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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (20 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to review the decision that no maintenance grant is paid to new postgraduate students. [9004/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cross-Border Co-operation (20 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has met with his Northern or UK counterpart this year; if the matter of the proposed establishment of the British National Crime Agency was discussed; the outcome of this discussion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9187/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the progress made to date with the Luas cross line project; the stage the project is at; the amount that has been spent to date on same; and the current estimated date of completion. [8582/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which Lough Foyle was first designated as coastal waters for the purposes of the EC Urban Waste Water Directive and the guidelines that were used at the time. [8309/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the identification of the outer limits of estuaries here was subject of a report by the Environmental Protection Agency to his Department of in 1995 when UK guidelines were accepted in defining Lough Foyle as coastal waters; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if Lough Foyle is not reclassified as estuarine waters it will be subsumed into the Water Framework Directive in May of this year; the measures he will take to ensure this does not happen; the measures he will take to ensure that this reclassification happens in a timely manner...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if during discussions between the Irish and British Governments regarding the question of jurisdiction over the Foyle and Carlingford estuaries, if the rules of environmental protection are being built into any proposed agreement; if any proposed agreement will protect against the use of estuaries for polluting discharges....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the Ramsar designation for the entirety of Lough Foyle based on the Ramsar Convention would be beneficial for the Lough and its surrounding communities; his plans to ensure this designation is awarded to Lough Foyle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8313/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail where the cuts in disability funding outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 will apply; the way that this will affect staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7464/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (14 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Expert Group set up to monitor the implementation of A Vision for Change has been disbanded; which of its sixth and final report recommendations, if any, have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Resources (14 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently leasing Lough Foyle for the purposes of aquaculture activities from the Crown Estates Commission; the duration of the lease as well as the general terms and provisions of the lease; the amount of hectarage that it is currently leasing from the Crown Estates Commission in respect of aquaculture; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will need to deliberate more on the implications after we receive the response from Galway County Council. We may take the option of referring it to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to examine its implications. Is that agreed? Agreed. The next petition is P00030/12 from Mr. Des Keane on the cases of those convicted of capital murder whose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We can certainly correspond with the Minister outlining our concern about the delays in the Supreme Court system, which are outlined by the petition. The final petition, P00005/13, from Ms Joanne Doran on the provision of a new treatment for cystic fibrosis has been withdrawn because the Minister for Health has announced it will be resolved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We have a proposal. Is it agreed that we will correspond with the petitioner and outline that while, unfortunately, it is not our function to have any role in the planning that has already been granted, there are a number of policy issues and we will correspond with Galway County Council on the issues that have been raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a policy issue in the adequacy of consultation on controversial large-scale developments, be they wind farms, telephone masts or whatever. Clearly, it is not acceptable that any community would not be consulted and have the ability to appeal. When we get the response from Galway County Council we can develop the discussion in the committee around the policy implications of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a good recommendation from the clerk to the committee that we may also refer this to the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to examine in terms of possibly making recommendations. When we get correspondence back from the county council, we will develop that anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The first petition for consideration is P00026/12 from Mr. Michael Bowes, Fernhill Golf Club, on the failure of the National Roads Authority to inform interested parties of its intention in respect of the N28 road. I will open it up to the floor for any proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is that agreed? Agreed. The next petition is P00055/12 from Ms Evelyn Flynn, Irish Cob Society, regarding the revocation of ICS approvals by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine on 30 November 2012 to maintain the Irish cob studbooks and to issue equine identification passports. I suggest we write back to the petitioner advising that because it is not apparent that ICS has...

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As the Taoiseach is aware, a referendum will be required in respect of regulations at European level relating to patent protection. When that referendum takes place, will the Government, as promised in its programme, also hold a referendum on upward-only rents?

Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a very fair question.