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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (28 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 14 February 2013, of those persons currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance that have not, to date, made any PRSI contributions, the number broken down by administrative division and by age group, are claiming an increase for a qualified adult and an increase for a qualified child or children; the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (28 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the job activation procedures being implemented by her Department in terms of those on jobseeker’s allowance and if she will identify each step of that process; the number of persons that have been invited to engage with that procedure up to the year ending April 2013; the number that have actively engaged to...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (16 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 191. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process used to determine which areas of raised bogs were to be designated as special areas of conservation under the Habitats Directive; the total area of raised bogs owned by the State or by semi-State companies that were surveyed; the total area of such bogs that were designated under the directive; the total area of raised...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Designation (16 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of notifications of site designations under the Habitats Directive that were issued; the number of landowners that received individual notice of such designation; the policy and procedure for the sending of such notification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23444/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Applications (14 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons, broken down by administrative division and by age group, currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance that have not, to date, made any PRSI contribution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22199/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Narcolepsy Incidence (9 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I would like to make a number of brief points. The Minister of State referred in her response to the provision of temporary medical cards. This is not a temporary situation.

Topical Issue Debate: Narcolepsy Incidence (9 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: This is a profound medical challenge for many families who have a number of grave concerns that need to be responded to by the State. The Mater clinic to which the Minister of State referred is a private clinic.

Topical Issue Debate: Narcolepsy Incidence (9 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: There is a cost for that service. There is no public sleep clinic in the country. In terms of access to service for people, this in itself is a barrier to those affected securing the best possible outcomes. I am delighted that the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, is in the House today. There is a requirement to also consider the recognition of narcolepsy as a disability in that many of...

Topical Issue Debate: Narcolepsy Incidence (9 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I thank the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for the selection of this topic. On 19 April, a report entitled "Investigation of an increase in the incidence of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in 2009 and 2010" was prepared by the Department. The report was supported by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre and was published by the chief medical officer, Dr. Tony Houlihan, on behalf...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with Lidl Ireland (9 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I do not wish to repeat what has been said. I thank the witnesses for their positive presentation. Like previous speakers, I am also a customer. The model presented from the perspective of the consumer is a low-cost model. One can only assume that has an implication at the other end from the supplier-producer point of view. As Deputy Barry said, there is a sense that there is a race to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals (7 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect to receive a response regarding an appeal submitted under the agri environment options scheme. [21138/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (30 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the veracity of reports in the media that the European Central Bank has issued an instruction or request to his Department directing that no details regarding the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation be released under any freedom of information request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19785/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Freedom of Information Requests (30 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department in connection with the liquidation of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; the number that have been received and the number that have been refused, in whole or in part; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19786/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a financial breakdown of the current budgetary performance of every hospital providing acute services within the Health Service Executive with details of the expected target of each acute hospital and the projected outturn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18493/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 609. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitments in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 to a number of objectives including the further developments of forensics and community mental health teams for adults, children, older persons and mental health intellectual disability and to the recruitment of 477 additional staff to implement these measures, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 610. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the impact that the delay in hiring key health specialist professionals can have on the welfare of vulnerable persons including many children and the need to provide communities with reassurance that the needs of such persons will be addressed, if he will provide specific details regarding the date on which the recruitment of 13 occupational...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a financial breakdown of the current budgetary performance of every hospital providing acute services within the Health Service Executive with details of the expected target of each acute hospital and the projected outturn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18493/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 609. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitments in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 to a number of objectives including the further developments of forensics and community mental health teams for adults, children, older persons and mental health intellectual disability and to the recruitment of 477 additional staff to implement these measures, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (23 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 610. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the impact that the delay in hiring key health specialist professionals can have on the welfare of vulnerable persons including many children and the need to provide communities with reassurance that the needs of such persons will be addressed, if he will provide specific details regarding the date on which the recruitment of 13 occupational...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (17 Apr 2013)

Colm Keaveney: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current arrangement by which full time community childcare facilities are in the main exempt from rates while private providers are not, which places private providers at an unfair disadvantage and endangers the employment that they provide; if he will consider, as a means by which...