Written answers
Thursday, 17 November 2005
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the immediate and long-term timetable for the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road; if a planning application for the stadium's...
- Tourism Industry
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the fact that one of the reasons given for the recent extension of pub licensing hours in Northern...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has had any discussions with the Department of Transport concerning the potential disruption to rail services caused by the...
- National Theatre
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the acquisition of the proposed site in the IFSC for the new Abbey Theatre; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Reports
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the expected date of publication of the report from the synergies group within his Department into developing links between Irish...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether more funding should be provided for promoting Irish horse racing abroad in view of the fact that Ireland is now...
- Arts Funding
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to recent comments from the chair of the Arts Council to the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism,...
- Tourism Industry
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to criticisms of restaurants, hotels and the hospitality sector in general contained in the latest...
- Sports Funding
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether alcohol sponsorship has a place in sport; his further views on whether legislation needs to be introduced to...
- Tourism Industry
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the way in which the construction involved in Transport 21 will affect tourism over the coming decade whilst works are...
- Sports Funding
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the €70 million increase in the projected cost for the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road; if any of this estimated...
- Tourism Industry
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers report on the reorganisation of the regional tourism associations; and if he will make a...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in view of emphasis on obesity and fitness levels, the lack of swimming pools and the waiting list facing parents at swimming...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the sports that are constituted on an all-Ireland basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34812/05]
- Tourism Industry
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the recent figures from the Central Statistics Office showing a fall of almost 5,000 in the number of visitors from North...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals regarding the previously proposed national stadium at Abbotstown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34910/05]
- Tourist Accommodation
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to comments from the chief executive of Tourism Ireland that one in ten bed and breakfasts will cease...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the further analysis requested by the Government from the Office of Public Works into phase one of the proposed development of...
- Tourism Industry
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of actions that were proposed in the new horizons for Irish tourism that have been implemented; and if he will make a...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the funding issue for a refuge (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [34991/05]
- Labelling of Foodstuffs
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a market (details supplied) in County Mayo should be subject to a compulsory labelling system similar to that of...
- Hospital Services
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [34990/05] -
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received an application from mid-west region of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland for funding of a respite home at...
- Health Service Staff
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the procedure to be followed by public health nurses wishing to transfer from the former Eastern Health Board areas to the...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is being refused an electrical wheelchair. [35015/05]
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the long waiting period for inter-country adoption assessment arising from the inadequate provision of social workers is...
- Children in Care
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the allowances and assistance available to persons (details supplied) in County Offaly who are caring for children following...
- Hospital Services
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason certain coronary procedures are only available at Cork University Hospital on a Monday to Friday basis. [35082/05]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a special designed bed; and if she will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children , further to Question No. 235 of 12 April 2005, if her Department has completed its examination on the introduction of a...
- Hospital Staff
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing vacancies in each acute, long stay elderly and psychiatric hospital in Counties Roscommon, Galway,...
- Pension Provisions
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an employee who opted out of the spouses' and children's scheme when it was introduced for women in 1984 will be...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with the Health Service Executive north west on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 25 October 2005, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person...
- Hospital Services
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to expand facilities at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Capital Expenditure
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of capital projects within her Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30...
- Department of Finance
- Mobile Telephony
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to correspondence received from his Department, if all mobile phone base stations located on a house (details supplied) in Dublin 6 have...
- Flood Relief
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to implement the St. John's river flood relief scheme in Waterford city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35038/05]
- Tax Code
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance if a provision whereby no capital gains tax should arise on the disposal of farmland to a local authority for road building or road widening purposes...
- Tax Relief
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers who availed of tax relief for trade union membership in 2004; the cost to the Exchequer of this relief; and the estimated cost...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of capital projects which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and €50 million, and which would have been...
- Budget Submissions
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm having received a submission from the Teachers' Union of Ireland inquiring that sufficient funding be put in place in the 2006...
- Tax Yield
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of all taxes raised from motoring in each year since 1997, distinguishing the contribution from the different taxes on new vehicles and from...
- Freedom of Information
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the practice of some State agencies of not responding to requests under the Freedom of Information Act 1997,...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Offshore Exploration
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the exploration licences which have been awarded to oil and gas companies in the recent past; the licences which...
- Electricity Generation
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the views expressed by the representatives of persons who generate electricity...
- Energy Resources
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the details of the emergency oil reserves held by the State; the locations where they are maintained; if he has...
- Postal Services
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to ensure the future of the day after postal delivery service in rural areas in the face of the...
- Marine Safety
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress to date in 2005 on his investigation into the recent incident where 13 Latvian workers living in the...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is satisfied regarding the degree to which indoor and outdoor sporting and recreational facilitates have received funding from...
- Film Industry Development
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the extent of the expansion of the film industry here in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35064/05]
- Arts Funding
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to promote the arts in various forms at community level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35065/05]
- Tourism Industry
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the degree to which his Department have evaluated potential tourism growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35068/05]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals for the use of the site in Abbotstown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35070/05]
- Capital Expenditure
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if core funding for community employment projects will be made available for the Irish Wheelchair Association at its many...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Departmental Offices
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider setting up an appointments system for people who wish to discuss various matters with his officials at local...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to relocate the highly successful and efficient Finglas unit of his Department to new offices in Carrick-on-Shannon in...
- Pension Provisions
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to bring the qualified adult dependant rate of retirement and old age contributory pension in line with the maximum...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to remove the means test for eligibility under the national fuel scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the rent supplement will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Child Care Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 with their child care costs; and if the maximum support and...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to extend the type of work activity and time period allowed for recipients of the invalidity allowance or benefit to be...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and...
- Department of Transport
- Taxi Hardship Panel
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Transport the provision which has been made for taxi drivers who brought their case before the Equality Tribunal in view of the fact that the taxi hardship...
- Public Transport
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport if senior officials of his Department will be assigned to carry out in consultation with Dublin Bus management, a full evaluation of the public...
- Smoking Ban
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Transport if separate smoking facilities are provided for US army personnel who travel through Shannon Airport; and if additional cost to the State has...
- Public Transport
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport the passengers carried in the morning peak hours by Dublin Bus, suburban rail, Luas and Bus Éireann routes entering Dublin for each year since...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and €50 million,...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level and extent of evaluations carried out relating to the local drug task force process. [34992/05]
- Community Development
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a claim lodged in March 2005 for payment of grants previously approved (details attached) has not been...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Environmental Policy
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the use of the wood preservative known as chromated copper arsenate is permitted under Irish environmental law; if she has satisfied...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of capital projects within her Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30million and...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- State Properties
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath was precluded from attending at Garda headquarters in the Phoenix...
- Residency Permits
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be granted residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Investigations
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will establish from the Garda authorities, if their attention has been drawn to the concerns that some contractors...
- Business Permission Scheme
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if business permission will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork whose application is under consideration...
- Residency Permits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if long-term residence visas can be granted to those who are applying for naturalisation and if so, the maximum period...
- Crime Levels
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of serious assaults in the year to date in 2005 in each Garda district compared to the same period for 2004....
- International Policing Agreements
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform , further to his response to Question No. 180 of 10 November 2005, his views on whether it is time for an agreement for...
- Garda Investigations
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in 2005 in his investigation into the recent incident where 13 Latvian workers living in the Drogheda...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the moneys which will be made available for upgrading science facilities; the number of schools which have made applications; the...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she proposes to publish her plans regarding the designation and allocation of resources for schools deemed to be disadvantaged....
- School Curriculum
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she intends to introduce sex, relationship, gender and gender based violence education programmes in schools; and if she will make...
- Domestic Violence
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to introduce a policy for schools on the disclosure and appropriate referral where children have experienced violence in the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that a site has been assigned to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo, she will confirm that this school...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be supported in its efforts to upgrade its science laboratories and re-wiring of the...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children in primary education in class sizes under 20, 25 to 30 and over 30 in certain schools (details supplied); and if...
- Adult Education
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm having received a submission from the Teachers Union of Ireland inquiring whether sufficient funding will be put in...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of capital projects within her Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and €50...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 134: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the performance of local authorities subject to instructions issued by his Department in carrying out...
- Turbary Rights
Question 135: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of a cessation of turf cutting scheme application form for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 136: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority houses which were built in 2004; the number of local authority houses which were...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money which was spent on public relations consultants in 2004; the amount of money which was...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 138: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding which has been awarded to each local authority here for planned maintenance programmes for the...
- Regional Road Network
Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be made available to replace a bridge (details supplied) in County Cork. [35025/05]
- Planning Issues
Question 143: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be sanctioned for the plan to construct a women's refuge in Blanchardstown (details supplied)....
- Control of Dogs
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the steps taken by his Department to ensure that local authorities deal humanely with...
- Establishment of Town Councils
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if town councils will be established in Ballincollig and Carrigaline in advance of the next local elections in...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria used to allocate funding for skateboard parks nationally, including the date each application was...
- Capital Expenditure
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of...
