Written answers
Tuesday, 17 May 2005
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will honour a commitment to meet persons (details supplied) on 6 May 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Emergency Plan
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the exercises in March 2005 to test the effectiveness of the national emergency plan; the success of the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of occasions since June 2002 on which aircraft have been chartered to facilitate the deportation of persons; the...
- Garda Personnel
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that sufficient resources are available for juvenile liaison officers; and if he will make a statement on...
- Child Care Services
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he is taking to ensure that the equal opportunity child care funding will continue past August 2005; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received during 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date; the number of applications approved by...
- Homophobic Crime
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to combat homophobic hate crime. [16173/05]
- Crime Levels
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime level across all headings for the Arklow area in 1997. [16169/05]
- Law on Defamation
Question 20: 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,...
- Garda Equipment
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent caution from the Court of Criminal Appeal to gardaí concerning the importance...
- Public Order Offences
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he intends to take to deal with vandalism and anti-social behaviour; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Immigrant Services
Question 23: 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...
- Asylum Applications
Question 24: 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...
- Prisons Building Programme
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the capital funding which has been allocated to the Mountjoy complex in Dublin in each of the past ten years; and if he will...
- Immigration Policy
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consultation process he intends to initiate in regard to his recently published discussion document, Immigration and...
- Crime Levels
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime level across all headings for the Bray area in 1997. [16168/05]
- Garda Investigations
Question 29: 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 in March 2005 in...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to claims made by the president of the Garda Representative Association that insidious...
- Crime Levels
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he proposes to take to combat escalating gun crime, with particular reference to the use of automatic and...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the contingency plans he has in place to ensure the safety and security of prisons here should the current dispute with the...
- Garda Investigations
Question 33: 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;...
- Garda Personnel
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Garda Síochána who have been dismissed from the force or lost their pension entitlements in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he intends to confer immigration status on persons (details supplied) who were granted work permits due to the fact that...
- Crime Levels
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps being taken to deal with the surge of serious crime in recent months, including the spate of gangland style...
- National Women's Strategy
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the progress of the interdepartmental committee in developing a national women's strategy; the...
- Crime Levels
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used in respect of each year from 1998 and to date; the number of such...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts which have been made by him to ensure that persons (details supplied) have legal representation at the Morris...
- Prisons Building Programme
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to plans to construct a new prison at Thornton, County Dublin; if the Irish Prison Service has taken...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he is taking to address the concerns expressed in the Second Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Places...
- Refugee Appeals Tribunal
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to provide a meaningful statistical breakdown of cases decided upon by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. [16185/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the long promised Judicial Conduct and Ethics Bill will be published; if he has brought proposals to Government on the...
- Claims against Gardaí
Question 44: 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...
- Children Act 2001
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans fully to implement the Children Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16184/05]
- Garda Deployment
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community gardaí in place in each of the past five years for which figures are available; and if he will make...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has carried out its own review of the living conditions and health of asylum seekers in accommodation...
- Garda Divisional Structures
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he intends to redraw Garda divisions as they relate to north Kildare. [15999/05]
- Sex Offender Treatment Programme
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recent report submitted to his Department suggesting that sex offenders should be given special privileges...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reopen discussions with the Irish Prison Officers' Association in regard to the dispute on overtime working,...
- Security Industry
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to a proposed code of practice for the private security sector; when the code will be finalised; and...
- Prisons Building Programme
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason adequate time was not given to assessing all aspects of the land chosen for the new Mountjoy Prison at Thornton...
- Maternity Leave Provisions
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce legislation to increase maternity leave entitlements in the State to 26 weeks paid and 26 weeks unpaid...
- Family Law
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the implications for divorce law here of the recent EU Green Paper on divorce; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding decentralisation of sections of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to Tipperary town;...
- Garda Systems
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage of development of the technology required to ensure the full implementation of all existing Road Traffic Acts; when...
- Garda Strength
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí at the latest date for which figures are available; the number expected to be recruited during 2005;...
- Prison Reports
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recent report of the Inspector of Prisons on St. Patrick's Institution; and if he will make a statement on...
- Independent Monitoring Commission Report
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is intended to publish the third report of the international monitoring committee, which he received on 27 April...
- Garda Personnel
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of juvenile liaison officers in the Garda at the latest date for which figures are available; his plans to extend...
- Garda Investigations
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an outside counsel has been appointed to examine the papers in the Grangegorman murder case with a view to determining the...
- Money Laundering Offences
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which extortion, racketeering, threatening of witnesses and money laundering has been established; if adequate...
- Security Industry
Question 66: 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;...
- Child Care Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether community and child care facilities will require funding on a continuous basis, in view of his recent...
- Public Order Offences
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason measures to deal with anti-social behaviour have not been introduced by him. [16191/05]
- Sexual Offences
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the low level of detections and convictions secured in respect of rape cases; the steps he intends to take to...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the manner in which it is intended to monitor and ensure enforcement of the recent announcement regarding equal gender...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of the construction and equipping of the special unit on the grounds of St. Patrick's Institution that was to have...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 75: To ask the Taoiseach the current nominations of vacancies to boards of statutory agencies under the remit of his Department. [15910/05]
- Fairtrade Products
Question 76: To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which his Department sources Fairtrade products for use in same. [15911/05]
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
Question 77: To ask the Taoiseach if the families of the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1972 and 1974 will be given assistance in calling on the EU to offer financial assistance...
- Meetings with NGOs
Question 78: To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings he has had with non-governmental organisations on matters related to public policy formulation and implementation during 2004; and if he...
- Departmental Properties
Question 79: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these assets; the purposes...
- Department of Health and Children
- Medical Cards
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16078/05]
- Disabled Drivers
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have qualified for a primary medical certificate in the past two years on a county basis. [16289/05]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Down's Syndrome Ireland will by given assistance to find a temporary new office. [16295/05]
- Mental Health Services
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children his plans to review and modernise legislation that provides for the detention of citizens in psychiatric institutions. [16426/05]
- Health Service Charges
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied by her Department and agencies...
- Hospital Services
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a cataract operation will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny at Waterford Regional Hospital....
- Health Services
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the wait for dental treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when they will be...
- Hospital Services
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department is in breach of its guidelines (details supplied); the...
- Home Help Service
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason home help for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was reduced; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medication (details supplied) is not available on the medical card on a named patient basis for patients who are...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding for St. John of God's, Dunleer, County Louth for 2005 has been made available; if funding into the future for...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if general practitioners who do not hold a GMS contract will be able to sign on patients for the doctor-only medical card...
- Hospital Services
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if arrangements will be made for access to a treatment for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the computerisation and decentralisation...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
- Child Care Services
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 254 of 9 February 2005, the amount which is spent per annum on the running of Coovagh House in...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason questions put to the forum on fluoridation by a person (details supplied) have yet to be answered; her views on...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the budgetary allocation for persons with disabilities living in Counties Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford; if this...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement in response to the alarming prediction by the Irish Nurses Organisation that essential...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the number of suicide attempts among young persons in County Kerry; and if her attention...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not qualify for housing aid for the elderly; and if she will...
- Hospital Services
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to secure the immediate admission of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 to Cappagh National...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the protection the medical practitioners Bill will provide for patients against foreign practitioners who may have been the...
- Mental Health Services
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the report of the expert group on mental health policy which was established in 2003 to prepare a...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of her commitment to provide a fully funded and resourced senior citizens day care unit at the health centre in...
- Hospital Services
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will establish a detailed account of the women-centred services in place at Monaghan General Hospital; the days and...
- Health Services
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is planned to have the new health centre in Ballymun, Dublin 11, fitted out; when it is expected to be fully...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 154 of 22 June 1999, the refund which will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Medical Cards
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason medical card holders are charged by general practitioners for signing renewal of licence forms; if she will...
- Patient Discharges
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patient discharges from acute hospitals to nursing homes from the beginning of April 2005; the location and...
- Hospital Staff
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the post of consultant haematologist at the Mercy Hospital, Cork, will be filled to replace the retiring...
- Organ Retention
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timeframe and terms of reference for the Madden inquiry into organ retention; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on her recent proposals for the placing of extra beds in hospital wards to address the accident and...
- Mental Health Services
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in providing for the promised mental health facility in Ballyfermot; if her attention has...
- Health Services
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork to the Health Service Executive...
- Mental Health Services
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the support services available in County Laois for young persons suffering with mental illness; the support groups in the...
- Health Services
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the respite care grant has been reduced for a person (details supplied); and if the family of same will be given...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of running the Irish Blood Transfusion Service Stillorgan clinic, County Dublin; its hours of opening; the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that her Department has sold since 1997; the total...
- Health Service Staff
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses who have left the practice of nursing in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when elective surgery will recommence at the orthopaedic unit at Mayo General Hospital; if elective surgery has been...
- Health Service Staff
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of staffing levels and grades employed in the orthopaedic unit at Mayo General Hospital; her proposals for the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected date by which BreastCheck services will be available in north Tipperary; the reason for the delay in rolling...
- Departmental Properties
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by her Department in each of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a cataract operation. [16466/05]
- Patient Statistics
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who were treated in the accident and emergency department of Tallaght hospital for March 2005,...
- Department of Finance
- Disabled Drivers
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who are on the disabled drivers medical board of appeal's waiting list; the number on the appeal list for each county; the...
- Property Transfers
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the problem regarding the legal status of the lands occupied by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [16530/05]
- Tax Code
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the application for a tax refund for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Charges
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied by...
- Tax Yield
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT his Department received from the annual monitoring fees charged by service providers for socially monitored alarms which are...
- Freedom of Information
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will designate the Higher Education Training Awards Council under the working of the Freedom of Information Act 1997, secure transparency in...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending the benefit in kind tax incentive to reward efforts to reduce mileage instead of effectively encouraging greater...
- Tax Code
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if the demand for payment of capital gains tax by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be reviewed. [16094/05]
- Flood Relief
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the ongoing delay in having compensation payments made to persons (details supplied) by the Irish Red Cross Society and whose...
- Garda Stations
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if the revised sketch scheme for the transfer of a small portion of land at the front of the site for the new Leixlip Garda station in Leixlip,...
- Departmental Properties
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these assets;...
- Flood Relief
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme; when his Department's proposals will be completed; when the promised statutory...
- Tax Code
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the artists tax exemption under the Finance Act 1969 for the past five years, according to profession; and the number of...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will examine the level of grant assistance and other incentives in countries which are successfully...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if accommodation will be arranged for the 180 staff who volunteered in 2004 to transfer to Clonakilty under the...
- Ferry Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a feasibility study by a company (details supplied) on a ferry link between Blacksod Bay and Achill Island...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the criteria which were used in assessing applications under the Dingle licensing scheme for white fish. [15934/05]
- Common Fisheries Policy
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the negotiations which have taken place with other member states in relation to re-division of total allowable...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the projects which have been funded or approved for funding in the past three years under the EU fishery funds...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will meet a small deputation (details supplied) to discuss the calculation for fees for oil tankers in the...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will review the situation whereby all commercial drift net salmon licences cost the same irrespective of...
- Postal Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the employees of An Post will receive the increases due to them under the various national wage agreements....
- Departmental Charges
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis...
- EU Directives
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the EU directive on the necessity for proper sewage treatment plants to ensure pollution-free shellfish...
- Salmon Management
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the sanctions in place to deal with those found in breach of lice control on salmon farms; if he intends to...
- Departmental Properties
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997;...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if fishing licences are being issued by his Department in respect of the River Nore; the number of licences that...
- Port Development
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on the questions raised with the Dublin Port Company in relation to its decision to facilitate...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to further roll-out the metropolitan area network to additional towns throughout the country; and if...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Charges
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the fact that the European Union has not to date explicitly stated that it will not accept the outcome of the current national...
- Departmental Properties
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will approve a sports capital grant for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Charges
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and...
- Departmental Properties
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of...
- Fáilte Ireland
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received the recommendation, as threatened by management by letter to each worker, that money due under benchmarking in...
- Departmental Properties
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by his Department in each of the past ten...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Protection
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if proposals are being developed to require persons touting for business by dropping leaflets to provide addresses and land...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of interview procedures for recruitment to his Department; and if there is separate membership of interview and...
- Departmental Charges
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all...
- Job Losses
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent job losses in manufacturing in Listowel, County Kerry, due to the closure of a...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the delay in having a statutory redundancy payment issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
- Departmental Properties
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and location of factories owned by the IDA or Enterprise Ireland; the number of these which are vacant; the...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to establish a properly resourced labour inspectorate including a substantially increased staff of at least...
- Work Permits
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason an application for the renewal of work permit was refused to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; if...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons on community employment schemes in each county from 1997 to 2004; the number of persons expected to be...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who was eligible for a payment has had this payment refused on change of...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the programmes, schemes and services administered by his Department and which were reviewed in 2003 and 2004 or are under review...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the decision to reduce the disability allowance of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [15995/05]
- Departmental Charges
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who are in receipt of rent allowance; the current monthly expenditure on rent allowance; and if he will make...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of working groups which have been set up by his Department since 2000; the name of each group; the amount spent by his...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has to refund the amount over-awarded by his Department; if his Department...
- Departmental Properties
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by his Department in each of the past...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the income limits for eligibility for the deserted wife's benefit payment; his views on whether there is a...
- Department of Transport
- Driving Tests
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport if there are a number of vacancies within the driver testing section of his Department; if so, the number of such vacancies; the length of time...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Transport if the offence of breaching a three tonne restricted area will be dealt with by way of an on-the-spot fine rather than by a summons. [16485/05]
- Public Transport
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport the new or extended quality bus corridors planned to be developed in 2005; and the kilometre length of the routes served. [15956/05]
- Departmental Charges
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied...
- Driving Tests
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport if the existing information technology systems used by the driving testing system will be overhauled; if so, the total cost he envisages for this...
- Departmental Properties
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these...
- EU Directives
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason Directive 2002/15/EC of 11 March 2002 on working times for road hauliers was not enacted into Irish law here by the March 2005 deadline;...
- Rail Network
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to advance new train stations at Adamstown and Park West in advance of the four tracking of the Kildare line; and the likely timeframe...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the next tranche of money from the dormant accounts fund will be made available. [15952/05]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made by the commissioners of charitable donations and bequests on the transfer of property to...
- Community Development
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if persons who are on community employment schemes will be allowed into the rural social scheme when the community...
- Grant Payments
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a grant will be awarded to a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16019/05]
- Departmental Charges
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for...
- Departmental Properties
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Agricultural Sector
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons in the western region that have given up farming in the years between 2000 and 2005 to date; the number of persons...
- Grant Payments
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Carlow is entitled to further benefit under the single payment scheme. [15914/05]
- Departmental Staff
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has at her disposal any outside authority to examine or audit procedures in the personnel division of her Department; if any form...
- Departmental Charges
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to the publication of the Travers report, if her Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees...
- Sheepmeat Sector
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the crisis (details supplied) facing sheep farmers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16197/05]
- Live Exports
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the sheep live export trade; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16198/05]
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will implement the findings of the recently published report on the early retirement scheme from farming (details supplied); and...
- Milk Quota
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the milk quota appeals tribunal has allocated further quotas from the national reserve; if a person (details supplied) in County...
- Land Annuity Payments
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons in County Wicklow who make land annuity payments for land obtained from the Land Commission; and if she will make...
- EU Funding
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will examine the projected changes in EU funding for Ireland from 2007 to 2012; the categories of funding and objectives of the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that her Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Stations
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is planned to provide a new Garda station at Dromad, County Louth; the location of the new station; if land has been...
- Garda Deployment
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; if he will consider increasing...
- Visa Applications
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for persons regarding unification in the name of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Crime Levels
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the headline offences recorded and detected for the Drogheda area from 2000 to 2004. [15926/05]
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the complaints of persons (details supplied); if there is substance in any or all of the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [15930/05]
- Asylum Applications
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for asylum by a person (details supplied). [15931/05]
- Registration of Title
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application to register land by a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be completed. [15932/05]
- Visa Applications
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 27 April 2005 and the comprehensive information provided (details supplied),...
- Registration of Title
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a dealing with the Land Registry Office on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited....
- Crime Levels
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Cobh area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the...
- Court Cases
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 23 March 2005, the reason he has failed to furnish the information requested...
- Departmental Publications
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his Department's annual report for 2004 has not been published to date; and the expected date of publication....
- Public Order Offences
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda authorities will provide a report regarding the upsurge in anti-social behaviour at the partly detenanted...
- Child Care Services
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made concerning funding for a centre (details supplied) under the equal opportunities child care...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 24 February 2004, the progress made on this naturalisation (details...
- Garda Computer Systems
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of virus attacks and hacker attacks on Garda computer systems that have been prevented in 2002, 2003, 2004 and to...
- Residency Permits
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department will urgently return passports to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 16. [16061/05]
- Visa Applications
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding receipt of a visitor visa application for a person (details supplied); when a decision on this visa...
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the committee of independent academics, which is to advise his Department on access to the files on the Dublin...
- Garda Liaison
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda authorities in the Bridewell, Dublin 7, will liaise with Dublin City Council to implement measures to prevent...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the vacant post of Garda sergeant in Kilkee, County Clare, will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied); if he intends to act on the requests made in this...
- Registration of Title
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for first registration by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be expedited; and if he...
- Visa Applications
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for a visitors visa by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Stations
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations nationwide; the number in each division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16208/05]
- Road Safety
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of fixed speed cameras operating at any one time; his views on whether this number is adequate in view of the...
- Garda Security Escorts
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria that are used in determining the consignments of cash in transit by security firms which merit a military...
- Child Care Services
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the recent capital grant allocations for the provision of child care...
- Deportation Orders
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a deportation order against a person (details supplied) will be lifted in order that the Romanian authorities may lift a...
- Departmental Charges
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all...
- Child Care Services
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision on staffing grant assistance for a centre (details supplied) in County Cork. [16252/05]
- Prisoner Transportation
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a report was completed on the possible privatisation of the prison escort service; and if he will provide details of the...
- Prison Closures
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the savings arising from the closure of the Fort Mitchel prison on Spike Island; if they were balanced or outweighed by the...
- Garda Strength
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to Shankill Garda station for each of the years 2000-04 and to date in 2005; and if he will...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of working groups which have been set up by his Department since 2000; the name and expenditure of each working...
- Departmental Properties
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total...
- Crime Levels
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for Clonakilty Garda district in west Cork for the years 2000 to 2004; and if he will give...
- Children Act 2001
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform with reference to the Children Act 2001, the community sanctions which have been implemented to date; when they were...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has examined whether the system of direct provision and the placing of asylum seekers in accommodation centres is in...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will examine the merits of introducing a gun amnesty accompanied by more severe penalties including possible mandatory...
- Visa Applications
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in regularising the immigration status of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; when a...
- Crime Levels
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes to take any particular action to address the rapidly escalating problem of gun crime; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to confront those in the criminal underworld who specialise in the supply of firearms for unlawful purposes;...
- Crime Levels
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents reported in the past five years which allegedly have been the work of organised criminals; and if he...
- Private Security Industry
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if organised criminals have infiltrated the security industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16492/05]
- Crime Levels
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money, excluding the Belfast bank robbery, taken in various robberies in this jurisdiction in the past six...
- Proceeds of Crime
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if any audit has been done of the total amount of property allegedly in the hands of criminal bosses; the amount of such...
- Crime Levels
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of robberies in the past six months in which hostages have been taken to assist in a robbery; and if he will make...
- Garda Strength
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will increase the number of gardaí available for duty at the various Garda stations throughout County Kildare; and if...
- Crime Levels
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of anti-social behaviour or street violence, reported through the various Garda stations in County...
- Deportation Orders
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has had any reports of violence against persons deported from this country on return to their homeland by way of...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prison spaces currently available and occupied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/05]
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he proposes to take to combat juvenile crime; if he intends to discuss this issue with the Ministers for Health...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals for the operation and licensing of café bars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16504/05]
- Residency Permits
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [16529/05]
- Department of Education and Science
- School Staffing
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the number of teachers at a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be retained at current levels; and if she will make a...
- School Transport
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will arrange for free bus travel to school for persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision will be...
- Psychological Service
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the way in which psychologists are now working in the education sector; and when the target of 200 will be met....
- School Staffing
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she proposes to find the 660 new teachers to address the special needs crisis in primary schools; and the way in which...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be provided with an extension to include a physical education hall; the reason...
- Departmental Charges
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to the publication of the Travers report, if she has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied by...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 for sanction for remedial help for a person who has a...
- Third Level Colleges
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students from each of the six Border counties who have attended third level colleges in Northern Ireland in each of the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be given the maximum support and financial assistance in 2005; and if she will make a...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made in setting a date for the commencement of actual refurbishment work to a school (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of overpayments her Department has had in the past five years; the number which have been recovered; if in any case there...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the situation at a school (details attached) in County Tipperary; the steps she intends to take in...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will implement the findings of the McIver report which her Department commissioned on the PLC sector. [16155/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school at Blennerville, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance is available to children diagnosed with dyspraxia for funding for a computer that would assist them with development; and...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will consider designating full disadvantage classification to schools (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a residential institution (details supplied) will be brought under the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board; and if...
- School Transport
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has made a decision with regard to access to school transport to a college (details supplied) in County Limerick for persons who...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to provide a second level school in Shankhill, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16272/05]
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of expert and consultant reports her Department commissioned during the years 2003 and 2004; the cost of each report...
- Departmental Staff
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of public relations and media experts currently employed by her Department; the cost to the Exchequer; and if she will make...
- Public Consultations
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of public consultations undertaken by her Department on matters of public policy during 2004; the names of the groups...
- Departmental Properties
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that her Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all...
- School Staffing
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when primary schools will receive notification of their entitlements to resource and learning support teachers under the weighted...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amounts spent by her Department in 2003 and 2004 and the amount projected to be spent in 2005 on the five special schools for young...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she intends to approve resources, including a teacher and two special needs assistants, for a school (details supplied) in County...
- School Staffing
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 440 of 10 May 2005, the staff adjustment at each primary school in County Tipperary as a result...
- School Accommodation
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application from a college (details supplied) in County Wicklow for funding for accommodation improvements; and...
- Departmental Properties
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by her Department in each of the past ten...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 for major capital funding for the building of a new school;...
- Department of Defence
- Pension Provisions
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason a person in receipt of a Defence Forces pension loses the additional increment authorised under paragraph 9 of the Defence Forces...
- Overseas Missions
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Defence when the Irish involvement in the INFICYP Cyprus mission commenced and when it will cease; the number of Irish personnel who served in same; his...
- Departmental Charges
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied by...
- Departmental Properties
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since 1997; the total value of all these assets;...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions he has had with PDFORA regarding the extension of a private's contract beyond 12 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will supply an inventory of all assets, specifically land and buildings, disposed of by his Department in each of the past ten years; if...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Turbary Rights
Question 384: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received sanction from the Minister for Finance to pay bog owners an acreage top-up payment on bog...
- Election Management System
Question 385: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 15 states in the US have passed legislation requiring VVAT on...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 386: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his Department will make a decision on the Castleisland sewerage scheme stage 2 and the County Kerry...
- Local Government
Question 387: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the functions of town commissioners. [15950/05]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 388: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress which has been made regarding the Foynes and Shanagolden sewerage scheme in County Limerick; and...
- Hazardous Substances
Question 390: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the policy in relation to making water connections into old asbestos pipes; and if he will make a statement on...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 391: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received an application for funding for a sewerage scheme for a village (details supplied) in County...
- Litter Pollution
Question 392: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to increase penalties for the owners of dogs responsible for dog dirt on streets; the additional...
- Departmental Charges
Question 393: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 394: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has allocated funding to the local authorities for local improvement schemes for the 2005 programme; if...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 395: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the affordable housing scheme at Clonakilty, County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 396: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when sewage treatment will be provided at Omeath, County Louth; the locations at which raw sewage is currently...
- Fire Service
Question 397: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the recommendations from a report (details supplied) on the fire service which have been implemented to date;...
- Departmental Properties
Question 400: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the assets worth more than €100,000 that his Department has sold since...
- Waste Management
Question 401: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the charging system for refuse collection and disposal for each local authority operating such...
- Recycling Policy
Question 402: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the new EU directive on recycling of electronic waste. [16391/05]
