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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Defence if he or his officials met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or his officials met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3613/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she or her officials met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3615/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3622/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (24 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his officials met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the last six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3627/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the designation of commercially sensitive information is arrived at; if his Department has specific guidelines in place for the designation of information as commercially sensitive; his plans to reform this area in future legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2838/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider making the contracts for public private partnerships publicly available to enhance accountability; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the designation of contracts such as these as commercially sensitive hinders the ability of elected representatives to hold public authorities to account and ensure value...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Revenue (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the Exchequer cash balance at the end of December 2012; the source of these funds, specifically the quantum raised by the National Treasury Management Agency and the amount drawn from the Troika assuming that all tax revenues service spending, and that the cash balance is provided from borrowings, and if he is concerned at the very high costs...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Revenue (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered delaying the draw down of funds from the IMF and EU funds and bilateral loans, which are being held as cash balances, until the moneys are actually required to reduce the costs of maintaining such a large Exchequer cash balance, recognising the need to raise market funds through the National Treasury Management Agency when conditions are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Revenue (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on recent media reports that the estimated cost of maintaining an Exchequer cash balance in excess of €20 billion results in a cost of approximately €35 million per billion euro on deposit, and that the State could find better uses for the annual sum that would be in excess of €700 million that is wasted due to this policy; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Greek Government Bonds (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland has agreed to the arrangement whereby ECB profits on the holdings of Greek bonds under the Securities Market Programme that have been received by national central banks will be returned to the Greek Central Bank; if he will outline the process by which this will take place; the profits the Central Bank of Ireland received from this in 2012 and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 23 October 2012, if he will indicate if there are grants available to DEIS schools to purchase scientific equipment for fitted school laboratories; if he will also explain the way a school that has had three labs renovated and fitted is meant to teach scientific subjects if is not provided with grant aid...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the discussions entered into by the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works with the Irish Insurance Federation in relation to securing flood insurance coverage for areas subject to OPW and local authority flood protection works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3218/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sums spent by the Office of Public Works up to the end of 2012 on flood protection works in the Dodder River and the work that has been completed thus far; his plans for future works; the estimated cost of future works and the sums committed to these works in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3219/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (23 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received the submission from Dublin City Council on the Rathmines and Pembroke sewerage scheme; if the Swan River, Dublin, forms a part of that report; the funding that will be provided or an assessment of needs or hydraulic study on the culverted Swan River, which has caused multiple local floods in recent years;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the rental of prefabs is centralised or devolved to an individual school or vocational educational committee; if he has examined the potential of making savings in the budget for renting or purchasing prefabs by centralising the process with a tender process or by other means; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2538/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills since February 2011 the number of prefabs that have been replaced with permanent classrooms; the savings that have been made in the prefab budget through the construction of new classrooms in that time; the number of prefabs that he expect to replace with new classrooms in 2013; the budget committed for same; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Staff (22 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 173. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the current budget and total number of approved staff positions including contract staff, consultants or interns, of the Law Reform Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2363/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Staff (22 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 174. To ask the Taoiseach the current budget allocated to the legislation directory and the number of approved staff positions including contract staff, consultants or interns, that are allocated to work in relation to the legislation directory in the Law Reform Commission; if he will provide details of the number at each grade and the remuneration at each grade and details of any...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Sector Staff (22 Jan 2013)

Kevin Humphreys: 175. To ask the Taoiseach the current budget allocated to restatement of Statutes and production of revised Acts and the number of approved staff positions including contract staff, consultants or interns, that are allocated to work in connection with restatement of Statutes or revised Acts in the Law Reform Commission; if he will provide details of the number at each grade and the...