Written answers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Proposed Legislation
10. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he intends to bring legislation before Dáil Éireann regarding the abolition of the Employment Appeals Tribunal; the...
- Foreign Direct Investment
11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has indicated to the Department of Finance his views that income tax rates are a significant influence on multinationals in...
- Job Creation Issues
12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps which are being taken to support job creation in the Athlone area following the announcement of significant job losses by...
- Pharmaceutical Sector
13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the impact of patent expiration on employment in the pharmaceutical sector; the way the industry can be supported to...
- International Workplace Safety Standards
15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts regarding the safety standards upheld in production facilities operated companies...
- Foreign Direct Investment
17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the profit to the employee rate for multinational corporations here and across the EU. [24454/13]
- Industrial Development
18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will give an update on his Department's engagements with the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland in respect of...
- Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the time table for establishment of the LEO’s; and the way he intends to ensure equality of service and...
- Job Initiatives
20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps taken to create employment to encourage the return of recent emigrants; and the number of jobs created under such schemes....
- Registered Employment Agreements
21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current status of the REAs in view of the recent Supreme Court ruling. [24137/13]
- Industrial Development
22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which his Department continues to monitor the manufacturing and service sectors with a view to identifying any weaknesses...
- EU Directives
23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions his Department is taking to ensure timely implementation of EU directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Employment Rights Issues
24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the rise in au pair placement agencies and on line recruitment if he will consider legislating to ensure that au pairs...
- Industrial Relations Issues
25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will deal with the situation whereby the Employment Appeals Tribunal and Labour Court recommendations may be ignored or avoided...
- Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation
27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied with the operation of the credit guarantee scheme; the number of jobs it is supporting to date; and if he will make...
- Job Creation Targets
28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which job creation through foreign direct investment and/or indigenous sources are in line with or ahead of projections...
- Job Protection
29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date on protecting employment of staff working on the UK loan book at Bank of America, Carrick-on-Shannon; and if...
- Credit Availability
30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail for each various credit initiative developed by his Department, if each scheme offers a rate of credit above, below...
- Prompt Payments
31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if payment times by State agencies will be reduced in a way that improves cash flow to businesses; and if he will make a statement on...
- Skills Shortages
32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a shortage of appropriately skilled workers is causing vacancies to be remain unfilled in the informational technology sector; the...
- Broadband Services Speeds
33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that all sites under the management of Enterprise Ireland and the county enterprise boards have access to affordable...
- Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the way he intends to fund LEO’s to ensure that areas with the greatest need for job creation receive the...
- Enterprise Support Schemes
35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the proposed maximum financial award for the new structures being reduced by half to €40,000 reduces red tape and...
- Foreign Direct Investment
36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts made to secure foreign direct investment in the north west region; the number of new jobs that have been announced in 2012;...
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the expected cost savings to be achieved by the new structure; the expected cost of the transition for 2013; if he will confirm that...
- Joint Labour Committees Reviews
38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will respond to the Labour Court recommendations on the review of the JLCs. [24462/13]
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process
39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether a formalised appeals mechanism in relation to commercial rates would assist businesses in financial difficulty;...
- Credit Availability
40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact of the high cost of credit on enterprises and job creation; and his views on the take up rates of Government created credit...
- Economic Competitiveness
41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the Forfás report on competitiveness [24440/13]
- Employment Statistics
42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of young persons employed in March 2011; the number currently in employment; and the success of initiatives to create and...
- Social Insurance Issues
43. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail any discussions that he has had in relation to making mandatory PRSI contributions for sole trades and small and...
- Illegal Moneylenders
44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to concerns that many citizens have with illegal money lenders who operate in local communities and are...
- Competition Authority Staff
45. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the staffing improvements that have been implemented in the Competition Authority to ensure that it has the capacity to investigate...
- Credit Availability
46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to alleviate the problems of small and medium-sized businesses that are not involved in the export market and still face...
- Job Creation Issues
47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the relationship between the increase in the value of enterprises exporting goods and services and the impact on job...
- Job Creation Numbers
49. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created and lost in the private sector in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22129/13]
- Company Closures
50. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he and his Department have taken to date in order to secure the long term future and to find a new employer for the Merck...
- Business Costs
51. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the costs that undermine business growth and employment creation; and his views on whether property rental costs are not an issue for...
- Emigration Data
52. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the recent report by the National Youth Council entitled Time to go - the Experience and Impact of Emigration on Ireland's...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Disability Act Employment Targets
56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special...
- State Property
57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out by country, the latest valuation of property assets owned by the State as part of foreign diplomatic...
- Sale of State Assets
58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out by country for each of 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the proceeds from the disposal of property assets...
- Importation Policy (2 comments)
59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the reason goods from Israeli settlements are to be labelled; and if he will make a statement on the...
- International Election Monitoring
60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department sent the new selection procedure to applicants for the new election observer roster; if there is an...
- Department of Finance
- Property Taxation Administration
61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of properties registered nationally, by each local authority area for the local property tax to...
- Carbon Tax Implementation
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline details of carbon taxation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24708/13]
- Tax Code
64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the current vehicle registration tax is compatible with EU law; the legislative changes he is proposing regarding keeping the tax in...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a means test in respect of the local property tax demand for families dependant on single parent family payment; and if he will...
- Property Taxation Collection
66. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason local property tax liability is taken immediately from customers' bank accounts when the explanatory booklet clearly states payment will not be...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
67. To ask the Minister for Finance if cash deposits held within approved retirement funds are covered by the bank guarantee scheme; the other protections that exist to protect cash held through...
- Housing Grants
68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering making the cost of home maintenance and repairs tax deductible, as is done in Sweden, in order to eliminate the growing black economy....
- Property Taxation Collection
69. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have not received their property tax correspondence; if this can be sent as a matter of...
- Debt Resolution Pilot Scheme
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the third party service provider that will be selected to operate under the recent launched Framework for a Pilot Approach to the...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with disabilities and if the...
- IBRC Liquidation
72. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the total debt write down that will be given to developers who bid for their own loans from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at...
- Financial Services Regulation
74. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 207 and 210 of 23 April 2013, and 195 of 14 April 2013, if he will confirm by year, separately, the salary and benefits...
- IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of borrowers who had loans of more than €10 million par value with the Irish Bank Resolution Corportation at 7 February 2013 ; the total par...
- Bank Debt Restructuring
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of debt written off by Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland and Permanent TSB in 2010, 2011 and 2012 as a result of bankruptcies in Northern Ireland;...
- NAMA Property Rental
77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an analysis of the €100-120 million per month recurring non-disposal income being reported by the National Asset Management Agency,...
- NAMA Property Sales
78. To ask the Minister for Finance following the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency of the disposal of the so called Project Aspen portfolio of €810 million of loans...
- Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Participation
79. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 23 April 2013, and further to his statement on 13 May 2013 that it seems to me that if we had one more sale of...
- Mortgage Debt
82. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the practice of the banking sector refusing to engage with lenders that find themselves in further difficulties after restructuring...
- Banking Sector Regulation
83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to consolidate the legislative basis for the Central Bank of Ireland and its operations; if officials from his Department have held discussions...
- Tax Reliefs Cost
84. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons to date that have availed of the special assignee relief programme; the number of employers whose employees have availed of the...
- Mortgage Interest Relief Extension
86. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the much-welcome benefits of the mortgage tax-relief at source for persons who first purchased homes between...
- VAT Rates Application
87. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the extension of the reduced VAT rate of 9%, which has had a significant positive effect on tourism industries, to coach...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
88. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 14 May 2013, the way payments to be made were calculated; the quantity of smuggled tobacco the payments made under...
- Economic Performance
89. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the economic performance of all sectors has been monitored over the past five years to date; the extent to which specific areas have been...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Institutes of Technology Issues
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the local employment clause contained within the DIT Grangegorman project contract. [24605/13]
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the changes to be made by his Department in relation to the July provision scheme for families of autistic children; if he will...
- Teachers' Remuneration
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for a delay in issuing the proper qualification rate to a teacher (details supplied) in County Cork [24501/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the income figures from self employment from a persons father in a student grant application in respect of a person (details...
- Third Level Institutions Issues
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of teaching days in 2012 in each of the third level institutions funded by the State; the number of...
- Schools Building Contractors
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of the contractor awarded the building contract in a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24554/13]
- Public Sector Staff Redeployment
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding re-deployment within vocational education committees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Third Level Fees
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 5 February 2013, if a matter raised in correspondence in respect of a student (details supplied) in...
- Teachers' Remuneration
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 20 December 2012, the position regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24583/13]
- Public Sector Staff Issues
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that a person who spent six years in college and received a masters degree, is being refused job positions in the public...
- Proposed Legislation
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed Education (Admission to School) Bill 2013 proposes to enact legislation that will prevent Gaelscoileanna from having an...
- Schools Refurbishment
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school building work and emergency accommodation works in 2013 in respect of a school (details supplied) in County...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress his Department has made in eliminating the problem of work arising from his Department's school building project falling into the...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond positively to the calls of parents of children with Down syndrome to amend the Special Education Circular 02/05 to include...
- Education and Training Provision
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a petition (details supplied) and the rational submission contained in this petition especially in view of the fact that literacy...
- Public Sector Staff Remuneration
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 14 May 2013, if he will identify the location and role of the 55 persons who are earning in excess...
- State Examinations Issues
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) in County Kildare, undertaking their leaving certificate, who had, due to their learning difficulties, a...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional workload of the teachers and staff of Gaeltacht schools and Gaelscoileanna, particularly in view of the role such schools play...
- School Accommodation
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his Department's procedures for collecting and maintaining data on capacity in the primary school network such as the number...
- Schools Building Projects Status
110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 and plans for their new school. [24760/13]
- Lease Agreements
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a lease agreement (details supplied) [24761/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of capital work contracts for school buildings and school extensions that have gone to successful tender for 2011, 2012 and to date...
- Student Support Schemes Issues
113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if triage procedures exist in relation to Student Universal Support Ireland grant applications; if he has encountered cases similar to a case...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Property Tax Assessments
115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list in tabular form of all residential properties and address, operated or owned by the Office of Public Works...
- Banking Inquiry
119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the type of banking enquiry that will be proposed; if it will done in an Oireachtas style committee set up, and...
- Freedom of Information Requests
120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to ensure that Freedom of Information requests are answered within the statutory period and to ensure that...
- Croke Park Agreement Review
121. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is any group representing retired public servants at the ongoing Croke Park 2 negotiations; and if he will make a statement on...
- Public Sector Staff Issues
122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons dismissed or removed from the public service due to failure to perform duties or negligence in 2012; and if he...
- Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views of retired Taoisigh and Government Ministers in receipt of State pensions with second incomes from public sources; if he has...
- Public Sector Staff Career Breaks
125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are any proposals to introduce incentivised career breaks to the wider civil service, including education, similar to the...
- National Procurement Service Framework Agreements
126. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the impact of the introduction of tendering of school supplies on small and medium enterprises in Ireland vis a vis...
- Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause
127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all public procurement contracts which contain local employment or social clauses. [24605/13]
- Disability Act Employment Targets
128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will abandon the attempt to raise, a relatively small amount of money in relation to the total that could be accrued from selling...
- National Monuments
130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of national monuments in State care that are closed due to renovations or lack of funding; and if he will...
- Public Procurement Regulations
131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the Public Procurement (Frameworks Agreements) circular 06/12 will be used by his Department; if he has considered the...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Job Creation Issues
132. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons to date that have received payments under the Connect Ireland initiative; the total amount that has been paid...
- Action Plan for Jobs
133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs that have been created by the action plan for jobs since the introduction of that policy; and the effect, if any,...
- Research and Development Funding
134. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will support the I-LOFAR Project that promotes science, education, rural development and tourism, and innovation and university...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
135. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category...
- Economic Competitiveness
136. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector here with particular reference...
- Job Creation Numbers
138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the indigenous sector has featured in job creation in each of the past four years to date; the number of jobs...
- Job Creation Issues
139. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which he and his Department have identified any major issues of concern to those creating employment indigenously or by...
- Job Creation Numbers
144. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if known, the extent to which unemployed with various skills and educational levels, have succeeded in accessing employment in each of...
- Economic Competitiveness
145. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he is satisfied of the ability of industry here to continue to compete with the competition in domestic and export...
- Department of Social Protection
- Youth Unemployment Measures
146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to address the issue of youth unemployment in this jurisdiction and throughout Europe in the...
- Job Creation Numbers
147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons previously on the live register who obtained and have retained employment in each of the past three years to date, in...
- Social Insurance Issues
148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for persons who may not have sufficient PRSI contributions due to breaks in employment, for home-makers who worked in the home, for those...
- Fodder Crisis
150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she or officials in her Department have engaged with representatives of the farming organisations and officials of the Department of Agriculture,...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Mortgage Interest Relief Application
155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the eligibility for mortgage interest relief in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Strategies
156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the work her Department is doing to close the welfare trap (details supplied). [24591/13]
- Disability Allowance Payments
157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering making the disability payment to Irish citizens portable across the EU when persons leave Ireland to work within the EU...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the target of her Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with disabilities...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will make any exception to the application criteria for rent allowance; if she has considered that having to be on the local...
- Family Income Supplement Expenditure
162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the impact that withdrawal of one parent family payments will have on those parents who are in the work-force and...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal for suspending jobseeker's benefit with particular reference to an appeal in respect of a person...
- Proposed Legislation
164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate the progress made on preparing and enacting legislation in order that families of Irish citizens who die abroad can obtain an...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 692 of 16 April, 2013 and 115 of 8 May 2013 if a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details...
- Public Services Card
166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the new public services card; if this will be on a national, regional or scheme basis; and if her...
- Disability Allowance Applications
167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for disability allowance will be decided on in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Inland Waterways Development
168. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the feasibility study that has been underway for some time in relation to the proposed extension of the Erne...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
169. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category...
- Digital Archiving Issues
170. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps he and his officials are taking regarding the archiving of digital media outlets for future keeping; if his attention has...
- National Monuments
171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made on the handing of the old Houses of Parliament buildings on College Green to the State; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Natural Gas Grid
172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he is taking regarding a proposal for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Television Licence Statistics
173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of television licenses purchased in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the total amount raised in television licences in...
- Sale of State Assets
174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans regarding any potential sale of Bord Gáis Energy; if he will be able to keep the company within State...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special...
- Radio Broadcasting Issues
176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views regarding efforts to silence and censor online radio stations through targeted intimidation; and his plans to...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Reports
177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the report from the Boundary Commission on the Local Elections; if so when he intends to publish same;...
- Planning Issues
178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the options for persons who have near expiry planning permission in County Monaghan and who seek an...
- Local Government Reform
179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on proposals from the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland and the AMAI advocacy to ensure that the...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the target for each county council separately regarding employment of persons in the...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his statement that up to 200 housing estates in the State may be bulldozed, if he will outline the prior...
- Seanad Elections
186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending legislation in order that soft copies of forms can be obtained by interested organisation...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being faced by those engaged in the now discontinued shared ownership...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of estates that have been listed for taking in charge following their removal from the property tax exemption...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Crime Prevention
190. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps the Gardaí are taking in an area (details supplied) in County Meath to reduce crime; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Prison Accommodation
191. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details in tabular form by prison, detention centre or institution of the amount spent on decorating accommodation spaces for...
- Asylum Applications
192. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for subsidiary protection and an application for humanitarian leave to remain in respect of a person...
- Garda Stations Closures
193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the current status of a Garda Station (details supplied) in County Donegal; if there is a threat to its existence; and if he will...
- Road Traffic Offences
194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 462, 463 and 464 of 14 May 2013, the reason more than 85,000 drivers avoided conviction and penalty points...
- Citizenship Applications
196. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will issue on an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; the reason for the delay...
- Domestic Violence Policy
197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider the implementation of a domestic violence offenders register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24600/13]
- Magdalene Laundries Fund
198. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date by which Mr. Justice Quirke will report back to him with recommendations regarding the Magdalene Laundries Fund and accompanying...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
200. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with...
- Garda Corruption
201. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on allegations contained in correspondence (details supplied) sent to all Deputies alleging wrongdoing in County Mayo. [24679/13]
- Civil Bills
202. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any concerns regarding the validity of civil bills issued where the Court Services facilitated the stamping of blank documents which...
- Prison Accommodation Costs
203. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of every person imprisoned in a jail here on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. [24716/13]
- Community Service Orders
204. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of every person on community service on a hourly and weekly basis. [24717/13]
- Prison Committals
206. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were sentenced to jail time in the years 2011 and 2012 and the durations of same. [24719/13]
- Garda Recruitment
208. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the costs to end the current moratorium and recruit 250, 500, 1000 Garda recruits immediately. [24721/13]
- Immigrant Investor Programme
209. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will show separately, in respect of the immigrant investor programme and the start-up entrepreneur scheme, the number of persons who have...
- Spent Convictions Legislation
210. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when it is envisaged that the Criminal Justice Spent Convictions Bill will be passed in view of the importance of the Bill in assisting those...
- Subsidiary Protection Applications
211. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the new provisions for dealing with subsidiary protection under the Immigration and Refugee Acts will be in place and decisions allowed to...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Properties
212. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on encroachment charges (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24552/13]
- Disability Act Employment Targets
213. To ask the Minister for Defence the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with disabilities and if...
- Military Service Pensions
214. To ask the Minister for Defence in the context of the Military Service Pensions Act 1934, if there is a distinction between active service and service; the way decisions are made to issue a...
- Common Foreign and Security Policy
215. To ask the Minister for Defence the details of the discussion held at the seminar he hosted in Dublin Castle on 17 May regarding the Common Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a...
- Naval Service Vessels
216. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for the L.É. Emer and L.É Aoife when they are decommissioned from the Irish Naval Service in September 2013 and September 2014...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Animal Disease Controls
217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is compulsory to carry out a scrapie test on sheep over two years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24497/13]
- Fodder Crisis
218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide additional supports to farmers who are experiencing severe fodder shortages in view of the continued adverse...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their agri environment option scheme one payment; and if he will make...
- Fodder Crisis
223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or his officials in his Department have engaged with the Department of Social Protection to analyse the impact of the fodder...
- Horse Passports
224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to change the regulations and methods of registering horses in the aftermath of the horsemeat crisis. [24571/13]
- Bovine Disease Compensation
225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if compensation is available to farmers who have lost part of their herds through BVD; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a headage grant. [24586/13]
- Common Agricultural Policy Reform
227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine a submission on the Common Agricultural Policy ; his views on the logical propositions enclosed in the document;...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason single farm payment and REP scheme entitlements for a person (details supplied) were cut by 5% because they were unable to...
- Beef Industry Issues
231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the publication on 14 March 2013 of the report Equine DNA and Mislabelling of Processed Beef Investigation and...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are circumstances in which an application to the new agri environment option scheme, which has not yet been accepted, may be...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of agri environment option scheme 1 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
- Forestry Sector
235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put in place a detailed independent review of the whole forest sector here, both Coillite and private, with a view to...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the agri-environment options scheme, 9,500 farmers applied before the closing date of November 2012, the timeframe...
- Agriculture Schemes Penalties
237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a fine in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24792/13]
- Credit Availability
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the food harvest 2020 report which sets outs a growth plan which foresees a 1.5 billion euro increase in the value of...
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether every active farmer should get an advance of €1,000 of the payments due to be paid in the autumn to...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- School Absenteeism
240. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will have her Department officials call to the yellow flag school (details supplied) with a view to assisting four schools on this...
- Foreign Adoptions
241. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update from the Adoption Authority of Ireland on the status of an application for a child (details supplied) in...
- Adoption Services Provision
242. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her policy for regulation of adoption has changed since 2011; if she will consider amending section 63 of the Adoption Act 2010; and if...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
243. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the target of her Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with...
- Department of Health
- Assisted Human Reproduction
244. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent breakthrough in stem cell research, when legislation can be expected governing stem cells, in view of the fact that the current lack of...
- Health Services Provision
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the position in relation to the provision of outpatient services at St Vincent's Care Centre in Athlone, County Westmeath; if those...
- Medical Card Applications
246. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the cervical screening programme to women under the age of 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24540/13]
- Health Screening Programmes
248. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the nature and detail of the service contract with Northgate Public Service in relation to the delivery of the newborn screening programme;...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
249. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that all applications for the fair deal scheme have now been suspended; if this includes those currently in acute hospitals; and if he will...
- Ambulance Service Provision
251. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that appropriate support is provided to enable the Swords Ambulance Station, County Dublin, to operate 24 hours per day, 365 days per year;...
- Mobility Schemes Status
252. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the mobility allowance and motorised transport schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24566/13]
- Medical Card Applications
253. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) [24584/13]
- Speech and Language Therapy
254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of newly qualified speech and language graduates from Irish colleges that have been recruited by the Health Service Executive in 2011, 2012 and to...
- Disability Act Employment Targets
255. To ask the Minister for Health the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with disabilities and if the...
- Freedom of Information Requests
256. To ask the Minister for Health when a Freedom of Information request from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be fulfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24681/13]
- Medical Card Applications
257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant a medical card on discretionary grounds to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24684/13]
- Ministerial Meetings
258. To ask the Minister for Health if he and his officials will meet with a delegation from St. Joseph's Home, Killorglin, County Kerry at the earliest possible date to discuss the future...
- Food Safety Authority Investigations
259. To ask the Minister for Health further to comments of 15 May 2013 by the British Member of Parliament, Anne McIntosh which criticized the Food Safety Authority of Ireland for failing to...
- Health Services Issues
260. To ask the Minister for Health the grants available for community groups wishing to purchase defibrillators; and if there are any plans to introduce new incentives for community groups to...
- Hospital Consultants Recruitment
261. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the reconfiguration of Waterford Regional Hospital to university hospital the number of specific academic posts to be allocated as in Consultant...
- Medical Card Applications
262. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24748/13]
- Abortion Legislation
263. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings he or his Junior Ministers have had with the masters of the Rotunda, the Coombe and Holles Street hospitals since 1 October 2012; where these...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- National Car Test
264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine a matter regarding a National Car Test (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Classification
265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all roads downgraded in County Dublin from 2010 to date in 2013; when the downgrade occurred; the name and...
- Air Services Provision
266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an investigation of additional charges associated with airline travel, including bag charges, credit card fees, and so on is being...
- Bus Éireann Services
267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the recent industrial action in Bus Éireann, if he has examined those routes where commuters and customers have no...
- Appointments to State Boards
268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the Chairman of Bus Éireann, whom he appointed, is available to fully discharge the duties of this critical...
- Rail Services
269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the levels of reductions that have occurred in DART, Commuter and Intercity rail services in the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in...
- Road Network
270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of projects under the Ten-T Comprehensive Road Network and the progress being made with these projects. [24573/13]
- Disability Act Employment Targets
271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding employment of persons in the special category with...
- Bus Éireann Services
272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide figures comparing the State subvention to Bus Éireann with State subventions to coach services in other OECD...
- Inland Waterways Maintenance
273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Waterways Ireland has decided to suspend the much-needed dredging works on the Grand...
- Irish Rail Logo Rebranding
274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details regarding the decision to rebrand the Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail logo; if the new logo entails rebranding the...
