Results 21,061-21,080 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all local authorities must now make an allowance in their estimates to pay the property tax on local authority houses and that this will put a further burden on the rate payers if the moneys have to be paid and it will result in services being cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58050/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the increase in excise duty on beer, spirits and wine; if he has any plans to re-think the excise duties before the Finance Bill comes into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1262/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Promissory Notes (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons can look forward to a deal being struck on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory notes being completed before the summer of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the recapitalisation of Ireland's remaining banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1271/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for Student Universal Support Ireland grants that are still awaiting processing from County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1074/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the figure as of 1 January 2013, on the number of students still waiting for their grants to be processed; if there are proposals to undertake an external review of Student Universal Supplement Ireland to ensure that this type of situation will never again occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1232/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has been refused grant aid to rectify health and safety issues in the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58051/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in processing a post graduate student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58135/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding home tuition in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1713/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the centralised buying of goods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1266/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Emigration Data (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emigration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1263/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Appeals (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1164/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against a decision to disallow an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1165/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding jobseeker's allowance in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1167/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding self employed contractors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1267/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Review (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Social Protection from December 2011 to December 2012, the number of reviews that were undertaken of persons receiving invalidity pension; of those reviews, the number upheld and the number refused in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1716/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council Funding (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry does not receive funding from the Arts Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas Exploration (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the potential for oil and gas industries to exploit the natural resources which lie underneath our sea bed, if he has proposals to support such undersea exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57840/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas Exploration (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that a new federal study in the US has found the drilling practice known as fracking can trigger earthquakes and the US Geological Survey found that oil and gas operations caused the majority, if not all, earthquakes in certain areas of New Mexico and Colorado between 2001 and 2011, his views on allowing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Services (16 Jan 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will contact the mobile phone service providers and notify them of the problems with the service in the Castlecove, Caherdaniel, Derrynane, Blackvalley, Blackwater and general areas in south Kerry; his plans to improve the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1189/13]