Written answers

Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improving community services for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28917/05]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the waiting times for procedures under the national treatment purchase fund is three months; and if she will make a...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received the report of the National Economic and Social Forum on early childhood care and education; and if she...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the progress to date in 2005 on delivery of the commitments made on 29 September 2004, regarding the...
    • Compensation Schemes
      Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to bring in a no fault compensation for babies who are brain damaged at birth; and if she will make a statement...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of contracts awarded by her to outside consultants in respect of each year since 2000; the recipient of the...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all information technology projects undertaken by her Department and national information technology projects of the...
    • Health Action Plan
      Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to implement the recommendations of the Hanly report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28796/05]
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to allocate additional funding and human resources to the ambulance service in the old Eastern Region Health...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure that value for money generic drugs will be prescribed by general practitioners wherever...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a proposal from the Health Service Executive to establish four hospital networks; and if she will make...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of consultants currently employed by her Department; the total cost outstanding to her Department; and if she...
    • Primary Care Strategy
      Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of money that was invested in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 in the primary care strategy; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancies of treatment between older cancer patients and middle aged cancer...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent report from the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the national treatment purchase fund; and...
    • Health Insurance
      Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she decided not to proceed with the implementation of risk equalisation due to the recommendation of the Health...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure that front line health services will not be affected by the 600 job cuts proposed as part...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available to implement the recommendations of the Irish College of Psychiatrists on child and...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the provision of 3,000 acute beds is still Government policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28902/05]
    • General Practitioner Services
      Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the number of general practitioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28908/05]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on her 1,000 bed plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28912/05]
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the continuing crisis in Letterkenny General Hospital due to inadequate accident and...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timescale for a national roll out for cervical cancer screening; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it is...
    • Fluoridation of Water
      Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent American study on the addition of fluoride to tap water which found that exposure to fluoride...
    • General Practitioner Services
      Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to put out of hours services in other areas out to tender, following her decision to put the out of hours...
    • Health Services
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the future delivery of community care, general hospital and special hospital services; if she will utilise...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the basis of the PPARS and FISP contracts; if she was advised of difficulties with these systems when she first took...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is in agreement with the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive that it is hard to justify a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the additional provision which is being made by her for services that will be required following the coming into operation...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the 30 beds in Hume Street Hospital that will not be replaced when the hospital closes;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns that the failure to provide adequate funding for the supports necessary for...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is conducting any research into the numbers and needs of children who are carers of parents or siblings...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is represented on the high level group on early childhood care and education and when it is expected to...
    • Health Services
      Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is Government policy to provide hospice care for persons dying in the home; if so, if it is available nationwide;...
    • Fluoridation of Water
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a reply to Professor Connett's 50 questions on fluoridation on her Department's website was not signed; the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the 30,000 plus patients who were discharged from hospitals in 2004 only to be...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the figures in respect of the number of cases of MRSA in each of the past three years and to date in...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the decision of the Mater Hospital Dublin to defer approval of testing of an anti-cancer...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to continue the roll out of BreastCheck; the proportion of the population which is currently covered; when...
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Reach Out report on suicide prevention. [28950/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to improve cancer treatment in general, especially accessibility to radiotherapy for Donegal cancer patients; and...
    • Health Education
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the role of her Department in encouraging citizens, in particular adults, to maintain an active lifestyle; the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps and funding she has provided to tackle abuse of the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Fottrell report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28899/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved rehabilitation services for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28911/05]
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to combat a flu epidemic; the timescales involved for the production and distribution of a vaccine; the...
    • Health Services
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if figures will be provided to explain the discrepancy between Question No. 27 of 7 April 2004 and the Health Service...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Comhairle na nOspidéal will report on the review of neurosurgery services; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress of the implementation of a ten point plan to deal with the accident and emergency crisis; her views on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total cost to the State of immunisation programmes; the immunisation injections which are available; and the breakdown...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the organ retention inquiry is the only inquiry in the history of the State that has been abandoned before...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the alternative funding for care which is available to parents of babies who were brain damaged at birth besides going to...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of each of the reports, consultancies or public relations contracts commissioned by her in the past seven years;...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to address the serious rise in the incidence of prostate cancer; her plans for the introduction of...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved services at the accident and emergency department of Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry;...
    • Health Forums
      Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the National Health Consultative Forum will be convened; the proposed composition of the forum; if she will provide...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to improve the ambulance service in the west; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on putting trolleys from accident and emergency into existing wards in hospitals to relieve the ongoing pressure...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to provide an adequate number of residential places for intellectually disabled or autistic persons...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that suicidal children are ending up in adult psychiatric wards; her plans for...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there are so many hip replacements carried out under the national treatment purchase fund when other patients...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has decided to abandon the Alcohol Products Bill against the advice of leading health experts and contrary...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the proposed new community nursing unit on the grounds of Kerry General Hospital will go to tender; and if she will...
    • Sudden Deaths
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the rising number of sudden deaths of amateur or professional athletes here while participating in their...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a letter by the Health Service Executive stating clearly that medical card national...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, in regard to the commitment given in the national health strategy to provide an additional 3,000 hospital beds, the...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the information available to her regarding the potential cost to the Exchequer of the illegal charges for nursing home...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved respite care here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28910/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the progress in providing practical support and justice to the survivors of symphysiotomy; and if she...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected completion date of the inquiry, to be chaired by Judge Maureen Harding-Clarke, into the activities of the...
    • Health Forums
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if ministerial regulations have been made under the Health (Amendment) Act 2005 to establish regional health forums; the...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the Food Safety Authority that some food companies are misleading...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the new Medical Practitioners Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28920/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the evidence of a geographic inequity for persons with heart disease living in western counties; and if she...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when negotiations on the new consultants' contracts will conclude; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28959/05]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the facilities and supports made available by her Department to its staff to meet their child care needs; and if she will...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to deal with the crisis in regard to emergency residential provision for intellectually disabled or autistic...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on improving the inspection regimes for all residential nursing homes for the elderly in all health...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 215: To ask the Taoiseach the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied); the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the nature of controls applied in...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 218: To ask the Taoiseach the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons being on call and their...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 223: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who applied for a refund of course fees in respect of courses undertaken at night or evenings; the value of refunds expected to be made by...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 227: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six months from attending...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Services
      Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary on rehabilitative health and medical...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of adults with an intellectual disability on residential, day care and respite waiting lists in the Health...
    • Health Strategy
      Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the findings of the recent international Shape of the Nations survey into the...
    • Health Services
      Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a full statement on the progress being made on the setting up of a regional acute unit for the National...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her areas of responsibility; for example, parliamentary questions about elder abuse, orthodontic...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 was refused the domiciliary allowance. [28618/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a new health care centre at Glanmire, County Cork; and when funds will be made...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the provisions that have been made for post-operative consultation for patients who have availed of the national treatment...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent decision of the Health Service Executive to discontinue the payment of...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person with a general practitioner-only medical card will be covered for attending nurses in their local general...
    • Health Services
      Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason glasses specifically designed for children with hearing aids are not provided under the public health system;...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application for special housing aid for the elderly for persons (details supplied) in County...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to an application for the domiciliary care allowance for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Health Services
      Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with Beaumont Hospital on a person's behalf (details supplied) and have them called for their...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when ancillary support will be provided to the third vascular surgeon who has been appointed at the Mid-West Regional...
    • Playground Facilities
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of playgrounds which have now been opened following the publication of the "ready steady play" policy and using...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is Government policy for the value of a person's residence to be taken into account when decisions are being taken...
    • Adoption Services
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made on negotiations towards a bilateral agreement between Irish and Russian authorities on...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have been refused a medical card, for each of the past five years, on a county basis; if she will...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of concerns raised regarding the long-term damage to young people's health of using sunbeds when under the age...
    • Health services
      Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the potential to change the system through which orthodontic services are delivered will be investigated; and the need...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the practice of health authorities holding the pension books of elderly patients to pay for their long-term care has...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a full-time cardiologist will be appointed at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry as Kerry has the highest rate...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when tenders will be invited for the proposed new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry following the Government's announcement...
    • Voluntary Groups
      Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she will meet the owners of Pilgrim House; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28974/05]
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application under the housing aid for the elderly scheme will be expedited and if funds will be provided in order...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the midlands regional task force Darkness on the Edge of Town into heroin misuse in Athlone...
    • Tobacco Control
      Question 265: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28987/05]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical officer's report has been completed in relation to an application under the disabled persons grant scheme for...
    • Health Services
      Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the amalgamation of health boards into the Health Service Executive will result in equal access to services such as...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, following interviews for the position in July 2005, the Health Service Executive has appointed a third consultant...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 17 February 2004, the number of patients being catered for at the Sacred Heart...
    • Health Services
      Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 7 October 2004, the date for the completion of the business plan for the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps the Health Service Executive is taking to recruit a senior dental surgeon for special needs to provide services...
    • Hospital Building Programme
      Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in opening the nine bed medical assessment unit in the accident and emergency department of the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 22 March 2005, the Health Service Executive has appointed an audiologist...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps the Health Service Executive is taking to recruit a senior area medical officer to provide community services for...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards issued in counties Roscommon and Leitrim for the most recent year for which figures are...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 286: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the expected delivery date for the 2005 replacement ambulances for Roscommon and Ballinasloe ambulance stations; and if she...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the date for the opening of the stroke unit at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe; her plans to develop other stroke units...
    • Health Services
      Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 2 March 2005, the value and number of uncashed cheques issued by the Southern...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the completion date for the upgrading of facilities at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe to include upgrade of all ward...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if accident and emergency and acute services will be continued or discontinued at Ennis General Hospital; and if she will...
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she plans to implement the Hanly report; if she plans to withdraw it; the reason for the decision she will take; and if...
    • Pre-School Services
      Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to provide additional pre-school learning support hours over and above the standard six hours currently...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a detailed list of the personnel within the Health Service Executive western area for the purposes of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the supports that are available for a parent (details supplied) whose child has been diagnosed with Down's syndrome. [29051/05]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not been admitted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin for medical...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the ambulance transport service has been curtailed in the western area of the Health Service Executive whereby...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the contract with iSoft for HIS was signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29144/05]
    • Departmental Meetings
      Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the health services capital programme, including PPARS was discussed at her Department's MAC meetings that were attended...
    • Hospitals Ethos
      Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the imposition of religious ethos by hospital authorities on taxpayers who may be of a different religion or...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the iSoft information technology system is currently in use in the health services; the cost of this system to the...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of her advice to Dáil Éireann on 11 October 2005, that 15,000 applications for repayment of charges for care...
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 310: 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 Waiting Lists
      Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an operation to remove a cataract will be arranged as soon as possible for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the regional health areas where there is a consultant with responsibility for palliative care; when each of those...
    • Health Services
      Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the core funding supplied by her for hospice care support in each health region in each of the past five years; and the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to recruit an adequate number of doctors and consultants to operate the new 21 bed unit at Wexford...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if all the necessary equipment has been procured for phase 2 of St. John's Hospital, Enniscorthy; and if she will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 326: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the ambulance service for Wexford town will change from on call to on duty; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the state of the inquiry conducted by Dr. Deirdre Madden, BL, into post mortem practice and procedure, especially in...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 330: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the building of the new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry will commence; if there is any date set; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 331: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be transferred to Beaumont Hospital. [29285/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason no dental service is available at the Athy health centre, Athy, County Kildare; if there is a waiting list for...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 333: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in her Department's press office in respect of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 339: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proportion of her Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 342: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in each general service and department grade in her Department who have been exempt for a period in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 343: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount paid to a consultancy company, details supplied, in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 345: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Naas General Hospital will continue to play a central role in the delivery of surgical and medical inpatient and...
    • Health Services
      Question 346: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the delivery of an improved, efficient and effective health service; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 349: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of extra beds available for acute patients as the winter approaches; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 350: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the degree to which accident and emergency staff have been increased or will be increased in order to meet requirements;...
    • Health Research
      Question 351: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will allocate funding for increased studies into the cause or causes of autism with reference to the high incidents...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 352: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken to combat the threat of MRSA at hospitals or health centres; if instructions have been given...
    • Health Services
      Question 353: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will enhance and upgrade the quality and quantity of health services throughout County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 354: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children where services in respect of respiratory and tuberculosis patients, previously provided for at Peamount Hospital, are now...
    • Health Services
      Question 357: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the family of a person, details supplied, in Dublin 5 whose child is in need of care and attention; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 358: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person, details supplied, in County Mayo will be called for a cataract removal operation. [29547/05]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 359: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the design process has been completed for the proposed BreastCheck unit in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties the Government bought for refugees and asylum seekers; if these properties are still in their possession; if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he proposes to take to address the issue of the seriously leaking roof of a school, details supplied, in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of taxing the present rate of child benefit. [29534/05]
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will work closely with the Health Service Executive, Irish Wheelchair Association and other statutory bodies on the case of a person, details...
    • Vehicle Registration Offices
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Finance the closing time for lunch in the Vehicle Registration Tax Office of the Revenue Commissioners at Furry Park Industrial Estate, Santry, Dublin 9; if...
    • Tax Code
      Question 366: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the unfair tax treatment of unmarried couples in the event that one gives up work to look after their children; if...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Finance if money will be made available for flood defences in Dublin South East; the amount that will be made available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 368: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that the Office of Public Works has been given the task of building new Government buildings throughout the country following...
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will consider developing a composting facility in the parks under its control; if it will allow for local community...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 371: To ask the Minister for Finance if arrangements have been completed for the purchase of a rear entrance to Dunmanway Garda station; and if not, the reason therefor. [28727/05]
    • Tax Code
      Question 373: To ask the Minister for Finance if there are exemptions for persons over 65 from paying stamp duty when purchasing a home or his plans to introduce this exemption; and if he will...
    • Arts Plan
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will make available on loan pieces of art, sculptures and so on to major community centres or other such public...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Finance if the veterinary college in Ballsbridge, Dublin, which was recently demolished, was a listed building, and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waste Management
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Finance the provisions which have been put in place to reuse the stone and other materials from the recently demolished veterinary college in Ballsbridge,...
    • Tax Code
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the State of tax forgone from the introduction of schemes (details supplied) for each year up to the year to date. [29134/05]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason consultants were engaged to review the tax reliefs available to high earners in view of the considerable amount of expertise available in...
    • Tax Code
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Finance the most recent estimates for the cost of income tax reliefs in the tax code and the full returns for 2002 and the Revenue Commissioners best...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 386: To ask the Minister for Finance the original estimate for the refurbishment of Newmarket Garda station, County Cork; and the final cost. [29222/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Finance the rates of overtime or additional allowances, payable to staff who work in his Departments press office in respect of persons being on call and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend study courses; the list of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six months from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and services...
    • Tax Code
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which nursing homes that cease to operate will be identified by Revenue in order to recoup the allowances and grant as is specified in law...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the way in which the turnover of the Irish catching industry is broken down between fish stocks. [28620/05]
    • Marine Accidents
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of commercial fishing vessels here that have been lost at sea over the past ten years; the number of...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of commercial fish species in Irish waters. [28635/05]
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the strategy in place to protect valuable marine life; and if there are any future strategies currently being...
    • Marine Safety
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans in place to increase co-operation between EU countries on marine related activity. [28637/05]
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to stop the problem of drift netting of salmon which is threatening the supply of salmon in...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the mapping which has been undertaken to establish the potential from the development of geothermal energy here....
    • Energy Resources
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if any assumptions have been made on the likely price of oil in 2020 in view of his Department's role in the...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the full separation of ESB and EirGrid will occur; the timetable for the various stages in the completion...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the role his Department has played in setting up the energy research funding within the next European Union...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 428: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will consider the need for funding being stressed by Fingal County Council following the handover of...
    • Inland Fisheries
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department will give an undertaking to purchase the Owenmore River in County Kerry which will go on sale...
    • Seirbhísí Phoist
      Question 430: To ask the Aire Cumarsáide, Mara agus Acmhainní Nádúrtha an bhfuil sé i gceist aige go mbeidh na zip-chóid nua in Éirinn bunaithe ar logainmneacha Gaeilge, is é sin, an...
    • Inland Fisheries
      Question 431: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of fishery officers involved in policing the River Nore at Inistioge and Thomastown in County...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 432: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the accommodation brief for the decentralised building at Clonakilty, County Cork will be finalised by the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position in relation to the salmon drift nets fishing and the effect it is having on the future of salmon...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a progress report on the Youghal river bed; and if he has obtained a report from his legal...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a progress report on the proposal for Ballycotton harbour development committee case...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 436: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to have broadband facilities made available in Ballymote, County Sligo; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night time or...

    • Question 444: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • EU Constitution
      Question 449: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the meaning of the phrase "the Government will use this period to promote active engagement with the European Constitution" appearing in...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 451: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the countries where Ireland is considering setting up an embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28881/05]
    • International Relations
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on Ireland's relationship with Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28882/05]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 453: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to confirm if aid is being sent by the Government to Central American nations following the recent disaster. [28883/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 456: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the Labour Court recommendation of 29 January 2001, which expressed concern that a small category of...
    • Passport Applications
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the owner of the intellectual property rights in relation to the new automated passport system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons being on call...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend study courses; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six months...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some members of the European Union favour a weakening of the common EU position on Burma;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the concerns being raised by international human rights groups in relation to abuses by state forces and...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if there is a sports grant outstanding to a club (details supplied) in Dublin 7 which has a long term lease from Dublin City Council...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied); the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons being...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of purchases of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath has not been issued with a work permit; and if he will make a...
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that have been taken to counteract bullying in the workplace; the progress that has been made to date in 2005 in...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm his plans to make an official visit to Ukraine, to promote trade links between the two countries; and if he will...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 498: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the agencies under his remit have engaged Deloitte & Touche as advisers; the fees paid to them for each year since 1997;...
    • Grocery Industry
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the current Government proposals on the groceries order with a view to having it retained in full; and if...
    • Competition Legislation
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the serious difficulties created for actors, musicians and freelance journalists by the...
    • EU Directives
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position relating to the implementation of Directive 2003/105/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29032/05]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 512: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timetable for the introduction and issuing of the consequent regulations and compliance standards in view of the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new places of employment created through State agencies in County Kildare for each of the past three years;...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of apprentices with FÁS for each of the past three years; if figures are available which indicate discrepancies...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 521: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend...

    • Question 522: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of purchases of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 524: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the...
    • Insurance Industry
      Question 527: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which insurance costs here compare with those in the rest of Europe; if, in view of the huge profits recorded by...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 528: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications which were received for special heating needs supplement under the supplementary welfare allowance...
    • Family Support Services
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on the application by Ballyduff Family and Community Support Forum Limited in 2001 to the family...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the parents of a single person living at home are subject to a means test when their child makes an application for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the payment of the fuel allowance to the tenants of Dublin City Council senior citizen flat schemes and flat...
    • Childhood Development Initiative
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action which is proposed in respect of the Childhood Development Initiative ten-year strategy; if he will detail the resources...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expected timescale between an application for unemployment assistance, unemployment benefit, disability benefit, disability...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of purchases of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in each general service and Department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Network
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the profit generated by National Toll Roads for operating the East Link and West Link facilities...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will extend the penalty points system to all of the offences provided for in the Act. [28615/05]
    • Rail Network
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Transport when the doubling of the Kilcock train line will occur in view of the significant population growth that is anticipated will take place in both the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of buses his Department estimates is required to make up an effective bus fleet to service the greater Dublin area; when the existing...
    • Road Safety
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in issuing design specifications for the signage and civil works relating to the application of special speed limits; the...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for Transport if Castlemoate House near Dublin Airport was acquired by his Department by compulsory acquisition; if so, the reason for such compulsory...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost to date of the consultancy services provided by a company (details supplied) in respect of the report on public safety zones at the State...
    • State Airports
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Transport if ICAO standards exist in relation to runway end safety areas; if so, if he will outline such standards; if such standards have been applied at...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 560: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason no automatic receipt of payment is generated to an e-mail account or made available to download when a candidate applies on-line to...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay of the proposed extension to the Luas line to Cherrywood in south County Dublin from Sandyford; and the name and role of...
    • Air Services
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 366 and 381 of 4 October 2005, if he will list the additional opportunities for Shannon Airport arising...
    • Road Network
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Transport the date agreed for him officially to open the new N4 toll road from Kilcock to Kinnegad. [29176/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Transport when provincial-based civil servants who have applied for transfer to the proposed Department of Transport offices in Loughrea, County Galway, will...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Transport the sections of the Road Traffic Act 2004 that are not yet commenced. [29179/05]
    • Driving Tests
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Transport the average weekly number of driving tests conducted by each driving tester at each test centre in the years 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005....
    • Regional Airports
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any proposals from the board of Waterford regional airport to extend the runway at the airport; and if, in the event of such a...
    • Road Safety
      Question 573: To ask the Minister for Transport the legal height for lorries and articulated trucks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29186/05]
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 574: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied with the results of the rural transport initiative operating in south Kildare; the number of passengers using the facility since...
    • Rail Services
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans that Iarnród Éireann has to extend the car parking facilities at Athy station, Athy, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of applicants on the waiting list for driving tests at the Naas, Carlow and Portlaoise test centres; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the suggestion made by a person (details supplied) that he introduce legislation to allow for the painting of lines on the outside of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Transport the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons being on call and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for Transport the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend study courses; the list of...

    • Question 585: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of purchases of briefcases; the number...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff in each general service and Department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six months from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and services...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for Transport the waiting time and number of applicants on the waiting list and the number of testers in respect of each driving test centre in County Donegal;...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the capital funding spent by his Department in the refurbishment of the Grand Canal in Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the moneys which are intended to be provided for the improvement of Rinroe Pier, Belmullet, County Mayo; and if he...
    • Community Development
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the Ringsend and Irishtown areas of Dublin 4 are not included in the RAPID programme; the steps he will...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money paid out by the Dormant Accounts Fund Disbursements Board through Area Development Management...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of boats that have used the Grand Canal for each of the past three seasons; the records that are kept in...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Departments press office in respect of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff who applied for a refund of course fees in respect of courses undertaken at night; the value of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 606: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Coillte Training Courses
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the exclusion of persons from the harvesting and haulage sector of Irish forestry from the extensive training courses...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area payment. [28603/05]
    • Milk Quota
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether allocation of a milk quota under the restructuring scheme using age as a criteria is age discrimination. [28732/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when area based payments will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

    • Question 615: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will be awarded their area aid headage payment; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Afforestation Programme
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the requirements for valid appeals against afforestation permissions. [29188/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the staffing details of the forestry appeals unit set up in January 2002 to process appeals against decisions of her Department to...
    • Appeals System
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, as stated by An Taisce, her Department is not conforming to paragraph 13, Part V of SI 538 of 2001(details supplied) in view of the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the details of the forthcoming legislation her Department started in 2002 to provide for a statutory basis for the appeals against...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 621: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare is experiencing enormous problems having their entitlements accessed; and if she...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in her Departments press office in respect of persons being on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 628: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the proportion of her Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend study courses;...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 631: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of staff in each general service and Department grade in her Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six...
    • Waste Management
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to resolve the situation where farmers, having paid a levy on bale wrap plastic, have had no service where proper waste...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 633: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and...
    • Beef Imports
      Question 635: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of beef imported in to the EU and Ireland from Brazil; the measures she proposes to protect the food supply here in view of...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 637: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the computerisation of the penalty points system will be completely operational and fully integrated with the national...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the types of visa available to non-nationals wishing to enter the State; the minimum and maximum durations for which it can...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 640: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the 33 additional gardaí allocated to the traffic corps are based entirely in Dublin; and if not, the way in which the...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 641: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in relation to contracts for Garda uniforms there is a requirement on the part of the tendering contractors to provide...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 642: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken to establish a commission for victims further to his decision to discontinue direct funding for...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 643: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the operational hours of Glanmire Garda station in County Cork; and his plans to extend the...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 645: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the re-emergence of serious anti-social behaviour in flat complexes in the south-east...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 646: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of visas issued to persons of Nigerian extraction in the past two years; the purpose for which those applications...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of complaints against members of the Garda Síochána concerning discriminatory treatment; the decisions adopted;...
    • Domestic Violence
      Question 648: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if increased funding will be made available to support male victims of domestic abuse in view of research findings on the...
    • Equality Legislation
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will expand the scope of the Equal Status Act 2000 to cover the whole range of Government functions and activities...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 650: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application for residency by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision regarding an application for naturalisation for persons (details supplied) in County Dublin will be made....
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide funding for neighbourhood watch organisations and for the installation of closed circuit television; and...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 654: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will publish the number of persons working in pre-schools and crèches in the State; the percentage of those who are...
    • Solicitor Complaints Procedures
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the complaints procedure in place to deal with grievances with solicitors; his plans to reform this...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 656: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he will take to deal with the huge problem of illegal fireworks, attacks on innocent persons and the disruption...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the works being carried out at Thornton Hall; the estimated cost of the security or other fencing being erected; the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of speed checks that were carried out by gardaí in 2004; and the way in which this compares with the target in...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Questions Nos. 366 of 29 June 2005 and 388 of 11 October 2005, the information for 1997, 1998 and 1999 as...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for capital funding in the name of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny under the...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 661: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that were encountered in correspondence (details supplied) with the maps...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to correspondence of 11 June 2004 from his Department, if a decision has been made in the case of a person (details...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 665: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the refusal of a visa for a person (details supplied); if he will overrule the decision; and if he will...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 666: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for permission to remain here on the basis of parentage of an Irish-born child by a...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 667: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to increase the number of gardaí stationed at Dunboyne, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 668: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for legislation to deal with banning the use of fireworks, legal and illegal in specific areas such as senior...
    • Legal Aid Service
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to alter or change the guidelines for applicants seeking free legal aid from the Legal Aid Board centres to ensure...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 672: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for capital funding made to his Department for projects in Kildare for each of the past three...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will respond to correspondence from this Deputy of 22 December 2004 regarding a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status in respect of a person (details supplied) who applied to remain here on the basis of parentage of an Irish born...
    • Childhood Development Initiative
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action which is proposed in respect of the Childhood Development Initiative ten year strategy; if he will detail the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 677: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of...

    • Question 680: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the personnel files of staff in his Department have been copied or given to external parties; if so, the safeguards which...

    • Question 681: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department to whom leave of absence, or any other absence from normal duties or place of work, in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of purchases of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 689: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the rapid growth in population, there is an urgent need for a permanently based junior liaison officer in...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 690: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there were 45 drug seizures in Gorey to date in 2005; if, in view of this,...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • School Curriculum
      Question 692: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the advice she has received from officials in her Department or from any State agency or other agency on the need for young persons to...
    • School Transport
      Question 693: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the support she will provide to parents of children attending a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 in order that the Department of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 694: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided for an autistic unit at a school (details supplied) in County Clare that has been sanctioned by the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 695: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to address the teaching staffing levels of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the fact...
    • School Transport
      Question 697: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the provision of school transport for gaelscoileanna with their unique status and services will be more flexible than those of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 698: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a meeting will be arranged between the design team of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 and the architectural unit of her...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a response will issue to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28690/05]
    • Multi-Denominational Schools
      Question 700: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her policy regarding the development of multi-denominational education; if same will be provided with a firm statutory footing and if...
    • State Examinations
      Question 702: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of running the State post-primary examinations in each year from 2002 to 2005 inclusive; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application from a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be reviewed for funding from the emergency repair fund; if...
    • State Examinations
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of appeals received from leaving certificate students in each county; the number of appeals upheld; the number of students...
    • School Staffing
      Question 706: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; her views on the correspondence; the steps she...
    • School Transport
      Question 707: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason Bus Éireann refused to issue bus tickets for children returning from a school (details supplied). [28711/05]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 708: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed extension for a school (details supplied) in the context of the school building and modernisation...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 710: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if information will be provided on the primary schools which have 30 children or more in their classes in Cork city and county for...
    • Adult Education
      Question 711: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if grant funding for a course in training and education was allocated directly to the county vocational educational committee in 2005...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 712: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the application for funding for the provision of a general purpose classroom at a school (details supplied) in...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      Question 714: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funds will be provided to ensure that there is no disruption of the adult literacy and child care courses within the...
    • School Transport
      Question 715: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if school bus transport will be provided for first year pupils attending a school (details supplied) in County Limerick as a result of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 718: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reverse the decision to discontinue home tuition provision to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare as of 22...
    • State Property
      Question 719: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a property (details supplied) is in her Department's ownership; her immediate and long-term plans for the property; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 720: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of court actions regarding the provision of school places for students with special needs and the provision of resources...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a student who has completed a masters and has been accepted for a doctorate in University College Galway who did...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 722: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the Office of Public Works has identified a site for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if not, the reason for delay on...
    • School Staffing
      Question 723: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that both previous school population statistics and future demand for school places will be taken into account when...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 724: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if home tuition will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary until Christmas as was indicated by her Department....
    • School Accommodation
      Question 725: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for additional facilities for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [28768/05]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 726: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision to sanction resource teaching hours for a person at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will be made. [28771/05]
    • Schools Recognition
      Question 727: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Dublin has applied for formal recognition; if such a request was made; the response of her...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 728: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a refund in college fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 730: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new secondary school in Newport, County Mayo; if an assessment has been carried out; when a...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 731: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an investigation will be carried out into claims that some legal representatives charged clients who attended the Residential...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 734: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for additional facilities and improved...
    • Academic Qualifications
      Question 735: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a PhD in a scientific field is a degree obtained by research; her Department's views...
    • School Transport
      Question 737: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 734 of 28 June 2005, if she will report on the circumstances surrounding the accident and the...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 738: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of shared facilities at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if an agreement has been signed between her...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 739: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the application submitted for refurbishment of a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim; if the necessary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 740: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is not receiving 3.5 hours continued resource teaching support per week as...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 741: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school at Nurney, County Kildare in view of the efforts of the local committee and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 742: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the contact details for the National Council for Special Education; the name of the chief executive; and if she will make a statement...
    • Adult Literacy
      Question 743: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her budget for literacy in adults in each year from 2000 to 2005; if there is a separate literacy budget for the Prison Service; the...
    • School Services Staff
      Question 744: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, in view of the enormous workload of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is employed as part-time secretary cannot...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 745: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of applications which have been received for the summer refurbishment scheme 2006; the budget which she will make available;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 746: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a report on the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [29278/05]
    • Childhood Development Initiative
      Question 747: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action which is proposed in respect of the Childhood Development Initiative ten-year strategy; the resources which will be made...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 748: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the requirements in respect of remedial, resource or other special needs teachers at the primary and secondary schools in east Galway;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 750: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress being made on the provision of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; the manner in which it is proposed to provide...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 751: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when resource hours will be restored to a person (details supplied) in their new school in County Mayo. [29283/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 753: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in her Department's press office in respect of persons being...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 760: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent by her Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in her Department in respect of purchases of briefcases;...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 762: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff in each general service and department grade in her Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 763: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts...
    • Schools Evaluation
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of whole school evaluation reports and the number of subject inspection reports she will carry out in 2006; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, with regard to the special needs of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo and in view of the fact that the parents have...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 768: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 294 of 28 June 2005 and 503 of 28 September 2005, if he will consider allocating the premises presently...
    • Benchmarking Awards
      Question 769: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of implementing benchmarking for maintenance workers in the Defence Forces; the reason money was paid out (details supplied); if he has...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 770: To ask the Minister for Defence the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in respect of persons being on call and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 776: To ask the Minister for Defence the proportion of his Department's training budget that is spent on refunds to staff in respect of night-time or weekend study courses; the list of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of staff in each general service and department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a period in excess of six months from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 780: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of each of the contracts and services...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 782: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the staffing cap on the provision of local authority services in new areas of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 783: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made in relation to the redevelopment of flats (details supplied) in Dublin 2; the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a request to provide funding to upgrade the water supply in Youghal and to upgrade the pipe...
    • Town Status
      Question 786: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding plans to grant town status to Glanmire, County Cork, and allow it to form a district...
    • Local Authority By-Laws
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce by-laws for a park (details supplied) in Dublin 16 in view of the fact that there has...
    • Waste Management
      Question 788: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in signing the contract for the incinerator in Ringsend, which has been awarded to a...
    • Nuclear Safety
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the existence of a nuclear safety section in his Department; the terms of reference; the number...
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 790: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in the context of his Environment 2002 policy statement on recycling, assistance will be available to...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 791: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide grants for individual sewerage systems, upgrading of existing septic tanks to modern...
    • State Airports
      Question 792: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the proposed guidelines on the designation of public safety zones at the State...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 793: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the purchase notice provisions contained in section 29 of the Local Government (Planning and...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 795: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his motives for abstaining on two votes at European level at the end of 2004, leading to the approval in...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the review of the operation of the disabled persons housing grant began in his Department; when the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 799: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the sewerage scheme at Adare, County Limerick will be upgraded. [29232/05]
    • EU Directives
      Question 801: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department makes advice available to retailers and producers in relation to the WEEE directive; if a...
    • Election Management System
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amounts paid to date in respect of the storage of electronic voting machines; if he will give a breakdown...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 803: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the current rules covering the tenant purchase scheme to exclude the price of the site where...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 804: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the appointment of consultants for a project (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 805: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the execution of the pilot rental supplement scheme projects, the issues that have arisen which...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a difficulty being experienced by purchasers of affordable housing under...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the preliminary report received from Galway County Council for a project (details supplied) in County...
    • Sports and Recreational Facilities
      Question 809: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any local authority in County Kildare has applied for the proposed skateboard park grant as promised by his...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 810: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the rates of overtime or additional allowances payable to staff who work in his Department's press office in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on briefcases; the amount refunded to staff in his Department in respect of...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 819: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff in each general service and Department grade in his Department who have been exempt for a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 821: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) in respect of each year since 2000; the details of...
    • Election Management System
      Question 822: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the modifications which have been judged necessary to overcome shortcomings in the electronic voting machines...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 824: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the water supply capacity in the greater Dublin area at present (details supplied); the additional water...

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