Written answers

Tuesday, 4 May 2004

  • Department of Transport
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport the supervision role of his Department in the Luas project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10995/04]
    • National Car Test
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to review the pass and fail criteria of the NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10984/04]
    • Road Safety
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport when the fifth progress report on the road to safety will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11019/04]
    • Rail Network
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the need to reopen the Cork-Midleton rail link; if further progress has been made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Penalty Points System
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to review the penalty points system. [11011/04]
    • Regional Airports
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement on the future of the regional airports with specific reference to State subvention. [12535/04]
    • Rail Network
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to progress the western rail corridor in view of the strategic rail review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11010/04]
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport the predicted annual passenger numbers of each of the Sandyford and Tallaght Luas lines; and the predicted annual passenger numbers for the initial...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to address the driving test backlog; when he plans to introduce legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10987/04]
    • Traffic Corps
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has held talks recently with representatives from the Department of the Taoiseach and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on...
    • Infrastructural Projects
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Transport the financial mechanisms in place to review infrastructural projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10998/04]
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a report from the Luas project team on the safety of the Luas lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11046/04]
    • State Airports
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent contacts with SIPTU regarding strike action at the airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/04]
    • Drink Driving Convictions
      Question 62: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of legal challenges to drink driving convictions which are under way following the successful case of seven drivers who had convictions...
    • Bus Stops
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself with the procedure for the location of bus stops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11024/04]
    • Speed Limits
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in regard to motorists who received endorsements, penalty points and fines for speeding in urban areas in south Dublin in which new...
    • Driving Licences
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he is taking to put procedures in place for lost driving licences when there is no record of a licence having been issued; and if he will...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Transport if motorbikes will be allowed to use bus lanes by amending regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11044/04]
    • Driving Tests
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to reform the driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11007/04]
    • Rail Network
      Question 72: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the Phoenix Park tunnel; if he has had discussions with Irish Rail on the issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of road deaths that have occurred here in 2004 up to the latest date for which figures are available; the way in which these contrast to...
    • Pensions Provisions
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport the alternative legislative arrangements he will put in place to safeguard the present and future entitlements of CIE pensioners of all grades,...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport if he intends to bring forward integrated ticketing and smartcard technologies; if money has been allocated for this purpose in his Department's...
    • Property Disposal
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Transport if he intends requesting CIE to sell off some of its property, estimated at €500 million, to reduce its debt; if such a request is a precursor to...
    • Road Safety
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on recent comments by the chairman of the Road Safety Council that the absence of a central budget for road safety is responsible for...
    • Transport Service Regulation
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has plans to permit private bus operators to pick up passengers on existing CIE routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12506/04]
    • Rail Network
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on Iarnród Éireann proposals for a new integrated greater Dublin commuter rail system, involving the construction of two new DART lines;...
    • Dublin Port Tunnel
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Transport the position with regard to the building of the Dublin Port tunnel; the reasons he asked contractors building the tunnel to give him a legally...
    • Public Transport
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects negotiations with the public sector transport unions on the opening up of the Dublin and intercity bus markets to conclude; and if...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the President of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors calling for a tougher...
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce new rural transport initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11017/04]
    • Road Safety
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the new campaign to reduce road deaths throughout Europe launched recently in Dublin; the road safety goals and measures articulated in...
    • Transport Service Regulation
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for bus deregulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10999/04]
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the Luas project, including the Red Cow interchange; the extent to which cost overruns are expected; and if he will make a...
    • Public Transport
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects to announce the full details of the capital investment programme for public transport; if projects such as the rail interconnector...
    • Rail Services
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from a UK-based health and safety consultant (details supplied) that overcrowding on commuter...
    • Airport Development Projects
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Transport the analysis his Department is undertaking of the long-term strategic development of airports here; if his Department is considering the proposed...
    • Rail Services
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to introduce public service contracts into the rail service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11021/04]
    • Railway Stations
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the Spencer Dock; if he has had discussions with Irish Rail on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Transport the role his Department has in the possible extension of the Sandyford Luas line to Cherrywood; when he expects this project to be approved; the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Transport the policy changes he intends to introduce to ensure that a change to more sedentary transport modes is reversed in view of the concerns expressed...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to ban HGVs from Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10996/04]
    • State Airports
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has investigated the experience of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority whose executives have expressed the view that the privatised...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 134: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase or leasehold; and if he...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Transport of Dangerous Goods
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland will sign up as a contracting party to the ADR agreement; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions she has taken to protect workers against the effects of radon gas; and if she will make a...
    • Local Employment Service
      Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if FÁS has undertaken an assessment of the labour market needs of the Clare region in the context of the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a person (details supplied) received such a small amount of redundancy payment after 30 years of...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will reduce the severity of the three-year rule for participation in community employment schemes; if...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property...
    • Work Permits
      Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a work permit was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
  • Department of Defence
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase or leasehold;...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the 50% rule agreed at EU level which entitles a farmer to retain 100% of his decoupled payment with 50% of the landholding will be...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will rescind the decision made on the REP scheme appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the reason for the delay in issuing same; and if he will...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the early farm retirement application will be processed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will make a statement on the $1.8 billion claim for compensation against the EU lodged by the US with the WTO over alleged losses...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the great IT skills of the staff at the Department of Social and Family Affairs; his views of whether his...
    • Tax Code
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance when the refund of income tax due to a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be paid. [12573/04]
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the dormant accounts that were opened in the names of persons living outside the State; the total amount of moneys in these...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase or leasehold;...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Irish Emigrants
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the proportion of the promised €18 million which will be allocated in 2004 to assist elderly Irish emigrants in Britain; and if he will...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the purchase of a suitable site for the development of a building for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be given a personal computer for education purposes. [12477/04]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has not been given disadvantaged status in view of the fact that all other schools...
    • School Staffing
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will examine the staffing allocation for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in order that a concessionary post can be...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action he intends to take to overcome unforeseen difficulties in the application by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is expected to enrol for a place in second level school for September...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans within his Department to provide a new school for the Eureka secondary school in Kells (details supplied); the stage the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans he has to reduce the number of teaching staff at St. Joseph's School in East Wall Road, Dublin 3. [12562/04]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the €634,869.04 allocated to Scoil Mhuire gan Smál secondary school, Blarney, County Cork, in 1997 has not been paid for...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will grant increased funding to a school (details supplied) in County Waterford for the provision of a larger portacabin for the...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be given the resource teaching hours recommended by a NEPS educational...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason Scoil Íosagáin, Farranree, Cork, which was sanctioned for a new sports hall several years ago has not received the final...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will address the concerns of a person (details supplied). [12705/04]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will take steps to ensure equality of access to education, including physical accessibility of schools, for all pupils with...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of second level school places available in Lucan, County Dublin; the number of first year enrolments that took place in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason resources, which are required to assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, have not been made available; if...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide the funding required for the environmental impact study of Baltimore Harbour, so that...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of exploration wells which have been drilled in the period 1999 to 2004; and if he will provide...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the basis on which recent cuts in quota and fishing time for salmon fishermen in Kerry have been made. [12561/04]
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details...
    • Exploration Licences
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of applications for oil and gas exploration licences made between 1999 and 2004; the number which...
    • Salmon Lice
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department's attention has been drawn to reports that lice levels at a location (details supplied) in...
    • Fishing Licences
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposals his Department will introduce to purchase the licences of draft and drift fishermen; the estimated...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 186: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will take steps to ensure that an application for grants under the sports capital programme by an organisation (details...
    • Arts Council
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will use his powers under the Arts Act to direct the Arts Council to meet with the promoters of the Anna Livia Opera Festival,...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Hospital Services
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will be issued to correspondence (details supplied); the reason for the delay in replying to same; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his Department will put in place immediately a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in...
    • Children in Care
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will outline the guidelines which cover foster parents and legal guardians for children; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 can have their two hours a day home help restored after a stay in hospital; and if he will...
    • Central Mental Hospital
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the educational facilities and services that are available for a person (details supplied) detained in the Central Mental Hospital; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons demands made by the Ballinasloe advocates concerning the availability of disability services in the Ballinasloe area have not...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the regional neurosurgery unit in the west; the reason it has taken so long for a decision to be made; and if he...
    • Hospital Funding
      Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will make a statement on the fact that Tralee General Hospital was underfunded by €2.5 million in 2003 and €1.25 million in...
    • Medical Students' Entitlements
      Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will extend entitlements to external placement allowance, travel allowance and uniform allowance, all granted to student nurses to...
    • Rent Allowances
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an appeal for rent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited; if the fact that they...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase or...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the inclusion of Crohn's disease in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for hip surgery; and when this person was placed on the waiting list in...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in regard to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17, the date for a consultancy can be brought forward. [12703/04]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will report on the permanent appointment of consultant radiologists and a geriatrician at Mallow General Hospital and approval for...
    • Health Board Services
      Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to a previous parliamentary question, if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 is likely to receive orthodontic treatment; and...
    • Autism Services
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason resources, which are required to assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, have not been made available; if appropriate...
  • Department of Transport
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport if the medical criteria set out by his Department relative to the issue of parking permits for the disabled cover those with autism; if parents of...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for Transport the details regarding his decentralisation proposals for Mitchelstown, County Cork, as announced in the budget; the numbers to be decentralised to...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 210: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a driver's licence was refused to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who passed their test; if the refusal had to do with...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase or...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when an early driving test appointment can be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which he proposes to organise traffic management in the greater Dublin area for various other towns and cities throughout the...
    • Road Network
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals for crossing the M50 at the Red Cow roundabout without the disruption of existing traffic; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Development Plan
      Question 217: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in regard to his Department's projects as identified in the national development plan with particular reference to road, rail and air...
    • Rail Services
      Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has proposals to increase the daily commuter capacity at Kilcock, Maynooth, Leixlip and Confey rail stations over a specific period; and if...
    • Railway Safety Commission
      Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport when the railway safety commission will be established; if he has satisfied himself with the current arrangements; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Safety Programmes
      Question 223: To ask the Minister for Transport the cumulative total provided towards road safety programmes and research since 1998 inclusive. [12751/04]
    • State Airports
      Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in providing the business information to union representatives in Aer Rianta; and the length of time he proposes to allow...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Prison Service Staff
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 157 of 11 March 2004, and the associated letter of 30 March 2004, if he will clarify the exact...
    • Prisoners' Voting Rights
      Question 227: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that denying prisoners the right to vote was in...
    • Peace Commissioners
      Question 228: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the power, duties and responsibilities of peace commissioners; and his proposals to enhance their role. [12456/04]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 229: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 12 February 2004 if he will give a decision in the case in view of the length...
    • May Day Protests
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts the Garda Síochána has made to meet with and negotiate with those planning to protest or demonstrate over the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department can expedite a decision in relation to the application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied)...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the monitoring committee for the Donaghmede probation centre will be provided with in depth details of a client's case....
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 239: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an interview will be arranged for a person (details supplied) who is ten months in a hostel; and if he will expedite...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 240: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has had discussions or negotiations which might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied)...
    • Sentencing Policy
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the length of sentence of a person (details supplied); if this persons sentence has been reduced; and if he will make a...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when grants will be announced for child care and crèche facilities. [12624/04]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 243: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when maps will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12626/04]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 244: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a passport will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12627/04]
    • Drug Courts
      Question 245: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to extend the drug courts model based in Dublin city centre to other suburbs of Dublin and other parts of the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a response will be made to an application by a person (details supplied) for citizenship. [12629/04]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to relocate a Garda station (details supplied) in Dublin 12 from its current location. [12697/04]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 248: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the additional information supplied by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, their application for...
    • Garda Pensions
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his examination of the inadequate pension of members of the Garda Síochána who retired before 1...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government about the proposed extension of the waste water treatment plant at Drogheda; and the proposed timeframe for...
    • Road Network
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the moneys provided by his Department for the realignment of the Greenhills Road, Tallaght; and when the...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 253: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has had discussions or negotiations that might lead to the acquisition of a property...
    • Environmental Pollution
      Question 254: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he or his Department has guidelines for the prevention of potential pollution by applications for planning...
    • Electoral Review
      Question 255: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the findings of the Constituency Review Commission on the division of Leitrim will have...
    • Voting Rights
      Question 264: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider requests to allow British citizens to vote in a presidential election and a referendum,...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 266: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department had discussions or negotiations that might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied)...
    • Community Development
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 27 April, the 132 schools that will receive funding under the CLÁR...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 268: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way the sale of residence disregard regulation within the social welfare old age and blind pensions regulation 1991 be applied...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 269: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she proposes to amend the rules of behaviour for persons in receipt of disability allowance under the rehabilitative care work...
    • Property Acquisitions
      Question 271: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her Department had discussions or negotiations that might lead to the acquisition of a property (details supplied) by purchase...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 272: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent supplement was reduced in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if account will be taken of...