Results 2,501-2,520 of 3,791 for speaker:Tom Fleming

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Proposals on Roadworthiness Testing: Discussion with Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (13 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: Is there any such test elsewhere in Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Proposals on Roadworthiness Testing: Discussion with Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (13 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: I also welcome the witnesses from the National Roads Authority. I agree with previous speakers in regard to the testing of tractors. Already there is an obligation on farmers in respect of agricultural vehicles under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. It places a legal duty on all farmers and their employees to prepare and work to a safety statement. The current proposal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Proposals on Roadworthiness Testing: Discussion with Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (13 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: There is no participation by any agricultural vehicles in the building trade at present, as the boom is over. That is another factor that should be taken into account. Another matter concerns roadworthiness testing for cars over three years. There is a certain sector of society, for whom I take the criteria to be qualification for a medical card, in which there is an easing of means...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (13 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to address the delays in the processing of student grant applications, the number of student grant applications that have been received by Student Universal Support Ireland; the number that have been processed, awarded, refused, awaiting decisions to date, the number of applications that were received from County Kerry and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (13 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7666/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will issue a student grant as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6585/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will ensure that this appeal is processed at the earliest possible date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7084/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue in relation to a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7107/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will allocate additional funding, €40,000 approximately, to complete coastal protection works (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that a number of homes are still at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6813/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available to carry out emergency coastal protection works in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7078/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Charges (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene with Eircom regarding a proposal (details supplied) to drop the price of telephone line rental by €4 per month to its customers in cities and towns as part of the broadband roll out in order to extend this €4 reduction to all its customers countrywide to also include its 440,000 rural...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the closing date for septic tank registration for a period of one month in order to allow households that will have issues with their septic tanks the opportunity of applying for grant aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6686/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a disadvantaged area scheme appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6783/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a disadvantaged area scheme appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on an agri environment option scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6804/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a disadvantaged area scheme appeal will isue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7029/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Passports (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will issue an original horse passport as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will immediately issue the original passport; if he will arrange a meeting with his officials to have the issue finalised once and for all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7238/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make funding of approximately €90,000 available to Kerry County Council as a matter of urgency to upgrade Docks Slipway, Glenbeigh, County Kerry; if he will take into consideration the current/potential usage of this slipway, that is, commercial fishing, aquaculture, deep sea fishing, leisure activity and so on; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will open the new Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Cork University Hospital and the redeveloped unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, as a matter of urgency in view of the fact that they remain unopened despite the completion of the units in the autumn of 2012 at an estimated spend of €900,000; if he will take into consideration that there are currently no...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Feb 2013)

Tom Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding cataract surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6945/13]