Written answers

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  • Department of Finance
    • State Banking Sector Regulation
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether action in relation to warehousing of tracker mortgages is essential to ensure the long term profitability of the State supported banks;...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      61. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on departures of senior personnel from the regulatory to take up roles in the financial services sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in implementation of the mortgage arrears resolution targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23935/13]
    • EU Directives
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the proposed bank resolution scheme which is being considered by ECOFIN under his chairmanship; if he will confirm the order in...
    • Promissory Note Negotiations
      65. To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of his recent negotiations at European leader level in relation to the promissory notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19949/13]
    • Euro Coins Production
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance his view on abolishing one and two cent coins. [23960/13]
    • Shadow Banking Sector
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of shadow banking here was discussed at the meeting of EU Finance and Economic Ministers that he attended last week; and if he will make a...
    • Fodder Crisis
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has been approached by, or on behalf of, farmers seeking to harvest fodder on lands under NAMA’s control; and if...
    • European Banking Union
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on progress made towards a banking union. [23951/13]
    • State Banking Sector Regulation
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the future of Permanent TSB; the way it can assist in strengthening consumer choice in the Irish banking sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Avoidance Issues
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that he will take to assist in combatting international tax evasion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23938/13]
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for the Central Bank of Ireland's pilot scheme debt resolution scheme of indications from credit unions that they will not participate; and if...
    • Property Tax Assessments
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that arrangements are put in place to refund property owners when it is found that they have mistakenly overpaid the local property tax...
    • Property Taxation Application
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance his view on the rate of registration to date for the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23927/13]
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in the possible recapitalisation of banks here through the ESM. [23943/13]
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports of financial institutions leaving the International Financial Services Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23907/13]
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the prolongation of maturities in some of Ireland's debts will affect Budget 2014; and if he will outline the likely period of additional scrutiny...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the Ernst and Young Report commissioned by Irish Nationwide and uncovered by the documentary Inside Irish Nationwide; and if...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      81. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether bank stress tests should be completed prior to the completion of Ireland's programme of EU / IMF support; and if he will make a statement...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      82. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the progress made to date in the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if the special liquidator has given an initial...
    • IBRC Staff
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the current position of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation staff; the plans for staff not being retained after 7 August; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance when he will announce the budgetary adjustment for 2014. [23962/13]
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      85. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he and his Eurozone colleagues have reached agreement in the context of separation of banking and sovereign debt; if any projections have...
    • Basic Payments Account
      86. To ask the Minister for Finance the uptake of basic payment accounts for the financially excluded in the pilot study; if he will consider allowing the post office system to participate in the...
    • NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, the investigation that has taken place in the National Asset Management Agency to identify incidences...
    • Economic Growth Initiatives
      88. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether EU wide growth would be enhanced by a looser fiscal policy being adopted by those Eurozone countries with capacity to increase spending;...
    • Shadow Banking Sector
      89. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the shadow banking industry is 10 times the size of Ireland's GNP as reported; and his views on whether this industry contributes in a...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
      90. To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the benefit to the economy of the recent ECB cut in view of the decision of financial institutions not to pass on the cut to customers with...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      92. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of returns as a percentage of liable households that have been received to date by the Revenue Commissioners for the local property tax; the value...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      94. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the National Assets Management Agency is meeting its obligations in respect of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      95. To ask the Minister for Finance his views the need for a review of the SARP. [23944/13]
    • Economic Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the Ballyhea says No Group and examined their proposals for economic recovery. [23946/13]
    • Financial Services Sector
      97. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of financial vehicle corporations based here; the number of persons employed by these corporations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      98. To ask the Minister for Finance the action that has been taken by AIB since its commitment last year to reduce the excessive pensions that its former executives receive. [23965/13]
    • Euro Coins Production
      99. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the Central Bank of Ireland will choose the pilot town for the trial removal of 1 and 2 cent coins; and the stage the selection process is at. [23961/13]
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance if, when banks increase the standard variable mortgage rate on a mortgage that is 90 days or more in arrears, they are automatically assessed to not have...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline Ireland's options on potentially leaving the Troika programme; and the way the use of outright monetary transactions would affect any exit....
    • Counterfeit Goods
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures taken by him in order to minimise the impact of counterfeit goods on the Exchequer; if he intends to introduce harsher penalities as called for...
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of residential mortgages on the loan books of each covered financial institution which are in arrears of 90 days or more; the total value of...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of real estate investment trusts that will be introduced here by the end of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23957/13]
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the outsourcing, unique in the Eurosystem, of essential services at the Central Bank of Ireland including IT and security services. [23942/13]
    • Export Statistics
      106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had any discussions with his Cypriot counterparts on the possible implications for Ireland in terms of exports; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance his recent discussions with the European Union leaders in relation to Ireland's current Troika agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19948/13]
    • Derivatives Market
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to regulate food securities trading on the stock market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23657/13]
    • EU Directives
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the impact that the European mortgage credit rules contained in the Mortgage Credit Directive will have on the mortgage industry here; the...
    • Equality Proofing of Budgets
      110. To ask the Minister for Finance following his commitment to do so, the progress he has made on examining the equality-proofing of future budgets. [23963/13]
    • Tax Avoidance Issues
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that a recent Court ruling on the matter of a tax avoidance scheme known as the value shift arrangement means that additional tax revenue...
    • European Council Meetings
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the ECOFIN meeting of 14 May and the Eurogroup meeting of 13 May. [23950/13]
    • EU Budget
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for Ireland of the outcome of EU budget talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23916/13]
    • Corporation Tax
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the effective rate of Irish corporation tax, if he will outline his strategy for simplifying the administrative burden that applies to...
    • Shadow Banking Sector
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the shadow banking sector here; if he will outline the benefits of this sector to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation Administration
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the details of the contract with Abtran to run the local property tax help line; the cost of a call to this help line when calling from a...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance the responses he has received from banks following the Mercer Report; the proposals each bank has made to reduce its remuneration by 6-10% including a...
    • Tax Collection
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the €1.25 million VAT cash receipts accounting threshold in view of the small number of companies that can benefit from the...
    • NAMA Investment Funds
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of investment in property under its control over the course of...
    • Fiscal Policy
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the economic fundamentals have stabilised in this economy; the extent to which specific targets have been met and are likely to continue...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of split mortgages as a tool in dealing with mortgage arrears; and if certain banks here are implementing them in a fair and sustainable...
    • Property Taxation Application
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of dwellings that were issued with local property tax assessment forms; the number of returns that have been received broken down between post and...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that he will publish information on the special liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that will show the unaudited book value of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Trade Statistics
      125. To ask the Taoiseach if the statistics collected by the Central Statistics Office for Eurostat in relation to trade for both exports and imports include records of services or goods and...
    • Ministerial Travel
      126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by him and Minister of State and Secretary...
    • Ministerial Staff
      127. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by him and Minister of State in his Department or constituency office and their relevant costs...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      128. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline in tabular form, a breakdown on a year by year basis of the legal and travel costs his Department have incurred as a result of litigation in the...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      129. To ask the Taoiseach if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid before the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Emigrant Support Services
      130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to the recent publication by the National Youth Council of Ireland of the report Time to Go a qualitative research...
    • Partnership for Peace
      131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements Ireland has in place for a liaison office to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; the resources that...
    • Passport Application Fees
      132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason it is €15 more expensive to have a passport application processed through the standard post system...
    • International Labour Standards
      133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will join the call for brands and retailers active in the Irish and single European markets to accede to the...
    • Passport Applications
      134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 18. [23780/13]
    • Ministerial Travel
      135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually...
    • Ministerial Staff
      136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department...
    • Official Engagements
      137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will be represented at the conference on 1-2 July reviewing the ICPD Programme of Action for our region of Europe;...
    • International Relations
      138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland was ever offered to become either a member or observer of the Arctic Council since its inception; if he will...
    • Passport Applications
      139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding the renewal of a passport, which is required urgently....
    • Diplomatic Representation
      140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any consideration will be given to opening an Irish Embassy in Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • United Nations Security Council
      141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail Ireland's position on the future reform of the United Nations Security Council; if Ireland would vote in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation Collection
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of households broken down by local authority area that have currently registered for the local property tax; the total number of households broken...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a new scrappage scheme to assist motorists seeking to change their cars and to assist the motor industry; and if he will make a...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Issues
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time it takes the Office of the Financial Ombudsman to take a complaint from initial submission, to investigation and finally to resolution....
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Reports
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the levels of payment the Office of the Financial Ombudsman has achieved in the past two years for complainants; if he has plans to require the Financial...
    • Tax Code
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline all goods that have VAT exemptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23673/13]
    • Charities Regulation
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is permitted for a registered charity to make a political donation and still be able to receive tax relief on their income; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Avoidance Issues
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding fraudulent claims (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23694/13]
    • Property Taxation Administration
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate and address the issue of persons who never received a property tax ID or pin number and registered using their PPSN number and will not...
    • Tax Code
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on charging VAT on PIP arrangements, in view of the fact that the service is deemed non-viable in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the extent to which mortgage interest relief has been applied in respect of mortgages taken out in the calendar year 2009; if the...
    • Ministerial Travel
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and Minister of...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or constituency office and their...
    • Corporation Tax
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can foresee any changes to Ireland's corporation tax rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15991/13]
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Meetings
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Fiscal Council last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18355/13]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Sector
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail proposals from his Department as to the way in which the banking sector can address the overhang of property debt that is impacting on...
    • Credit Availability
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the occasions when he has raised directly with the banks their failure to deal with lending to the small and medium enterprise sector; and...
    • Small and Medium Enterprise Sector
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives that his Department has put in place in order to assist businesses who are among those with €25 billion worth of impaired loans. [19132/13]
    • Job Initiatives
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected impact on job creation in the short to medium term of the proposed €6 billion stimulus package. [19133/13]
    • Enterprise Support Services Provision
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine a business plan in respect of a training centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will provide advice, assistance, grant aid, and...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek an explanation from the Revenue Commissioners in relation to issues that have arisen with the payment system for the local property tax in...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate that in the context of where a person has a business, and is paying rates and also has living accommodation over the said business...
    • Job Assist Scheme Eligibility
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 2 May 2013, the reason supervisors on the TÚS scheme, who work a 35 hour week, are not eligible to...
    • Official Engagements
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if he will be attending the Bilderberg Group meeting in early June and if he will be making a presentation to the Gathering; and if he will...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that banking institutions and the post office are unwilling to accept travellers cheques; his views that this is...
    • Bank Guarantee Scheme Administation
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the current list of covered institutions as defined by section 6 (1) of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 and by...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions a person (details supplied) in County Kerry can take to rectify a problem with the local property tax. [24037/13]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 7 May 2013, the number of press enquiries dealt with by the public relations company; the number of press...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of press officers employed by his Department; the grades of same; and the overall cost of the press relations for his Department. [24052/13]
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his role in tightening banking regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13593/13]
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his role in the whole of Government approach in tackling the mortgage crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13591/13]
    • Eurozone Crisis
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the contacts he has had with European leaders in relation to the situation in Cyprus. [15995/13]
    • Tax Compliance
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that that no one has been prosecuted to date for the Ansbacher tax avoidance scandal; his plans to bring forward amending legislation...
    • Tax Code
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance with regards to the planned Dublin Array project, the tax that will apply if the project goes ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20200/13]
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions, if any, he held on Ireland's exit from the IMF programme with Christine Lagarde; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18601/13]
    • Eurozone Crisis
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had any discussions with his Cypriot counterparts; if those discussions included implications for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in receipt of private pension tax relief; the breakdown of the number of persons that receive the relief at the standard rate; the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his views of mis-selling of payment protection insurance and linked products by all lenders (details supplied); if he will consider moving...
    • Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the way so-called service providers will be accredited or appointed by the Central Bank of Ireland under the pilot scheme for consumer...
    • NAMA Qualifying Investor Fund
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 17 January 2013, if he will provide an update on the National Asset Management Agency plans for Qualified Investor...
    • NAMA Operations
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency in May 2012 of €2bn of so-called vendor financing or staple financing, if he will...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the €6,758,000 of so-called trading properties held in the balance sheet of the National Asset Management Agency at 31 December 2012, if...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of reports that he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas on the special liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution...
    • NAMA Portfolio Value
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of acres of agricultural land in the State under the control of the National Asset Management Agency. [24117/13]
    • NAMA Operations
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the amounts paid by the National Asset Management Agency to educational institutions for research in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in...
    • Excise Duties Yield
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that would be generated from imposing an extra 2 cents on a pint of alcohol or a packet of twenty cigarettes into the Exchequer. [24148/13]
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in the latest tax year for which full data is available of flat rate expenses for agricultural advisors employed by Teagasc; the...
    • Fuel Prices
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that although diesel and petrol have come down in recent times, the Automobile Association has stated that prices are still too high;...
    • Liquor Licence Numbers
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that more than 6,000 pubs have closed since 2009, his plans to try and work with the Vintners' Association of Ireland to try and ensure...
    • Appointments to European Boards
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance when the next opportunity will arise for Ireland to appoint a new director to the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; if he will...
    • Tax Code
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 9 May, if he will confirm that a form of SARP, old SARP, was operational in 2011, the conditions of which included...
    • NAMA Bonds
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 9 May 2013, if the Central Bank of Ireland’s holding of National Asset Management Agency bonds is...
    • Tax Yield
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, in which he stated that the exemption of interest on savings certificates, national instalment...
    • Tax Code
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if international investors have to pay capital gains tax on the disposal of property here; and if not, the amount lost to the Exchequer as a result of this...
    • Government Bonds
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail as part of his Department of Finance’s budgetary calculations if the figure of €800 million for 2013, €875 million for...
    • European Banking Sector
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if discussions at an ECB level regarding acquisitions of asset backed securities could potentially include acquisitions of National Assets Management Agency...
    • NAMA Bonds
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total combined impairment charges provided against the National Assets Management Agency senior and subordinated bonds in Allied Irish...
    • Government Bonds
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount in euro of regulatory capital which is currently held by Allied Irish Banks, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB as a requirement arising from...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the insider knowledge that Blackstone has on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation arising from the work it has done on the IBRC loan book after it...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail further to his statement to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 that 10 days prior to the...
    • State Banking Sector
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is targeting a sale of Bank of Ireland preference shares before the deadline of the par payment by Bank of Ireland in March of 2014 of the €1.8...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform on Thursday, 9 May 2013 (details supplied) stating that the persons...
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners regulations on the fuel rebate for bus and coach operators will be in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated that tax relief for investment in films cost the Exchequer €42 million in...
    • Betting Regulations
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the various taxes that currently apply to bets placed in a bookmakers' premises here and bets placed online; if any changes are planned in...
    • Government Bonds
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 9 May 2013, if he will provide the reason and not the methodology for the reason the Central Bank of Ireland...
    • NAMA Bonds
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 48 and 49 on 9 of May 2013, if he will detail the type of asset class the other assets with a value of €370...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 9 of May 2013, if he will explicitly confirm whether the entities referred to in the answer concern the Irish Bank...
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 30 April 2013, where he stated a figure of €52.6 million claimed and €19.5 million in assumed...
    • Land Transfers
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a student applying for stamp duty exemption under the transfer of land to young trained farmers, who successfully completed a BSc Honours in...
    • Tax Code
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised for the Exchequer, based on the last full year of data, if the surcharge amount applied to late filing of tax returns was...
    • Home Repossession Rate
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of foreclosures by lending agencies in each of the past four years to date, the number of instances in respect of which the property or...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if known, the extent to which house property disposed of by the National Assets Management Agency has been purchased by first time buyers with a housing need,...
    • EU Presidency Engagements
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has had discussions with his EU Eurozone colleagues and the wider EU in the context of strategic investment to facilitate job creation...
    • Economic Growth Rate
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which economic fundamentals have stabilised or improved through each EU Member State, Eurozone and non-Eurozone in each of the past three years...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Negotiations
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he is satisfied that Ireland will be in a position to exit the bailout programme on time; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Economic Competitiveness
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which economic competitiveness has been improved in the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24395/13]
    • Credit Availability
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which the borrowing requirements of small and medium enterprises in the manufacturing, service or retail sectors have been met by the borrowing...
    • Debt Relief
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which there is recognition at ECB level of the need for an all-Europe response to debt repayment throughout member States with particular...
    • Economic Statistics
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent, if any, to which he and his Department have recognised any possible inflationary tendencies in the Irish economy; if any corrective steps are...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case involving an alleged administrative error regarding a teacher's payroll (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the full student maintenance and fees grant was not awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan in view of the fact that...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what will happen to BTEC HND, higher level 6, NQF, courses and the two honours degree programmes, level 8 NQF, which account for over 60% of all...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason higher education students are ineligible for receiving maintenance grants and not afforded the same rights and privileges as students...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has plans to build a new school in a new housing area that has been specifically zoned for a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Patronage
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the patronage of Educate Together for the promised second level school in Balbriggan in 2016. [23695/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reader assistant will be approved for a student (details supplied) in County Laois sitting their leaving certificate examination; and if...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in the Higher Education Authority's advice in relation to a college (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail, for each of the past four years, the number of schools that have had building contracts terminated prior to the schools...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was refused a special needs assistant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Travel
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or constituency office...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the plans for a new buildings at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Adult Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include a specific commitment in the FET SOLAS Bill 2013 to develop a national adult literacy and numeracy strategy; and if he will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the purchase of a site for a new primary school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Traveller Community Issues
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that in February 2013 the Children’s Rights Alliance awarded the Government a grade E for its unacceptable...
    • School Enrolments
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a submission regarding a school that operates under Church of Ireland management; his view of the cultural and local roles of...
    • Schools Inspections
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget spent on employing school inspectorates at primary and post primary level; if he will list in tabular form the number of...
    • Academic Year
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to increasing the academic year to a third semester; and the potential savings to be accrued from implementing...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings that would be made if there was an annual salary cap of €100,000 applied to the wages of all teaching staff, third level...
    • Third Level Fees
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent by the State in subsidising third level fees for the 2012/13 academic year. [24019/13]
    • Energy Schemes
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fully implement the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan; and the estimated savings should these measures be applied to all school...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of personnel working within his Department and FÁS who received an annual take home pay based...
    • Third Level Staff Remuneration
      335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular the number of third level lecturers who receive an annual take home pay based on salary and allowances that...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of teachers who receive an annual gross pay that exceeded €100,000 annually in the 2011/12...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the amount paid in State subsidies to fee charging schools for the 2012/13 academic year. [24024/13]
    • State Examinations Issues
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the amount spent by his Department to provide substitute cover for teachers assessing oral examinations in the...
    • Third Level Fees
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the total number of third level students for the 2012/13 academic year, to include separately...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant allocation to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 for refurbishment, additional accommodation in each of the past four years; the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 April 2013, if he will clarify the reasons a school (details supplied) in County Cavan went from...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the difficulties facing many newly qualified primary teachers, if he will consider changes to the probation system that will take into...
    • State Examinations Commission
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department and the State Examinations Commission have failed to honour the contracts of 17 teachers in ISM International School in...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 20 March 2013, the reason his Department has not yet contacted the person; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is confident that the delays experienced in processing student grants in the past academic year will be avoided next term; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a directive or legislation is needed to include Down's syndrome in the low incidence disorders; and if he will make this a priority issue....
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that have been put in place for new school buildings in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; when he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action has he taken to improve the processing system for student grant applications; the recommendations of the external review of Student...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to give approval for a second ASD class to be provided in a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork for the 2013/14 school...
    • Traveller Community Issues
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding unemployment in the traveller population; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations Commission
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • University Status Review
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a complaint be made to him contending that the functions of a university are being performed in a manner which prima facie constitutes a...
    • Third Level Courses Availability
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CAO applications for BSC Honours Computing and Creative Multi-Media Courses in Limerick Institute of Technology; the number of...
    • Institutes of Technology Staff
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Limerick Institute of Technology staff specifically supporting the Clonmel Campus of LIT Tipperary as defined from shared services;...
    • State Examinations Issues
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding extra supports and assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the measures taken to support the position and role of community education in the changing of the further education and...
    • Departmental Reports
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an action plan will commence within his Department based ion the findings of the School Completers - What's Next report highlighting the low...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary was not granted supplementary panel rights; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate the status of an application for a replacement primary school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [24495/13]
    • State Bodies Accounts
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will accept a request to meet with the alliance of retired public servants to discuss proposed cuts to pensions over...
    • Pension Provisions
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the way the 2% cut to public service pensions will be applied to pensions between €32,500 and €34,000;...
    • Departmental Properties
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made between the Office of Public Works and the Irish Insurance Federation in respect of the insurance...
    • Ministerial Travel
      375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each...
    • Ministerial Staff
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when work will commence to alleviate flooding in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the supports or design work the Office of Public Works has provided to the Irish Jewish Museum; the...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      380. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average waiting time for an employment tribunal hearing to be heard. [23722/13]
    • State Bodies Accounts
      381. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas the latest report and accounts for the Labour Relations Commission. [24119/13]
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      382. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current waiting times for hearings of the employment appeals tribunal in each region; and his proposals to reduce same. [23748/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      383. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them...
    • Ministerial Travel
      384. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each...
    • Ministerial Staff
      385. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or...
    • Enterprise Support Services Provision
      386. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will examine a business plan in respect of a training centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will provide advice,...
    • Departmental Bodies
      387. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff and their job title in each Industrial Development office outside Ireland for the years 2011 and 2012; and if he...
    • Job Losses
      388. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he or his Department or any of the State agencies within his Ministerial position had representations from or have been in contact...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      389. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will advise and meet with a group (details supplied). [24209/13]
    • Traveller Community Issues
      390. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding unemployment in the traveller population; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Companies Law Issues
      391. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide for 2012 the total number of six monthly filings at the Companies Registration Office in respect of companies that...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      396. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will lay the latest annual report and accounts of the Company Registration Office before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [24493/13]
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Back to Education Allowance Expenditure
      397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends to make any changes to the back to education allowance for September; if there will be any limitations imposed on those applying for...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in relation to an application (details supplied) the criteria on which medical evidence was assessed on both occasions in respect of a person...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23643/13]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an appeal for a higher rate of rent support will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if she will...
    • Pension Provisions
      401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in the case of public servants and other workers who are required to retire due to contract at the age of 65 next year, the social welfare payments...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      407. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding eligibility for illness benefit in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for disability allowance. [23759/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      409. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the fact certain women are not eligible for the full rate of a State contributory pension because they chose to stay at home to care...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      410. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans move social welfare payments to a purely electronic system; if she will outline the proposed time-frame involved in making this move; if...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal on a farm assist application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [23795/13]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details suppled)in Dublin 12 had their jobseeker's payment reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/13]
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Eligibility
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures set out by her Department, and the criteria which must be met by persons who wish to apply for mortgage interest supplement; and if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding accommodation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6. [23802/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      416. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and when they may expects a...
    • Ministerial Travel
      417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in her Department or constituency office...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people removed from both invalidity pension and disability benefit in each of the past three years; and if she will make a statement...
    • Saortaisteal
      422. To ask the Minister for Social Protection cé na pleananna atá aici lena chinntiú go mbeidh seirbhís bus in aisce ar fáil ag oileánaigh a bhfuil pas saorthaistil...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to allocating funding in order that persons in receipt of jobseeker's allowance can train and qualify as special...
    • Job Creation Issues
      428. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fac that the IMF ninth report on Ireland observed that unemployment and underemployment stands at 23% and the review called for plans...
    • Pension Provisions
      429. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that pensioners who retire at 65 years will have to sign on the dole and search for work for a year before being allowed to...
    • Citizen Information Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason there is only a 2.5 day service provided in a Citizens Information Service instead of a full time service in a town (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      431. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of taxi drivers who are claiming social welfare benefits due to the lack of work in this industry; if the figure of 8% is the correct...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
      432. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for supplementary welfare allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      433. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons formerly employed in the construction trade categories who are in receipt of unemployment benefit; the breakdown of these...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      434. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the domiciliary care allowance was removed from a child (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      435. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form on a report by report basis, the fees that have been paid, or payments outstanding, to Indecon for publishing...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      436. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the refusal of invalidity pension to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; if she will confirm the grounds on which the...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
      437. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, following a reduction of €50 per child, there are plans to cut the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; if she will confirm...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility
      438. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an elderly or disabled person who requires work to their home would be considered for an emergency needs payment when the local authority is no...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      439. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24315/13]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      440. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal by a person (details supplied) in Cunty Kerry will be carried out by oral hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      442. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding that is available for parents requiring intensive medical support, for example dialysis, which children are not allowed to attend in...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      443. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under her Department whose latest...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Archaeological Sites
      444. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the call from the Irish Metal Detecting Society and the Amateur Metal Detectors Association of Ireland for reform of the...
    • Fodder Crisis
      445. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them...
    • Health Services Provision
      446. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department has received an application from the Health Service Executive for co-funding for the provision of a Health Centre...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      447. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each...
    • Commemorative Events
      449. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the details of the events that are planned to mark the centenary of the 1913 Lockout; and if he will make a...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      450. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding progress of the national raised bog management plan; and the date for the plans publication. [24042/13]
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Application Numbers
      452. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of turf cutters that have applied for the compensation payment, the relocation option and the turf delivery scheme on each...
    • Architectural Heritage
      453. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on where proceedings stand with the Irish Houses of Parliament Building on College Green, Dublin, which...
    • Cultural Trusts
      454. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the recent audit findings regarding the Temple Bar Cultural Trust; if his Department made any...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      456. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fisheries Protection
      457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will commission the IFI to undertake a survey into the status of harbour eels in the Waterford estuary to establish...
    • Bord Gáis
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the implications for employees of Bord Gáis if a division of the company is sold off this year;...
    • Energy Regulation
      459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to a query (details supplied) regarding gas and electricity prices; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fodder Crisis
      460. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property...
    • Ministerial Travel
      462. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually...
    • Ministerial Staff
      463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications
      464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a better energy home insulation grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider applying for TENS funding for a Natural Gas Spur from Corrib to Sligo, on to Enniskillen and Derry;...
    • RTE Expenditure
      467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has any responsibility in relation to the financial situation in RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Broadband Services Speeds
      468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 14 May 2013, if statistics exist in relation to the percentage of residents...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Special Housing Aid for the Elderly
      472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the reintroduction of the special housing aid for the elderly scheme to assist the elderly and...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to instruct local authorities to reduce commercial rates for struggling businesses; and if he will make a...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      I recently published a Homelessness Policy Statement in which I outlined the Government's aim to end long-term homelessness by the end of 2016. The statement emphasises a housing-led approach...
    • Household Charge Collection
      475. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of households liable for the household charge here; if he will provide details regarding the total number...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      476. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has given consideration to the current economic difficulty facing some local authority tenants, who are relying...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      477. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time frame for the implementation for the waste water systems grants scheme; the numbers anticipated to avail of the...
    • Election Management System
      479. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a rule in France which allows Irish persons who haved lived there for a period of time...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement
      480. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding the delay with the Private Residential Tenancies Board handling of the case in respect of a person...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a housing estate (details supplied) in County Kerry will be included in the list of exempted estates for the property...
    • Water Supply
      482. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline his Department's plans to replace the cast iron water pipes in an area (details supplied) in County...
    • Fodder Crisis
      483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property...
    • Roadside Service Stations
      484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the operation of filling stations that have a licence and are not in breach of...
    • Ministerial Travel
      485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually...
    • Ministerial Staff
      486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department...
    • Local Government Reform
      487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider, as part of the process of reforming local government, that the elected mayor of each county would...
    • Local Authority Staff Numbers
      488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff employed in the planning departments of each local authority during the years 2002 to 2012. [23858/13]
    • Local Development Companies
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet with the Kerry Oireachtas members to discuss his alignment proposals in respect of local development...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the implications for the health and well-being of older persons and persons with disabilities in view of the cuts in local...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any plans to standardise commercial rates for the Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council areas; and if...
    • Planning Issues
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a means for planning applications based on medical circumstances to be considered centrally (details...
    • Local and Community Development Issues
      493. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will retain the current structure of local development companies to administer the traditional Common Agricultural...
    • Housing Grant Applications
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funding approval will be given in respect of a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for this delay;...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received a proposal to provide funding for an extension to a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Provision
      496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problems being faced by rent supplement and RAS recipients (details supplied) whose...
    • Unfinished Housing Estates
      497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 427 of 23 April 2013, if he will provide in tabular form the number of site...
    • Emigration Data
      498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the funding that he is providing to the National Youth Council of Ireland for the research on...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      499. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money not drawn down by local authorities in 2010, 2011 and 2012 in respect of traveller accommodation; and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      500. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on where his Department's own version of Energy Security and Climate Change legislation is...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding septic tank registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24246/13]
    • Water Services Funding
      502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the comments (details supplied) in relation to the possibility of Dublin businesses having to pay...
    • Pyrite Resolution Board Remit
      503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update ion the Pyrite Resolution Board and the establishment of the remediation process; and if he...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the transitional arrangements that he envisages on the introduction of the Building Control Act on 1...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that money was secured for an intensified inspection scheme for Dublin City Council, investigating...
    • Planning Issues
      506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to SDZ for Grangegorman if his attention has been drawn to the serious issues of residents in relation to the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he would deem the payment of an enhanced redundancy package to the former staff members of Irish Local Development...
    • Local Authority Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular format, the number of children's playgrounds directly provided or facilitated by each...
    • Local Government Reform
      511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of the Local Government Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24377/13]
    • State Bodies Accounts
      512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if in view of the issues raised in the Prime Time Investigates programme on the Bethany Home on 13 May 2013 and on-going calls for justice for...
    • Commercial Rent Reviews
      514. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking regarding upward only rent reviews and high rents to assist struggling businesses; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Equipment
      517. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of bicycles in the Garda Cycle Unit per station; the number of Gardaí entitled to use them in...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      518. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the consultation that has taken place on the Legal Services Regulation Bill. [23719/13]
    • Equality Tribunal Cases
      519. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for an equality tribunal hearing to be heard. [23721/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      520. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to help...
    • Asylum Applications
      521. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an asylum application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legal Aid Application Numbers
      522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a free legal aid application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Travel
      523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or constituency office...
    • Garda Deployment
      525. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the vacant position of Community Garda will be filled at a Garda Station (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the frequency of Garda patrols taking place on Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Abbey Street and O'Connell Street, Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a comprehensive reply and response to correspondence (details supplied) regarding taxing masters; and if he will make a...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if all of the modules of the Morris Report will be published in view of the Garda Ombudsman's recent assertions that the recommendations of that...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      530. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the Annual Reports for the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board to be published for the years 2011 and 2012; when they will be...
    • Immigration Status
      531. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in determination of entitlement to extension of Stamp 3 visa in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      532. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to persons who are aggrieved about the conduct of legal representatives or medical witnesses in Children's Court cases, if he will...
    • Child Abduction
      533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 8 May 2013, if he will detail the number of children who were abducted and where the Hague...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal insolvency practitioners that are currently authorised in the State to provide services pursuant to the Personal...
    • Commercial Leases Database
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 26 February 2013 in which he advised the Commercial Leases Database would be published by the end of...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the length of time for cases to be dealt with by the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24142/13]
    • Traveller Community Issues
      547. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation on traveller ethnicity will be introduced [24207/13]
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of revenue his Department received from the Criminal Assets Bureau for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Courts Service Issues
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there will be no change to the status of Clones District Court, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      551. To ask the Minister for Defence the steps he has taken with the Lebenese and Palestinian authorities to try and locate the remains of a person (details supplied) who was kidnapped on the 27...
    • Fodder Crisis
      552. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to help alleviate fodder...
    • Ministerial Travel
      553. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and Minister of...
    • Ministerial Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or constituency office and their...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      556. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application under the agri- environment options scheme 3 in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an outstanding agri environment option scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Animal Diseases Issues
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will sanction the payment of a herd test for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if his attention has been drawn...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ask his Department to engage with a fisherman who proposes to extend his interest in a fishery (details supplied) in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment option scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the proposed sale of Coillte harvesting rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23723/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no payment in relation to a disadvantaged area scheme issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway in respect of...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte will provide land for a car park (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23729/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an agri-environment options scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • Milk Price Issues
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that milk commodities are now returning double figures on the world market than in May 2012, his views on the...
    • Fodder Crisis
      567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to supports being provided by his Department to farmers who are afflicted by the fodder crisis, the supports that his...
    • Aquaculture Development
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 203 of May 2013, if he will update Dáil Éireann on BIM's engagement with...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the minimum stocking rates for the 2013 disadvantaged area scheme in view of the adverse weather conditions and the...
    • Ministerial Travel
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each...
    • Ministerial Staff
      571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or...
    • Forestry Grants
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding outstanding forestry grants in respect of a person (detailssupplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agri-environment option scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay...
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme
      575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payment under the beef technology scheme has not issued to a farmer (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Forestry Grants
      577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a forestry payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Live Exports
      578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that livestock export is vital at present, if the live export to Libya is still open; and if he will make a...
    • Fisheries Protection
      579. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate illegal fishing at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the single farm payment rates were calculated for the period 2007 to 2013; and the formulae that were used for each of the...
    • Stocking Densities
      581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1072 of 16 April 2013, if he will provide a breakdown of figures in tabular form by sector for...
    • Slurry Storage
      582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider a TAMS type stream of funding for slurry storage on tillage lands where tanks would be in a position to receive...
    • Fodder Crisis
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that it is becoming evident that the fodder crisis will continue not just into the summer but that it will...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received headage payments since 2011; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 2 May 2013, if his Department will send out the necessary documentation which will allow...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has yet to receive their area based payment; if he will expedite the claim; and...
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the allocation of Departmental spend year to date in east Wicklow on badger culling for the purposes of...
    • Vesting Orders
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in having the Vesting Order completed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if same will...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Agricultural Inspectors and Assistant Agricultural Inspectors employed by the Department at present; the number of...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to an agri-environment option scheme 2 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Aftercare Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 has been refused further financial assistance; if this decision is contrary to national...
    • Youth Services
      593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the funding position regarding Foróige Youth Services in the context of the upcoming Budget; and if she will make...
    • Missing Children
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the roll out of the 116000 missing children hotline; when this hotline will be fully operational;...
    • Youth Services
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will respond to concerns regarding funding challenges that are addressed in a submission (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Detention Centres
      596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects the new eight bed unit in Oberstown, County Dublin, to be completed and when the places will begin to be used. [23868/13]
    • Child and Family Support Agency Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide vital funding for a young persons' counselling service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Child and Family Support Agency Remit
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are any plans or proposals to rationalise the number of family resource centres under the new Child and Family Support Agency; if...
    • Youth Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of all funding granted to Foróige Clubs in County Offaly for the past five years and to date in 2013....
    • Missing Persons Hotline
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 24 April 2013, if she will confirm to date the steps that have been taken to advertise the...
    • Youth Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will give a commitment that she will continue to provide support to youth organisations (details supplied); and if she will ensure...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under her Department whose...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Issues
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine ways in which continuous positive airway pressure machines could be purchased by those who need them as an alternative to long term renting...
    • Health Insurance Regulation
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department continues to monitor activity in the health insurance area with particular reference to the need to achieve lower premium...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23637/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      606. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is appropriate that a child diagnosed with autism in February 2013 (details supplied) in County Donegal is still awaiting assistance...
    • Medical Card Applications
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if same will be expedited; and if he will make a...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      608. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement by the Health Service Executive, as per correspondence dated 10 April 2013, that the most appropriate place for treatment for a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve an application for a renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the the backlog of applications for persons who need to do a period of adaptation and assessment in a hospital (details...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if there is any way in which their disability allowance can be retained after next month; if there...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been waiting for an ophthalmology appointment with the outpatient clinic at University College...
    • Health Insurance Cost
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the three most popular health insurance policies in March 2011 and March 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23731/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including a medical product (details supplied) on the list of reimbursable items; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23733/13]
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the development of the National Children's Hospital since the selection of the site at St. James last autumn; the timelines for the next...
    • Health Information and Quality Authority Reports
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the most recent Health Information and Quality Authority report on a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/13]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including Addison's disease to the list under the terms of the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Reviews
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23744/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fodder Crisis
      621. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to help alleviate fodder...
    • Health Services Provision
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the cuts to chiropody treatments offered by health care executive, North West Dublin: his views on whether three visits to a chiropodist per...
    • Health Strategies
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out any recent studies on vitamin D deficiency in children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23776/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [23778/13]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      625. To ask the Minister for Health when will the national allocation to fund disability services for school leavers be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23788/13]
    • Hospital Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to rename the Mid Western Regional Hospital, County Limerick, as the Limerick University Hospital to reflect the teaching and education role being...
    • Ministerial Travel
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each Minister and Minister of...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home-help hours will be provided to a person (details provided) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23855/13]
    • Civil Registration Service Fees
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the rational behind the recent decision to increase the cost of death certificates; the projected net gain of this increase; and if allowances or exemptions...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that arrangement are made to supply a more suitable wheelchair to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 [23863/13]
    • Respite Care Services
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care for children in a facility (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if he will respond to concerns raised that this care may be...
    • Hospice Services
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is allocated to the LauraLynn Foundation this year and next year to ensure that the hospice may continue their exceptional work...
    • Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the findings of the Health Service Executive’s evaluation of the impact of the introduction of this new model of service delivery of pre-hospital...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there was no availability of a patient transfer ambulance on 7 May 2013 for a person (details supplied) in County Clare, to take the person to...
    • Hospital Status
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will redesignate Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, by assigning it regional status; and when a decision will be made on the matter. [23896/13]
    • Dental Services Provision
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a dental appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23905/13]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card appeal application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      640. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent appointment will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he can clarify the current waiting times for a public...
    • Hospital Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the potential regarding plans for the development of the new rehabilitation unit in the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County...
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge that the working conditions and hours of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors is at a dangerously high level; if he will outline any plans...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of appeals received for medical card applications for each month in 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24000/13]
    • Medical Card Application Numbers
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications received for each month in 2012 for medical cards in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24001/13]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      645. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for assessment will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford in respect of a shoulder operation; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no intermediate ambulance care services available in County Clare; if he will consider making these services available; when the review of...
    • Counselling Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive provides the necessary funding for the continuation of a counselling service (details supplied) in County...
    • Health Services Provision
      648. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to available State supports for provision of services to adults who live with autism, if he will identify funding avenues that may be supportive...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in updating the Misuse of Drugs Regulations to deal with the street trading of benzodiazepines and z-drugs and the escalating problem...
    • Mobility Allowance Decision
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the proposed new alternative scheme to the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; if he will assure persons...
    • Health Services Provision
      651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current policy of the Health Service Executive with regard to special preschools in County Donegal; the number of...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24071/13]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo had their medical card withdrawn; if all medical information was taken into consideration; and if he will...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding discussions with people who are victims of Thalidomide; the date on which he will bring forward proposals on this matter; and if he will...
    • Suicide Prevention
      655. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the rates of suicide in the travelling community which seems to be at a much higher level than the general population in view of the fact...
    • Medical Card Drugs
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if the medication pradaxa is available for medical card holders and in the case of a patient who has been prescribed pradaxa by a consultant cardiologist, the...
    • Health Services Provision
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that can be given to a family (details supplied) in Dublin 8 [24141/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [24146/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1112 of 16 April 2013, the reason Health Service Executive employees in the areas of domestics, maintenance, porters and...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for speech therapy for children under five in the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24221/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if all speech therapy postions are filled across the country and in particular if maternity leave is covered; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drugs refund scheme does not cover medication or the special food requirments for patients with dyspahgia; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the reason applicants that have recently been granted full medical cards that are valid for another 2 to 3 years are now being requested to complete a review...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular format details of the Model 4 hospitals in each new hospital group, the Model 3 hospitals in same and the Model 2 hospitals in...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations surrounding the use of helipads for delivering patients to hospitals throughout the country; the hospitals that have helicopter pads for...
    • Medical Card Applications
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the processing of the application will be...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if proposals to include minimum pricing of alcohol will be legislated for; if so, when he expects to publish legislation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Patient Statistics
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the possibility of introducing an online database of patients records to be made accessible to all medical professionals within the Health...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      673. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the nine smaller hospitals which are to be Model 2 hospitals, if he will supply in tabular form, for each hospital a list of services that are...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      674. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive an appointment with a vascular doctor in University College Hospital; Galway; and if he will make...
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      675. To ask the Minister for Health when the universal health care system will be introduced; the progress that has been made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24305/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided with necessary eye treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24306/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue an emergency discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to the Health Service for home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when a decision will issue; and if...
    • Obesity Levels
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the recent U.K report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on tackling obesity; his plans to adopt any of its ten recommendations for...
    • Obesity Strategy
      680. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the merit of appointing one person in Government to drive a coordinated obesity strategy between and across central Government...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has considered providing for improved weight management resources for healthcare workers who have an obesity problem; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Training
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if he considers it best practice that in all specialist postgraduate exams, obesity and relevant training in behavioural change therapy become essential...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has any statistics on the volume of banned slimming pills that are being imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24337/13]
    • National Asthma Programme
      685. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 637 of 14 May, 2013, if he will provide his Department's estimate of the number of persons who suffer from asthma here;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of patients waiting for knee and hip replacements at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin: and the length of time they have been on the waiting list. [24345/13]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any staff that need to be recruited for the south Meath community health team; the make up of the south Meath community health team; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the approval of sativex medication, for the treatment of persons with multiple sclerosis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • General Practitioner Services
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he has decided to abandon Phase Two of the long promised roll-out of free general practitioner care, that is, those covered by the high tech drug scheme;...
    • Hospital Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Health the acute medicine programme defined model applicable to Monaghan Hospital; the additional services that he anticipates will be located at the Monaghan...
    • Hospital Staff
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a consultant paediatric urologist for children with spina bifida in Temple Street Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health service Executive will consider giving priority to the provision of a defined clinic for adults for spina bifida; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Applications
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited and approved. [24475/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an operation was cancelled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a date will be arranged in the immediate future....
    • Hospital Admissions
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the most recent hospital admission and emergency Department visit figures for asthma patients. [24483/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      704. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for their operation in view of the serious impact their medical condition is having on...
    • State Bodies Accounts
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out in tabular form the names of all State owned or substantially State funded organisations under his Department whose latest accounts laid...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driving Licence Issues
      706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24213/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the decision taken by the Shannon Airport Authority to allow farming organisations to cut grass on property owned by them to...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      708. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that communities such as Carrickmacross, County Monaghan are eager that their towns develop...
    • Taxi Regulations
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 8% of all full-time taxi-drivers have now to claim social welfare benefits. [23799/13]
    • Arts Promotion
      711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider selling off the motorway sculptures around the country [23801/13]
    • Ministerial Travel
      712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of travel and subsistence, both foreign and domestic, claimed individually by each...
    • Ministerial Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form, the number of staff appointed by each Minister and Minister of State in his Department or...
    • Road Maintenance
      714. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when secondary and primary routes are being upgraded and renewed, if he will consider setting aside a certain proportion of funding to...
    • Sports Funding
      716. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant allocation to Swim Ireland, the Irish Canoe Union, Irish Hockey Association, Rowing Ireland, Irish Sailing Association and the...

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