Written answers
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
- Department of Health and Children
- Independent Reviews
Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she intends to take arising from the report of the independent review into the circumstances of the death of...
- Health Services
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the 32 local health offices of the HSE will be put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9496/05]
- National Cancer Strategy
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the new cancer strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9469/05]
- Debt Collection
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that publicly funded hospitals spent more than €300,000 on the employment of...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to roll out the national cervical screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Inquiry
Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected completion date of the inquiry to be chaired by Judge Maureen Harding-Clarke into the activities of a person...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be rolled out nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9458/05]
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 21: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made with regard to the recruitment of a chief executive officer for the Health Service Executive; when it is...
- Hospital Services
Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average number of patients on trolleys or chairs awaiting treatment or assessment in accident and emergency units for...
- MRSA Incidence
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is inappropriate that MRSA patients are nursed in open wards with a huge risk for other patients,...
- Hospital Services
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide radiotherapy services for patients in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if over 200 lives per annum would be saved in the south and west if the BreastCheck programme was up and running; and if she...
- EU Conventions
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Ireland has failed to join 31 other European states in ratifying the Council of Europe's 1997 Convention on Human...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to implement any recommendations made in a report (details supplied), if so, if she will report on the...
- Independent Reviews
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her consideration of the report of the pharmacy review group; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Diabetes Incidence
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to introduce to prevent and to treat diabetes in view of the fact that the incidence of diabetes in...
- Hospital Charges
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that hospital service...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided to date in regard to the commitment given in the national health strategy to provide an...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the failure of political leadership in her Department between 2000 and 2004. [9517/05]
- Health Service Executive
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will hold the HSE board meetings in public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9495/05]
- Health Services
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Government has delivered on the 800 additional extended care and community nursing unit places per annum as promised...
- Children in Care
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a review planned, following the taking into State care by the Health Service Executive of five children (details...
- Health Services
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive working group on cystic fibrosis services, which was set up after a report labelled CF...
- Hospital Staff
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing posts unfilled at the latest date for which figures are available; the number of qualified nurses who...
- Carcinogenic Products
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to undertake a review of food safety procedures in view of the fact that so many products on sale here have...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on filling the offices of chief executive officer of the HSE and Secretary General of her Department;...
- Hospital Charges
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has records of representations by or on behalf of persons in long-term care who challenged or queried the...
- Hospital Services
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent turning away of many patients from the accident and emergency department of Cork University...
- Sunbed Usage
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the call from the Environmental Health Officers Association for the introduction of...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the responsibilities of a Minister for State in her Department; the nature of the accountability of same for their special...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, there was any record in her Department regarding the reason the new Minister for Health...
- Ministerial Meetings
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on each and all of the meetings which have taken place between her immediate predecessor and the then...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the Travers report, any investigation has been held in her Department to determine the location of the file...
- Health Services
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work will commence on the community nursing unit on the grounds of Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry; and if...
- Children in Care
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of families with children who have autistic behaviour that had care orders issued by health boards or the HSE in...
- Influenza Outbreak
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to deal with a possible outbreak of avian flu. [9249/05]
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for the repayment of the moneys illegally taken from old age pensioners while in various health board...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the treatment purchase fund will be used to allow women in the south and west of the country to have mammograms and have...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports (details supplied) that Beaumont hospital has less than 15% of the beds it needs for kidney and...
- Hospital Services
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the grave shortfall in services for rheumatology patients; if adequate funds will be...
- Hospital Staff
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the further action she has taken with respect to the inter-related and ongoing problems of services and staffing at Monaghan...
- Medical Cards
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to the findings of the Supreme Court of 16 February 2005, the cost of the over 70s medical card for each of the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the European Parliament resolution on breast cancer, 2003, the third edition of the...
- Health Service Reform
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the progress of the structural reform programme to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to address the ongoing problem oflengthy waiting lists for new diabetes patients; and if she will...
- Task Force on Alcohol
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to implement fully the recommendations in the second report of the strategic task force on alcohol; the way in...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role of the Minister for Health and Children and the Ministers of State at the meeting in December 2003 on the nursing...
- Hospital Services
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she or her predecessors have not appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children to discuss...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the outstanding difficulties being experienced in Letterkenny General Hospital due to an...
- Health Services
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers or health sector personal social services professionals in each regional health area that are...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of long stay public beds available throughout the country on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on...
- Food Dispensers
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on banning soft drinks and snack food dispensers from State run health institutions; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 17 June 2004 if she has satisfied herself that guidelines which were issued in...
- Organ Retention
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the basis of her decision to close down the Dunne inquiry into the retention of organs of deceased children; her proposals...
- Hospital Services
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a media report (details supplied) which claimed that she may recommend that a number of provincial hospital...
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the number of trained pharmacists from abroad who cannot practice here although eligible...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role and responsibilities of her special advisers, in particular their role in relation to briefing her on issues...
- Medical Cards
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued at 30 September 2004 and at the latest date for which figures are available; the reason...
- Health Service Reform
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Hanly report; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Charges
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that hospital charges...
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of mumps reported to date in 2005; the way in which this compares with the same period in 2004; if she...
- Health Service Reform
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has read the report of the Irish Society of Medical Oncologists which was submitted to the working group of the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of the European working time directive; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent survey which showed serious morale problems within the Irish Blood...
- Health Service Staff
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has had discussions with the HSE on any health staff ceilings for 2005; the outcome of those discussions; and if she...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of the recent hospitals' progress report on patient waiting times published by the national treatment purchase...
- Medical Cards
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards which were available to persons in each of Counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath in January...
- Clinical Indemnity Scheme
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of negotiations with hospital consultants on the indemnity scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the stage of development of the old international trading centre site; when the BreastCheck programme for the south is due...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to increase the number of public long stay beds; the projected timetable for implementation of the...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children to clarify the circumstances surrounding the meeting last December of the then Secretary General of the Department of...
- Organ Retention
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the problems that have led to the Dunne inquiry's repeated failure to meet deadlines; and if she will...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on a policy or framework for the future funding of long term care of the elderly; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she proposes to take to alleviate the financial difficulties experienced by rape crisis centres such as that...
- EU Presidency
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the work carried out by her Department before and during the EU presidency; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of positions of personnel working in public hospitals here which are funded by pharmaceutical companies; and if...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €2,000 [i]ex gratia[/i] payment agreed to be made to persons in publicly funded long stay nursing homes will not...
- Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department's guidelines for the administration of chemotherapy are being breached due to the failure of her...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make available mammograms for women in Waterford on the basis that there is the capacity to treat them in the...
- Hospital Services
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the additional services which have been provided in each of the HSE areas for the development of cancer services in 2005;...
- Community Nursing Units
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will continue with plans to provide beds in CNUs through public private partnership as announced in July 2002; the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 15 February 2005, the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Mayo...
- Health Services
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the inordinate delay in providing a full drug treatment facility in the Finglas area of Dublin as promised...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the refund of nursing home charges to patients or their estates; the situation for elderly persons...
- Residential Home Charges
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review the current practice of residential homes, such as St. Michael's House and St. John of God, taking half...
- Medical Cards
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review an application for a medical card which was refused in the name of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Hospital Services
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has a responsibility to provide maternity services to all women here who need them; and the provision which is made...
- Ambulance Service
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the charges by health boards for the use of ambulances in all instances including emergencies; and...
- Health Services
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the details of the membership of the working group set up to consider the recommendations of the Pollock report on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards in use; the extent to which this number is expected to increase in the near future; and if she...
- Health Service Staff
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of consultancy posts at medical or surgical level vacant throughout the health service; her plans to fill these...
- Cancer Incidence
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has evaluated trends in respect of the various forms of cancer on a county basis; if she has...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which beds or hospital wards are idle or unoccupied at present; and if she will make a statement on the...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to waiting lists in respect of hip, heart or eye surgery; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of child support services available to parents of children with serious behavioural problems; and if she will...
- Hospital Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the full extent of the respiratory and tuberculosis services previously available at Peamount Hospital, Newcastle, County...
- Health Services
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the method for assessment in respect of orthodontic requirements; the average number deemed to require such services in a...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the legal entitlement to nursing home care of a person with a medical card; and the legal basis on which health authorities...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the flood relief plans to be put in place in two areas (details supplied) in County Cork. [9622/05]
- National Lottery
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue taken in sales by the national lottery on lotto and lottery tickets in County Tipperary for the years 2003 to 2005. [9752/05]
- Flood Relief
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Finance when payment of moneys will be issued to business people (details supplied) in County Cork whose premises were damaged by flood waters and who have...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance the roles and functions carried out by any special advisers attached to his Department; if any circulars or instructions have been issued within his...
- EU Cohesion Policy
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the Dublin-Merseyside declaration which proposes to bring the Dublin Regional Authority and the Merseyside region,...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is responsible for the performance of the functions of his Department in accordance with section 3 of the Public Service Management Act 1997....
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Communications Masts
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if her attention has been drawn to any health hazard presented by 3G mobile masts; if she has been consulted by...
- Pension Provisions
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason for the delay by his Department in completing its consideration of a case submitted by a person...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will amend the Control of Fishing for Salmon Order 2005 to provide that a licence holder, when applying...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on whether a person (details supplied) would contradict their earlier opinion and so expose their work...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of the necessary funding to a local authority to complete urgent...
- Fishing Licences
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is intended to penalise persons found guilty by the courts in the matter of fishing offences in regard to...
- Retail Sector Developments
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the tender procedures which were used for the disposal of retail shops by the ESB to ensure that maximum value...
- Fishing Licences
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the statement of the chairman of Stop Salmon Drift Nets Now that a fair and...
- Coastal Protection
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for substantial coastal protection work in County Waterford...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, on many occasions, undocumented Irish persons currently in the United States are not able...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has conducted any assessment of the capacity to develop skateboarding as a recreational outlet in Dublin city and...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of an application for funding in the name of Kilkenny Borough Council to provide a new swimming pool and sports complex;...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has satisfied himself that consumers are not at risk from air fresheners for sale in the State which may contain...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the special advisers attached to his Department are part of the line management system of his Department. [9635/05]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the investigation which he instigated into a company (details supplied) following allegations...
- Work Permits
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will have their work permit renewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused the carer's allowance; and if an appeal will be opened on their...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the roles and functions carried out by special advisers attached to his Department; if circulars or instructions have been issued...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the categories of workers in the public service who pay an A stamp while temporary or on probation and who, when promoted or made...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is responsible for the performance of the functions of his Department in accordance with section 3 of the Public Service...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the one parent family allowance has been terminated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Department of Transport
- Pension Provisions
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the deficit in the pension coverage of retired aviation staff; the Government's position in relation to any...
- Road Signage
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Transport the regulations which are in place to ensure proper control of traffic signs while road works are being carried out by contractors; the persons who...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport if an express consent was given to the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, pursuant to section 38(4) of the Road Traffic Act 1968, for the supply by...
- Railway Stations
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport the maximum current capacity in terms of daily passenger throughput of each of the commuter rail stations in County Kildare; if he can identify the...
- Public Transport
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether the cost of public transport is overpriced, is acting as a disincentive to persons using public transport and thereby reducing...
- Rail Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann has carried out a feasibility study regarding the reopening of the railway line between Mullingar, Moate and Athlone; if, in...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Inland Waterways
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is notified by Waterways Ireland...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
Question 210: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na tograí i gceantar Bhaile Ghib a mhaoinigh Údarás na Gaeltachta gach bliain le deich mbliana anuas agus cad...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the progress to date in implementing each of the measures in the national drugs strategy. [9658/05]
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application submitted under the single payments entitlement scheme. [9604/05]
- Milk Quota
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will grant permission to a person (details supplied) to release their milk quota to a substitute transferee who meets all the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Refugee Legal Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of each judicial review of the decisions of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal for 2002, 2003 and 2004. [9569/05]
- Courts Service
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases on any aspect of immigration that are before the courts at present; the category into which each case...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if identical speed detection equipment can be used in speed detection in day time and night time hours. [9579/05]
- Garda Investigations
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the answer to Question No. 798 of 26 January 2005 will be available. [9580/05]
- International Agreements
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the continued growth of the high-technology industry here and the contribution of this industry to the...
- Residency Permits
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received a five-year residence visa; and if he will make a...
- Children Act
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the sections of the Children Act 2001 which have not yet been commenced; the sections which have been...
- Parental Leave
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in relation to parental leave, he will examine the question of having no age limit for children with special needs when...
- Registration of Title
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department will complete a dealing (details supplied). [9612/05]
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons refused leave to enter at the country's ports of entry in 2004; the number of these who were refused...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of successful citizenship applications made by refugees or persons with leave to remain status that were...
- Asylum Applications
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9656/05]
- Departmental Contracts
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the name of the airline charter company contracted by his Department to carry out deportations. [9666/05]
- Visa Applications
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if and when a visa extension will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for Irish citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if this will...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Staffing
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will appoint an extra full-time classroom teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Galway. [9587/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an immediate review will be made of the application for resource teaching and a special needs assistant for a person (details...
- School Discipline
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines which are issued to schools in regard to discipline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9589/05]
- Bullying in Schools
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines which are issued to schools in regard to bullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9590/05]
- School Supervision
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines which are issued to schools in regard to the accompaniment of pupils when they leave the classroom to attend the toilet;...
- Linguistic Institute of Ireland
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress on the ITE/The Linguistic Institute of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9592/05]
- Mobile Telephony
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on an anomaly in the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, whereby mobile phone base stations may not be installed on...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will investigate an entitlement to payment of the top up maintenance grant under the higher education grant system in respect of...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when part-time teachers at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive contracts of employment in accordance with...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress to date regarding a new national school for Mell, Drogheda, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway will not be entitled to 2.5 hours resource teaching on a one-to-one basis; if...
- Youth Services
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sections of the Youth Work Act 2001 that have been implemented to date; her plans for the implementation of the remaining sections...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious delays in having higher education grant payments issued to students whose parents are...
- Department of Defence
- FCA Training
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Defence the position in relation to a person (details supplied) who wishes to transfer service with the FCA to the CBFSAI; if this FCA service on full-time...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Planning Issues
Question 269: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on an anomaly in the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, whereby mobile phone base stations...
- Youth Facilities
Question 270: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is considering the development of any support scheme for skateboarding on a pilot basis; if his...
- Ionad Oidhreachta
Question 271: To ask the Aire Comhshaoil, Oidhreachta agus Rialtais Áitiúil an bhfuil aon phleananna ann chun ionad oidhreachta a chur ar fáil do dhúiche Thailteann i gContae na Mí; ar...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to ensure all public libraries in the State are accessible to persons with disabilities; the way in...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 276: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the new charges which local authorities have been authorised to implement since June 1997; the existing...
- An Chomhairle Leabharlanna
Question 278: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding made available in 2003 and 2004 for An Chomhairle Leabharlanna; the role and function of An...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 279: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has been responsible for the delay in a sewerage scheme (details supplied) being put in...
