Written answers
Thursday, 24 February 2005
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Official Engagements
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the outcome of the recent 3GSM World Congress and Exhibition in Cannes; his views on the lessons which can be...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main findings of the progress report submitted to him by a person (details supplied) relating to three companies; and if...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the promised new legislation in regard to export controls for military goods will be introduced; the main features of...
- Company Closures
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recent Enterprise Ireland report on start-up companies and the action he plans to take on the basis of the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the promised legislation to put the employment permit regime on a comprehensive and sound statutory footing will be...
- Industrial Development
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work undertaken by Enterprise Ireland in 2004 in facilitating the expansion of Dublin companies to regional locations;...
- Employment Rights
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent report from a centre (details supplied) which found that foreign women employed...
- Insurance Industry
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in order to aid competitiveness by lowering insurance costs for both businesses and motorists, his Department is...
- EU Directives
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility and which have yet to be implemented; the number in...
- Industrial Relations
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that there are sufficient legal safeguards in place to ensure the right of all employees to be represented...
- Commercial Rates
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has carried out or commissioned any research on the effects on business of the current system of commercial...
- Employment Rights
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to publish the report of the review group on the employment rights bodies; the main recommendations in the...
- Public Service
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Question No. 301 of 15 February 2005, if he will review the policy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Employment Rights
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the necessary measures have been taken to prevent exploitation of foreign workers in the construction...
- Official Engagements
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the outcome of his recent official visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Company Closures
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the liquidation process for Irish Fertiliser Industries; if he has satisfied himself that all possible...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the Health and Safety Authority has sufficient staff and resources to carry out its work, in view of...
- Enterprise Strategy Group
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received the report of the high level group to consider the implications of the report of the enterprise strategy...
- Work Permits
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to date under the new arrangements to give access to employment to the spouses of non-EEA...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will be taking to encourage the growth of trade between developing countries and the European Union; and if he...
- Consumer Rights
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received the final report of the consumer consultative panel; if it is intended to publish the report; if he...
- Shannon Development
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has met with the board of Shannon Development; the outcome of those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA-supported firms which set up in Ireland in 2004; the number of existing IDA-supported firms which increased...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to introduce a "green card" system for migrant workers; the nature of the scheme; when he plans to introduce it;...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the IDA has withdrawn its option to purchase land (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of its past stated...
- Grocery Industry
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the representations he has received relating to the groceries order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6207/05]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to each of the inquiries being carried out by or on behalf of his Department; the projected date for...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is intended to introduce and enact the required legislation to give effect to EU Directive 2002/14/EC regarding...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the aspects of the economy, which are vulnerable due to high costs or lack of...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to tackle high rates of unemployment among disabled workers since training and employment services for...
- Departmental Staff
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has plans to employ more labour inspectors and to give labour inspectors greater powers; and if he will...
- Corporate Governance
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the establishment of an EU-wide corporate governance code in the context of increasing volumes of transnational...
- Industrial Development
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies his Department has formulated to help rural regions diversifying their economic development strategies in view...
- Legislative Programme
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress in regard to his consideration of proposals to introduce legislation to provide for a new offence of corporate...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of significant differences between prices for many goods on this side of the...
- Waste Disposal
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department, in assessing the potential impact of REACH on competitiveness here, is also taking into account the impact...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the 3.3% drop in exports to EU accession states for the period to November 2004; and if he will make a statement...
- Manufacturing Sector
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is taking to develop the manufacturing sector of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Company Closures
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he intends to take to bring alternative employment to Ballyshannon in County Donegal following the closure of a...
- Work Permits
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the finding in the CSO's population and labour force projections, which suggested that Ireland will need 50,000...
- Enterprise Ireland
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the reason, despite an increase in export sales of €1 billion among Enterprise Ireland's client firms, there...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the claim made by a trade union leader (details supplied) that safety on the nation's...
- Consumer Price Index
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recent consumer prices average analysis for Dublin and outside Dublin produced by the CSO which showed a...
- Banking Sector
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to introduce further measures to make the personal banking sector more competitive; and if he will make a...
- Health and Safety Legislation
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made with regard to the Government's proposals to provide legal protection on a sectoral basis for...
- Job Losses
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he has monitored relocation of jobs to lower wage economies; if it is intended to put in place measures...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons on community employment places at 1 January 2003, 1 January 2004 and 1 January 2005; the anticipated...
- Job Creation
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent call from ICTU for a major initiative to salvage manufacturing jobs following...
- Semi-State Sector Remuneration
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether there are benefits in bringing in proposals requiring transparency of the levels of executive pay within...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the implications for the work of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board of the decision of the High Court of 25...
- Regulation System
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans he has to create one single national regulator; if such a regulator would be beneficial; and if he will make a...
- Department of Health and Children
- Voluntary Organisations
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will state the voluntary organisation which the Minister of State (details supplied) has met in his capacity as...
- Health Services
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the procedures which have been established and are currently in place for the treatment of prisoners at the county hospital...
- Medical Cards
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued in counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon; the number of persons covered in each respective...
- Health Service Staff
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the mechanism for recruiting nursing staff to health board residential nursing centres when extra staff are required, a...
- Hospital Services
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 48 of 17 February 2005, her views on whether best cancer patient outcomes are achieved when the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved accident and emergency services at Kerry General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds in each of the hospitals in the public acute hospital sector. [6408/05]
- Hospital Services
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding Cork University Hospital receives for its neurosurgical unit; the number of procedures carried out in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients awaiting heart transplants nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6410/05]
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if tablets and injections (details supplied) will be restored on the GMS drug scheme to ensure that medical card patients...
- Mental Health Services
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children , further to Question No. 137 of 16 February 2005, if she will identify the 11 stand-alone psychiatric units; the stage of...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the new state of the art private hospital in Galway is being used for the treatment purchase fund: if not, if some...
- Mental Health Services
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will address the concerns raised by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on requests from the Health Service Executive for increased funding to allow for the long-awaited...
- Hospital Staff
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the consultant staffing levels for psychiatry in each of the years 2000 to 2005. [6453/05]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans that are made for patients who may require admission for respite care, hospital care or nursing home care upon...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if persons who were accommodated in private nursing homes over the years and were charged and had their pensions retained...
- Department of Finance
- Vehicle Registration
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the vehicle registration office in Roscommon is to be closed to the public; the reason alternative public access to the service is not...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount paid in fees in remuneration to a person (details supplied) for consultancy or other work carried out for or on behalf of his...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any post within the Civil Service or public service, established or unestablished, which does not carry an incremental salary table; and...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give further consideration to the request by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare under the 1994 disabled drivers-disabled...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Southern Regional Fisheries Board intends not to renew commercial drift net salmon fishing licences for...
- Gas Pipelines
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is considered satisfactory that the onshore pipeline design for the gas terminal (details supplied) in...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties with the call signs which are mandatory for the allowance of...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the recent opening in Dublin of the new embassy of Lesotho; the consideration he has given to opening an embassy in that...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the date in which he intends to announce the swimming pools funded under the local authority swimming pool programme in 2005; and if...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the 20 key North-South actions being promoted by the IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council; the...
- Job Creation
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which entrepreneurship in Ireland is supported and encouraged; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has provided adequate resources to enable FÁS undertake its full programme throughout County Kildare; and if he will...
- Job Losses
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the net number of jobs lost or created in each of the past 12 months; the locations to which jobs have been lost; and if he...
- Insurance Industry
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which the cost of public liability insurance has been reduced in the past two years; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications for work permits received in the past 12 months; the number from outside the EU; the number...
- Export Markets
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new markets for Irish products which have been established in the past two and a half years; the markets lost...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the living alone allowance was last increased; and if he will now index the allowance. [6372/05]
- Department of Transport
- Road Safety
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will consider introducing regulations regarding an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6390/05]
- Public Transport
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Transport the total number of parking places provided at the rail stations of Kilcock, Maynooth, Leixlip, Confey, Hazelhatch and Sallins; if it is intended...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Milk Quota
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has reconsidered an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork to lease their milk quota in 2005. [6398/05]
- Grant Payments
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action which will be taken by her Department arising from the Crosby report; the number of sheep farmers involved; if a level of...
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will qualify for single payment entitlements from the 2005 national reserve; and if she...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals to extend the date for families wishing to transfer from the REP scheme two to the REP scheme three (details supplied);...
- National Reserve Applications
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of an application under the national reserve by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a...
- Agriculture Appeals
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a further oral hearing will be made in relation to the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath against the decision...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Registration of Title
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is there any dealings taking place on a folio (details supplied) in County Mayo. [6379/05]
- Child Care Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Equipment
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he intends to issue kilometre per hour tickets to the Garda for the enforcement of the road traffic legislation; and if...
- Prison Staff
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 138 of 17 February 2005, if the person in question is an officer as defined by the legislation in...
- Visa Applications.
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if any practical arrangements are in place for non-nationals to transfer visa or other entries on their passports confirming...
- Prisons Building Programme.
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the prison building projects which have not been proceeded with over the past 35 years by his Department; the reason they...
- Registration of Title.
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if any dealing is pending in respect of folio numbers (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Correspondence.
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he intends to reply to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Stations.
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the strong campaign in west Tallaght for the development of a new Garda station in the...
- Visa Applications.
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason, in his reply to Question No. 27 of 1 December 2004, he indicated that the application for a visitor's visa for a...
- Child Care Services
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of grant aid given over the past eight years to assist the provision of privately owned crèche facilities; the...
- Registration of Title
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Land Registry Office will expedite a dealing for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [6473/05]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform , further to parliamentary Question No. 201 of 10 February 2005, if an error was made in the reply; if this matter will be...
- Visa Applications
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to parliamentary Question No. 765 of 26 January 2005, the way in which the person can remain here until the...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Transport
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reverse the decision to remove school transport facility from the Kildimo, Clarina, Ballybrown areas to the Salesian...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a maintenance grant application in her Department will be dealt with. [6375/05]
- Capitation Grants
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is a grant available to schools which involve themselves in a recycling of waste programme as the present situation is that...
- Schools of Music
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the progress of the construction of the new school of music for Cork; the reason for the delays; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date on which she intends to announce the next phase of the school building programme for 2005; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Funding
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of applications which were received under funding programmes from an area (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she...
- School Staffing
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a resource teacher will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will reply to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve learning support service for schools (details supplied) in County Cork. [6429/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [6431/05]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve an application for capital funding for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [6432/05]
- Departmental Properties
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will list the currently unused sites in the ownership of her Department in the Tallaght area; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when it is likely that the necessary funding and approval will be given for the provision of the proposed covered walkway at Confey...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 179: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will approve funding for a resource centre to facilitate the construction of a voluntary housing scheme...
- Turbary Rights
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not entitled to the full level of payment now being...
- Recycling Policy
Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a grant available to schools who are involving themselves in a recycling of waste programme as the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a report will be provided in respect of an extension of the Lough Mask water scheme to Swinford, County...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will be making a decision regarding the Viking site at Woodstown, County Waterford in the matter of...
