Written answers
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
- Department of Transport
- Road Safety
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Transport when he issued design specifications for speed limit signs outside schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28997/05]
- Public Transport
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the revised timeframe for the full introduction of integrated ticketing; and his estimate of the full cost to the State of...
- Road Safety
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress in producing a new rules of the road booklet; and the reason for the continued delay. [29071/05]
- Public Transport
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Transport his latest proposals in respect of reform of the regulatory framework for bus licensing; and when he will bring forward legislation in this regard....
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport the initiatives he has taken to promote the increased use of renewable energy in the transport sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Press Releases
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has instructed his staff not to provide Opposition spokespersons with all press releases when automatically issued by his Department; if not,...
- Road Safety
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Transport if the target of a reduction of 25% in the number of fatalities on roads will be achieved by the end of the lifetime of the road safety strategy in...
- Traffic Management
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the recent meeting of the Clare Street initiative; the recommendations arising from this meeting; the way in which his...
- Road Safety
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport if the assessment of the case for banning supersize trucks has been completed; if he has set a deadline for his decision on this issue; and the...
- Light Rail Project
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Transport when a decision will be made on the joining up of two existing Luas lines in Dublin city centre; the expected cost and time it will take to connect...
- Driving Tests
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport his targets for the average waiting time for a driving test; and his target date for reaching same. [29082/05]
- Rail Network
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the proposal to build a metro from Dublin's city centre to the airport; the reason the proposed legislation for a metro has been...
- Traffic Management
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of A Platform for Change; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that several major planning applications continue to be made on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department on capital projects to date; the details of these projects; the degree to which there has been an underspend on...
- EU Directives
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the impact for Ireland of the recent EU directive in respect of the funding of regional airport services and its impact on...
- State Airports
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received all the business plans from the three State airports; if not, if he has asked their authorities the reason for the delay; when...
- Rail Network
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport when work on the upgrade of the main Kildare-Dublin rail line will commence and be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29490/05]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the underspend in his Department in the first three quarters of 2005; the subheads under which the underspend is occurring; and the...
- Traffic Management
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals regarding the development of additional park and ride facilities in the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rail Network
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the McCann report on the western rail corridor; and if there has been progress on the implementation of any aspect of the report's...
- Road Safety
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has abandoned random breath testing as a key part of road safety policy. [29055/05]
- Traffic Management
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to allow cars with three or more occupants to access bus lanes; the analysis he has carried out on this proposal; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals for changing the minimum legal tyre tread depth of 1.6mm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29062/05]
- Air Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport if, further to negotiations ongoing at EU level and with the US on the implementation of an open skies policy, he will commission an impact study...
- Road Safety
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any of the three reports into the bus tragedy in County Meath in May 2005; if so, the action he will take on foot of such...
- Road Network
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will bring forward legislation on open road tolling. [29065/05]
- European Council Meetings
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of recent EU negotiations to develop an open skies policy between the US and the EU; his proposals regarding the stopover at Shannon;...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress being made with regard to the partial sale of Aer Lingus; when such a sale will occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Transport Investment Plan
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has completed feasibility studies for the estimated cost of the ten year national strategic transport plan; if his Department's...
- Driving Tests
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Transport if the tendering process for the contracting of private sector driving testers is completed; when the successful tenderer will commence work; and...
- EU Directives
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will transpose Directive 2002/15/EC and Directive 2002/85/EC into Irish law. [29074/05]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide the data on the national development plan roads and transport spending in the Border, midlands and western region with a...
- Rail Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will commission a comprehensive study to ascertain the comparable overall costs to the State of rail freight [i]vis-À-vis[/i] road freight,...
- Driving Tests
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent meetings with staff associations representing driving testers; the reason such meetings did not occur prior to the...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Transport the date in October 2005 from which the promised new on-the-spot fines, the mandatory fitting of digital tachographs and the special discs for...
- Public Transport
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the outcome of the Dublin Bus network review requested by him; the implications of this review in terms of the provision of...
- Road Network
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself that the underpayment by National Toll Roads to his Department, as highlighted in the recent Comptroller and Auditor...
- Traffic Management
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the proposal from the National Pensions Reserve Fund to buy the Dublin Port tunnel and finance the building of the eastern bypass...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Transport his target date for the full expansion of the penalty points system; and when he will be making legislative provision for this expansion. [29052/05]
- Road Safety
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the fact that Ireland ranks seventh in the EU-15 on the basis of road deaths per 100,000 of population; his views on the fact that...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress to date on reaching a bilateral agreement with the UK authorities on mutual recognition of penalty points. [29077/05]
- EU Regulations
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in respect of the EU proposal for a centralised blacklist of EU airlines; the way in which he will reconcile the differences of...
- Road Safety
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in the interests of road safety, he is satisfied that hedgerows on roads across Ireland are being sufficiently maintained to ensure that the...
- Driving Tests
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Transport the waiting period for a driving test in each of the driving test centres; if the situation is improving; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is practically impossible for a person in a wheelchair to have access to a wheelchair...
- EU Directives
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of warning letters in each of the years since and including 2002 which he has received from the EU Commission in respect of his...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his plans to reduce carbon emissions from the transport sector. [22335/05]
- Foreign Military Aircraft
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Transport if consideration will be given to amending the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952, in order to make it a legal requirement that...
- Pension Provisions
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his recent meeting with the Retired Aviation Staff Association in regard to the potential shortfall of over €336 million in the staff...
- Road Safety
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals to introduce a compulsory training scheme for motorbike users. [29067/05]
- Department of Health and Children
- Computerisation Programme
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the approach to project governance and project management by health sector staff; the concerns raised...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has sanctioned atypical travel and subsistence expenditures relating to the PPARS or FISP projects; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding funds granted to the National Federation of Arch Clubs; and if she will give it maximum support in...
- Mental Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she still plans to move the Central Mental Hospital to the new Mountjoy Prison site in view of the fact that there is...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in Dublin Mid-West constituency who have been treated under the national treatment purchase fund in...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the policy of relocation of persons with intellectual disabilities from mental hospitals to more...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in refunding persons for illegal nursing home charges under the national repayment scheme; and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department, the health service area and St. Ita's Hospital will work together in order to assist a person (details...
- Child Abuse
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints received regarding child abuse in the years 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004; and if she will make a...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the discussions, advice or information she has had on the establishment of private hospitals in the grounds of public...
- Hospital Services
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the grave situation which continues to obtain at the cystic fibrosis centre of St....
- Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the drastic cutback in the medical screen programme in national schools at which examinations were carried...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children why BreastCheck is not available in counties Cork and Kerry; and when she proposes to extend this vital service to these...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding that has been allocated to the Disabled Drivers Association for each of the past five years; the details of the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if consideration has been given to the pre-budget submission 2006 launched by the Disability Federation of Ireland; the...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposed cost of the new hospital at Eccles Street adjacent to the Mater Hospital; the amount already spent on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the situation in which bureaucratic interference in an essential medical care case...
- Health Services
Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if arrangements will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim to remain in their current nursing home....
- Capital Programme
Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the dates in 2002, 2003 and 2004 on which the capital programme for the health services was discussed with her; and if she...
- Departmental Staff
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which back-filling of staff occurred in respect of the PPARS and FISP projects; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount spent to date on FISP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29812/05]
- Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the status of the initiative relating to the north Tipperary early intervention project and...
- Health Education
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to tackle the serious problem of smoking among young people; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Ambulance Service
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, in view of the DHSSPS report on the costs and benefits associated with the introduction of a dedicated HEMS that the...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the nature...
- Valuation Office
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance when a decision will be made relating to a valuation issue appertaining to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare and Kildare County Council...
- Coroners Service
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the serious backlog of cases still in existence at the State Laboratory since its move to new premises in County Kildare; if he...
- State Airports
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 28 September 2005, if he will answer the question relating to Dublin Airport, Knock Airport, Casement...
- Tax Code
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the present thresholds that apply under capital acquisitions tax for transfer to persons who are not sons or daughters of...
- Telecommunications Masts
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has taken action on foot of correspondence received from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform of 4 April 2005 regarding the...
- Budget Submissions
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the pre-budget submission 2006 launched by the Disability Federation of Ireland; the actions open to his...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied); the details of each of the contracts and...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when provision will be made for broadband/ADSL connection to the Malin Head area of Donegal following a meeting...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans for the regional fisheries boards; the reason proposals for a single agency have been proposed by his...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Action Plan
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the Pathways projects currently funded by FÁS and operating in Counties Kerry, Waterford and Kildare...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and...
- Work Permits
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position with an application for a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he...
- Job Creation
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in the services industry which have been created in Clondalkin and Lucan for the period 2002, 2003, 2004...
- Work Permits
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the work status of non-nationals who require a visa in the time period between having married an...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position relating to a lone parent (details supplied); if such a person is entitled to extra assistance; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will address the issue of persons losing the rent allowance when they take up a community employment scheme or low paid...
- Budget Submissions
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if consideration has been given to the pre-budget submission 2006 launched by the Disability Federation of Ireland; the actions...
- Department of Transport
- Transport Investment Plan
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will publish the ten year transport investment plan for the country. [29725/05]
- Public Transport
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether the transport needs of the northside of Dublin have been seriously neglected in recent years in view of the daily gridlock...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Transport the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the...
- Rail Services
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on plans to increase capacity on the Maynooth suburban line in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Driving Tests
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Transport if, with regard to the current backlog of driving test applications, his Department has considered making an arrangement with the existing driver...
- Air Services
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce the necessary measures to ensure that planning authorities are notified and consulted when airspace changes are proposed by...
- Noise Emission Standards
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Transport if he plans to introduce measures to make mandatory the fitting of noise abatement equipment in light aircraft; if so, the body which will become...
- Road Safety
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the high rate of road traffic accidents, he will take action to address the issue of unsafe roads with reference to verge erosion,...
- Road Network
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Transport if in respect of proposed toll roads or bridges, consideration has been given to a design, build and hand over process which would give the State...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of persons penalised under the penalty points system; the number that have exceeded the various categories; and if he will make a...
- Light Rail Project
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of passengers carried daily on the Luas; the extent to which it has replaced motor-cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Traffic Management
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of all road, rail under and overground plans for the greater Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29814/05]
- Road Network
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Transport the means by which it is intended to funnel heavy goods vehicles into the port tunnel without using the M50 or alternatively using the M50 and...
- National Development Plan
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which the various projects identified by his Department in the context of the national development plan are on time and within cost;...
- Driving Tests
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which he will increase throughput in respect of driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29838/05]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and...
- Community Development
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will support a group (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in its efforts for grant assistance; and if he will give it...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person in County Limerick who was granted funding under the current farm waste management scheme for slatted tanks and a cubicle...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the Government's attitude towards the forthcoming WTO negotiations and the implications they may have...
- Grant Payments
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the 2005 area aid payment will be released to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo in view of the fact that following the...
- Animal Diseases
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the precautions which will be implemented to prevent the spread of the bird flu pandemic here; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Beef Exports
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of beef that has been exported from here to Egypt from May 2002 to 30 September 2005; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money accruing from the penalty points system; the use to which such funds have been put; and if he will make...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and...
- Visa Applications
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Wexford must make an application for residency; when this can be...
- Freedom of Information
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if consideration is being given by the Government to introducing or amending legislation (details supplied) for the purpose...
- Garda Operations
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether it is acceptable that the Garda Síochána has been failing to provide protection to fire brigade crews...
- Garda Investigations
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the normal investigative procedure used by the Garda Síochána in following up a report of a burglary; and if this, as a...
- Visa Applications
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will re-examine the refusal of his Department to grant visas to persons (details supplied) to join their parents here;...
- Garda Strength
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if additional resources will be made available to the gardaí in Tallaght to allow them take more effective and immediate...
- Child Care Services
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made on a follow-up programme to the equal opportunities child care programme; if the new...
- Garda Deployment
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí employed as full-time telecommunications technicians in the Garda Síochána. [29664/05]
- Garda Training
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who are currently in Templemore training to be gardaí; and the stages of training they are at. [29672/05]
- Garda Deployment
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are assigned respectively to the air support unit, drug unit, mounted unit, special bicycle unit,...
- Garda Communications
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in planning for a new Garda communications system, the Tetra integrated network model used by all the emergency and...
- Garda Training
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who have undertaken the Garda liaison officers' familiarisation two day course for officers dealing...
- Garda Deployment
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason there is no Garda liaison officer for the gay and lesbian community stationed in Kevin Street in view of the...
- Garda Equipment
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the proposed updating of garda patrol cars and the proposed new Garda internal communications network...
- Garda Investigations
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the Garda investigation into the injuries sustained in a Garda cell resulting later in the death of a person (details...
- Garda Deployment
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, as part of the current review of Garda divisions, it is intended to alter the make-up of any division which currently...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will implement the recommendations made by the Law Reform Commission in its report on multi-party litigation to...
- Garda Investigations
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 301 of 5 October 2005, the precise terms of reference for the investigation by the...
- Registration of Title
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for title (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Women's Strategy
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the long delay on his Department's behalf in producing a national women's strategy which Ireland originally...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Transport
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount paid to CIE in 2004 to run the school transport system; the way in which this amount is calculated; if it is calculated per...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special classroom assistant will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Management
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, under section 28 of the Education Act, a school board is required to meet a parent or student who has a grievance with the school;...
- School Transport
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will issue immediate approval to Bus Éireann to transport a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to their home after...
- Third Level Education
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason key senior staff are leaving a school (details supplied) in Dublin; the position regarding the crisis following the shock...
- Multi-Denominational Schools
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received proposals from Educate Together seeking to make multi-denominational education provision an objective of the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the application for additional facilities by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [29656/05]
- School Accommodation
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 applied in 2003 and 2004 for a grant for temporary accommodation due to an increase in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the terrible conditions at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if her Department will assist...
- School Staffing
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be given to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6 in dealing with the class size issue; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will list the grants applied for from all primary schools in Dublin South-East; the extent to which her Department is able to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation with regard to the application by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for an extension and renovation. [29688/05]
- Radon Gas
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department retained the services of consultants to advise on the exclusion of radon gas from schools; if so, the name of the...
- School Staffing
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Kildare is to lose a teacher in October 2005; if...
- Adult Education
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's budget for literacy in adults in each year from 2000 to 2005; if there is a separate literacy budget for the Prison...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 464 of 17 November 2004 and 278 of 9 March 2005, when a person (details supplied) in County...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she proposes to provide funding for the construction of a permanent school for the pupils of a school (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress which has been made to date on the implementation of the Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005; and if she will make a...
- Psychological Service
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the NEPS service available to primary and secondary schools in the Dublin 15 area; and if she will make a...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the cases where victims of abuse at residential institutions, awarded compensation from the...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount paid to a consultancy company (details supplied) since 1997; the details of each of the contracts and services provided; the nature...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Hare Coursing
Question 337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if hares were coursed more than once, in breach of the regulations by a coursing club (details supplied) in...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on funding of the Maritime Museum, Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire, and the current...
- Waste Management
Question 339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify, in the wake of comments made by the Tánaiste on the Order of Business in Dáil Éireann...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will liaise with South Dublin County Council and offer additional assistance to allow the council take...
- Budget Submissions
Question 341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if consideration has been given to the pre-budget submission 2006 launched by the Disability Federation of...
- Grant Payments
Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received the top-up grant due to them on...
- Health and Safety Issues
Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on safety measures at rock concerts. [29800/05]
- Planning Issues
Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the rural planning guidelines for one-off housing facilitate the granting of planning permission to a...
