Results 481-500 of 2,211 for speaker:Paul Connaughton

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (6 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48622/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers (6 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health the reason motorised transport grants are being held up due to delays with Department of Social Protection officials carrying out financial assessments in relation to the grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48621/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (7 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseekers allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48988/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding (7 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Health when announcements will be made in relation to his Department's National Lottery funding payments for 2012 [48780/12]

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Tell him to stay on topic.

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. The economic crash of recent years was the perfect storm in financial terms, with repercussions that were felt at global, national and local levels. While many families in urban and rural areas of Ireland might not have felt what they were doing would have been impacted upon by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the United States, the chain...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turbary Rights (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive compensation for the sale of turbary rights at Derrinlough Bog, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50124/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49517/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Scheme (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any circumstances whereby compensation due to a person under the TB eradication scheme will be granted to the herd keeper as opposed to the herd owner, with the consent of the herd owner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49539/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal of a decision to refuse disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49685/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on the disadvantaged area scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50133/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an appeal for the disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50148/12]

Education Funding: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the motion. The introduction of any new centralised system will always have teething problems but special care must be taken when these problems can result in huge difficulties for students, many of whom are living away from home for the first time. I am heartened to learn that a tracking mechanism is to be introduced for student grants as I...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (14 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the extra costs that multiple births place on families of twins and triplets in terms of childcare in the pre-school years and the additional cost of equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50439/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (14 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment on the rural environment protection scheme 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50442/12]

Order of Business (15 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: Is the Deputy volunteering?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: I welcome the provision of a permanent risk equalisation scheme for private health insurance. It will replace the current interim scheme on 31 December 2012. No one in this Chamber needs to be reminded of the fact that hospitals and other health care service providers throughout the country are facing an extremely difficult task to stay within ever-shrinking budgets while the population...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (15 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland should install installation measures in dormer houses in cases in which the houses were surveyed; the measures agreed to in advance of the SEAI decision to cease installing installation measures in dormer houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50661/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50887/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2012)

Paul Connaughton: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the agri-environment option scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51050/12]