Results 501-520 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the restrictions in place on imported bees to protect the native Irish bee from the spread of prevalent threats such as the American foulbrood disease and the small hive beetle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38571/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the possibility of quarantining and testing imported bee species, in order to protect the native Irish bee's natural habitat from diseases or other threats which jeopardise the indigenous Irish bee population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38572/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has previously conducted or commissioned a survey to assess the threat imported bees can pose to the indigenous Irish bee population through the spreading of disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38573/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the appointment of bee inspectors, similar to those appointed in Northern Ireland, through European Union financial aid funding to monitor and control the spread of pests and diseases that threaten the natural habitat of the indigenous Irish bee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38574/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 262. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a survey was conducted to determine if eel stocks had been depleted to such levels that fishermen were forced to abstain from eel fishing on the rivers Barrow and Suir; if the survey deemed that eel stocks were below the conservation limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38679/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 263. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the nature of the survey conducted to determine if eel stocks had been depleted to such levels that fishermen were forced to abstain from eel fishing on the rivers Barrow and Suir; the criteria of same; the locations in which it was carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38680/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 264. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he envisages that the appropriate rivers will ever be re-opened for eel fishing; if not, if he will consider a voluntary buy-out scheme for current licence holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38681/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 265. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will commission a survey on brown trout stocks on the River Barrow to decipher if stocks of same are below the conservation limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38682/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 266. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will sanction the restocking of brown trout on the River Barrow to bring the population of same up to appropriate figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38683/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Salmon Hardship Scheme (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 267. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a voluntary buy-out scheme for current licence holders on the River Barrow where sea-slob trout population levels have fallen below conservation limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38684/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 268. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will commission a survey on dace stocks on the River Barrow to decipher if population of same have increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38685/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (4 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 269. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures in place to combat the reported increase in the dace population on the River Barrow and to prevent juvenile dace from feeding on trout eggs and damaging the natural indigenous population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38686/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider granting an allocation of funding, through the Office of Public Works, from the sale of Inistioge Garda Síochána station in County Kilkenny to a community centre (details supplied) in the county, in line with the previous commitment given by this Government to ensure that such community projects benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rural Development Programme (10 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will identify alternative funding initiatives to those iniatives under Pobal that award rural development grant funding to rurally-based small and medium enterprises, that is initiatives to regenerate new and existing tourist attractions and other similar projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (10 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 539. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money spent on Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas projects in 2015 to date; the estimated spend in 2015 and 2016, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39338/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (10 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the drawdown to date of the €5 million reserve earmarked in Leader funding for the period 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39339/15]

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: I commend my colleague, Deputy Billy Kelleher, on bringing forward this motion to ensure the crisis of overcrowding in emergency departments is at the forefront of Dáil business. The only consistency that has resulted from this Government’s chaotic handling of the health system is the incremental pressure placed on front-line emergency staff. Emergency medical consultants,...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: They had nothing to do only follow the plan.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 112. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card by persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [39636/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (11 Nov 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39756/15]