Written answers
Thursday, 29 September 2005
- Department of Defence
- Official Travel
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his meeting in Sarajevo with Major General David Leaky, commanding officer of the European Union Forces and with Lord Ashdown, UN...
- Overseas Missions
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Defence the requests he has had from the United Nations to supply troops to UN missions since September 2004. [25680/05]
- Regional Airports
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline his concerns regarding the proposed developments at Weston Airport, near Lucan, County Dublin; if he will elaborate on his fears...
- Defence Spending
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Defence the implications for defence spending of recommendations from the Assembly of the Western Union to increase research technology and development...
- Overseas Missions
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to acknowledge or mark the actions of Irish troops with KFOR on 17 and 18 March 2004, as outlined in the Defence Forces annual report 2004;...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Defence the stage of implementation at which the review of the Reserve Defence Forces is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25676/05]
- National Emergency Plan
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of task forces or agencies which have responsibility for national security and emergency planning; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Military Courts of Inquiry
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Defence if the court of inquiry reports, prepared by the Defence Forces, are available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25946/05]
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself that adequate resources and equipment are available to the Defence Forces in the event of their being called upon to...
- Civil Defence
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the members of the board of the Civil Defence; the criteria which is used for appointment to this board; the name of its...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence the position with regard to the availability of St. Bricin's Hospital to the Minister for Health and Children; his views on the extent to which St....
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Defence if the capability of the Air Corps will be augmented over the coming six months through the acquisition of new craft; and if he will make a statement...
- Official Engagements
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Defence his policy with respect to courtesy calls from foreign military personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25650/05]
- Ministerial Meetings
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Defence when he last had a meeting with the flag officer of the Naval Service; the issues which were raised at the meeting; and if he will make a statement on...
- Overseas Missions
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Defence if he is considering any changes to Ireland's triple lock authorisation procedure for sending Irish troops abroad; and if he will make a statement on...
- National Emergency Plan
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding which was allocated for emergency planning and the implementation of such plans in the Department of Defence's budget for 2002,...
- Overseas Missions
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on plans for the withdrawal of Irish troops from Liberia; if there is any prospect that Irish troop presence in Liberia will be...
- National Security
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Defence the new security measures involving the Defence Forces which have been put in place at Dublin and Shannon Airports following the terrorist bombings in...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Defence the current level of assistance being given to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- EU Summits
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Defence the agenda for the EU Defence ministerial conference in October 2005 at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire, England; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Emergency Plan
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Defence when the proposed booklet advising persons on the action to take in the event of specific national emergencies will be produced; the scope of this...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the conclusions of a recent military police investigation that two members of the Defence Forces were guilty of bullying at McKee...
- Departmental Staff
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in his Department at 1 June 1997 and at 1 June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25682/05]
- Overseas Missions
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of the EU peace mission to Indonesia to which a group of Irish Army officers have recently been sent; the length of time...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Defence the implications for Ireland's military procurement of the May 2005 decision by EU defence ministers that the next generation of armoured fighting...
- Forcible Retirement
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Defence if he plans to take action arising from the decision of the High Court to overturn a report of the Judge Advocate General which concluded that a...
- Defence Forces Development
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of recommendations contained in the White Paper for Defence 2000; the number of these which have been implemented to date. [25667/05]
- Overseas Missions
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Defence the position in regard to the Army's commitment to the UN and EU missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo; if he has plans to extend and expand these...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on new research published in a journal (details supplied) and completed with the full co-operation of the Defence Forces showing that the...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on details of the investigation under way into the way in which the Army paid up to €60,000 on foot of bogus meal receipts...
- Overseas Missions
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Defence the requests, he has had since September 2004 for Irish troops to participate in exercises abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Defence Forces Ombudsman
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the newly appointed first Ombudsman for the Defence Forces, Ms Marrinan-Quinn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25798/05]
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Staff
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason An Bord Altranais is considering the removal of a midwifery qualification as a prerequisite for registration as a...
- Ambulance Service
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress she has made in the establishment of an all-Ireland helicopter emergency medical service as recommended by the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the situation whereby persons are waiting in excess of five years for a urology appointment; her further views...
- Health Services
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if thousands of persons in County Mayo will obtain rheumatology services, when a Mayo rheumatology unit is established; and...
- Hospital Staff
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current status of the Hanly report on medical staffing with regard to hospital configuration; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the optometrist and ophthalmologist service in County Mayo is not provided at the same level as other counties in...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the provision of a new public hospital in north County Dublin will be sanctioned; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that public patients who need to attend a neurologist in Beaumont Hospital are...
- Department of Finance
- Drug Seizures
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he or his European colleagues have considered the degree to which enhanced coastal surveillance can be achieved with a view to...
- Garda Stations
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the position on the temporary relocation of Ballymun Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26146/05]
- Vehicle Registration
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-instate the vehicle registration office service in Roscommon town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26043/05]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if an official of the Office of Public Works has called to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon as requested by letter; if so, when contact...
- Tax Code
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the position with regard to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is waiting for a tax refund; if this will be granted as a matter of...
- State Property
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposal regarding the disposal of property in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26106/05]
- Garda Stations
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the acquisition of a site for the new Garda station at Castleisland, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Communications Masts
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the maximum frequency emissions permissible in any one location by telecommunications masts. [26059/05]
- Fisheries Protection
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the recorded catch of commercial driftnet salmon fishermen in the 2005 season; the reason the catch was so low;...
- Foreshore Licences
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the Oysterhaven and Nohoval residents association arising from...
- Television Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ensure that, on foot of recommendations of the task force on emigration, emigrants in...
- Broadcasting Legislation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the penalties that apply for breaches of the advertising code in respect of children; the number of such...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when it is intended to open an embassy in Vietnam. [26089/05]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the value of capital grants sought under the sports capital programme 2005 in each county and the value of grants awarded in each...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Redundancy Payments
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an application for redundancy on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, has been received in his...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person who is participating in the return to education scheme is entitled to retain rent allowance; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the names and numbers of European companies employing persons here and which have obtained a certificate of exemption from the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received correspondence from persons (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if the amount allowed to be earned by a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for the future location of the maintenance and recovery unit of his Department; the negotiations which have taken place...
- Department of Transport
- Traffic Management
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that operators of heavy mobile lifting equipment must apply separately to each county council to pass...
- Road Network
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when he intends to publish the toll scheme for the operation of the Dublin Port tunnel; when the tunnel will be open for use; and if he will...
- Rail Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport the situation in Ballina, County Mayo whereby freight services were discontinued by Iarnród Éireann in June 2005; when this facility will be...
- Road Safety
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Transport the preparations his Department has made for the introduction of the digital tachograph; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26058/05]
- Traffic Management
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that following discussions between his officials and the National Roads Authority, a decision has been made, in principle, that...
- Road Safety
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Transport if new guidelines have been issued to local authorities in relation to trailers (details supplied); their road worthiness, and so on; the...
- Rail Network
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any further reports in relation to the re-opening of Killucan railway station; if steps have been taken to include same in the...
- Public Transport
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason Bus Éireann must obtain approval from his Department for additional and improved bus services; and if he will confirm that Bus...
- Transport Subventions
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will publish all advice he has received from the European Commission and others regarding the implications for public service obligation...
- Road Safety
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 166 to 168, inclusive, of 12 May 2004, the outcome in respect of changes to speed limits at each of the 43...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Grant Payments
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a housing service (details supplied) in County Cork applied for funding for the lottery grant from his Department...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the 3% reduction for modulation in the single farm payment may be availed of by a person in receipt of the payment; the programmes in...
- Grant Payments
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she will take to have headage payments awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Longford; if the delay is in relation...
- Veterinary Medicines
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will confirm that a significant number of persons have been in contact with her Department in relation to proposals under the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Crime Prevention
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the response by the Garda authorities to anti-social behaviour in the area of Ashford Street, Dublin 7,...
- Asylum Applications
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is fully considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Visa Applications
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review his Department's refusal of a visa application for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he...
- Citizen's Arrests
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will outline the situations in which a person has the power to carry out a citizen's arrest; and if he will make a...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide funding for the provision of a closed circuit television system for the town of Arklow. [26038/05]
- Visa Applications
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if urgent assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 with a visa application for their spouse; and...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Crime Prevention
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda authorities at the Bridewell, Dublin 7 will provide a report regarding their apparent failure over a five-hour...
- Deportation Orders
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who was deported from Cloverhill Prison and has applied for...
- Asylum Applications
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the groups of immigrants who qualify for the Garda national immigration stamp; the proposals he has to make changes...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has been on remand in the Central Mental Hospital,...
- Refugee Status
Question 132: 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 Dublin 8; and if he...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of off licences which have been prosecuted under the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2004 for selling alcohol to under...
- Department of Education and Science
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will include a unit (details supplied) in the list of institutions, hospitals, homes and orphanages to be dealt with by the...
- School Transport
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students who were unable to get a place on the school bus to the school they attended last year; and the number from...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to introduce grant aid for students pursuing NVQ level courses in Northern Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- School Transport
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be facilitated with school transport. [26039/05]
- School Staffing
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 23 June 2005, if she will facilitate a deputation; if she will rescind the reduction in...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the education grants which are available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26076/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will outline the present system of liaison between the planning authorities at local authority level and her Department's...
- School Accommodation
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of rent of the office building each year for the past six years in regard to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the...
- Third Level Staffing
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if any additional posts for colleges of further education have been allocated since her commitment to make allocation in Easter 2005;...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to provide a permanent site and school building for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; her plans for this school;...
- School Accommodation
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction an extension to a national school (details supplied) in County Cork. [26091/05]
- School Transport
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school bus transport will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties which...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has a funding mechanism to pay for the education of a child in another EU country if an appropriate education is not...
- School Transport
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the rules governing the amalgamation of schools with specific regard to the way in which these rules impinge upon the access of...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the building of an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement...
- School Transport
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation which arises in Kinnegad, County Westmeath, whereby children from the general catchment area attend secondary schools in...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Property
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding future housing prospects for Army overholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26117/05]
- Overseas Missions
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Defence the situation in relation to Ireland's participation in PfP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26119/05]
- Defence Forces Property
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the disposal of all of the military installations decommissioned in 1998; the total receipts on foot of sale or lease in the...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Defence if all of the equipment issued to the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps is in keeping with the highest international standards; and if he will make a...
- Overseas Missions
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Defence if Irish troops are likely to train alongside other European defence forces in anticipation of participation in rapid response action, PfP and...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the equipment issued to the Defence Forces has been upgraded to cater for such issues as natural disasters, terrorist and gas...
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Defence the number and location at which Ireland's Defence Forces are serving overseas; the possible demand in the future; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Archaeological Sites
Question 166: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps which are being taken by his Department to provide public access to sites at Rathcroghan, County...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 168: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any funding will be provided to Mayo County Council towards the planned maintenance programme; if an...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Ballina sewerage scheme, Ballina, County Mayo will commence sooner rather than later; if it will be...
- Planning Issues
Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the sanctions applicable where a local authority fails to meet its obligations as set down in Article...
- Communications Masts
Question 171: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the list of guidelines and regulations within his Department that deals with telecommunications masts. [26059/05]
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 172: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the estimated cost of the purchase of carbon credits in respect of Ireland's excess over the Kyoto limits; the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the continuing problems of the operation of the sewage plant at Ringsend, in particular those...
- Retail Sector Developments
Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received representations from the Swedish retail group IKEA regarding its desire to open a major...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which the transfer of reasonability for the administration of rent allowance has been rolled out...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority dwellings that have been built in each local authority area broken down per year...
- Housing Grants
Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the apparent difference on emphasis between the answer given by him on 12 April 2005 and the circular issued...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the position in respect of local authority housing applicants, who are purchasing subsidised...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 179: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will provide the funding necessary to implement all of the recommendations of the greater Dublin...
- Planning Issues
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory instruments governing the circumstances whereby an amenity or other development is proposed by a...
