Written answers

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

  • Department of Health
    • Hospital Services
      86. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether it was planned to remove more than €7 million in funding (details supplied) from the National Cancer Control Programme earlier...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      87. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is putting in place to reduce the numbers on out-patient waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22601/13]
    • Hospital Services
      88. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the plan for health services in South County Dublin with regards to the new configuration of services at Loughlinstown, St...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the drug Pirfenidone will be made available for patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis despite the cost of this drug; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      90. To ask the Minister for Health when the small hospitals framework report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22566/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      91. To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to occupational therapists appointed in 2012 and 2013 to community mental health teams, he will indicate if these newly appointed staff are...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      93. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting periods for various procedures have been reduced in respect of all public hospitals without exception; the extent to which the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      94. To ask the Minister for Health the range of mental health services available for adults, adolescents and children across the Dublin/North East Region; if he will outline plans for further...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      95. To ask the Minister for Health the current statistics in relation to accident and emergency waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22124/13]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      96. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll out of the promised 20 primary care centres at different locations across the State; the number and details of the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      97. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will ensure that the quality of life of persons with disabilities is enhanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22590/13]
    • Suicide Prevention
      98. To ask the Minister for Health his policy for reducing suicide rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22615/13]
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      100. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the current situation in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 in view of the fact that some citizens have...
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the way the cost of procedures in public hospitals here compares to the rest of the OECD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22611/13]
    • Hospital Services
      102. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that will be made available to existing children’s hospitals, including Temple Street, in view of the further delay in the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      103. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the filling of the 414 posts for community mental health services committed to in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012, the...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      104. To ask the Minister for Health the current figures in relation to accident and emergency waiting times and patients who are required to remain on trolleys before admission; and if he will...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied) whose spouse died 40 years ago giving birth in the Coombe Hospital, Dublin 8, and whose death was recorded as...
    • Hospital Procedures
      106. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that all publicly funded hospitals, regardless of their form of patronage or nominal religious denomination, are and will be required to...
    • Health Services Issues
      109. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the recent cuts to services at St Michael's House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22627/13]
    • Long Stay Residential Units
      110. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain his policy regarding the transfer of persons with disabilities living in long term residential homes, such as Cheshire Homes, to local...
    • Respite Care Services
      111. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive respite care beds in the State at present and the number in 2010; if there are plans to increase the number of such...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      112. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the ending of the transport service provided for patients in nursing homes to attend hospital appointments; and the action he will take...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      113. To ask the Minister for Health when the Higgins report on hospital reconfiguration will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22605/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      114. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the excessive waiting times for outpatient appointments across our hospital system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      116. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that free primary care for people with long-term illnesses has yet to be introduced in view of the commitment contained in the Programme for...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      119. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 16 October 2012, the number of the 150 posts promised for child and adolescent mental health services that are now...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      121. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the Health Service Executive will reach its budget targets for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22607/13]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      124. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the neuro-rehabilitation plan published in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22580/13]
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses who have now taken up the two year contract at reduced pay; if he will replace the scheme with the necessary recruitment of nurses on...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of the Irish Thalidomide Survivors' Society to discuss the details of his proposed Health Care Protocol; and if he will...
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions
      128. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the working conditions of non-consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22589/13]
    • Hospital Staff
      129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider requesting the Health Information and Quality Authority to immediately conduct an assessment of staffing levels at all acute hospitals in...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      130. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the proposal to develop a primary care centre at Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      132. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding plans for the development of rehabilitation services at Roscommon County Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22387/13]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the scope of the cuts he proposes to impose on health services, other than staff pay cuts, during 2014 and 2015; if he has carried out an...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      136. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the current status of the new National Children's Hospital project; the current indicative timetable for the project including when the...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      137. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he continues to monitor the retention and development of nursing homes in the public sector; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Closures
      138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to reverse the decision to close the Emergency Department at Loughlinstown Hospital, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      139. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made to date in the provision of enhanced hospital facilities and other essential services for patients with cystic fibrosis...
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment
      140. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, that the hospital will not have sufficient non-consultant...
    • Cochlear Implants
      141. To ask the Minister for Health when a bilateral cochlear implant programme will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22581/13]
    • Health Promotion
      143. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the link between high sugary soft drink consumption and type-2 diabetes has been firmly established in both American and European...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      146. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres opened since May 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22565/13]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Expenditure
      147. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of travel and subsistence both foreign and domestic claimed by each Minister, Junior Minister and Secretary General in his Department for the period 2007 to...
    • Official Engagements
      148. To ask the Taoiseach if he met with a person (details supplied) during his visit to Ireland on the week beginning 17 April 2013; if he will provide the precise agenda of items which were...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      149. To ask the Taoiseach the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following earnings brackets: less...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      150. To ask the Taoiseach the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his office and the office of...
    • Irish Language Issues
      151. To ask the Taoiseach if a Cabinet Committee on Gaeilge and the Gaeltacht has been established, as outlined in the Twenty Year Strategy for the Irish Language; and if so, the number of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • European Commission for Democracy through Law
      152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role Ireland plays at the European Commission for Democracy through Law, the Venice Commission, at the Council of...
    • Foreign Affairs Issues
      153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details regarding the upcoming June summit of the European Council and the Stabilisation and...
    • Irish Communities Abroad
      154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact the Spanish authorities for an up-date on the investigation into the murder of an Irish citizen...
    • Overseas Development Aid Provision
      155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is expected that Ireland will honour its commitment to reach a target of spending 0.7% of our national income on...
    • UN Conventions Issues
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland intends to ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;...
    • European Court of Human Rights Judgments
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that at a meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 7 March 2013 the...
    • Consular Services Staff
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 7 May 2013, when the last review was conducted by his Department of Irish...
    • Ministerial Travel
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the travel that the Minister of State for Trade and Development has undertaken in the past six months...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a progress update on the youth guarantee fund; the way these funds may be accessed and the proportion...
    • EU Enlargement
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has being made during Ireland's EU presidency in relation to Macedonia's progress to EU membership....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the full details regarding the upcoming rotation of Irish Ambassadors that was recently approved; if he...
    • Official Engagements
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has been invited to take part in celebrations in Croatia upon their accession to the European Union and...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Exemptions
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take in view of the ECJ order that the refund of excise duty on fuel used by disabled drivers is unlawful and in breach of the excise...
    • Tax Code
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there continues to be a death tax on intestate wills; and if he has any plans to change same. [22472/13]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time for which the current list of unfinished housing estates will qualify for a wavier from the local property tax; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Exemptions
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any proposals to review the current qualifying criteria in respect of primary medical certificates; if his Department will consider revising the...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of persons liable for the local property tax that are not required to pay the 2013 tax until 2014; and if he will make a statement...
    • Property Tax Assessments
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons that identical houses in private estates may have different values attributed to them for the local property tax in situations where the local...
    • Tax Code
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the situation regarding the capital gains tax payable by a landowner who transfers a site to a relation for no consideration; the liability that attaches to...
    • Property Tax Assessments
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the rationale behind the valuation bands of the local property tax; if consideration was given to introducing more gradual bands than...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by householders who have not received their local property tax return form and who do...
    • Income Statistics
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 2 May 2013, if he will set out the incomes and income tax distributions in a format matching the income bands in a...
    • Pension Provisions
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the publication of the Mercer Report and his recommendations to the covered institutions that they reduce their cost base by between 6% and 10%, if...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding an increase in EBS mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22250/13]
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance if State bodies, State agencies and public bodies should be required to get a tax clearance certificate ffrom persons who purchase assets from them to ensure...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to apply for a full or partial exemption or waiver in respect of a private residence that has had works carried out to the property to adapt...
    • International Financial Services Centre
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of banks and businesses that have closed in the International Financial Services Centre over the past three years; the names of the banks; the...
    • Tax Yield
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers earning more than €100,000 per annum; the amount of tax they pay; the percentage this is of the total tax take; and if he will...
    • Marked Gas Oil
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if operators are permitted to use marked gas oil rebated fuel in agricultural tractor and trailer combinations used for the general carriage of goods by road...
    • Pension Schemes
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with the Permanent TSB in order to ensure that workers' pension benefits are protected under the defined benefit scheme and to ensure...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who signed up online to pay the local property tax by direct debit has had the payment debited already when the forms indicate that the...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum adjustment that would be required to be made in Budget 2014 to meet the original agreed deficit target as set out in the Troika Programme. [22364/13]
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance of the ten persons, commonly known together as the Maple 10 or Anglo Golden Circle, if he will confirm the number of persons that continue to have outstanding...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation borrowers will be eligible to buy their own loans at less than par value when such loans over €10m are...
    • NAMA Expenditure
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the sums paid by the National Asset Management Agency to each of the ratings agencies Fitch, Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and...
    • Financial Services Sector Remuneration
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 and 210 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm by year, separately, the salary and benefits and total remuneration...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 1 May 2013, if the increase in the State’s shareholding of the ordinary shares in Allied Irish Banks as a...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not been obliged to make an offer for all outstanding shares in Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB in view of his shareholding in both...
    • Banking Licence Applications
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm by year for each of end of 2010, end of 2011, end of 2012 and currently, the number of extant banking licences issued to banks operating in...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the Central Bank of Ireland is considering outsourcing security for the bank's operations; if all security operations, or specific...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments that have been made by tobacco manufacturers in each of the past five years for breaches of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Revenue...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the reason persons who had registered and paid the household charge did not receive their local property tax return forms; and if he...
    • Property Taxation Application
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a person's liability for the local property tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22438/13]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance if statistics from the local property tax collected by the Revenue Commissioners will be made available for academic purposes such as geographers and...
    • Departmental Funding
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any proposal to partly fund the Poolbeg Incinerator project through loans from the National Pension Reserve Fund; and if he...
    • Tax Exemptions
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise on the attached (details supplied) regarding capital gains tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22698/13]
    • Property Valuations
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the continuing problems faced by home-owners in fairly valuing their properties for the purposes of the local property tax...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the taxpayer of the recent sale of the Quinn Building, Johnstown, Navan, to Meath County Council. [22704/13]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registrations for the local property tax on a local authority basis. [22712/13]
    • Tax Exemptions
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all organisations here which are granted charitable tax exemption; if he will list all such organisations which had charitable...
    • Mobile Telephony
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has allocated funding from the sale of the mobile spectrum in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20196/13]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of student accommodation that was built under section 50 of the Finance Act 1999. [22749/13]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for Allied Irish Bank and other such banks to either pass on the ECB rate cuts to variable rate mortgage holders or refrain from increasing mortgage...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following earnings...
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps the Revenue Commissioners are taking to monitor fairs, markets and so on in order to crackdown on the illegal sale of cigarettes and tobacco...
    • Tax Yield
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual value of income tax paid by employees of multinational companies that have invested here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22818/13]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any exemption on the property tax for persons who bought their homes in 2008 and paid huge stamp duty, and for those whose property has had...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his office and the...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details, for each of the covered institutions, the number of rent receivers appointed to date in 2013 in respect of buy to let properties;...
    • Banking Operations
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding Bank of Ireland not issuing bankers' drafts of less than €500 in view of the fact that this is an issue with senior citizens; and...
    • Property Taxation Application
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position regarding houses that were exempt from the household charge in 2012 by county councils as these homes were subject to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Public Sector Staff Redundancies
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons in the public service who are employed in more than one location are eligible for the enhanced redundancy payment in respect of one of...
    • FÁS Local Training Initiatives Eligibility
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on further training skills in respect of a person (details supplied). [22198/13]
    • FÁS Safe Passes
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason safe pass tickets for various courses on construction and other sites do not last for up to three or four years as is the case in many...
    • Proposed Legislation
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the draft SOLAS Bill's definition of further education and training, if he will consider broadening the definition to include...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider having Down's syndrome listed as a complex, low incidence disorder, in order that all children with Down's syndrome are...
    • School Transport Applications
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise on an application for concessionary school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the major collective effect of the cuts to special needs assistants for children with a disability; and if he...
    • Graduate Support Schemes
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of citizens who have graduated from the ICT skills conversion courses which began from March 2012 and are supported by her Department....
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason new entrants into the teaching profession have to pay a teacher registration fee of €90 whereas the fee for existing teachers...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person on a teaching panel in second level education and are waiting to be redeployed to an alternative location are being paid their normal...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school building projects (details supplied) in County Laois; when this is expected to go to construction; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the need for children with Down's syndrome to be recognised in their entirety and in their own right by his Department; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Language Issues
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the office, and employees of the Council for Gaeltacht Education, and Irish Medium Education will not be located in the...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects work to begin on a school (details supplied) in County Meath as announced in bundle 5 of the public private partnership school...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22239/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in responding to representations in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford submitted in August, 2012,...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the supplementary panels for primary school teachers being assembled, the conditions required in order for a person to be...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Gaelscoil (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22299/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special needs assistant or other assistance available to children of school going age, preschool, who are profoundly deaf; the grants or...
    • University Libraries
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the use of university libraries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22323/13]
    • School Staffing
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to his Department from substitutes and lost hours as a result of the Irish Primary Principals Network Conference, which takes...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new primary school will be provided in County Westmeath (details supplied); if he will provide the up to date report on this proposal; the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve funding for an autism unit (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22352/13]
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a submission regarding Croke Park two; the plans he has to address the concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant application refusal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Grant Scheme Expenditure
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student who has completed a level eight degree can avail of funding to pursue a higher diploma; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vocational Education Committees Staff
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will consider taking direct action into the number of outstanding issues and reported ongoing irregularities (details supplied) regarding...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, whereby parents have been informed that...
    • Higher Education Authority Report
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify in the report School Completers What Next the way the following students categorised and also the way the study tallies with...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in place to ensure that every child on the ASD spectrum receives an appropriate school place as near as possible to their home;...
    • Bullying in Schools
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date regarding the preparation of anti-bullying procedures for schools being undertaken in his Department; if he is...
    • School Curriculum
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to refuse to sanction the post leaving certificate programme for 2013/2014 at a college (details supplied) in...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all children with Down's syndrome attending mainstream primary schools have access to specifically allocated resource...
    • Student Grant Scheme Representations
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a full/special maintenance grant was not issued by Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • School Health and Safety Issues
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the services Medmark provide to his Department to get school employees who are off work due to illness to return to work; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the criteria relating to guaranteed resource learning hours for students with Down's syndrome was altered in 2005; and if he will...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the likely starting date for the construction of the new school to accommodate amalgamated schools (details supplied) in County Laois. [22717/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the likely starting date for the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Laois which is scheduled for sometime in 2014/2015. [22718/13]
    • School Accommodation
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will bring forward the starting date from 2015/2016 for the replacement building in respect of a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to the Exchequer and public funds to build and operate, using a public private partnership, the two post primary schools at Borris Road,...
    • State Examinations Issues
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if suitable and reasonable accommodation needs will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline special needs assistants or other assistance available to children of school going and preschool age who are profoundly deaf;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a specific policy decision has been taken to give absolute priority to new build primary and secondary schools over the extension of existing...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding has not been as yet been secured for further education of students completing their...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the reason for the delay; the...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a determination will be made on a grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to an application for emergency works funding in respect of roof repairs for a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Staffing
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate allegations of malpractice as raised from a case (details supplied). [22829/13]
    • FÁS Safe Passes
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to any issues arising where an English company will not accept a FÁS safe pass card; if the FÁS safe...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new school building for a school (details supplied) will be fully accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22999/13]
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of an application in respect of emergency funding for a school (details supplied) in County Galway will be decided in view of the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has now completed the acquisition of land for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take immediate action to provide improved accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare or, if it is his intention...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding issues with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23041/13]
    • Fee Paying Schools
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that no changes will occur to the way fee paying schools are funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23042/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants for third level education grants from County Kerry; the number of students that have been paid grants and college fees...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he approves of the use of a restraint method Figure of Four@ TMAV technique as an intervention for children with autism who have toileting or...
    • Preschool Services
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify his comments made regarding the cutting of child benefit; if he will make his intentions clear with regards to the future of...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Garda Stations Closures
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a submission from Beaufort Community Council, County Kerry, with regard to proposals that they have for the Garda...
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following the rejection of Croke Park two if retirement grades will still apply to serving civil servants; and if he will make a...
    • Public Service Contracts
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a more expensive contract was awarded to a company (details supplied); if he will detail the method by which the prices...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Health and Safety Inspections
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there are regular health and safety checks carried out at petrol stations here; the person responsible for carrying out these...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      306. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures in place to ensure that parliamentary staff in the Houses of the Oireachtas enjoy the same protections from employment...
    • Pensions Reform
      308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, having regard to the proposed increase in retirement age for workers in the private sector, he will advise the regulation changes...
    • Competition Authority Funding
      309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay the latest annual financial statements of the Competition Authority before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [22377/13]
    • Youth Enterprise Initiatives
      310. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the closing of Shannon Development will affect the young persons enterprise programme; if alternative sources of funding will...
    • Trade Agreements
      311. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline Ireland's economic and trade co-operation with China; if he will provide a breakdown in the annual trading figures...
    • Industrial Development
      312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits his Department and the employment agencies have arranged to the vacant state of the art former Cordis Plant at...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to the findings made in favour of employees or former employees against employers by the Employment Appeals Tribunal since...
    • Job Creation Issues
      314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans, if any, he has for job creation in the Longford/ Westmeath area; if he has plans to set up an inter-agency for the midlands...
    • Copyright Legislation Review
      315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a final report from the Copyright Review Committee established by him in 2011; when he intends to make the report...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      316. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      317. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications
      318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the uptake of the micro finance scheme which was set up to assist small to medium size businesses to expand and develop their trade...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      319. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he plans to take in 2013 to deliver a National Step Change Initiative for Irish manufacturing with particular reference to...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Community Work Initiatives
      320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that 350 Tús supervisors are affected by the removal of an additional job assist tax credit which in the past has been...
    • Post Office Network
      321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the 400 post offices around the country who are fearing for their futures because of the possible changes to the way pensions and...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the successful European Court case taken by former Waterford Crystal workers in respect of their pension rights, if she will ensure...
    • Respite Care Grant Administration
      323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the major collective effect of the cuts to respite care allowance and the disability allowance for children and...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons, broken down by administrative division and by age group, currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance that have not, to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Delays
      327. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal will be heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22204/13]
    • Rural Social Scheme Statistics
      328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are proposals to increase the number of places on the rural social schem on a national basis, and if so the degree to which we can hope to...
    • Respite Care Grant Applications
      329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a respite care grant will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [22247/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in the social welfare services office forwarding documentation sought by the appeals office regarding a carer's allowance...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      331. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the Moving On proposal from Focus Ireland to address unnecessary youth homelessness; if her Department will lead a network of...
    • Disability Allowance Applications Waiting Times
      333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the prolonged processing time of a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity pension appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for a carer's allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      338. 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...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the qualifying conditions that a person must meet in order to be eligible to apply for participation in a community employment scheme; and if she...
    • School Meals Programme
      341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will furnish a list of the new schools that were placed on the programme for school meals and the schools that received additional funding...
    • National Carers Strategy Consultation
      342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding a submission on carer's (details supplied); her plans to address the issues raised; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for invalidity pension. [22447/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      344. 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. [22448/13]
    • Free Travel Scheme Applications
      345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a companion pass in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all taxi drivers are refused rent supplement as a matter of Departmental policy; if so, the basis for this policy; and if she will make a...
    • Job Initiatives
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify the terms of the jobBridge scheme as they apply to the education sector and specifically if and when educational institutions...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      349. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      351. 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 Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for a PPS number will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Support Services
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she has taken, or intends to take, to address the fact, now confirmed in her Department's report, that households with children, and in...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [22695/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance which has been awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be granted; and if she will...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be allowed to appeal their illness benefit application decision by way of oral hearing; and...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will re-examine entitlement to social welfare assistance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who wishes to take up...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason retained fire fighters are not allowed to claim jobseeker's benefit; her plans to change the criteria of same; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Offices
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to close the Community Welfare Office in Tramore, County Waterford; if this is the case, the way she can justify this closure; her plans...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in each of the following...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Remit
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the contents of the new service level agreement that has been issued to the money advice and budgeting service companies and in particularly the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to her...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a State non contributory pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      368. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the payment of a scholarship to a recipient of a one parent family benefit is considered as cash income and deducted from their weekly...
    • Job Activation Measures
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseekers who have been called to interviews as part of her Department's strategy of having more regular and on-going engagement with...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out a review of the decision to cease payment of a carer's allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Live Register Numbers
      372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the live register at Bandon, County Cork for each of the past five years. [23028/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of person's on full time benefits that are not recorded on the live register at Bandon County Cork for each of the past five years....
    • Community Work Initiatives
      374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the services that will be rolled out in the Cork area under the Intreo scheme. [23030/13]
    • Pensions Reform
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will take steps to review the rules applicable to pension payments, whereby in a pension fund wind up situation, existing pensioners retain...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the recent ECJ Judgement in the Waterford Crystal Workers pension entitlements, she will take steps to put in place an appropriate...
    • Child Benefit Payments
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make her intentions clear regarding the future of child benefit; if child benefit will be cut in order to fund additional free...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options
      379. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when persons with turbary rights on a bog (details supplied) in County Laois will be granted rights at an alternative location; the...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      380. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when residents who were involved in cutting turf on a bog (details supplied) will receive their payment; and if he will make a...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Relocation Options
      381. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding turfcutting at Lough Sheelin bog; if alternative bog will be provided for those who wish to continue turf...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total capital and current spending for each of the Gaeltachts in each of the years 2002 to 2012. [22488/13]
    • Job Creation Numbers
      383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of new jobs created as well as jobs lost for each of the Gaeltacht areas for each of the years 2002 to 2012. [22489/13]
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Expenditure
      384. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a breakdown of total spending on salaries for full-time employee personnel at the Údarás Galway...
    • Special Protection Areas Appeals
      387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of special areas of conservation/special protection areas appeals outstanding; the date on which each outstanding appeal...
    • Air Services Provision
      388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when consultants were appointed to carry out detailed design, costing and tender documents for the construction phase of the...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      391. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      392. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      393. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made to date of the various actions as set out across the nine areas of action in the Twenty Year Strategy for the Irish...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      394. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will confirm having received a letter from an organisation (details supplied); if the leasing agreement required therein will...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fisheries Protection
      395. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will develop a coherent and viable policy that will allow for the phased re-opening of traditional salmon drift...
    • Licence Applications
      396. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a decision has been made on an application for a draft salmon fishing licence in respect of a person (details...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      397. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the European Commission approved the application by his Department in respect of the State aid application for the...
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      398. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the public service obligation of RTÉ extends to the dissemination of public information on its Aertel services;...
    • Energy Conservation
      399. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan can contribute to reducing energy bills for consumers, businesses and...
    • Job Creation Issues
      400. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the way he is supporting the Digital Hub Development Agency and the National Digital Research Centre;...
    • Payable Orders
      401. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will re-issue an out of date payable order by his Department to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • International Agreements
      402. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada that...
    • Seismic Surveys
      403. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount his Department spent on seismic surveys in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Television Licence Fee Yield
      404. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount his Department receives from the television licence fee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22744/13]
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      405. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Tailings Management
      406. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update in the future of Silvermines Tailing Ponds, County Tipperary; the way negotiations are...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      407. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of residents in County Louth that currently have access to broadband; the steps that are being taken to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      408. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Expenditure
      410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm the level of funding which householders applied for under the better energy homes scheme and the...
    • EU Directives
      411. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the progress made in transposing the Energy Efficiency Directive adopted by the European Council and...
    • Energy Conservation
      412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he woll report on the progress made in designing and finalising proposals for a domestic financing mechanism to...
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      413. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the up to date position in relation to Electric Ireland's joint venture on fibre deployment here; and if he will make a...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of broadband telecommunications infrastructure available in Bailieboro, County Cavan and the area serviced by...
    • Energy Schemes
      415. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm the uptake of the energy efficiency retrofit fund which was announced as part of Budget 2013; and if...
    • Electric Vehicle Grants
      416. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm the amount of grant funding, as well as the estimated number of vehicles purchased, under the two-year...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Household Charge Liability
      417. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person liable to pay the €100 household tax for 2012 in respect of a deceased person; if the executor of the...
    • Tax Code
      418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the correct road tax category for agricultural tractor and trailer combinations used for the general carriage of goods by...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered replacing the annual car taxation with an additional levy on fuel; if he has reports or figures...
    • Nitrates Action Programme Implementation
      420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to seek a derogation or a variation from the Nitrates Directive to allow slurry spreading dates based on...
    • Nuclear Plants
      421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on An Taisce's legal challenge to a nuclear plant being built on the Bristol Channel in the UK; if his...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the major collective effect of the cuts to housing adaption grant for children and...
    • Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding
      423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if she will provide an update on the success of the employment services delivered through the Local and Community...
    • Planning Issues
      424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a limit on the distance allowed between a petrol station and a school; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in a situation where residential estates currently pay for the maintenance of their green areas, if the respective local...
    • Local Authorities Management
      426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who made representations to a local authority for assistance and funding has a right to have copies of the...
    • Local Development Companies
      427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his proposed break-up of the local development companies under the realignment programme, if any consultations...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to Kerry County Council for group sewerage schemes in the county in 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      429. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Wexford County Council has suspended grants for housing aid for older...
    • Local Government Reform
      430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the AMAI Policy Document on Municipal District Councils; if he will give further consideration to the request...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Governance
      431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will use his power under section 21 (16) of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 to remove the Director...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Westmeath County Council will be involved in pilot projects to support persons with disabilities moving from...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      433. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person in a Gaeltacht Údarás catchment area will be permitted to apply for LEADER funding from a...
    • Priory Hall Development
      435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on Priory Hall; and the reason he is not backing residents on Dublin City Council failings....
    • Local Authority Housing Loans
      436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the benefits, if any, available to first time buyers from his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Recycling Policy
      437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to update recycling regulations in order that the recycling of rubber, including car tyres would fall under...
    • Planning Issues
      438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the length of time it is currently taking An Bord Pleanála to hear appeals; the...
    • Derelict Sites
      440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to derelict buildings (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement...
    • Household Charge Collection
      441. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households broken down by local authority area that have currently registered for the household charge; the...
    • Air Pollution
      444. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the Air Pollution Act, if he will update Dáil Éireann on the impact of the new regulations on...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      445. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      446. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities together with the number of grant applications made for works-in-lieu of housing in 2012...
    • Water Services Funding
      447. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for County Laois under the 2013 rural water programme; the way these funds are to be used; when the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when tenders will be approved for a group sewerage scheme project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list all the city and county managers of city and county local authorities serving at present; the salary of...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be advanced to Sligo County Council to proceed with the construction of a waste water treatment facility...
    • Planning Issues
      453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will direct local authorities to include provision for easier fibre rollout in their development plans via a policy...
    • RAPID Programme
      454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings organised since march 2011 at national level between his Department and the chairs and coordinators...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the arrangements that are in place in each local authority to assist those that have fallen into arrears with their...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Immigration Status
      457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the opportunities for appeal or reconsideration of an application, either within his Department or through the courts, that exist for a person...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      458. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in making a determination in the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied); and when a decision is...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Road Traffic Acts apply and are enforced in areas controlled by certain commercial State companies (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Courts Service Properties
      460. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline what he envisages the future of the Green Street Courthouse will be, following the moving of the Special Criminal Court to the...
    • Immigrant Investor Programme
      461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the facilities for acquiring visas or citizenship for persons from outside the EU who want to invest here; and if he will make...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers that have been summoned to court for failure to pay a fixed charge penalty notice within 56 days of receipt of the notice....
    • Departmental Bodies Reports
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 2 May 2013, if he will confirm the latest annual report and accounts laid before the Houses of the...
    • Deportation Orders
      466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in determination of eligibility to residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he has taken in relation to allegations which have been brought to his attention, that a company (details supplied) issued invoices to...
    • Departmental Records
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to ensure that officials keep accurate visa statistics regarding the number of tourist visas being issued in the Beijing...
    • Visa Applications
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality under the MEI pilot programme, the number of visas that were issued to non-MEI schools; the exact number of visas issued and the number refused...
    • Garda Transport Expenditure
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the transport fleets for an Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/13]
    • Prison Security
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline any representations received from the Prison Officers' Association since 9 March 2011 regarding gangs and criminality in...
    • Garda Operations
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a written protocol that members of an Garda Síochána must follow in incidents of sudden death; if his attention has been...
    • Immigration Policy
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland currently has any restrictions in place to prevent persons with serious criminal records travelling here either for a holiday or for a...
    • Legislative Programme
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any arrangements in place to provide for the expunging of minor convictions for persons who wish to take up offers of employment...
    • Judicial Appointments
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the method he proposes to appoint two new Supreme Court Judges to alleviate the backlog of Supreme Court cases that are waiting to be heard; if...
    • Visa Applications
      476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6;...
    • Compensation Awards
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the victims of crime are left waiting for long periods under the criminal injury compensation scheme; if he has any plans to improve...
    • Firearms Licences
      480. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the timeframe it takes to process an application for a firearm certificate and the timeframe after the application has been...
    • Charities Regulation
      481. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Charities Act covers the regulation of Irish charities' clothing banks; the way he intends to combat the increased amount of criminal...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      482. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following...
    • Garda Industrial Relations Issues
      483. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way he is engaging with the Association of Garda Sargeants and Inspectors in relation to the LRC revised pay proposals that are currently...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      484. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his...
    • International Time Zones
      485. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any progress has been made or if any matters have recently arisen regarding changing the daylight saving time system here; and if he will make...
    • National Identity Card
      486. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce a national identity card; if officials in his Department have engaged with other Government Departments regarding this...
    • Garda Operations
      487. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost incurred to the Irish State if any for the recent visit to Ireland by the Duke of Kent; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Defence
    • Overseas Missions
      488. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will clarify a matter on Mali and Ireland’s military involvement on triple lock and US mandate; the date on which this happened; when approval by...
    • Defence Forces Transport
      489. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the transport fleets for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22461/13]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      490. To ask the Minister for Defence If he will consider making the FCA building in Killorglin, County Kerry that is laying idle for a number of years available to a local community group...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      492. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following earnings...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      493. To ask the Minister for Defence the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his office and the...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      494. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline the projected decommissioning dates of each of the current fleet of vessels belonging to the Irish Naval Service; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when agri-environment option scheme payments will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payments or organic rep scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [22154/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive their agri-environment options scheme payments for 2011 and 2012; and...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme 4 payment; the reason for the delay in issuing this...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a policy by Coillte, either nationally or at local Coillte level, of charging groups who wish to walk through State owned...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Eligibility
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider extending the deadline for completion of works under the sow welfare scheme beyond the 30 September 2013 in view...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff from his Department in County Galway that have transferred to the Department of Social Protection in counties...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not received their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received their REP scheme payment in full for 2012; and if he will make...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment options scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [22259/13]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Agreements
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the Memorandum of Understanding on Agricultural and Fisheries Cooperation between his Department and the Ministry of...
    • Animal Identification Scheme
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the details of the centralised equine database; when he expects it to become fully operational; the length of time...
    • Fish Discards
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the position in respect of fish discards here in comparison to other EU countries; if our laws are much stricter;...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the conditions of the agri environment options scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agrifood Sector Issues
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the position he took regarding the vote on the new EU seed law designed to ban all traditional vegetable varieties...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the balance of a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is struggling with the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review penalities imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Wexford regarding their single farm payment; and if he...
    • Agrifood Sector Issues
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the EU legislation to control the propagation and sale of seed. [22363/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Reopening
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to reopen the agri-environment options scheme for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22379/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a single farm payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a suckler cow scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the 2012 agri environment option scheme payment has not been issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment options scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a rural environment protection scheme payment for 2012 will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he...
    • Bovine Diseases
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was unable to sell a cow at Ballina Mart; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer in County Kerry who has 38 hectares with entitlements with a value of €5,000 has an additional 28 hectares without...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 736 of 5 February 2013, when payment of suckler calf premium will issue to a person (details...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area scheme refusal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri-environment option scheme payment for 2010 and 2011 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Fodder Crisis
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason some of the hay coming into Ireland and being distributed through the marts is not being subsidized (details supplied);...
    • Scéim um Chosaint na Timpeallachta Tuaithe
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a íocfar feirmeoir (sonraí tugtha) faoin scéim REPs; an chúis a bhí leis an moil á...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the earliest date that a prepayment of the disadvantaged area scheme payments and the single farm payment could take place in 2013 in...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work done by his Department and the agencies operating under the aegis of his Department, particularly An Bord Bia, to find new...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected total expenditure under the agri-environment schemes under the common agriculture policy programme 2007-2013; the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected total expenditure under the disadvantaged area scheme under the common agriculture policy programme 2007-2013; the...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the programmes funded under the rural development programme 2007-2013; the total estimated expenditure under each element of this...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a one year agri-environment scheme for 2014 in the event of the common agriculture policy programme 2014-2020...
    • Rural Development Programme Projects
      539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated number of farmers that will be in the REP scheme 4 and the agri environment option schemes 1,2 and 3 at 31 December...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Expenditure
      540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers that joined REP scheme 1, 2, 3 and 4; the total amount of money expended on each REP scheme to date; the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 payments will be made to farmers who have had their payments cleared for payment by his Department; the reason for...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment will be made to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22550/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the fodder crisis and the fact that farmers are forced to graze land normally set aside for silage harvesting, he will...
    • Forestry Premium
      548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry premium payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Farm Grants
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a grant available for the reconstruction of damaged farmyard outbuildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of...
    • Sugar Industry
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to revive the sugar beet industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22801/13]
    • Forestry Grants
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration will be given to an application for single farm payment or disadvantaged area payment schemes in respect of a person...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the 40% grant scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [22825/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a Department official will call on a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to resolve a dispute between the landowner and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the new agri-environment option scheme 3 nationally; the number of applications that have been received up to...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine a REP scheme application due for payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [22934/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a disadvantaged area scheme appeal in respect of a person (details suppied) in county Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of entitlements in the National Reserve at present; if there is going to be any scheme in 2013 to allocate entitlements to...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of farmers who have had penalties imposed on their payments by his Department for...
    • Forestry Grants
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a forestry grant payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding single farm payments that were claimed by a person as an individual in 2011 but the farming set up is now run...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Abortion Services
      565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of minors in State care that have been taken abroad for abortions since 1992; the grounds on which the abortions were obtained...
    • Departmental Funding
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of funding for special projects for youth services; the reason there was such a large cut in expenditure for youth services this...
    • Youth Work Projects Funding
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding for youth services which was traditionally paid through Youth Work Ireland is now being channelled through City of Dublin...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will indicate a time-frame within which Irish couples through the Irish Adoption Authority will be formally able to adopt a child...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in her Department and in bodies under the aegis of her Department in each of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to...
    • Family Support Services
      572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made on establishing the Family Support Agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22937/13]
  • Department of Health
    • Water Quality Issues
      573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an up to date report into the standards and processes of Irish producers selling bottled water to the consumers here; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Staffing
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to allow dental health nurses in the Dublin area apply for the planned new targeted voluntary redundancy scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a long term illness card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22460/13]
    • Hospital Services
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the rehabilitation services available for stroke survivors; his plans for the recruitment of additional rehabilitation medicine consultants; and if he will...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Numbers
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22152/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      579. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include Multiple Sclerosis as an automatic qualifying condition for the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22155/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22162/13]
    • Suicide Incidence
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who committed suicide in the past ten years; and of those women, the number who were pregnant [22166/13]
    • Medical Records
      582. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 320 of 20 December 2012, when the medical records of a person (details supplied) will be supplied to the person; and if...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22184/13]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      584. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22185/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders that are granted a card solely because of their medical needs currently have to reapply for the card each year; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a system whereby a person's local general practitioner could sign off on the renewal of a medical card for a patient with...
    • Health Services Provision
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on the proposal to establish a paediatric diabetic nursing service in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on plans to develop a new radiotherapy unit at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry City. [22210/13]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on negotiations between Member States on the European Commission’s proposal for a revision of the Tobacco Products...
    • EU Directives
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed update on the progress of the EU’s Clinical Trials Proposal and two Medical Devices Proposals which could impact on the...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the European Commission’s Proposal for a decision on serious cross-border threats to health remains a priority for the Irish EU...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if an increase in home help assistance is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose home help has recently been reduced to one hour per...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      596. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied ) will be called for an appointment by a consultant in the South Infirmary Hospital Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the exact location that has been identified in Baldoyle, Dublin, for the provision of a new primary care centre; if the site has been purchased; if so, for the...
    • Hospital Services
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address delayed discharges from Galway/Roscommon University Hospital Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22273/13]
    • Nursing Home Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address delays in obtaining a fair deal nursing home bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22274/13]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposal to locate a Health Service Executive Primary Care Centre in the North Fringe/Baldoyle area, Dublin, on a site identified by Fingal County...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a register of persons who are profoundly deaf; the grants available for children and persons who are profoundly deaf, including whether there are...
    • Social Workers Register
      607. To ask the Minister for Health regarding who may sign certified copies of documents for current social workers looking to register with the Social Worker Registration Board through CORU, his...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy services available to children in primary school, children in secondary school and to adults in County Mayo; and if he will...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his plans to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol; and on the measures, if any, he plans to take to tackle alcohol abuse [22315/13]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to pursue a proposal for plain packaging of tobacco products; if so within what time frame; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22316/13]
    • Expert Group on the A, B and C v. Ireland Judgment
      614. To ask the Minister for Health when and the reason that he restricted the terms of reference of the Expert Group on Abortion to advising the Government on how to give effect to existing...
    • Departmental Funding
      615. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that the National Women’s Council of Ireland, which is in receipt of significant State funding, openly campaigns...
    • HSE Staffing
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for a new phase of voluntary redundancies for staff in the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22338/13]
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of qualified nurses currently employed in non-direct nursing care in (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Respite Care Services
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocated by the Health Service Executive to County Kerry for respite care in 2011; the projected spend on respite care for 2012 and 2013; and...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in nursing homes on the fair deal scheme in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22354/13]
    • Abortion Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of necessary medical treatments and abortions that have taken place in Irish hospitals over the past five years; if he will provide a tabular...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 12 February 2013, if he will ensure that the Kenmare Ambulance Service, County Kerry, is not downgraded; if he...
    • Health Insurance Company Payments
      626. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the introduction of an automatic levy on the use of beds in a public hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22397/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if same will be expedited; the reason for the...
    • Health Services Provision
      628. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will receive occupational therapy; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Agency Staff Issues
      631. To ask the Minister for Health when agency workers employed by the Health Service Executive in a company (details supplied), will receive their full entitlement under the Agency Workers...
    • Dental Services Provision
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) on disability allowance [22444/13]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a young person (details supplied) in County Carlow who has been assessed for braces was told they would not receive them until 2015 due to the...
    • National Asthma Programme
      634. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 14 February 2013, if the model of care document for the national asthma programme was completed by the end of...
    • Asthma Incidence
      637. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's estimate of the number of persons here who suffer from asthma; the number of these who are covered by a medical card; the way these figures...
    • Departmental Staff Qualifications
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personnel in his Department with a third level qualification in health economics. [22467/13]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the information, if any, provided to a medical card holder who appeals a decision to withdraw their eligibility, that they are entitled to retain their card...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants and speciality recruited under the new consultant contract since it was introduced; the number of new contracts awarded to...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      645. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the director of the National Cancer Control Programme has warned that the price of new cancer drugs is unsustainable and a number of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22533/13]
    • Vaccination Programme
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of any engagement he has had or plans to have with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, regarding those children who...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      648. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied); if he has concerns that this case may reflect a wind-down in supports in other cases; and if he will make...
    • Mobility Allowance Decision
      649. To ask the Minister for Health when the special review group on devising an alternative scheme to the mobility allowance will deliver a report; the persons who are on this group; the...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the Health Information and Quality Authority standards in relation to emergency and ambulance services adequately measure the response...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons it is proposed that from 1 July 2013 that one of the two ambulances that are stationed in Portlaoise will be removed from Portlaoise on Monday...
    • Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
      652. To ask the Minister for Health when the fair deal will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22642/13]
    • National Pandemic Plan
      653. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline Ireland's current state of preparedness in the event of a large scale viral pandemic with a significant fatality rate such as rare strains...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataracts operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Contracts
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in an itemised way his Department's spending to date on outside contracts for legal and other advice on his proposed system of universal...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive gives priority to personal care to the exclusion of other needs and services for persons with disabilities [22708/13]
    • Food Ingredients
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to ensure that manufacturers reduce the sugar content in products such as breakfast cereals; and the steps he has taken to receive an...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the grants available for children and persons who are profoundly deaf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22736/13]
    • Medical Products
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if replacement parts associated with Cochlear implants will be covered under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22739/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      674. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22771/13]
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the following earnings...
    • Medical Products
      676. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 will receive their limb having being confined to a wheelchair for the past five weeks while waiting for news of...
    • Health Insurance Claims
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a decision by a private health insurer not to award an appeal from a person (details supplied) with a serious condition; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Issues
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the steps the Health Service Executive take when they receive a written complaint from a client regarding poor services being given to them; and if he will...
    • Health Services Provision
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that the Health Service Executive are taking to find a permanent replacement for a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding allowing minor injury units to introduce fees of €100 for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22812/13]
    • Prescription Charges
      682. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the possibility of imposing a monthly cap on prescription charges in order to ensure that persons with multiple prescriptions are not discouraged...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      683. To ask the Minister for Health when the results action plan to reduce waiting times for assessing needs of children with disabilities will be realised; the factors that have contributed to a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the major collective effect of the cuts to personal assistants and the mobility allowance for children and adults with a...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      685. To ask the Minister for Health under Health Service Executive guidelines, the number of hours of speech and language services per year which should be allocated to children with severe...
    • Hospital Staff
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if the Service Level Agreements between the Health Service Executive Medical Education and Training Unit and the College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for the purposes of application for primary medical certificates, and the process under which persons may appeal a decision made to refuse same;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative to his office and the...
    • Internet Safety Issues
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take against websites that promote harmful and unhealthy behaviour such as promoting anorexia and bulimia and other eating disorders; and if...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a national recruitment campaign for the PHNS service has been changed from an applicant who previously was able to choose three LHO areas and can...
    • Nursing Home Services
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a rehabilitation bed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23011/13]
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which central procurement and generic prescribing have been each identified and assessed for potential to reduce health service costs without in...
    • Health Services, Cost of Medicines
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which drug costs have fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; the way this has affected the budgetary situation; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Staff Numbers
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of fully-qualified nurses employed in the public health sector in each of the past five years to date; the extent if any to which...
    • Nursing Assistant Numbers
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing assistants currently employed throughout the public health sector; the extent to which such numbers have fluctuated in the past...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which orthodontic services continue to be made available to children and teenagers with particular reference to follow-up on school medical...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the implications of the implied closure of numerous local health centres throughout the country and the possible implications for the...
    • Hospital Bed Numbers
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the full complement of general hospital beds currently available on a regional basis throughout the country in the public health sector; the number of similar...
    • Vaccination Programme
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the measures and action plan he intends to take regarding the plight of sufferers of unique narcolepsy disorder as a result of the anti swine fever...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of all genito urinary medicine clinics along the border area; the extent of cross-border usage of these facilities; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the number of privately run care provider organisations receiving funding from the Health Service Executive; their name and contact details; the counties or...
    • Autism Services Issues
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if he approves of the use of a restraint method Figure of Four@ TMAV technique as an intervention for children with autism who have toileting or self-harming...
    • Health Services Policy
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his Department's work at establishing the Money Follows the Patient model which was proposed to begin in shadow form this year; if the...
    • Health Services Issues
      716. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1209 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm the time frame within which the local implementation team is expected to...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Regulatory Compliance
      717. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that agricultural tractor and trailer combinations being used in the various commercial State port companies for the...
    • Road Maintenance
      718. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make funding available to surface a mile, in two different half mile sections, of the L7060 road in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Aviation Issues
      719. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances surrounding helicopter landings at Booterstown bird marsh, County Dublin, in recent years; the steps his Department has...
    • National Sports Campus Development Authority
      721. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding Abbotstown House, Dublin 15, which is in the ownership of the National Sports Council; if the house can be...
    • EU Funding
      722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will update Dáil Éireann on his engagements with the European Commission in respect of the Tens T funding round; and if...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will update Dáil Éireann on plans to upgrade the N14 road linking Letterkenny and Lifford/Strabane. [22212/13]
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has a specific set of indicators that can usefully benchmark Ireland's tourism competitiveness in relation to other...
    • Tourism Promotion
      725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that our tourism marketing is rated as highly effective as reflected in WEF Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index...
    • Tourism Ireland Expenditure
      726. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of State funding his Department spends on research and development in tourism; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Taxi Regulations
      727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations pertaining to the provision and use of pedal rickshaws for hire; if there are different requirements for powered...
    • Road Projects Status
      728. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the details of the public private partnership deal with the National Roads Authority signed on his Department's behalf...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      729. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of moneys spent on capital projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      730. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if agricultural tractor and trailer combinations in excess of 3.5 tonnes may be used for the general carriage of goods by road for hire...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      731. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Air Accident Investigation Unit in his Department will be reporting on the incident in County Wicklow on 13 July 2012 involving...
    • Tourism Ireland Funding (1 comment)
      732. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of the Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland budget for promoting English Language schools in Ireland for 2013; the way...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      734. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the introduction of a zoned system for LEAP cards in Dublin similar to the one used by Transport for London in the...
    • Public Transport Provision
      735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost-benefit analysis, if any, that has been carried out by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department to assess the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      736. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans his Department has for introducing a sports capital grant in the near future; when the details will be made public; and if he...
    • Road Projects Status
      737. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date of the M17-M18 motorway from Gort to Tuam, County Galway; if he will indicate a starting time for the project;...
    • Road Projects Issues
      738. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the motorway from Gort to Tuam, which is due to go to construction shortly, under PPP will not be a toll road; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      739. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the special €1m sports capital fund announced recently for boxing clubs; the criteria that will be...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      740. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will re consider an application which was made by Westmeath County Council under the national road safety scheme, funding for...
    • Driving Licence Issues
      741. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1390 of 16 April 2013, if he will clarify that the Directives 2006/126/EC and 2011/94/EU do not...
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      742. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the conditions on which National Lottery and or sports grants are issued; if there is any clawback conditions involved...
    • Fáilte Ireland Funding
      744. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects that Fáilte Ireland has funded in an area (details supplied) over the past three years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Drugs in Sport
      745. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken nationally and internationally to combat doping in sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22762/13]
    • Sporting Events
      746. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in relation to the possibility of Ireland bidding to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023 or 2027; and if he...
    • The Gathering Events
      747. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the Gathering in the year 2013 to date, the plans going forward; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Planning Issues
      748. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he believes that the refusal of the National Roads Authority to engage in preplanning consultations with prospective applicants for...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      749. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in bodies under the aegis of his Department in each of the...
    • Rail Network
      750. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department has approached the European Investment Bank regarding the EIB's potential involvement in the national rail...
    • Taxi Regulations
      751. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that the Dublin Airport Authority are taking to ensure that only taxis that are registered with the DAA are picking up...
    • Road Projects Issues
      752. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding for the A5 dual carriageway has been ring-fenced following the Northern Ireland High Court's decision to quash planning...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      756. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the individual amount of overtime paid in the case of each political/Ministerial appointee for the period 2007 to date in 2013 relative...
    • Road Safety Issues
      757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take immediate action to direct the National Roads Authority and Kerry County Council to address and rectify the blackspot...
    • Cycling Facilities
      758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made on establishing a bike rental scheme in Galway similar to the successful scheme in Dublin which is about to expand....
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      759. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has completed a review of the sports capital programme 2012; arising from this, the changes that he will bring into any future...

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