Results 361-380 of 529 for speaker:Derek Keating in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the growing knowledge regarding the Autism condition and the demands on individual schools and on the education system, if he will consider setting up a special unit to address, advise and examine resources in relation to the needs of children in the primary school sector who are diagnosed with autistic conditions; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Offices (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current situation in relation to providing a suitable building to facilitate the Department of Social Protection’s plan to open a Social Welfare Office in the Lucan area, Dublin; if his Department will consider renting on a temporary basis a suitable building to facilitate the opening of the Social Welfare Office until or...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Cost (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection If she will outline the savings made in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 as a result of the actions she and her Department have to deal with the fraud payment of social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28886/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Services for People with Disabilities (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the services her Department provides for those from the autistic community; if she will consider developing a criteria of benefits for the needs of those with the autistic spectrum disorder condition and specifically for those who become adults at 18 years of age and fall between benefits; if she will consider developing a policy and a new social...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Numbers (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the JobBridge scheme who are benefitting from this in the Lucan, Clondalkin, Newcastle, Saggart, Rathcoole, Brittas and Palmerstown areas of County Dublin; if he will list in tabular form the number who have taken up this benefit and the number of those who have gone on to full-time or part-time employment; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 271. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a progress report on the roll out of broadband and high speed broadband in the Lucan, Clondalkin, Rathcoole, Saggart, Newcastle and Palmerstown areas of County Dublin, individually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28640/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management Regulations (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 304. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála against the wishes of the Bord Pleanála Planning Official for the development of a dump in the Rathcoole area, County Dublin; the steps and safeguards his Department will make to ensure that the environmental impact of this decision and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 361. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the criticism by the Chairman of the Road Safety Authority, if he is satisfied that enough Garda checkpoints, Garda personnel and the Traffic Corps are meeting the needs to ensure that all traffic regulations are being adhered to; if he is in agreement with the Chairman of the Road Safety Authority in relation to the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the number of children who were referred to the Children's Courts from Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Newcastle, Saggart and Rathcoole areas of County Dublin; the number of children who were referred to the Juvenile Liaison Officers' supervision programme in those...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Electronic Tagging (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding electronic tagging as a method of supervision and control of persistent acts of criminality and violence by persons; if he has developed a policy on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28896/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who are actively farming, herd numbers, in Clondalkin, Lucan, Saggart, Newcastle, Rathcoole and Brittas, County Dublin and who are in receipt of grants, benefits and funding; if he will provide a list in tabular form the types of grants, funding and benefits for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards Regulation (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status in relation to the contamination of food with horse meat; if he is satisfied that enough regulations, legislation and statutory obligations by food processors are in place to ensure that no such event of contaminating food will occur again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28897/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 479. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce regulation for childminders; if they will be included in the Children First legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28900/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 480. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs following the Health Information and Quality Authorithy Report on Social Work staffing Levels, her plans to address this problem; her views on the fact that there are not enough professionally trained and registered social workers to respond to the growing number of abuse and wilful neglect cases that are reported to the Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Services Funding (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that services for young adults, 13 in all, from Stewarts Hospital Dublin 20 will cease at the end of the education calendar year and their day services will not be available to them; if he will intervene directly with the Health Service Executive to examine these cases and give it due attention; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (18 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 524. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the appropriate training and qualifications are being adhered to by private and voluntary organisations who provide services under the Care of the Elderly service provision; if he will outline the standards that apply when a person is providing care in the home, in a day centre or in an institution; if he will outline the monitoring that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Allotments Provision (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to support urban agriculture such as the promotion and funding to allotments; if he considers it necessary to introduce registration of those who make available property to be developed into allotments in urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29208/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Allotments Provision (19 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop an urban programme in conjunction with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Department of Education and Skills to develop allotments, the registration of allotments, the standards that allotments should adhere to when a contract is provided; his views on same; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (25 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the checks that are put in place by his Department in relation to funding to organisations who provide professional services for suicide, depression, bereavement and other such community based services that receive funding from his Department; the criteria that is required to ensure that all public moneys paid are used in a correct manner for which that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (25 Jun 2013)

Derek Keating: 118. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the appropriate training and qualifications are being adhered to by private and voluntary organisations who provide services under the Care of the Elderly service provision; if he will outline the standards that should apply when a person is providing care in the home, in a day centre or in an institution; the monitoring that takes...