Results 41-60 of 529 for speaker:Derek Keating in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — School Books: School Books (7 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider following the practice of the Department of Education in the United Kingdom by introducing a national school books service to reduce the increasing cost that burdens parents every year because of the changing curriculum and changing reading lists; if he will consider establishing a review body to report back to him...

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (13 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied with the service that is provided by the Passport Office; if he will give consideration to a feasibility study to have the passport service privatised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19974/11]

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (13 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is any alternative to the practice whereby passport applicants have to queue in the rain or cold for hours to complete their application for a passport; if he will examine this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19975/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (19 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 61: To ask the Taoiseach the cost to him of the hiring of public relations companies and external advisors by the previous Governments between the years 1998 and 2011 in tabular form; the persons that initiated these contracts; if they were given out to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21411/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants she has received for carer's allowance on a monthly basis for the past six months; the waiting time from application to the awarding of the allowance; if she is satisfied with the time that it is taking for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21395/11]

Written Answers — Telephone Hacking: Telephone Hacking (20 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the security arrangements in place for Government Ministers, senior officials in the civil and public sector, the security forces and Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to prevent any occurrence of telephone hacking; if he will reassure the general public and particularly vulnerable citizens in relation...

Written Answers — Telephone Hacking: Telephone Hacking (20 Jul 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of the practice of one British newspaper in hacking telephones of victims of crime or their families, there are any current investigations or complaints, or if his attention has been drawn to any hacking of telephones here; his views regarding same; his further views on the need for legislation to...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (14 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 600: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to legislate for the regulation and management of standards of undertakers nationally; if he has control over the cost of funerals, the cost of graves and the cost of cremation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23964/11]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (14 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 847: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 22 June 2011 and his reply on 30 June 2011, if he will provide this Deputy with the salaries of all chief executive officers and deputy CEOs of the five Dublin academic teaching hospitals, the salaries of CEOs of voluntary hospitals, the salaries of the CEOs of the three hospices in the State in tabular...

Written Answers — Charitable Organisations: Charitable Organisations (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the requirement to register as a charity; the checks and balances in place to ensure that no fraud takes place by charities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24615/11]

Written Answers — Judicial Staff: Judicial Staff (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Judges who have been appointed to regions of more than 20 kilometres from their homes; the cost of their travel, subsistence, their allowances and expenses in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24436/11]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 4 million tyres are used every year here and the producer responsibility initiative for end of life tyres is a voluntary code and that those who are disposing of tyres are not registered and not regulated; his views on the need for legislation to address this...

Written Answers — Charity Regulation: Charity Regulation (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements that are currently in place to ensure the bona fides of charity trustees and employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24610/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 497: To ask the Minister for Health the bonuses awarded to senior management and middle management in the Health Service Executive from 2007 to 2011 in tabular form. [24764/11]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (20 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 524: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take by ministerial regulation or legislation to address the growing practice of the sale of part worn tyres which may contribute to serious deficiencies in transport standards and may even contribute to road traffic accidents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25038/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (22 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name and number of external reports that were commissioned by his Department from 1997 to 2000 in tabular form; the cost of each one of these external reports; if these external reports were given out to tender; the name of the person or company who was commissioned for these external reports; his views of the benefits that these...

Written Answers — Independent Commissions: Independent Commissions (27 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 84: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to commemorate the centenary of 1916 and will he consider appointing an independent commission to consider a new national anthem and review national emblems such as those worn by the gardaí, the Defence Forces, the Fire Service, the Civil Defence and our offices of State. [26412/11]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 483: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider accepting registered social care workers to assist and support professionally qualified social workers in dealing with family support, child bereavement and other circumstances such as school attendance and minor behavioural problems; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this is the practice in...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 484: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child protection social workers employed by the Health Service Executive to cover Clondalkin, Rathcoole, Newcastle, Saggart, Palmerstown and Lucan; if she is satisfied that there are adequate numbers to deal with these presenting with disclosures of abuse and wilful neglect; if she will confirm that the Health...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 Sep 2011)

Derek Keating: Question 567: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent disclosure of contracts entered into by the previous Government with hospital consultants related to one year's paid leave in lieu of time worked, if he will outline the cost of such contracts to the State; the date on which they were agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26228/11]