Results 5,961-5,980 of 6,629 for speaker:Seán Kyne

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 350. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made on introducing the legislation which will underpin the new housing assistance payment which will provide certainty to persons with longer term housing need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 351. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure that both social housing tenants and persons in receipt of rent supplement have access to an independent and impartial process to report and resolve problems including the standard of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 352. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to regulate housing associations and co-operatives. [29287/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 397. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the efforts he has made to increase the use of non-judicial alternatives, such as mediation, for resolving disputes and settling issues. [29285/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategies (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress of the preparation of the national early years strategy; and if she could provide an indicative time frame for publication of same. [29283/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the latest figures available indicating the uptake of the free preschool year; and the way the quality of services provided under this scheme is measured. [29284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if Addison's disease will be added to the list of illnesses on the long term illness scheme in view of the increase in the cost of essential medication to treat this life-long illness. [29282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive currently operates a sleep seizure observation facility at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, or at any other hospital here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29288/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be afforded to extending the remit of registered nurse prescribers, who have previously been permitted to prescribe medication for nursing home/residential care centres, so as to enable such professionals to write prescriptions for medical card holders in the same facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29292/13]

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: The Deputy is a member of a privileged elite.

Access to the Countryside Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: I compliment Deputy Robert Dowds on his well drafted and constructed Bill. I am sorry I did not get an opportunity to meet with him in advance of the debate to discuss his proposals. I understand he consulted with the Irish Farmers Associations among others. However, several landowners in my own area in Connemara have contacted me to express their concerns about what might be proposed in...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the context of the recent LEADER programme funding allocations, his attention has been drawn to the disparity of the new allocation of moneys to Comhar na nOileain Teoranta for Connemara and all Gaeltacht regions from the original allocation to Meitheal Forbatha na Gaeltachta Teoranta; and the steps that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (12 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 64. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Gaeltacht areas will be prioritised in the review of LEADER funding in August to take account of the inability of LEADER applications to be processed for communities located in Gaeltacht areas during the time consumed in winding up MFG and appointing a new administrative body. [28080/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the upcoming and welcome accession of Croatia to the European Union, the steps his Department, both in the context of the Irish EU Presidency and otherwise, is taking to ensure that EU policy is focused on the acceleration of the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the union in view of the fact that this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the rationale underpinning the different treatment, by Revenue, of married couples and co-habitating couples, in particular for purposes of sharing tax credits, and the way this policy is divergent from that operated by the Department of Social Protection's Social Welfare Services and its array of support schemes. [28094/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 477. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the growth of the east side of Galway City, if a permanent citizen information centre will be opened on that side of the city or in the nearby town of Oranmore. [28093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Air Services Provision (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 499. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has commissioned an independent socio-economic analysis of the value of the Aran Islands air service and if not if he will be doing so. [28091/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety Standards Regulation (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the concerns of some citizens that the European Commission proposals for a regulation on the production and making available on the market of plant reproductive material law will have negative consequences for biodiversity and contains the potential to be used by multinational companies as a means of gaining...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 873. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the full value of the community childcare subvention programme is not available for citizens participating in theJjobBridge scheme in view of the fact that her policy generally focuses constrained resources on assisting those citizens actively attempting to re-join the paid workforce. [28095/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Research Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Seán Kyne: 1057. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that funding amount provided towards the development of non-animal alternative bioscience research methods, knowns as the 3 Rs, replacement, reduction and refinement - in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 and if he could confirm the proportion allocated to each method [28096/13]