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Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he plans to introduce a grant and incentive scheme for micro wind energy generators; if he will provide relevant material; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25529/10]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (15 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 504: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason she does not provide supports to part-time students at a third level facility (details supplied); if any financial supports will be available to students who take the course for the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25538/10]

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: On 3 July 2009, the Taoiseach said in this House that "nobody predicted what has happened globally or in Ireland". The two preliminary reports into the banking crisis, which were presented to the Oireachtas earlier this month, suggest that the Government's economic policies were a major cause of the crisis. The Government's draft terms of reference for the investigation are designed to...

Banking Reports: Motion (16 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Deputies Blaney and McDaid cannot say they were not warned on the streets of Letterkenny. Either that, or they were not listening to our people. I will provide another quote for the Minister of State: [Y]oung men leave Inishowen at 4 a.m. on a Monday morning, travel to Dublin or its outskirts in a van, begin work at 8 a.m. or 8.30 a.m. and continue until 7.30 p.m. [...] In terms of a...

Written Answers — Passport Offices: Passport Offices (16 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if any progress has been made on his proposal to establish a passport office service on the north and west of this island; if he will outline the outstanding issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25705/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (16 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on pensioners' concerns that have arisen from recent public discussion that the State pension may be cut or means tested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25882/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish options for spending savings in each Department for 2011 in order that there can be an informed debate about the optimum choices. [24752/10]

Written Answers — Ministerial Engagements: Ministerial Engagements (17 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied from his discussions with Chancellor Osborne in London and Minister Wilson in Stormont that the June 22 British emergency budget will not have deleterious implications for this State's economy, for the Border economy, or for the Thirty-two County economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26079/10]

Written Answers — Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (17 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has corresponded with the European Maritime Safety Agency in relation to an oil spill (details supplied) in the Gulf of Mexico; if he is collaborating with the EMSA to anticipate any threat to Irish waters that arise from this oil spill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26069/10]

Written Answers — Salmon Fisheries Management: Salmon Fisheries Management (17 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department, the Northern Minister for Agriculture and the Loughs Agency will provide loss-of-earnings compensation to the 18 Lough Foyle salmon fishermen who do not participate in the salmon hardship fund; if he acknowledges that the livelihoods of these persons are undermined by the ban on salmon...

Tourism Industry: Motion (22 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: I welcome the Minister. I thank Deputy Upton for tabling the motion. I raised the issue of visas for tourists from non-Schengen Agreement countries in the Minister's first week in office. She is well aware of it and the head of Tourism Ireland, Niall Gibbons, is constantly highlighting the same barrier for tourists, for example, from Korea or China. They must obtain two visas when they...

Fisheries Conservation (22 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Carey, and thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating this matter. The Foyle Area (Control of Fishing) Regulations 2010 were made on 2 June 2010 and have been operational since 11 June 2010. The Loughs Agency, with the approval of the North-South Ministerial Council and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Ryan,...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of unfilled non-consultant hospital doctor posts in hospitals here; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that hospitals face a shortage of doctors due the fact that new visa arrangements are discouraging non-EU doctors from coming here; if she will make changes to the visa requirements to address these concerns; and...

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (23 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has sanctioned a request for additional funding to the National Roads Authority for road maintenance or any other road related expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26702/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (24 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Finance when full-time customs service staff will be assigned to the port at Killybegs, County Donegal, to replace the staff member who retired last year; when a customs cutter vessel will be assigned on a permanent basis to patrol the north-west coast to prevent drugs being brought ashore; the number of Revenue or customs full-time staff and part-time...

Patient Safety: Motion (29 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: I welcome the Minister to the House and I congratulate Deputy Reilly on putting forward this motion. The substance of the Fine Gael motion proposes the establishment of a new, independent patient safety authority which would incorporate the Health Information Quality Authority. This is necessary because the State's existing health care complaints facility is a function of the HSE, as Deputy...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (29 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a comprehensive scientific explanation for his decision to ban commercial salmon fishing on Lough Foyle under the Foyle Area (Control of Fishing) Regulations 2010; if he will provide evidence that the number of migrating salmon counted going upstream in the rivers Mourne, Faughan, Roe and...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (29 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 530: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there is scope for reviewing the rules that apply to Lough Swilly fishermen in view of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority restrictions on fishing for cod, haddock and whiting, pursuant to Council regulation 43/2009; his views on whether the specifications for square mesh panels are arbitrary in view of the...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (29 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 534: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason fishermen with vessels shorter than 30 m in length are subjected to stringent measures in respect of gill net licensing in view of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority's restriction on fishing for cod, haddock and whiting in International Council for the Exploration of the Sea VI, pursuant to Council...

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (29 Jun 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 572: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the implications of leaving certificate guidelines (details supplied) for students who are bereaved by the sudden death of parents immediately before or during examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27621/10]