Results 21-40 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (3 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 385: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when funding will be released from the environment fund to allow for applications to the Local Agenda 21 Environmental Partnership Fund for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9122/11]

Order of Business (4 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Like many Deputies, I am meeting increasing numbers of families suffering problems with debt. The programme for Government promises legislation to transfer the Money Advice and Budgeting Service into a personal debt management agency with strong legal powers. When will legislation come before the House to enable that to happen?

Local Authority Housing (10 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: I thank Deputy Lynch for sharing time. The key issue in this debate is one of fairness. Many people in my community believe they are being discriminated against because, having been born and grown up in a local authority flat, they are denied the privilege of purchasing their home. In 1988, when the offer of tenant purchase was rolled out across Dublin, many local authority tenants in my...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (10 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to criminalise the purchase of sexual acts; his further plans to criminalise the acts of pimping, procuring and trafficking of persons for sexual exploitation; the stage of advancement of these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10492/11]

Written Answers — Public Safety Regulations: Public Safety Regulations (11 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if he will reconsider the refusal of Waterways Ireland to install railings around the quayside in Grand Canal Dock Harbour, Dublin, after a number of recent fatalities and accidents in view of the increasing number of persons, especially young families with children, living in the area; and if he will make a statement on the...

Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (Resumed) (12 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: I join the previous speaker in welcoming the jobs initiative which was introduced only nine weeks into the life of the Government. While it is a modest proposal and first step, it is also a statement of intent by the Government that despite the economic troubles, our focus is on getting the country back to work. I welcome Deputy Brendan Smith's positive approach to the initiative, especially...

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (17 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if Chambers Ireland has completed repayments for outstanding sums owed in relation to three programmes, namely Dawn, Prism III and the Competency Development Programme; the amounts, if any, of sums that have been written off; if Chambers Ireland has received any funding since September 2010; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the free travel scheme for persons aged 66 years and over will be restricted on new private bus routes; if the free travel scheme will apply to a new service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11299/11]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (17 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 557: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct Dublin Port Company to release the results of the noise pollution study carried out at the MTL site on the Poolbeg peninsula; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11727/11]

Written Answers — Programme for National Recovery: Programme for National Recovery (18 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will bring forward proposals on social impact bonds as included in the programme for Government and if those bonds will be administered by his Department or the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12003/11]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to take submissions on the review of the universal social charge included in the programme for Government; if the process of review will be advertised to members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; when he expects the review process to open and conclude; when the findings of the review will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — University Debt: University Debt (18 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he keeps a record of the debt burden of universities in Ireland; if those debts count towards the total sum of national debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12006/11]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (19 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Today Ireland has lost a great patriot. I was deeply saddened this morning when I heard on "Morning Ireland" that the former Taoiseach, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, had passed away. I extend my sympathy and that of Deputy Eoghan Murphy, who is away on Government business today, to his family and friends. Like many of the previous speakers, we practised our trade in the shadow of a great...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he intends to set out a policy endorsing a framework for management of haemochromatosis in the health services; if he will consider an awareness and education campaign or at least a circular to general practitioners to raise awareness of this condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12221/11]

Order of Business (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: I refer to future legislation, the comments of the Taoiseach to Deputy Ross on the Irish Nationwide Building Society and the enrichment of its senior management in the amount of more than €1 million which went into a pension scheme and was to be returned to the building society but which never happened. Is there proposed legislation to force this money to be returned to the taxpayer?

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an organisation (details supplied) has completed repayments for outstanding sums owed in relation to two programmes; the amounts, if any, of sums that have been written off; if the organisation has received any funding since September 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12544/11]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of financial surplus the Office of the Taxi Regulator had at the end of the last fiscal year in view of media reports of a surplus of €20 million in October 2010; the use to which this surplus was put when the Office of the Taxi Regulator was dissolved on 1 January 2010 and was subsumed into the National...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to ask the taxi regulation directorate of the National Transport Authority to introduce a moratorium on the issuing of new taxi licences in view of the oversupply of licences in the market preventing full time taxi drivers from making a sustainable living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12505/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when any of the investigations into the Luas and Dublin Bus crash that occurred on 16 September 2009 will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12506/11]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (24 May 2011)

Kevin Humphreys: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following the creation of the taxi regulation directorate in the National Transport Authority following the dissolution of the Commission for Taxi Regulation on the 1 January 2011, the duties of the Taxi Regulator now that the board of the National Transport Authority decides the key taxi regulation decisions; if all the...