Results 2,241-2,260 of 3,053 for speaker:Mary Upton
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, within the National Asset Management Agency legislation, to protect whistleblowers, both within the covered institutions and within NAMA itself; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35766/09]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, within the National Asset Management Agency legislation, to ensure that the senior management team of NAMA has global experience, particularly with regard to working on world scale asset recovery and portfolio management; if he will ensure that at least a percentage of the staff have no prior involvement with the Irish financial, State...
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the National Asset Management Agency plans to pay the banks over and above the valuation of loans at â¬47 billion; the further reason the additional â¬4.7 billion cannot be given in Government bonds in exchange for equity in the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35768/09]
- Written Answers — National Asset Management Agency: National Asset Management Agency (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance if there are directives from the European Central Bank forbidding the State from using Government bonds to buy equity in the banks under the National Asset Management Agency proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35769/09]
- Written Answers — Medical Research Funding: Medical Research Funding (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that an organisation (details supplied) will be adequately funded in order that it can meet its research targets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35445/09]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of the Health Service Executive network for the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35446/09]
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason people continue to be referred to Tallaght Hospital, Dublin when the waiting list is one year; the further reason people cannot be transferred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from Tallaght, after three months on the waiting list, as is the case in other hospitals; the reason people continue to be referred to...
- Written Answers — Vetting of Personnel: Vetting of Personnel (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 253: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ensure that the Garda clearance for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is processed in order that they can take up the appointment they have been offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35752/09]
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 492: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a summer works programme is planned for 2010; if so, when an announcement to that effect will be made; if all schools will be notified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35444/09]
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (13 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 512: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans for a gaelscoil in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35762/09]
- Order of Business (14 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Recently, I have received numerous serious complaints from the neighbours of householders who are creating persistent noise and disturbances. I want to ask about two Bills, particularly where landlords fail to take effective action, namely, the noise nuisance Bill and the landlord and tenant Bill.
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (14 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 132: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the fact that Ireland has undertaken to implement the European public participation directive and his stated commitment to ratify the Aarhus Convention, he will take steps such as the abolition of fees charged to members of the public to make submissions in relation to planning applications in...
- Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (14 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to meet Ireland's need to divert an additional half a million tonnes of biodegradable waste from landfill by 2010 to meet its targets under the European Union landfill directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35803/09]
- Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the report by an organisation (details supplied) which states that the REP scheme contributes more to the Exchequer than it costs; and if this report will inform his approach to the REP scheme in future. [36234/09]
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the proposed National Asset Management Agency legislation provides for a whistleblowers' charter to cover staff within NAMA, the covered institutions, debtors, advisers and service providers in order to ensure these parties all operate to highest professional and ethical standards; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: We have just been told by the Department of Health and Children that 400,000 people here are at risk from swine flu. We have been waiting since last April to get a vaccine and that vaccine has now been produced. Could someone tell us when that vaccine will be made available to those at risk? The HSE tells us to ask the immunisation centre, which tells us to go the local GP, who then says...
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: There is no promised legislation, there is a promised vaccine.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Is there a list in the HSE to tell us what GPs will receive supplies and when? Surely that is not beyond the bounds of possibility?
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: We have waited since last April. I listened to the Chief Medical Officer this morning when he clearly stated that the rate of infection is increasing and more people will die. We have a vaccine. Why can it not be delivered to the public?
- Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (20 Oct 2009)
Mary Upton: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will publish the report he submitted to the Government which discussed the possible options for the reintroduction of third level fees in view of the fact that the proposal is no longer proceeding and the document no longer requires to be confidential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37074/09]