Written answers
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Services
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the provision of radiotherapy services for the south-east; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concern expressed at the recent INO conference in Killarney that the health and...
- Occupational Therapists
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 123 of 31 May 2005, if her Department has made any arrangements to assist the 75 new occupational...
- Hospital Staff
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of consultant rheumatologists in the public health services; if this figure is in line with international best...
- EU Directives
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in implementing the European working time directive for junior doctors; and if she will make a...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the provision of the nursing home beds as laid out in her ten point plan to alleviate the accident...
- Hospital Services
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that women in the north-west choose to have mastectomies due to the fact that they cannot face the long...
- Insurance Industry
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has given the go-ahead for the introduction of risk equalisation in the health insurance market; when risk...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to introduce a prostate screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20693/05]
- Organ Retention
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the terms of reference of the report she has commissioned from Dr. Deirdre Madden on post-mortem practices in hospitals here...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the 850 beds in CNUs have not been delivered; if this is no longer a Government commitment; and if she will make...
- Nursing Home Sector
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of prosecutions taken by health boards against nursing homes for each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on recent reports that persons are taking out loans from credit unions to pay for medical treatments and surgery;...
- Medical Cards
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to allow families to write off child care costs when being assessed for eligibility for medical cards; her...
- Private Hospital Facilities
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to provide lands at public hospitals to private interests to construct private hospitals; and if she will make...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has allocated money to upgrade St. Bricin's Hospital; if so, the amount her Department has allocated; and...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of each main surgical procedure under the national treatment purchase scheme; the average cost of each such...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided to date, in regard to the commitment given in the national health strategy to provide an...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish proposals on the financing of long-term care of the elderly to fulfil action 42 of the national health...
- Health Service Reform
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the Hanly report; if it is her intention to implement it in full or in part; if she has measured the potential...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to address continuing concerns regarding the possible health impact of the fluoridation of water...
- Cystic Fibrosis Services
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she will bring forward to further assist persons with cystic fibrosis; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Funding
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount that each health board spent over its budget for 2004 before the boards were dissolved in December 2004; and if...
- Health Service Staff
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the recruitment of the chief executive of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Infectious Diseases
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has records of correspondence from any acute hospital or health board regarding the implementation of...
- Health Service Funding
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the capital projects in the health area for which funding has been provided and which are expected to commence in 2005; if...
- Health Service Staff
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the identity of the national directors and assistant directors of the HSE; if all of these positions have been filled; the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the matters that remain outstanding and which are preventing the payment of a pension to retired former temporary...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has sufficient resources to ensure an adequate and safe supply...
- Primary Health Care Strategy
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason so little progress has been made in implementing the Government's primary health care strategy; and if she will...
- Nursing Home Inspections
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, as recommended by the Ombudsman, she will make all nursing home inspectors reports available to the general public as a...
- Hospital Services
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on talks between the HSE and health authorities in Northern Ireland regarding the provision of access...
- Hospital Charges
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the regulations providing for the imposition of charges on those in long-term care will be published and enacted; if...
- Health Service Staff
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total number of personnel now employed in the delivery of the health services; the number of consultants, medical staff,...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of the 1,370 additional assessment and rehabilitation beds which have been delivered, as promised in the national...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the call made by the National Council for Ageing and Older People for the extension of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that the waiting lists for diabetes sufferers in Beaumont Hospital have claimed four lives; and if she...
- Nursing Home Standards
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is a standard procedure that, prior to a public patient being placed by a regional health office into a nursing home,...
- Ambulance Service
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a 24 hour ambulance will be located in the Mulranny, Achill and Ballycroy area of Mayo; if her attention has been...
- Hospital Services
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress she has made to improve neurosurgical services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20920/05]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the report of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction; if it is intended to implement the...
- Plastic Surgery Procedures
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the standards applied to private plastic surgery are sufficiently high; the checks that are...
- Task Force on Alcohol
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in implementing the recommendations of the task force on alcohol; the reason more progress has...
- Nursing Home Standards
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken arising from the shocking conditions in the Leas Cross nursing home disclosed in the "Prime...
- Medical Cards
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to withhold pay increases due to general practitioners as a result of their decision not to co-operate...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the arrangements in place to ensure that Deputies receive replies to parliamentary questions that are referred by her to...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed community nursing unit at Kerry general hospital, Tralee, County Kerry; and if she will...
- Nursing Home Inspections
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of meetings her Department has held with the social services inspectorate since 2001, specifically in relation...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the latest information available to her Department regarding the extent of the potential cost to the Exchequer of the...
- Alternative Medicine
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she expects to receive the report of the national expert group considering ways of strengthening the regulatory...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason, despite repeated promises, questions to the water fluoridation forum from a person (details supplied) have not...
- Health Service Staff
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses from the Philippines working in health services here; the percentage of the total number of nurses...
- Nursing Home Standards
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the promised legislation to extend the social services inspectorate will also include national standards for all...
- Nursing Home Care
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason elderly patients with medical cards in nursing homes are being discriminated against by not making a superior...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will announce the capital development works for Wexford General Hospital for extra beds, a new accident and...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if medical card holders in private nursing homes are entitled to incontinence wear; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the establishment of the promised 32 local health offices; the locations of these proposed offices;...
- Pension Provisions.
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for an inordinate delay within the HSE, northern area, in paying out pensions entitlements and lump sum...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE has by letter of 25 May 2005 confirmed that approval has been...
- Health Service Staff
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which the Department of Health and Children is in excess of the employment target level which the Government...
- General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on introducing an out of hours general practitioner co-operative service; and if she will make a...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of new facilities that have opened following the allocation of funding announced; and if she will make a...
- Medical Inquiries
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected completion date of the inquiry to be chaired by Judge Maureen Harding-Clarke into the activities of a person...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the promised improvements to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in Cork have been implemented; and if she will make a...
- Child Care Services
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to act on the findings of the recent report by the Special Residential Services Board; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when publication of full hospital waiting lists will be resumed; the latest information available to the national treatment...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if contracts have been signed for the provision of all 500 short term nursing home beds for patients who no longer need...
- National Cancer Strategy
Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the new cancer strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20924/05]
- Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the areas in which the additional funding for disability services announced in the 2005 budget has been spent; and if she...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of additional cases for the repayment of illegal nursing home charges that have been taken against her...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns that the failure to provide adequate funding for the supports necessary for...
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her consideration of the report of the pharmacy review group; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of public nursing home beds which are available in County Kildare; the locations of same; the number which are...
- Grant Payments
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have been approved for the home care grant but who are still waiting to receive payment, by...
- Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the oncologists of Ireland report on radiotherapy services; her views on the report and...
- Health Service Reform
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total amount paid to date in severance packages for chief executive officers of the former health boards; the total...
- Health Service Staff
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to lift the cap on medical staffing levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20926/05]
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Budget
Question 177: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of unspent money returned by his Department to the Department of Finance each year since 1997; the total Departmental budget for each year since...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 178: To ask the Taoiseach the number of formal and informal meetings he has held with the president of Sinn Féin, Mr. Adams, since January 2005; the date and location of each meeting;...
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a formal announcement will be made in respect of the allocation of capital funding to Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel,...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will work closely on the issue of the subvention for a person (details supplied) and if she will give them the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be extended to Limerick and the mid-west region; if the Health Service Executive will be instructed...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an appointment has not been arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the...
- Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing a bath chair to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a decision on...
- Grant Payments
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in paying €5,000 to a centre (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if payment of the grant...
- Hospital Services
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an EMG at Waterford Regional Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date for the commencement of the design process for an in-patient child and adolescent psychiatric unit in Limerick, in...
- Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the latest statistics available on funding provided by this Government towards cancer treatment and care here; the regional...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on waiting lists for special housing aid for the elderly in the mid-west region of the Health Service...
- Health Services
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the South Eastern Health Board undertook in writing to pay fees for a...
- Hospital Staff
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Government approval will be forthcoming to fulfil the written commitment to introduce a no fault compensation scheme...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the high costs of inhalers for asthmatics; if inhalers will be made available on the...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review the provision of nursing home care, both public and private, for the elderly; if a uniform scheme will...
- Medical Cards
Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if he will report on the income guidelines for couples in cases in which one person over 70 years of age has a medical card...
- Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available for shared services in County Clare (details supplied). [20729/05]
- Suicide Incidence
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the death rate by suicide per 100,000 population by health board/regional authority and county area from 2000 to 2003...
- Departmental Properties
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE is considering disposing of land in its ownership in Ardee, County Louth, which was recently offered for...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and annual costs of patients from the former North Eastern Health Board area who have been subvented in Northern...
- Health Service Staff
Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the possibility of alternative deployment for the staff of a special school (details supplied)...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the delay in implementing an official recommendation made three years ago by the Health Research Board to...
- General Register Office
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timetable for the implementation of the Civil Registration Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Care of the Elderly
Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent study by the National Council on Aging and Older People which states that...
- Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the statement made at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway on 7 March 2005 that the Government is not...
- Health Service Staff
Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the second moiety of payment will be made to retired psychiatric nurses in the western Health Service Executive area;...
- Medical Cards
Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is automatic entitlement to a medical card for a person suffering from epilepsy and brittle bone disease; and if...
- Health Service Reform
Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 7 October 2004, the progress to date on the merger of the catchment areas;...
- Strategic Task Force on Alcohol
Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is represented on the strategic task force on alcohol and the inter-departmental group on alcohol. [18087/05]
- Medical Statistics
Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons under the age of 16 diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis in 2004; and if she will...
- Food Safety
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ban the use of monosodium glutamate in foods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20955/05]
- Health Service Reform
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the HeBE; if she will report on the need for such a body since the abolition of the health boards; the cost...
- Hospital Staff
Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses employed by the HSE; the annual cost of these employees; and the way in which these costs...
- Health Services
Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason so many children are on long waiting lists for orthodontic treatment; and the further reason for the delays....
- Care of the Elderly
Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided at the Maynooth Community Hospital for the elderly; the number currently occupied; the reason...
- Hospital Services
Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when a respite or other bed is likely to be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her...
- Ambulance Service
Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the person who is responsible for providing essential transport for patients attending hospital appointments who do not...
- Health Education
Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate a high profile public education and awareness campaign to promote general awareness of medical alert...
- Hospital Staff
Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding for a nursing post in neurology will be released; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21029/05]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of tenders to participate in the design teams for the new breast screening centres in Cork and Galway, received...
- Health Services
Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of blood pressure monitors currently available for outpatient use at the Mater Public Hospital; the current...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who are on waiting lists to see consultants at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan; the length of time each...
- Medical Cards
Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was refused dental treatment under his medical card; the option...
- Hospital Staff
Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the specialist hospital services including consultant services, nurse specialists,...
- International Legal Proceedings
Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the Government's undertaking, following the publication of the Lindsay report, to consider the...
- Health Services
Question 273: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the pilot initiative in home care packages has been deemed a success; the budget which has been set out by her...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an ENT outpatient appointment in Mayo General Hospital....
- HAI Infections
Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she is not willing to meet victims and relatives of persons who have suffered from the MRSA superbug that is now...
- Health Services
Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a service proposal from the mid-west region of Rehab Care for the provision of shared care services in...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of long stay beds available for the elderly, either in public or private nursing homes; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to fill all the vacant positions in the health services in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Staff
Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she intends to provide a full complement of required staff at the various levels at Naas Hospital,...
- Health Service Staff
Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of vacant health personnel posts in the various disciplines in County Kildare; her plans to fill these posts in...
- Health Services
Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to extend or expand the scale of services available through the various health centres in County Kildare; and if...
- Health Service Staff
Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which European best practice standards in terms of medical staff per 1,000 of population are being achieved...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 300: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is expected to start the next phase of the Naas Hospital development plan; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra staff provided at accident and emergency departments in the various public hospitals in the country;...
- Health Services
Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of school medical examinations carried out at primary and secondary level in each of the past five years; and if...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra hospital beds provided by way of step-down bed facilities during recent discussions on the issue; the...
- Health Services
Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the model it is intended to apply in respect of the running of the health services with particular reference to community...
- Health Service Staff
Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses currently employed throughout the health services; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which any investigation has taken place into circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details...
- Prescription Drugs
Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of prescriptions for benzodiazepines which have been written in the State in the past 12 months; the number of...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue to date raised by the non-indexation of capital gains tax; and the cost of restoring indexation of cost. [20598/05]
- Flood Relief
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will have discussions with the residents of Riverside Drive, Kilkenny, regarding the type of boundary fence to be erected at this location as...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Finance when it is expected that decentralisation of the Ordnance Survey office to Dungarvan, County Waterford, will take place; and if he will make a...
- Tax Code
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Finance if repayment of tax will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20695/05]
- State Property
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application (details supplied) under section 30 of the State Property Act 1954; if the State owns the lands in question; if...
- Tax Code
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason batteries which are used in mobility scooters do not qualify for a VAT refund; if he has plans to provide for such VAT refunds; and if he...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the decentralisation promised for Claremorris. [21112/05]
- Tax Code
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the VAT on the sale of worms for environmental waste management purposes is at the exorbitant rate...
- Flexible Work Practices
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the term-time scheme which currently operates in the Civil Service; if this scheme is available to persons employed under the...
- Garda Stations
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to renovate Ashford Garda station in County Wicklow; if he has received proposals to demolish the building; if so, the persons from...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fisheries Protection
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received any communication regarding a review (details supplied) and the person who would participate...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the provisions he has in place to deal with the African weed in Lough Corrib (details supplied); the provisions...
- Marine Safety
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if ferry operators will be granted radio licences without sitting the necessary exams due to their level of...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will immediately cease all boat movement between Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle in order that bonamia...
- Mine Sites
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when a decision will be made on the options available regarding the rehabilitation of mine sites at Silvermines,...
- Marine Safety
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to meet the concerns of the East Waterford Lobster Co-operative Society Limited regarding cases of...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to initiate work on the pier at Lower Corobeg, Valentia Island; and if he will consider taking such...
- Harbour Authorities
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans regarding the current situation with respect to the harbour master in Killybegs; if a harbour master...
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a potential disaster of enormous proportions is being...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has the power to direct a company (details supplied) to refine the Corrib gas offshore, as is normal...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans for upgrading telecommunications infrastructure for any future technological breakthroughs in view of...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason correspondence (details supplied) sent to his Department on 3 March 2005 has not been replied to in...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the level of funding available for small piers in Donegal, Mayo and Sligo; the number of applications currently...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if efforts are being made through his counterparts in Northern Ireland and Great Britain to deal with the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has called or will call on the US authorities to close the Guantanamo Bay detention and interrogation facility. [20647/05]
- Irish Emigrants
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contacts which have been made over the past six months with members of the US Senate and US Congress on the issue of undocumented Irish...
- International Agreements
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will actively seek that the EU work with the 77 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, either to achieve at the WTO an...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will draw up a multi-annual plan with a view to reaching the agreed 2007 UN target for overseas development aid of 0.7% of GDP at a...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the award of a sports capital grant for a skateboard park in Bushy Park, Terenure; if this funding is...
- National Gallery
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of full-time employees in the National Gallery of Ireland. [21155/05]
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if an application from a community development association (details supplied) in County Wicklow to the Chief State Solicitor's Office...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are no confirmed places for young adults with learning disabilities...
- Company Closures
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts which have been made by him to find a replacement industry for Dungarvan in view of the proposed closure of a...
- Social Economy Programme
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is conducting a review into the social economy programme; if he is considering proposals to move this programme from...
- Industrial Development
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are grants available for groups to purchase lands for industrial use (details supplied). [20720/05]
- Departmental Staff
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Question No. 25 of 24 February 2005, if he will review the decision to cut FÁS numbers; and if he will make a...
- Road Traffic Accidents
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the Health and Safety Authority refused to investigate a fatal road traffic accident which took place on the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and location of each factory unit owned by Shannon Development or IDA Ireland in County Tipperary; the number...
- Industrial Development
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason his Department has not grant-aided the provision of five new units at a company (details supplied) in County...
- Jobs Creation
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs which have been supported in each of the six Border counties over each of the past five years through...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the Deputy with all the information to which his attention has been drawn as a result of the...
- Education Grants
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding per annum awarded by Enterprise Ireland to the Eurocollege Institute of Education; and the funding committed...
- State Property
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount which the IDA awarded in respect of fee simple interest in industrial lands in Clonshaugh; and the company to...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Public Contracts
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if An Post will retain the social welfare contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20629/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when payment of the respite care grant will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will create one freephone number for all social welfare recipients to receive a certificate of social welfare income to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will pay in advance pension payments for pensioners who opt to use electronic bank transfer for payment instead of payment...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he will make an announcement regarding the €700,000 set aside for the money advice and budgeting service in the budget for...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the child benefit targets in Sustaining Progress; if these targets have been met; if not, the reason...
- Department of Transport
- Parking Regulations
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Transport if city and county councillors have a role in determining policy relating to the clamping of illegally parked vehicles in their local authority...
- Driving Licences
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Transport if any discussions have taken place between the Government and the American Government with regard to an Irish driver's licence being sufficient to...
- Public Transport
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Transport the nature of the provisions in the sectoral plan for the Disability Bill 2004 order to make Bus Éireann vehicles more physically accessible for...
- Driving Tests
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Transport if an application to sit a driving test will be expedited on medical grounds for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a...
- Rail Network
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann has submitted a report to his Department on the feasibility study on the proposed Clonsilla-N3 interchange railway line, in...
- National Car Test
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will consider introducing a reduced rate NCT fee for pensioners; and his estimate of the cost of halving the applicable charges for all those...
- Road Safety
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of safe route to school initiatives which were undertaken in 2003, 2004 and 2005; the locations in which they were undertaken; the...
- Rail Network
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Transport the work which has been carried out in respect of the development of a railway station at Spencer Dock; if the site has been selected; if the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position in relation to personal alarms for old age pensioners; if, in view of the fact that many old age...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the decentralisation promised for Knock Airport. [21112/05]
- Community Development
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding under the social inclusion fund has been reduced to ADM; if not, the reason funding has been reduced to the...
- Inland Waterways
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to move forward the reopening of the Ulster Canal as one of the best cross-Border projects with support from...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the annual cost of forestry payments for the years 1999 to 2004, distinguishing between establishment costs and premia payments. [20577/05]
- Afforestation Programme
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applications for forestry funding made since SI 538 came into force; and the outcome of such applications. [20579/05]
- Animal Carcase Disposal
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of money which will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the deductions being made by her Department...
- Land Annuity Payments
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to end the payment of land annuity in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a...
- Waste Management
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason no effective action has been taken by a person (details supplied) to require to clear SRM and remove tanks which are now...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to the €80 million special beef premium penalty that livestock farmers here are facing from an overshoot in...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [20692/05]
- Milk Quota
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick for the national milk quota reserve category C....
- Livestock Industry
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of breeders in each of the bloodstock, greyhound, poultry, beef and pig industries in each of the past five years; the...
- Food Industry
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the percentage of Irish agricultural produce sold on the market here in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on...
- Employment Levels
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons employed in each of the bloodstock, greyhound, beef, pig and poultry industries in each of the past five years;...
- Livestock Industry
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the percentage of Irish produce sold on the market here in each of the past five years in each of the bloodstock, beef, poultry and pig...
- Research and Development
Question 442: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the total budget provided by her Department in each of the past five years for research and development; the corresponding figure for...
- Grant Payments
Question 443: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if or when there will be an increase in grant aid for farmers who will have to increase slurry tank accommodation to meet the proposed...
- Milk Prices
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she has taken at EU level to protect the price of milk to dairy farmers who are currently under serious income pressure; her...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who will be involved in the beef overshoot, on a county basis; the income to farmers which will be lost, on a...
- Milk Quota
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not received a milk quota. [20792/05]
- Animal Transport
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 293 of 1 March 2005, the discussions which have taken place to date on the new animal movement...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 543 of 14 June 2005, regarding the SBP overshoot; if she will report on the meeting held in the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to extend the disadvantaged area in any new negotiations with the EU Commission; if she will include an area (details...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position retired farmers under the EU retirement pension scheme find themselves in so far as the single payment entitlements are...
- Dairy Industry
Question 451: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she proposes to take to ensure that the EU dairy support budget is at least maintained at the present level of €2.4...
- Livestock Industry
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to review the mechanical grading system; her views on the calibration of the equipment; the number of such inspections to...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa will be extended for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo until September 2005. [20590/05]
- Deportation Orders
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken to review the deportation of persons (details supplied); if he has read the file in detail or made a...
- Visa Applications
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to an application by a person (details supplied) for a visitors visa; the documentation needed to satisfy his...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has fallen short of the requirements for naturalisation; if...
- Child Care Places
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of child care places now provided outside the home; the number which are commercial, community and voluntary and...
- Prison Staff
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in reassigning prison officers from the Curragh Prison to permanent duties in view of the fact that...
- Asylum Applications
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in respect of an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if...
- Visa Applications
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the application for business permission in the State for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford...
- Deportation Orders
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider his decision on the deportation of a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [20654/05]
- Court Procedures
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will meet a person (details supplied) regarding their case. [20657/05]
- Crime Levels
Question 469: 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 Longford and Westmeath areas...
- Residency Permits
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made concerning an application by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly to remain in the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to the serious issues raised in the correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Garda Investigations
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was not fully investigated following an altercation; the...
- Visa Applications
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for a student visa by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 474: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for permission to remain in the State based on...
- Visa Applications
Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made to grant a visa to a person (details supplied). [20721/05]
- Deportation Orders
Question 476: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the issuing of deportation papers for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16. [20722/05]
- Residency Permits
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department will urgently return passports to persons (details supplied). [20723/05]
- Deportation Orders
Question 479: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the proposed deportation of a person (details supplied); if he will review this case; if...
- Prison Education Service
Question 480: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken to ensure that the CONNECT project resumes operation as soon as possible; if the project is on course...
- Visa Applications
Question 481: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons (details supplied) were refused a holiday visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20762/05]
- Registration of Title
Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing on a folio (details supplied) in the Land Registry will be completed. [20778/05]
- Residency Permits
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry to remain in the State on the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [20830/05]
- Refugee Status
Question 485: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement in respect of an application for refugee status here on humanitarian grounds by a person...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 486: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 651 of 14 June 2005, the names and ranks of the certain members of the Garda Síochána referred...
- Garda Compensation Claims
Question 489: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Garda Síochána who have been compensated in the past ten years regarding their involvement in...
- Visa Applications
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding visa applications for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Inclusion
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason funding administered by ADM under the social inclusion fund has been reduced to a group (details supplied); if...
- Registration of Title
Question 492: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing number for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on...
- Deportation Orders
Question 494: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will postpone the deportation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 until the application by their parent has...
- Garda Deployment
Question 495: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí stationed at each station in County Tipperary on 1 January in each year from 2000 to 2005. [21005/05]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of and progress made in the planned decentralisation of Garda units to Thurles, County Tipperary; and if he will...
- Child Care Services
Question 498: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding applications for child care under the EOCP for projects in the Ballyfermot, KWCD and canal...
- Visa Applications
Question 499: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for a holiday visa will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Crime Prevention
Question 500: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of an association (details supplied) in Dublin 24 in respect of crime and...
- Visa Applications
Question 501: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for a visa to join the spouse here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 502: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the consequences of the High Court ruling that the use of laser guns to monitor speeding offences does...
- Garda Equipment
Question 503: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he has taken to ensure that any non-lethal weapons acquired by his Department are consistent with international...
- Asylum Applications
Question 504: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he has taken, in view of the recent information provided by the Congolese Irish partnership on the widespread...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 505: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the controls he intends to introduce to control the proliferation of off-licences; the further controls he intends to...
- Grant Payments
Question 506: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider grant aiding an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21131/05]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 507: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the installation of closed circuit television cameras for the towns of Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and...
- Work Permits
Question 508: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 643 of 14 June 2005, if he will allow the spouse of a person (details supplied) to join them; and...
- Legislative Programme
Question 509: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau. [21310/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 510: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether membership of armed gangs should be made a criminal offence; his proposals in this regard, setting out...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 511: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether there is urgent need for reform of tribunal legislation; the costs and legal fees to date over the past...
- Department of Education and Science
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 512: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of non-Catholic residential institutions included in the schedule of institutions under the Residential Institutions Redress...
- School Staffing
Question 513: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the application for a full-time teaching post for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if this...
- Schools Recognition
Question 514: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the assessment being conducted by her Department into the possible demand for a gaelcholáiste in Limerick will be completed; if...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 515: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if further progress has been made with regard to the provision of a new or refurbished national school at Rahan, Mallow, County Cork....
- School Staffing
Question 516: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the enrolments and teacher allocation over the past five years to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if she will review a...
- Adult Education
Question 517: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided under phase IV of the adult education guidance initiative to a community group (details supplied) in...
- Multi-Denominational Schools
Question 518: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will substantially increase core funding for Educate Together. [20642/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 519: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide increased funding to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Staffing
Question 521: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Waterford will have one full-time SEN teacher...
- Mental Health Services
Question 526: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on and support level for the mental health project, Working Things Out-SFHE, being developed by the department of child and...
- School Services Staff
Question 527: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give consideration to paying school secretaries for bank holidays and in-service days, as well as offering them contracts...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the release to tender for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the number of primary school extensions...
- School Curriculum
Question 529: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the approach of her Department to the provision of pastoral care in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 531: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the appointment of a special needs teacher to schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 532: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be made available for major capital works on a school (details supplied) in County Clare. [20730/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 533: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be made on the allocation of special needs assistants to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 534: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she has received the local inspector's...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the terms under which special needs assistants with her Department may take a year's leave of absence. [20795/05]
- School Transport
Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary, post-primary and special needs pupils availing of the school transport service in each year from and including...
- Overseas Students
Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 1 March 2005, her plans to implement the recommendations; and if she will make a...
- School Staffing
Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is a planned reduction in teacher numbers for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if so, the number of teachers to be...
- Education Schemes
Question 540: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the funding crisis facing the Educate Together national office which may be forced to scale down its...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 541: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the two additional classrooms required by a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will be on site and operational by 1...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 542: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the pupil-teacher ratio by school for all the primary schools in County Wicklow. [20993/05]
- School Staffing
Question 543: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the outcome of an appeal by a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow to the primary staffing appeals board, heard on 14 June 2005;...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 545: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the procurement of a site to facilitate the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry...
- Website Usage
Question 546: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if action will be taken against websites (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21009/05]
- School Enrolments
Question 547: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the protests being undertaken by schools (details supplied) in County Wexford that are excluded from...
- School Staffing
Question 549: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 14 June 2005 if she accepts that in exceptional circumstances the new directives on...
- School Accommodation
Question 550: 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 is full and that its board of management...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 552: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which the general allocation system will affect the resources available to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 554: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for the provision of a general practitioner room at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry which was...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 555: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will examine the file for two special needs persons (details supplied) with a view to providing for their needs as agreed by...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 556: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress regarding the provision of a new school building in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [21117/05]
- School Closures
Question 559: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is intended to reopen a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21120/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 560: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 has not received funding for a sports hall; and when the funds will be allocated....
- School Staffing
Question 561: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 765 of 14 June 2005, the result of the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 562: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will sanction the building of an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement...
- EU Directives
Question 563: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which and when it is proposed to implement EU Directive 2003/20/EC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21166/05]
- School Transport
Question 564: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has clarified if it will be appropriate to retrofit seat belts in some of the current school bus fleet; if so, the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 566: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will sanction a pension scheme for staff of the National Educational Welfare Board; the entitlements of the staff in the...
- Department of Defence
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 567: To ask the Minister for Defence the status of and progress made in the planned decentralisation of the Civil Defence to Roscrea, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
- Overseas Missions
Question 568: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Force members who lost their lives on United Nations missions overseas and who are still listed as missing in action or...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Motor Taxation
Question 569: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a reduced motor tax rate on MPV's for families with three children or more. [20742/05]
- Local Authority Funding
Question 570: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he expects that the grant provided by his Department to Kildare County Council for the upgrade of the...
- Road Network
Question 571: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the situation whereby a person (details supplied) was fatally injured on the Culdaff Road, County...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 572: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will make a decision on the down sizing scheme for those who have tenant purchased their homes but who...
- EU Directives
Question 573: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when work will be completed in his Department after Directives 2003/4/EC and 2003/35/EC have been transposed...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 574: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress which has been made with the application by a housing association (details supplied) in respect...
- Waste Disposal
Question 577: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will meet a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21017/05]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 578: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when work will commence in the development of the Terryglass sewerage scheme. [21018/05]
- Air Quality
Question 579: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position with the status of Greystones, County Wicklow, as a smokeless fuel zone; the reason Greystones...
- Waste Disposal
Question 580: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide funding to Waterford County Council to assist it with the remediation of two landfill sites...
- Planning Issues
Question 581: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that unauthorised development files are only accessible under the...
