Written answers
Tuesday, 12 October 2004
- Department of Defence
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the general secretary of PDFORRA that plans to court martial a member of the Army after a...
- Marine Safety
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the Defence Forces in monitoring the passage of a nuclear shipment (details supplied) to Cherbourg in France; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence the situation with regard to the reorganisation of the Reserve Defence Force; his further plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has plans to close any Army barracks or installations during the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24047/04]
- International Terror Attacks
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to reported comments from the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (details supplied), that security measures to...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will agree to give some land to Wicklow County Council at Leitrim Cemetery, Glen of Imaal, County Wicklow, to assist in the development of a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report an update on the decentralisation plans for his Department announced as part of the budget for 2004; the number of staff who have...
- Overflight Approval
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has a role in investigating allegations concerning the alleged transfer of prisoners through Shannon Airport by US forces; if he has...
- Drug Testing Programme
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel tested to date under the new drug testing programme; the number who tested positive; the action taken when a...
- Overseas Missions
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the concerns of the Defence Forces' Chief of Staff that Ireland must take seriously the possibility of a dirty bomb being used to target...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Defence his legislative priorities for the new Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24192/04]
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Defence if he envisages a further reduction in Defence Forces personnel, in view of the ongoing reduction of 250 staff; if this reduction in staff affects...
- Official Engagements
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the September 2004 meeting of EU Defence Ministers in Noordwijk in the Netherlands; the agenda for the meeting; and if he will...
- EU Presidency
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Defence the total costs to his Department arising from the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, in June 2004; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself with the current level of female membership of the Defence Forces; if he will prioritise the recruitment of greater...
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Defence his priorities for the Defence Forces during this term of Dáil Éireann. [24277/04]
- Defence Forces Operations
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Defence if it is anticipated that as a result of the Leeds Castle talks there will be a reduction in the number of Border operations undertaken by the Defence...
- Defence Forces Review
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Defence if he plans to undertake cost analyses or cost projections with respect to the domestic implications of EU defence related measures agreed by the...
- Overseas Missions
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the vice-president of PDFORRA that Defence Force personnel are being coerced into serving on...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Registration of Deaths
Question 46: To ask the Taoiseach the number of deaths which were registered as undetermined for each year between 2003 and 2004 inclusive. [24170/04]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 47: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of money paid out by his Department in legal fees; the details of the firms paid the greatest amount of fees; the amount of money paid out in legal...
- Tourism Industry
Question 49: To ask the Taoiseach the number of tourists in each of the years 1997 to 2004 (details supplied); the aggregate value of tourism in each of those years; and the estimated average...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Industrial Development
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits which have been organised by the IDA to the new IDA park on the Dublin Road, Carlow; and if he will...
- Severance Payments
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when additional moneys will be awarded to former employees of IFI. [24064/04]
- EU Funding
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if inclusions had been reached in respect of the applications of misappropriation of funds in respect of a person (details...
- Job Losses
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the considerable loss of employment recently in the printing industry here; the measures...
- Severance Payments
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the decision of his predecessor not to proceed with the enhanced redundancy payments for workers at a...
- Employment Support Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding which was allocated to the social economy programme in 2002, 2003 and 2004. [24248/04]
- Work Permits
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made regarding a work permit for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a...
- Hazardous Substances
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, with respect to each of the top tier Seveso establishments designated in accordance with the terms of EC COMAH Directive...
- Company Closures
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the liquidator of IFI has been legally advised that the shortfall of...
- Work Permits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin hasbeen re-examined regarding their application for a work...
- Industrial Development
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the IDA land at Castledermot, County Kildare; if the local authority purchased the site; if the site...
- Department of Defence
- Medical Services
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Defence the medication which was administered to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 while on UN duty in the Lebanon at the start of the first Gulf War;...
- Overseas Missions
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Defence if a board of military officers has reviewed the events of September 1961 at Jadotville; if the board has made a recommendation regarding further...
- Partnership for Peace
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has had discussions since his appointment with his EU colleagues in regard to the matter of the PfP; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Army overholders in need of alternative accommodation; his plans to deal with the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Defence Forces Training
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Defence the degree to which the Defence Forces are equipped to deal with a terrorist attack; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24527/04]
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Defence if the current strength of the Defence Forces is adequate in view of the ongoing overseas deployment on peacekeeping missions; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself that military training techniques and equipment, including military vehicles, are sufficiently up to date; and if he will...
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself regarding the strength of the Air Corps rescue services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24533/04]
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the plans her Department has to provide grants or funding to associations (details supplied) seeking to provide proper facilities; and if...
- Food Industry
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when it is proposed to introduce legislation to lessen the regulatory burden on small businesses in the food sector. [24111/04]
- Beef Industry
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will make a statement on the investigation into irregularities at a plant (details supplied) in County Kildare. [24385/04]
- Beef Exports
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the ongoing ban on beef from the Six Counties has been discussed at inter-ministerial level; and if so, if she will make a statement...
- Grant Payments
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when inspection will be carried out in order that area aid can be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [24025/04]
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to keep Ireland genetically modified free, especially in view of the EU decision to allow the growth of genetically modified...
- Grant Payments
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a decision will be made on an appeal under [i]force majeure[/i] in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when farm retirement pension will be returned to a person (details supplied) in west Cork. [24129/04]
- Grant Payments
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount, in monetary terms, under which the single payment scheme is coming into County Mayo. [24137/04]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will revise the plans to decentralise the beef carcase classification unit of her Department from County Wexford to County Laois...
- Grant Payments
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the payment entitlements under the single payment scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [24226/04]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she proposes to make changes to the REP scheme; and the changes which have taken place in the past 12 months to the scheme,...
- Animal Diseases
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the extent of Johne's disease in the bovine herd here. [24253/04]
- Grant Payments
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive his headage payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24330/04]
- Organic Farming
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the impact the introduction of the single farm payment will have on the organic sector here. [24331/04]
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department's current assessment of the evidence regarding the productivity of GM crops in other countries; and the implications that...
- Beef Exports
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position with regard to the export of beef to Libya and other Middle Eastern-North African countries; and if she will make a...
- Bovine Disease Controls
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to the transport of bovine spinal column; the way in which the SRM is transported here from meat plant to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to the pension of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if the pension will be granted to this person....
- Grant Payments
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received an allocation under the single payment scheme. [24476/04]
- Department of Finance
- Motor Vehicle Registration
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is his Department's intention to retain the vehicle registration office in Mullingar; if it will remain available for persons in the general...
- State Laboratory
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays being experienced by families with results awaited from the State pathology laboratory and...
- Tax Code
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the group B and group C thresholds for gift or inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24049/04]
- Disabled Drivers
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason applicants for the disabled drivers tax concession scheme 1994 have to wait two and a half years to have their appeals heard; if the...
- Tax Code
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of introducing a flat income tax of 20% while retaining the existing tax credits. [24174/04]
- Disabled Drivers
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the disabled passengers and the disabled drivers VRT and VAT refund scheme 1994 to those who are registered as blind; and if he...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received in his Department for transfers to the proposed decentralised Ordnance Survey Office in Dungarvan, County...
- Tax Code
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will explain the two-month delay in regularising the tax affairs of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if...
- Pension Provisions
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the context of persons who are retired from the public service and are in receipt of pensions from the State, the categories of such persons...
- Tax Code
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers in the PAYE sector who availed of the home caring spouse tax credit in 2003. [24546/04]
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Death of Irish Citizen
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his efforts to release a person (details supplied); and if he will raise the issue of Iraqi victims at the highest...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will take action to stop the slaughter in the Middle East and to raise the issue at the UN. [24038/04]
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government, through its overseas aid programmes, plans to support water conservation projects in view of the worldwide threat to water...
- Emigrant Services
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding he is providing to organisations dealing with issues relating to Irish people living in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his endeavours with regard to the Northern peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24244/04]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is usual that Irish citizens being deported from the United States are being held in...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his recent historic meeting with the DUP leadership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24395/04]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for no condemnation of the Israeli killing of more than 84 Palestinians, 35 of them children; and if he will raise this issue at...
- Department of Education and Science
- Education Schemes
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if local development partnership based in Drogheda and Dundalk can offer financial assistance to third level students in the Ardee...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and location of special educational needs organisers appointed; the responsibilities of these co-ordinators; and if she will...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to the Adjournment debate of 6 November 2003 concerning art teacher qualifications, if she will act on the apology recommended...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve funding immediately for the provision of a secondary school for children with autism and autistic spectrum...
- Psychological Service
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the NEPS based in Drogheda covers a school (details supplied); and if not, the reason therefore; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra special needs assistant hours will be allocated to persons (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a...
- College Closures
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reverse the decision of her predecessor to close a college (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when architectural planning for the permanent building project for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be completed; and...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when refurbishment work and two classroom extensions will be completed at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [24058/04]
- Administration of Universities
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an outdated practice (details supplied) at Trinity College library will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Accommodation
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made regarding the application for additional accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Carlow....
- School Services Staff
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if secretaries in national schools receive a weekly salary during summer and public holidays; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant will be employed for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the extension and refurbishment of a school (details supplied); when the funds will be sanctioned; the amount...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application for educational support has been received by her Department in respect of a person with special needs (details...
- School Transport
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 580 of the 29 September 2004, the way in which her Department calculates the cost of the proposed route...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether the Castleknock electoral area will require an additional secondary school; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Staffing
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will examine the special needs staffing resources allocation to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, in view of the...
- School Accommodation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the person on whose advice her Department's allocation of two extra classrooms to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow was...
- School Libraries
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of State funding which was given towards the new library at a college (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the ministerial appointments made in her Department since the beginning of 2004; the dates on which such appointments were made; and if...
- Schools Inspectorate
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the manner in which a person may be appointed as a school inspector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24215/04]
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the proposed amalgamation of colleges (details supplied) in County Galway has not taken place in view of the fact that the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will detail in specific and clear terms the resource teaching hours that are to be allocated to a person (details supplied) in...
- School Staffing
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs teaching positions that are waiting to be filled. [24303/04]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the building programme for a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the [i]per capita[/i] grant available to schools (details supplied); if funding at the School of Music in WIT will be brought in line...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 344 of 5 October 2004, the details of the examination of the provision of primary education in the area; when...
- School Accommodation
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an extension at a school (details supplied) in County Mayo was first applied for; the stage the project is at; and when the school...
- Psychological Service
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the NEPS will reconsider the claim by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow for the cost of private psychologist's...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the provision of a full-time special needs assistant for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be expedited; and if she...
- Youth Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to provide increased funds for youth services; if her attention has been drawn to the importance of the work being...
- School Accommodation
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Galway to apply for planning permission to...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that, despite concentrations of disadvantaged children in its catchment area, the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the agreement into which her Department has entered to provide a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and the timeframe for the...
- Third Level Courses
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person who is undertaking a degree course in a particular discipline can change courses and pursue a degree in primary school...
- Teacher Training Costs
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to the State of training a primary school teacher through both the three years' taught undergraduate Bachelor of Education...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of unqualified teachers on her Department's payroll in primary schools; and the breakdown of the figures per county. [24422/04]
- School Staffing
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 144 of 26 May 2004, if this person (details supplied) in County Limerick was considered for a special needs...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to provide an alternative location for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of its overcrowding and...
- School Staffing
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if support will be given to the INTO request for 650 additional special needs teachers and priority given to this issue. [24517/04]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Marine Accidents
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the recent response to the Canadian submarine emergency; and if he will make a statement on...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the banning of a fishing vessel (details supplied) from fishing in African...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress that has been made in his Department on the report from the eel review group (details supplied);...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress made on the marina at Rosses Point, County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Harbour Authorities
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if an agreement is in place for the sale or transfer of lands under the remit of Sligo harbour committee; if so,...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will make public his Department's file with regard to the environmental impact assessment for the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when a telephone connection will proceed by Eircom for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24205/04]
- Harbour Authorities
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the security arrangement submitted by Waterford Port...
- Fishing Fleet Modernisation
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the current grant scheme put in place to assist fishermen with smaller vessels is adequate to cover the cost...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position of an application for ISDN or broadband from persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the power purchase agreements will be offered to the offshore projects of AER VI; and if he will publish a...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Ancestry Office
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide the necessary funding to re-establish the Limerick ancestry office (details supplied). [24204/04]
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the application for funding for the swimming pools (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement...
- Olympic Games
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has evaluated the performance of the Irish team at the Olympic Games 2004; if his attention has been drawn to the importance of...
- National Community Games
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the contacts he has had with the countrywide community games organisation following the success of the annual community games finals...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he or his Department has had meetings with Horse Racing Ireland in regard to proposed developments at the Curragh racecourse; and...
- Film Industry Development
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if and when he plans to lead a delegation to meet the film industry in America to discuss possible film productions here and the...
- Arts Funding
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department will financially assist the inaugural Phil Lynott music award competition which will be held from January to August...
- Department of Health and Children
- Higher Education Grants
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the changes in the terms under which students undertake study in clinical psychology...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the officer posts that exist in each local authority that can be described as environmental health posts. [24113/04]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her intentions in respect of the future use of the lands on which the Central Mental Hospital is located in Dundrum. [24143/04]
- Disabled Drivers
Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed change to the minimum length of time a new car for a disabled...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when women in County Waterford will have BreastCheck available to them in view of the fact that it is alleged that lives...
- Health Board Services
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to allow them to travel to a hospital appointment; and...
- Organ Retention
Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the amount of money earned by companies (details supplied) from the pituitary glands of deceased Irish persons is known....
- Mental Health Services
Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of child and adolescent psychiatric diagnostic units in the respective health board areas; the number of...
- Hospital Services
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on staffing and services at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if the patients and staff will be given the...
- Health Board Services
Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to progress the proposals made at a meeting (details supplied) on autistic spectrum in her Department in 2003;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be given the maximum support and advice in dealing with their situation of...
- Medical Cards
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in possession of a medical card in Dublin now and at the beginning of 1997; the number of cards by...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of an application to her Department for approval to replace the lift and staircase and provide a new reception...
- Health Board Services
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements which exist to have a doctor on call at a medical centre (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress being made regarding approval to invite tenders for the construction of the specially dedicated Alzheimer's...
- Health Board Services
Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a medical centre for Tully, Ballinahown, Connemara, County Galway (details...
- Hospital Catering Services
Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the assessment which is carried out of the quality and quantity of food served in hospitals here in view of the importance...
- Health Board Services
Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Mid-Western Health Board will provide a regular chiropody service at the Shannon health centre, Shannon, County...
- Drug Treatment Services
Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the facilities available for the provision of methadone in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, are satisfactory...
- Health Board Services
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a long waiting list for physiotherapy treatment in Donegal Town...
- Mental Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of mental health promotional officers involved in the health service. [24157/04]
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to correspondence (details supplied), if she will furnish a response to the issue raised. [24227/04]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 5 October 2004, the further position; if they will have an option in such an...
- Medical Cards
Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of discretionary medical cards issued in each county for each year from 1997 to 2003 and to date in 2004; and if...
- Hospital Services
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will give approval and resources for the provision of a dedicated haematology and oncology unit at Waterford...
- Homeless Persons
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to deal with homelessness in the Dublin region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24242/04]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an increase in nursing home subvention will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
- Health Board Services
Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her position with regard to funding for the provision of the Caredoc co-operative service in Waterford city and county...
- Hospital Services
Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her position with regard to the funding of public patients at any private radiotherapy centre that may be developed in the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the ambulance services in the Western Health Board region no longer provide transport to elderly persons who do...
- Academic Qualifications
Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce legislation or regulations to provide for mutual recognition of the academic and professional...
- Health Board Services
Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received an application for capital funding from the Eastern Regional Health Authority to provide a residential...
- Hospital Staff
Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the necessary financial resources will be provided to enable a consultant cardiologist to be appointed at Tralee...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on her endeavours to tackle the huge problem of suicide; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Board Services
Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for the domiciliary care allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24397/04]
- National Lottery Funding
Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received an application for a lottery grant by a primary school (details supplied) in County Limerick; her...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if development of the interim facility for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service on the St. Finbarr's Hospital site in Cork...
- Medical Cards
Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the income eligibility limits for medical cards at the end of 1997. [24424/04]
- Suicide Incidence
Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Rosbrien suicide awareness group proposal, suicide prevention pilot draft (details supplied). [24469/04]
- Ombudsman for Children
Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made in establishing the service of Ombudsman for Children. [24470/04]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to the family of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick with a disability in obtaining...
- Health Board Services
Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current position with regard to the speech therapy for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; the assistance...
- Department of Transport
- Taxi Hardship Panel
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 for assistance from the taxi hardship panel; and if he will make...
- State Airports
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Transport the position relating to the proposed designation of public safety zones at the State airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Rail Services
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the inadequate train service that exists on the Sligo to Dublin line on which the locomotive breaks down...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he proposes to take regarding the decentralisation programme with regard to the proposed transfer of staff from the National Roads...
- Air Services
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport if compensation can be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24142/04]
- Rail Services
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport the priority which will be given to suburban rail improvements in Dublin's rail procurement and upgrade programme; and if the metro, airport link...
- State Airports
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport the then existing and proposed runways which were shown safeguarded by means of red solid zones with respect to the airport development plan...
- Abandonment Orders
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Transport the respective statutory procedures for the abandonment of public roads or railways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24361/04]
- Light Rail Project
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Railway Procurement Agency will report in respect of contacts with residents in Forest Lawns, Kingswood Heights, Tallaght, regarding their...
- Rail Services
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Transport the changes proposed to upgrade the Kildare to Dublin line to improve the timetable for commuters in the Kildare and Newbridge catchment area; and...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Allowances
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a recent statement made by his predecessor on the pensionability of certain allowance and [i]ex gratia[/i] payments...
- Deportation Orders
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in respect of deportation orders served on persons (details supplied) in County Wexford, his attention has been drawn to...
- State Airports
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the so-called Guantanamo express plane revelations at Shannon Airport and the possible illegal...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [24020/04]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the further progress which has been made in respect of the provision of closed circuit television cameras for the Finglas...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many holders of Garda ID cards have been told at the entrance to pubs and...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of juveniles currently incarcerated for offences other than those involving violence against the person or...
- Travel Documents
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when travel documentation will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Prison Committals
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of non-EU national mothers in prison here who have children in care; the number of such children; the period for...
- Civil Liability
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to amend the Civil Liability Act 1961 governing fatal injury claims (details supplied). [24132/04]
- Prisoner Transfers
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to a previous parliamentary question on a matter (details supplied), if it will be resolved as soon as possible....
- Garda Investigations
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a report from the Garda authorities regarding the violent disorder and serious assaults at a hurling...
- Residency Permits
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for residency under the Irish...
- Garda Strength
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí based at each of the major Garda stations in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway; and the population...
- Garda Vehicles
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the maximum speed of the slowest vehicle in each of the Garda divisional road traffic units; the age, make and model of each...
- Residency Permits
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision is likely on an application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 to remain in the State on the basis...
- Youth Diversion Projects
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department operates or funds school completion programmes or other programmes that may have an emphasis on keeping...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residence here by a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are arrangements in place to allow an Irish citizen who is serving in the London Metropolitan Police, who has...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he plans to give effect to the provision in the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2001 whereby retailers of alcoholic products can...
- Visa Applications
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if and when a holiday visa will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of psychologists assigned specifically to work on the sex offenders treatment programme; and the number of...
- Garda Strength
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the output capacity per annum at the Garda Training College in Templemore; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Deployment
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in the Laois Offaly division who have been deployed to duties outside the division, including to the...
- Crime Levels
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the most recently available crime figures and the available figures for each year since 1997 for the Laois-Offaly Garda...
- Garda Stations
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the delay in upgrading the phone system at Tallaght Garda station; when work will begin on this long...
- Garda Operations
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which the Garda has adopted bicycle mounted policing; if pilot schemes have been shown to reveal effective...
- Juvenile Diversion Programme
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has satisfied himself with the extent to which parents support efforts by the Garda under juvenile diversion...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if arrests have been made of the persons responsible for organising and profiting from the women concerned in the context of...
- Work Permits
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Louth is eligible to work in the State. [24401/04]
- Drug Courts
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes or had discussions on the expansion of the pilot drug court concept to cover the Tallaght area. [24402/04]
- Asylum Applications
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if persons (details supplied) in County Louth will be granted permission to remain in the State. [24403/04]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when technical specifications and a code of practice will be made available for schemes, in view of the fact that a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [24418/04]
- Child Care Services
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a capital grant under the equal opportunities child care programme in the name of the board...
- Residency Permits
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the policy changes, specific to the registration requirement for non-national spouses of Irish citizens, that have taken...
- Garda Deployment
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí attached to the Limerick division at 1 October; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24548/04]
- Car Seizures
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of company cars being recovered in the Tallaght area per day; the method of disposing of these cars; if he will...
- Garda Equipment
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the approximate time it takes for a garda to log on to the PULSE system; the difficulties being experienced and the...
- Garda Deployment
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give a comparative analysis of any area in the State with a population the size of Tallaght, its districts and...
- Deportation Orders
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of section 3 letters which have been issued to the parents of Irish citizen children to date; the number of these...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Register of Electors
Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason persons who were born in Northern Ireland and who are now resident in the Republic could not vote...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action being taken by his Department to deal with the funding issue for the housing aid for the elderly...
- Recycling Policy
Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the aggregate volumes of material recycled from the different waste streams, household, industrial and so on;...
- Election Management System
Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the location at which the electronic voting machines are stored: if specific environmental requirements are...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made on the water scheme in Gurteen, County Sligo; the funding to be granted; and if he will make...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the officer posts that exist in each local authority that can be described as environmental protection posts....
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of successful applications under the group sewerage scheme for each of the past ten years; the...
- Fire Safety Personnel
Question 354: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of fire officers and fire brigades for each of the divisions in Dublin city and county, Limerick...
- Planning Issues
Question 355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of appeals made to An Bord Pleanála against council planning decisions for each of the 32 planning...
- Waste Disposal
Question 356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of illegal dumps which have been discovered in the entire country; the location of each dump; and...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to increase the grant per house of €6,500 for funding of group water schemes. [24162/04]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 358: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a request from Naas Town Council in respect of persons (details supplied) in County...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the report on the Woodstown Viking site will be completed. [24310/04]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 360: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the sewage treatment works for Tramore, County Waterford, will be completed; and if he will make a...
- State Airports
Question 361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he proposes to introduce public safety zones at the State airports by means of section 207 of the Planning...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 362: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has had contacts with South Dublin County Council regarding additional funding for the refurbishment of...
- Fire Safety
Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm his commitment to promoting fire safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Animal Welfare
Question 364: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of prosecutions taken by his Department for the unlawful capture of hares; the locations at which...
- Pension Provisions
Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authority pensioners are required to sign an annuitant certificate; the number of times they...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the sewerage schemes for Kilkerrin, Dunmore and Leenane, County Galway, will commence; the reason it has...
- Housing Grants
Question 369: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Kilkenny County Council and Borough Council have applied for funding under the housing management...
- Water Quality
Question 370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Ireland has been sent a first written warning from the European Commission under the European Union's urban...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding an application from the dormant accounts fund for the provision of funding to provide necessary...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of farmers in need of social welfare assistance as part of their livelihood. [24299/04]
- Family Support Services
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when approval will be given to the expansion of a resource centre (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted disability allowance. [24178/04]
- Family Support Services
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will confirm his commitment to MABS, which has an office in Tallaght; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24404/04]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which his Department decides that a person is not genuinely seeking work; the criteria used regarding this issue; and...
- Live Register
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide the live register figures for Kildare; the way in which these figures compare with a similar period in 2003;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cut-off point for persons who are in receipt of back to work allowance to receive the back to school clothing and footwear...
