Results 2,721-2,740 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (9 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if budget 2011 will allocate funding for the continuation of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46748/10]

Irish Language (14 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has considered the 20-year strategy for the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46121/10]

Written Answers — Personal Debt: Personal Debt (14 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether false assumptions obtaining between 2000 and 2007 about consumer income, long-term economic productivity and consumer behaviour resulted in the collapse of the Irish banking system; his further views on whether the various bank guarantee schemes and bank bailouts, including budget 2011 introduced by the Government, in effect...

Written Answers — Dental Practice Incomes: Dental Practice Incomes (14 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether investments in dental businesses that were made in the period 2003 to 2007 were based on assumed annual turnover figures dating from that period; his further views on the outcome of the November 2010 survey of dental practices conducted by the Irish Dental Association, which shows that practice incomes have fallen by 35% to...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (15 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the €30 per hectare payment of a grassland grant for sheep farmers will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47438/10]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason students applying for back to education and student support are allowed a maximum break from the academic system of one year; if an exemption can be made for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose personal family circumstances prevented them from proceeding with their studies for a period of more...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the way the removal of the closed school rule, which guarantees free transport to students, will impact on this commitment as a result of the new €50 charge per student; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47938/10]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the minimum 3.2 km distance requirement from primary schools for the purposes of school transport will be changed; if she will give a detailed explanation of these changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47939/10]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the way savings will be made under the closure of the closed school rule and the removal of the catchment boundary rule; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47940/10]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the way students who fall within the new distance ruling for primary school transport will be facilitated from a school transport point of view; if she will address an example case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47941/10]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Transport in reference to the Public Service Obligation, the total budget allocated to this fund regarding transport; the persons eligible to draw down from this budget and the criteria or technical requirement; the breakdown of the allocation for County Donegal, Bus Éireann and private operators; the way it is awarded and monitored; the actual...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to Pobal funding granted by the Department to Bus Éireann and to private operators in County Donegal, if she will provide the free travel pass budget and the way it is allocated; the total budget allocated to the free travel pass scheme nationally; the persons eligible to draw down from this budget and the criteria or...

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 30 November 2010, his views on the prospects of the application for the additional FTE so that the relevant organisation will be able to plan this month for the services it will provide next year, given the short amount of time left in this month; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Fishing Industry Development: Fishing Industry Development (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the 2011 fishery harbours and coastal infrastructure development programme that is funded by his budget; the projects that will be serviced from this budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47831/10]

Written Answers — Pigmeat Sector: Pigmeat Sector (16 Dec 2010)

Joe McHugh: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to boost the pig industry; if he will acknowledge the difficulties caused to pig producers by the Government's decision to vote against the GM grain proposition; his views that current prices are unsustainably low in view of the high costs associated with this industry; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Jan 2011)

Joe McHugh: Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109. 110, 111 and 112, inclusive, of 16 December 2010, if she will acknowledge that the changed system will greatly reduce the number of pupils attending certain schools (details supplied); if she will review the changes in order to ensure that such schools will not be damaged in...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Jan 2011)

Joe McHugh: Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109, 110, 111 and 112, inclusive, of 16 December 2010, if she will acknowledge that the new system will reduce the numbers of students travelling on certain school buses to below the 10 pupil threshold; if she will explain the way in which she will transport these students to...

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (12 Jan 2011)

Joe McHugh: Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 109, 110, 111 and 112 of 16 December 2010, her views on the fact that the new system will effectively shut down school transport services in the medium term in view of the fact that families with children currently availing of bus transport services under the closed school rule...

Written Answers — Child Abuse: Child Abuse (12 Jan 2011)

Joe McHugh: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date for the publication of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church's audit of the Catholic diocese of Raphoe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48316/10]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (12 Jan 2011)

Joe McHugh: Question 478: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 9 December 2010, the position regarding the €6m investment in dry storage facilities for de-icing salt; the location and form of these facilities; if he will make a full disclosure of the State's existing dry storage salt facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48293/10]