Written answers

Thursday, 20 October 2005

  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the setting up of an independent traffic police force to release the Garda Síochána from time consuming duties...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will be taking action, as provided for in the Garda Síochána Act 2005, calling the Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy,...
    • International Agreements
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if representatives from his Department or associated agencies have travelled to Nigeria to monitor the implementation of the...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the 2,000 extra gardaí promised in the programme for Government will be on the streets; and if he will make a statement...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 16: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform about the delay in establishing an inquiry into the circumstances in which Dean Lyons confessed to a murder while in Garda...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of operational sections in his Department in each year since 1997; the number of employees in each section since...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 18: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Minister for Health and Children abandons the proposed Alcohol Advertising Bill which is due to be published before...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 19: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will proceed with his proposal to build a new prison at Thornton Hall; the way in which he proposes to respond to the...
    • Garda Communications
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will have the proposed Tetra digital communications system installed and available to the Garda Síochána; and if he...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he proposes to introduce a scheme of community policing as provided for under the Garda Síochána Act 2005; and if he...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is carrying out an assessment of child care needs; his estimate of the number of children already taking up child care...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      Question 23: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he proposes to seek approval for his recently selected three person Ombudsman Commission for the Garda Síochána; and...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the nature of his investigation into the case of a person (details supplied); if he has satisfied himself with the Garda...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are on sick leave; the length of time each has been absent from work; and if he will make a...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on progress over the past 12 months in expansion of the equal opportunities child care programme; and if he...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are suspended from the force; the length of suspension in each case; if they will receive their...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 29: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gangland type murders that have been committed here in each of the past ten years; the detection rate in each...
    • Prison Accommodation
      Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report of the inspector of prisons which describes the system of slopping out...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the sum of €500,000 was spent on an information technology system for human resource management in the Prison...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the new community based closed circuit television system funded through ADM will replace the Garda closed circuit...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances (details supplied) in which a member of the Garda Síochána has felt...
    • Prison Education Service
      Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report by the inspector of prisons that the training unit at Mountjoy should...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received in each year since 2000; the number of applications approved by the refugee...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 36: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí attached to the traffic corps; if he will increase the number of gardaí; the reason so many road...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress he has made towards drafting new defamation legislation; if such legislation is conditional on the introduction...
    • Legal Aid Service
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the FLAC publication (details supplied); his views on whether its tenet that while equal...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a witness in a murder case (details supplied) has retracted their statement...
    • Garda Reform
      Question 42: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent statements made by the president of the Human Rights Commission, Mr. Maurice...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 43: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the allegations made to a programme (details supplied) by victims of State institutions...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 44: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the report, An Accessible Childcare Model, by the National Women's Council of Ireland; if this report has...
    • State Exonerations
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) will be officially exonerated by the Irish State; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 46: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the ESRI view that child care is to become more expensive and more difficult to obtain; the initiatives, in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the arrest of a person (details supplied) in the Bahamas by the US authorities; if his...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will explore the option of providing funding to community playgroups; his views on whether the non-availability of and...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has fully identified all of the money laundering, racketeering and drug running activities throughout the country; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide details of all funding made available by him to groups providing support services to victims of violence...
    • Homeless Persons
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a report (details supplied), commissioned by his Department, finds that a...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to open an inquiry into the Garda investigation and subsequent criminal proceedings surrounding the murder of a...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the widespread availability of cocaine here and the increasing quantities of crack cocaine...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied); if he met with some of the principals in the case in...
    • Telecommunications Data
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the service providers the Garda Commissioner has written to pursuant to section 63 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist...
    • Prison Medical Service
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there have been any confirmed or reported cases of MRSA in prisons; the protocols which are in place in the prison medical...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cocaine seizures by the Garda Síochána in the towns of Tralee and Listowel, County Kerry, for each year from...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of civil servants in his Department dealing directly with the issue of child care; and if he will make a statement...
    • International Agreements
      Question 60: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the co-ordinating committee provided for in the readmission agreement between the Irish and Nigerian Governments has been...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of non-nationals who entered here as unaccompanied minors who have now reached the age of 18 years and whose...
    • Drugs in Prisons
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Prison Service will provide access to other confirmatory testing for prisoners whose initial mandatory drug test is...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of consultants employed by his Department in each year since 1997; the cost of each contracted; the work that was...
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Prison Service has a policy that sets a maximum dosage of methadone allowable for prisoners; if so, the details of the...
    • Prison Accommodation
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reopen the Curragh Prison, Fort Mitchel or Spike Island in view of the fact that the industrial relations dispute...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals in regard to the privatisation of speed cameras; the way in which he will ensure that the proposal will not end...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she supports the view of the Taoiseach that the Hanly report will not be implemented during the lifetime of this...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of the precautions that have been taken in view of the threat posed by avian flu; the timeframe...
    • Health Services
      Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide core funding for organisations that provide support services, including violence against women services...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the €20 million upgrade project of Ennis General Hospital; when the project will go to the next phase; the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of times the national radiation oncology co-ordinating group has met in 2005; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on progress in the past six months in the roll out of the BreastCheck programme; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report to Dáil Éireann on her current and future plans for medical cards and the income limits which apply....
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has reviewed the major renovation development plans for St. John of God's Kildare services; her plans to provide...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical card applications submitted in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005 in counties Sligo and...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when sanction for an additional 13 beds will be given to the medical assessment unit in Sligo General Hospital in view of...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Yield
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that has been raised through capital gains tax on the sale of properties at the IFI plant in Arklow, County Wicklow; and if he...
    • Budget Submissions
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the pre-budget submission made by Tallaght Welfare Society which has provided services in Tallaght since 1969; his proposed responses to...
    • Tax Code
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to support biofuels transport initiatives through fiscal and taxation reforms. [29938/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the length of time it will take to provide the proposed new Garda station, approved in 1996, for Leixlip, County Kildare; the cost of the project to...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance if a P21 certificate will be supplied to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [29991/05]
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Commemorative Stamp
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans that are in place to issue a stamp in 2006 commemorating Michael Cusack, the founder of the GAA, on the...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason wind farms with full planning permission are prohibited from connecting to Ireland's public grid; his...
    • Inland Fisheries
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report to Dáil Éireann on developments or progress in regard to the meeting of the Minister of State...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if assistance will be given to retired pensioners to achieve clarity of pension entitlements (details supplied)....
    • Postal Services
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the tendering process for the economic evaluation and the design of a new postcode system will be...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Departmental Travel
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of appointments made in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs that had to be cancelled or postponed as a direct result of...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the amount of funding allocated per county under his Department's sports capital programme is based on the number of applications...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position of the application for grant aid for a project (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason funding has not been...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Export Controls
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the proposed new legislation including controls on arms brokering will be published; and if the legislation will...
    • Company Closures
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the money raised on the sale of properties at the IFI plant in Arklow, County Wicklow, will be used to pay creditors who...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Budget Submissions
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the pre-budget submission made by Tallaght welfare society which has provided services in Tallaght since 1969; his...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a decision in the case of an appeal for the carer's allowance in the name of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason he has withdrawn the national fuel allowance from residents of local authority houses; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Safety
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding available to the National Safety Council for 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005. [29954/05]
    • Traffic Management
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department officials are familiar with the more successful traffic management schemes, park and ride options and match event day parking...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of tests carried out in each driving test centre from 1 January 2005 to date; the number of tests waiting to be carried out in each...
    • Public Transport
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on any discussions he or officials from his Department have had with Bus Éireann about organising local bus routes in many of...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether it is untrue that disabled parking spaces provided by local authorities are free of charge with no time limit applying; when...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount the outsourcing of driver testers will cost his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29947/05]
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Bovine Disease
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in view of the reported outbreak of foot and mouth disease, FMD, in Brazil and the levels of imported beef from there into Ireland,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of money paid to each local authority last year by her Department; the number of vets employed by local authorities and paid...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when an area aid payment will be released to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29906/05]
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason dozens of speeding fines were struck out recently as reported in a newspaper (details supplied) on 16 October...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the deportation orders in respect of two persons (details supplied) in County Laois under section 3 of the Immigration...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant a holiday visa to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application of a non-national for residency based upon marriage to an Irish national takes 16 months to process...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of visitors visa application for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Support
      Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the first guide which has been produced in Cork advising child care providers all over...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received an appeal against the refusal of a visa for a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that this...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick to be granted...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused asylum here; the further reason his Department when refusing asylum...

    • Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will supply a list of the countries he deems to be unsafe for refugees to return to; the position regarding refugees...
    • Irish Prison Service
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether the prisons inspector has no mandate to comment on the issue of prison privatisation (details...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly who applied to remain here on the basis of parentage of an Irish...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will be in a position to respond to correspondence relating to a person (details supplied) from 22 December 2004;...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason no decision has been made regarding a person (details supplied) who has been seeking humanitarian leave to remain...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if and when a holiday visa will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Meath to visit here; and if he will make...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will further extend residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision in respect of application for refugee or other residency status in the case of a person...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if sufficient Garda personnel is dedicated to combating drugs, gun crime, money laundering, extortion or racketeering; and...
    • International Co-operation in Law Enforcement
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the degree of co-operation between the Garda and police forces worldwide in the battle against...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí and patrol cars available to or operating out of the Garda stations at Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth,...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number and cost of all information technology or other high tech facilities provided to his Department in the past five...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number and location of Garda stations throughout County Kildare that are open on a part-time basis; if so, the extent of...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí detailed or deployed to the pursuit of serious crime such as drug dealing, money laundering, extortion...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of grant support that has been allocated in the past five years in the RAPID designated areas under the equal...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extra resources he has made available to the Garda Síochána in counties Sligo and north Leitrim for the provision of...
    • Road Safety
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 100 persons are affected following the death of one person on roads;...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide details of the 2001 announcement regarding the proposed decentralisation of the NEPS section of her Department to...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of office space which is leased by the NEPS section of her Department in Mullingar; and the annual cost involved. [29846/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of space vacant in the buildings leased in Mullingar under the decentralisation programme; her plans to fill same; and the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be included in the school building programme for 2006. [29848/05]
    • School Transport
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason school transport is no longer being provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if they will be accommodated...
    • Road Safety
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science where the responsibility lies for safety of children and parents outside primary schools; the responsibility that her Department or the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason it has taken over two years to sanction resource teaching support to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason Mayo Vocational Educational Committee is between €50,000 and €100,000 short on its budget when the pay increase due to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the relocation of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when permission will be granted for a physical education hall to be constructed at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [29856/05]
    • State Examinations
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the legal implications of leaving certificate result re-checks when a college course has already started; the obligation that is placed...
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to introduce college tuition fees; if fees will be introduced in the next academic year; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Multi-Denominational Schools
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be made in order that the State puts the development of multi-denominational education on a statutory footing and to...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps that are being taken to address the severe overcrowding in schools in Mullingar due to the population growth in the town....
    • School Enrolments
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils per class and per school in Mullingar; and the enrolment figures for next year. [29865/05]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps that are being taken to replace prefabricated school rooms that are in use in various schools in Mullingar with more suitable...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is a variation in salary scale for teachers who have graduated through the postgraduates teacher training course run by the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason home tuition will be stopped for a person (details supplied) in County Offaly from 22 December 2005 despite the fact that...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has carried out an investigation into allegations that some solicitors have charged clients excess or separate fees for work...
    • School Staffing
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if any change in the regulations relating to the appointment of teachers will be approved; if she will amend the regulations so that...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the position regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and her views on the long standing desire of the...
    • School Meals
      Question 191: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding school lunch breaks; if schools are required to provide facilities to consume and heat food or to provide a hot...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funding will be made available for a sports hall in a school (details supplied) in Dublin which has been approved...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funds will be made available to carry out the necessary structural and refurbishment works at a school (details...
    • Multi-denominational Schools
      Question 194: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make available to Educate Together the finances it has requested to underpin the need for such schools in the State and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's provision and timetable to cater for primary education for the massive new development on the site of the former...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Housing Grants
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to provide grant assistance to house owners in group developments in rural areas to...
    • Housing Estates
      Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps that are being taken by his Department to help city and county councils to get builders to properly...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 199: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount and location of land and sites and the amount of moneys secured for the development of social and...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he met with a group from that...