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Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (9 Dec 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the installation of domestic water meters; the timescale for installation of meters; if the contract or contracts have been awarded or when same will be advertised; the way plumbers indicate or register their interest in being involved; if the Department is involved in training courses...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (25 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if any provision has been made this year for outpatient appointments; if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 with an ongoing condition, who has been told that they will have to wait one year before they can see a consultant, can access this scheme with a view to getting...

Written Answers — Prescription Charges: Prescription Charges (25 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the 50 cent charge on all prescription items for medical card holders; the position regarding the €10 monthly limit per household on this charge; the position when a household's total prescription charges exceed this limit; if the €10 limit is a cut-off point, beyond which the family are no longer charged,...

Written Answers — Civil Partnership: Civil Partnership (24 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding the Civil Partnerships Act; if all sections have been implemented to date or the sections that have been implemented to date; the further position regarding inheritance of the home owned or occupied by both partners; if persons can now complete the legalities for such properties or if this provision has to be...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on the development of community-based mental health services as envisioned in the A Vision for Change policy of 2006; the number of patients that have been moved from institutional care settings to the type of community based accommodation proposed in this report; if the progress in implementing this...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the withdrawal of the Swords ambulance as notified by Dublin City Council management and in view of the fact that the withdrawal is founded in an inter-agency dispute with the Health Service Executive refusing to pay for same, if she will arrange to sort matters out with the various agencies under their remit....

Written Answers — Cash for Gold Schemes: Cash for Gold Schemes (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views on the recent proliferation of cash for gold shops; if persons selling gold to these shops need to provide personal identification or receipts for the item they are selling, and if these shops are required to keep records of same; if the proprietors of these outlets require any kind of licence or permit to operate; his...

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the average waiting time for local authority tenants who are due to get a home extension on medical grounds; the criteria used in deciding which applicants are prioritised on these lists; if such extensions are funded from housing capital grants for the relevant year; if his Department...

Written Answers — Retail Sector Developments: Retail Sector Developments (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the context of the recent proliferation of cash-for-gold shops, if planning approval or change of use permission is required for such premises. [43441/10]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding arrangements with financial institutions in his Department's various housing schemes; the financial institutions that currently provide mortgages for affordable homes and the arrangement with first and second claim; the arrangement with the low-cost sites scheme; if it differs from the...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (18 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the situation regarding the third postal directive; the way this matter is being dealt with; if it is being dealt with by primary legislation or statutory instrument; if he anticipates job losses in An Post following the liberalisation of the postal market and if they envisage the need to...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the provision of MRI scans and if they are provided free as part of the general medical services to inpatients and outpatients; the number of MRI scans that took place in the past year or any recent year for which data is available; if she will provide details of the waiting list for MRI scans in each of the...

Written Answers — Towing Services: Towing Services (16 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding contracts entered into by the gardaí with towing operators with or without car park compounds; if draft guidance documents are provided by his Department to assist with such contracts; his views on cases where persons co-operated with gardaí and allowed their cars to be taken away for forensic examination...

Written Answers — Assisted Human Reproduction: Assisted Human Reproduction (11 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update on proposed legislation regarding protection of human embryos; if heads of this legislation have been released; if a target date for publishing of this legislation can be outlined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42202/10]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the situation regarding delays to medical card appeal cases in the Health Service Executive; the length of time an appeal process should take; if she will seek a report on the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42205/10]

Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (11 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will clarify the position regarding the practice by supermarkets of selling alcohol at exceptionally low price levels; if below cost selling is allowed; if there is any policy or enquiries into same; if the relevant price is the invoiced price or if transportation, warehousing, profit and so on are considered to judge the...

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the situation regarding insulation of houses being sponsored and grant aided by Sustainable Energy Ireland; if planning approval is required in exterior insulation schemes; if so, the reason SEI do not inform persons of same, the reason they do not ask if planning approval has been granted before awarding...

Written Answers — Energy Conservation: Energy Conservation (11 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the situation regarding insulation of houses being sponsored and grant aided by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland; if planning approval is required in exterior insulation schemes; if so, the reason the SEAI does not inform persons of same, the reason it does not ask if planning...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans for a new school (details supplied); the stage the development plans are at and when contract approval can expect to be given. [42008/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (10 Nov 2010)

Noel Ahern: Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if there is a problem with approvals for building projects for a school (details supplied); her views on the assertion that no approvals have been given for over 12 months to projects in this category; if she will list approvals given in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42009/10]