Results 421-440 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (26 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to reduce the cost of private foster care; if her Department has examined the policy of utilising private foster care companies with a view to the Health Service Executive providing a more cost-effective in-house service for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40720/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Broadband Plan for Ireland: Discussion (26 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: I thank Mr. Henry for his very clear presentation. I live in Manorhamilton, a small town in north Leitrim which has a MAN. Many people were sceptical when the MAN was being installed in Manorhamilton. Mr. Henry talked about attracting new industry, but there is another aspect. Industry that was based in Manorhamilton long before the MAN would probably not have remained without that MAN...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Broadband Plan for Ireland: Discussion (26 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: I thank Mr. Dunning and his officials. As this is just my second meeting, I may ask questions that have been asked previously. I very much welcome the national broadband plan. It is achievable and has the potential to do much to bridge the urban-rural divide, but it will require a mix of technologies. Deputy Michael Moynihan mentioned the gap analysis. I know the findings of previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Broadband Plan for Ireland: Discussion (26 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: The issue I wish to raise is not on the agenda, so I might talk privately to the Secretary General about it after the meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (27 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Health the progress made, if any, regarding the proposed development of primary care centres at Ballymote, County Sligo, and Ballaghadereen and Boyle, County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41001/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Act Review (27 Sep 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding the review of the Mental Health Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41002/12]

Other Questions: Industrial Development (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to promote enterprise and employment and address the employment differentials across the State. [41610/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the way in which the proposed industry-led clustering proposals will address or exasperate existing regional employment disparities. [41609/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Appeals (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for farm assist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41423/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for developing new schemes to support small farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41403/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his future plans for the suckler welfare scheme; if the scheme will be cut or abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41404/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (2 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a meaningful scheme like REP scheme 3 and 4 will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41405/12]

Philanthropy and the Arts: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: WB Yeats, the great Sligo poet, wrote:Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.When he wrote "The Stolen Child", it concerned children who were born weak and passed away. He had beautiful imagery of the fairies taking the weak child to a better place from a world of weeping and trouble....

Philanthropy and the Arts: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: The fiddle stuff.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Forbairt na Gaeilge (3 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad atá déanta aige chun an togra Líofa a chur i bhfeidhm sa Stát seo. [41976/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (4 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans, if any, he has to prepare and publish a full cost benefit analysis, including the cost to the Exchequer, of all existing tax reliefs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42275/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (4 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the direct cost to the Exchequer of all existing tax reliefs, including a distributional analysis of which households by income decile group are expected to benefit from each existing tax relief; which firms are expected to benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42276/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (4 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Health when will the person who was offered the post of midwife, prior to the recruitment moratorium, at Sligo Regional Hospital, be appointed to the post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42443/12]

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: Agriculture cannot be divorced from a discussion about rural Ireland which has suffered many attacks since this recession was visited upon us. The cuts affect schools, hospitals, local post offices, Garda stations, transport services. Off-farm income has dropped and young people are leaving in droves. The farming community has not escaped lightly. While there have been improvements in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Michael Colreavy: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills has he received the Van Vught report on higher education; his views on the report’s recommendations, particularly in relation to merging Trinity College and University College Dublin; and if he will provide a date on which the report will be published. [43096/12]