Written answers
Tuesday, 31 May 2005
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent call from the chief executive of the chambers of commerce for the introduction...
- Trade Figures
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the ratio of exports from here by foreign companies to exports from here by indigenous companies in millions of euro; if that...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the Health and Safety Authority that some small enterprises were...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the labour inspectorate of his Department to ensure payment of the national minimum...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which he will progress the work of the expert group on bullying; his views on whether employers and unions claims...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons on community employment places at 1 January 2003, 1 January 2004, 1 January 2005 and the anticipated...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the promised new legislation in regard to export controls for military goods will be introduced; the main features of...
- Ticket Sales
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received any report from the Competition Authority on the level of competition for the sale of tickets for concerts...
- EU Directives
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that the Government has now missed the required legislation to give effect to EU Directive 2002/14/EC...
- Consumer Strategy Group
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he agrees with the consumer strategy group's recommendation to abolish the limit on the number of pub licences awarded;...
- Work Permits
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to date under the new arrangements to give access to employment to the spouses of non-EEA...
- Employment Support Services
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's plans to provide assistance to migrant workers from the accession states and other countries seeking gainful...
- Job Losses
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures his Department intends to take to assist the 240 workers who are to be made redundant at a company (details...
- Science Education
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation will produce an annual report on the state of science education...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the labour inspectorate investigation into the alleged mistreatment of Gama workers; and if he will make a...
- Interdepartmental Committees
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the implementation framework as agreed at the inaugural meeting of the high level implementation group on the...
- Employment Rights
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the employment rights group, announced on 24 May 2005 will be established; when it is due to report; and if he will make...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the labour inspectorate and the number of prosecutions initiated by the inspectorate...
- Flexible Work Practices
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will incentivise employers to give persons the option to continue in employment past the age of 65 as a means to...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to legislate for the regulation of apartment complex management companies; and if he will make a statement on...
- Landlord and Tenant Legislation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware if other State agencies face a similar predicament to that of IDA Ireland, Shannon Development and...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received a request from the Director of Consumer Affairs to amend legislation to provide for the more effective...
- National Minimum Wage
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to discussions between the labour inspectorate and a company (details supplied) regarding the...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the growing lack of competitiveness in manufacturing industry with resultant relocation to...
- Departmental Inquiries
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to each of the inquiries being carried out by or on behalf of his Department; if he will give a...
- Staffing Levels
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 20 April 2005, if he will review the policy; and if he will make a statement on...
- Flexible Work Practices
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to introduce the right to flexible working for parents of young children, in view of the priority afforded to...
- Foreign Direct Investment
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures IDA Ireland has taken to attract industry to Listowel and Tralee, County Kerry, respectively, that is foreign...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to his announcement of the recruitment of an additional 11 labour inspectors, the number that have been...
- Departmental Funding
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he interprets the consumer strategy group's recommendation to continue support for the Consumers Association of Ireland as...
- Immigration Policy
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recent document, Managing the Immigration and Employment of non-EU nationals in Ireland, produced by the...
- Trade Mission
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the results of his recent trade mission to the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18033/05]
- Company Closures
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the liquidation process for a company (details supplied); if he has satisfied himself that all...
- Industrial Development
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the recently published Strategic Plan for Irish Industry published by Enterprise Ireland....
- National Consumer Agency
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the new national consumer agency recommended in the report of the consumer strategy group will be established; the way...
- Work Permits
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to non-national workers in 2005; the way in which this compares with previous years; the...
- EU Directives
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility which have yet to be implemented; the number in...
- Public Transport
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will incentivise the use of bus and rail by his Department for official business in order that bus and rail use might...
- Price Display Orders
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason his Department decided against imposing price display orders on doctors and dentists; and if he will make a...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the European Commission's quarterly report on the euro area which shows Irish exporters are less competitive...
- Job Losses
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious implications for the Waterford area in general and for Dungarvan of the...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to the direction issued to an authorised officer to cease his inquiries into three companies being carried out...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the promised legislation to put the employment permit regime on a comprehensive and sound statutory footing will be...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will assess the impact that a consistently weak dollar has had on Irish businesses; if he has made representations to...
- Migrant Workers
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will carry out an assessment of the extent of abuse of migrant and other workers in the hotel and catering...
- Strategy Group Report
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to his consideration of the report of the enterprise strategy group; if the Government has decided not...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his assessment of the status of the World Trade Organisation negotiations on the liberalisation of world trade; and if he...
- Legislative Review
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to review of the Employment Agency Act 1971 as agreed under the Sustaining Progress...
- Economic Partnership Agreements
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of the Article 133 Committee meeting of the 6 May 2005 in respect of economic partnership agreements, EPAs; the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there will be any provision for the entry of non-highly skilled migrant workers in view of the forthcoming Employment...
- Job Losses
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent decision of the long established Bray based company (details supplied) to...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will carry out an assessment of the relevance of training courses provided by FÁS in meeting the needs of...
- Industrial Relations
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent call from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for an overhaul of the industrial...
- Pay Issues
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts his Department is making to address the factors underlying the gender pay gap; and if he will make a statement...
- Industrial Accidents
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and injuries reported arising from industrial accidents in each year from 2000 to 2004 and to date; the...
- Work Permits
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will carry out an assessment of the impact of work permits legislation on the treatment of migrant workers. [18098/05]
- Consumer Strategy Group
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which his Department intends to meet the consumer strategy group's recommendation to apply a consistent approach...
- Manufacturing Sector
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is taking to develop the indigenous manufacturing sector of the economy; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Imports and Exports
Question 117: To ask the Taoiseach the top ten trading countries with which this country trades in terms of exports and imports; the extent of the growth or otherwise of this trade with respect...
- Industrial Relations
Question 119: To ask the Taoiseach the details of the agreement reached with the trade unions in July 2004, as part of the mid-term review of Sustaining Progress; if he will release a copy of...
- Department of Health and Children
- Adoption Services
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she received a letter from a person (details supplied) dated 6 May 2005 setting out reasons with regard to a person; the...
- Medical Cards
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a decision in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited. [17805/05]
- Occupational Therapists
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the need for training and supply of occupational therapists over the next number of years; and if...
- Hospital Services
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the bed capacity in a hospital (details supplied); and the permanent long-stay beds at the hospital. [17807/05]
- Hospital Charges
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the time of admission and discharge determines if a daily charge for a hospital inpatient will be levied on a patient...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will establish with the HSE when the former GMS payments board is to be relocated from its present premises; the...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regulations which govern the charging, by some general practitioners, of a fee when signing a medical fitness...
- Hospital Services
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be called for a spinal fusion operation in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the provisions in place in the Department of Health and Children for the provision of the services of a Parkinson's nurse...
- Hospital Services
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the planned new unit in St. Vincent's Hospital for persons affected by cystic fibrosis; when it will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons working in the health service; the division of same broken down into the main categories of workers,...
- Hospital Services
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Carlow was not informed that his spouse who was brought to Naas Hospital...
- Hospital Staff
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of man days lost in sick leave, the rate per person employed, and the percentage of man hours lost in this way...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the necessary finance is available and will be released for the BreastCheck project in the Munster region as soon as the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress she has made in the establishment of an all-Ireland helicopter emergency medical service as recommended by the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent by her Department on the purchase and use of a drug (details supplied) over the past five years;...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the national disease bureau records known cases of MRSA; if the data is available for the past five years; and if she...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the new coronary care unit in St. James's Hospital, Dublin, was demolished and then rebuilt; the cost involved and the...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the procedure whereby persons infected by the MRSA superbug are informed by the hospital authorities that they have the...
- Child Care Services
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider a review of the Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 1996 and Amendment Regulations 1997 to...
- Health Services
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements in place for eyesight and hearing testing at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [17985/05]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for audiology services in each HSE area for adults and children respectively; and if she will make a...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason medical card holders are charged for blood tests taken at their general practitioner's surgery; if she will...
- Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Questions Nos. 162 of 20 April 2005 and 317 of 12 April 2005, when a response will issue as promised. [18127/05]
- Infectious Diseases
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the availability of stocks of anti-viral drugs in the event of a human flu pandemic affecting countries in the EU; the...
- Medical Cards
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued for full carers of patients at 1 April 2005 for each of the past five years; and if she...
- Mental Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the psychiatric services which are available for persons between 14 and 16 years of age in the mid-west region; if...
- Health Services
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide radiotherapy services in the north west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18148/05]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of statutory inquires under her Department's remit which are ongoing; the likely cost of each in 2005; and if...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons from the former North Eastern Health Board area who have been subvented for nursing home care in...
- Hospital Services
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one lift in Monaghan General Hospital; if funding will be...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will reduce the lengthy waiting time for referral to the psychiatric services and the treatment by a psychiatrist of...
- Medical Cards
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the granting of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18200/05]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the surgery by the ENT section of the Mid-West Regional Hospital will be completed for a person (details supplied) in...
- Hospital Services
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the interim cardiac plan for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12; and if she...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of hospitals that have had financial penalties imposed on them for inefficiencies since 2002; and the total of...
- Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the subvention being provided by her Department for home care in 2005. [18205/05]
- Medical Cards
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of extending the proposed doctor only medical cards to the rest of the population; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, since her appointment her attention has been drawn to the problems outlined in correspondence details supplied; her...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if patients in private nursing homes will be considered under the repayments for long-stay care; and if she will make a...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to improve hospitals, management and processes in order to tackle accident and emergency...
- Hospital Services
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of private work being undertaken in each public hospital as a proportion of overall in-patient activity in 2004;...
- General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioners co-operatives which are up and running; and the regions awaiting the establishment of...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of expenditure on water fluoridation by the former South Eastern Health Board; and if she will make a statement...
- Health Services
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a timescale has been agreed for the opening of the remaining parts of Cootehill health care centre which have remained...
- Health Reports
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when her Department will respond to a submission made by the Health Service Executive southern area in its support of...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 184: 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 Roscommon and nationally; and if she...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will have follow up treatment after elective surgery. [18314/05]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements in place or planned for the further education, training or activation provision for a person (details...
- Health Service Staff
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the references which were sought by the South Eastern Health Board in the employment of a person (details supplied); the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the speech and language provisions being put in place to meet the accepted needs of children throughout County Kildare; her...
- Department of Finance
- Architectural Heritage
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of historical sites in County Roscommon maintained by Dúchas; the investment in each site in the past five years and the corresponding...
- Vehicle Registration
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals in respect of the four local authorities in Dublin for car number plates reflecting each individual county; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the €40 charge on credit cards for old age pensioners in an effort to encourage them to use the banks and not keep money in...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance the guidelines used in allowing the erection of telecommunications masts in public parks and on public buildings; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who were provided with and maintain contact lenses, prior to the Revenue Commissioners decision to amend the information on the website...
- Drainage Schemes
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance further to correspondence from the OPW, the position regarding a river (details supplied). [17897/05]
- Departmental Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of man-days lost in sick leave, the rate per person employed, and the percentage of total man hours lost in this way in the Revenue...
- Tax Code
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the current provision for waiving tax on benefit in kind on the provision by employers of on-site child care facilities. [17945/05]
- Freedom of Information
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the savings accruing to the Exchequer from the amendment of the Freedom of Information Act in 2003. [18160/05]
- Tax Code
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing refundable tax credits; the cost if adapting the tax credit system in such a manner; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Properties
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Finance if the means of collecting rain water in open topped barrels at Jerpoint Abbey, Thomastown, County Kilkenny is safe; if the pipes and barrels will be...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government has made any representations to the Chinese authorities regarding the revaluation of the yuan; and if he will make a statement on...
- Consumer Strategy Group
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will liaise regularly with the national consumer agency with regard to the provision of goods and services by the State; and if he...
- Computer Software
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount his Department spent in 2002 on information technology software licences; the amount of that budget which was spent on products of a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadband Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to improve broadband competition here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Broadcasting Legislation
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the date on which applications will be made to the BCI innovation fund; the process by which they will be...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the winch at a pier (details supplied) in County Mayo will be repaired and restored. [17844/05]
- Mobile Telephony
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will investigate further a recent study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,...
- Broadband Services
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the action he is taking to ensure that broadband service will be provided in the Palmerstown, Dublin 20 area as...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason his Department chose to contract a company (details supplied) to conduct the review of the quantified...
- Sustainable Energy
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to institute a scheme to grant-aid individual housing units and refurbishments which demonstrate...
- Postal Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to discuss with An Post management its intention to honour its commitments to staff in respect of the...
- Port Development
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has received a request for funding from Louth County Council for the Drogheda northern cross...
- Marine Accidents
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of applications received by his Department for inclusion in the lost at sea scheme; the names of the...
- Post Office Network
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he proposes to bring rural post offices within the remit of a public service obligation; to guarantee the...
- Port Development
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason he will abolish user representation on future ports, as stated in the ports policy of January 2005;...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the remainder of the tonnage required for one boat will be transferred to another and once this is done that...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the name of the chairman of a company (details supplied); the process by which he was appointed; the person by...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 180 of 17 May 2005 and 221 and 222 of 24 May 2005, when the company...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to websites (details supplied), on which uncontrolled, undesirable and...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assessment carried out to date of the proposed decentralisation of the section dealing with development co-operation; the cost savings...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost of the recently installed machine in the passport office; and the amount it has cost so far to repair this machine every time it has...
- Nuclear Disarmament Initiative
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the present status of talks between the EU and Iran regarding Iran's nuclear development programme. [17963/05]
- International Agreements
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 29 September 1999, the bilateral British-Irish Agreements signed or entered into since September...
- Official Engagements
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the detailed cost of a recent function (details supplied); and if he will provide a list of the guests invited to same. [18310/05]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Cultural Institutions
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has fully implemented section 13 of the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997. [17977/05]
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when a swimming pool for the Leixlip, Maynooth and Celbridge areas will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will approve funding under the sports capital programme for a club (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Strategy Group
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will implement the recommendations of the consumer strategy group in so far as they relate to areas for which his...
- Work Permits
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a work permit for a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Industrial Development
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an enterprise (details supplied) in County Sligo has embarked on phase two...
- International Trade
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts being made by the Government to promote further trade between the EU and the US; if he favours an eventual free...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding allocated by his Department for the promotion of workplace safety in 2005; and if he will make a statement on...
- Employment Support Services
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding being allocated by his Department in 2005 for training and employment supports to those who have suffered...
- Industrial Development
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of State funding allocated to inward investment projects in 2004; the funding allocated to indigenous companies...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will restore the numbers on community employment schemes to their 2002 level; the funding necessary for such an...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his policy on implementing the findings of the report, Towards Best Practice in the Provision of Further Education,...
- Small Business Supports
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the State funding granted to support small businesses in 2004. [18171/05]
- International Trade
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government's attitude to the UK paper on the economic partnership agreements being negotiated by the European Commission...
- Job Creation
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of all new jobs in greenfield projects by overseas firms in 2004 which were sited in the Border, midlands and...
- Work Permits
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits applied for, granted, refused or pending on a monthly basis in the last year; and if he will make...
- Insurance Industry
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Ireland's position in the European league in respect of motor, public liability and other insurance costs; and if he will...
- Job Losses
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of manufacturing or service jobs lost or relocated to more competitive economies in the past five years; his...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which this country has improved or other wise in the international league in respect of economic...
- Work Permits
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated annual requirement in respect of emigrant workers here in each of the next five years, based on the experience...
- Export Trade
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to increase exports with EU and non-EU states for the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Job Losses
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of manufacturing jobs lost in County Kildare in the past two years; if, in either or any case, such jobs...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Insurance
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimate of the cost of abolishing employers' PRSI for child care providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Code
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to the Exchequer of abolishing all means tests for social welfare payments; if savings will arise on administrative...
- Social Insurance
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the revenue to be raised by a one point increase in PRSI contributions. [18164/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the carer's allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [17800/05]
- Departmental Staff
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of man days lost in sick leave, the rate per person employed, and the percentage of total man hours lost in this way in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not qualify for dental treatment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding provided by his Department to asylum seekers in 2004; his views on whether it is adequate; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the additional funding necessary to raise qualified adult allowances to 70% of full adult rates. [18218/05]
- Food Poverty
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he is taking to tackle food poverty in 2005; the funding being allocated in this regard; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding rent supplement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Pension Provisions
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the request by an association (details supplied) that some of the proceeds of the sale of State shareholding in...
- Driving Tests
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Transport if a date for a driving test has been offered to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [18056/05]
- Road Safety
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of specimens tested by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety in 2003; the breakdown of these which were taken from blood or urine samples;...
- Road Network
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 12 May 2005, if he has requested traffic flow modelling for the M50-M1 junction for pre-port tunnel...
- Aviation Regulation
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement on the landing of helicopters on a site off the Rock Road in Dublin with regard to regulation of such landings and...
- Public Transport
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will consider introducing legislation to compel bus companies to have seat belts fitted to buses, especially school buses, for safety...
- Railway Stations
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he will take in order that the reopening of Killucan railway station will be included in the new ten-year transport plan; if the...
- Rail Network
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will consider carrying out a joint feasibility study with Westmeath County Council to advance the Mullingar to Athlone railway...
- Executive Remuneration
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of the remuneration package awarded to the new CEO at the Dublin Airport Authority. [18125/05]
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding that has been provided by the private sector by means of public private partnerships in the building of our roads networks since 1997....
- Rural Transport Services
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will extend the rural transport initiative pilot project to serve Carrickroe, Clara, Ballyoisin, Mullan, Emyvale and Glaslough areas of...
- Public Transport
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Transport the year of bus manufacture when structural changes to the body of the Bus Éireann fleet were such as to allow fitting of safety belts. [18182/05]
- Departmental Estimates
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which the €42 million funding from capital carry-over from 2004 has been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Network
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Transport if the toll scheme has been agreed for the use of the port tunnel. [18235/05]
- Road Safety
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Transport the specific anomalies in the penalty points system that his Department has under review. [18236/05]
- State Airports
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will publish the details of the agreement concerning their terms and conditions of employment at the second terminal at Dublin Airport...
- Road Network
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to a decision that has been made to divert all Dublin Port bound and originating traffic via the new port tunnel;...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Programmes
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the expected lifetime of the RAPID programme; his views on the success of the programme to date; and if he will make a...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding for and allocated to groups or organisations in County Kildare under the dormant accounts scheme...
- Community Development
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding applied for and allocated to groups or organisations in County Kildare under the grant...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which a group or organisation based in a town with RAPID classification applying for grant funding will...
- EU Regulations
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will hold consultations on the new EU regulation on rural development. [18051/05]
- Postal Services
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals to support the development of sub-post offices in rural areas or in CLÁR areas; and if he will make a...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will extend the scheme of community support for older people for all pensioners; the cost of such a move...
- Departmental Staff
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when it is proposed that a review of the rate of pay for rural social schemes supervisors will take place; if...
- Voluntary Activity
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made to date under the White Paper, A Framework For Supporting Voluntary Activities; the extent of the...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a decision will be reached in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who has appealed the decision of his...
- Installation Aid Scheme
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to an application for installation aid, the reason for the requirement that the person achieve 20 income units from farming...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Question No. 216 of 23 February 2005, when she intends to publish the animal health Bill; and if she will make a statement...
- Grant Payments
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Question No. 189 of 28 April 2005, if a person (details supplied) in County Clare has received the REP scheme payment; and...
- Water Pollution
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the research and analysis his Department has carried out on the relevance of anaerobic digesters as an assistance to dealing with...
- Grant Payments
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if no penalties will be imposed on the single payment application of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo in view of a recent...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her proposals to implement the finding of the recently published report on the early retirement scheme from farming (details supplied);...
- Grant Payments
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding payments to a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the EU single payment scheme. [18055/05]
- Live Exports
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Question No. 258 of 17 May 2005, if the same regulations are applied on the import of lamb direct from the UK or via...
- Grant Payments
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the single payment [i]force majeure[/i] appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
- Animal Diseases
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures which are in place to prevent the spread of avian flu to poultry here; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- EU Directives
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she proposes to seek a derogation from the terms of the nitrates directive for farming here; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has received an application for single payment entitlements from a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; the extent of...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the timescale for the implementation and the designation of the remaining 16% of County Monaghan as severely handicapped; and if she...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Work Permits
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if holders of work permits have been refused entrance to or have been deported from this country; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timeframe involved in processing an application for naturalisation; the date an application was received by the...
- Refugee Status
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 297 of 1 September 2005, the progress in the case; if the further information submitted is...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if prisoners are permitted to have mobile phones in Mountjoy Prison or in any other prison; if not, the steps taken to...
- Visa Applications
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 674 of 12 April 2005, if a decision in the case will be expedited given that this is an appeal;...
- Equality Issues
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17858/05]
- Child Care Services
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of funding applied for and allocated to groups or organisations in County Kildare under the equal opportunities...
- Community Development
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which a group or organisation based in a town with RAPID classification applying for grant funding will be...
- Visa Applications
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons are refused visas by his Department while other persons appear to have no such difficulty; and if he will...
- Asylum Applications
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the passport of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be returned to them as they require it for their...
- Departmental Records
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of man days lost in sick leave in the prison service, the Garda Síochána, the probation service and the court...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps his Department has taken to deal with the issue of anti-social behaviour in urban communities and that the...
- Visa Applications
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason applications for family reunification (details supplied) were refused; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Registration of Title
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a land transfer will be completed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17965/05]
- Visa Applications
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average length of time it takes to process an application for a holiday visa, made through embassies and offices abroad,...
- Garda Investigations
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received representations by or on behalf of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 in relation to the killing of...
- Residency Permits
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if permission to remain here will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement...
- Crime Levels
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Bantry Garda district in west Cork for each of the years 2000 to 2004; and if he will give...
- Asylum Applications
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons (details supplied) in County Cork who attended for interview at the Garda national immigration bureau on...
- Garda Deployment
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a Garda sergeant will be appointed for a station (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Stations
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the repair of the Garda station (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Visa Applications
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18147/05]
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the costs involved in establishing the Morris tribunal and the average annual running costs of the tribunal since its...
- Visa Applications
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a visitor visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18224/05]
- Departmental Programmes
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision to cut back funding by 10% to a project (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application to remain in the State based on the parentage of an Irish born child in the name of a person (details...
- Crime Levels
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the headline offences recorded and detailed for each of the districts within the Waterford area in the years...
- Deportation Orders
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a request in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth to report to the Garda national immigration bureau on...
- Garda Training
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the training procedure for Garda drivers; the duration of such training; and the number of times this training is updated....
- Visa Applications
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and the options available to this person to extend their...
- Garda Stations
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding plans for the replacement station for the expanding Dundrum area. [18369/05]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision on an application for a citizenship for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if a...
- Central Vetting Unit
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the resources available to the central vetting unit; the number of applications for vetting being processed by the unit each...
- Garda Deployment
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí based in Ballyfermot Garda station; the units or special squads they are attached to; the number...
- Crime Levels
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the increase in muggings and assaults in the Thomas Street-Francis Street-Meath Street...
- Asylum Applications
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average length of time it takes for a judicial review application by an asylum seeker to be processed; the average...
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants assigned to each national school in County Kildare in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; her plans for...
- School Staffing
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has had to put second class pupils into...
- Youth Services
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a youth club (details supplied) in County Sligo has 63 members in the nine to 15 age...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the option which she has under consideration as an alternative to the construction of a school (details supplied) on a site identified...
- Special Educational Needs.
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 935 of 12 April 2005, if a decision has been made regarding an application for a full-time...
- Education Schemes
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will introduce a similar scheme to the CLÁR outdoor play enhancement scheme for all primary schools not associated with CLÁR;...
- School Transport
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided for persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to the Loreto secondary school, Kilkenny, in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide the appropriate support for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of funding approved for capital works in respect of primary schools in Drogheda during the past five years on a project by...
- School Staffing
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the staffing arrangements that will apply in a proposed amalgamated school (details supplied) in Dublin; the number of pupils who will...
- Departmental Funding
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which a school in a town with RAPID classification will be prioritised in terms of resources made available to it, and in...
- School Transport
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans she intends to take to reduce the 3:2 ratio on school buses in practice within the next five years; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided for a resource room, library room and computer room for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; when...
- School Accommodation
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has an application from a school (details supplied) in County Wexford for additional rooms needed in the school; when...
- School Staffing
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department's attention has been drawn to the fact that the average class size for 2003-04 was 23.9; if, in such circumstances...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will continue to receive one to one tuition after 1 June 2005. [17968/05]
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the exact criteria by which primary schools are designated disadvantaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18034/05]
- School Transport
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when approval will be given for a bus service for post-primary students at a school (details supplied) in Kilkenny city who travel from...
- School Accommodation
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the consultation which has taken place with teachers, school principals, boards of management, local authorities, VECs, schools and so...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 440: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for home tuition for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when a decision will be made; and if...
- Education Welfare Service
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of educational welfare officers employed by her Department on a county basis; when vacancies will be filled; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the dilemma facing a school (details supplied); the stage in the building process the school is at;...
- School Staffing
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a second teacher will be removed from a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18122/05]
- School Placement
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the proprietors of a private secondary school (details supplied) in Limerick have...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason resource teaching hours will be withdrawn from 1 September 2005 for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if her...
- Third Level Courses
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a course (details supplied) will be recognised as an approved course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18241/05]
- School Staffing
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review and reconsider the decision to remove the first mainstream teacher from a school (details supplied) in County...
- Psychological Service
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the cap on public service recruitment will be relaxed to enable the National Educational Psychological Service to recruit additional...
- School Staffing
Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if primary schools will be informed in sufficient time of their special needs staffing allocation for the 2005-06 school year to enable...
- Youth Services
Question 453: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assistance her Department has given to a club (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if additional funding and staff will be provided; and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a building project for the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the building unit will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person who has an allocation of special needs resource teacher support on a one-to-one basis will retain the same level of support...
- Central Unit
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if third level college students on courses where a placement with children or vulnerable adults is necessary, are being vetted by the...
- School Accommodation
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assistance which will be given to provide extra school places for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make...
- Pre-School Facilities
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in their efforts to retain their facilities and to urge the...
- School Accommodation
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assistance which will be given to provide an extra 28 school places for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Architectural Heritage
Question 465: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to assist in the preservation of a building (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will...
- Environmental Policy
Question 466: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason Ireland has not ratified the Aarhus Agreement taking into account Article 29.5.1 given that the...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 467: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason 80% of the nationally proposed SAC areas are in counties Galway and Mayo; if there will be a more...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 468: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the greater Dublin strategic drainage study; if the study has been completed; the main...
- Local Authorities
Question 469: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to section 3 of the Local Government (No. 2) Act 2003, if he has made regulations under subsection...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 470: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 213 of 3 February 2005, if he will approve funding for a sewerage scheme in County...
- Road Network
Question 474: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding provided by his Department to Athy Town Council, under the block road grant programme...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 475: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding sought by and provided to Kildare County Council, Athy Town Council and Naas Town...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Mayo County Council have made an application for funding to extend the Westport sewerage scheme; the areas...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 477: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to a recent statement by Cork City Council that its tenant purchase scheme for apartments and flats...
- Child Care Services
Question 478: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider expanding the role played by local authorities in the provision of child care facilities;...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 479: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the revised plans for a sewerage treatment plant for an area (details supplied) in County Westmeath were...
- National Housing Agency
Question 480: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the reason the owners of the National Housing Agency are charging 12% interest on house loans. [18117/05]
- Energy Resources
Question 481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, as a result of the energy performance building directive, article 10, it is envisaged that all new...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 482: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of upgrading a sewerage scheme at Kilmallock, County Limerick. [18188/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 483: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the preparation and publication of a restated version of the Electoral Acts under the Statute Law...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has issued regulations or guidelines covering the letting of local authority houses which...
- Hare Coursing
Question 485: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of hares removed from the wild under licence by coursing clubs in each of the years 2001-02,...
- Noise Pollution
Question 486: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether noise pollution is acceptable in a special area of conservation (details supplied) in...
