Written answers

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional steps he and his EU counterparts have taken to address the Syrian conflict; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nuclear Proliferation
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the EU is considering additional sanctions against Iran on the basis of its nuclear development plans; and if he will make a...
    • EU Programmes
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure that the EU’s development cooperation programme is a central focus of Ireland’s EU...
    • Presidency Programme
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will, during the course of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU, encourage his EU colleagues to rediscover the original...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason his Department has been given significant increases in some administration spending, such as travel,...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to address the problems arising from the decision taken by Belfast City Council and the flying of flags...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the target of 0.7% of GNP to be given as overseas development aid for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Battlegroups
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a new EU military mission will be launched in the coming months; if he will provide details of both the mission and...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has held with the Israeli representation in Ireland and his EU counterparts regarding the Gaza conflict; and...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will he raise the practice of tied aid, as practiced by many EU countries, during Ireland’s EU Presidency; the...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in view of the concern over the possible likelihood of an armed conflict between Israel and Iran, he shares the concerns of...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out on a country basis a breakdown of the planned distribution of Irish overseas development aid; the percentage...
    • EU Enlargement
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he held talks with the Turkish Minister for Europe when he visited Dublin; the agenda that was discussed at these meetings;...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the aid that he has distributed to the Gaza strip following the conflict in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of additional staff hired by his Department for the duration of the Irish Presidency of the EU Council; the total...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the remarks by Israeli Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, that the goal of Israel’s...
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the tender contract awarded for the establishment of a website for Ireland's Presidency of the...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list...
    • Export Statistics
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding Irish export levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57794/12]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the countries to which Ireland provides financial assistance through its overseas development...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from,...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when interviews will be held to put in place a revised roster of election monitors of Irish Aid with his Department; the delay...
    • Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount it costs for Ireland to affiliate to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and if he will make a...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will encourage the formation of an EU Committee for Middle East Affairs in the coming Presidency of the European Union...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of overseas aid the State is required to pay under UN requirements; the amount of overseas aid the State is required...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department have received any representations recently in relation to the Irish Embassy in the Vatican; and if he...
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will be recruiting or seconding extra staff for the duration of the EU Presidency; if so, the areas to which...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, during his visits to Northern Ireland, funding for the Foyles Women's Aid Group was discussed; and if he will make a...
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has carried out an assessment on the increased costs to his Department in 2013 due to the Presidency of the EU; and if he...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the recent violent protest near Belfast City Hall with the First Minister or Deputy First Minister; and if...
    • Passport Applications
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider the following regarding an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1829/13]
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if...
    • Human Rights Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his colleagues at EU and UN level can highlight the bravery of Ms Malala Yousufzai and her efforts...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which efforts continue to be made to bring about a cessation of violence and the provision of support for aid...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he has been reassured that overseas development aid continue to reach those for whom it was intended and...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current situation in the top ten most sensitive locations worldwide which continue to suffer from war, starvation, famine,...
    • Human Rights Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to monitor the continued incarceration of former Prime Minister of...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to be in a position to focus attention on hunger, famine, starvation and war associated...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he might envisage progress in any discussions with the US authorities in regard to the possibility of...
    • Human Rights Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU and UN colleagues continue to monitor the persecution of citizens attempting promote...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a person (details supplied) who is incarcerated in a Spanish prison since...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding property tax in respect of a building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57802/12]
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he confined the granting of the rebate to hauliers and excluded passenger transport operators from the scheme; if he will explain his apparent u-turn on...
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of jobs created as a result of the money generated by the pension levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1362/13]
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the auto-diesel relief for licensed road hauliers measures introduced in Budget 2013 to all passenger transport; and if he will make a...
    • EU Policy Group
      To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he and his EU colleagues can reach consensus on the various issues now affecting the European Union with particular reference to economic and...
    • Regulatory and Poverty Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list of regulatory impact assessments...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who are in arrears with their mortgage and having extreme difficulty in paying their mortgage, are faced with the dilemma of having a demand for the new...
    • Copyright Infringement
      To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that the integrity of the National Anthem will be preserved as copyright will end in the near future; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or established by his...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the wording of the property tax is changed in order that voluntary housing agencies are made exempt; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been collected to date under the 0.6% pension levy; if the money is being ring-fenced for the purposes outlined on its introduction; and the...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Finance his position on the transfer by AIB of €1.1 billion of its assets to its pension fund. [57931/12]
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason self-employed persons pay a higher rate of universal social charge on their earnings. [57935/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding tax relief on pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57976/12]
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to establishing a property tax rate for a family who live in a small family run hotel, which has a residential quarter as part of the...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the pensions levy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57982/12]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      To ask the Minister for Finance his future plans if any, to help alleviate hardship on publicans whose businesses have been adversely affected by the increase in the price of alcoholic beverages...
    • Mortgage Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the residential investment mortgages issue. [57992/12]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the arguments for and against a tax on stud farms; and if he will provide an estimate of the amount that may realistically be raised by such a...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all local authorities must now make an allowance in their estimates to pay the property tax on local authority...
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure the concerns of credit union members are addressed in the Credit Union Bill as set out in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish details of all of the authors, and the relevant publications which have taken advantage of the artist's exemption scheme for non-fiction titles...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of applicants per county per month that applied for mortgage interest relief on the purchase of homes in 2012; and if...
    • Vehicle Registration Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recently introduced changes to vehicle licence plates, if he will consider a system to allow the registration of second hand cars whereby purchasers...
    • Betting Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Betting (Amendment) Bill; the progress that has been made on putting in place the structures to implement the proposed turnover levy on...
    • Consumer Protection
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position pertaining in respect of a person if a bank fails to make a timely decision in respect of a complaint to that bank (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which fees payable by a supermarket upon annual renewal of its intoxicating liquor licence are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Carbon Tax
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 20 December 2012, if there is any distinction between the way carbon tax is being extended to smokeless and non...
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Finance in the instance whereby a financial institution (details supplied) has sold all rights, title, interests and benefits of a mortgage loan agreement to another...
    • Excise Duties
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the increase in excise duty on beer, spirits and wine; if he has any plans to re-think the excise duties...
    • Promissory Notes
      To ask the Minister for Finance if persons can look forward to a deal being struck on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes being completed before the summer of 2013; and if he...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the recapitalisation of Ireland's remaining banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1271/13]
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets; the reason...
    • Prize Bonds
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the total value of prize bonds at the end of December for each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will state the total value...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a query regarding the Universal Social Charge in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1307/13]
    • Public Interest Director Responsibilities
      To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent attendance of Pubic Interest Directors on the board of State supported banks at the Oireachtas Finance Committee and the level of responses...
    • Fuel Prices
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the price of diesel; the actions or plans he is proposing to address on the concerns expressed; and if he...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of financial support allocated by the Troika that has been drawn down to date; if he will estimate the total amount allocated that will be drawn down by...
    • General Government Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance the other sources of funding that may be drawn upon for Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1450/13]
    • Bond Markets
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the level of financing for the State that will be raised this year on the bond markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1451/13]
    • General Government Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of cash-in-hand from the National Treasury Management Agency and excluding funding from Troika sources that is available to fund the general deficit in...
    • Economic Growth
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the range of possible growth scenarios for 2013 and their potential impact on the economy here and the impact on the amount of money needed to...
    • State Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the national debt at the start and end of 2013 and the ratio of the debt to GDP and GNP at the same time periods; and if he will make a...
    • European Stability Mechanism
      To ask the Minister for Finance the level of support that he envisages will be available post-2013 for Irish budgets from the European Stability Mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase duty on the higher alcohol products like spirits and on non-returnable long drinks, especially cans, which are sold predominately in the...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of tax in total on a litre of marked diesel oil including carbon tax, excise duty and VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1488/13]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has considered to regulate the mortgage interest rates being applied by certain lenders particularly sub prime lenders; if his attention has been...
    • NAMA Loans
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question 115 of 25 September 2012, if he will provide an assessment of the profit foregone in the National Asset Management Agency as a...
    • NAMA Loan Book
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions 179, 180, 181 and 182 of 16 October 2012, to confirm the original book value of loans sold by the National Asset Management...
    • NAMA Legal Fees
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 and 230 of 13 November 2012, if he will outline the approach by the National Asset Management Agency in assessing the...
    • Investor Compensation Company Limited
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.46 of 12 December, 2012, and further to a report in a national newspaper (details supplied) which states in relation to Custom...
    • Seed Capital Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the possible seed capital for a new business setting up in the the northside; and if he will advise on where finances may be...
    • VAT Rates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the constraints imposed by the requirements of EU VAT law, he will consider the introduction of a scheme to refund VAT collected on a defibrillator...
    • Carbon Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanism he plans to use to ensure that carbon tax on solid fuels is collected by Northern Ireland based wholesalers of solid fuels selling into the Republic...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that VAT legislation is preventing tenant purchase funding from being raised and if he will outline his plans to bring...
    • Contingent Capital Notes
      To ask the Minister for Finance following the announcement that negotiations to sell Bank of Ireland Contingent Capital Notes had concluded, if he will confirm the way he ensured that all...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 189 and 190 of 16 October 2012, the reason his claim that the effective corporation tax rate is 11.9% when in answer to...
    • Corporate Tax Compliance
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up to date figures on corporate profits declared and corporate taxes paid for 2011 and 2012 including tables CTSI for these years and...
    • Tax Rebates
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason full entitlement of refundable income tax was not determined on the basis of income earned in 2009 when they ceased employment so payment in respect of...
    • Official Engagements
      My Officials and I met with three of the covered institutions last week. The Chief Executives were either present or dialled in. Officials from my Department meet with representatives up to...
    • European Banking Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of discussions at EU Council meetings on increasing banking regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52235/12]
    • European Banking Union
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the points made in the recent speech by Mr Matthew Elderfield in London, England, in relation to the European Banking Authority; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there should be more distance created between bank regulators and the banks they regulate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered capping senior banking officials salaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54060/12]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the decision to decrease the corporation tax in the UK will have any impact here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56515/12]
    • Public Investment Projects
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the use of retail bond such as those used in the United State of America like the Liberty Bond to fund infrastructure projects as part of...
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he made proposals on Ireland's legacy bank debt at the summit on 22 November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51352/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent report from the Irish Hotels Federation and the proposal contained within the report for a limited form of tax relief to attract investment...
    • Jobs Initiative
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the 2011 jobs initiative has delivered value added jobs in the tourism sector in view of the fact that the cost to the State was €120...
    • Credit Review Office
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Credit Review Offices finding that 55% of appeals regarding loan refusals to small and medium enterprises have been overturned. [51880/12]
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail research produced or identified by his Department that examines any correlation between the marginal rate of tax, foreign direct investment and...
    • Tobacco Smuggling
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to his reply of 21 November 2012, if he will outline by county or by region, the number of investigations carried out to combat criminal activity in the...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of contingent convertible capital notes and preference shares the State holds in the covered banks; the dates on which these were acquired; the interest...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total tax take as a percentage of GNP from 1992 to 2012. [1895/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Banking Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance if Irish Life returned a dividend to the State in 2012; if he will indicate if the company was profitable in that time; if he expects to receive a dividend in...
    • Strategic Investment Fund
      To ask the Minister for Finance the investments that were made by the Strategic Investment Fund in 2012 and in what sectors; the amount invested; the amount of matching funds raised from private...
    • General Government Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the General Government Deficit is projected to be below 8% following the publication of the December Exchequer returns; if he will confirm what the finalised...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the high earners restriction of specified tax reliefs still applied to charitable donations; if, following his statement on budget day, he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation for the expenditure of €26,709,000 on Central Bank - Coin Issue under Note 5 Non-Voted Current Expenditure in the December...
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the contribution to the EU Budget from 2006 to 2012; if he will outline the sources of those revenue under specific...
    • Capital Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the source of the €30,496,000 of Miscellaneous Capital Receipts as listed in Note 3 - Capital Receipts of the December...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the €250,384,000 of Customs receipts as listed in the December Exchequer Statement; if all of that is remitted to the EU;...
    • Disabled Drivers
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax relief for disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme is planned on being increased from the current figure of €15,875 in line with the...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 96 and 97 of 17 October 2012, when he intends to forward a response; the reason it has taken him at least three months to...
    • Fuel Laundering
      To ask the Minister for Finance his actions on tackling illegal fuel laundering; his future plans in confronting the problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54525/12]
    • Black Economy
      To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives he is taking to combat the black market and other illegal activity in the retail sector; if his attention has been drawn to the impact of such...
    • New Economy and Recovery Authority
      To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date on the New Era project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53261/12]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • European Globalisation Fund
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the disbursement of the European Globalisation Fund to workers made redundant from Dell in Limerick in 2009 the number of those workers that...
    • Regulatory and Poverty Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory impact...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full impact of the increase in the pupil teacher ratio in post leaving certificate schools in terms of posts lost, reduced number of places and...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the nature of the reserves that he says are residing with the vocational education committees and which will prevent the €13...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland have requested the same information on three separate occasions from a person (details supplied) in...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the criteria (details supplied) for newly qualified teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57852/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 11 December 2012, the date of the change in his Departments attitude towards Rush and Lusk Educate...
    • Capitation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance that can be given to school (details supplied) to assist in meeting the running costs of the school in view of the size of the building...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a third level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [57857/12]
    • State Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite an application for a third level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a circular detailing pay scales for new entrants to teaching (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a third level grant will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57900/12]
    • Third Level Mergers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the negotiations between the Church of Ireland College of Education and Trinity College Dublin in relation to a...
    • Youth Unemployment
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the 2012 McKinsey Center for Government Report, Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works. [57936/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in County Kerry that are awaiting grant approval from Student Universal Support Ireland. [57944/12]
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is a difference in the revised sick leave arrangements Circular 0033/2010 between teaching staff and special needs assistants; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Student Universal Support Ireland third level grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be processed and...
    • School Funding
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has been refused grant aid to rectify health and safety issues in the school; and if he will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect their application for a higher education grant to be processed by Student Universal Support...
    • School Funding
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in a health and safety issue at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that the board of management have...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason whereby those that satisfy the qualifying period for the back to education allowance for 234 days on jobseeker's benefit or allowance must...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to correspondence regarding disclosure of non conviction in respect of a person (details supplied). [58089/12]
    • Literacy Levels
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support the literacy project sponsored by Barnardos (details supplied). [58104/12]
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make known the costs of engaging a private bus contractor to bring children to school in Glenamaddy and Glinsk in County Galway; the reason...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for altering the pupil teacher ratio for post leaving certificate colleges; the likely effect this will have on youth unemployment and for...
    • State Examinations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has not been assigned a reader for their leaving certificate despite having had one in the junior...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for additional funding towards the cost of an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway will be approved; and if he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in processing a post graduate student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [58151/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools approved to go to construction in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of schools approved building extensions in 2010, 2011 and...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the amount a student (details supplied) in County Laois will receive in their maintenance grant from Student Universal Support...
    • Site Acquisitions
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if a site has been identified yet; the time frame for construction; and if he...
    • Third Level Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of persons aged between 20 and 40 who hold a third level qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58169/12]
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a problem with the school building (details supplied) in County Louth, it is not appropriate...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will change the student grant scheme so that mortgage repayments are considered in the means test for grant eligibility as many families have...
    • University Rankings
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the position of Irish universities in global league tables (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1014/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students currently waiting for their applications for a higher education grant to be finalised throughout the country; the number of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a student grant application appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue in relation to a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue in relation to a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements if any that are in place to accommodate staff from Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee in their daily travel and subsistence...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant application submitted to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be approved...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application to Student Universal Support Ireland will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as...
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grants broken down on a county basis approved to date by the Higher Education Grant Student Universal Support Ireland system;...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of students who have been asked to provide additional documents in order for their student grant application to proceed and the full...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all sections of the EPSEN Act 2004 have been fully implemented; if not, the sections of the act which remain to be implemented; the timescale for...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the external review of Student Universal Student Ireland that is to be carried out, the persons who will be carrying out this review; the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on a student grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [1242/13]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cuts in the education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1264/13]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets;...
    • Construction Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the name and contact details of the contractor awarded the construction project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision can issue as soon as possible in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1292/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland system will not respond to queries from Oireachtas members in relation to grant applications (details...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that are wholly housed in temporary accommodation; the names, roll numbers and founding dates of these schools and the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in County Tipperary who are still awaiting payments of their student grant through the Student Universal Support Ireland...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an appeal for their Student Universal Suport Ireland grant application; and...
    • School Placement
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a shortage of primary school places in a locality (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if he has met with local...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school building project will commence at a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1344/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the eligibility for a fee grant from Student Universal Support Ireland does not extend to undergraduate courses outside the State or within...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite an application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in county Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate the funding options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the appeals process for students in County Laois who have been refused an education grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for a student grant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children from certain areas in County Donegal are being asked to travel a greater distance to further their education (details supplied)...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a reader on behalf of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is due to sit the Leaving Certificate in...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he intends to commence Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001, making it compulsary for all teachers to be registered with the Teaching...
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have contacted his Department regarding the impact of cutbacks on their schools each year between 2006 and 2011; the...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the way schools are surviving without middle management support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1477/13]
    • Croke Park Agreement Implementation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the impact of the Croke Park agreement on schools across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) in County Tipperary was approved for a higher education maintenance in November 2012, and was subsequently...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following his recent announcement that an additional €3m is being allocated to the student assistance fund, if he will outline if this is being...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired secondary school teachers who are currently hired as substitutes in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1536/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a report on the current difficulties in the operation of Student Universal Support Ireland; when these difficulties will be fully...
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the proposed junior certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1542/13]
    • Third Level Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons in each university at professor grade, by university, in each of the years 2010, 2011 and...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding or a subsidy is available within the school transport scheme for a family (details supplied) who do not have the financial means...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a contractor has been appointed to complete a school project (details supplied) in County Kildare; when the contractor will be on site; and the...
    • Third Level Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who works in a full time permanent post of caretaker at an Institute of Technology has to retire upon their 65th birthday; if he will...
    • Public Health
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the mandatory inclusion of defibrillator equipment in all secondary schools and their facilities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1701/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will expedite the matter;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to recognise Irish sign language as an official language; the efforts he has or will take to ensure that there are sufficient support...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding home tuition in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1713/13]
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills If he will assist with the cooperative initiative by both St. Michael's College and the Presentation Secondary School, Listowel, County Kerry which is...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 18 December 2012, the reason the special education unit at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the approval of a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare following the removal of a subsidy for Gaeltacht placement as part of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans under the school building programme to provide additional infant and junior infant classes at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a higher education grant application in respect of a student (details supplied) in County Mayo will be processed; the reason this application has...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if 2012 rate for maintenance grants will apply to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1800/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant application in respect of person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; when a decision may be expected on...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the recent decision taken at the Teacher's Conciliation Council to honour qualifications of teachers whose further courses of study had...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a student grant application appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a right to education in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [1889/13]
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of students on a county basis who are awaiting to have their original grant applications reassessed or...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether employers who have outstanding Labour Court decisions against them should be eligible for Government procurement...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that Coillte becomes subject to freedom of information requests in line with his commitment to introducing greater...
    • Departmental Offices
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if her Department has a 20 year lease on a floor or part of a premises in Athy, County Kildare; the annual cost of the lease to the State;...
    • Mobile Telephony
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the income earned by the State from the mobile phone mast at a Garda Station (details supplied) in County Mayo;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on rent and leasing property in County Laois for Government Departments and agencies for 2011 and 2012 to facilitate the...
    • Public Procurement
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the centralised buying of goods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1266/13]
    • Expenditure Reviews
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail expenditure on health care as a percentage of total tax revenue and per capita from 1992 to 2012 [1890/13]
    • State Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the dividend received from each semi-State company from 2006 to 2012; if he will indicate in...
    • Dividend Income
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the projected dividends he expects to be remitted to the Exchequer from semi-State companies in 2013 and...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list of regulatory...
    • Public Procurement
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of contracts and value of contracts awarded to a company (details supplied) as part of Government procurement contracts. [57827/12]
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current length of time that any Senior Minister needs to be in office in order to qualify for a Ministerial pension; and if the same time...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding public sector pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57977/12]
    • Rural Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the review of the rural social schemes that he has undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58010/12]
    • Energy Usage
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if energy audits are carried out on public buildings; if so, the frequency of same; the way in which inefficiencies are remediated; and if he...
    • State Visits
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent by the Office of Public Works on refurbishment work on Dublin Castle in 2011 in preparation for the State visits of...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the pension scheme in place for current Oireachtas members; the amount of contributions deducted from Members...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these...
    • Water Levels
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to open Lough Ree Sluice Gates, to bring about better management of water levels on the River Shannon and prevent serious flooding...
    • State Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list of...
    • Industrial Development
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of industrial units and warehouses that are vacant in a town (details supplied) in County Offaly that are the responsibility of...
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable...
    • EU Directives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a derogation from the Working Time Directive 48 hours is in place, on what specific grounds is that derogation in place and when will...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any initiatives or actions are planned to help revitalise the economy of County Kerry in 2013 and if he will detail such measures; and...
    • Employment Rights
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Home and Community Care Ireland have been in touch with him concerning the issue of the status of live-in carer's under the National...
    • Job Losses
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs lost in the Industrial Development Agency supported companies for each year from and including 2007 to 2011. [58147/12]
    • European Funds
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is investigating the use of the Common Strategic Framework Funds that is the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of Shannon Development's and of Shannon Airport's respective pension liabilities and whether or not same will be transferring to...
    • Emigration Data
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emigration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1263/13]
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of...
    • Microfinance Ireland
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications per county in tabular form that have been received for micro-finance funding in 2012 and the number of...
    • Industrial Development
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form the number of prospective client visits by the Industrial Development Agency to each county in the...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will support increased credit available to small and medium enterprise and financing facilities to support expansion and improve cash...
    • Job Protection
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the steps taken by him to secure the jobs under threat with the issuing of protective redundancy notices by the operator...
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the launch of the Succeed in Ireland programme as part of the Jobs Action Plan 2012, the total number of jobs created by the...
    • Seed Capital Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the possible seed capital for a new business setting up in the the northside; and if he will advise on...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the activity taking place between his Department, the Iindustrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland to bring employment...
    • Corporate Governance
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate with which Government Department rests the responsibility to respond to the points raised by the outgoing Director of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58088/12]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to newspaper reports (details supplied) the exemptions he intends to apply to the decision to impose PRSI on unearned income; and the estimated...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by her Department in the past twelve months and the list of regulatory impact...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for disability allowance. [57781/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for carer's allowance. [57782/12]
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the additional community employment scheme placements which have been announced by her; when same will be available; and...
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the new local authority scheme announced by her; the type of work that will be provided; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; when the claim will go into payment and...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way her Department calculates the weekly amount to be repaid by a welfare recipient in the case where an overpayment has been made by her Department;...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a jobseeker's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when domiciliary care allowance will be granted in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Employment Schemes Funding
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if claimants will be liable to PRSI on community employment scheme payments from 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57844/12]
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 414 of 27 November 2012, if he will confirm that the social welfare appeal (details supplied) is the same as the...
    • Child Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a child benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when a decision in respect of one parent family payment will be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for reduction in rent supplement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she will provide the current level of rent...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the findings of the National Advocacy Service, published in October 2012, that disabled persons who want to live independently were being...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who will have their payments affected by the changes to farm assist that were announced in Budget 2013 and what the net saving of...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an appeal on an application for invalidity pension will take place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding auto-enrolment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57980/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time for carer's allowance to be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57997/12]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a medical assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding contributory State pensions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58009/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be determined with a view to granting the application in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal will be heard in relation to the illness benefit claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the recent announcements of additional community employment places, his plans to introduce changes to eligibility criteria and allow those...
    • Work Placement Programme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will change the criteria for the TÚS schemes to enable unemployed persons to apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58074/12]
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will change the application criteria for community employment schemes to coincide with the reduction of jobseeker's benefit to nine months; and if...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that the Operative Plasterers and Allied Trades Society of Ireland are concerned by the inability of the members to take up offers of...
    • Carer's Benefit Applications
      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 make a...
    • National Employment and Entitlements Service
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of recent developments in the roll out of service programmes from her Department if she will provide clarification on the current status of the...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline any planned changes to the rural social scheme. [58128/12]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will re-examine the entitlement to contributory pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the jobbridge scheme to other institutions in the public service, such as Met Éireann, to enable people with the...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding child benefit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58181/12]
    • Sick Pay Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the introduction of a statutory sick pay scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58192/12]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Income Supplement Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a family income supplement payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if same will be expedited; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a review and decision will be made on an appeal in respect of a person in County Mayo who had their invalidity pension withdrawn; if this person...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a one parent family appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1046/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [1049/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Expenditure on Carers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on any changes in the payments made to carer's in the years 2002 and to date, including in Budget 2013, in tabular form;...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will give consideration to supports to carer's who need additional financial aid in respect of respite costs; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Homemaker Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications that have been received before the deadline to register retrospectively for home makers credits; her plans to review the...
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who has completed a jobbridge internship and who had previously started but not completed a jobbridge internship might be considered for a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [1087/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their appeal for invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against a decision to disallow an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding jobseeker's allowance in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1167/13]
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the condition for qualification for family income supplement that requires the applicant to work a minimum of 19 hours a week as due...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had their carer's allowance payment stopped; if this decision may be appealed; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if she will confirm that an appeal has been...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and if she can expedite a decision on...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding self employed contractors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1267/13]
    • Jobs Action Plan Targets
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the 2012 targets set for her Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if she will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets;...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a review of the decision to refuse an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in relation to a disability allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Carer's Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their appeal for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she expects the review group she established to examine the domiciliary care allowance to conclude its work; if she will provide a report; if she...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has met with the carer's association since her appointment; if she plans to meet with them again in the near future; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance for the Self-Employed
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her policy in relation to assisting self-employed persons access to social welfare supports as the need arises; when she expects to advance any plans to...
    • Child Benefit Review
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she received the expert report on reforming the child benefit system; the membership of this expert group; the terms of reference of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the reason for the delay; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of outstanding claims awaiting decision for carer's allowance and for family income support; the average time for processing a claim; the...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an appeal for disability allowance will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for refusal of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if she will expedite the matter; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the vetting or inspection that takes place of persons in receipt of carers' payments, or who have applied for such payments, to ensure that they are...
    • Live Register
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of citizens signing on at the unemployment exchanges in Kilbarrack and Coolock, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Insurance Contributions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the social insurance coverage obtained by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who has been contributing in various forms and in...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a social welfare appeal hearing will be held in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath regarding an application for disability...
    • Employment Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on the design and roll out of 'Intreo' the new public service brand for the one stop shop for employment services and welfare...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the resources, including Information technology consultancy and departmental expenditure, devoted to examining the possibility of...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [1592/13]
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department is seeking money from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; her views on whether it is acceptable to seek repayment of...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of invalidity pension at the present time; the number of persons formerly in receipt of invalidity pension who, during...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of family income supplement will lose payments after claiming illness benefit; and the alternative supports in place for persons...
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the possibility of permitting an exception to the current minimum hours requirement for jobbridge placements has been considered in the context of the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits, Number of Recipients
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in Ballymun, Dublin, in receipt of Disability Allowance, Blind Pension, Invalidity Pension, Illness Benefit, Widows/Widowers...
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will investigate a company (details supplied), a participant in the jobbridge programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1694/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for domiciliary care allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits, Provision of
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if urgent attention and assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1708/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the number of persons in the State in receipt of home help hours while also being cared for by persons who are in...
    • Invalidity Pension Review
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection from December 2011 to December 2012, the number of reviews that were undertaken of persons receiving invalidity pension; of those reviews, the number...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [1722/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite payment for carer's allowance which has been deemed medically eligible since last September but has not been finalised yet; and if...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made in an appeal application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for carer's application will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department advises landlords of property where rent supplement is being paid, of their obligations to register with the Private Residential...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in respect of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will ensure that where a host company has not complied with the criteria required for job-bridge schemes which results in termination of the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a carer's allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when a decision will...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has examined the consequences of the changes made to PRSI in Budget 2013 for community employment participants; the impact these changes will have...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal in relation to disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1860/13]
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which superannuation is defined when determining the net wage of a person applying for family income supplement and the way in which...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by her Department in 2012; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on disability allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given by his Department to allowing those persons who completed community employment placement and were near retirement age to...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable...
    • National Monuments
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to designate Famine Workhouses as national monuments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57923/12]
    • Famine Artefacts
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to establish an official record/data base of the Famine in the National Museum of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Famine Commemorations
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date and location of National Famine Memorial Day 2013. [57968/12]
    • Commemorative Events
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget he has put aside in 2013 for the Centenary of Commemorations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57973/12]
    • Turbary Rights
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 22 November 2012, all other factors being equal the commercial value placed on an acre of...
    • Irish Language
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of the grants provided to Irish language organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1085/13]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which consultants were appointed to complete the design and tendering process for the construction of terminals at the...
    • Turbary Rights
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding claims by bog owners located at the All Saints bog; if claims lodged have been processed. approved and paid; if...
    • Seirbhísí Oileán
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a dhéanfar tairiscintí le haghaidh na seirbhíse aeir go dtí na hOileáin Árann a logáil...
    • Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a fhógrófar athruithe i scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge do 2013 [1200/13]
    • Arts Council Funding
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry does not receive funding from the Arts Council; and if he will make a...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the recent criticisms of the artist’s exemption scheme by the Arts Council; when he expects new draft guidelines to be...
    • Special Protection Areas
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding a special protection area appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Donegal when a decision will...
    • National Parks
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way it is planned to honour and acknowledge the contribution of John McShane at the renovated Killarney House; and if he will make a...
    • Arts Funding
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide additional funding for the arts in County Longford, to bridge the gap between the Arts Council funding and local...
    • State Papers
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of State papers, older than 30 years, that have not been released as a result of exceptions to the 30 year rule in his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Oil and Gas Exploration
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the potential for oil and gas industries to exploit the natural resources which lie underneath our sea bed, if he...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the...
    • Renewable Energy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to encourage the use of solar photovoltaic cells as micro generators of electricity for end users of the residential...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if payments have been made to date to contractors with respect to the supply of turbines and the construction of the wind farm...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from,...
    • Renewable Energy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his position on biomass as a renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57947/12]
    • Telecommunications Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the poor phone coverage (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57999/12]
    • Television Reception
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of people who cannot access a Saorview signal; the way he plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Television Licence Fee
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a TV licence refund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58136/12]
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reduce the cost of high speed broadband in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58188/12]
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of funding drawn down from the EU under the rural development programme 2007-2013 in respect of the rural broadband...
    • Telecommunications Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on adopting laws that conform to principles of net neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1138/13]
    • Exploration Licences
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify at what stage discussions with a company (details supplied) regarding the issuing of new licences and...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether it is vitally important to have in place high quality broadband at Carraroe, County Sligo where there is...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is any claw-back provision for the State in place in the event of wind farms which have been financially supported by...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans to upgrade the broadband network in Howth, County Dublin, in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Oil and Gas Exploration
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current financial return to the Irish Exchequer from oil and gas exploration; the return in the years 2007, 2008, 2009,...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on plans to bring high voltage electricity transmission systems under EirGrid's grid 25...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to his announcement of the appointment of a person (details supplied) to the position of Digital Champion for Ireland,...
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 25 October 2011, if he will direct that agencies under his remit (details...
    • Public Broadcasting Charge
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has any plans to introduce a communications charge and if so when he proposes to introduce such a charge; the level at...
    • Television Licence Fee
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total revenue raised by way of the television licence fee in each of the years 2010, 2011, and 2012; the rate of...
    • Mobile Telephony
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will request all mobile phone suppliers to standardise the type of phone charger they supply, all suppliers supply the...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the unreliable broadband service by 3 mobile in the Portmagee and greater Portmagee area in County...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Air Pollution
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the damage caused to human health by industries namely the ESB and a multi national alumina industry...
    • Commercial Rates
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a proposal for pop-up shops as a way of helping villages deal with empty premises and young entrepreneurs...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who owns one property but who is living elsewhere in rented accommodation has to pay the non-principal private...
    • Control of Dogs
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends introducing compulsory micro chipping of dogs in view of the damage being caused by dogs worrying sheep; and if...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months and the list...
    • Local Authority Finances
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to have all local authority accounts audited in relation to the multiplicity of allowances available therein; and if...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the installation of solar photovoltaic cells on residential housing units; his plans to amend current...
    • Motor Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider extending the assessment of motor tax applied to post 2008 vehicles to those registered prior to 2008; and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from,...
    • Waste Disposal
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a waste disposal company in the Dublin area is now charging €9 for six...
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the greater Drogheda area is not included in the €220,000 valuation bracket under the mortgage to rent...
    • Departmental Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will remain in place in 2013 for the Rapid programmes in East Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fire Service
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he intends to provide a formal sanction to Dublin Fire Brigade for the recruitment of 28 positions of emergency services...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons that are on the housing waiting list and transfer list in each local authority; if he will indicate the...
    • Homeless Persons
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons in total that are homeless across the four Dublin local authority areas; the number of persons in total...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the funds spent by his Department in tackling the issue of homelessness in County Louth in...
    • Domestic Violence
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of funds spent by his Department in tackling the issue of domestic violence in County Louth in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 whereby separated persons who are the joint owners of...
    • Priory Hall Development
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Priory Hall, Dublin; and if he will support the residents of Priory Hall in 2013. [58103/12]
    • Fire Stations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the proposal for a new Fire Station for Graignamanagh, County Kilkenny as part the National Fire Appliance Fleet has...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are legally entitled to use the register of electors to collect the household charge; and if he will make...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with respect to the recently announced grant scheme for homeowners with septic tanks, where the money for this scheme will come...
    • Water Pollution
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any public body is being fined for discharging raw sewerage into the sea at Rush, County Dublin. [58163/12]
    • Pyrite Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans regarding a grant to help homeowners pay for pyrite testing their homes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dumping at Sea
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the proposal to dump spoil from the Ringsend Wastewater Treatment Works Long Sea Outfall Tunnel at the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reinstate the MRF subvention that has traditionally been paid to Waterford County Council since 2006, for 2012 and...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review existing legislation in respect of privately rented housing accommodation and to strengthen the role of the...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the manual for the inspection of private waste water systems will be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and...
    • Pyrite Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if companies exporting calcium carbonate limestone products will be exempt from the proposed pyrite levy on the quarrying...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money spent in 2012 on the seniors alert scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1109/13]
    • Fire Service
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a national plan for fire services, with national standards of call out time to arrival at fires laid down in it;...
    • Fire Stations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received an application from Galway County Council for a new fire station in South Connemara; when a decision will...
    • Motor Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of vehicles not being taxed in any given year and therefore the estimated loss of revenue to the State; if...
    • Waste Management
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he intends to introduce a fee waiver scheme for waste collection services for low income households in line with the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legislative plans he has to address the issue of very high or overhanging trees and hedgerows on neighbouring properties;...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has an estimate of the overall level of compliance with the non principal private residence charge to date; the...
    • Commercial Rates
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is any inclusion of an allowance for local authorities to differentiate between the type, size and location of...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 26 January 2012, if more detail will be provided on the entry of a housing estate...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 18 December 2012, if this policy is in operation nationally. [1205/13]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details in tabular form of the numbers of properties per county that were registered to pay the household...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been allocated for traveller accommodation on a county basis per annum for the last five years....
    • Capital Assistance Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a timetable of progress made on the application by a housing association (details supplied) for the...
    • Leader Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to ensuring that the four Erris parishes in County Mayo not currently covered by the Leader programme will be...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the figures, by local authority area regarding the properties registered for the household charge to date;...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he was last briefed on the Greater Dublin Drainage Project by Fingal County Council; when a decision will be made on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problems associated with the differential rent scheme operated by some councils and...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive breakdown on all unfinished housing estates on a county basis; if he will provide an update...
    • Rights of Way
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 8 December 2011, the status of discussions as outlined in his previous response;...
    • National Countryside Recreation Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in view of the increased footfall in persons hill walking and walking in general in the countryside here, especially in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants will be introduced; when the Programme for Government commitment...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any top-up grant available from his Department for organisations that were in areas designated as disadvantaged areas under...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the list of unfinished housing estates in County Cork to include estates that were omitted in error and were...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funds will be provided to upgrade the pipelines and trunk mains from the pump-house at the Shannon to Farrell’s...
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of all possible State funding options available to an organisation (details supplied) in County...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the efforts he has made on behalf of the residents of an area (details supplied) in County Monaghan, to ensure speedy...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider recent cuts to the seniors' alert scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Building Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an energy rating of E is considered too low for social housing association units built within the past ten years; his views...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason an elderly and infirm person (details supplied) in County Longford who paid the household charge on time, has...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons in County Louth who currently avail of funding for personal security alarms; the amount spent in County...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline if fines are being paid to the EU in relation to the pumping of raw sewerage into the sea at Rush, County...
    • Water Metering Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a panel of small and medium-sized enterprises sub-contractors are asked to tender for the provision of domestic...
    • Land Ownership
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 126 of 27 September 2012 and 371 of 26 June 2012 the position regarding ownership of...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the steps taken to grant planning permission for a wind farm development (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if...
    • Pyrite Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role he envisages for Homebond in relation to the Pyrite Resolution Board, noting that in 2011 Homebond walked away from...
    • Water Supply
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the most recent figures for unaccounted for water for each of the local authority administrative areas. [1970/13]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Gender Balance Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if following the recent EU legislation aimed at improving gender balance on company boards in Europe, the Government has any proposals to encourage...
    • Disability Act Implementation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if all sections of the Disability Act 2005 have been fully implemented; if not, the sections of the Act which remain to be implemented; the timescale...
    • Road Traffic Accident Statistics
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road accidents in 2012 that involved one or more drivers on a provisional licence. [1734/13]
    • Counterfeit Goods
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions taken to date and the future plans the Gardaí have developed to tackle counterfeit goods; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has held with the Northern Executive and British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in relation to combating the threat...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory impact...
    • Garda Strength
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the recent assessment he has made of policing levels in Dublin North East and Dublin North Central; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Leave to Remain Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding applications for leave to remain from 1 January 2008 that are pending a decision; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Gambling Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposed Gambling Bill; the progress that has been made by his Department for the establishment of a gambling and gaming...
    • Garda Redeployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the location to which the Gardaí attached to Garda stations (details supplied) in County Mayo which are proposed to be closed will be...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received an application from a person (details supplied) for the purposes of transferring to a prison here. [57868/12]
    • Public Sector Reform
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to criminalise the grooming of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56781/12]
    • Citizenship Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Legal Matters
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether an Garda Síochána is discharging its duty to take proper heed or proper notice of concerns expressed in the Courts as...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an issue regarding disclosure of a non-conviction under Section 1(1) of the Probation Act, (details supplied); and...
    • Garda Communications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations across the State that engage with citizens through social media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57938/12]
    • Deportation Orders
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of November 2012 wherein it is suggested that it would be logistically inconsistent to review the case of a...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce the Sale of Alcohol Bill with particular reference to the introduction of an award system for licensees who adhere to good...
    • Garda Training
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide training and regulation for the Gardaí to act against cyber bullying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58017/12]
    • Immigration Policy
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his reasons for increasing the registration fee for most categories of legal immigrants from outside the EEA by 100% from November; and if he intends...
    • Visa Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the €60 charge for a single use re-entry visa for non EEA nationals leaving and returning to Ireland; and his plans to review same...
    • Debt Collectors
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the regulation of debt collectors and agencies; if he will take steps to more strictly regulate same in order to protect...
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any investigation is ongoing into the matter of alleged fraudulent milk metering at a co-op (details supplied) between the years of 1986 and 2000;...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider lack of engagement from the banks in relation to the provisions of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 to be in breach of the law; if...
    • Garda Retirements
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information stating the number of Gardaí who retired in each year for the past ten years on health grounds for both physical...
    • Immigration Status
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on a stamp 4 application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry. [58145/12]
    • Crime Levels
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the number of bicycles that have been reported stolen in the Dublin Metropolitan area of An Garda...
    • DNA Database
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation will be introduced to allow for the provision of a DNA database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58168/12]
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria he considered before making the decision to close Stepaside Garda Station, County Dublin. [58178/12]
    • Subsidiary Protection
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which his Department ceased processing claims for subsidiary protection; and the date on which the processing will begin again. [58179/12]
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of all renovation works to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Mayo in the past five years and the cost of same;...
    • Bench Warrants
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants outstanding in the Munster region at the end of November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1019/13]
    • Upward Only Rent Reviews
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any prospect of bringing an end to existing leases with upward-only rent review clauses in view of the fact that many businesses are still...
    • Citizenship Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will issue. [1041/13]
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form the number of complaints received by An Garda Síochána over the past five years in relation to online...
    • Magdalene Laundries
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received the final report from the Inter-Departmental Committee investigating State involvement with the Magdalene Laundrie; if it has been...
    • Film Censorship
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a full time film censor will be appointed ini view of the fact that there has been an acting censor in situ for some time; his views on whether...
    • Garda Career Breaks
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to offer members of An Garda Síochána a career break from the force in order to save money; the number of persons that will be...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received the report he sought from the Garda authorities on 18 September 2012 with figures on the number of drivers involved in a fatal or...
    • Garda Training
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí who attended the recent MBRS training courses in evidential breath testing in December 2012 and when it is envisaged that...
    • Courts Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the report he requested from the Courts Service by the end of November 2012 providing a breakdown on the district courts that are enforcing section...
    • Immigration Status
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine a case (details supplied) in which a recent request was made for a replacement Garda National Immigration Bureau card following a...
    • Jobs Action Plan
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances in which a non-Irish citizen who has been residing in Ireland for less than five years may have an application for Irish citizenship...
    • Seanad Referendum
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the commitment to hold a referendum on the abolishment of Seanad Éireann in the Autumn, his views on holding a referendum on the same...
    • Penalty Points System
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices that have been issued to motorists in each of the past three years, broken down by Garda Division, for the offence...
    • Legal Aid Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that was spent on free legal aid schemes here in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1376/13]
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional Garda marked and unmarked cars and vans that each Garda District in the Dublin Region received in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Subsidiary Protection
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the the position regarding an application for subsidiary protection in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to publish the Heads of Bill for the Family Relationships and Childrens Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1399/13]
    • Drug Courts
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in relation to the review of the drugs treatment courts; when the review will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Legal Aid Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the waiting lists for persons seeking civil legal aid in each county on 1 January 2013; the number...
    • Penalty Points System
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide figures for 2010, 2011 and 2012 regarding the total amounts raised through the issuance of fixed penalty fines for traffic...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the reduction of €62 million in his Department's planned expenditure for 2013 over the previous year, if he will provide assurances...
    • Garda Strength
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide assurances that the total number of Gardaí leaving the force in 2013 will not be greater than 500; if his attention has been...
    • Crime Statistics
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 15 May 2012, if he will provide updated figures for 2011 in view of decreasing detection and convictions...
    • Penalty Points System
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penalty points in total that were issued to motorists by An Garda Síochána that were quashed in 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he...
    • Garda Resources
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for community policing in the Drumlish area, County Longford, following the removal of the Garda patrol car from the Garda Barracks in...
    • Garda Strength
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of current Garda numbers for each of the stations in County Louth and a comparative figure for Garda numbers when he...
    • Policing at Concerts
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action, if any, he has been taken against the promoters of concerts in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, last summer 2012 which led to serious public...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has raised the serious recent incidents of violence in Belfast with the Minister for Justice of the Northern Ireland Executive; if he will raise...
    • United Nations Conventions
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details on the work of the Interdepartmental Committee on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,...
    • Asylum Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding immigration status in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [1594/13]
    • Legal Aid Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to tackle the cost to the State of free legal aid; if he will provide up to date details of the costs involved and the number of clients...
    • Refugee Status
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times he has revoked the refugee status of recognised refugees awarded by his Department during his period as Minister; the reasons for...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if staff in a university library will be subject to the provisions of the National Vetting Bureau Bill should they take on transition year students...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider a waiver in relation to the requirement for period of residence outside the State under the Irish Nationality and Citizen Act...
    • Court Sittings
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the District Courts Service; his plans to close the sittings of a Court (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if reports regarding anti social behaviour at an estate (details supplied) in County Kerry will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Resources
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding policing in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1954/13]
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the investigations into the bombing at Belturbet, County Cavan, of December 1972 which caused the death of two young persons;...
    • Courts Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the future security of courthouses in Killorglin, Dingle, Caherciveen and Kenmare County Kerry; if the public can be assured...
  • Department of Defence
    • Naval Service Vessels
      To ask the Minister for Defence if there is currently a plan, involving costs and a timetable, on future acquisitions of other vessels or upgrading for the Irish Naval Services at this present...
    • Departmental Budgets
      To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the Civil Defence budget for Longford/Westmeath, in order to increase training requirements and improve the quality of services and...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Defence the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory impact assessments...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or established by his...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding allocated to the Reserve Defence Forces during each of the past ten years. [58038/12]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Defence the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets; the reason...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Poultry Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the keeping of fowl in a residential area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1435/13]
    • Coastal Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the applications for funding that were made by Fingal County Council for coastal protection schemes when this brief was under his...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment for REP scheme 4 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the payment will be...
    • Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to increase Irish food production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57799/12]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment options scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he...
    • European Union Solidarity Fund
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has explored the possibility of applying to the EU Solidarity Fund as a means of addressing the fodder crisis looming as a result of...
    • Transport of Animals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approval will be granted on the applications submitted for ships for the live export of cattle; the number and type of animals to be...
    • Air Pollution
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the damage caused to animal and crops by industries namely the ESB and a multi national alumina industry named in...
    • Coastal Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the applications made by Fingal County Council for funding in relation to coastal protection schemes when that brief...
    • Suckler Cow Quota
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the suckler welfare scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding agri environment option scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • Fisheries Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply a timeline, with documentary evidence of steps taken and decisions made by the management cell to deal with continued...
    • Renewable Energy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on biomass as a renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57949/12]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Kerry in receipt of the single farm payment scheme in 2012. [57950/12]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in receipt of a single farm payment totalling €2,000 or less; €2,000-€5,000;...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the matters discussed at the meeting of EU Fisheries Ministers in Brussels during the week of December 17-21, 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the agri environment option scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding mineral rights and the sale of Coillte assets via the new era project; if the mineral rights in the grounds beneath...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 361 of 11 December 2012, if he will confirm that dog pounds, rescues and shelters will be subject to...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environmental options scheme 2 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the REP scheme 4 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when the payment will be...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person who purchases land that has no single payment entitlements will be entitled to claim the disadvantaged area scheme; and if he...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the purpose to which the funds resulting from the sale of 1109 acres, 449 ha, of forest near Ballybofey, County Donegal will be put; if...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fisheries Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of retired naval personnel currently employed by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be paid their disadvantaged and suckler cow payments for 2012; and if he will...
    • Co-operatives Societies
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently investigating the matter of share allocation and share certification relating to the amalgamation of...
    • Milk Quota
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of all payments paid to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal between 2002 and 2012. [58153/12]
    • Fur Farming
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the five fur farms have been given notification to his Department that they no longer have minks kept as per the condition on...
    • Departmental Staff Grades
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the breakdown of staff in the Department of the Marine under the titles, total staff numbers; staff...
    • Fisheries Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the next stage of development regarding the mackerel negotiations between the EU and Norway with Iceland and the Faroe Islands; his views...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo; if payment...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inspectors; if they will be considered as authorised officers...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their agri environment option scheme payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Beef Exports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the stance by Canada in refusing to allow access for EU beef into their jurisdiction, the progress that has been made in...
    • Land Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the entitlements that have been paid on land (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1081/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied under the disadvantaged area payments for 2012; the number who have received their payment; the number...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who appealed the decision of his Department in relation to the disadvantaged area payment scheme to the Independent...
    • Grant Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 527 of 4 December 2012, the reason this Deputy was informed that a person (details supplied) would...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration to the proposal from the Irish Farmers' Association for a loan scheme to invest in the development of the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to reduce the payment on the first 10 hectares of land under the disadvantaged areas scheme to farmers in areas classified...
    • Animal Foodstuffs
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the regulations prohibiting a farmer from added molasses to rolled barley in order to reduce the dust; and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal over stocking density in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite the procession of applications for aquaculture licences in Castlemaine harbour, County Kerry; if his attention has...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the cuts in farm schemes, his views on the fact that the flat rate proposal would destroy the viability of many active farmers...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will increase the number of suckler cows eligible for premium payments from the reduced number of twenty announced in Budget 2013 to...
    • Dairy Efficiency Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine ìf he will outline the status of the DEP Discussion Groups fund and if new entrants will be facilitated in 2013. [1403/13]
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding farm payment suckler cow payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of REP scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applicants will be notified on whether or not they have been accepted into the new agri environment options scheme; and if he will...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Traffic Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will undertake a full public consultation with residents and business people in Howth, County Dublin, on his proposals to introduce...
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an bhfuil sé i gceist aige deontas de €150,000 a chur ar fáil do Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe mar atá iarrtha acu...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision made by the disadvantage area appeals committee will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal in relation to the grassland sheep scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway was finalised; if so,...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1714/13]
    • Fisheries Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has completed an assessment of the potential impact of the development of large fish farms off the west coast of the country on the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to the commitment in the Programme for Government to modernise and reform outdated elements of family law, in particular the legislation...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No.154 of 13 December 2012, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive. [1410/13]
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by her Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory...
    • Family Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the level of services and focus of the work of family resource centres will continue regardless of the make-up of the new Child and Family...
    • Adoption Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Intercountry Adoption Report by the Adoption Authority of Ireland will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Reform
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or...
    • Obesity Levels
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has any planned initiatives to address the teenage obesity issue highlighted in the report Growing Up Ireland; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Family Resource Centre National Forum will have a representative on the board of the new Family Support Agency; and if she will make a...
    • Adoption Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is considering an amendment to the 2010 Adoption Act to extend the life of declarations in terms of the adoption process; when this task...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that referrals from Thailand will continue to be issued by the Adoption Authority of Ireland regardless of the current...
    • National Lottery Funding
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application for 2012 National Lottery funding in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the number of Health Service Executive and city and county childcare committees held Childminding Advisory Officer...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the process by which youth groups and projects may apply for capital funding that was announced by her last month. [58148/12]
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to put the children first guidelines on a statutory basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58165/12]
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding a bilateral arrangement with Russia in relation to adoption. [1002/13]
    • Adoption Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason resources of the Health Service Executive are being expended in assessing persons suitability and eligibility for adoption, at...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when applications will be accepted for the fund of €1.75m for capital projects, including youth cafés and for play and recreational...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the 2012 targets set for her Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if she will report on the attainment or otherwise of these...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available from her Department and other agencies for local organisations, specifically, musical organisations (details supplied);...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will explore every possible funding option in 2013 for a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will consider the huge social...
    • Psychological Service
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review her decision to move certain psychology services from the Health Service Executive to the new Child and Family Support...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by her Department in 2012; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Health
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he signed a contract during 2012 with a company headquartered in the United States of America for the provision of home-help services here; if so, if he will...
    • Social Worker Registration
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the price for registering as a social worker from 31 May 2013 has been set at the high amount of €295; if her attention has been drawn to social...
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to launch a public awareness campaign to highlight the dangers associated with the purchase of illegal cigarettes on the street or at markets; and if he...
    • Water Fluoridation
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reason that 10 local authorities and seven urban district councils have voted to ban fluoridation of water supplies and yet his Department and the...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a family which reaches the drug refund scheme limit of €132 per month in 2012, but has one family member on a medical card paying a separate...
    • Disabled Drivers
      To ask the Minister for Health if the material transport grant for persons with a disability who require a car for going to work is being maintained and at what rate per annum. [1015/13]
    • Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to take action over the apparent total overpayment to the current Chief Executive Officer of the Health Service Executive of circa, €160,000...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health the rationale and criteria used in determining a 3.7% budget cutback figure as the disability sector’s contribution to the health sector budget...
    • Water Fluoridation
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the arguments to discontinue the practice of water fluoridation here (details supplied); the reason the State continues the fluoridation...
    • Animal Experimentation
      To ask the Minister for Health the permitted humane methods of killing for different species of animals bred for or used in laboratory experiments at different stages of their development and or...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory impact assessments...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [57772/12]
    • Medical Card Delays
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in dealing with the medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for medical card [57783/12]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment for a hip replacement consultation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Service Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57786/12]
    • Underage Drinking
      To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the problem of underage drinking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57795/12]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been taken to withdraw occupational and speech and language therapy provision from a special needs school (details supplied) in County Cork; the...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make allowances under the drugs payment scheme for persons who have undergone an organ transplant and who will be on medication for life requiring them...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the projected savings as a result of the increase in fair deal charges as announced in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57815/12]
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the outcome of the Trinity College Dublin researchers' findings in which savings of more than 50% can be made on the five most common...
    • Hospital Charges
      To ask the Minister for Health if it is true that sick and dying cancer patients are being pursued by debt collectors acting on behalf of our public hospitals for €75 per day for...
    • Environmental Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the cost involved to his Department and the health system in general following the European Environmental Agency findings against the ESB and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57860/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the current absence of occupational therapy services in the Ballinasloe area of County Galway; if an occupational therapist has been selected for the...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if adequate resources and training are in place for care workers dealing with patients suffering from dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57866/12]
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to or established by his...
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that two junior doctors at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, took their own lives in the past six months, the time limitation on hours worked by junior...
    • Health Service Executive Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will safeguard the funding for services (details supplied) in view of the crucial services it provides to children with intellectual disabilities. [57912/12]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will refrain from imposing any further cuts to the disability sector; and if he will make a commitment to protect the current level of funding that exists....
    • Maternity Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of maternity hospitals that currently test pregnant women to see if they carry the sickle-cell gene; if there are plans for all maternity...
    • Health Service Executive Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health his veiws on correspondence regarding funding for day care services for elderly people (details supplied). [57933/12]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the findings of the National Advocacy Service, published October 2012, that disabled persons being moved out of institutions and into the community...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review the Health Service Executive has undertaken after an audit found that 7,000 old-age pensioners had not had their...
    • Health Insurance Management System
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the electronic claims management system that has been rolled out to six sites to replace the paper-based process; the locations at which this...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive an appointment for a hearing test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57967/12]
    • Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form and by Health Service Executive region the amount paid in bonuses to HSE managers in the years 2009-2012 inclusive; the number of...
    • Orthodontic Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 has been 44 months waiting for an appointment for orthodontic treatment...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy was refused a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57995/12]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing the breast check programme from the age of 45 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57996/12]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for fair deal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if Multiple Sclerosis, Ulcerative Colitis and Chrohn's Disease are on the list of diseases that qualify the sufferer for a medical card; and if not, the reason...
    • Medical Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive have indemnified suppliers of replacement hips (details supplied) [58012/12]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the provision of home care assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to ensure it is adequate for their needs. [58013/12]
    • Nursing Education
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the courses currently in place to assist public health nurses who have not been nursing for five years or more to return to nursing; when it is...
    • Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is not included in the redress board and was a victim of Dr. Micheal Neary [58031/12]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned by the numbers presenting at constituency offices whose medical cards have been replaced by general practitioner cards who have not been taking...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of the 12 December 2012, if he will provide a breakdown a month by month breakdown of the number of home care package...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the funds spent by his Department in tackling the issue of homelessness in County Louth in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and...
    • Domestic Violence
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of funds spent by his Department in tackling the issue of domestic violence in County Louth in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Health in understanding the importance of tackling diabetes foot disease in the community and in keeping persons with this health complication out of hospital and healthy...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health when an application for the fair deal scheme will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health if a home care package will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58108/12]
    • Health Service Executive Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the current number of assistant national directors employed within the Health Service Executive [58111/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health with the promised restoration of the pre-September 2012 level of funding for home help hours, if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to arrange an...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include haemochromatosis on the list of eligible conditions covered by the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline cuts to funding for the Wellmount Health Clinic, Finglas, Dublin, in 2010, 2011, 2012 and planned cuts in the 2013 period [58129/12]
    • Disease Classification (3 comments)
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 648, if he will consider reviewing the guidelines from the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, rather than the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health the latest update of his dealing with the group SOUND; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58150/12]
    • Animal Experimentation
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the implementation of the EU Directive, 2010/63/EU, in January 2013, the way he intends to implement the three R's: replacement of the use of animals to...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the 120 cystic fibrosis patients that use Temple Street Hospital, Dublin; and if he will provide the need for physiotherapy and dietician...
    • Hospital Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotriptor machine, which was purchased for UHG in February 2010 at a cost of €400,000 was never put into...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of two cochlear implants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly who is profoundly deaf and an operation is...
    • Nurses Registration
      To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made on an application for registration on the nursing board in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a knee operation appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth. [58176/12]
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the €35 million programme targeted at enhancing community mental health teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58194/12]
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken in relation to victims of symphysiotomy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58195/12]
    • Medical Card Applications
      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 on the matter....
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health when will a reply issue to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 15 November 2012 and if he will provide a list of all companies contracted by the Health Service...
    • Medical Card Delays
      To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time from date of receipt for the processing of a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1020/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on the outpatients waiting lists at Kerry General Hospital; the way these figures compare to the previous three years; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary which is awaiting a decision by the medical officer...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Health if it his policy to cut the number of public nursing home beds in County Louth; if this drop in public nursing home beds will be covered by increased homecare...
    • Medical Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has any concerns at the continued availability of a certain drug (details supplied) here in view of the fact that it is no longer legally available in the...
    • Medical Card Review
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore a medical card to a family (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1047/13]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his policy in relation to home help and home care packages; the steps that have been taken to ensure that those who have a medically...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times in place for persons in County Tipperary seeking to avail of child and adolescent mental health services with the Health Service...
    • Social Workers Register
      To ask the Minister for Health the role of the new registration authority for social workers, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council; the details of the persons charged with...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that are in place to accommodate the transfer of paramedics within the ambulance service from one county to another; if there is a coordinated...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and if he will expedite the matter. [1123/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a knee operation will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and if he will expedite the matter. [1124/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if eight hours of home support granted by the Health Service Executive in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be maintained in view of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a pension (details supplied) in County Kilkenny has been waiting four years for an operation; and if he will expedite the matter. [1128/13]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to increase the number of palliative care nurses, from three, working in County Wicklow; if he will address the anomaly where palliative nurse care is...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he intends to publish the hospital groupings [1150/13]
    • Prescription Charges
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the application of the prescription charge for persons who are obliged for exceptional medical reasons to collect their medication on a weekly...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence regarding new nurse graduates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1179/13]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will fill the post of domestic cook/cleaner at a care centre (details supplied) in County Kerry on a 39 hour week basis in view of the fact that the current...
    • Prescription Charges
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding payment for medication in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [1182/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an appointment at the earliest possible date in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a custom built wheelchair in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1190/13]
    • Children in Care
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a child (details supplied) in County Carlow who has been in long term care since June 2009 and who has been assessed by both a...
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments made at senior physiotherapist level in the country in 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he will outline same on a Health Service Executive region...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 632 of 22 May, 2012 if a principal dental surgeon was appointed for Dublin South East/Wicklow at end of June 2012; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the current plans regarding the provision of in-patient bed numbers based in the Sligo Leitrim Mental Health Services campus in Ballytivnan, Sligo; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health further to a statement in which it was stated that the State would pay for scans and operations for women whose cosmetic surgery had gone wrong and the clinics...
    • Disability Support Service
      To ask the Minister for Health at what stage the funding and remit for disability services will be moved from his Department to the Department of Social Protection; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if the forthcoming review of fair deal will remove the current framework of price capping, thus ensuring the private and voluntary nursing home sector will address...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their medical card application. [1249/13]
    • Health Insurance Cover
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1261/13]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Health the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these targets; the reason...
    • Suicide Incidence
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has figures available on the number of suicides in Ireland in 2012; if not, the data he has at his disposition; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the starting salary for the full range of professions working in our hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1315/13]
    • Health Service Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Health regarding the appointment of six vacancies on the blood transfusion board, if the positions were publicly advertised; the number of persons who applied; the number...
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in detail the history of the proposed development of a primary care centre at a location (details supplied) in Cork City, including details of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health if there are allowances for sufferers of the Steven Johnson syndrome; if so, if he will confirm that these payments will continue to be made to sufferers of this...
    • National Carers Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the National Carer's Strategy; if an implementation plan is in place for this strategy; the elements of the strategy that will be implemented...
    • General Practitioner Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when will General Practitioner cards for persons with long term illnesses as announced in Budget 2012 be issued. [1368/13]
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to install CCTV cameras in all Health Service Executive ambulances to prevent the risk of assault to ambulance staff; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason for closing a disability service (details supplied) in County Galway. [1384/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the home help supports available to children with aspergers syndrome or autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1396/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hip replacement procedure at Sligo General Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • National Office for Clinical Audit
      To ask the Minister for Health if there are any reports anticipated from the new National Office of Clinical Audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1420/13]
    • Health Service Executive Governance
      To ask the Minister for Health if there are any reviews/reports due on the new formal Health Service Executive Performance Management System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1423/13]
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure adequate mental health services in south Mayo where services can no longer take any more referrals from general practitioners; and...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to replace the posts of ophthalmologists in counties Longford and Westmeath in view of the fact that there is already a two year waiting list in...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to encourage local authorities that is to consider adopting a smoke free policy in all playgrounds under their control; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Orthodontic Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently availing of the orthodontic service in Merlin Park Regional Hospital, Galway; the number of children waiting to be called for...
    • Health Service Executive Reform
      To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he received the Health Service Executive National Service Plan; the date on which it will be published; the date on which the individual regional...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a national adult metabolic unit at the Mater Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1512/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve further home help hours for a person (details supplied) in County Cork [1515/13]
    • Health Care Infrastructure
      To ask the Minister for Health if the design/feasibility study on Corduff Health Centre, Dublin 15, has been completed; if the findings of the study will be published; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive audit on James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Dublin 15, will be published to allow for the public, elected representatives and other...
    • Hospital Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Health when an MRI scanner will be installed and fully operational at James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1520/13]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to pension rights in regard to the on call service given in regard to his term as an ambulance service...
    • Audiology Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1557/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1591/13]
    • Orthodontic Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [1593/13]
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health when will the rheumatoid specialist be appointed to Kerry General Hospital in view of the fact that there is immediate urgency due to increasing demand by patients...
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact that all pensioners between 66 and 70 years of age on State pension are over the income level to be eligible for a medical card as the...
    • Hospital Groups
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has now received the Higgins Report relating to the future of the South East Hospital Network; if not, when he expects to be in receipt of same; when he will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1627/13]
    • Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the pay rate for a newly qualified nurse and mid-wife graduate in 2009 was €33,470 and it will be reduced to €22,000 in 2013;...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the fact that all pensioners between 66 and 70 years are over the threshold financially for a medical card because the income limit for a single...
    • Disability Support Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the proposed cut of €250,000 to childvision disability services in Dublin 9 in 2013 [1689/13]
    • General Practitioner Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who have been reported to the Health Service Executive for charging medical card holders for blood tests; and if he will make a...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made between his Department, the Health Service Executive and the Irish Medical Orgainsation to review the GMS contract with general...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be called for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1695/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a discretionary medical card will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of persons in the State in receipt of home help hours and are also cared for by persons who are in receipt of carer's...
    • Medical Products
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the administration of a drug in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1719/13]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork with a view to the re-instatement of necessary hours; and if he...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health on behalf of a person (details supplied), if he will provide an update on his allocation of home help hours, which despite her advanced years and delicate health...
    • Health Service Executive Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the way a nurse, who commenced employment with a hospital in November 2012 on a one year contract basis, could have her contract unilaterally cancelled and be...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the timescale envisaged for the publication of legislation to provide for the changes to eligibility criteria for medical card applicants who are over-seventy; the...
    • Health Service Executive Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the projected accumulated savings for each month of 2013 for each of the savings measures identified under the total 2013 saving of €323 million for the...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact Limerick Maternity Hospital is recruiting new graduates and bypassing nurses and midwives already on the Health Service...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has to wait eleven months to a year for an MRI scan at the Mater...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 476 of 11 December 2012, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1869/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if the new local property tax will be a deductible expense for the purposes of determining the net wage of a medical card applicant. [1871/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason 400,000 home help hours were removed from the Health Service Executive 2012 Service Plan target in a technical adjustment thereby giving a target of 10.3...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if the pilot phase for facilitators as part of the new initiative aimed at enhancing team working on community mental health teams will be working (details...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if the Regional Nursing Metric Project Officers pilot sites have reported yet; if they will be rolled out nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when the national Counselling in Primary Care Service will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1884/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will expect a decision on the appeal of the refusal of entitlement to a full medical card [1885/13]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding therapeutic needs in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 [1888/13]
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1952/13]
    • Departmental Properties
      To ask the Minister for Health with regard to a site (details supplied) in County Kerry, which is now closed and unused, the proposals there are for the building in the future; if he has...
    • National Lottery Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason an organisation (details supplied) in County Wicklow did not receive an official response from his Department to inform them that their application for a...
    • Prescription Charges
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impact on senior citizens that the new prescription charges are having which is causing hardship [1973/13]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 [1974/13]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Coast Guard Station Closures
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he reversed the recommendation to close the Coast Guard Stations at Malin Head and Valentia Island. [58200/12]
    • Regional Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a bridge collapse in the Beaufort area of County Kerry known locally as Spideog Bridge located on the L7515 close to Beaufort...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out by his Department in the past twelve months; and the list of regulatory...
    • Public Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the improvements in transport infrastructure he has planned that will affect Dublin North East and Dublin North Central; and if he will make a...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure the development of sport in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57798/12]
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of agencies, bodies, boards, quangos or other entities, which are financed from, answerable to...
    • Airport Development Projects
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the recently announced commercial package for Shannon Airport was submitted to the European Commission's Competition Authority for advance...
    • Trans European Transport Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals Ireland is putting forward under the 2012 calls on proposals on the Trans European Transport Network multi annual and annual...
    • Sports Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that funding will be maintained for the Special Olympics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57994/12]
    • National Car Test
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with officials from the European Commission, with a view to allowing an exemption from NCT for cars that have been...
    • Driving Licence Renewals
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if a persons drivers licence is out of date their insurance is invalid; if he will ask that...
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason it is necessary for a person seeking to obtain a taxi/hackney licence to operate in County Limerick to have a knowledge of the...
    • Tourism Industry
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a group of foreign and Irish business persons in the hostel tourism sector that want to bring an international conference...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it costs to run his Department; if he will quantify the savings in his Department when some of its duties were transferred to the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has further updates on the Slane bypass proposals, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1012/13]
    • Local Improvements Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm, that following the decision to discontinue funding to local improvement schemes in the 2012 Budget, if his Department are...
    • The Gathering Events
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the grant funding available to groups who are hosting gathering events; the way he intends to ensure that...
    • Road Project Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all major roads projects that received EU funding in 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Regional Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the standards that are laid down for the upgrade and re-alignment of regional roads including width, camber, sight distances and surface; and...
    • Private Clamping Sector
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when legislation will be brought forward to regulate private clamping operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1174/13]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 2012 targets set for his Department for implementation of the Jobs Action Plan; if he will report on the attainment or otherwise of these...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the funding difficulties associated with many small sports clubs, particularly in relation to a club...
    • Driving Licence Renewals
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason holders of old format drivers licences cannot apply to have them replaced with the new format licences; if this facility will be...
    • Rail Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact the CEO of Iarnrod Éireann and request that works (details supplied) be carried out as soon as possible; and if he...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding grants in respect of a club (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [1385/13]
    • Road Signage
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form broken down by county the amount of money spent by the National Roads Authority on new road signs in 2012,...
    • Tourism Development
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on State or council lands, such as amenity areas on the Shannon River in counties Longford and Westmeath, with a...
    • Public Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way much of the recent €36 million subvention for CIE was allocated to Bus Éireann; the amount allocated to Dublin Bus and...
    • Industrial Disputes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that all the industrial relations mechanisms of the State are utilised to resolve the current IR difficulties at Bus...
    • Bus Éireann Ticketing
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has been informed of any recent malfunctions in the Bus Éireann ticketing system which may have mitigated against the collection of...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the composition of the board of CIÉ; the number of members currently on the board and the level of remuneration...
    • State Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he monitors and invigilates the performance of the senior management and board of Bus Éireann: if the board and senior management...
    • Cycle Facilities
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details regarding the cross-country Greenway proposal as set out in his Departmental priorities statement of 2 January...
    • Driving Licence Renewals
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person who has to renew their driving licence now before the introduction of the new driving licence on 19 January 2013 is being...
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analysis that has been undertaken to identify the significant fall off in tourist visits from the UK in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the suspension of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1621/13]
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or relevant State agency will consider a marketing fund to support golf clubs in their efforts to attract golfers from the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any top up grant available for organisations that have recently been approved for funding under the sports capital programme...
    • Public Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on introducing legislation to address the problem of public transport passengers putting their feet on seats (details supplied); and...
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current requirements for taxis in relation to the fitting of decals by an authorised supplier; if the presence of a decal is now a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received a request from the board, or representatives of SMAE, of Ireland West Airport Knock for a meeting; and when he will be in a...
    • Air Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the basis for his assertion that the recent actions in relation to Shannon Airport will have no impact on the operations of...
    • Sale of State Assets
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the sale of Rosslare Harbour Port, County Wexford; if he is currently having it evaluated; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the bodies, other than statutory bodies, that were fully funded by his Department in 2012; and if he will make a...

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