Written answers

Tuesday, 12 April 2005

  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Security Industry
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the matters discussed at his meeting with representatives of the security industry on 31 March 2005; the reason he has opted...
    • Illegal Immigrants
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of migrant workers he estimates are working here illegally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6210/05]
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 72: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available; the number expected to be...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the figures and locations for the deployment of Garda mountain bike units; his views on their efficiency to date; and the...
    • Youth Services
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of young persons currently involved in Garda youth diversion programmes; the success of these programmes in...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who applied in the recent Garda recruitment drive; the breakdown of applications by gender; the number...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis upon which he has the power to delegate to his officials the power to adjudicate on an application for leave to...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made with regard to the Garda investigation into the major money laundering operation uncovered earlier in 2005;...
    • Immigrant Services
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals for the establishment of a new one-stop shop for dealing with all immigration matters; and if he will make a...
    • Commission on Policing and Crime
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has completed his consideration of the report of the Dublin Lord Mayor's Commission on Policing and Crime; if he...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he proposes to take in view of the growing level of alcohol abuse among young people and the links between this...
    • Coroners Service
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the outcome of two recent inquests relating to the deaths of two persons; if he will make...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he intends to take to deal with vandalism and anti-social behaviour which is causing major problems in many...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has raised or will raise the issue of the strong evidence of British security forces collusion in the murder of Donegal...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to review the practice of providing members of the Garda Síochána as full-time drivers for Government...
    • Omagh Bombing Civil Actions
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the assistance the Government intends to offer the survivors and relatives of the Omagh bombing in pursuit of justice through...
    • Victim Support
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the main functions of the new Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime; the budget and staffing arrangement for the new...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received during 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005; the number of applications...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plan of action to tackle the crisis in child care services. [5536/05]
    • Law on Defamation
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his consideration of the recommendations of the legal advisory group on the defamation law,...
    • Immigration Policy
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the unilateral decision of the Spanish Government to validate over 500,000 illegal immigrants in Spain; if any...
    • Reintegration of Prisoners
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date towards implementing the recommendations of the report of the NESF, published in 2002, on the...
    • Garda Liaison
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the promised Garda liaison officer to go through investigation files with the families of car-bombing and shooting victims...
    • North-South Policing Protocol
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent decision of the AGSI to withdraw co-operation from the North-South policing...
    • Immigration Policy
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on his reported statement that the immigration system could not be run on arbitrary sentimentality; his policy in...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of projects in the equal opportunities childcare programme which have progressed to sustainability since the...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to having the replacement of Buncrana Garda station advanced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electronic Monitoring
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals for electronic tagging for certain offences; the research his Department has done to establish the...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons in respect of whom deportation orders have been signed but who have not yet been deported; and if he...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to the recommendations contained in the report of the implementation steering group on...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps which are taken by this country to meet the commitment contained in the readmission agreement between Ireland and...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to serious concerns expressed by teacher unions at a number of recent reported cases in...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will re-examine, in a careful and compassionate manner his policy of refusing leave to remain to the majority of young...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions for speeding that may be deemed invalid following the High Court judgment that the laser guns...
    • Youth Services
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of juvenile liaison officers in the Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available; if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects that the long promised judicial conduct and ethics Bill will be published; if he has brought proposals to...
    • Refugee Appeals Tribunal
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the criteria used for the appointment of members to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda uses caller identification when receiving emergency and other telephone calls; and if he will make a statement...
    • Prison Committals
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons committed to prisons during 2004 for alleged breaches of immigration laws without having been charged...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications to remain in the State received to date from non-national parents of Irish-born children; the...
    • Firearms Offences
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the alarming growth in gun crime; his views on the need to take immediate legislative or...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider the immediate suspension of mass deportations to allow for an audit of the policy by the Human Rights...
    • Security Industry
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made in the Garda investigation into two robberies of security vans in Dublin during March 2005...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons granted leave to remain in the State in each of the past three years; the number granted leave to date...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he still proposes to have 1,000 gardaí on duty as part of his promised traffic corps; when he proposes to set up this...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of extra gardaí which will be provided in the year 2005 that will be additional to those who retire or take...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the concerns raised by a company (details supplied) in the human rights audit report on the operations of the...
    • Security Industry
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the operation of the Private Security Authority; the number of staff recruited by the authority;...
    • Prison Reports
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which the reports which have been submitted to him by Mr. Justice Kinlen have been implemented by him in an...
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made with regard to the implementation of the commitment contained in An Agreed Programme for...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the company which was contracted to undertake charter flights for deportees out of Ireland prior to the appointment of a...
    • Security Industry
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the discussions he has had with the Garda authorities following the spate of well organised robberies in the past four...
    • International Terrorism
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the most recent advice given to him by Garda authorities regarding the current level of threat to...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the detailed report from the Garda Síochána into the Garda investigation of the murder of two women in...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of recruits who have graduated from the Garda Training College as full Garda members since 6 June 2002; the...
    • Prison Reports
      Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reports which have been submitted to him by Mr. Justice Kinlen; the reports which have been published; the longest...
    • Garda Complaints
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid out either in respect of court awards or out of court settlements for claims taken against members of the...
    • Prisons Building Programme
      Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the financial criteria and any other criteria used in the selection of a site for a new prison in the Dublin...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the low level of detections, prosecutions initiated and convictions secured in respect of rape cases; the steps...
    • Prison Visiting Committees
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the mileage claimed by members of jail visiting committees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10870/05]
    • Garda Training
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the detailed breakdown of the staff numbers employed in training and other duties at the Garda College, Templemore currently...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will further examine the situation regarding the deportation of persons; if he will evaluate each such case directly...
    • Proceeds of Crime
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has explored the possibility of using money seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau for volunteer projects as a means of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 144: To ask the Taoiseach if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration of the visit and the cost...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 145: To ask the Taoiseach the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation programme; the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 146: To ask the Taoiseach the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups or organisations providing...
    • Departmental Records
      Question 148: To ask the Taoiseach the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10872/05]
    • Lisbon Agenda
      Question 149: To ask the Taoiseach the coordination arrangements he proposes to put in place to implement the Lisbon Strategy as agreed at the recent European Council summit and if he will make a...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average waiting period for primary school children to receive speech and language therapy; her proposals to address...
    • Health Services
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an orthodontic assessment. [9944/05]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued on medical grounds to persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who applied in...
    • Health Services
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will review the level of support being given in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of the application for special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied); when the...
    • Louth County Hospital
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a request from Dundalk Urban Council to meet her to discuss issues in relation to Louth County...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when two doors will be replaced for a person (detail supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the elderly...
    • Nursing Home Services
      Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the Government's attitude to the entitlement of persons who hold medical cards and who are in need of nursing home services...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when planning permission for the new development at Fermoy Community Hospital will be sought; when work will commence on...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the payment of a curam home care grant for a person (details supplied) after being assessed as...
    • Health Services
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason orthodontic treatment has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the card will be backdated to the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are problems in respect of public patients at Temple Street Hospital; and if the consultants are carrying out...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the dismissal of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if their case was handled in a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that procedures at Temple Street Hospital, Dublin in relation to the national treatment purchase fund...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of letters received by the East Coast Area Health Board between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004 from...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 1 March 2005, if it is reasonable to have this Deputy's question referred to...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work will commence on the promised extension to Kanturk Community Hospital, County Cork. [10032/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the funding and staffing recommendations of the Joe Wolfe report into St. Joseph's foundation will be implemented; and...
    • Children in Care
      Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of immigrant children who have gone missing while in the care of the State in 2004 and to date in 2005. [10067/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by a group (details supplied) in the allocation of...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding work to be completed to house under special housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details...
    • Health Services
      Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an invoice and application for funding for continued care from a person (details supplied); if...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an application for funding for a company (details supplied); if in view of the number of people...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a hip replacement operation. [10086/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if long overdue funding will be allocated for Beaumont Hospital to provide Cochlear ear implant operations for adults; and...
    • Community Physiotherapy Service
      Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regulations, orders, and guidelines from her Department limiting the community physiotherapy service to adults under...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regulations from her Department regarding the motorised transport grant; the reason this grant is limited to those aged...
    • Migraine Treatment
      Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether migraine is a disabling illness. [10137/05]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date when the BreastCheck screening programme will be extended to the whole of Ireland; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if extra funding will be offered to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin to expand facilities for persons who suffer with epilepsy;...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10162/05]
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding provision of work under special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when medical card renewal will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10165/05]
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with her in her official party;...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be made available towards staffing of the high dependency unit in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if...
    • Occupational Therapy Service
      Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) for occupational therapy; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that no psychiatric service intervention has been made to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 11...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a special bed and mattress for a person (details supplied) with terminal cancer approved in October 2004 have...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a record of the use of valium and ativan used in psychiatric hospitals; the quantity of each product used at a...
    • Mental Health Tribunals
      Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the mental health tribunals which were to be established under the 2002 Act will be established in order that persons...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to increase public information about inflammatory bowel disease; if she put inflammatory bowel disease on...
    • Scientific Research
      Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that none of the botox being safety tested on mice here with LD50 or other testing procedures will be...
    • Health Services
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 22 March 2005, if she will answer the question posed; and when she intends...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date it is expected that the national action plan for rehabilitation service, commissioned by her Department and...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Dunne inquiry costs €20 million; her views on the lack of public sessions, the lack of a special adviser,...
    • Health Services
      Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the dates within which a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was a patient; the way in which...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the medical and financial...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a response to an application for funding submitted to the health office, Kilkenny, for treatment of...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her response to the resignation of a consultant oncologist at Cork University Hospital recently; the steps she is taking to...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed for a wheelchair; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 is entitled to claim following the recent Supreme Court judgment on nursing home...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for the renewal of a medical card will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare;...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the introduction of a disability card which will be issued to those deemed to be disabled; and if she...
    • Health Reports
      Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when the report on the national expert group on domiciliary births will be published; and if she intends to act upon...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Child Care Act 1991 will be used to protect children against institutional neglect; and if she will make a statement...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 15 December 2004 and further to her responses to this Deputy dated 23 March...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 26 January 2005, the progress to date on the issue; if a detailed...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in the provision of residential services for people with a mental disability in the Athlone area of...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when capital funding will be given to the Irish Wheelchair Association. [10449/05]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a CAT scanner will be provided for Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, County Louth. [10456/05]
    • Patient Statistics
      Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, who have been on...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she intends to take following the findings of the national cancer registry report into cancer rates in County...
    • Suicide Prevention
      Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress of the national suicide review group in the implementation of the recommendations of the national task force...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the sections of her Department based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • Health Services
      Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when orthodontic treatment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the assistance her Department will give to the parent of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [10550/05]
    • International Trade
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the campaign to have fair trade products widely available and used; her views on the...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the HSEW response to allegations of abuse between 1993 and 1995 at a school (details supplied); and...
    • Health Services
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic treatment. [10589/05]
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the review dealing with the treatment of those under 18 who are misusing drugs will be published; and if she will make...
    • Suicide Prevention
      Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of suicide resource officers employed nationally; the regional health centres they are located in; the amount of...
    • Health Services
      Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is unable to have an emergency amputation to treat rampant gangrene...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the...
    • Health Services
      Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the system of reporting made by individual consultants in respect of the mix of public and private patients receiving...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the ratio of staff to child which is appropriate at the different stages of approved child care facilities. [10621/05]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a special chair will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision will be expedited...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hospitals that have failed to co-operate with the request from the Health and Safety Authority to provide...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have applied for repayments in respect of charges which were illegally applied for publicly...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme for psychiatric service personnel; and if she will make a...
    • Children in Care
      Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the decision of the Health Service Executive, north-eastern area, to take into permanent care a person...
    • Health Services
      Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients awaiting audiology services in the Health Service Executive north east area in Counties Cavan and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position on the provision of a CAT scanner for Monaghan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the grants and other financial assistance awarded by her Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is waiting for a hip operation; if they will...
    • Health Services
      Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if transport will be provided by the Health Service Executive western area to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo....
    • Hospital Services
      Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to provide a flexible system to meet the needs of patients with lifelong conditions who have to...
    • Hospital Budgets
      Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the annual budget allocated to Mullingar General Hospital, Tullamore General Hospital and Portlaoise General Hospital in...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns regarding barriers to entry in the dental profession; her proposals to...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 280: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in the National Rehabilitation...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to fill a vacancy due to the imminent retirement of a person (details supplied) at the Mercy University Hospital,...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a new wing of St. Vincent's Hospital, completed for the past 18 months, has not been opened for patients; the...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 283: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he has sought legal advice regarding the possible entitlement of elderly persons to a refund in cases in...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 284: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if assistance will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have an autistic child; and...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be allocated to replace the existing ambulance base in Thurles. [10843/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 286: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he will provide each carer of an elderly or terminally ill relative a minimum of four hours per week of...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called to Merlin Park Hospital. [10866/05]
    • Departmental Payments
      Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department. [10873/05]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 291: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied) for the provision of follow-on respite...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason transport is not being provided for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo with severe mental and physical...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 5 October 2004, if funding will be made available to continue the programme of...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the extension of the accident and emergency department of Kerry General Hospital; and if she will...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way by which she reconciles the employment ceiling in the health services with the Government's commitment to provide...
    • Health Services
      Question 299: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children the reason applicants for the curam home care grant are being advised that they have qualified for the grant...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to publish the capital funding programme for hospitals for 2005; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 304: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10940/05]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 305: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children the position regarding the extension of Kenmare Community Hospital in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an operation did not take place for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 307: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children if he will meet the president and a delegation of members from Down's Syndrome Ireland over the next few weeks...
    • Health Services
      Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10980/05]
    • Travers Report
      Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date on which the Travers report was submitted to her; the date on which the printed version of the Travers report...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 314: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a copy of the full report of the study group regarding cancer in the Summerhill area of Dublin 1 will be made available...
    • Health Services
      Question 316: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10985/05]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the continuing serious overcrowding in recent weeks in the accident and emergency unit...
    • Health Services
      Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the future plans for Brú Chaoimhin, Cork Street, Dublin 8. [11130/05]
    • Nursing Education
      Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason entry to public health nursing has been changed; if she and An Bord Altranais have satisfied themselves that...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an enhanced nursing home subvention will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [11132/05]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if any senior staff of the HSE or health boards have been retained as consultants while on career breaks from their posts;...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the continuing delay in providing the long promised extension to Bandon Community Hospital; and the further...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether funding should be made available to the parents of a child from west Cork, with a medical card, to...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 325: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery...
  • Department of Finance
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 326: To ask the Minister for Finance if an application for a primary medical certificate will be reconsidered in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 327: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will offer tax incentives for companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10475/05]
    • School Remediation Works
      Question 328: To ask the Minister for Finance when the asbestos remediation works to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 329: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has approved the revised sketch scheme for the new Garda station for Leixlip, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Relief
      Question 331: To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to negotiations between his Department and Kildare County Council regarding the permanent resolution of the flooding...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 332: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the settlement reached regarding the lands at Dublin Road, Kilkenny which were leased by his Department to be used as an accommodation...
    • Debt Relief
      Question 333: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress which has been made following recent meetings in London to cancel the debt of the poorest countries in the world and as Ireland's...
    • Tax Code
      Question 334: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is being assessed each year for income tax in view of the fact that their only source of...
    • Debt Relief
      Question 337: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the views expressed in correspondence (details supplied) when he attends the IMF-World Bank spring meetings in April 2005; if he...
    • Tax Code
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of beneficiaries for each year from 1997 to date in respect of exemption in relation to income from artistic activity exempted from tax;...
    • National Parks
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide as previously requested by the Deputy, a children's playground at the Dublin 15 end of the Phoenix Park, particularly in the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer, in terms of tax forgone, for each year from 1997 to date in respect of approved retirement funds, ARFs, for persons with...
    • Special Savings Incentive Scheme
      Question 345: To ask the Minister for Finance the conditions that accompany the maturing of SSIA accounts and the withdrawal by investors of the sums invested plus Government bonuses at maturity;...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Finance when the office of public works will provide office accommodation for the 180 people who have already volunteered to decentralise to Clonakilty under...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 347: To ask the Minister for Finance if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration of the visit...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      Question 348: To ask the Minister for Finance when an appeals officer will be reappointed to a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10188/05]
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 349: To ask the Minister for Finance if the transfer of a small parcel of land adjoining a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny from their ownership to the school for use as a...
    • Vehicle Registration
      Question 350: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of second-hand vehicles cleared in Bridgend, County Donegal, by revenue in the year 2004 compared to 2003; and if he will make a statement...
    • Special Savings Incentive Scheme
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Finance when the SSIA accounts are due to mature; the average contribution which savers have made to the scheme; the minimum and maximum contributors will...
    • Debt Relief
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Finance his views in regard to a submission (details supplied); the plans he has to deal with the matter at the forthcoming meeting of the IMF-World Bank;...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 354: To ask the Minister for Finance when the medical board of appeal for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme will be reconstituted; when staffing and administrative...
    • Tax Code
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person's (details supplied) tax credit will be amended to include a widow's tax credit; and if he will back-date this person with the allowance...
    • Special Savings Incentive Scheme
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of SSIA's due to mature at the end of each month from 31 May 2006 to 30 April 2007. [10368/05]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the €900 million promised for disabilities will only amount to the equivalent of €250 million after staff and administration...
    • Tax Code
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government will consider offering employers tax incentives to employ persons with disabilities as applies in Great Britain and Northern...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 360: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 9 March 2005 regarding an appeal for the disabled drivers allowance for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Special Savings Incentive Scheme
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances in which an SSIA holder would be liable for 23% of the entire moneys in the scheme due to recourse to borrowings by a person to...
    • Tax Code
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will work with the Department of Finance in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if this person will qualify for VAT...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Finance the money his Department will give to Dublin City Council to provide essential flood defences as outlined in the Dublin coastal flooding protection...
    • Houses of the Oireachtas
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Finance when the temporary carpark on Leinster lawn will be removed and when the lawn will be reinstated. [10430/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 366: To ask the Minister for Finance the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation programme;...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have fair trade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives of this campaign;...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 368: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide and update on the progress made in implementing the 2003 decentralisation programme; the locations at which facilities have been...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to warn and protect citizens who purchased endowment insurance mortgage products; the actions, including financial...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Finance the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups or...
    • Tax Code
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Finance the total VAT charged on the sales of the Band Aid DVDs and CDs launched at the end of 2004; and the way in which this compares to the money donated...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Finance when a P21 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for year ending 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10828/05]
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 378: To ask the Minister for Finance the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10874/05]
    • Money Laundering
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has contemplated any legislative changes with a view to preventing money laundering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7145/05]
    • Tax Code
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement in respect of reports of parents of children at a primary school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 having been asked for...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a member of the Garda Síochána and their family are waiting to occupy the living quarters of a...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times the public private informal advisory group has met from 2002 to date; the work programme and recommendations made by the group;...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery grants on a yearly basis...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 389: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on direct grant aid to meet capital start-up costs for bioenergy producer groups, as is the case in...
    • Salmon Fishing Licences
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government has plans to buy salmon drift net licences from drift net fishermen; and if he will make a...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a decision has been taken by the European Commission with regard to a feasibility study of the establishment...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 392: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress made on the funding for permanent works at the mouth of Dunmoran river and on the barrier sea wall...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 393: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the monitoring of departmental funding for the roll-out of broadband takes cognisance of the Prompt Payment...
    • Departmental Meetings
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the context and content of a meeting held between representatives of a group (details supplied) and an official...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Shell's 345 bar Rossport pipeline runs alongside the public road over significant portions of its length...
    • Mineral Development
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the difference in levels of compensation paid by his Department in the form of royalties to his...
    • Search and Rescue Service
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the efforts which will be made to assist the RNLI access at a location (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Gas Terminal Safety
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he proposes to consult the public on the matters as referred to in reply to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 179...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 403: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the granting of a compulsory purchase order to Shell in regard to the route of the proposed Corrib pipeline...
    • Dumping at Sea
      Question 404: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that the dredging and associated works at Dingle Pier were carried out in accordance...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 405: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the contractor or contractors employed in 2000 and 2001 in the development of the pier at Dingle; the amount...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 406: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans in place to extend the gas line from the Corrib gas field to the north west; if there will be a joint...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      Question 407: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason he has not yet ratified the appointment of the chairman of Dundalk Urban District Council to the...
    • Gas Terminal Safety
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government will guarantee the safety of the Corrib gas refinery project in north Mayo; and if he will...
    • Offshore Gas Processing
      Question 409: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the Corrib gas refinery will not be treating and cleaning gas offshore, as is being done in Kinsale...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 410: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 411: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the press release issued by his Department on 24 March 2005 headlined,...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views...
    • Foreshore Licences
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a decision will be made on an application (details supplied) for a foreshore licence in County Cork. [10610/05]
    • Energy Resources
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a serious oil supply crisis is imminent; and the plans in place to deal with a potential crisis. [10611/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of meetings which the bioenergy strategy group has held to date; the progress it has made; when the...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on whether Ireland can meet its target, as set out under EU law, to have 13.2% of its electricity...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 23 February 2005 when decisions will be communicated to Waterford...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 421: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to any proposals by Eircom to acquire a company (details supplied); if he has...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department....
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason and the way in which the onshore section of the high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall...
    • Communications Masts
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will request the removal of a phone mast (details supplied) in Harmonstown, Dublin 5; and if he will...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if officials of his Department briefed his predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, on the contents of...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in view of recent Supreme Court rulings, he has satisfied himself that the constitutional rights of the...
    • Post Office Network
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the likely impact on post offices of a switch of social welfare payments to non-cash methods; if he has a...
    • ESB Retail Offices
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the plans of the ESB to sell retail offices to the Bank of Scotland; if such...
    • Coastal Erosion
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when a decision will be made in respect of the application of Wexford County Council for urgently needed funding...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 436: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he plans to establish a group to examine a long-term policy for the commercial fishing industry; if such a...
    • Mobile Telephony
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the recommendation of the UK Independent Expert Group On Mobile Phones (details supplied) and on...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the issue of the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities was raised with the Chinese Government during the recent visit...
    • Departmental Websites
      Question 439: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason his Department's website states a person (details supplied) is the Irish ambassador in Austria when in fact it is another person;...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 440: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to illegal dumping taking place in Somalia; if he has raised the issue at European Union level; and if he...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he has initiated at EU and UN level with a view to investigation into the assassination in Burundi of a person (details supplied);...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration of the...
    • Telephone Helplines
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that calls to the customer care inquiry lines (details supplied) to which the public are directed...
    • Biometric Passports
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which progress has been made on the implementation of biometric passports as required for entry into the USA beyond 26 October...
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 447: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress being made to secure the release of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10482/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 448: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 449: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives of this...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 451: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raise with the British authorities the request of the Relatives for Justice group for a new investigation by the serious crime...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups or...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Government's position on the current instability in Lebanon and the continuing presence of Syrian troops in that country. [10744/05]
    • Middle East Peace Process
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has had, or plans to have, any contact with the new Palestinian Authority; and if the Government plans to increase aid to Palestine....
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 456: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to help counteract the increased pressures on aid agencies, in the aftermath of the tsunami of 26 December 2004, in coping with...
    • Irish Language
      Question 459: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the formal proposal tabled by Ireland by way of a draft amendment to EEC Regulation No. 1/1958 in the matter of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 460: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10876/05]
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when finance will be made available for the construction of a new swimming pool at Kilkenny city; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm that he has received an application for capital funding from a club (details supplied) in County Longford; if in...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the date on which a decision regarding the local authority swimming pool programme for Thurles will be made. [10471/05]
    • National Aquatic Centre
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when the National Aquatic Centre will re-open. [10501/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives of...
    • All-Ireland Soccer Team
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will support the formation of an all-Ireland soccer team; and if he will work with the FAI and the IFA on this matter. [10573/05]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the consideration he is giving to the application from a tennis club (details supplied) in Dublin 18 for funding under the sports...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council application for funding for the refurbishment of the Dundrum family resource...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 476: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery grants on...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10877/05]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when funding will be provided to a club (details supplied) in County Mayo under the sports capital programme. [11006/05]
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position on the application by Kildare County Council for grant aid towards the cost of replacing the swimming pool at Naas,...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Property Management Companies
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislation in place to regulate residential management companies and the property management companies they employ; if...
    • Research Funding
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if more funding will be provided for research and development to focus on the business strategy as worked out at the recent...
    • Job Creation
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to ensure that a task force is established in Sligo to create jobs in 2005 in view of the fact that...
    • Petrol Pricing
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the retail price of petrol at the pump compares with that charged in other EU member states; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the...
    • Grocery Industry
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position with regard to the review of the Groceries Order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10228/05]
    • Job Initiative
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received a report from the enterprise development officer funded through his Department; if all of the workforce...
    • Work Permits
      Question 489: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding a person (details supplied) seeking a work permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider extending the maximum period for participation in a community employment scheme past its present three...
    • Job Creation
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress in employment creation in County Louth with particular reference to the towns of Drogheda, Dundalk and Ardee;...
    • Unsolicited Goods
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 22 March 2005, the basis on which the protection afforded under the Sale of...
    • Work Permits
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications for work permits received, per country, for 2004; the number of work permits awarded per country;...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • International Trade
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Dublin and not Cork, the region with the highest concentration of pharmaceutical plants in the country, has been...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of places provided for in drug related community employment projects; the number of such employment places...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations...
    • Work Permits
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to non-nationals by nationality; and the skills or areas of employment in which they were...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10878/05]
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to compel GAMA to furnish immediate and full information to its workers regarding all money paid into...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department will be stopped from actively encouraging persons to transfer from the post office to the banks. [11548/05]
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved for the free electricity and television licence. [10343/05]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an oral hearing will be held for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who has applied for the carer's allowance, has been...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 523: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and paid unemployment benefit for the days that they are not...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 531: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 23 March 2005, the meaning of the term established whereby certain categories of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the maximum rent allowance should be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if this person's...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which the means were assessed for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo for the farm assist payment; and the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the full qualifying conditions for the carer's respite grant; the arrangements being made to cater for the expected increase in...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the grant of the orphan's allowance for two persons (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be backdated to the date of the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10879/05]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of women who received maternity benefit in each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; and the cost of such...
  • Department of Transport
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 547: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will bring into force a special blue card system similar to that in force in Great Britain and Northern Ireland whereby people with...
    • Air Transport Agreements
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Transport following the publication of recent media reports indicating that a deal on an Irish-US bilateral air agreement is imminent, will he advise if this...
    • Regional Airports
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has read the recent Air Transport Users Council report and in particular the serious issues being raised in the report about Shannon Airport...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 550: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of driving testers employed nationally; the number serving each test centre; the number of additionally employed driving testers from...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Transport if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration of the visit...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Transport further to previous parliamentary questions, if the waiting lists for driving tests in Portlaoise, Naas and Carlow centres has decreased; if not,...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement on the issue of the way in which Northern drivers are getting away with committing offences in this jurisdiction while...
    • Rail Services
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has to implement a rail freight subsidy, similar to that in place in other EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for Transport if steps are being taken to make it compulsory for pedestrians to wear reflective jackets when walking on public roads; if he accepts how dangerous...
    • Road Network
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans he has for the buying out of the tolls on M1 on the approaches to Drogheda town. [10462/05]
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      Question 560: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no requirement for the insurance of horse drawn carriages which are used for taxi and...
    • Road Safety
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for Transport when the long overdue guidelines on metric speed limits will be issued to local authorities; the reason these guidelines were not issued prior to...
    • Road Network
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin concerning the need for a pedestrian bridge on the new N11 at...
    • Public Transport
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been informed by Dublin Bus that the 239 bus route from Blanchardstown shopping centre to Liffey Valley is to be cancelled and the...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Transport the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives of this campaign;...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Transport the waiting time for driver theory tests at each test centre. [10584/05]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Transport the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups or...
    • Public Transport
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will establish the timeframe for the introduction of low floor buses in the Dublin area; if his Department has allocated finances to the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for Transport the position with regard to speed inhibitors on HGVs and other vehicles on roads here; and his views on the usefulness of speed inhibitors for...
    • State Airports
      Question 574: To ask the Minister for Transport if the major noise pollution from aircraft over a location (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be investigated; if he will work closely with Aer...
    • Telecommunications Equipment
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iarnród Éireann has erected a telecommunications mast at Ballymote Railway Station, County Sligo...
    • Transport Subventions
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of subsidy which was payable to each airline company which operates to each of the regional airports in 2004; and if he will compute...
    • Public Transport
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress of reinstating the "handy bus" in urban areas of Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10752/05]
    • Vehicle Standards
      Question 580: To ask the Minister for Transport the laws and regulations which govern the fitting of exhaust systems to road vehicles, in particular to private cars; if his attention has been...
    • Road Network
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has issued a policy direction to the National Roads Authority obstructing its proposal to buy back the tolling rights in respect of the M50;...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the length of the waiting lists for driving tests, particularly in the Dublin area; the measures he is taking to improve this...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for Transport the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10880/05]
    • Rail Network
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will approve the business case for the Kildare Arrow route project; if not, when he will respond to Irish Rail; if funding is available to...
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for Transport when the 34 rural transport initiatives groups will be notified of their funding for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11137/05]
    • State Airports
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Transport if officials of his Department have carried out any site assessment studies at Dublin Airport to ensure the selection of an optimum site for a...
    • Parking Facilities
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for park and ride facilities adjacent to each of the rail stations throughout the greater Dublin...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will grant aid a project (details supplied) from the dormant accounts fund at his disposal; and if he will make...
    • Security of the Elderly
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding will be made available to provide personal alarms and safety devices to all elderly persons; and if he will...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a copy of the report of the independent investigation into Waterways Ireland, completed in November 2004, has been...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official...
    • Security of the Elderly
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will review the system of allocating personal alarms and safety devices to elderly persons; if applications will...
    • Community Development
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the non-CLÁR areas with a 50% and upward population decline for the counties Wicklow and Carlow; if these will be...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will increase the grant to the Northside Community Law Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under...
    • International Trade
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have fair trade products widely available and used; his views on...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10881/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the payment of money under the young people's facilities and services fund to a youth centre...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 603: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; and the number of...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the details of the NeighbourWood scheme; the number of applications expected this year; the funding available; the scope of the...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with her in her official party; the duration...
    • Sheep Flock Restocking
      Question 608: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the conclusions of the meeting with the author of the Crosby report; her plans to implement the recommendations of the report; and if...
    • Afforestation Programme
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has made representations at EU level concerning the European Commission's proposal for a Council regulation on support for rural...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 610: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment of the 2003 and 2004 headage grants, area based payments and special beef premium will issue to a person (details supplied)...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 621: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will implement the recommendations of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food on the early...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a reactor grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10280/05]
    • Milk Quota
      Question 625: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will consider the application for farm partnership for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 626: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the payment of 2004 beef premium for three cattle to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10419/05]
    • Milk Quota
      Question 627: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if her Department will reconsider including this...
    • Afforestation Programme
      Question 628: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the progress to date on the national review of ash tree planting; the process in developing the report; when it is expected to go to...
    • Potato Sector
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the crop shortage (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10467/05]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 630: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who took part in the REP scheme programme each year from 2000; the number of farmers who have had a REP scheme...
    • Departmental Decisions
      Question 631: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of appeals submitted by farmers for each year since 2000; the number of decisions upheld and decisions reversed on appeal...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding pork and bacon in a chilled warehouse (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if her Department is...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 633: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the immediate steps her Department is taking to implement the recommendations of the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 634: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the sections of her Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 635: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she will implement the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food report on the early retirement...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 636: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will review the application for the single payment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 637: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food report (details supplied); if she will take steps at national...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; her views on the objectives of...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 639: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will consider moving smaller sections of the Department of Agriculture to regional agricultural offices. [10618/05]
    • Agriculture Appeals Office
      Question 640: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the recommendations contained in the agriculture appeals office annual report of 2003 which have not been implemented in full by her...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 641: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the grants and other financial assistance awarded by her Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups or...
    • Biofuel Crops
      Question 643: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures being promoted by her Department to increase the growth and use of biofuel crops to meet Ireland's energy needs; if her...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 644: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) will be awarded the REP scheme payment. [10739/05]
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 645: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she intends to declare Ireland a genetically modified free zone to protect Ireland's natural biodiversity and green food producing...
    • Live Exports
      Question 646: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will introduce a ban on the export of live horses for slaughter; if legislation is needed for this purpose; and if she will make...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be issued with a preliminary entitlement certificate. [10856/05]
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department. [10882/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 650: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason payment of premium forestry grants that was always in March of each year is now being delayed until April; and the reason...
    • Biofuel Crops
      Question 651: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures being promoted by her Department to increase the growth and use of biofuel crops to meet Ireland's energy needs and to...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she will take to ensure the speedy implementation of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food's report on the...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding the laws and regulation which govern the fitting of exhaust systems to road vehicles,the agency which is...
    • National Disability Strategy
      Question 654: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the person who has overall responsibility for the national disability strategy launched by him in September 2004, in...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will identify the members of the national advisory committee on racism; the criteria upon which the members were...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 656: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress in the provision of a CCTV system for Kilkenny city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9951/05]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the deportation of a person (details supplied) to Nigeria; his...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí on duty on St Patrick's Day in County Louth by location. [9997/05]
    • Garda Operations
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of arrests made by gardaí on St Patrick's Day in County Louth by location in each case. [9998/05]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 661: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for a registration in the land registry office will be completed. [10000/05]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason 35 Nigerian nationals were disgracefully deported from here on 15 March 2005 among them children and pupils...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda personnel allocated to Garda stations in Lucan, Clondalkin, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart and Brittas at...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 665: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for registration in the land registry office will be completed. [10069/05]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 666: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to persons (details supplied) who have applied for citizenship under the Irish born child scheme;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 667: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding citizens from Angola who have applied for residency recently under the revised arrangements who...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be approved or otherwise; and if he...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who achieved 97th out of approximately 1,100 applicants in an...
    • Departmental Appointments
      Question 671: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received correspondence to his business permission unit in respect of an application for employment (details...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 672: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if competency in the Irish language forms part of the eligibility criteria for entry to the Garda; and if he will make a...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 673: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited. [10207/05]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application to stay in the State in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if a...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals deported to Nigeria on a chartered flight on 14 March 2005; the average time each had spent...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 677: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for funding in the name of a group (details supplied) in County Carlow under the equal...
    • Travel Documents
      Question 678: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if his Department will issue new documents to them as the...
    • Traffic Fines
      Question 679: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts being made on a North-South basis to have reciprocal arrangements put in place to enable police forces to...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      Question 680: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the Morris tribunal rescinded its decision to move to Letterkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 682: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway for Irish citizenship and for an Irish passport is being...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 683: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received an application for capital grants under the equal opportunities childcare programme from a group (details...
    • Business Permission Scheme
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10251/05]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 685: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a visa for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration he gave to correspondence which he received (details supplied); if he will give a more substantive reply...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 688: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position on an application for a group (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 689: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 9 December 2004, the status of the residency application in question in view of...
    • Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme
      Question 690: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has carried out an appraisal of the application for funding under the equal opportunities childcare...
    • Business Permission Scheme
      Question 691: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the application for sole trader for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be processed. [10323/05]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 692: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Land Registry Office will expedite the application on a folio for a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [10324/05]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 695: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a visa application was refused to a person (details supplied); the further information required; and if he will...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 696: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proposals in place to call new Garda recruits for training from the panel of those already interviewed. [10340/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 698: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Blessington area, County Wicklow for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; if he will give...
    • Mobile Telephony
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the actions persons can take regarding abusive text messages on mobile phones; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 700: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to expedite an application for first registration by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath;...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 701: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when closed circuit television will be installed in Drogheda and Ardee in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Drugs Problem
      Question 702: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the action the Garda is taking and its progress in tackling the growing drug problem in...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of extra gardaí appointed to Drogheda, Dundalk and Ardee in each of the past five years. [10459/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for funding for a group (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 705: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times, since June 2002, private security companies have been robbed while in the process of transporting cash;...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 713: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times, since June 2002, that persons under the age of 18 years have been deported separately from their...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 715: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      Question 716: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 24 March 2005, the results of his Department's investigation into the death of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 717: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria by which certain categories of employees in his Department, for example, cleaners at Garda Headquarters,...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 718: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the gardaí at Mountjoy Garda Station, Dublin 7 liaise with Irish Rail regarding ongoing criminal and antisocial...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 719: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the...
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 720: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a copy of a report on allegations of abuse at an institution (details supplied) between 1993 and1995; the...
    • Work Permits
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a request for family reunification and an application for a work permit for their spouse by a person...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 722: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision to refuse a re-entry visa to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Judicial Appointments
      Question 723: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Government will appoint additional district justices in 2005; if there are vacancies for district justices; and if he...
    • Prison Staff
      Question 724: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if psychologists and addiction counsellors have now been appointed to the Mountjoy Complex, Cloverhill and Wheatfield...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 725: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda achieved their target of a 25% increase in the volume of opiates and all other drugs seized by the end of 2004...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 726: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the capital grant aid provided each year for each of the past five years to provide child care facilities; and the number of...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 728: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who has been informed that her application for residency on...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 729: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 734: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will revoke the deportation order against a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if this case will be...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 735: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a citizenship application for a person (details supplied) in County Waterford. [10724/05]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 736: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria applied in deciding on the application of nominating parents of a person married to an Irish national to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 737: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Question No. 358 of 8 march 2005, the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 738: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the present status of the Land Registry's Registry of Deeds Statement of Strategy and Business Plan 2002-05; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 739: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group (details supplied) in County Cork have not yet received their...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 740: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a dedicated missing persons bureau has been in existence; if he has assessed the urgent need to re-establish this bureau;...
    • State Bodies
      Question 741: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10883/05]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 742: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing will be completed in the Land Registry for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [10893/05]
    • International Agreements
      Question 745: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Government intends to continue to stay outside the Schengen area of the European Union; and if he will make a...
    • Courts Service
      Question 746: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a record is kept of the number of cases of judgments which have been reserved by a particular judge. [10897/05]
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 749: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the manner in which drugs which are seized by the national drugs unit at Dublin Castle are disposed of; and the period of...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 752: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Question No. 240 of 23 March 2005 regarding the figures for the number of firearms stolen, the breakdown of such...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 756: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on a situation in the Carraig na bhFear and Whitechurch area of County Cork (details supplied);...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 762: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10913/05]
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 763: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures which were put in place by his Department to settle 20 non-national families in Dundalk, County Louth who...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 764: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when application forms will be issued for staffing grants for community-based child care facilities; when those grants will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for temporary permission to remain in the State for a person (details...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to Ballymun, Finglas, Santry and Whitehall Garda stations, with a breakdown for each station....
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 769: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency and citizenship of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10999/05]
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 773: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the code of practice and the technical specifications for community based closed circuit television schemes will be...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 775: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if dual Irish-German citizenship will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the net number of extra gardaí that have been provided in line with the commitment given in the programme for Government to...
    • Courts Service
      Question 780: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has allocated sufficient funds to the Courts Service to facilitate current and anticipated requirements with...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 781: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has given any specific instructions in regard to the methodology to be used to tackle organised crime; if he has...
    • Money Laundering
      Question 782: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the suggestion that the proceeds of bank or other robberies, extortion, racketeering,...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if adequate communication structures exist between the Garda and police in other jurisdictions and Interpol to meet the...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent by which the number of gardaí deployed to each Garda station in Dublin and the greater Dublin area has increased...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the condition and level of technology available at the various Garda stations in County Kildare is in accordance with...
    • Garda Transport
      Question 788: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the quality and number of Garda patrol cars available for use from and through the various Garda stations throughout...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he expects to increase the opening hours of the various Garda stations throughout County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 790: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of public order incidents detected or reported in County Kildare in each of the past three years; the number of...
    • Prisons Building Programme
      Question 791: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on concerns (details supplied) on the proposed prison at Thornton Hall, County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 793: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to locate a full time Garda presence in Dunlavin, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 795: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the special classes being provided by the Celbridge branch of the Dyslexia Association of Ireland at...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 796: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the actions which have been taken to implement UN Resolution A/RES/53/243; and the initiatives the Government is undertaking to make...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 797: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) will be allowed to sit the leaving certificate exams at a suitable location in Nigeria; if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on an application for a school extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she...
    • School Staffing
      Question 800: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the issue of class sizes and staffing will be addressed at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide funding for additional permanent accommodation of two classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Staffing
      Question 804: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an additional teacher will be provided for a school (details supplied) which has an average staff-pupil ratio of 27:1; and if she...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 806: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans in place in her Department to reduce class sizes in primary schools throughout County Clare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will become available for the new school (details supplied) under the school building programme; and if she will make a...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the pupil-teacher ratio envisaged in the programme for Government with particular reference to the needs of individual schools...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 810: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funds will be made available this year to upgrade the toilets at a school (details supplied). [9982/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 811: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has had a chance to consider the paper read by a person (details supplied) which outlines the results of research on...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 813: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the commitment in the 2002 programme for Government to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in our schools, the reason the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 814: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [10013/05]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 815: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the inadequate staffing level that exists at a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; if her...
    • Abuse Allegations
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) left college over allegations of abuse; if this third level institution will accept responsibility and...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 818: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an application for a home tuition grant for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 18 will be sanctioned by her Department. [10063/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 819: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant support will be provided at a school (details supplied) in County Louth for a person who suffers from...
    • School Transport
      Question 821: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      Question 822: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application from a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow that has applied to the Department to fund the...
    • Parent-Teacher Meetings
      Question 824: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will furnish Department guidelines for parent-teacher meetings in schools in the State. [10084/05]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      Question 825: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 10 March 2005, the name of the person who was responsible for the error that caused the...
    • School Transport
      Question 826: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if previous correspondence has been brought to her attention (details supplied); if she will extend the bus route; and if she will make...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 827: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will use class size rather than pupil-teacher ratio as the measure for staffing levels in each primary school when...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 829: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will publish the special needs teacher allocation for primary schools before the end of the academic year; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 830: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposal to provide a purpose-built gym for a school (details supplied); when the gym will be built and...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 832: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost and value of the proposed second hand prefab for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the estimated cost for installing...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 834: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals for the replacement or refurbishment of a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 835: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a third level grant application which is under examination in her Department (details supplied) will be determined; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 836: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the right of appeal a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has following a decision of the National Council for Special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 837: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will sanction the acceptance of the tender to begin works in view of a promise made by the Government to provide funding for a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 838: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will accept the invitation to visit a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; if the officials in her Department will agree...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 839: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the reduction of classroom sizes for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to deal with the serious...
    • School Placement
      Question 840: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she intends to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who attends an all-Irish primary school is enabled...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 841: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a general purpose room, library resource, teaching room, principal's office, storage facilities and multipurpose room will be...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 842: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has received correspondence from a school (details supplied); the steps she will take to ensure that the average size...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 845: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with her in her official party; the duration...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 848: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in acquiring a site for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [10191/05]
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 850: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that have had to use their physical education rooms as general class rooms at the behest of her Department to...
    • School Discipline
      Question 851: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of cases of physical violence or injury by students against teachers reported to her Department in primary and secondary...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 852: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps her Department will take to reduce the pupil teacher ratio in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [10201/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 853: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will report on the examination of the sites of two schools (details supplied) in County Laois; when a decision will...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 854: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on funding phase 1A of the development plan of the Institute of Technology, Tallaght; and if she will make...
    • School Staffing
      Question 855: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the staffing levels and class supports available for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 859: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give a breakdown, county by county, in tabular form, of the new awards of higher education grants under socio-economic...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 862: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on the building extension programme for a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 863: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on the extension building programme for a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan; her views on the fact that it is...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 864: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review primary circular 32/03 to amend the PC 32/03 to allow primary school pupils to repeat sixth class in their primary...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 865: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of national school classes in the Dublin 24 area which have 30 or more children in the classes; the number of teachers in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 866: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 867: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans her Department has to address the serious problems being encountered by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare with...
    • School Placement
      Question 868: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans she has to address the problems for persons (details supplied) who cannot obtain places for their children at a school. [10290/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 871: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that her Department has received an application for a small increase in additional funding, to permit a new school...
    • School Transport
      Question 872: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans her Department has to provide safe school transport for persons attending a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 873: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she proposes to address the issue of the high pupil-teacher ratio, with particular reference to bringing Ireland into a more...
    • School Staffing
      Question 875: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve the appointment of an additional teacher for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 877: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department has refused to approve the allocation of a portacabin for a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 878: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether solicitor fees of 20% of the awards by the Residential Institutions Redress Board is an excessive charge; and if...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 879: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) was not granted funding under the summer works scheme. [10333/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 880: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant permission to a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Cork to purchase a site for the development of its...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 881: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an education grant application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork to Cork County VEC. [10335/05]
    • School Libraries
      Question 883: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding avenues open to a disadvantaged school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to establish a school library which would include a...
    • School Staffing
      Question 884: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans she has for the reduction of school classes in primary schools in line with the commitment in the programme for Government;...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 886: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will change the system of qualification for mature students whereby if they live outside the country in the autumn of the...
    • School Placement
      Question 887: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has been told that they are living in the catchment area for Killahan national...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 888: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the special circumstances of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14 in view of the large number of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 889: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools in Mayo which applied for funding under the summer works scheme 2005 and the number which were successful. [10413/05]
    • Vocational Education Committees
      Question 890: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the position of chief executive officer of Clare VEC, which was advertised sometime ago, will be filled; and if she will make a...
    • Educational Appointments
      Question 892: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to appoint an extra teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10421/05]
    • State Examinations
      Question 893: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a reader and spelling waiver will be granted to a person (details supplied) sitting the leaving certificate in 2005; and if she will...
    • School Staffing
      Question 894: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has been employed at a national school in...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 896: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she intends to take to ensure that the primary school capitation grant covers the basic costs of running the schools; if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 897: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans she has for the expansion of existing primary schools in County Louth or the construction of new schools to facilitate the...
    • Modern Language Teaching
      Question 899: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take steps to ensure that legislation intended to curb bogus language schools here does not have the effect of preventing...
    • School Transport
      Question 900: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will release the school transport report finalised last year; the plans she has to increase the charges associated with school...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 901: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; the timeframe for reduction of...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 902: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement regarding the grant application for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [10485/05]
    • School Staffing
      Question 904: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take urgent steps to address the concerns of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 905: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [10521/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 906: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sections of her Department based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 907: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork did not qualify for a higher education grant. [10543/05]
    • Early School Leavers
      Question 908: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on correspondence from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding the stay in school retention initiative; if funding...
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 910: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assistance her Department will give to the parent of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [10551/05]
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 911: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; her views on the objectives of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 912: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to plans to construct a new community college at Croom, County Limerick. [10570/05]
    • Educational Projects
      Question 913: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a full evaluation of the Walk Tall and On my Own Two Feet programmes has been carried out; the main findings of this evaluation; and...
    • School Transport
      Question 915: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be made on a school transport service (details supplied) in County Cork. [10614/05]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 916: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of school places in the Mullingar area for pupils wishing to commence primary school or...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 917: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a national school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 which has a split class in which there are 13...
    • School Capital Programme
      Question 920: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent from the school capital programme on primary schools in County Wexford in 2004; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 921: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of applications for special needs assistants submitted to her Department from primary schools in County Wexford in 2004; the...
    • Student Councils
      Question 924: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to encourage the development of student representative councils for post-primary schools; and if she will make a...
    • Third level Courses
      Question 926: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of third level places provided for speech and language therapy students per year; her proposals to address the shortage of...
    • Adult Education
      Question 927: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she proposes to implement the McIver report on adult education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10657/05]
    • School Placement
      Question 928: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) will be allocated a place in a school in Dublin 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10659/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 929: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grants and other financial assistance awarded by her Department in each of the past three years to men's organisations and groups...
    • School Staffing
      Question 931: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a need to maintain a full-time resource teacher at a school (details...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 932: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are pupils attending a school (details supplied) in County Dublin who have had...
    • School Staffing
      Question 935: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a full-time resource teacher for Travellers for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; when the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 936: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the decision not to approve a degree course for grant purposes for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if...
    • School Staffing
      Question 937: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when resource hours will be sanctioned for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [10757/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 938: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will advance proposals submitted to her Department by parents to establish a class for children with Asperger's syndrome at a...
    • School Placement
      Question 939: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the enrolment of a person (details supplied) at a school in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 940: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether 2500 additional trained teachers will be required to bring class sizes in primary schools in line with the...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 941: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 17 February 2005, when it is anticipated that the National Council for Curriculum and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 942: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when funding for school building and budget will be authorised for a school (details supplied) for children with autism which...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 943: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will continue to receive two and a half hours resource teaching at a school (details...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 944: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department. [10884/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 945: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the average cost of new two teacher schools, built over the past three years. [10914/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 946: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a one to one resource teacher will be available to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10915/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 947: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action her Department proposes to take to upgrade a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20. [10916/05]
    • School Enrolments
      Question 948: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the notification which was received from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding the 20 non-national families...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 950: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if any assessment has been carried out of the effectiveness of the policy of integration of special needs pupils into mainstream...
    • School Staffing
      Question 951: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a request from a school (details supplied) for a special needs teacher; if the criteria for such a post has been...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 952: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the pupil-teacher ratio at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare now stands at...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 958: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give consideration to an application under the SWS for badly-needed fencing at schools in the Dublin 10 area (details...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 959: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give consideration to an application from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staffing
      Question 960: 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; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 962: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give urgent priority to the proposal by the County Kildare VEC to build a new community college in Athy; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 969: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for the provision of temporary accommodation; and when the prefab...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 972: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the invitation of tenders for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in 2005; and...
    • Schools Recognition
      Question 976: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if permanent recognition of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been sanctioned; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 977: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the urgent need to address the provision of a covered walkway at a school (details supplied) in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 978: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if sanction will be given for the appointment of a part-time or full-time learning support teacher at a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Staffing
      Question 979: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the areas of greatest shortages in terms of teacher numbers in the second level system. [11152/05]
    • Student Support Schemes
      Question 980: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself with the operation of the grants scheme for third level education; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 981: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on the long promised extension to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 984: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra teaching staff will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare based on the class size and number of pupils...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 985: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding extra facilities required at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she expects the project to...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 994: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra temporary accommodation required by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is in place in addition to its accommodation...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 995: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the classroom extension at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is on target to be completed in the latter half of 2005;...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1001: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a major refurbishment project by a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1002: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school extension at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is on target to complete in the latter half of 2005; and if she...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1013: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on site acquisition to meet the requirements of alternative or new school facilities at a school (details supplied); if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1015: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when works will commence at a college (details supplied) in County Kildare regarding roof repair and conversion works; and if she will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1016: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the acquisition of a site for a new national school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her attention has...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1017: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the extra facilities and funding for the Saplings project; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 1018: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if following the formal endorsement by the Cabinet on 22 April 2005 of the review and recommendations of the OECD on third level...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1019: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she expects to meet the enrolment need of parents in the Sallins, Naas, Kill areas of County Kildare at primary and...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 1023: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools in the State; the number of classes in these primary schools; the number of these classes that have 25...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1024: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application from a school (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the need to retain the existing quota of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1025: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if under the new circular for special needs (details supplied) specific learning disability, borderline mild general learning...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1026: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 several classes with up to 30 pupils have...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1027: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if consideration has been given to building a replacement school for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to alleviate overcrowding...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1030: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether it is not cost effective to continually add a prefab a year to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 as has...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1035: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) will not lose any of the services of its special needs assistants, resource teacher or learning support...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1037: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) draws its children from an area designated as...
    • School Services Staff
      Question 1040: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10 has no full-time secretarial support and...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 1041: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery grants on...
  • Department of Defence
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 1042: To ask the Minister for Defence if and when military service allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 1044: To ask the Minister for Defence if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his official party; the duration of the visit...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1046: To ask the Minister for Defence the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin locations under the decentralisation...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 1047: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his views on the objectives of this campaign;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1048: To ask the Minister for Defence the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10885/05]
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 1049: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number of such lottery grants on a yearly basis...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 1050: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the coming into effect of the Kyoto Protocol will result in an easing of restrictions on the building of...
    • Election Management System
      Question 1051: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the decision by the European Parliament's budgetary committee to spend €8 million on a biased pro-EU...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1052: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses built in County Louth on a yearly basis since 2000; and the funds allocated to each...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1053: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether having to visit more than one post office to get a voter registration application form...
    • Local Authority Levies
      Question 1054: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he proposes to have penalties and levies under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 increased on a sliding scale;...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1055: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of businesses obliged under regulations to take responsibility for their waste; and if he will...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 1058: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if central heating for the elderly and disabled is covered under his Department's guidelines to local...
    • Road Network
      Question 1059: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will issue figures showing the amount of money per kilometre granted to each county for regional and...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1060: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding has been granted to Sligo County Council for the proposed new sewerage scheme for Rathcormac,...
    • Road Network
      Question 1064: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be granted to Sligo County Council for works on the Knocknagore to Culfadda road in County...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1065: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made on the water supply and sewerage treatment plants in Ballinacarrow, County Sligo; if funds...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1066: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of housing units made available in west Cork under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1067: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to receive details of the contract between Dublin City Council and a company (details...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 1068: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether a registration system should be put in place for contractual agreements that give...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1069: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that sewage sludge is not being treated properly in this country; if he will take the...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 1070: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to illegal dumping taking place in Somalia; if he has raised the issue at...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1071: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the practice of developers being able to apply for retention permission as this undermines...
    • Asbestos Removal
      Question 1072: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme of assistance for householders who are removing asbestos from their homes....
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 1073: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he travelled abroad for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations; the persons who travelled with him in his...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      Question 1074: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is compulsory for all private landlords who have tenants in receipt of rent supplement over 18 months...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1075: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has examined the possibility of reforming the electoral system so that Irish citizens...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1076: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider amending the planning law so that effective enforcement action will be taken in respect...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1078: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the seven pilot projects affecting 5,000 local authority housing applicants relative to their...
    • Serviced Land Initiative
      Question 1079: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Question No. 222 of 27 January 2005, the position regarding the status of the application; and if...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 1080: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied with the rate of compliance with Part M of the building regulations; if he will make...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1081: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has a scheme of priorities for affordable housing. [10387/05]
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 1083: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position concerning an application for funding by Westmeath County Council concerning the erection of new...
    • Commercial Rates
      Question 1084: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage rates of increase levied in respect of commercial rates by all local authorities for the year...
    • Motor Vehicle Registration
      Question 1085: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Question No. 223 of 27 January 2005, when the review of the vehicle registration certificate will...
    • Tidy Towns Competition
      Question 1086: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the financial assistance his Department will offer to the Ardee tidy towns committee in County Louth. [10448/05]
    • Capital Loan and Subsidy Scheme
      Question 1087: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the delay in approving the funding for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1088: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress being made on an application for budget cost approval for phase 1 of a scheme (details supplied)...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 1089: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the areas of the country which are designated nitrate vulnerable zones; and the action programme which is in...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1090: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the sections of his Department currently based outside Dublin which will be moved to other non-Dublin...
    • Fairtrade Products
      Question 1091: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to have Fairtrade products widely available and used; his...
    • Building Regulations
      Question 1092: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason officials of his Department are required to inspect for and produce floor area compliance, when...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1093: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is correct that in future local authority tenants who are being de-tenanted because of refurbishment of...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1094: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in the context of the purchase of affordable houses from local authorities by qualifying individuals and...
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 1095: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his initiatives to establish a recycling lottery with a view to encouraging households to become more...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1096: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grants and other financial assistance awarded by his Department in each of the past three years to men's...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1097: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons on waiting lists for affordable housing across the various affordable housing schemes...
    • House Prices
      Question 1100: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage increase in house prices since January 2002. [10729/05]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage increase in the loan limits under the affordable housing and shared ownership schemes since...
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 1102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will increase central Government support for recycling in view of the recent growth in the sector...
    • Library Projects
      Question 1103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will provide the funding to build the new county library in Clones, County Monaghan; and if he will...
    • Homeless Persons
      Question 1105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposals he has to meet the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford regarding the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 23 February 2005, if the reports of Waterford County Council on...
    • Youth Services
      Question 1107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when details and the application process of a project (details supplied) will be confirmed; and if he will...
    • Seanad Elections
      Question 1108: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures which are being put in place to ensure that Seanad electoral rolls of the National University...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1109: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding which has been made available to allow the Kilcummin and Barraduff sewerage schemes in County...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 1113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that businesses other than those serviced by a company (details supplied)...
    • Local Authorities
      Question 1115: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a complete list of executive and reserve functions of the local authorities. [11002/05]
    • Road Network
      Question 1116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received an application for supplementary funding for roads in the Turnings area of Straffan,...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious problem facing applicants for disabled persons grants in...
    • Planning and Development Regulations
      Question 1118: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 specifically exclude educational facilities, child...
    • Library Projects
      Question 1120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 532 of 30 November 2004, if he has made an announcement in 2005 of the...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 1121: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of lottery funding advanced to date on a yearly basis to projects outside this State; the number...

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