Results 22,601-22,620 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available through the taxation system to help a person wishing to return to full time education shortly after having become unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33820/06]

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the supports available from his Department or through bodies funded by his Department, financial or otherwise, to help a person wishing to return to full time education shortly after having become unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33816/06]

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (19 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the supports available from his Department, financial or otherwise, to help a person wishing to return to full-time education shortly after having become unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33826/06]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (19 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 328: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the supports available, financial or otherwise, from her Department to help a person wishing to return to full time education shortly after having become unemployed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33818/06]

Air Services. (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister for Transport has played a personal role in the disaster we have on our hands. Over the past two years, he devoted a large amount of his time and energy to the privatisation of Aer Lingus, often to the detriment of many other areas of his responsibility. For purely ideological reasons, the Minister was determined to ram through the privatisation of our national airline. We are...

Air Services. (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: That has yet to be tested.

Air Services. (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: That is what we have.

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the annual review of the Irish economy by the IMF published in August 2006; if he will heed their call for modest fiscal tightening in the budget 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33102/06]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to extend the remit of the IFSRA or the Central Bank to regulate companies which advance money from their own resources secured on assets such as property; the number of money lending companies which currently operate as unauthorised and unregulated credit institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33099/06]

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions and convictions for possession of fireworks in the past three years for which figures are available; and the level of Garda activity in enforcing the law per Garda division in this regard in the run-up to Halloween. [33372/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Transport the offences (details supplied), in so far as they relate to enforcement by a traffic warden, that have been commenced and in each case the statutory instrument that commenced them; if not, the reason therefor; and when he intends to proceed with the commencement. [33339/06]

Written Answers — Light Rail Project: Light Rail Project (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 259: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of State funding spent on the development of the LUAS smart card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33599/06]

Written Answers — Dog Control Statistics: Dog Control Statistics (18 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 297: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dogs in 2005 in categories (details supplied) by each local authority. [33580/06]

Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: The Government has no policy in that regard.

Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: I am pleased to have an opportunity to contribute to the debate. It is important to examine the context of the legislation. The number of deaths on the roads this year has reached 292, according to Garda figures. It is a sobering thought that by the end of this month or early next month, the reduction to 300 in road fatalities, which is the Government's target in its road safety strategy,...

Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: This is a major problem. Members, the Garda and the courts are working to 15 different Road Traffic Acts. It is a complex area at the best of times but it is almost impossible for an individual to refer to 15 Acts every time an issue arises. The Department and the Attorney General's office made a number of mistakes in the Act passed earlier this year by inserting inaccurate references....

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applications to her Department under freedom of information legislation in the years 2003, 2004, 2005 and to date in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32885/06]

Written Answers — Animal Identification Scheme: Animal Identification Scheme (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 221: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has considered the use of electronic tagging for sheep and cattle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32884/06]

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 224: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times since 1987 that civil servants have been forced to obtain an Order from the Courts enforcing or associated with enforcing their contractual rights and entitlements; the additional cost to the Exchequer over and above that which would have prevailed had the State recognised and honoured the contractual rights and entitlements involved in...

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (17 Oct 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times since 1987 that civil servants have been forced to obtain an Order from the Courts enforcing or associated with enforcing their contractual rights and entitlements; the additional cost to the Exchequer over and above that which would have prevailed had the State recognised and honoured...