Written answers
Tuesday, 24 May 2005
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if and when he intends to introduce new regulations for the diet supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17186/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons receiving the rent supplement for 18 months or more who have been passed on to a local authority for a...
- Budgeting Advice
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proactive educational measures his Department has taken to advise persons of the dangers of excessive indebtedness; and if he...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he is considering changing the dual eligibility rule for persons in receipt of the carer's allowance, for example, a person who...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, as promised in the NAPS, child poverty will be substantially reduced or eliminated by 2007; and if he will make a statement on...
- Pension Provisions
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the legislative provision by which he can ensure that workers in the construction industry receive their pension entitlements; and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the anomaly whereby persons claiming disability benefit are not entitled to a Christmas bonus, he will review and...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for the next six months to move towards fulfilling objectives two and three in the Combat Poverty Agency's strategic...
- Pension Provisions
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his estimate of the likely increase in the Exchequer's exposure with regard to social welfare pensions; and if he will make a...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to his comments (details supplied), the reason families with incomes of between €30,000 and €40,000 per annum are now...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the anomaly whereby a lone parent engaged in a community employment scheme is at a disadvantage of more than €45 a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends to introduce the advocacy service for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which shows that the number of persons from accession countries...
- Pension Provisions
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to encourage more women to take up pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17189/05]
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures he has taken to tackle food poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17156/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if refunds made to pensioners under the nursing home repayments scheme will impact on current pension entitlements; if pensioners...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to tackle the new phenomenon of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17150/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount which was awarded in rent assistance by his Department, and the number of families or persons awarded rent assistance,...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he has made to date to combat welfare fraud; the areas which are most vulnerable to fraudulent claims; the amount of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the consideration which he is giving to the social welfare treatment of former members of religious congregations. [17133/05]
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the poverty levels, relative, consistent and otherwise, among persons with disabilities; the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to his comments on the back to work allowance (details supplied), if his Department has made any decision on the way in...
- School Meals
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of schools receiving assistance from his Department in the provision of school meals; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if payments of social welfare contributions by the self employed are not recorded on the computer system; if his attention has been...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to reduce the qualifying period for the back to education allowance to nine months; if so, when he will introduce...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider extending the fuel allowance to mid-May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17166/05]
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received a copy of the Combat Poverty Agency's recent report, Irish Social Expenditure in a Comparative International...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recent protest by the Irish Farmers Association who claim that most farming women have no social welfare or...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has issued any policy directive with the objective of restricting the availability of the rent allowance; if his attention...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends to publish the results of his Department's review of lone parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons refused the carer's allowance on the grounds of the means test in 2004; the number of persons refused the...
- Social Mobility
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has information on levels of social mobility here, compared to other countries; and if he will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to review the means test for farmers applying for the old age non-contributory pension; and if he will make a statement...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the risk of being in poverty has increased substantially for elderly persons over the past ten years; and if...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
Question 128: To ask the Taoiseach if he will seek advice on the Government taking a case against the UK Government to the European Court of Human rights in the event of its refusal to establish...
- Commemorative Events
Question 129: To ask the Taoiseach if he proposes to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki city which will occur at 11.02 on 9 August 2005 in view of the fact that it is the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Adoption Services
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider making a grant available to persons who adopt children from abroad; and if she will make a statement...
- Food Safety
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the use of aspartame in food and drink products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17411/05]
- Health Services
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the dilapidated state of Killybegs health centre; if there are plans to have...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if urgent assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 on the nursing home charges issue, and the...
- Health Services
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the frequency with which patients (details supplied) or their representatives receive statements of their accounts which...
- Medical Cards
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an appeal against the decision not to issue a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the recent decision taken by the Government to repay persons who were patients of nursing homes and had been illegally...
- Nursing Education
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if he will identify the committee of An Bord Altranais which recommended dropping the requirement of having a general...
- Hospital Staff
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the application for the appointment of a consultant haematologist at the Mercy University Hospital Cork has to...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 115 of 1 February 2005, when an assessment of the needs for equipment of a person (details...
- Health Services
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will fund the stay of a person (details supplied) at a nursing home. [16959/05]
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the terms of remuneration and conditions pertaining to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Mid-Western Regional Hospital has failed to introduce the children for children telemedicine link between...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the provision of a national cervical screening programme; the proposed timescale for the...
- Health Services
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the new health centre proposed for Ardee, County Louth, will be built; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [17037/05]
- Hospital Staff
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current number of staff vacancies at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin; the current staff turnover figures...
- Hospital Services
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of recommendations of the report reviewing the events surrounding the death of Róisín Ruddle which have been...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fluoridation of public water systems; the levels that apply; if her attention has been drawn to a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if vouchers for travel will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo to use a taxi service; if his...
- Task Force on Obesity
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to address the serious problem of obesity; the extent to which she proposes to implement the recommendations of...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths by suicide in each county between 1997 and 2004; the number of attempted suicides in each county...
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Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of deaths by suicide of persons under 25 between 1997 and 2004 in County Tipperary and nationally; and if she...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a scheme exists within her Department for a group (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the support services available in County Tipperary for young persons suffering from mental illness; the support groups in...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 17 May 2005, when a full service, excluding mobile services, will be available...
- Medical Cards
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card under appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be...
- Health Service Staff
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is right for invasive and personal questions to be asked of persons applying for non-medical...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to give approval for the proposed developments of a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork. [17165/05]
- Children's Projects
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the HSE in the mid-west refused to sign up to the international children for children project; and if she will...
- Hospital Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of Ennis General Hospital when the national forum on health is implemented; if it will remain an acute surgical...
- Health Services
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to the development of health policy and services for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, she will...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for a cataract operation; the reason for the delay; and...
- Health Services
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 19 April 2005, when the HSE will answer; and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospital Staff
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that the four midland counties of Longford, Westmeath, Offaly and Laois do not have access to a...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a national health screening service for older people of both sexes for diabetes, breast cancer in women...
- Hospital Staff
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a radiotherapist will be appointed to Letterkenny Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17252/05]
- Registration of Births
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the name of a person (details supplied) on his birth certificate will be changed. [17272/05]
- Medical Cards
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [17273/05]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be called for urgent treatment. [17275/05]
- Health Services
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for a hearing aid; and if she will make...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be seen by an eye specialist in Galway. [17279/05]
- Pre-School Services
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 334 of 26 January 2005 if the child care report has been finalised; if training issues for...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on a nursing home subvention appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Benchmarking Awards
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE will withdraw its threat of non-payment of increases due to nurses and midwives under Sustaining Progress and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the unacceptably long waiting list for audiology services in south Tipperary (details supplied). [17414/05]
- Hospital Services
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made since a recent meeting (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17427/05]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the part now being played by the Peamount Hospital, Newcastle, County Dublin, in the alleviation of bed shortages...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is appropriate that child care providers should be liable for commercial rates in cases in which such provision is community...
- Flood Relief
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if, as part of the reconstruction of the fish pass at Lacken Weir, Kilkenny, he will carry out a survey of the base of the complete weir which is now...
- Pension Declaration Forms
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if a pension declaration form (details supplied) will be reviewed with a view to making it more informative and clearer to understand; and if he will...
- Public Projects
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance the public projects which have been funded using the National Pensions Reserve Fund to date; the name, location, cost and amount invested by the...
- Tax Collection
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance if a C2 certificate has issued to a company (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance when it is proposed to lay down flooring boards on the upper floor of Portumna Castle in County Galway; the total expenditure on the castle from 1968...
- Tax Code
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing VAT on heating oil in order to assist families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17008/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that level term assurance policies are not allowable for tax purposes against rental income, whereas...
- Prize Bonds
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of prize bonds currently in circulation; if the results of the draws are published annually; the administration costs incurred in the...
- Tax Code
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria for VAT registration of a B&B with regard to financial turnover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17068/05]
- Tax Collection
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Sligo should have paid taxes on building society shares; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Properties
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans in place for the use or sale of a premises (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17071/05]
- Tax Code
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will grant tax relief with regard to expenses incurred by persons who adopt children from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Yield
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance the excise duty now charged on a litre of diesel and a litre of petrol; the total revenue gained to the State from this source; if he will consider...
- Tax Code
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exclude persons over the age of 66 from the €40 credit card and the €10 ATM Government levy; the cost of such a measure; and if he...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent and cost of the works being undertaken at Dunmore Cave, Kilkenny; the timeframe for completion of the works; when the facility will be...
- Tax Collection
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance if the persons who have invested in a single life insurance premium policy whereby the source of such investments are clearly identifiable such as...
- Tax Code
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is entitled to the one-parent family tax credit if they are separated and have a child in full-time education; the age this continues to...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Mobile Telephony
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there are any major health concerns regarding mobile phone masts, ESA pylons or ESB sub-stations backing on...
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the review of aquaculture operations at Ardgroom Harbour in Beara, west Cork, has been completed; and if the...
- Coastal Protection
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position in relation to the grant aid of €2.54 million, approved in relation to the provision of a...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing administrative and accounting problems at the Irish Domain...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the funding which has been allocated for the development, upgrade or improvement of piers by his Department each...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals for the introduction of digital television services and phasing out of existing analogue services;...
- Post Office Network
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he plans to computerise the full post office network to provide for electronic transfers and transactions;...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the place of wind energy in future energy production; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electronic Communications Infrastructure
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to an EU EUROSTAT survey which placed Ireland third last of 19 countries in...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals for the future of the drift netting industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17056/05]
- Inland Fisheries
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the review of the operation of the fishery boards and related matters has been completed and received by him;...
- Water Quality
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the increase in chironomid buzzer fly life on western lakes; the increased weed growth and...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the concern regarding the growing zebra mussel threat in the freshwater system; if he will report...
- Postal Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received and replied to communications from interested parties on the closure of postal services at...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposals being implemented to ensure that Lough Carra, County Mayo, retains its position as a marl lake of...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the terrible state of disrepair of Portsalon Pier (details supplied); and...
- Port Development
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, further to Question No. 180 of 17 May 2005, if heads of agreement have been signed or agreed between the...
- Illegal Dumping
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the fact that his Department announced a £3 million grant to a company (details...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Irish Language
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made since a recent meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister in regard to making the Irish language an official working language...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the percentage and amount of the promised aid for the countries affected by the tsunami of 26 December 2004 which has been handed over to the...
- Emigrant Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will increase financial support for Irish centres in Britain to enable organisations and agencies operating there to meet increased...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding will be approved for an application for a club (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on...
- Horseracing Industry
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the discussions he has had with or representations he has received from the proposers or HRI in regard to a proposal (details...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals to introduce a new scheme for grant aid to local authorities and bodies supported by local authorities towards the cost...
- Departmental Funding
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in relation to the moneys voted by his Department, he has given any policy directive in respect to the spending of funds he has...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Computer Software
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the investigations which have been carried out on the possible adverse effects on SMEs and on small or start-up software...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the community employment schemes are being operated in line with the regulations laid down by his...
- Work Permits
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason an application for a work permit for a firm to employ a person (details supplied) was refused; if this decision...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and location of factories owned by IDA Ireland or Enterprise Ireland in County Wicklow; the number which are...
- Work Permits
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an application for a work permit for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be dealt with. [17243/05]
- Enterprise Centres
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will establish an enterprise centre for Bray; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17271/05]
- Warehouse Agreements
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason it was decided to facilitate warehouse agreements (details supplied) by exempting them from the scrutiny of the...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Poverty Reduction
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to tackle the new phenomenon of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17347/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to increase the age of eligibility for child benefit for children in full-time education; and if he will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of the planned decentralisation of sections of his Department to Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the scale which is used to decide the benefit that will be placed against investment of over €20,000 in the case of the widow's...
- Social Insurance Fund
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he intends to carry out an actuarial review of the social insurance fund; if he will carry out and publicise a review of the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the position of elderly, stay at home housewives with no pre-1953 insurance contributions and in some cases with...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the initiatives he intends to take in the coming months to combat social welfare fraud; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to his Department each year towards the provision of the MABS in the years 2000 to 2004; and if he will make a statement...
- Live Register
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people signing on the live register in County Kildare in the years 1997 to 2004; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 17 May 2005 if he will investigate the circumstances surrounding the refusal of an...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 17 May 2005, when he will publish the review carried out and completed by his...
- Pension Provisions
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he proposes to review entitlement to contributory pension with a view to including, on a [i]pro rata[/i] basis, persons who...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to increase child benefit in view of increased child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport
- Traffic Calming Measures
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Transport if he plans to issue guidelines to local authorities on the preparation of speed control plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Driving Tests
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Transport the assistance which will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford to bring forward a driving test date; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of applications with his Department from persons wishing to provide a private bus service between Dundalk, Drogheda, Ardee and Dublin;...
- Parking Regulations
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to consult disability groups prior to the roll-out of a fixed charge system for traffic and parking offences in view of the particular...
- Taxi Hardship Panel
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of developments to assist taxi drivers and former taxi drivers from the hardship fund set up following deregulation; and the reason 300...
- State Airports
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Transport if correspondence (details supplied) has been brought to his attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/05]
- Public Transport
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Transport when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be issued with 22 licences (details supplied). [17170/05]
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will take measures to address the issues concerning drivers from Northern Ireland (details supplied); the arrangements which will...
- Air Services
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Transport if Aer Lingus is in breach of the bilateral agreement having no direct flights from Shannon to New York; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Driving Tests
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a full licence holder must sit a theory test to gain a licence to use a car and trailer when there is no reference to trailers on the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Harbours and Piers
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding which has been allocated for the development, upgrade or improvement of piers by his Department each year...
- Community Development
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the award of funds by his Department for a proposed play area (details supplied) in...
- Post Office Network
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has proposals to support the development of sub-post offices on the islands and Gaeltacht areas; and if he will...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding entitlements under the inheritance measure of the single payments scheme in relation to a person (details...
- EU Directives
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the effects of proposed nitrates and proposals to overcome the difficulties presented for the poultry industry....
- Grant Payments
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused the single payment scheme for consideration of [i]force...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action the Government proposes to take in order to counteract changes proposed in EU grant aid for the forestry sector. [16955/05]
- Accident Statistics
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons killed or seriously injured by bulls over each of the past three years; the safety regulations in place in...
- Grant Payments
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a decision will be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [16968/05]
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she will complete her review of the report on early retirement scheme from farming of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food....
- Milk Quota
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the pilot scheme for the allocation of milk quota to certain qualified farm managers; and if she will make a...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to her comments (details supplied) if she has discussed the matter with the European Commissioner; the response to date from the...
- Grant Payments
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application for premia subsidy for cattle by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [17373/05]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Legal Aid Service
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of his Department's support for free legal aid facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17145/05]
- Garda Strength
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of gardaí in the Mountmellick area has dropped from seven to...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he affords himself and the Garda Commissioner the luxury of legal aid on a monthly basis paid for by the...
- Garda Stations
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the construction of a Garda barracks at Kilfinane, County Limerick. [16909/05]
- Coroners Service
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce legislation to compel, if necessary, the attendance of witnesses to give evidence at inquests as...
- National Identity Card
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has considered the implications for this State and for the common travel area between Ireland and the United Kingdom...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if residents here who access gambling services over the Internet are liable to prosecution for the breach of the Gaming and...
- Residency Permits
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be issued with an up-to-date certificate of registration; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application by a person (details supplied) for asylum; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will describe each property which has been acquired or leased by the State to accommodate asylum seekers; when...
- Child Care Services
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the membership of the city and county child care committees; the amount expended by each of these committees each year since...
- Garda Deployment
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to the State in the provision of gardaí for cordon and other duties on major match days at Croke Park, Dublin 1;...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to date to the Garda Síochána and his Department of all the various aspects of the inquiry into the death of a...
- Registration of Title
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a dealing has been registered in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and the position regarding same....
- Visa Applications
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a visa was refused to a person (details supplied); the further information the person needs to provide to obtain...
- Crime Levels
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda has received reports of cocaine dealing in areas (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency on the basis of marriage to an Irish national a person (details supplied) will be...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application for naturalisation for persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [17179/05]
- Deportation Orders
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he is not prepared to review his proposal to deport persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he has...
- Garda Investigations
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if allegations of corruption and injustice in the case of a person (details supplied) were adequately investigated; if...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement regarding the provision of CCTV cameras for a shopping centre (details supplied); and the role...
- Departmental Funding
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached on the submissions made by Victim Support regarding funding at national level. [17231/05]
- Garda Strength
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the manpower levels in each of the three divisional Garda areas of Mayfield, Gurranabraher and Cobh in the years from 2001...
- Residency Permits
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain here on the basis of having an Irish born child by a person (details...
- Departmental Staff
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of public relations and press arrangements in or associated with his office, identifying the staff involved and...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to an application for Portakabins to replace 25 year old prefabs at a school (details supplied) in County...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an application for a special needs assistant will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will...
- Third Level Fees
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, on completion of their leaving certificate examination in 2007, will be entitled to avail...
- School Planning
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the school planning draft plan for north Dublin, east Meath and south Louth will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
- Education Welfare Service
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an education welfare officer will be employed for the Kildare area. [16954/05]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and names of primary schools in County Cavan with classes of more than 30 pupils; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will automatically avail of the services of a resource teacher under the new scheme...
- School Discipline
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the referral rooms or sin bin solution to the enforcement of discipline at post-primary level in UK schools and a number...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) will automatically avail of the services of a resource teacher under the new scheme recently announced....
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will implement an amalgamation package agreed in April 2001 with a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a college (details supplied) has not progressed in the architectural process; and if her attention has been drawn to the...
- State Examinations
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if concerns have been raised with her regarding the action project conducted by CSPE students; her views on whether this makes it...
- School Staffing
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 3 November 2004, the position regarding the restoration of a second teacher to a school...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in the context of the recent announcement to provide 600 additional permanent teachers in the area of special needs, she will...
- School Staffing
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to introduce a redeployment scheme in the community and comprehensive school sector; and if she will make a statement...
- School Management
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is in a position to approve a scheme for reconstituted boards of management in comprehensive schools to allow for the...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the discussions which took place between officials in her Department and officials of Ballymun Regeneration Limited on the provision...
- School Transport
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the original pick-up point of persons (details supplied) in County Sligo will be retained; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the decision to suppress two posts at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be reviewed; if her attention has been...
- School Completion Programme
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the feasibility study of future premises for schools (details supplied) in Dublin 1 has been finalised; if she will report on the...
- School Staffing
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 249, 250 and 251 of 13 April 2005 regarding resource teacher supports, if she will report on...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will reply to correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Third Level Fees
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the decision not to grant half year free fees for a repeat year at UCD to a person (details supplied) in County...
- School Transport
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a pick-up point (details supplied) in County Mayo will be sanctioned. [17237/05]
- Third Level Fees
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the financial assistance which is available towards fees and maintenance to enable a person complete their studies (details supplied)....
- School Accommodation
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by staff and pupils at a school (details supplied) in County...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if four resource teaching hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17253/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects construction to commence on a new school building for a college (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of survivors and victims of child abuse organisations her Department has been in contact or consultation with; and the...
- Third Level Colleges
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 343 of 17 May 2005, if there is any source that such information will be available; and if she will make a...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an additional teacher will be appointed to a school (details supplied) in County Laois with a view to reducing the average class...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a home school liaison officer will be appointed to a school (details supplied) in County Laois. [17278/05]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17285/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools that do not have wither a general purpose or a physical education room or hall; and if she will make a...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will re-establish the physical education grant for physical education facilities in schools; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Discipline
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the report from the task force on student behaviour in second level schools will be published; the number of submissions received...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the pupil-teacher ratio at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if the issue has been resolved....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional facilities and upgrading under...
- School Staffing
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will automatically benefit in his need for resource teaching, following the recent...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which was approved for a grant of £100,000 in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if adequate resource services will be approved to meet the needs of students and if adequate services will be provided for dyslexic...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional facilities and upgrading under...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional facilities and upgrading under...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional facilities and upgrading under...
- Department of Defence
- Army Barracks
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Defence his proposals for the future of the military barracks in Castlebar, County Mayo; the number of Defence Forces personnel stationed at same; if he...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Fire Service
Question 399: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the Farrell Grant Sparks review of the fire service; if its recommendations will be carried out;...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 400: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the preventative measures in place to prevent motorcyclists from congregating and moto-racing in an SAC area...
- Fire Stations
Question 401: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 11 May 2005, if he will give priority to the proposed new fire...
- Fire Service
Question 402: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to introduce national standards for the fire service in order that the performance of brigades...
- Planning Issues
Question 403: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether possible court costs should be a decisive factor in deciding that the law should not be...
- Grant Payments
Question 405: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a top-up payment for bogs purchased under SAC designation from a person (details supplied) in...
- Road Network
Question 406: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will make a financial contribution to the Drogheda northern cross route; and if he will make...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 407: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures he proposes to put in place to deal with the difficulties arising for...
- Road Network
Question 408: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the council's ten-year waiting list, he will meet a deputation from Monaghan County Council to...
- Hare Coursing
Question 409: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent report from the Irish hare initiative which states that at some...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 412: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the outcome of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to issue guidelines governing availability of and accessibility to toilet and changing...
- Countryside Access
Question 414: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has considered the implication of recent court cases over rights of way and the respective rights of...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 415: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason sufficient funds have not been made available to Kildare County Council...
- Road Network
Question 416: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total allocation to Kildare County Council in respect of main and county roads; the extent to which this...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 417: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Belmullet sewerage scheme. [17218/05]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 419: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the housing construction allocations to Athy Town Council for each year from 1997...
- EU Directives
Question 421: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to safeguard the livelihoods of small retailers whose businesses will be seriously...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 422: To ask the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason persons who have purchased homes through the affordable housing scheme...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 423: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the proposed sale of the Batty Langley Lodge and 14 acres of land; if, in...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to amend the Waste Management Act 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17290/05]
- Recycling Policy
Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concern felt by electrical retailers in respect of the recycling of...
