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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 503: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the management of Galway University Hospitals; his plans to appoint a private management company to manage these hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32045/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (2 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 568: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if terms of employment for air traffic controllers employed at Galway Airport will be transferred to the Irish Aviation Authority traffic controller section in order to protect these jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32046/11]

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (15 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the Dog Breeding Establishment Bill, which was passed by Dáil Éireann in July 2010, will be signed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34632/11]

Written Answers — Harbours and Piers: Harbours and Piers (22 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total cost of construction of the new pier on Inis Mór; the financial contribution from Galway County Council towards the overall cost; his Department's financial contribution towards the cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35613/11]

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (29 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the opening hours for the airport on Inis Mór are different from the opening hours of the airports on Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr; the reason the airport on Inis Mór is closed for two hours during the day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37280/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (29 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Health the reason two staff nurses (details supplied) in the Health Service Executive west were refused permission to take a career break when other staff in the HSE west and HSE south were granted permission to do the same recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37281/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Nov 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists and or therapists available to provide services in the Health Service Executive west to in-patients and outpatients in Ballinasloe and Galway; the number of sessions that can be provided on a daily basis for BPD; if written therapeutic treatment plans will be provided for patients with complex mental disorders who...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Dec 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on community welfare officers not paying rent supplement direct to compliant landlords in situations where tenants have lost cases of rent arrears by determination orders from the Private Residential Tenancies Board; her views that continued payment to claimants in such cases can contribute to fraud, notwithstanding that the...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Dec 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake a review of the legislation regarding the payment of rent supplement to tenants; if she will acknowledge that there are three parties involved, tenant, social services and landlord, and that evidence of non-payment by the tenant to a compliant landlord should be considered as fraud; if she will acknowledge the role...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Dec 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a specific form to be completed by a tenant requesting that rent supplement be paid direct to a compliant landlord, or another third party; if the request has to be made and signed in the presence of the community welfare officer; if a signed letter from a tenant, given to a landlord, is acceptable; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (6 Dec 2011)

Noel Grealish: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances in which a tenant can request payment of rent supplement to a compliant landlord; her views that it is best practise for tenants to agree to this in their own interests and to help combat fraud; her views that the provision for direct payment to landlords and others, repeated in many circulars to community welfare...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (11 Jan 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 269: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the value a contract must be before the contract has to go to public tender; the value contracts, particularly small civil engineering works contracts, that can be awarded by local authorities without going to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1132/12]

Written Answers — Animal Diseases: Animal Diseases (11 Jan 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 707: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding brucellosis in Northern Ireland; if it is nearly cleared; the number of herds that are restricted; the precautions being taken to ensure that it does not spread into the Republic of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41179/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (8 Feb 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the new rent supplement rates are in accordance with the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 which clearly defines the term market rent; if the new rates are a form of rent control; if she will explain the rationale in using too large a geographical area which may distort the market; if she is satisfied that the new rates are not...

Written Answers — Food Safety: Food Safety (8 Feb 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the obligation he has, with reference to the farm-to-fork traceability requirements, regarding the movement of animals within the State without passports; the consequence of such movement of animals without proper documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7113/12]

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (21 Feb 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the non-principal private residence charge cannot be added to the list of allowable items specified in section 97 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 by an amendment in the Finance Bill currently before Dáil Éireann, in view of the fact that the NPPR was not in existence when the Act was passed; the reason he believes the charge is...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (21 Feb 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 8 February 2012, if it is credible for rent supplement not to be considered a competition issue given that it effectively benchmarks rental rates for private rented accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9752/12]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (1 Mar 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the public service obligation contracts which were awarded to Bus Éireann for five years in 2009 without going to public tender, will go out to public tender when they come up for renewal in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11921/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (13 Mar 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 391: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if all moneys collected through the household charge will be ringfenced for use in the local authority area in which it is collected; the amount that has been collected in each local authority area; when the amount raised is likely to be redistributed; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (21 Mar 2012)

Noel Grealish: Question 395: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households in each local authority area that have paid the household charge as of the 14 March 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15699/12]