Written answers

Wednesday, 28 September 2005

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • National Competitive Council Report
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recently published annual competitiveness report of the National Competitive Council; and if he will make a...
    • Shannon Development
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will proceed with plans to transfer a substantial part of the asset base of Shannon Development to the new Shannon...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the establishment of the new National Consumer Agency; if the membership of the...
    • Grocery Industry
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the public consultation process on the groceries order; when a decision will issue;...
    • Disabled Workers
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made since 2002 to increase the participation of disabled workers in the labour force. [25505/05]
    • Cost of Living Survey
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the results of a recent worldwide cost of living survey (details supplied) which found...
    • Job Losses
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he has taken to address the plight of those affected by recent job losses in County Donegal. [25514/05]
    • Job Creation
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has developed a policy to reduce Ireland's cost base, thus encouraging investment and job creation; and if he will...
    • Equality Legislation
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role his Department has had in relation to the lobbying by Aer Lingus management for an exemption to equality law, in...
    • Consumer Strategy Group
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, arising from the report of the Consumer Strategy Group, it is intended to implement the recommendation to expand social...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      Question 161: 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...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals for the implementation of the report of the review group on the employment rights bodies; if the chair of the...
    • Shannon Development
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his policy in respect of the abolition of Shannon Development and its merger with Enterprise Ireland will be clarified;...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 164: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made with regard to the Government's proposals to provide legal protection on a sectoral basis for...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the call made by the President of ICTU, Mr. Peter McLoone for the establishment of a...
    • Legislative Review
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the review of the 1971 Employment Agency Act, as agreed under the Sustaining...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding each of the inquiries being carried out by or on behalf of his Department; if he will give a...
    • Job Creation
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress being made to implement the stated policy to promote greater regional development and more job creation in all...
    • Ticket Sales
      Question 171: 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...
    • North-South Co-operation
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has satisfied himself with the level of co-operation between the enterprise development agencies North and South....
    • Company Liquidation
      Question 173: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the liquidation process for Irish Fertiliser Industries; if he has satisfied himself that all...
    • Skill Shortages
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will bring forward proposals to address the shortage of skills in certain sectors of the economy; and if he will make...
    • Manufacturing Industry
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will set up a national forum on manufacturing comprising all major players in the industry in order to address the...
    • Consumer Awareness
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the claim made by a person (details supplied) that lack of consumer awareness was costing...
    • Property Management Companies
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of his review of the law regarding the regulation of apartment complex management companies; and if he will make...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce legislation to enshrine the right of parents of children under the age of five to work part-time. [25510/05]
    • Work Permits
      Question 179: 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...
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 181: 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...
    • Business Associations
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's policy in relation to encouraging the development of the co-operative sector. [25508/05]
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to consideration of the discussion document covering the operation of the labour...
    • Redundancy Entitlements
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will increase redundancy entitlements to three weeks' pay per year of service. [25513/05]
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 186: 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...
    • EU Funding
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implications for his Department of the decision of the European Court of Justice to repay €15...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is undertaking to tackle the growing problem of work-related stress. [25506/05]
    • Industrial Development
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to a growing lack of competitiveness in manufacturing industry with resultant relocation to...
    • Enterprise Strategy Group Report
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding his consideration of the report of the Enterprise Strategy Group; if the Government has specifically...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 191: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the draft regulation drawn up by the Health and Safety Authority more than 15 months ago to improve safety standards on...
    • Shannon Development
      Question 194: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the changes he proposes for the development of Shannon further to the Enterprise Strategy Group report. [25496/05]
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has received any communication regarding the installation of sub-standard driver seating on public...
    • County Enterprise Boards
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the eligibility criteria for funding from county enterprise boards; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the Enterprise Ireland eligibility criteria for companies to include import substitution as an acceptable...
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 199: 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...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 200: 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 in...
    • Enterprise Development
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to encourage more women to participate in entrepreneurial activity. [25507/05]
    • Workers' Conditions
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent findings of an EU survey published by the European Foundation for the...
    • EU Directives
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Government will be in a position to implement the terms of EU Directive 2002/14/EC regarding information and...
    • Shannon Development
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on his proposals announced on 28 July 2005 for a revised mandate for Shannon Development; if his attention...
    • Consumer Strategy Group Report
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the consumer...
    • Company Liquidation
      Question 206: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the liquidator appointed to IFI will complete the liquidation process; the terms of reference or job description for...
    • Job Creation
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider providing extra resources to those State agencies involved in job creation in view of the huge levels of...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Industrial Wage
      Question 209: To ask the Taoiseach the average industrial wage here and in the other EU member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25994/05]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 210: To ask the Taoiseach the amount of his Department's budgetary allocation for 2004; the amount of this allocation which was returned to the Department of Finance at year's end; the...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      Question 211: To ask the Taoiseach the result of his meeting with the British Prime Minister on 27 June 2005; and if there has been a decision on taking the British Government to the European...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 212: To ask the Taoiseach the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years. [24397/05]
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      Question 213: To ask the Taoiseach the number of households and the percentage of all households living in private rented accommodation. [24459/05]
    • Publication of Report
      Question 214: To ask the Taoiseach the reason he has not published Mr. Justice Barron's report on the killing of a person (details supplied); if he will refer the report to the Joint Committee on...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 215: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department, or for the...
    • Murder Inquiry
      Question 216: To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with the family of a person (details supplied); if so, the undertakings he gave the family; the action he proposes to take to ensure that the...
    • Labour Force Statistics
      Question 217: To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of the female population in the workforce in June 2002 and at present. [25147/05]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Services
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the number of decompression chambers available here; and if the location of the decompression chamber...
    • National Learning Network
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the present rates of income supplement to persons who are undertaking work of a rehabilitative nature under the national...
    • Health Services
      Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an occupational therapy assessment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if her attention...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [24250/05]
    • Crisis Pregnancies
      Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the increasing number of teenage pregnancies at young ages each year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Promotion
      Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures being taken to combat the drink and drugs culture from a health promotion perspective; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current number of persons on orthodontic waiting lists in County Kerry; the number in categories A and B; the average...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person must fund their entire nursing home care (details supplied); and the entitlements which accrue to a...
    • Elder Abuse
      Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason only two health boards have to date drawn down the amount of €75,000 committed by the Government in 2003 to...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the change in policy on the issue of the position of separated non-custodial parents as treated by the HSE...
    • Health Services
      Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was refused home help service; and if the situation will be changed....
    • Food Industry
      Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the population will be informed that it can contract CJD by means other than by eating contaminated meat and that one of...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to extend the range of alternative therapies such as acupuncture being made available to medical card...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24332/05]
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a care plan will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 and their case given priority. [24338/05]
    • Civil Registration
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if section 65 of the Civil Registration Act 2004 has come into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24344/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the implementation of home care grants in County Wexford; if funding will be made available to provide this...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000in value with her Department in each of the past five...
    • Nursing Homes
      Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Services Executive regarding the Leas Cross nursing home, including an...
    • Health Services
      Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, will have an unmanageable financial deficit of €10 million; and if she will make...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she has taken since Dáil Éireann rose for the 2005 summer recess to address the threatened avian flu pandemic;...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received the report of the working group on medical training and education; if she will publish the report; and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in her discussions with the authorities in the Six Counties on the sharing of radiation oncology...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ensure that there is an increase in the overall fleet of ambulances and trained ambulance crews in the State;...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made regarding an appeal under the housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Health Services
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will give an assurance that adequate funding will be provided to treat public patients at the proposed radiotherapy...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided to upgrade three wards at a hospital (details supplied) in County Clare which are in urgent...
    • Community Care
      Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to the announcement of her predecessor on 29 July 2002 regarding community nursing units, when the 850 beds will be...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to recruit additional midwives for Kerry General Hospital in Tralee; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the go-ahead will be given for the extension to Kenmare Community Hospital, Kenmare, County Kerry; the reason this...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in County Kerry in possession of a medical card. [24503/05]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a replacement consultant oncologist has been appointed following the resignation of an oncologist (details supplied);...
    • Health Services
      Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons awaiting orthodontic treatment in the HSE south region and in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will give consideration to the introduction of a nationwide cervical screening programme in view of the high...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of an application under the housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Clare;...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the huge difference in price between medicines purchased here and those in Spain (details supplied); her plans...
    • Health Services
      Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce an independent social services inspectorate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24532/05]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to deal with car parking when the new development starts at the Mater Hospital; and if she will make a statement...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the drug Vioxx is available here; if it has been withdrawn; if any person suffered heart attacks while taking the drug;...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when moneys will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the Housing Aid for the Elderly Scheme;...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the provision of a 24-hour ambulance service for Killarney, County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she, the Health Service Executive and Dublin City Council will work together in order to provide a care plan with...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made regarding the finalised planning brief for Waterford Regional Hospital which was submitted...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 136 of 22 June 2005, if her Department has asked the parliamentary affairs division of the Health...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of an application for the housing aid for the elderly scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has made arrangements for the implementation of the national repayment scheme to persons in nursing homes; and if...
    • Health Services
      Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will give the maximum support in funding to the Marion and Fairview home help service and if she will work with the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the advice she has given to the Health Service Executive in relation to the proposed Mater and children's hospital...
    • Health Services
      Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will receive a home-help and back up service from the Health Service Executive...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the proposed new development at Temple Street Children's Hospital is being scrapped; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a huge shortage of public health doctors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24646/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason over 2,000 children are awaiting developmental checks; and if it is correct to state that there have been no...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital; and if she...
    • Health Services
      Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an occupational therapist will carry out a visit to a person (details supplied) in County Clare to have their needs...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the breast screening programme will be extended to Kilkenny city and council; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the privatisation of health care services will only result in additional costs being passed on to...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to re-negotiate the arrangements agreed between her Department and the Irish Medical Association; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 286: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if further funding will be made available for personal assistants for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the gross PAYE income, less PRSI, of a person applying for a medical card is fully assessable as income; and if...
    • Health Services
      Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for cataract removal surgery. [24709/05]
    • Registration of Nurses
      Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when nursing qualifications of a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be recognised by An Bord Altranais; if all...
    • Health Services
      Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children here who have been diagnosed with delayed development; the facilities which are in place for...
    • Consultant Appointments
      Question 291: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in replacing a consultant (details supplied) for the western region of the Health Service...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a hip operation. [24713/05]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the payments made on a county and individual basis to pharmacists through the GMS scheme for 2004 including the recipient's...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be processed under the housing aid for the elderly...
    • Health Services
      Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for their orthodontic assessment. [24754/05]
    • Consultant Appointments
      Question 300: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an eye specialist will take up their position in a designated health centre (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24755/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons that have been sent to the Mayo elderly assessment committee by the Health Service Executive, western...
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of stand-by drivers Westdoc has; the amount of money which was awarded to drivers and taxis in 2004 with regard...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has considered the possibility of allowing cannabis use as a prescription medicine for the treatment of conditions...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 305: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason almost €70 million was spent on the Mater-Temple Street site to date and still there is no new hospital; and...
    • Health Services
      Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a decision will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [24796/05]
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for funding under the housing aid for the elderly scheme in the name of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Eating Disorders
      Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures which have been put in place to ensure a coherent treatment programme for eating disorders including both...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 310: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a list of ingredients, side effects and possible adverse reactions is not automatically given to parents to read...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason ileostomy bags being used by persons for the rest of their lives are not available on the long-term illness...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason Parents for Justice was neither consulted nor included in the drawing up of the terms of reference for the...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 315: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the HSE will carry out works approved for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo under the special housing aid for...
    • Health Services
      Question 317: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the review of home help hours given to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be investigated; if the hours...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has considered a proposal from the HSE, southern area, for a 24-hour ambulance service for Killarney, County Kerry;...
    • Health Services
      Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the waiting list for platelet function testing for patients, especially for children (details...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason staff in Stewart's Hospital were not notified immediately following discovery of two patients suffering from...
    • Health Services
      Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the home support which is available to parents of children with autism in County Louth, County Wexford and County Meath;...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will set up the provision of proper living conditions for patients within the mental health services (details...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 326: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy in regard to the provision of acute care for patients in State run nursing homes who have acquired...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 328: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals, pending the introduction of BreastCheck, to provide access for public patients from the HSE south eastern...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the sub-committee set up to report on the designated transport arrangement for cancer patients required to travel for...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 331: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application for special housing aid for the elderly for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Health Services
      Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be called for speech and language therapy; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 334: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons with intellectual disability in psychiatric hospitals. [24888/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 335: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices...
    • Health Services
      Question 336: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person who is occupying a bed in a private nursing home which has been contracted by the Health Service Executive is...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 337: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of shoe arches on prescription from a podiatrist; if these are provided free of charge...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 338: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Leas Cross nursing home in Swords, County Dublin, was closed; if reports on this matter are due to be...
    • Health Services
      Question 339: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if urgent assistance will be given to persons (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will work with the HSE to...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 340: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to the provision of a CT scanner for Monaghan General Hospital; if she proposes to deliver on the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 341: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of physiotherapists currently employed by the HSE in County Mayo; the number of physiotherapists that provide a...
    • Health Services
      Question 342: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a special chair from the Health Service Executive; and if she...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 343: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed under the housing aid for the elderly scheme; and if she...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 344: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin, in respect of funding future plans; if the maximum support will be...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 345: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a third geriatrician will be appointed to the mid west region of the HSE, catering for the Limerick city and county...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 346: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current budget for orthopaedic services for the elderly in County Wexford. [24950/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 347: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the length of time it takes for a person to see an occupational therapist in County Wexford. [24951/05]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 349: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost per annum of providing medical cards to all children under 16 years of age; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 350: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of an Alzheimer's unit at St. Ita's Hospital, Newcastle West, County Limerick. [24969/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 352: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide immediate supplementary funding to clear the waiting list for the curam home care grant in the Southern...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 353: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to bring to an end the practice whereby persons over 70 years of age with medical cards are charged for the...
    • Health Services
      Question 354: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position concerning the cancer services for the north west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24993/05]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 360: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 25 May 2005 if short-listing, interviews and fee negotiations have been...
    • Health Services
      Question 361: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to expand the services available to diabetics in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 362: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the appointment of three rheumatologists to cater for patient needs in the Western Health Board region...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 363: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 165 of 24 May 2005 when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called...
    • Pre-School Services
      Question 364: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 334 of 26 January 2005 if the child care report has been finalised; if training...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      Question 365: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason persons with haemochromatosis cannot donate blood; the plans there are to review this situation; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 366: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to develop the haemochromatosis clinic at the County Hospital, Roscommon; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 367: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 208 of 30 November 2004, if the board has made a decision on the reduction in bed...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 369: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 26 January 2005 when she intends to complete the strategic review of existing...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 370: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 12 April 2005, the current status of the review; when a compensation scheme...
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 373: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in respect of the publishing of the report on the death by suicide of a person (details supplied) on 20...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 375: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the report of the investigation into the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments
      Question 376: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the assessment made by a person (details supplied) of the Health Service Executive that it will take at least...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 377: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Chiropractic Association of Ireland has not yet been included within the framework of the Health and Social...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 378: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if this case...
    • Health Services
      Question 379: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when services will be available to children suffering from dyspraxia; if the required resources to meet requirements...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 380: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 11 May 2005, the reason the latter half of the question was completely...
    • Health Services
      Question 381: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a refund will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow in view of ongoing dental treatment; and if...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 382: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the last annual report of the inspector of mental...
    • Health Services
      Question 383: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the serious difficulties that families with autistic children are having accessing...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 384: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the European autism charter, adopted as a formal resolution of the Committee on Social Affairs of the European...
    • Health Services
      Question 387: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department, the Health Service Executive and service providers will put a long-term independent care plan in place...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 388: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department and the Health Service Executive will assist, with proper back-up services, persons with a mental illness...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 391: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a replacement community ophthalmologist will be appointed to service the Monaghan area (details supplied); and if she...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 392: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children and adults with an intellectual disability (details supplied) in the State and the services...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 393: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made regarding a dementia unit (details supplied) for County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 394: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a report on a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in relation to their orthodontic needs; if this...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 398: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for refund under the national repayment scheme for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 400: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be called for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 404: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by children at school, particularly at second level,...
    • Health Services
      Question 405: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the orthodontic needs of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if this person will be seen...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 406: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of night superintendants in each Health Service Executive area; the number of these who are in the assistant...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 407: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a report from the Health Service Executive regarding obstacles in the roll out of digital hearing aids...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 408: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of drug and alcohol treatment centres catering for young persons and her plans to expand existing services....
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 409: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the redevelopment of Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel and Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel will be fully completed....
    • Health Services
      Question 410: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of times the working group established by the Health Service Executive to review the current configuration and...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 412: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the funding and the commencement date of an extension to Clontarf Orthopaedic Hospital, details...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 414: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of ambulances which are available in the greater Dublin area to respond to emergency calls; when the number was...
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      Question 415: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the territory covered by the Westdoc services with regard to the out-of-hours general practitioner...
    • Health Services
      Question 417: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the help which is available for young persons under the age of 16, who travel on a regular basis to hospital appointments;...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 419: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when extra beds will be provided for Letterkenny General Hospital in order to help ease the pressure on the accident and...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 422: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the continuing delay in establishing an ambulance base in the Mulranny, Achill and Ballycroy areas of Mayo;...
    • Health Research
      Question 424: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if any investigation has been carried out by her Department in the past 20 years regarding the effects of overhead power...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 425: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the figure for savings is to be disregarded when means-testing a subvention for a nursing homes application....
    • Missing Persons
      Question 426: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children missing from the care of the Health Service Executive who entered the State as unaccompanied minors;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 427: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 136 to 138, inclusive, of 29 June 2005, details supplied; and if...
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 428: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the new health representative structures will be established; if she will report on the composition of these; and if...
    • Health Services
      Question 429: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person, details supplied, had to hire a taxi to transport their child to a clinic; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 430: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 715 of 27 January 2004 and 55 of 16 June 2005, if the Mental Health Commission has...
    • Health Services
      Question 431: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when physiotherapy treatment will be made available to a person, details supplied, in County Limerick. [25755/05]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 432: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to reduce hospital outpatient waiting lists to see hospital consultants; and if she will make a...
    • Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome
      Question 434: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures the Government has taken or intends to take to highlight the danger of sudden death syndrome; and if it will...
    • Health Services
      Question 437: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with officials in the Western Health Board and have a person, details supplied, put on the panel for...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 438: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a public bed will be made available to a person, details supplied, in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 439: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person, details supplied, in County Sligo will be called for an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 440: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she received correspondence dated 15 August 2005 from a person, details supplied, in County Sligo; and if she will make...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 441: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the promised extension to Kanturk Community Hospital in County Cork will commence. [25851/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 442: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the proposal to have a primary care centre in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15; if she will respond...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 445: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason this Deputy has not yet received a written response regarding a matter discussed, details supplied, during the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 446: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the parents' efforts in securing sponsorship for their autistic child, details supplied, for three months at...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 447: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in a response issuing from the HSE following Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 1 June 2005. [25889/05]
    • Community Care
      Question 450: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the full complement of beds is in use at the Maynooth community care unit in County Kildare; if not, the number of beds...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 451: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of elderly persons awaiting allocation of a long-term care place in State nursing homes in County Kildare; and...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 452: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the phases completed in the redevelopment of Naas General Hospital; the phases in which work is ongoing; the phases which...
    • Health Services
      Question 454: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children awaiting orthodontic treatment in County Kildare; the average waiting time; the number of dentists...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 455: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide extra physiotherapists for the community services in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 456: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when replies will issue from the Health Service Executive — south east area — and the Health Service — north-west...
    • Health Services
      Question 457: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 28 June 2005. [25939/05]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 458: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question Nos. 115 and 116 from 30 June 2005....
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 460: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an ambulance took 40 minutes to get to a seriously ill child on 22 July 2005; and if steps will be taken to...
    • Health Services
      Question 461: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the contract with a foundation, details supplied, in County Kildare is being terminated; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to mitigate the impact of rising petrol and diesel prices on the distribution sector and the many other businesses dependent on road...
    • Information Society Initiative
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of projects developed under the information society initiative in 2004, including those intended to go live in 2004; the funding allocated...
    • Tax Code
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons are not allowed to use income derived from renting to make a contribution towards their pension fund; and if the review of tax...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 465: To ask the Minister for Finance the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years; and the value of each...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give the figures for tax as a percentage of GDP for each of the past ten years. [24412/05]
    • Income Distribution
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Finance the increase in real disposable incomes from 1990 to 2005; the percentage of these gains which went to the top 20% of income earners; and the...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of the tax take which was raised by way of spending taxes in each of the past five years. [24414/05]
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the percentage of excise duty added to fuel prices; if his Department will consider reducing its take on fuel until the current...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the guidelines for certain widows of employees of the Office of Public Works who did not join the special pension rights scheme...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the acquisition of a premises for the driving test centre in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Endowment Mortgages
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to amend Part 2, section 16, paragraph 3([i]b[/i]) of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004 (details...
    • State Property
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all State land in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area. [24545/05]
    • Public Service Staffing
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Finance the latest figure for the number of persons in public service employment in the State. [24554/05]
    • Banking Sector
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Finance if bank drafts are legal tender; and if so, the reason all financial institutions treat them as cheques with regard to clearing. [24589/05]
    • Capital Projects Funding
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Finance the communication he has given to the Department of Health and Children in relation to the proposed Mater Misericordiae Hospital and children's...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Finance if widowers and widows are being charged the 2% health levies on their salaries; if this is provided for in legislation; the amount of overcharging...
    • Public Works Projects
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will be instructed to clean and maintain a waterway (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24720/05]
    • Tax Code
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals the Government has to phase out vehicle registration tax following the European Commission decision to bring in a directive forcing...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take with regard to the large backlog of cases under appeal with the disabled drivers and disabled passengers medical board of...
    • Budget Submissions
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give the maximum support to the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association following its budget submission dealing with the cost of...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department, or for...
    • Tax Code
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to provide tax incentives for the restoration of derelict buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/05]
    • Customs and Excise Investigations
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of aircraft with a declared origin or destination of Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC, which landed in the State during each of...
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 500: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there is such a difference in prices in respect of red and white hydrocarbon products; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the large number of planning applications for urban renewal schemes which received permission in late 2004 due to various delays in...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Finance if a site has been selected for a new test centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25001/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 28 June 2005, if he will consider allocating a room in the old Garda station at Kilrush, County Clare,...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in holding a public exhibition in a town in County Cork to exhibit plans (details supplied). [25060/05]
    • Freedom of Information
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 10 May 2005, when he envisages that the organisation will come under the terms of the Freedom of...
    • Tax Code
      Question 506: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax relief for child care fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25072/05]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 508: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Office of Public Works project for the district veterinary office in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim; the reason for the delay in...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in implementing the Government's decentralisation programme for civil servants; the number of civil servants who have...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 510: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the company trading address of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been changed by the Revenue Commissioners; when same will...
    • Tax Code
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of introducing a flat income tax rate of 20% while allowing the first €17,000 of a single person's income and the first €34,000 of a...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Finance when construction will begin on the new Finglas Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25235/05]
    • Tax Code
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider dropping VAT on defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25291/05]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 516: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will develop a property (details supplied) in County Mayo so that commercial vehicle testing can recommence in...
    • Tax Code
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason PRSI is deducted from pensioners who worked for the ESB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25383/05]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Finance if a new order is being considered which will restrict the investment options open to credit unions; the aims of the proposed changes; the...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays in the refund of stamp duty on share transactions where the shares are sold within 20 days; the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that new houses valued at under €317,000 and under 125 square metres in size can lose their exemption...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that €65,000 was granted in 2004 for refurbishment work in Tubbercurry Garda station, County Sligo; the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 523: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has to pay tax on their spouse's unemployment supplement; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Finance the situation in respect of decentralisation; the number of decentralisation projects which have been established; the cost of same; the number of...
    • Tax Code
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the current situation in relation to the stallion tax exemption and the position of the European Commission in respect of same;...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works is in a position to seek planning permission for the new Leixlip Garda station in County Kildare; and when construction...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 16 June 2005, when work will commence on this project. [25899/05]
    • Flood Relief
      Question 534: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Commissioners of Public Works have completed their examination of the proposed flood relief works in Leixlip, County Kildare submitted by...
    • State Property
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a letter issued on 15 July 2005 in relation to the purchase of lands at Castletown, Celbridge; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Works Projects
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent to date on the agreed schedule of works for Lucan Demesne; the amount to be spent up to 31 December 2005; and if he will allow the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers here who are on a remittance basis as resident but not domiciled here for each year from 1998 to date; and the analysis of the...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends to introduce grant aid towards wood pellet burners; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if an Irish oil and gas exploration company will be established in view of the good example of the Norwegian...
    • Communications Masts
      Question 542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the system that is in place for monitoring ionisation and non-ionisation regarding the erection of communication...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 543: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide the terms and details of the deal between the Government and Shell. [24339/05]
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of all towns and localities across the State which still do not have access to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the priority his Department gives to coastal erosion; the proposals he has to provide adequate funding for...
    • Salmon Management
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposals his Department has to introduce a voluntary buy-out scheme for commercial drift-net salmon fishing...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the names of persons who have applied for licences to fish for oysters in Ballylongford Bay, County Kerry. [24555/05]
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason for the increase of 100% in sightings of Spanish vessels by the Naval Service in the first three...
    • Port Development
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding Dublin Bay and the proposed 52 acre infill. [24627/05]
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will sign the PSO from AER VI into action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24723/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the timeframe that is planned in introducing broadband for Donegal North-East. [25045/05]
    • Tourism Industry
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to address the impact of drift netting on the tourism sector; and if he will make a...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the incentives which are available from his Department or from agencies associated with it, to encourage...
    • Broadcasting Legislation
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to replies to previous parliamentary questions, if he will legislate to cater for the needs of persons...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on progress in regard to the labour relations discussions with An Post relating to pension...
    • Ferry Services
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a study commissioned in March 2002, in regard to the feasibility of a ferry service linking Achill Island...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the members of the board of directors of Bord Gáis with full details in regard to...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Ireland is taking part in the EU Commission's Intelligent Energy Europe project; when he will be making an...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 573: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the operations of the MANs infrastructure indicating the volumes of traffic and earnings...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he has taken to strengthen the petroleum affairs division of his Department; his plans to review the...
    • Corrib Gas Project
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he has taken since the Dáil session ended in June 2005 to resolve the Corrib impasse and to secure...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if ComReg will bring forward measures to urgently reduce termination charges in the high priced mobile phone...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the stage which the White Paper on Energy has reached in the Department; and if the recent explosion in oil, gas...
    • Television Reception
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to introduce digital television; the timescale for same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Corrib Gas Project
      Question 580: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department or the Government has been contacted by the Norwegian ambassador to Ireland in regard to the...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government has been approached in the past by the Norwegian Government to establish an Irish exploration...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received a submission from the Western Development Commission (details supplied) in County Roscommon;...
    • Public Service Obligation Charges
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the purpose of the public service obligation charge on ESB bills; the rates of the domestic and commercial...
    • Overhead Power Lines
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if any investigation has been carried out by his Department in the past 20 years looking at the effects of...
    • Employment Status
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the employment status of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • International Agreements
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number and names of petitioners against Ireland under the Convention Against Torture; the issues raised by them; and the status or...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will raise the plight of the rights of the Lubicon Lake Cree Indians with the Canadian authorities; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years. [24401/05]
    • Official Terms
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there is an official Government or Department of Foreign Affairs position on the use of the term British Isles when referring to Ireland...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with the British authorities the sectarian attacks on Catholics in County Antrim during summer 2005; if so, if he will...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representations which he has made to the Iranian Government regarding the execution of two gay Iranian teenagers by the Iranians; and if...
    • Emigrant Issues
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide this Deputy with figures or estimates for the number of Irish born citizens who emigrated to the UK each year from 1950 to...
    • Overseas Prisoners
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide this Deputy with figures for the number of Irish born prisoners in prisons in the UK and the US; and if he will make a...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the moneys which have been allocated from Díon funding to assist emigrants returning here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Colombia has the worst record in the world for violations of human rights; and if he will...
    • Consular Assistance
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 6 July 2004 if he will arrange for the staff or representatives of his Department to renew...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 380 of 14 June 2005, the outcome of the consideration then being given to Ireland's participation in...
    • State Airports
      Question 603: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the UN Human Rights Commission is investigating the UK Government and the Irish Government for allowing US-CIA jets to land at Shannon;...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department,...
    • Natural Disasters
      Question 605: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the relief funds offered to the USA in the aftermath of the disaster in New Orleans and surrounding areas following hurricane Katrina have...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 606: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in relation to the inquiry into the murder of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25000/05]
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the strong friendship and connection between the United States of America and Ireland, he will demonstrate Ireland's...
    • Diplomatic Immunity
      Question 608: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons and the organisations to which they are attached which have been granted diplomatic immunity within the State; and if...
    • Murder Inquiry
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assistance his Department is giving to the family of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who was murdered in Spain; and if he will...
    • Foreign Elections
      Question 610: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has received a report on the May 2005 general election in Ethiopia; and if he will report on same. [25598/05]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government intends to raise the issue of the continuing deployment of the British parachute regiment in south Armagh with the British...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 615: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the plight of Palestinian school children who are being denied their full rights to an education due to...
    • State Airports
      Question 616: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the serious allegations against Ireland made by Amnesty International that Shannon Airport is being used to carry out...
    • Foreign Court Proceedings
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances of a person (details supplied) who has been a missionary in Kenya for 23 years and who...
    • International Agreements
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the names of petitioners against Ireland under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the issues raised by them; and the...
    • Extradition Treaties
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions he has with his Colombian counterpart between January 2005 and 31 July 2005 with respect to an extradition treaty between the...
    • Passport Applications
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if any consideration was given to implementing a system for passport holders to remind them three months before the expiry date of their...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 623: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign diplomats and embassies. [25888/05]
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Funding
      Question 625: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has made any decisions in relation to the funding of the sports campus at Abbottstown; if his attention has been drawn to media...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 628: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on all aspects of the decentralisation programme to Kilkenny; the progress achieved to date; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if grants are available to agricultural shows to assist with the costs of putting them on; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 630: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years. [24402/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 631: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his...
    • Tax Code
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to support the artists' tax exemption scheme and to work with the Minister for Finance on this matter. [24915/05]
    • Tourism Industry
      Question 633: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the steps he is taking to address the increase in regional imbalance within the tourism sector; the specific steps he intends to take...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 635: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding will be offered to a club (details supplied) in County Kildare to assist with the construction of an astro-turf playing...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 636: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding will be made available to upgrade the facilities at the public swimming pool in Dunmanway in west Cork; and if he will...
    • Arts Council
      Question 639: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has established a special committee under section 21 of the Arts Act 2003, to advise the Arts Council on the question of art...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      Question 640: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if and when a work permit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 641: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason 30 staff members were victimised at a company (details supplied); the further reason this company was in breach...
    • Job Protection
      Question 642: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to appoint a task force to assess and analyse the sustainability of jobs in the Border, midland and western...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 643: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on efforts being undertaken by his Department to crack down on the exploitation of migrant and other...
    • Job Creation
      Question 644: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA supported jobs which were created in County Kerry in each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004....
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 646: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the light of the powers vested in him by section 38 (1) and (2) of the Industrial Relations Act 1990, he will...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions which have been taken by his Department since 2002 to fulfil the promises in An Agreed Programme for Government...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 648: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the allowances made in health and safety instruction for building site workers and other...
    • Work Permits
      Question 651: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation regarding the green card system; when the review of this system will be finalised; and if he will make a...
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is not a legal obligation on companies to comply with Labour Court recommendations. [24561/05]
    • Work Permits
      Question 654: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a specialist in martial arts and fitness (details supplied) in County Clare was refused a work permit; and if he...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the dissatisfaction of participants on the community employment scheme who are capped...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps which have been taken by his Department to introduce legislation to control the activities of arms brokers and...
    • Work Permits
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an application for a work permit for a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be processed; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 661: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any State agency has provided funding to a private company (details supplied) to carry out restructuring of its...
    • Job Creation
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will indicate the record of job creation and other initiatives of Shannon Development in comparison with Enterprise...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when Enterprise Ireland will have completed its decentralisation to Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Industrial Development
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the portion of employment in IDA assisted firms is 29% lower in the...
    • Science and Technology Groups
      Question 668: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of his Department's consideration of the applications for the national institute for bioprocessing research and...
    • Metrology Service
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 16 December 2004, the progress to date on the inspection regime under the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 29 September 2004, the grant aid returned to his Department by the company;...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 671: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made to attract industrial investment in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Losses
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 27 January 2005, the progress which has been made to address job losses in...
    • Work Permits
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a work permit will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25146/05]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role his Department has in ensuring that all those eligible for positions on community employment schemes are offered a...
    • Job Creation
      Question 679: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to significantly improve the employment situation both in terms of quality and quantity in the Waterford...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 680: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received a report on the way in which a redundancy situation was handled by a company (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Job Creation
      Question 682: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made in establishing a replacement industry at Kantoher, County Limerick, following the closure of a company...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 683: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision will be made on a sale of a property from the IDA to a company (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he...
    • Adult Education
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the damage which will be caused to second chance education, particularly in disadvantaged...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has monitored the extent to which Irish goods being exported are maintaining a competitive edge against all others;...
    • Work Permits
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a work permit will be given to enable a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to move from their present employer...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 688: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has satisfied himself that Irish-based manufacturers are in a position to compete with all others, both in Europe and...
    • Trade Statistics
      Question 693: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the countries from which Ireland has imported most in the past 12 months; and the countries which have shown growth in this...
    • Insurance Industry
      Question 695: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he expects insurance costs in respect of public liability or house insurance to be reduced; if he...
    • Job Creation
      Question 696: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he has taken to improve the chances of further investment in jobs here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Losses
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of job losses recorded in the past 12 months; the number of replacement jobs created; and if he will make a...
    • Job Creation
      Question 700: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to ensure the provision of adequate job opportunities with suitable skill requirements for those unemployed in...
    • Export Markets
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new markets for Irish goods and services which have opened up in the past 12 months; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 706: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he monitors exploitation of the workforce including foreign workers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Work Permits
      Question 707: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the current weekly average number of applications for work permits; if the number is increasing or decreasing; and if he...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 711: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on the clothing and footwear scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 712: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby lone parents who have joined community employment schemes find that they are...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 714: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of grants given by his Department to voluntary and community groups in County Louth; the amount sought by each...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 715: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in South Tipperary is not entitled to the back to school allowance. [24327/05]
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 717: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 718: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the changes he is making to the back to education scheme, he will reconsider the hardship caused to a person...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals he has to substantially improve the financial situation of the elderly parents of intellectually disabled children in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 727: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason it took from 5 January 2005 to 10 August 2005 to make a decision on farm assist for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 734: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to increase weekly income thresholds for the family income supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 736: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when revised decisions in respect of the disability allowance for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will issue. [24867/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 737: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 738: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who were in receipt of the fuel allowance for the 2004-05 season; the cost of the scheme to his Department;...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 742: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to allow persons to continue to work and pay PRSI pension contributions beyond pension age to gain eligibility for an old...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 743: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will increase the income disregard for an adult dependent of a contributory old age pensioner in view of the increases in the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 745: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the one-parent family allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 748: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will explain the policy rationale behind the decision to transfer recipients of deserted wife's benefit to one-parent family...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 749: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he intends to take to avert industrial action at the pension services office in Sligo; the discussions he has had with...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 750: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the decision to refuse the rent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 752: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the regulation which allows a person in receipt of a blind pension to also receive disability benefit only until...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 758: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the back to school allowance has not been approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 761: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the inquiries which he has carried out into the issue of 1,416 exemptions from PRSI for employees of Gama; if he has reviewed the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Network
      Question 763: To ask the Minister for Transport if there are any major health issues at the Dublin Port tunnel particularly with regard to dangerous gases and levels of carbon dioxide. [24781/05]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 764: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will give the maximum support and assistance to the retired aviation staff association (details supplied) at Dublin Airport with regard to...
    • Public Transport
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of new and additional buses promised to Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann under the national development plan; the number of each delivered...
    • EU Directives
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Transport if the State has fully implemented all directives from the European Union in respect of motor insurance; if it is correct that a failure to fully...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 768: To ask the Minister for Transport the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years. [24405/05]
    • Driving Tests
      Question 769: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the opening of a new driving test centre in Killarney, County Kerry; the number of persons awaiting a test at the Killarney...
    • State Airports
      Question 771: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy on the future of the Great Southern Hotels group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24505/05]
    • Public Transport
      Question 772: To ask the Minister for Transport if some grant assistance or scheme will be put into place for bus operators who have to refit new seats with integrated seat belts in their buses...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 773: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made to date in appointing private sector driving testers; when they will begin work; the number of tests per week that it is...
    • Road Safety
      Question 774: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will consider issuing permits from point to point for the movement of large construction equipment; if his attention has been...
    • Accident Investigations
      Question 776: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received all the reports into the recent school bus tragedy in Navan; the main findings of such reports and the recommendations contained...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 777: To ask the Minister for Transport if, during the review of the traffic management grants scheme proposed for late 2005, there will be a rigorous assessment of the demand for bus...
    • Driving Licences
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Transport if a driving licence was issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24664/05]
    • Road Safety
      Question 780: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 15 February 2005, if guidelines under section 9 of the Road Traffic Act 2004 have now been issued to...
    • Road Network
      Question 782: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the fact that the NRA and NTR are answerable to him under the 1993 Act; the reason he will not intervene on this matter relating to...
    • Rail Network
      Question 783: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the state of the rail line currently running from Heuston Station, Dublin, through a tunnel under Phoenix Park and over ground...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for Transport if he visited a GAA club (details supplied) in County Carlow during July 2005; if so, the purpose of the visit; the action he undertook as a result...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department, or for...
    • State Airports
      Question 786: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of permissions granted to aircraft registered outside the State to transit through or land at airports here or at Casement Aerodrome...
    • Air Services
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the anti-privatisation efforts of staff at Aer Lingus as an alternative to selling the national airline; and the position regarding...
    • Road Network
      Question 788: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the Dublin Port tunnel, particularly in relation to the cost of overruns and the completion date. [24958/05]
    • Rural Transport Integration
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for Transport the procedure in tendering for a contract under a rural development transport initiative (details supplied). [25059/05]
    • Rail Network
      Question 790: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he is taking to implement the McCann report on the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25086/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 791: To ask the Minister for Transport the timetable for the decentralisation of the National Roads Authority and the Railway Safety Commission to Ballinasloe; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      Question 792: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to upgrade the Dublin to Westport rail service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25088/05]
    • Road Safety
      Question 793: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether motorcycles and scooters, due to their profile being motorised and few in number, cannot possibly block or clutter bus lanes...
    • Road Network
      Question 796: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the main contractor for the Dublin Port tunnel has asked for €444 million of taxpayers' money to finish the project; and if he will...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 797: To ask the Minister for Transport when the next recruitment campaign will take place for driving test examiners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25301/05]
    • Road Safety
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will receive a deputation from an association (details supplied) to discuss a serious road safety matter; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 799: To ask the Minister for Transport if steps will be taken with the Office of Public Works to ensure that a property (details supplied) in County Mayo is developed immediately in...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 800: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that he is discussing with the Railway Procurement Agency plans for the extension of the Luas line through Tallaght west to...
    • Rail Services
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann has submitted a revised business plan for the Kildare route project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25517/05]
    • Regional Airports
      Question 803: To ask the Minister for Transport when a decision will be made on an application to his Department for a marketing, security and training grant by Galway Airport, Carnmore, Galway;...
    • Road Safety
      Question 804: To ask the Minister for Transport if the assessment of the case for banning supersize trucks has been completed; if he has set a deadline for his decision on this issue; and the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for Transport the regulations, including statutory instrument references, arising from section 4 of the Road Transport Act 1932. [25691/05]
    • Rail Services
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for Transport the money allocated in his Department's 2005 Estimates for integrated ticketing; the discussions his Department has had with the RPA following the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 809: To ask the Minister for Transport further to sections 11 and 15 of the Road Transport Act 1932, the number of licence applications and renewals refused in the past five years; the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 812: To ask the Minister for Transport the preparations his Department is making for the introduction of automatic emergency call technology (details supplied) in 2009; and if he will...
    • Public Transport
      Question 813: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of notifications he received from Bus Éireann to set up new or extended bus services in each of the past five years; and his...
    • Driving Licences
      Question 815: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the dangers of having persons driving without a valid driving licence, consideration has been given to implementing a system for...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for Transport the total number of driving tests carried out at the test centres in Tuam and Roscommon for the months of June, July and August 2005; the number...
    • Road Safety
      Question 819: To ask the Minister for Transport the arrangements for the investigation of fatal road accidents where road construction or surface standards were a possible contributory factor; if...
    • Road Network
      Question 820: To ask the Minister for Transport the guidelines and regulations, currently in existence or proposed, governing roadworks in respect of temporary and permanent road resurfacing; the...
    • Rail Network
      Question 822: To ask the Minister for Transport if the proposals from Iarnród Éireann to electrify the Maynooth suburban rail line and to provide a new train station at Spencer Dock, which will...
    • Road Network
      Question 823: To ask the Minister for Transport if shadow tolling on the M50 will be introduced (details supplied). [25910/05]
    • Public Transport
      Question 825: To ask the Minister for Transport the money received in each of the past five years for new bus licences and for bus licence renewals; and the number of licences this represents in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 826: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason his Department has spent €160 million less in the first six months in 2005 than in the same period in 2004; the projects where the...
    • Rail Network
      Question 827: To ask the Minister for Transport if a second railway station will be provided on the northern side of Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25959/05]
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 828: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will consider documentation received from a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 829: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 830: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the proposals he has to make good the €8 million shortfall in the Údarás na Gaeltachta budget in 2005 and in the...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      Question 831: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the rural social scheme will be extended to include persons in the non-farming sector who are on low incomes; and...
    • Gaeltacht Subsidies
      Question 832: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the subsidies which were awarded to private veterinary practices and to individual vets who cover Gaeltacht areas from...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      Question 833: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was unable to participate in the rural social scheme due to the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 834: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the...
    • Community Development
      Question 835: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he plans to expand RAPID areas into east Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24999/05]
    • Dormant Accounts
      Question 836: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, further to a parliamentary question of 30 June 2005, the reason an application (details supplied) was refused...
    • Community Development
      Question 837: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will approve funding under the 2005 programme of grants for locally based community and voluntary organisations...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 840: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been given an opportunity to claim the single farm payment under...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 841: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if there is a bog plot credited to a person (details supplied) in County Galway in the Cloonmoylan bog; if her attention has been drawn...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 842: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department will conduct a viability study into the possibility of producing bio-ethanol at the sugar plant in Mallow; and if she...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 843: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [24305/05]
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      Question 844: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide details of her latest Department figures on the number of tuberculosis reactors per 1,000 animals tested on a county...
    • Women in Agriculture
      Question 845: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the recommendations from the report of the advisory committee on the role of women in agriculture which have been implemented to date;...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 846: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary in relation to payments under the REP scheme. [24341/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 847: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if grants are available to agricultural shows to assist with the costs of putting them on; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 848: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with her Department in each of the past five years. [24407/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 849: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a decision will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [24438/05]
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 850: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will consider the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will further consider an appeal in order...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 851: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will qualify as a [i]force majeure[/i] case for entitlement to the single payment; and if...
    • Tax Code
      Question 852: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) with an ACBI certificate is eligible for stamp duty relief on transfer of lands to young trained farmers;...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      Question 853: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to introduce a badger tuberculosis vaccination trial; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24580/05]
    • Bovine Diseases
      Question 854: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the national disease control programmes which are in place for bovine viral diarrhoea, infectious bovine...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 855: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will increase the farm retirement pension; the reason it has not been increased in recent years; and if she will make a statement...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 856: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the entitlements which are due to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24612/05]
    • Noxious Weeds
      Question 857: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the date on which the Noxious Weeds Act 1936 was last reviewed; her plans to update this Act; the penalties under the Act in relation to...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 858: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received their suckler cow premium and area based compensatory allowance...
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      Question 860: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of veterinary inspectors in County Mayo for each of the past five years employed by her Department. [24672/05]
    • Abattoir Closures
      Question 861: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of abattoirs in County Mayo for each of the past five years; the number of premises which have closed down each year; the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 862: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be supplied with a copy of their original application for the special beef premium....
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 868: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded the farm early retirement scheme. [24771/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 869: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a grant in respect of a slatted house will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [24804/05]
    • Food Labelling
      Question 871: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure full and adequate labelling and traceability of Irish farm produce especially beef; her views on reports of some...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 872: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive the single payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24836/05]
    • Animal Diseases
      Question 873: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the actions taken by her Department to resolve the issues regarding the farm of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 874: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the special beef premium will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 877: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of her...
    • Organic Farming
      Question 878: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the investigation carried out by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in the United...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 879: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she intends to publish the animal health Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25111/05]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
      Question 880: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the modulation fund under the single farm payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25112/05]
    • Freedom of Information
      Question 881: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Question No. 197 of 10 February 2005 her plans to include the Irish Horse Board under the Freedom of Information Act 1997;...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 882: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she will respond to correspondence (details supplied) forwarded to her office; the reason for the delay in replying to same; and if...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 883: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has agreed the rules covering the allocation of the national reserve with the farming organisations; and if she will make a...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 885: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 14 April 2005, when she intends to complete an evaluation of the number of staff to be...
    • Animal Diseases
      Question 886: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of tuberculosis reactor animals in each of the years 2001 to date; the number with visible lesions; the number of animals...
    • Farm Waste Management
      Question 889: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she intends to introduce new grant rates provided to farmers under the CFP scheme in view of the increasing cost of steel and the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 890: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their special beef premium, suckler cow premium and extensification for...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 892: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if consideration has been given to transferring a number of endangered wild goats to islands off the Kerry coast. [25449/05]
    • Direct Payment Schemes
      Question 893: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of herd inspections which have been carried out in each county in the past 12 months; if she is satisfied that ordinary...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 895: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she intends to end the farm retirement scheme; if so, the reason for this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 896: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the implications for farming here of the decision to allow the importation into the EU of a genetically...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 897: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason persons (details supplied) in County Galway have had a 10% penalty imposed by her Department as a result of a farm inspection...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 898: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a special beef premium scheme appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be finalised. [25684/05]
    • Animal Diseases
      Question 900: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if breeding rams that were scrapie-monitored prior to September 2005 qualify for grant assistance; if not, if she will include such...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 901: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if an application for the retirement scheme from farming by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be reviewed. [25749/05]
    • Bovine Diseases
      Question 902: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the situation with regard to introducing an effective scheme to deal with Johne's disease (details supplied). [25750/05]
    • Commonage Division
      Question 903: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a number of applicants involved in the dispute over commonage land at Glenahiry, Clonmel, County Waterford were awarded their...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 904: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will ensure that no penalties are imposed on the REP scheme of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 905: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has received their full area aid payment; when all outstanding payments will be released;...
    • EU Directives
      Question 907: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to the draft regulations designed to transpose EU directive 2004-28-EU into Irish law; in view of the draconian...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 908: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to privatise speed cameras here; the progress made to date of any such plans; the potential cost of such plans;...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 909: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on measures being taken to combat under age drinking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24253/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 910: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is proposed to have a Garda station located in the Dublin north fringe development area. [24294/05]
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 911: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made in establishing an all-island charter of rights as intended following the signing of the...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 912: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the delay in having some senior Garda personnel seconded to the police service of Northern Ireland; and if his attention has...
    • Remembrance Commission
      Question 913: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will resolve the complaints from a person (details supplied); and if the money due to him will be granted. [24320/05]
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 914: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if convicted drug dealers are required to register with the Garda after leaving prison; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 915: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for citizenship will be processed for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 916: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24329/05]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 918: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) and if he will give the maximum support and advice. [24350/05]
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 919: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a warrant has been issued for the arrest of persons (details supplied); and the position regarding the company concerned....
    • Garda Strength
      Question 920: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí per head of population in the Clontarf, Coolock, Raheny and Santry districts of Dublin; and if he will...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 921: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the percentage, increase or decrease in the amount of drugs seized by the Garda from 2000 to the end of 2004; and if he will...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 922: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the recent agreement with the US authorities and their agencies overrides the rights of Irish citizens; if it is...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 923: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 924: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for delays in payment of salary to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if the board of the centre in...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 925: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 926: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a tourist visa application for a person (details supplied) has been refused; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Order Offences
      Question 927: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons prosecuted for public urinating in the environs of Croke Park on major match days to date in 2005....
    • Garda Strength
      Question 928: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community gardaí based at Mountjoy Garda station; when additional community gardaí will be provided; and if...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 929: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); if he will ensure that all of the circumstances are taken into...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 930: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the installation of closed circuit television in Waterford city; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 932: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of additional gardaí added to the Garda traffic corps to date in 2005; the total number of gardaí now in the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 933: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for a temporary visa for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 934: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the Richie Barron inquiry; if he will give the maximum support to Mr. Frank McBrearty Jr.; and if he...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 937: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application for family reunification for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 938: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); if this was another miscarriage of justice case; and if he...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 939: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the provision of funding for a new child care centre at Rathkeale, County Limerick. [24668/05]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 940: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted permission to remain here based on their parentage of an...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 941: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24704/05]
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 942: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of centres housing asylum-seekers and refugees on a yearly basis from 2000 to 2005 inclusive; the total...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 943: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 593 of 14 June 2005, the outcome of consultations referred to in that reply; the steps...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 944: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a dealing for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited. [24762/05]
    • Criminal Justice Bill 2004
      Question 945: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of submissions made to this Department which were sought regarding section 30 of the Criminal Justice Bill 2004;...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 946: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the necessary finance will be made available for closed circuit television cameras in Carlow; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 948: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a person (details supplied) regarding Donegal Garda corruption and the McBrearty case....
    • Residency Permits
      Question 949: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) will remain here to complete their third level education; and if he will give them the...
    • Garda Síochána Act 2005
      Question 950: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a file relating to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the file will be passed to this...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 951: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason permission was not granted to a person (details supplied) to enter and stay in Ireland based on marriage; if the...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 952: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timeframe for the provision of a closed circuit television system for Kilkenny city; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 953: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [24795/05]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 954: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a visa application in the name of a person (details supplied) was refused; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 956: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the future position regarding staffing grants for community-based child care centres; if and when a review of this funding...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 957: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will work closely with the Garda Síochána in putting an anti-vandalism plan in place at a school (details supplied)...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 958: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action which the Garda intends to take regarding anti-social behaviour by persons on the Campshires City Quay who...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 960: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has considered representations on behalf of a person (details supplied); the response he intends to make; and if he...
    • Prison Staff
      Question 961: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review travel and subsistence payments to several prison officers temporarily assigned from the Curragh and Fort...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 963: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 964: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the maximum advice and support will be given to a person (details supplied) in that person's application for citizenship....
    • Landing Rights
      Question 965: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proportion of aircraft with a declared origin or destination of Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC which landed in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 966: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has fallen short of the requirements for naturalisation; if his...
    • Sale of Fireworks
      Question 967: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which he proposes to tackle the importation and sale of illegal fireworks in the State; if there is a public...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 968: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the long-standing and continuing concerns in Dunmanway in west Cork owing to the lack of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 970: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his policy of denying naturalisation to applicants who have availed of social welfare within the past three years applies...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 971: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [25061/05]
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 972: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with staffing levels for immigration control personnel at Dublin Airport, to ensure no undue delay occurs...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 973: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 765 of 26 January 2005, when a decision will be made on the application for a change...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 974: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timetable for the decentralisation of the Land Registry Office to Roscommon town; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 975: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to reform the liquor licensing legislation; when he intends to publish such legislation; and if he will make a...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 976: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will furnish a response to correspondence (details supplied) concerning the murder of a member of the Garda; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 977: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 30 November 2004, if he will report on the issue; his plans to introduce a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 978: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will approve a residency visa for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25133/05]
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 979: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with existing procedures when a person (details supplied) in Garda custody sustains serious injuries....
    • Garda Operations
      Question 980: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number, type and make of firearms seized by the Garda to date in 2005. [25155/05]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 983: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if criminal convictions for offences committed in the State operate as a bar to non-EEA nationals being granted permission...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 984: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if extension of residency will be offered to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to facilitate an ongoing legal issue;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 985: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 6 who have applied for permission to remain in the...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 987: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider the application for refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 988: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 989: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the family reunification of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 990: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure for naturalisation in the case of the children of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 992: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for the recruitment of persons to the Garda Síochána drawn from various ethnic groups and representative of...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 993: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is intended to proceed with the installation of a closed circuit television system in Finglas; if it is intended that...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 994: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the grant support which has been made available to a group (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in the current round of grants;...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 995: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the terms of reference given to the expert committee charged with finding a new prison site to relocate Mountjoy Prison; if...
    • Coroners Service
      Question 1003: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will amend the Coroners Act 1962 as a matter of urgency to end the restriction on the number of medical and other...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1005: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person's citizenship application will be resolved; and if this person will be given the maximum support and advice....
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 1006: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the date of the next advertisement for new recruits for the Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 1007: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria for and the circumstances in which deportation orders are issued in respect of asylum seekers; and if he will...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 1008: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision to refuse refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1009: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department will review the decision to refuse a holiday visa to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 1010: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be completed. [25367/05]
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1011: 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...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1012: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in dealing with the application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 for the right to...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1014: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the application for visas for persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if, in view of the...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 1015: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking to end the scourge of car theft and joyriding in parts of the Dublin North-East constituency; and if...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 1016: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide funding for the provision of two additional Garda sub-stations in Waterford City; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1017: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí per 1,000 people in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Galway and Waterford for the years 2002, 2003 and 2004....
    • Garda Operations
      Question 1019: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of additional hours of duty which have been served under Operation Anvil in the Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan,...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1020: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of the force of the Garda Síochána at Clondalkin, Ronanstown, Lucan, Ballyfermot and Rathcoole stations in...
    • Garda Training
      Question 1021: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of recruits currently undergoing training for the Garda Síochána; and the way in which this compares to the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1022: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied)...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1023: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a breakdown of crime figures for stations (details supplied) for June 2005, June 2004, June 2003, June...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1025: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application for naturalisation made by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1028: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for residency of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be decided. [25546/05]
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 1029: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications received by ADM Limited for the new community closed circuit television scheme for stage 1 and...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 1030: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will accept an invitation from persons (details supplied) to meet them to discuss their concerns regarding ongoing...
    • Legal System Reform
      Question 1031: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the fact that the Society of the King's Inns has rejected most of the recommendations made by the Competition...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1032: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when residency and naturalisation will be finalised in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1033: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [25644/05]
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      Question 1034: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will appoint a Garda ombudsman with powers equivalent to the office of Ms Nuala O'Loan in Northern Ireland; and if...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 1035: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total number of prosecutions that arose in the years 2000 to 2005 inclusive for the non-wearing of seatbelts; and if he...
    • Colombia Three
      Question 1036: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the discussions he had with his Colombian counterpart between January 2005 and 31 July 2005 with respect to an extradition...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 1038: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for County Clare to deal with the problem of boy racing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1039: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a garda will be appointed to Ballingarry Barracks, County Limerick, following a recent retirement. [25707/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 1040: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a new Garda barracks will be constructed at Kilfinane, County Limerick. [25708/05]
    • Restorative Justice Projects
      Question 1041: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total annual funding provided by his Department for restorative justice projects in the State each year sine 2000....
    • Prison Inspections
      Question 1042: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the prison inspector's visit to a prison (details supplied) in the UK, detailed in the inspector's second annual report,...
    • Prison Service
      Question 1043: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if at any time, in communications with the prison inspector, written or otherwise, he or officials of his Department...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1044: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department operates a policy that mothers who are not employed outside the home should be denied visas to visit...
    • Missing Persons
      Question 1045: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to claims that a greater number of children who entered the State as unaccompanied minors...
    • International Agreements
      Question 1046: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the Government has neither signed nor ratified the optional protocol on the convention against torture; and his...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1050: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will reach a decision in the visa appeal case of a person (details supplied). [25775/05]
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 1051: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which the Government intends to assist the inquiries of Mr. Martin Scheinin who is leading a UN investigation...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1052: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a determination to allow a person (details supplied) to return here in order to continue their studies...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1054: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for citizenship will be processed for persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [25812/05]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 1055: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a Land Registry application will be processed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25813/05]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 1056: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for funding will be approved for a group (details supplied) in County Sligo. [25814/05]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1057: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on a visa application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1058: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the outcome of the review of the Garda papers in the case of the Grangegorman murders; the recommendations made; if an...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1059: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí serving in each of the Dublin Garda stations for each year since 1997 to the present; the population...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1060: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the five gardaí who were criticised in the second Morris tribunal and whom the Garda Commissioner proposed to...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 1061: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties and expenses encountered by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1062: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the provisional headline crime statistics for the Carlow-Kildare division for 2004 show an increase in headline crime of...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1063: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the personnel strength of all ranks of the Garda Síochána in the Carlow-Kildare division as of 1 September 2005; and the...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1064: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking to identify the perpetrators of the recent fatal shooting in Dublin 15 and to reassure residents of...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1065: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí allocated to Blanchardstown Garda station; the number of these allocated to the Dublin 15 area and...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 1066: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he has no intention of closing any of the existing 109 Garda district headquarters in the State, and yet refuses...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1068: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of an application for travel documentation for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 1070: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason nothing was done regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and the position regarding survivors of...
    • School Transport
      Question 1071: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application (details supplied) for the extension of a bus route to Knockbrack, Firies, Killarney, County Kerry;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1072: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will expedite work on extensions and renovations at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1073: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the current teaching resources provided to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 in view of the likely reduction...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1074: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been refused resource teaching hours; and if this situation will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1075: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be granted to provide for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      Question 1076: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when school transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [24304/05]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 1077: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reduce the class size at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will give the school the maximum support in...
    • Multi-Denominational Schools
      Question 1078: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support the case for realistic core funding from the State for Education Together, the national representative body for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1079: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for which application has been made for the...
    • School Sponsorship
      Question 1080: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24343/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1081: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary in relation to an application for funding for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1083: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the hours of home tuition for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be improved; and if her Department will work closely...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1084: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding progress in providing the urgently needed secondary school for the Donabate/Portrane peninsula in north County...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 1085: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the name of each company which secured a contract more than €100,000 in value with her Department in each of the past five years....
    • School Staffing
      Question 1086: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application for funding towards the provision of accommodation for an additional teacher for a school (details...
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 1087: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will include a unit (details supplied) under the Residential Institutions Redress Board in order that victims of alleged abuses...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 1088: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects to transfer responsibility for institutes of technology to the Higher Education Authority; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      Question 1091: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of funding Bus Éireann received from the Department of Finance to operate the school bus service for 2001, 2002, 2003,...
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 1092: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when a second educational welfare officer will be appointed for County Kerry; the number of referrals to the board from Kerry...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1093: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new secondary school in Dingle, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Juvenile Detention Centres
      Question 1095: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of places of detention available in the Dublin area for children who have received custodial sentences from the courts; the...
    • School Transport
      Question 1096: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if either or all of the Garda Síochána, the Health and Safety Authority and Bus Éireann investigations into the County Meath school...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1098: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 638 of 28 June 2005, when a decision will be made on the application; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      Question 1099: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of new and of existing catchment-boundary and other concessionary students who have failed to secure a seat in the school...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1100: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant the sanctioning of a second full-time teacher to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18. [24596/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a capital grant for additional classrooms for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 which was...
    • Languages Programme
      Question 1102: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the review on the circular 12/96 to afford pupils attending private schools to obtain a Department exemption in Irish....
    • School Staffing
      Question 1103: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 29 June 2005, when a full-time resource teacher for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1104: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proposals she has to provide a third level institution for persons with mild or moderate intellectual disability; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      Question 1106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children in a village (details supplied) in County Mayo being picked up by school transport; the reason a route is being...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1109: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the help which is available to assist a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to purchase a laptop or computer as an aid in third...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 1110: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the qualifications of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be recognised on appeal by her Department; and if she will...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1111: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the once-off benchmarking pay award to persons employed in local authorities is fully assessable as reckonable income for the...
    • Modern Language Teaching
      Question 1112: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be included in the modern languages in primary schools initiative. [24685/05]
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1113: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a higher education grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [24737/05]
    • Third Level Completion Rates
      Question 1114: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the drop out rates in each of the universities and institutes of technology in the past five years; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1115: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 21 June 2005, her views on whether the implementation of the general allocation scheme...
    • Vocational Education
      Question 1118: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in County Clare has been refused to start new FETAC courses; and if she will make a statement...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 1119: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the requirements or qualifications necessary in respect of home-based school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 1120: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will be responsible in the future for paying pension increases directly to retired teachers rather than the...
    • Third Level Education
      Question 1121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proposals she has to establish a university in Waterford city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24765/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1127: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an extension to a secondary school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the stage at which it is at present; when...
    • School Transport
      Question 1128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that for some years school transport was provided to a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 was refused a grant; and if their family will be given the maximum support and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the special needs requirement of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be examined; if the assistance required, based...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1133: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve funding for the provision of additional rooms at a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
    • Early Childhood Education
      Question 1134: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support a new inter-agency initiative for children aged up to five on the northside of Dublin in conjunction with Atlantic...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1135: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the long waiting list for children with autism in County Meath seeking an autism specific education place such as at...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a submission for grant aid under the capital funding for major works for second level schools from a college...
    • Third Level Education
      Question 1138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the establishment of a postgraduate medical school at the University of Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      Question 1140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason correspondence (details supplied) to her Department has not been replied to; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of her...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the completion of the extension to a primary school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [24909/05]
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will change the closing date for applications for the third level grant to enable staff in local authorities and VECs to...
    • School Transport
      Question 1145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the dispute involving the transport of children to a school (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 1147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the investigation into two educational establishments, particularly regarding allegations of bullying of a...
    • School Transport
      Question 1148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on a school transport matter (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24996/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on an extension for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24997/05]
    • School Transport
      Question 1151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason 25 persons from the Dunbeacon area attending a school (details supplied) in west Cork have been left without school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra teaching hours for nomadic Traveller children at a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be allocated; and if she...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1154: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25024/05]
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 1155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25025/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the outcome regarding correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25026/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on a school building project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25030/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the outcome of a review for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal concerning the provision of a special needs assistant; and...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Board
      Question 1161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the options open to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is not satisfied with the settlement awarded to them by the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 1162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in having a remote area boarding grant sanctioned in respect of a pupil (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 1163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she can justify the fees charged to Chinese students at a school (details supplied) while Irish students pay only €120; her plans...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 1164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is any special budget or extra funds to assist schools with vandalism problems; and if she will give the maximum support and...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give the maximum support to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [25070/05]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to address the discrepancy in the level of funding provided for voluntary second level schools and those in the community...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 268 of 22 June 2005, the outcome of the appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25091/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve an application for funding for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of vacancies for deaf teachers within the regional service at present; the regions involved; her plans to fill these posts;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 15 June 2005, if the assessment has been completed by the school planning section of her...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 1172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question Nos 402 and 486 of 29 September 2004, if she will establish a timescale for the introduction of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 29 June 2005, if she will provide additional resource hours for a person (details...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 1174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she is taking to deliver on the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce class sizes of 20 pupils to one...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timetable for the decentralisation of sections of her Department to Athlone; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25098/05]
    • Education Services
      Question 1176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 16 June 2005, the progress to date on the implementation of the recommendations; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 637 of 30 June 2005, if she will review the ongoing delay in progressing a project in County Leitrim; if she...
    • School Transport
      Question 1178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [25148/05]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for grant aid for additional classroom accommodation;...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 1181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that pupils commencing fourth class in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will...
    • School Transport
      Question 1182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reinstate school transport for children attending a school (details supplied) in County Kildare due to an increase in the...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount which was spent on temporary school buildings for new schools in each of the past seven years; and if she will make a...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 1184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is any financial assistance available from her Department to enable a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to purchase a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a suitable location has been found to accommodate the needs of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      Question 1186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if discussions regarding the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 9 have proceeded to the stage where an...
    • Schools Recognition
      Question 1187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will respond to numerous representations from a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; when the initial...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1188: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will investigate the reason resource teaching hours were withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason an application for a VEC maintenance grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been refused; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an application for two classroom assistants will be processed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      Question 1191: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the school transport situation with regard to concessionary students on routes less than three miles from secondary...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 1192: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide details of all land belonging to her Department in the Dún Laoghaire — Rathdown County Council area. [25303/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1193: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1194: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application by the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Clare for an autism unit; and if she...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1195: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if maximum funding will be provided to upgrade the science laboratories at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if the school...
    • School Placement
      Question 1196: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason no school place has been made available for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 for over one and a half years. [25389/05]
    • School Building Projects
      Question 1200: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed new community school in Skibbereen in West Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      Question 1202: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if persons (details supplied) will be accommodated on a school bus to a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that another...
    • Medical Education
      Question 1203: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the report of the working group on medical training and education; if she will publish the report; and if there is...
    • School Transport
      Question 1204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the additional funding which was provided to increase the school transport fleet capacity in view of changes regarding school...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to expand school capacity in Kildare town to take account of the decision to sell the land at Magee Barracks for the...
    • School Transport
      Question 1207: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to ensure the provision of seat belts in all school buses throughout the country; when this requirement will be met; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1208: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has received a submission from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for capital funding; if she will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1209: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which she has studied the need for the provision of a new primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding extension, ancillary accommodation and autistic unit which are on target for completion at a school (details...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if extra teaching staff will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare based on class size and pupil numbers; and...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 1221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to any potential breach of health and safety regulations due to overcrowding at various schools...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals for the future of a girls' primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if extra improvements or facilities are...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has given further consideration to the special needs of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application for extra facilities urgently required at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when funding will be sanctioned for the building and budget of a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1228: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the application for provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to site acquisition to meet the required alternative and new school facilities at a school (details supplied)...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the completion of an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 1233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the pupil-teacher ratio class size at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a decision will be made to progress this...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when works will commence at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25561/05]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 1237: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the pupil-teacher ratio class size at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to extra facilities required at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when this project will advance...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to site acquisition to meet alternative or required new school facilities at a school (details supplied) in...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding proposals to improve accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding her Department's assessment of the accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is fully staffed to meet the requirements of its double autistic unit; when same is...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1258: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding her plans for the future provision of full primary and post-primary school facilities in line with requirements...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 1259: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding her plans for the improvement of pupil-teacher ratios in all second level schools in the country; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1262: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the current position in relation to the extension project at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a decision was made...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which she expects to be in a position to meet the requirements in terms of accommodation or otherwise in each of the...
    • School Transport
      Question 1271: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the decision to remove a school transport facility for first year students from the Kildimo, Clarina, Ballybrown Raheen and Mungret...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1273: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when refurbishment work to two classroom extensions will be completed for a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [25701/05]
    • School Placement
      Question 1274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to ensure that all children within the Limerick city catchment area secure a place in a post-primary school...
    • School Transport
      Question 1275: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an extra bus will be provided to bring students from Clarina, Mungret and Raheen, County Limerick, to a college (details supplied),...
    • School Placement
      Question 1276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of sixth class primary school pupils in the Limerick city catchment area; the number of first year post-primary places...
    • School Transport
      Question 1277: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the decision of her Minister of State to exclude first year children from outside the...
    • In-service Training
      Question 1279: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when she will restore funding for the training of members of boards of management of schools; and if she will make a statement...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 1280: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of NEPS psychologists currently employed by her Department in the mid-west region; the number to which the region is...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1281: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason correspondence concerning a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath of 24 August 2005 was not replied to; the reason...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1282: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will appoint a full-time classroom assistant and a computer for a person (details supplied) in view of the recommendation put...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1284: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties encountered by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo concerning a...
    • School Transport
      Question 1285: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1287: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if architectural planning for phase two of the extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is complete; if not, when it...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties of the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and its...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1291: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has acquired a permanent site for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the cost of the site; the amount of land...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1292: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to provide a second level school in the Littlepace and Castaheany area of Clonee, Dublin 15, in view of the thousands of...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 1293: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason she has failed to make details available on the socioeconomic background of students who were awarded higher education...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1294: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she proposes to take in respect of additions, including a gym hall, required at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15;...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 1295: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of additional educational psychologists allocated in 2005 to national schools in County Kildare; the number of national...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1296: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when architectural planning will be completed in respect of the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1297: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there has been a successful conclusion to discussions with landowners on the purchase of a site for a new national school for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1299: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on the progressing of the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [25909/05]
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 1305: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent of the educational welfare service in County Kildare and the proposals to extend it. [25923/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1306: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the new national school in Naas will be fully operational. [25924/05]
    • Vocational Education Committees
      Question 1307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the budget allocated to the Dublin City and County VECs have been increased or reduced in 2005; her views on the fact that the fee...
    • School Transport
      Question 1308: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1309: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a higher education grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1310: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the recommendation will be implemented to have three and a half hours resource learning provided for a person (details supplied)...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1311: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 22 June 2005 and 221 of 21 June 2005 (details supplied) if the appointment of the person...
  • Department of Defence
    • Disability Benefit
      Question 1312: To ask the Minister for Defence when a refund of disability benefit will be awarded to a person (details supplied) for the tax year 2005 in view of the fact that the Department of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 1313: To ask the Minister for Defence the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the past five years. [24410/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1314: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department, or for...
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      Question 1315: To ask the Minister for Defence the proportion of aircraft with a declared origin or destination of Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC, which landed in the State during each of...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 1316: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of journeys that have been made by Government Ministers and Ministers of State in Air Corps aircraft in 2004 and 2005; the cost of each...
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 1317: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the upgrading and refurbishment of a facility (details supplied) in County Cork; when funding will be made available. [24987/05]
    • Defence Forces Contracts
      Question 1318: To ask the Minister for Defence the discussions he has had with PDFORRA regarding the extension of a private's contract beyond 12 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Disciplinary Action
      Question 1320: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason pay has been terminated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hearing Impairment Claims
      Question 1321: To ask the Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies under army deafness compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25176/05]
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 1322: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of all land belonging to his Department in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area. [25300/05]
    • Defence Forces Retirement
      Question 1323: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of recent developments in the case of a person (details supplied), there are any steps he might take to re-open the case or be allowed...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Regional Road Network
      Question 1324: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be provided in 2006 for a link road from the R182 Castleblayney-Keady road to the N2 national...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1325: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on all aspects of the decentralisation programme to Kilkenny; the progress achieved to...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1326: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received from Dublin City Council, a proposal for the sale of local authority apartments to...
    • Building Regulations
      Question 1327: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that heating and safety requirements are on a par with other EU countries; his...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1328: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has made or the arrangements he has entered into with local authorities which are introducing...
    • Archaeological Sites
      Question 1329: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the expected publication date of the final report on Ardfert Cathedral excavations 1987-1992; and if he will...
    • Library Projects
      Question 1330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the National Library Council will give the go-ahead for a community library (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 1331: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the name of each company which secured a contract over €100,000 in value with his Department in each of the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of GDP which is spent on housing policy. [24462/05]
    • Water and Sewerage schemes
      Question 1333: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans his Department has in place to upgrade the sewerage scheme in Enniscrone, County Sligo; when this...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 1336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the HSE southern area for the housing aid for the elderly scheme for each...
    • Radon Gas
      Question 1337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps which have been taken to alleviate extremely high levels of radon gas recorded by the RPII in...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated in 2005 from his Department to Kerry County Council for the disabled person's...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of the water and sewerage schemes in County Kerry which are currently before his...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason customers are paying additional charges arising from the implementation of the EU directive on...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been delivered under Part V in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown...
    • Land Zoning
      Question 1344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of undeveloped land zoned for housing in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area. [24548/05]
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 1345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to encourage CIE to introduce paper and glass recycling on trains and in stations; and if he...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department is reviewing current arrangements regarding local authority tenancies; if the introduction...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 874 of 14 June 2005, when he intends to submit the documentation to the EU; and if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be available for the construction of eight houses on behalf of an association (details...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if priority will be given and funding provided for a sewerage scheme at Drinagh in west Cork; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual limitations imposed by his Department on local authority estimates for each year over the years...
    • Local Authority Grants
      Question 1355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the present ceiling for the grant to accommodate a person with a disability was set; the increase in the...
    • Litter Pollution
      Question 1356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a policy regarding persons responsible for litter on building sites (details supplied); and if he...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the appointment of consultants to progress the work of the Glenflesk sewerage scheme in...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposals which are with his Department to permit Irish citizens living abroad in the European Union to...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 1362: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns among persons in the Clara area of County Offaly...
    • House Prices
      Question 1363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage increase in new house prices from June 1997 to date, both in Dublin and State-wide. [24883/05]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts coming wholly or partly under...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 1367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has proposals to designate Ireland as a genetic modification free zone; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social housing units in the State in June 2002; and the number of social housing units in the...
    • State Property
      Question 1369: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if compilation of a national public property register to identify properties in State control, suitable for...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the extent by which the 2004 guidelines requiring waste collection permits...
    • State Property
      Question 1375: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make funding available for the much needed refurbishment of Rathfarnham Castle and its buildings....
    • Local Government Elections
      Question 1376: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if and when boundaries for local authority elections will be reviewed on foot of the recent changes to Dáil...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1377: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a substantial increase in the amount of funding available to Kerry County Council for the...
    • Waiver Schemes
      Question 1378: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the exact type of waivers for persons dependent on social welfare payments that can be granted by local...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      Question 1380: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of an application (details supplied) with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1381: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of an application for funding submitted by Leitrim County Council for the development of the...
    • Vehicle Registration
      Question 1382: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 1085 of 12 April 2005, when he intends to introduce the revised vehicle...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 1383: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the current funding for architectural protection grants; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1384: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will approve funding for a bundle of 16 sewerage schemes (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if...
    • Regional Road Network
      Question 1385: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet with a delegation from Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo county councils regarding their proposals...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1386: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will appoint consultants to revise the preliminary report submitted to his Department in 1999 on the...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      Question 1388: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an appeal to a proposed natural heritage area and special protection area (details supplied) will be...
    • International Agreements
      Question 1390: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress which has been made in implementing the Aarhus Convention; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Water Quality
      Question 1394: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to improve water quality in response to the findings of the three-year water quality...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1395: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to improve the quality of drinking water in Carraroe and Callaheighue, County Galway....
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1396: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if persons wishing to extend their business premises through the erection of mezzanine floors in warehouses...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1398: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress which has been made with regard to the Kilmallock and Dromcollogher sewerage schemes in County...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1400: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding which has been announced in 2005 to enable local authorities provide community projects (details...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 1403: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grounds on which the decision was made to abstain on votes taken at the European Commission on 31 August...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 1404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when construction will begin on the new fire station in Tallow, County Waterford. [25525/05]
    • Environmental Policy.
      Question 1406: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the stricter energy standards for houses were delayed between 1998 and 2003; if the result is that...
    • Litter Pollution
      Question 1407: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will allocate additional resources and funding as a matter of urgency to deal with the unacceptable...
    • Home Ownership
      Question 1409: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons who are owners of second homes in the Dublin City Council area. [25624/05]
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      Question 1410: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 329 of 15 June 2005, the adjustment which was made to the boundary of the special...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 1412: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider issuing guidelines to the ESB networks to avoid placing pylons next to houses or schools...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to an application for funding for the provision of a sewerage scheme in...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      Question 1415: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive payment for turbury rights sale of bog and for raised bog in a...
    • Civic Amenity Sites
      Question 1416: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be made available for a civic amenity site in Newmarket, County Cork. [25845/05]
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1418: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a person who applied for local improvement schemes and whose application was accepted before the change of...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1419: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when final approval will be issued for a housing scheme (details supplied) in County Cork. [25848/05]
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1421: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the €18 million unspent on the disabled persons grant scheme nationally in 2004, he has put...
    • State Property
      Question 1423: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount spent to date on the restoration of Castletown House, County Kildare; the details of the phases of...
    • Local Government
      Question 1424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will issue regulations under the Local Government Act 2001 to allow by order the establishment of new...
    • Community Warden Service
      Question 1425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will continue the pilot community warden service in Naas, County Kildare in 2006. [25922/05]
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 1426: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the procedures to be followed in regard to qualification for a career break of up to four years for local...
    • Regional Road Network
      Question 1427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the current position in relation to road and bridge re-alignment at Bond Bridge, Maynooth, County Kildare;...

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