Results 7,601-7,620 of 18,496 for speaker:Brendan Smith

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 12 May 2010. The 75% advance payment under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme which issued on 21 September, the 50% advance payment, which issued on 18 October and the further 30% payment, which issued on 1 December, under the Single Payment Scheme, were on the basis of those...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 21 April 2010. A number of parcels listed on the application of the person named required re-digitisation. This application has is now processed and payment will issue shortly. Payment due under REPS will issue in the coming ten days.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: Payment will issue to the person named within 10 days.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The file is currently under examination following the re-digitisation of land parcels and my officials will be in contact with the person named when this examination is complete.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The application from the person named is currently under examination following a cross check with the 2009 Single Farm Payment application. My officials will be in contact with the person named when this examination is complete.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Single Payment Scheme/Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 05 May 2010. Advance Single Farm Payment issued to the person named on 18th October 2010 on the clear eligible area, however one of the land parcels listed on the application required digitisation. This process is now complete and the balancing Single Farm payment issued on...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: An application under the 2010 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme was received from the person named on 10 May 2010. A number of parcels listed on the application of the person named required re-digitisation. This process is now complete and the application has been recently cleared and payment will issue in the coming days.

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (19 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: Since 2006 the company in question was awarded two consultancy contracts for my Department. The details required are as follows. YEAR TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT PAYMENTS 2006/2007 Report of the Independent Expert on Economic Analysis of Restructuring of Irish Sugar Industry 12 March 2006 to 23 February 2007 â'¬360,422 2010 Mid-Term Evaluation of the Rural Development...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The Fines Act 2010 includes provision for the payment of fines by instalment. Section 15, when commenced, will allow a person on whom a fine has been imposed to make an application to the court to pay a fine in this way. It will be possible to pay a fine over a period of 12 months and exceptionally, over a 2 year period. I will commence these provisions as soon as necessary enhancements have...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The preservation of Garda superannuation benefits was agreed with the Garda Representative Bodies at the Garda Conciliation and Arbitration Council. Agreed Report 218, records this agreement and sets an effective date of 1 October, 1976. The Agreed Report did not make provision in respect of members, who resigned prior to 1 October, 1976. There are, currently, no proposals to amend the...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I propose to take Questions Nos. 130 and 137 together. I am aware of reports which have appeared in relation to the activities of the person in question. I can assure the Deputy that, as with any other individual, the person in question for so long as he may have been here would have been completely subject to our laws. Any person who may have information that the person in any way...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The Deputy will be aware that, as part of Budget 2009, a number of measures were agreed for my Department under the heading of Rationalisation of State Agencies. I can inform the Deputy that these measures insofar as they relate to my Department have been completed. I would also like to draw the Deputy's attention to my Department's long standing shared services approach for the delivery of...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: The allocation of resources, including personnel, in An Garda Síochana is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and senior Garda management. I have however, been informed by the Garda authorities that the personnel strength of Tallaght Garda Station and Tallaght Garda District, which cover the area referred to by the Deputy, on the latest date for which figures are readily available, was 199...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I have been informed by the Garda authorities that the number of members of An Garda Síochána of Superintendent Rank who have retired since 1 January 2008 are outlined below. Voluntary Retirements Compulsory Retirements Total 2008 2 10 12 2009 25 1 26 2010 11 3 14 2011 Nil Nil Total 52 Positions at Superintendent level are not filled by 'acting up'. In some cases, Inspectors are...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the new offices of the Property Registration Authority (PRA) in Roscommon Town have opened and that 76 staff who had been in temporary accommodation have moved into the building. Further staff will follow in due course.

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I am not in a position to provide the information sought by the Deputy at this time, but will do so as soon as the information is available.

Written Answers — Coroners Service: Coroners Service (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: Details of coroners, the districts that they serve and their caseloads in 2007, 2008 and 2009 are published on the website - www.coroners.ie. Coroners are independent office holders and funded through the local authorities. Returns for 2010 have been sought by my Department and it is hoped to have these published on the website towards the end of February. Figures to date in 2011 are not yet...

Written Answers — Prison Staff: Prison Staff (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I am informed by the Director-General of the Irish Prison Service that there are no plans at present to seek the recruitment of electricians for the Prison Service, as the requirement for electricians is adequately met by the resources currently available. The Deputy will also be aware that the Irish Prison Service is subject to the operation of Government Decision S180/20/10/0964C of 3...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I wish to inform the Deputy that family reunification is permitted only in cases involving persons who have been granted either refugee status or subsidiary protection, and the person to whom he refers is not in this category. As I have informed the Deputy on many previous occasions, the granting of permission to remain under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA parents of children born...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (20 Jan 2011)

Brendan Smith: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to is the subject of a Family Reunification application made in March 2009. I am further informed that INIS will be writing out to the legal representative of the person referred to shortly. INIS are also currently awaiting an inter-departmental report which once received will form part of the...