Written answers
Tuesday, 26 April 2005
- Department of Education and Science
- Education Welfare Service
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of education welfare officers currently employed by the NEWB; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12933/05]
- Third Level Education
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the failure rates for first year science courses at universities and institutes of technology; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Teacher Training
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the curriculum in primary education contains a module on the way in which dyslexia is recognised and the way in which to deal with...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the appeal mechanism for parents who wish to transfer their dyslexic child to a special school in a case in which family psychologists...
- Literacy Levels
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of young persons leaving secondary school with literacy difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to further special needs requirements at both primary and second level schools throughout the country;...
- Psychological Service
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of psychologists employed by the NEPS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12959/05]
- School Staffing
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the recent survey undertaken by the ASTI, which showed that work related stress accounted for more...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timescale for the allocation of funding to commence construction of an extension of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children at primary level in classes of more than 35; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12947/05]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of discussions with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Revenue Commissioners regarding the introduction of...
- School Staffing
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of school days taken by unqualified teachers in the latest year for which figures are available; if her attention has been...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons who have made compensation applications to the Residential Institutions Redress Board at the latest date for which...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures which will be put in place to ensure that the National Council for Special Education can handle the workload involving deaf...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timescale and the way in which she proposes to respond to the disturbing facts uncovered in the survey recently carried out by the...
- School Discipline
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she intends to tackle growing discipline problems in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12937/05]
- Lisbon Agenda
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps being taken by her Department to ensure that the targets set under the Lisbon strategy are achieved; and if she will make a...
- Third Level Education
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made in implementing the recommendations of the OECD review of third level education here; and if she will...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who have participated in the Early Start programme in each year since its inception; the cost of this project for...
- School Accommodation
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she proposes to address the growing problem of adequate provision of school places for children in areas of expanding...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she is taking to ensure that all goalposts used in schools are safe, in view of a number of accidents in which temporary or...
- Standardised Testing
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a report from the NCCA recommending that all 450,000 primary school pupils should be tested for literacy and...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reconsider her decision to abolish the advisory committee for the deaf and hard of hearing; her views on whether the...
- School Text Books
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take action to prevent publishers of school books from reprinting text books with minor textual changes, forcing parents and...
- School Administration
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has considered the recent survey carried out by the Irish Primary Principals Network which found that many principals are...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a new strategy for introducing information technology into schools will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Management
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to reported proposals from a number of religious orders to establish collaborative trusts to run schools...
- Third Level Education
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she intends to take to address the continuing low levels of attendance at third level institutions by young persons from areas...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to bring about an early examination of the pupil teacher ratio at primary and second level schools throughout the country; if...
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department is planning further PPP schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12938/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extra supports her Department plans to introduce in view of the long waiting list for parents looking to send their children to an...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the new system for the allocation of resources to children with special educational needs will be introduced as planned in September...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she is taking to upgrade schools in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12747/05]
- School Curriculum
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of recommendations of the task force on the physical sciences which remain to be implemented; and if she will make a...
- Psychological Service
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of national schools currently covered by the NEPS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12958/05]
- Multi-Denominational Schools
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the call from Educate Together for the State to take action to provide real support for the planned...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if any research is currently funded by her Department into biofuels; the plans in place for the next five years; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects to publish the review of the school transport scheme; if the review recommends that parents of primary pupils will...
- Register of Offenders
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the legislation to establish a register of persons considered unsafe to work with children will be published; and if she will make...
- Third Level Education
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to increase the number of places available for persons applying for a higher diploma in education course; and if she...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the circumstances surrounding the recent appointment of the former Secretary General at the Department of Health and Children to the...
- School Curriculum
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the further report from the NCCA on changes to the structure and content of the leaving certificate examination; if...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures which exist to provide additional funding for schools that are not located in RAPID areas but which cater for a sizeable...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department is still not able to supply figures for the academic year 2002-03 of the socioeconomic breakdown of new...
- Teacher Training
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the ratio of male to female primary school teachers at entry level to the teaching profession; the way in which she will tackle the...
- Early Childhood Education
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the Early Start programme will be extended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12952/05]
- Third Level Education
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has given assurances to the third level sector that funds raised independently will not be taken into account when making...
- Suicide Prevention
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself that there is a sufficient educational and awareness programme in schools on depression and suicide; and...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the main points of the proposals to combat educational disadvantage which she outlined to the INTO conference; when recruitment will...
- Early School Leavers
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who leave school before sitting the junior certificate examination for the most recent year for which statistics...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding funding at a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13128/05]
- Children Act
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the sections of the Children Act 2001 for which her Department has responsibility and which have been brought into operation; the...
- School Accommodation
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the recent closure of a national school (details supplied) in Limerick which had to close as a...
- Early School Leavers
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who fail to make the transition from primary to secondary school annually; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Staffing
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to two schools in the Tallaght area in which 54 nationalities are represented, which are not designated...
- School Curriculum
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools offering the full relationships and sexuality module at secondary level; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department sees a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 playing any education role in future; and if funding will be made...
- Literacy Levels
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is intended to publish the report, Literacy and Numeracy in Disadvantaged Schools; if the report found that in some schools up to...
- School Curriculum
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has considered the inaugural report by the Irish Language Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12962/05]
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the findings of the report of the Committee of Public Accounts into the redress scheme for victims of institutional abuse;...
- Psychological Service
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself with the roll out of the NEPS particularly outside the greater Dublin area; the areas of difficulty and...
- State Examinations
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the call made by the National Parents Council for the abolition of the €90 fee to sit the junior...
- School Enrolments
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provisions she is putting in place to cater for the projected increase in the student population in the years ahead; if she will...
- Interculturalism in Schools
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she is taking to assist schools in catering for the increasingly diverse cultural and ethnic nature of the pupil base,...
- Garda Operations
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has discussed with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law the reported entry of gardaí into classrooms to seize children...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to transfer funding responsibility for the institutes of technology sector away from her Department to an independent...
- Teacher Training
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to bring the Irish language entry requirements for primary teaching courses into line with those for English and...
- Educational Welfare Service
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the average number of cases allocated to each educational welfare officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12934/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new building at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
- Health and Safety Inspections
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools at primary level and secondary level inspected by the Health and Safety Authority in each of the past five years;...
- Academic Accreditation
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to academic accreditation for long-term volunteers in social and paramedical work being advanced; and if she...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will set out a timetable for meeting the commitment on class sizes given in An Agreed Programme for Government within the...
- Literacy Levels
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of children who leave primary school with literacy difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12974/05]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious concern expressed at the recent INTO conference at existing class sizes; if she will...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether the time allocated to physical education on teacher training courses should be increased; and if she will make a...
- School Curriculum
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a complete and thorough examination of the teaching of Irish at primary and secondary school should take place;...
- Bullying in Schools
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the initiatives that she is taking to tackle bullying at primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to ensure that children have access to play and physical education facilities in inclement weather conditions; if there is a...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she intends to finalise the institutions to be added to the list under the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002; and if she...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 153: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the case of Mr. Pat Finucane; and if the maximum support will be given to their family. [12617/05]
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
Question 154: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the case of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings 1974; if persons (details supplied) will receive the maximum assistance and co-operation...
- Departmental Staff
Question 155: To ask the Taoiseach the arrangements for maternity leave within the public bodies under the aegis of his Department and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/05]
- Public Capital Programme
Question 156: To ask the Taoiseach the number of public servants in his Department who are employed full time on the assessment, procurement, project management and delivery of infrastructure...
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when approval will be given to appoint the design team to a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will meet a deputation from a centre (details supplied) in County Clare to discuss its application for funding for a...
- Civil Registration Service
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department intends to increase the amount per application that it is paying to officers who provide the extremely...
- Nursing Education
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will change a new provision (details supplied) brought in under the Nurses Rules 2004. [12760/05]
- Hospital Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a new state of the art orthopaedic unit at Mayo General Hospital, which was opened on 1 September 2004, ceased...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if refunds under the new scheme due to patients in psychiatric care have already been made; if statements regarding the...
- Hospital Services
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an eye operation will be expedited at Waterford Regional Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny;...
- Health Services
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the number of staff for frontline therapy services in Kildare delivered through the Eastern Regional Health...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the operation of the national treatment purchase fund is under the control of her Department or the HSE; if she will...
- Hospital Staff
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to University College Hospital, Galway, she will commission the approximately 50 whole-time equivalent...
- Health Services
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if early treatment for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 will be secured. [12857/05]
- Mental Health Services
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost for 2004 of placing persons with dual diagnosis of intellectual disability and a psychiatric condition in...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to upgrade and expand accident and emergency services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if...
- Hospital Services
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has had an important operative procedure cancelled on two...
- Labour Court Recommendation
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Questions Nos. 85 and 101 of 22 March 2005, if the HSE has set up a meeting with the Irish Nurses Organisation...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be made available to the residents on the mid-western region; the reasons for the delay in rolling...
- Health Services
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive in the mid-western region has contracted any beds from private nursing homes in County...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if patients in long-stay care in private nursing homes will be eligible for similar repayments to those in public long-stay...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the level of overcrowding in a hospital (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and the measures she...
- Medical Cards
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if he will address the concerns raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the medical card guidelines; and if she...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who have presented at the accident and emergency department at Tallaght Hospital on each of the past...
- Health Services
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13135/05]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the extension and new building for the psychiatric section of the hospital in Letterkenny,...
- Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if urgent assistance and the maximum support and advice will be given to the family of a person (details supplied) in...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to ensure the publication of the second value for money report by a company (details supplied) on...
- Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her Department's guidelines regarding the number of visits a new mother and baby can expect from a public health nurse in...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the appropriate recipient of a refund under the national repayments scheme is to be determined in the case...
- Health Services
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if capital funding is available to a community centre (details supplied) in County Mayo. [13168/05]
- Hospital Services
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing crisis in public hospital accident and emergency departments as highlighted...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measure she has in place to address the situations in which estates of deceased persons have been finalised with regard...
- Children in Care
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been brought to the case of a person (details supplied); if she will meet with the family of this...
- Medical Cards
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if patients with a valid general medical card who were treated for psychiatric illnesses in the Mater public psychiatric...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timescale for the commissioning of an additional 12 beds for Monaghan General Hospital; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision will be expedited. [13204/05]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that all elective surgery has been cancelled at Tallaght Hospital since 10...
- Health Services
Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive failed to give an adequate response in the case of persons (details supplied) in...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for a primary medical certificate in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an operation at St. James's Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was cancelled on...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plan of action or awareness campaign being undertaken by the HSE in the south east relative to the high level of...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will be released for a company (details supplied) in County Wexford; the reason for the delay in the funding;...
- Hospital Services
Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a bed crisis in Wexford General Hospital, that the accident and...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if non-EU and non-EEA doctors are allowed to participate in the general medical scheme here; the conditions that apply to...
- Hospital Services
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if hospitals record alcohol related admissions; if her Department has statistics available; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Charges
Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who paid maintenance charges at a geriatric type hospital while in continuing...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing flooding problems upstream from Laraghbyran, Maynooth, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Drug Seizures.
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Finance the weight of cannabis seized in the State by customs officials in each year between 1995 and 2004. [13212/05]
- Tax Yield
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue collected in PAYE in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12765/05]
- Crime Levels
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times in each of the past three years that Kilkenny Castle grounds have been broken into; the level of security at the castle and the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Finance the details and number of projects before the National Development Finance Agency; the estimated value of each project; when each of these projects...
- Departmental Staff
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Finance if a building in Kilrush, County Clare, has been identified for the transfer of 50 civil servants from the Revenue Commissioners; if the contract has...
- Garda Stations
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Finance if plans for the Leixlip Garda station have been finalised by the Garda Síochána and the OPW; if planning permission has been sought; and when the...
- Tax Yield
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Finance the revenues accruing to the Exchequer from value added tax on renewable energies; the likely impact on Exchequer revenues of halving the VAT rate on...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if he will deal with same; and if he will make a statement on...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress to date on the application by a community school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for transfer of a site owned by the OPW to allow...
- Tax Code
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax liabilities which an oil rig worker incurs while working outside the country for more than six months in a year. [13250/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the civil servants who have applied for decentralisation and who have selected Ballinasloe as a lower preference than first with regard...
- Economic and Monetary Union
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Finance his assessment of the planned new system of integrated guidelines and annual reports that would replace the broad economic policy guidelines, as...
- Tax Code
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent assertion that the best way to ensure development aid increases is to encourage private donations through tax relief; if this...
- Oil Prices
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of a report (details supplied) which predicts a super-spike in oil prices to $105 a barrel, his Department has simulated the economic and...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested officials to monitor closely the movement of those affected by the decentralisation process; the number of officials who transfer...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to request IFSRA to investigate the continuing rise in personal credit along the lines of the investigation proposed by the Irish...
- Tax Code
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is liable for full capital gains tax when they compete in the EU early farm retirement scheme having leased their farm to a non-relative...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Postal Services
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if post offices will be supported to expand their banking operations and other public services; and if he will...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make funding available for the completion of the Doonbeg pier in Clare in order to allow the fishing...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the obstacles to the development of community ownership of wind farms as...
- Sports Funding
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if grant aid is available from his Department to purchasers of schooner sailing boats between 18 m and 20 m for...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of submissions which were received on the public consultation phase of the 2005 wild salmon and sea...
- Quantified Risk Assessments
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of pages in the original QRA and the number of appendices supplied to his Department in November 2001...
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department's attention has been drawn to the consequences arising from the pipeline failure of the...
- Post Office Network
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the 400 non-computerised post offices will be brought under the ambit of a public service obligation; if An...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when broadband facilities will be installed in Cliffoney, County Sligo; the negotiations that have taken place;...
- Community Development Projects
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when approval will be sanctioned for the community development project at Raughley Pier, County Sligo; the...
- Post Office Network
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on whether the local post office is a vital part of the social fabric of the community and whether it...
- Postal Services
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if postal delivery staff are required to post unaddressed direct marketing material through letter boxes even if...
- Energy Resources
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proportions of electricity generated from oil, natural gas, peat, hydro-energy, wind, solar energy and other...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- International Agreements
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the UK paper on the economic partnership agreements being negotiated by the European Commission with 77 African, Caribbean and...
- US Visas
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs what recent contacts he has had with the United States Government regarding the introduction of legislation to enable 50,000 or so...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost to the State involved in his trip to the South Down constituency on 15 April 2005.
- UN Missions
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the continued non-publication of the results of investigations by the UN interim mission in Kosovo, the...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Funding
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism how much State funding has been made available for the building of a proposed stadium in Tallaght; and the position regarding the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation regarding work permit holders who are non-EEA nationals and in regard to a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Job Losses
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious impact on the local economy of the announcement by a company (details...
- Shannon Development
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will meet a small delegation as a matter of urgency to discuss the future of Shannon Development and the distribution...
- Employment Rights Legislation
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address the concerns raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the employment legislation; and if he will...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment why Kilkenny County Enterprise Board is informing clients whose projects have been approved in principle that formal letters...
- Industrial Development
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits which have taken place at a company (details supplied) in County Wexford; the number of visits...
- Work Permits
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider an appeal in relation to an application for two non-EU work permits; and if his attention has been...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made in respect of an application for the rent allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow;...
- Departmental Staff
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Question No. 322 of 19 April 2005, if there is an appeal procedure available for a civil servant who is refused the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the schemes which a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will qualify for; and if they will qualify for the free schemes, the...
- Community Law Centres
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if urgent assistance will be given to the northside community law centre in its funding crisis (details supplied) in order that it...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be assessed for farm assist. [12787/05]
- Post Office Closures
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department's attention has been drawn to the serious inconvenience caused to social welfare recipients, particularly old...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the long delay in hearing the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [12854/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if rent supplement will continue to issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been on the transfer list for over six years;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons claiming family income supplement and who submitted a claim for backdating but were refused due to the lack...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the criteria laid down by his Department for social welfare officers when assessing clients who are receiving social welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider submitting a supplementary budget to extend the fuel allowance for elderly and other persons in view of the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the arrangements which exist in order that EU citizens who have worked in France and Germany are able to claim social welfare and...
- Bank Charges
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if pensioners are facing bank charges as a result of opting for pension payments by electronic transfer; and if he will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Driving Tests
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Transport if a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will be excused from the written theory phase of the driving test; and if he will make a statement...
- Rail Services
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in regard to negotiations between Iarnród Éireann and beet farmers in the Laois, Offaly and Kildare areas for the provision of a...
- Driving Tests
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Transport the locations for the off-road driver training and testing centres for HGVs; if Kilkenny is being considered as a location; the list of sites...
- Road Network
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Transport the nature of the advice offered to him by way of the Atkins report with particular reference to the need to increase the height of the port...
- Public Transport
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Naas Road hard shoulder is intended to be one of the pilot cases proposed new bus lanes. [12814/05]
- Great Southern Hotels Group
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans on foot of discussions at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport on 13 April 2005 for the Great Southern Hotels Group; the position...
- Departmental Staff
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been on the transfer list for over six years; when a decision will...
- Road Network
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Transport the percentage of the total road network, as of the end of 2004, which comprises national roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Transport
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced by Dublin Bus commuters in the Pearse Street area; and if he has considered a...
- State Airports
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy position on the dual gateway status of Shannon Airport; if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern in the mid-west region...
- Road Network
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Transport the total amounts spent by his Department on roads and public transport respectively for each year between 1995 and 2004. [13336/05]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Benchmarking Awards
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason general operatives employed by one of the North-South implementation bodies (details supplied) are awaiting...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a centre (details supplied) in County Donegal which applied for dormant accounts funding has only now, ten...
- Community Development
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding is available from his Department for a community centre (details supplied) in County Mayo. [13179/05]
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding progress made in relation to the decentralisation programme for Macroom, County Cork; if the Office of Public...
- Live Exports
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the procedures adopted in the selection of a shipping business in 1997 to receive financial assistance from her Department for the...
- Grant Payments
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a REP scheme payment will be made to persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Veterinary Inspection Service
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the delay in her Department passing out the annual round of testing dates for tuberculosis for...
- Grant Payments
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the file number, date and area of each forestry pre-planting application submitted by a person (details supplied) and their spouse or...
- Bovine Diseases
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not allowed to avail of a 30-day tuberculosis test; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason single payment entitlements have not been calculated on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Stations
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans he has for a Garda station (details supplied) in County Wexford; if there are plans to sell the property. [13406/05]
- Drug Supply
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if ecstasy tablets are being sold in Dublin city for as little as €1 per tablet in batches of 50; if this evidence of...
- Registration of Title
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing (details supplied) in the Land Registry Office will be completed. [12756/05]
- Foreign Adoptions
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will clarify his reply to Question No. 195 of 1 December 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12783/05]
- Prison Education Service
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of participants in each prison here who are enrolled on the CONNECT project, in particular the number of...
- Youth Services
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be offered to Kildare Youth Services (details supplied) in County Kildare which has made an application for...
- Visa Applications
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if and when a visa extension will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Child Care Services
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the provision of State funding for the staffing of a number of community-based not-for-profit child...
- Crime Prevention
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the citizenship and safety education initiative being undertaken by the PSNI to address the needs of vulnerable...
- Visa Applications
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the concerns regarding the visa for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will be granted leave to remain on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost involved for the State regarding his trip to Belfast on 18 April 2005. [12980/05]
- Garda Investigations
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 64 of 12 April 2005, the reason for the forensic cold case review being conducted by the Garda on...
- Visa Applications
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if extension of residency will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Domestic Violence
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of domestic violence incidents reported to the Garda over the past three years; and the numbers of prosecutions...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in the matter of the installation of closed circuit television in Waterford city; and if he will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who have requested transfers to Thurles under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a...
- Garda Training
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken to increase the number of instructors at the Garda College, Templemore; the actions he will take to...
- Grant Payments
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding for community play groups (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will continue; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Investigations
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13134/05]
- Legal Aid Service
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Legal Aid Board will not deal with unmarried cohabitees in relation to...
- Drug Seizures
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the weight of cannabis seized in the State by the Garda in each year between 1995 and 2004. [13211/05]
- Garda Stations
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of years left in the lease of the Garda station in Glanmire, County Cork. [13251/05]
- Garda Vetting Procedures
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if agency nursing staff are subject to the same Garda vetting procedures as staff employed directly by the Health Service...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been acknowledged; if...
- Public Order Offences
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of public offences committed per annum for each year since 1997 in Drogheda, Dundalk, Ardee, Carlow, Clonmel,...
- Garda Strength
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of uniformed gardaí, Garda sergeants, plain clothes gardaí and detective gardaí in the Gorey area in the years...
- Crime Levels
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Bray area, County Wicklow for the years between 2000 and 2004; if he will allocate more gardaí...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the waiting time for the processing of applications for naturalisation; the number of applications in hand; the expected...
- Departmental Staff
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 19 April 2005, the number of permanent unestablished persons employed by his...
- Visa Applications
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his Department cannot give a detailed reply to a query (details supplied) raised by this Deputy in March 2005...
- Prisons Building Programme
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of capital expenditure by his Department at Fort Mitchel Place of Detention, Spike Island since 1997. [13421/05]
- Deportation Orders
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the present position regarding the recent deportation from Ireland of two persons (details supplied) in view of their...
- Garda Operations
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times section 24 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 has been used to date by the Garda...
- Registration of Title
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing (details supplied) in the Land Registry will be completed. [13461/05]
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that St. Michael's House and Fingal County Council have been informed by her Department...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 14 April 2005, the terms of reference for the review mentioned in same. [12751/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the background to her decision to sanction a new school and provide for the expansion of another school (details...
- School Access
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school can refuse a parent the right to enter the school grounds in the absence of a court order; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the building of a new school for a school (details supplied) County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reduce the pupil-teacher ratio in Kildare schools in line with the national average. [12792/05]
- School Placement
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils seeking school places in Kildare North who have failed to gain places in the school of choice; and the way in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements in place at post-primary level for September 2005, specifically for primary pupils with special learning needs who...
- Departmental Properties
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her statement to this Deputy in Dáil Éireann that a school (details supplied) in County Mayo would be provided with a site...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount set aside in 2004 for the development of an all-Irish education centre in Ballyvourney, County Cork. [12826/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the establishment of a second level class specifically for students with Asperger's syndrome; when it is likely...
- School Curriculum
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when physical education will be made a leaving certificate examination subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12819/05]
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve funding to a vocational college (details supplied) in County Wexford under the stay in school retention initiative...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will renew the allocation to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12862/05]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if further progress has been made on the application for an extension and refurbishment to a school (details supplied) in County...
- School Staffing
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding an additional teacher for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal from September 2005; and if she will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason an application for home tuition for a person (details supplied) in County Laois has not yet been sanctioned; if her...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding progress at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 following her reply to a previous parliamentary question....
- School Accommodation
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will sanction funding for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo now that a site has been identified by the OPW for same;...
- School Enrolments
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the minimum number of pupils required on 30 September in any given year for a school to remain open. [12995/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects to be in a position to meet in full the accommodation and other requirements at a school (details supplied) in County...
- School Staffing
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if correspondence (details supplied) has been brought to her attention. [13033/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will consider including post-primary schools (details supplied) in any remaining building project allocations for 2005; and if...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to develop the Thurles Campus of Tipperary Institute; the steps she intends to take to ensure that the Thurles campus will...
- School Enrolments
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the new national school for Naas, County Kildare, will open in September 2005; if parents of pupils in existing primary schools in...
- School Funding
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 12 April 2005, if the increase in funding for the school (details supplied) in County...
- School Staffing
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was not granted a career break; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the source of funding for the management and maintenance of joint school community sports halls as provided for under the schools...
- School Completion Programme
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ballinode college is a second level vocation school with 121 students enrolled at PLC...
- School Transport
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children from the west Waterford area being transported to schools (details supplied); the cost involved in...
- Investigation of Incident
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the situation of a person (details supplied); if she will initiate an immediate investigation into...
- School Staffing
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Louth will be allocated an extra class teacher from September 2005; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to obtain a place soon in the CABAS school, Kilbarrack, Dublin...
- Private Schools
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding she will be making available to fee paying schools in this year's budget. [13153/05]
- Psychological Service
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious shortage of child-school psychologists in County Donegal; the plans for increasing the...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has carried out an evaluation of the pupil-teacher ratio at primary and second level schools throughout the country; if any...
- Task Force on the Physical Sciences
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she has taken or intends to take arising from the report and recommendations made by the task force on the physical...
- School Accommodation
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Limerick is in unsuitable temporary...
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Question 452: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will meet a delegation of teachers and parents from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 to discuss their urgent need for a...
- School Staffing
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive the services of a part-time teacher for the remainder of the year 2004-05...
- School Accommodation
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress regarding the application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 19 April 2005, the outcome of the talks which took place between her officials and the...
- School Services Staff
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding made available to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 to cover the costs of providing a caretaker. [13330/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason temporary accommodation has not been provided for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her Department will...
- School Services Staff
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the post of full-time caretaker for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be approved; and if she will make a...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take following receipt of a letter from a group (details supplied) in County Wexford; when she will announce the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the contractual arrangements which have been put in place to deliver broadband to national schools; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will fund the provision of a water filter for the main water supply to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which broadband is available to primary and second level schools throughout the country; if a recent sat lynx dispute in...
- Grant Payments
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to speed up the payment of higher education of VEC grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13430/05]
- Bullying in Schools
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of incidents of school bullying reported at primary or second level in each of the past five years; the steps being taken to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which the objectives set in the school building programme in respect of primary and second level schools in County...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the second level school in County Kildare which holds the highest pupil-teacher ratio; her plans to address this issue; and if she will...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 469: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the potential breach of health and safety regulations due to overcrowding at various schools...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary school in County Kildare which holds the highest pupil-teacher ratio; her plans to address this issue; and if she will make...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to build new second level schools in keeping with the requirements as set out by the school authorities throughout County...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects to be in a position to meet in full the special needs or other teaching requirements as set out by the various second...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and location of primary schools in County Kildare which are awaiting approval in respect of refurbishment, extension or...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 480: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of extra primary and second level teachers required to bring the pupil-teacher ratio into line with the commitments given in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if special needs teaching and support in this country compares with best practice in other European jurisdictions; and if she will make...
- Department of Defence
- Military Uniforms
Question 488: To ask the Minister for Defence the person who has registered the copyright of the camouflage pattern used by the Defence Forces on their uniforms, backpacks and so on; and if he...
- Naval Service
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Defence the age of each ship in the Naval Service; if there is a replacement programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12829/05]
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Defence if the light tactical armoured vehicles are to be replaced; if the tender process has commenced; the number being purchased; the likely cost of same;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 493: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons who have requested transfers to Roscrea under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Waste Management
Question 494: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements which are in place to facilitate householders who do not have private transport with the...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 495: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the current review of local authority funding will include population increase as a criterion for increased...
- Recycling Policy
Question 496: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the closure of the green waste recycling facility centre at Esker, Lucan to commercial green...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 497: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Glenvar group water scheme, phase 2, in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Waste Management
Question 498: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide additional funding as requested by Waterford County Council for the management of waste...
- Housing Grants
Question 499: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to reintroduce the first-time buyer's housing grant; if the matter is under consideration; and...
- Waste Management
Question 500: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost incurred by his Department by waste awareness campaigns in 2004. [12915/05]
- Recycling Policy
Question 502: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans for the development of a comprehensive recycling infrastructure here, including transfer stations...
- Waste Management
Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding being allocated to composting facilities and the promotion thereof in 2005; and if he will make a...
- Town Boundaries
Question 504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to establish an independent commission to review the town boundaries for Carlow; and if he will...
- Grant Payments
Question 505: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider allocating funds to a group (details supplied) ordinarily spent on landfill charges; the...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 506: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made on the correspondence furnished to him in relation to a castle (details supplied)...
- Recycling Policy
Question 507: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost to his Department of transporting recyclable waste out of the country in the past three years; the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when approval will be sanctioned on theBallymote sewerage scheme, County Sligo; the reason for the delays; the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 509: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the new scheme of lettings for Dublin City Council submitted in 2004. [13205/05]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 512: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the progress report for the Kilkee sewerage scheme in County Clare; and if he will make...
- Rural Housing Guidelines
Question 513: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will amend the new rural housing guidelines in order to give special protection to special areas of...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 514: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a copy of any correspondence received to date in 2005 from the Director of the National...
- Road Network
Question 515: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet a delegation from Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo County Councils regarding their proposals for the...
- Waste Management
Question 516: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a simplified licensing system for the movement of builders rubble in cases in which it is...
