Written answers
Tuesday, 1 February 2005
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the extension, in regard to his public statement of 22 December 2004 regarding proposed changes in the Finance Bill 2005 with...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the recently recorded highest ever US trade deficit will have economic consequences here. [2587/05]
- Tax Code
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans changes in the capital gains tax code. [2550/05]
- Stability and Growth Pact
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance when the terms of the stability pact are likely to be revised; and if he will make a statement on the pact. [2575/05]
- Tax Evasion
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by the Revenue Commissioners regarding allegations that tax improprieties may surround trust operations at a bank (details...
- Company Receivership
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding reports made into the activities of a company (details supplied). [2589/05]
- General Government Balance
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount in euro of the general Government balance, as estimated by his Department for 2004; the reason this figure is not available with the...
- Tax Evasion
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that sufficient steps are being taken to combat tax evasion in view of the continuing high level of settlements reported by the...
- National Development Plan
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a review of the performance of the NDP would now be timely. [2543/05]
- Tax Yield
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which €200 million in VAT returns have been lost to the Exchequer through food sales in canteens. [2595/05]
- Tax Code
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he proposes by way of other environmental tax measures, that will help this country meet its global environmental obligations, in view of...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the latest information available from the central applications facility in respect of applications from civil servants and other...
- Tax Yield
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the end of year Exchequer returns for 2004. [2486/05]
- Tax Code
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance if and the way in which arrangements will be changed for taxpayers who overpay tax. [2586/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages making any special provision for promotion and for new recruitment in the context of the decentralisation programme; and if he will...
- Tax Compliance
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that penalties for non-compliance in the banking sector are adequate in view of the recent investigations of non-compliance at...
- Tax Code
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent suggestion made that high income earners who are paid more than €200,000 per year should pay a minimum 20% tax; if he...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on progress to date on the decentralisation of Departments, including the location of sites acquired and the amount spent thus far...
- Tax Avoidance
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by the Revenue Commissioners in its investigation into the reported use of single premium insurance policies as a tax...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress to date in respect of targets announced in budget 2004 in respect of decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Revenue Investigations
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners in their consideration of the recommendations of the Revenue powers group; and if he...
- Special Savings Incentive Scheme
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government has plans to encourage the productive use of money that will be released into the economy when the SSIAs mature; if there are plans...
- House Prices
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the exposure of the economy to reversals in the housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2582/05]
- Special Savings Incentive Scheme
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to undertake a study of the impact of the maturity of SSIAs on the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2549/05]
- Tax Code
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance the average amount of income tax paid by a PAYE worker, a self-employed person and a farmer in respect of each of the past five years; and if he will...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the disabled persons' VAT exemption scheme on new cars to include the visually impaired; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Code
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself that the price of homes bought by first-time buyers in Dublin will benefit from the recent stamp duty concession; and if...
- Disclosures to Revenue Commissioners
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the response received to date by the Revenue Commissioners to the letters sent by ten top banks to approximately 120,000...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the report on competition in banking recently published by the Competition Authority. [2561/05]
- Disposal of State Properties
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the planned sale of State property announced by his Minister of State; if he will list the property sold to date and the amount...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Government intends to restrict promotional opportunities to staff willing to move to decentralised locations, especially in view of the...
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance the changes he plans to make in the PPP process to achieve the new targets for expenditure. [2536/05]
- Tax Code
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance when additional data will be available from the Revenue Commissioners giving information on the cost and take-up of tax reliefs for which there are...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Finance if an evaluation of the proposed decentralisation of Ordnance Survey Ireland has been prepared or presented to him; and if he will make a statement on...
- Flood Relief
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Finance the level of disruption likely to occur in areas of Dublin where flooding occurred; the proposed drainage schemes that are implemented; and if he will...
- Tax Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount in tax relief claimed under the business expansion scheme for the past year for which figures are available; the nature of the cost benefit...
- Garda Training College
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance if tenders have been sought for the construction of a new four storey building at the Garda training college in Templemore; the number of tenders...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount transferred in surplus dormant funds from financial institutions throughout the country to the dormant accounts fund for disbursement by...
- Tax Code
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will implement promised measures in relation to favourable tax treatment for the production of biodiesel. [2592/05]
- Official Engagements
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his address to senior banking executives at the National College of Ireland on 15 December 2004. [2482/05]
- Budgetary Policy
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance his policy for the development of the treatment of children in budgetary policy over the coming two budgets. [2534/05]
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the economic policies which have been pursued are conducive to competitiveness; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Savings Incentive Scheme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of special savings investment scheme accounts opened at the latest date for which figures are available; the average amount of savings per...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance the supports, financial or otherwise, which will be made available to civil and public servants transferring to new locations outside of Dublin under...
- Tax Evasion
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance the additional measures he is proposing to deal with the issue of tax evasion in view of recent court convictions. [2590/05]
- Termination of Employment
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the payments made to terminate the employment of the chief executive of Aer Rianta; and the papers which were presented to him...
- Quarterly Economic Survey
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent ESRI quarterly economic survey. [2591/05]
- Benchmarking Awards
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has decided on the membership of the public service benchmarking body for its next phase of work; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Code
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a copy of the recent Irish Congress of Trade Unions report on inequality in the taxation system; and if he will make a statement on...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance if a site has been acquired for the decentralisation of 50 Revenue posts to Listowel, County Kerry; when work will commence on the provision of a new...
- Revenue Commissioners' Investigations
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, companies and trusts being investigated by the Revenue Commissioners arising from the Ansbacher accounts at the latest date for...
- Tax Code
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to initiate any review, similar to the one planned in regard to reliefs and exemptions for higher earners, of the legislative provisions...
- Price Inflation
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated inflationary effect of price increases approved by the Government since the start of 2005. [2597/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated costs, in terms of acquiring and equipping premises and other related costs at the latest date for which figures are available of the...
- Tax Collection
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income the State has lost out on through the illegal smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol into the State for the years 1997 to 2004; and...
- Expenditure Review Initiative
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself with the progress under the expenditure review initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2559/05]
- Non-Resident Accounts
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of High Court orders sought to date by the Revenue Commissioners under the Finance Act 1999 to require financial institutions to supply...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with numbers of persons from within the State agencies who have indicated a willingness to decentralise with their agencies; and...
- Bloodstock Industry
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that an EU investigation is being sought by British MEPs and the British bloodstock industry into whether tax exemptions on stud...
- Tax Code
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals for the review of tax reliefs and exemptions for high earners; if consultants have been appointed to assist in this process; the role he...
- Capital Projects
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself with the effectiveness of the process whereby different funding options are being assessed for capital projects; and if he...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for reform of the tax concessions for disabled drivers. [2566/05]
- Pension Provisions
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount in the funds of the national pensions reserve fund at the latest date for which figures are available; the amount invested outside of...
- Tax Evasion
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of breaches detected of the Waiver of Certain Tax, Interest and Penalties Act 1993 in respect of each year since 1994; the number of...
- Stability and Growth Pact
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for reform of the Stability and Growth Pact; the progress made by finance ministers on this issue at their January 2005 meeting;...
- Tax Code
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the entry level to the top rate of income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2572/05]
- Financial Services Sector
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress in regard to any action taken by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners arising from the report of the High Court inspectors on...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Credit Cards
Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach the number of credit cards issued for departmental use to Ministers, Ministers of State or others; the person or persons authorised to use such cards; the...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 92: To ask the Taoiseach the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Packaging Industry
Question 93: To ask the Taoiseach if statistics are maintained on the value of the packaging industry here in terms of GDP, both as a percentage and in money terms; and if such information will...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the needs of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Violence Against Women
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide funding to an organisation (details supplied). [2866/05]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the target dates for the rollout of BreastCheck nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2332/05]
- Health Statistics
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish a report of comprehensive health statistics for 2003 and 2004 as done in 2002; and if she will make a...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when the HeBE report on cervical screening will be published; her target date for the rollout of the cervical...
- Health Services
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive speech therapy; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the failure of the chief executive of the north eastern area of the Health Service Executive to lift the...
- Hospital Cleaning Services
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if cleaning services in hospitals have been reduced within the past 20 years; her views on the direct link between hospital...
- Hospital Services
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the target date of completion and the moneys budgeted for 2005 for the development and expansion of minor injury units,...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for a cardiologist consultation before being put on the waiting list for treatment at the Mid-West...
- Health Services
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for prosthetic-orthotic treatment. [2349/05]
- Nurses' Pay
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if nurses working in the area of learning disability are earning considerably less than child care workers working in the...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a bed lever from the Mid-Western Health Board; and if she...
- Child Care Services
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children and adolescents whom the health service has sent out of the country for institutional treatment; and...
- Ambulance Service
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the ambulance centre at the Hospital of the Assumption, Castlemeadows, Thurles, County Tipperary will continue when the...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of suicides by gender for each year since 1994. [2448/05]
- Violence Against Women
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will address the lack of a coherent national strategy and of commitment by the Government to services in the...
- Services for Victims of Sexual Assault
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the leadership and resources to ensure that the working group on forensic medical examinations is able...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 19 October 2004, if the sum allocated under the housing aid for the elderly...
- Hospital Services
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Ennis General Hospital in County Clare was not included in her fact-finding mission to the mid-west and west...
- Inquiries into Medical Malpractice
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the report of Judge Maureen Harding Clarke into the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made concerning the new community hospital for Tuam, County Galway; the outcome of discussions held recently...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason BreastCheck is not available to women over a certain age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2695/05]
- Home Help Service
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hours allocated for home help services in County Kerry in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; and the number of...
- Medical Cards
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if money received by persons on the maturing of their investment under the SSIA scheme will be assessed as means in regard...
- Health Services
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic treatment; and the place they hold on the...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will address the anomaly whereby full-time students over 23 and living at home with their families are considered as...
- Health Services
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 10 have been on a waiting list for orthodontic treatment for more than...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of public appointments made in her Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if she...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to set out in legislation or otherwise, minimum standards of care for the elderly in the State, towards a single...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take action with regard to the refunding of VAT on safety equipment which is now legally required for small open fishing vessels such as...
- Tax Yield
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance how much tax was collected from persons in receipt of short-term social welfare payments in 2004. [2413/05]
- Tax Code
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Finance why his Department has two different tax nets for married couples (details supplied); the further reason the home carer tax credit has not increased...
- Motor Vehicle Registration
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider an amendment to the vehicle registration tax regulations as they apply to buses with removable seats; and if he will make a...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has carried out an assessment of the interest-only endowment funded mortgage; if he has issued any report on same; if his attention has been...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the exact number of civil servants relocated under the Government's decentralisation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2685/05]
- Drainage Schemes
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans for drainage of major rivers or waterways throughout the country either directly or though the local authorities. [2686/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants who have volunteered for decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2687/05]
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has addressed all or any of the factors now deemed to affect the competitiveness of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Price Inflation
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to reduce inflation other than that reflected through the consumer price index; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2689/05]
- Job Protection
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to counter job relocation to low wage economies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2690/05]
- Tax Code
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance the total expected receipts for the entire motor industry by way of VRT excise duty, VAT or other taxation including road tolls; and if he will make...
- State Property
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will waive his interest in a piece of land in Dublin 11, in view of the provisions of the State Property Act 1954; if he has received a request...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will make a statement on...
- Flood Relief
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the work which is to be undertaken at the water barrack, Kilkenny to relieve the flooding of the amenity area at this location as a consequence of...
- Tax Yield
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects increased receipts for the motor industry in 2005 in view of initial car sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2856/05]
- Urban Renewal Schemes.
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department intends to fund, directly or indirectly, various projects in County Kildare in 2005; and if he will make a...
- Economic and Monetary Union.
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the outcome of any discussions he has had with his EU colleagues in regard to taxation or economic policy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Economic Competitiveness.
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects Ireland to compete with low wage economies successfully; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2863/05]
- Special Savings Incentive Scheme
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Finance his predictions in respect of the expected payout on the Special Savings Incentive Accounts Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Foreshore Licences
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the granting of a foreshore licence to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Coastal Erosion
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps proposed to deal with coastal erosion at Carrickfin and Kincasslagh, County Donegal; and if he will...
- Tourism Industry.
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the details of a proposal to open an aquatic marine life centre in the north-west; if State funding will be...
- Health and Safety Regulations.
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will review the new safety regulations which stipulate that vessels under six metres have to carry an...
- Broadcasting Funding Scheme
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if funding is available from the State to community radio stations here. [2709/05]
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the Government's spending estimates revealing that it no longer plans to keep its promise to raise overseas aid to 0.7% of GNP...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will make a...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he has made representations to the German authorities in...
- Election Observers
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland sent observers to the elections in Iraq. [2841/05]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has expressed concern over recent sabre-rattling by the US President and Vice President towards Iran. [2842/05]
- European Council Meetings
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the issues which Irish representatives will raise with the US President on his EU tour in February 2005. [2843/05]
- Human Rights Issues
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised concerns with the Chinese authorities over the arrest of a person (details supplied); and if such actions on the part of the...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions taken or representations made to ensure that tsunami humanitarian and reconstruction aid is not denied or misused by any...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to a request which he received in November 2004, when he will be able to meet the delegation of Cork City councillors in...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Visa Applications
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick for a work visa will be decided; and if he will make a...
- National Minimum Wage
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the demand from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for a €1.75 increase in the national minimum wage from 1...
- Employment Support Services
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an apparent deficiency in the administrative processes of the Employment Appeals Tribunal...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the part-time work related training which is offered by FÁS to lone parents under the age of 25; and if there are plans to...
- Job Losses
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions he has had with IDA Ireland or other statutory agencies regarding the closure of a plant (details supplied)...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff employed by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of these employees who were formerly...
- Job Creation
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the levels of investment and employment through Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland sanctioned and operable for each of the...
- Social Welfare Schemes
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the discrepancy in pay rates between those on the social employment scheme and those on the community...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to his press release of 10 November 2004 and the extension of the three year cap for the over 55s, if he will allow...
- Industrial Development
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for business and industry to locate at the business park in Askeaton, County Limerick. [2879/05]
- Work Permits
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has satisfied himself that artists, as cultural workers, are facilitated in working here and that no necessary...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to alleviate the problem which has arisen for persons no longer able to sign on at Garda stations. [2371/05]
- Community Development
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of changes that he announced to the cutbacks of 2004 on 1 December 2004 which require circulars to community welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who were in receipt of short-term social welfare payments in 2004. [2430/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the progress towards the decentralisation of 85 personnel from his Department to Carrickmacross in County...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if money received by persons on the maturing of their investment under the SSIA scheme, will be assessed as means in regard to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will give consideration to awarding all home-makers of pensionable age an individual non-contributory pension; and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to review the guidelines pertaining to an adult dependant of persons on certain social welfare payments, to increase the...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will...
- Department of Transport
- Road Fatalities
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of deaths from road accidents for each year since 1994. [2453/05]
- Road Network
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent which he expects public expenditure to be affected by the increased dependency on tolls in respect of delivering on the NDP; and if he...
- Traffic Management
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals to address the concerns of the Coach Tourism and Transport Council regarding the new maximum speed limits (details supplied); and if...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will make a statement on...
- Driving Tests
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in relation to driving tests in cases in which a temporary insurance certificate is displayed on the vehicle of the person being...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Schemes
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which his Department expects to fund or support community schemes throughout the country in 2005; and if...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 213: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé in ann deontas a chur ar fáil le céúr a thógáil ag An Rannaigh, Oileán Árainn Mhóir, i dTír...
- Scéim na mBóithre Áise
Question 214: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil deontas ceadaithe maidir le hobair dheisiúcháin a dhéanamh ar bhóthar contae Bhaile Ard, Oileán Árainn...
- Summer Jobs Scheme
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are plans to reintroduce the student summer job scheme. [2423/05]
- Departmental Funding
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals to restore the core funding from his Department to a group (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the next round of applications for funding from the dormant accounts fund will open; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding that has been distributed to each RAPID programme in towns (details supplied); what amount was...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and...
- Foras na Gaeilge
Question 231: To ask the Aire GnóthaíPobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an gcuirfidh sé tuilleadh airgid ar fáil do Fhoras na Gaeilge i leith na sároibre atá déanta ag Coiste Dúiche Mhaigh...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the maximum forestry premium. [2876/05]
- Freedom of Information
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the basis on which the seeking of the informal third party observations are conducted under the Freedom of Information Acts, such as...
- Bovine Disease Controls
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if P1230873 is a valid herd number; if it was allocated to a person (details supplied) or any other person; and the reason the number...
- Grant Payments
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if an appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny relative to payments under the REP scheme will be expedited;...
- Bovine Diseases
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a bounty is available to farmers for killing badgers; if there is a licence available to farmers to cull badgers; and if she will...
- Grant Payments
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a REP scheme payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [2361/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she plans to introduce legislation to allow the Garda to police activities such as motorbike scrambling on Coillte lands; and if so,...
- Grant Payments
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a brucellosis grant of £300 will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the opinion that there are serious flaws in the farm retirement scheme; her further views on whether farmers who retire due...
- Grant Payments
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding a REP scheme application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the maximum rate possible under the second early retirement scheme, governed by Council Regulation No. 1257/1999; if the Government is...
- Veterinary Medicines
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Question No. 162 of 16 December 2004, the reasons for her stated intention not to extend prescribing rights for veterinary...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans regarding the growing number of farmers who entered the early retirement scheme who will lose their farm entitlements due to...
- Grant Payments
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the single payment entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2706/05]
- Mayo Landslide
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be paid for loss of livestock by her Department; and if she will make a statement on...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of public appointments made in her Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if she will make a...
- Agricultural Appeals
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an oral hearing held in respect of the 2004 special beef premium of a person (details supplied) in County Cork....
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the legislation which governs the use of scrambling motorbikes within Coillte forest roads and paths; if it is a specific...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly is entitled to remain in the State on the basis of their parentage of a...
- Garda Deployment
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of occasions on which the mounted gardaí were used in a town (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
- Visa Applications
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of visa applications for persons (details supplied); the further length of time it will take before a decision is...
- Deportation Orders
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [2410/05]
- Asylum Applications
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if assistance and support will be given to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [2411/05]
- Sexual Offences
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the services available to women who have been victims of a sexual assault; the plans he has to improve them; and if he will...
- Registration of Title
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a Land Registry office application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the history of the State's ownership of Broc House; if he has lobbied or advised in any way to have the...
- Visa Applications
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 320 of 14 December 2004, the reason persons (details supplied) in County Clare were...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of penalty points tickets issued to motorists in the seven days before the introduction of metrification; the...
- Joyriding Offences
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he is taking to deal with the scourge of joyriding in an area (details supplied) of north Dublin; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency based on marriage to an Irish person will be decided in relation to a person (details...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he...
- Garda Stations
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for each Garda station in County Wexford; the breakdown of these Garda stations which have full-time, part-time...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the nature of the relationship with the prison or with prisoners of each of the 45 persons recently arrested for smuggling...
- Criminal Assets Bureau
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Criminal Assets Bureau investigations related to proceeds of drug trafficking since its establishment; the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria used to apply whitelist status to Nigeria, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and South Africa; if he will quantify the...
- Crime levels
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the present rate of re-offending; and his plans to reduce it during the lifetime of the 29th Dáil. [2821/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for immigration law reform during the lifetime of the 29th Dáil. [2822/05]
- Crime Prevention
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to reduce domestic and sexual violence in the State during the lifetime of the 29th Dáil. [2829/05]
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to create mechanisms for all-Ireland co-operation in his area of responsibility during the lifetime of the 29th...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the private services at present contracted by his Department, including the name of the company, the length and value of the...
- Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the gardaí involved in the case of a person (details supplied) will be dismissed or disciplined; and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will put a stay on a deportation order in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to give an...
- Asylum Applications
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the documents provided will be examined...
- Peace Commissioners
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of peace commissioners in the country; their range of responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Visa Applications
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has given consideration to introducing a cultural visa for artists coming here for specified events. [2883/05]
- Registration of Title
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application to the Land Registry office for the registration of a folio for a person (details...
- Department of Education and Science
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for VTOS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2851/05]
- Student Support Schemes
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the current practice of student teachers having to supply materials and resources when on teaching practice; if her...
- Pension Provisions
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will demand that graduate teachers work until they are 65 to receive their full pension; her views on whether this is in the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to establish a permanent base for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will continue to approve the on-line H.Dip course for primary teachers (details supplied); her views on this method of training;...
- School Transport
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take action in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if she will explore arranging transport to cater for...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if resource teaching will be continued in a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in September 2005. [2368/05]
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to add a school (details supplied) to the list of residential institutions under the Residential Institutions Redress Act...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide sufficient funding in the summer works scheme to enable a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 to mend the school...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assistance which is available to parents of children with special needs who have to educate their children at home and who require...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take steps to provide the necessary funding to enable refurbishment and modernisation of the kitchen, science laboratory,...
- Schools Recognition
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is possible that a school (details supplied) in County Kerry be considered as co-educational in view of the fact that it has boys...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 16 December 2004 (details supplied), if the schools in question have been assigned band...
- School Staffing
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed weighted model for allocation of resource teachers to primary schools. [2671/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a special resource teacher will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the circumstances...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if money received by persons on the maturing of their investment under the SSIA scheme will be assessed as means in regard to their own...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of public appointments made in her Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 230 of 6 October 2004 and 513 of 19 October 2004, the position in regard to an appeal from...
- School Accommodation
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to rebuild a school (details supplied). [2868/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on the provision of a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she...
- Department of Defence
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee involved; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- EU Directives
Question 329: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy on the issue of giving development consent to projects which will cause new or continuing breaches...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has taken steps to implement the recommendation of the European Commission following its examination of...
- Environmental Policy
Question 333: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will establish a 24-hour manned freefone service similar to that established in Northern Ireland for...
- EU Directives
Question 334: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date on which he intends to publish the statutory instrument implementing EEC 2002/4, Access to...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on the Terryglass sewerage scheme, Terryglass, County Tipperary; the resources which have...
- EU Funding
Question 337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an application for funding for a project (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been received; if he...
- Retail Sector Developments
Question 338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to meet the concerns of RGDATA regarding the recent changes he announced to the retail planning...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a delay in the progress of a scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal being put out for tender;...
- Hunt Licences
Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will revoke the licence granted by his predecessor to the Ward Union stag hunt against the advice of...
- Waste Management
Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the place on the waste management hierarchy on which his Department categorises the placing of tyres on farms....
- EU Directives
Question 346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make available a copy of the document or letter which he has received from the European Commission...
- National Parks
Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans for the management of the Burren National Park; and if there are plans for park and ride visitor...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the tender documents in relation to the design, building and operation of a sewerage...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of public appointments made in his Department since August 2004; the name of each appointee...
- EU Directives
Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that he had no prior knowledge of the recent eight EU infringement proceedings against...
