatic Representation
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the decision to close the Vatican Embassy will be reconsidered in view of the fact that Finland has an Embassy to the Holy...
- Immigration Policy
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to increase the number of countries that the Irish passport is visa free to enter; and if he will make a statement on...
- Human Rights Issues
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the need to stop the crime of organ harvesting in China (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Middle East Peace Process
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts in relation to the outbreak of violence in the Gaza strip; and if he will...
- Department of Finance
- Carbon Budget
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give an assurance that no carbon tax will be imposed on solid fuel considering that at present solid fuel is the only option of heating for many people;...
- Child Benefit Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Finance the feasibility and cost of taxing child benefit for high income earners who may fall over a defined high income threshold; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance if the deadline for mortgage interest relief applications will be extended past the end of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51930/12]
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the level of money at which a pension becomes subject to the marginal rate; the number of pensioners that were subject to taxation at the standard rate in 2010;...
- Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the first time buyer interest tax relief deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51937/12]
- Black Economy
To ask the Minister for Finance the loss of revenue to the Exchequer caused by the black economy operators in the motor vehicle tyre industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51990/12]
- Job Losses
To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent announcement of job losses at Liberty Insurance, the status of the commitment given at the time of the sale of the company last year that...
- Tax Compliance
To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives he proposes for the Revenue Commissioners to combat fraud particularly in the construction sector; if he will consider linking tax relief to...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the possible impact that a sugar tax would have on inflation; his views on the possibility of reducing VAT for some healthier foods in order to neutralise the...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of employees receiving basic salaries of more than €100,000 per year, more than €200,000 per year, more...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal for a student maintenance grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Teacher Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a query regarding teaching (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51932/12]
- Third Level Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives being taken by him to combat a drop of 17% in postgraduate registrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51944/12]
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will furnish particular details of each person who has been awarded added years under the professional added years for superannuation purposes...
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce more mandatory subjects for leaving certificate along with English, Irish and Math; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Higher Education Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing more career specific colleges similar to teacher training colleges or business schools, covering a wider range of...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding teaching posts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51955/12]
- Student Grant Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payment will issue in respect of a student (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51980/12]
- Disadvantaged Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the position of schools which following amalgamation have lost full DEIS status; if he will have regard to the staffing implications...
- Bullying in Schools
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives he has taken or proposes to take to ensure that bullying of all kinds is effectively tackled at school level; if he is satisfied that...
- Student Registration Fees
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had any consultation with the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to the 100% increase in registration fees for non EEA nationals...
- National Educational Psychological Service
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 15 November 2012, when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will be assessed by the National...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 15 November 2012, if a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive additional resource hours...
- School Enrolments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school entry places (details supplied). [52003/12]
- Education and Training Boards
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if under Section 28(2) of the new Educational and Training Boards Bill he has made an order yet in relation to the composition of the new Educational...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on the Student Universal Support Ireland application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; the date...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in consideration of the delays being experienced by the Student Universal Support Ireland application process which is having an adverse effect on...
- Higher Education Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in recognition of the recent completion and additions of new infrastructure to many of the State supported universities and IT's if a framework exists...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a computer in respect of a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52123/12]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Procurement Contracts
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action that will be taken to ensure that subcontractors are paid in respect of State contracts when the main contractor is being paid but...
- State Property
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State owned buildings currently not in use; his proposals for these buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52094/12]
- Oireachtas Members' Salaries
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a query regarding TD's allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51933/12]
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken in the wake of the various jobs initiatives created by Government over the past two years to assess the extent to...
- Job Losses
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs lost in each of the past five years and to date in 2012; if in the indigenous sector or in the area of foreign direct...
- Upward Only Rent Reviews
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which upward only rent reviews continue to remain a reason for closure or job losses in the retail or commercial sectors; and...
- Economic Competitiveness
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he is satisfied of the ability of industry here to compete with the competition in domestic and export markets; and if...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent if any to which in the course of discussions with stakeholders it has been found possible to identify a means whereby existing...
- Department of Social Protection
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of temporary jobs or internships created over the past two years under the various initiatives taken by her and full time jobs created...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of determination of an appeal for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Illness Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will be assessed by their medical assessor regarding their illness benefit appeal. [51939/12]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the particular elements of the habitual residency condition that were not satisfied in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if same will...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; the reason for the delay;...
- State Pension (Contributory)
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the drop in the social pension for those that do not meet the full points, that is up to 31 August those with 36.9 points received...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a review of a decision in relation to an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Black Economy
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional steps she proposes to take to tackle the problem of the black economy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52055/12]
- Social Welfare Overpayments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which it was determined that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was deemed to have received an overpayment; and if she will make...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.111 of 25 October 2012 regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 wherein refusal of back to...
- Social Welfare Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding dietary allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which it has been concluded that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is refused jobseeker's allowance on the grounds they are not...
- Disability Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way it is concluded that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is deemed not to qualify for disability allowance under the habitual residency...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way it has been concluded that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is deemed to be not genuinely seeking employment in view of the fact...
- Illness Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in the determination of an appeal to refuse illness benefit in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who has...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when carer's allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the success rate on the pathways to works scheme since its establishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52096/12]
- Illness Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if illness benefit will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will expedited a reply or early payment. [52116/12]
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Commemorative Events
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on his plans and preparations for World War One centenary commemorations; if the plans will involve honouring...
- Turbary Rights
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the value the State places on an acre of raised bog, which is not under a special area of conservation, the rate his Department will pay...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Offshore Exploration
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to the oil find off the County Kerry coast, if he will ensure that this find will benefit County Kerry and the...
- Radio Spectrum
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects the Exchequer to receive the moneys raised by the recent multi-band spectrum auction; the amount that he...
- Exploration Licences
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the event that a company (details supplied) or any other such company found oil in Dublin Bay, if the State will own that...
- Broadcasting Licence Fee
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider reducing the cost of TV licences; the reason the national broadcaster does not cover the licence fee in...
- Broadband Services
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Ballynacargy, County Westmeath does not come under the national broadband scheme in view of the fact that they are...
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the purpose of a proposed laying of a telecommunications under water cable between Ireland and Wales in view of the fact that...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Drugs Project Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding for the North Clondalkin Safety Forum Project, which scheme is currently funded by the...
- Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has plans to introduce a tax amnesty on the non principal private residence payment for those who have been unable to pay...
- Homelessness Strategy
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that funding for homelessness is not cut in Budget 2013; the action taken by his Department to deal with...
- Waste Management
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate a complaint regarding a facility (details supplied). [51985/12]
- Election Register
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding voting rights of non-Irish citizens (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Leader Programmes
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which the Leader funding scheme, in the past administered by Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta in the Kerry...
- Fire Stations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider providing funding for a new fire service station in Kenmare, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
- Household Charge Collection
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities do not have access to the housing charge database that has the details of persons who have paid...
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Local Government Management Services Board paid a lump sum of...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Immigrant Registration
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a query regarding the Garda National Immigration Bureau card (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51931/12]
- Criminal Law
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the Law Reform Commission to report back to him on their examinations into the difficulties with Section 10 of the Non-fatal Offences...
- Legal Aid Service
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount the free legal aid provided to a person (details supplied) cost the tax payer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52012/12]
- Garda Transport
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the Garda transport fleet in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52015/12]
- Asylum Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of persons who were refused entry to the State and subsequently claimed asylum and the stated nationalities of these persons; if he will...
- Subsidiary Protection
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and entitlement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork and their three children all of whom were born...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an update of Stamp 4 was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has lived in this jurisdiction for more...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Reserve
To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to issue the Reserve Defence Forces with any of the equipment that is currently issued to the Defence Forces when it is not in use; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Personnel
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the number of promotions at all ranks that have taken place within the Defence Forces since the announcement of the...
- Defence Forces Properties
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the position of overholder residents in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare; the numbers involved; the duration for which they have...
- Defence Forces Reserve
To ask the Minister for Defence the date of publication of the value for money review; the date on which he will be extending this information to the reserve forces; and if he will make a...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied). [51951/12]
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when they may expect payment;...
- Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a íocfar deontas faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste (Disadvantage Area Scheme), 2012...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [51972/12]
- Bovine Disease Controls
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine If he will consider increasing the age limit from 18 to 24 months in respect of heifers requiring a brucellosis pre-movement test; and if...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a headage paymemt will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Stocking Densities
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that no genuine farmers are excluded under the unfair retrospective 0.3u/ha stocking rate criteria in respect of the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications that have been approved, refused, under consideration or appeal in respect of the disadvantaged area scheme in...
- Stocking Densities
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal on stocking density in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a further response will issue in respect of correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52047/12]
- Common Agricultural Policy
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the context of the common agricultural policy negotiations, he will ensure that those farmers whose entitlements are produced...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee are in the process of withdrawing funding...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update regarding the embargo on social workers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51929/12]
- Department of Health
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is not permitted to carry out a procedure in their own home that would allow the Health Service Executive...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the number of induced abortions that have been performed in each of the State's public hospitals in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the portion of the €35 million euro that was ring fenced for mental health services for the year 2012 that has been spent; if any unspent moneys will be...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the condition lupos as a long term illness in the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51942/12]
- Cancer Screening Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review of the breast check screening process; if the service will be extended to include citizens over 40 years of age; and if...
- Homeless Persons
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking shelter in Arlington Lodge, Tralee, County Kerry, which is a homeless unit, that were unable to be taken care of for various reasons...
- Domestic Violence
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51977/12]
- Medical Card Appeals
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application has been refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Service Allowances
To ask the Minister for Health the period of time for which a person (details supplied) in County Kildare received arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51996/12]
- Vaccination Programme
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 who contracted narcolepsy with cathaplexy from the Health Service Executive swine flu...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52009/12]
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff the expenditure on agency staff amounts to within the Health Service Executive and public health service broken down by...
- Drug Treatment Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health the grants that can be applied for by organisations and projects based in the Dublin area that provide services to drug addicts; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has not issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52087/12]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on planned advances in diabetic paediatric services to widen the availability of insulin pumps for children under five years; and if he...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to the proposed impact of a sugar tax on the food and drinks industry; its international success rate of reducing consumption of unhealthy...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 755 of 19 July 2012, if the Health Service Executive will arrange an early date for an operation in respect of a person...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health if further home help hours will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, to cover Saturday and Sunday in view of the fact that their health...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [52110/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Offshore Exploration
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the agency that would be responsible for the management and clean-up of any oil spill in Dublin Bay that resulted from drilling by a company...
- Irish Coast Guard
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that the digital communication equipment, which was in storage in Dublin for the past five years, is now being moved to...
- Sports Funding
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a grant in respect of a club (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51962/12]
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to harmonise the driving licence regime between Ireland and Canada; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52049/12]
