Results 7,941-7,960 of 8,652 for speaker:Seán Crowe

Pension Provisions. (20 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Does the Minister believe this new scheme will be more effective? Is he aware of the difficulties within the construction industry with regard to employers who force workers to describe themselves as self-employed when the reality is quite different? BATU has been involved in efforts to eliminate this practice because it believes scams are being perpetrated within the industry. However, the...

Anti-Poverty Strategy. (20 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the envisaged timescale for the State to significantly reduce or completely eradicate consistent and relative poverty. [23222/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there is a delay in the processing of the rent allowance application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [22923/06]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who are awaiting a decision on claims they have made for disability allowance. [22928/06]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the actions of the national drugs strategy which have not been delivered; and the aspects which need improvement. [23017/06]

National Drugs Strategy. (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Is part of the problem that there was no representative on the working group from the health sector, the Department or the HSE? Is the Minister of State aware of this fact? This may be one of the difficulties that is delaying the implementation of the recommendations.

National Drugs Strategy. (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, in view of his responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy 2001 to 2008, under which a series of 100 individual actions have been identified and that his Department is responsible for preparing six-monthly progress reports on the strategy for the Cabinet Committee on Social...

National Drugs Strategy. (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: I asked about the areas where there was least progress and the Minister outlined six actions that were required. I accept more work must be done in the needle exchange area. Recently I was approached by a family in Cork whose son was in the local hospital. There was no room in the psychiatric unit so he ended up in the geriatric unit. The family informed me that their son must go to Dublin...

National Drugs Strategy. (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Buckingham Street.

Written Answers — Vacant Dwellings: Vacant Dwellings (13 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average number of vacant dwellings in the State in each of the past ten years. [22476/06]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the extent to which local authorities are meeting the needs of their tenants in respect of necessary repairs to the social housing stock. [22477/06]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (13 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Transport the meetings he has facilitated through his Department regarding the roll-out of broadband, particularly in relation to ducting infrastructure for broadband being installed on all future road and rail projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22704/06]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (13 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of people involved in motor accidents over the past five years, per year, per county and who were driving on provisional licences. [22707/06]

Written Answers — Constitutional Challenges: Constitutional Challenges (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he was first made aware of a High Court constitutional challenge to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1935; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22198/06]

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the fact that a patient (details supplied) in Dublin 15 waiting for a kidney and pancreas transplant for nearly four years cannot receive a transplant should an organ become available due to there being only one pancreatic transplant surgeon in this State who is unavailable. [22262/06]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the demand from an association (details supplied) to introduce resident only parking regarding match days in Croke Park; and if so, the envisaged timescale for such legislation allowing for this to be introduced. [22013/06]

Written Answers — Community Policing Fora: Community Policing Fora (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which the Cabra Policing Forum will be affected by new proposed legislation regarding policing arrangements with local communities. [22042/06]

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if parents have the right to choose for their children to be taught through the medium of Irish in schools here; and, if so, if she will formally recognise a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow in order to ensure that the 80 plus children there are not denied the chance to be educated through the State's first language. [22032/06]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (8 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the fact that the completed application and ready to go tender has been with the Primary Building Section of her Department since Spring 2002. [22064/06]

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (7 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to bring forward the completion date of the western rail corridor; if he has had meetings in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21905/06]