Written answers

Tuesday, 22 November 2005

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the provision of adequate surgical and medical beds in the future with particular reference to increased...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a consultant urologist will be appointed; when a urology unit will be established at Mayo General Hospital; if her...
    • Health Services
      Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the situation regarding cardiology services in County Kerry where the national cardiovascular strategy...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which she reconciles the fact that public hospitals have extra capacity for elective surgery when the surgery...
    • Health Services
      Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if figures can be provided to explain the discrepancy between Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 7 April 2004 and the Health...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff that have been recruited under the 2001 primary care strategy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce the waiting lists for neuroservices in Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a report that Irish hospital consultants earn five times the average income here compared with just twice the...
    • Health Services
      Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that more than 250 new clients have contacted the support organisation One in...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if MRSA will become a notifiable disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35447/05]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify that the waiting times for procedures under the National Treatment Purchase Fund is three months; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the nature of the relationship between her Department and the Nutrition and Health Foundation; if taxpayers' money is going...
    • Hospital Transfer
      Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to transfer the Central Mental Hospital to the Thornton Hall site; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the mechanisms which have been put in place between her Department and the Health Service Executive to ensure equality of...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she will take following the revelations by the OECD that Ireland is sixth from the bottom in the ratio of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Government's failure to develop a coherent strategy for outpatient waiting lists with special regard to...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from the Irish Heart Foundation or National Heart Alliance regarding the Nutrition and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the under-resourcing of Louth County Hospital, including the need for a CT scanner; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is fair that Irish trained nurses are failing to have their part-time contracts increased into...
    • Health Services
      Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved respite care here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35383/05]
    • Primary Care Strategy
      Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends abandoning the primary care strategy unless funding will be received from the private sector; and if she...
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the stage of the tender process for out-of-hours general practitioner services in north county Dublin; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce public only contracts for consultants in public hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her position with regard to residential care for the elderly, on the establishment of a statutory independent complaints...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Comhairle na nOspidéal will report on the review of neurosurgery services; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in 2005 in reducing the waiting lists for diabetes consultants; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she supports the retention and development of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the widespread unease within the Health Service Executive at the repeated changes in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients in County Kerry waiting for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost to date of the Lorenzo system; the amount consultants have been paid to introduce this system to date; if...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on recent reports that more than 10,000 surgical operations were cancelled in the first half of 2005 due to a...
    • Eating Disorders
      Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to combat obesity in view of growing concerns of obesity in children; if her attention has been...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the ten point plan for the accident and emergency crisis; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the Age Action Ireland recommendation that the distinction between services for the...
    • Health Reports
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the implementation of the Hanly report is still Government policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35381/05]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if hospitals are to be reconfigured into four hospital networks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35408/05]
    • Hospital Hygiene
      Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the outsourcing of cleaning contracts should be reconsidered in view of the rising MRSA figures; and...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce home subventions for elderly persons who wish to remain in their own home; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the implementation of the national cardiovascular strategy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce more MRI scanners to the public health system; if so, the number of same; and if she will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improving community services for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35393/05]
    • Eating Disorders
      Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in 2005 on the implementation of the National Taskforce on Obesity; and if she will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that home helps might give up their jobs due to the fact that they could lose their medical cards...
    • Hospital Hygiene
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take in response to the Health Service Executive's hospitals hygiene audit, in particular with...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to combat the severe shortage of child appropriate care settings within the community and...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she proposes to take to address overcrowding in the accident and emergency department in Tallaght Hospital; and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the radiotherapy unit for Waterford General Hospital will be up and running; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the exact figures for MRSA in each hospital; the measures which are being taken to ensure that the levels of MRSA is...
    • Private Health Care
      Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to publish a comprehensive review of private health care in the Irish health care system, which includes looking...
    • Health Service Executive
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are guidelines in place as to the timeframe within which the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the many cancer patients who either endure long bus journeys for treatment or who are...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of employees retained in the health service since it was announced there would be a reduction of 500 persons in...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in 2005 on improving the inspection regimes for all residential nursing homes for the elderly in all...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will extend the organ retention inquiry's remit to include all ages and stillborn children in view of concerns from...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to publish the new Medical Practitioners Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35396/05]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the terms of reference of the independent review of events surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in Monaghan...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps and funding she has provided to tackle abuse of the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Statutory Retirement Age
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take in relation to the OECD recommendations on scrapping the current statutory retirement ages; and if...
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on supporting general practitioners to build their own primary care units; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for improved rehabilitation services for the elderly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35387/05]
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on having a pharmacist and general practitioner working from the same premises; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of places to be provided for disturbed young persons as a result of the Judge Peter Kelly judgment; the location...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the land and property sold off by the Health Service Executive in 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date 2005 and future plans to...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to the mental health tribunals provided for in the Mental Health Act 2001, her attention has been drawn to...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioner only cards that have been issued; the numbers of general practitioner cards waiting to...
    • Report of Inquiry
      Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to look into the fact that it is six and a half years since an inquiry was established into...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her position on the cost of drugs in the general medical scheme; if she intends to encourage the use of prescribing generic...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the length of time she intends to allow the voluntary code for advertising to continue before she will introduce the...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views regarding the high occupancy levels in hospitals following her comments that high occupancy levels in hospitals...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards which have been issued since the eligibility for such cards has been increased; the number...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to protect staff in hospital accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Ireland will be without a medically equipped helicopter that can fly in bad weather for most of 2006; and if she will...
    • Departmental Contracts
      Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the safeguards that have been instituted in view of the issues raised over the iSoft Project in relation to contracts such...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself that BreastCheck is to be rolled out within the target set out; and if she has further...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take following the revelation that only one in five persons here diagnosed with mental health problems...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the recommendations which will be followed in view of the recent report by Mr. Martin Hynes into the death of Mr. Peter...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason haemochromatosis testing can be done in Tralee general hospital but the same tests from Cork University Hospital...
    • Hospital Procedures
      Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take in view of the revelation that Kerry General Hospital, ranked one of the lowest of the hospitals in...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures being taken to fill the 1,100 nursing vacancies in hospitals and health care facilities; if figures will be...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason, in answering a previous parliamentary question on consultants appointed by her Department, no reference was...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to aid St. Columcille's Hospital in view of the warning from the hospital, Ireland's only obesity...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her preferred options for the provision of an adequate hospital network throughout the country; if this is in line with...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the general practitioner only cards do not cover a patient wishing to...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there were 10,368 cancer patients in the first six months of 2005 in hospital for operations and other scheduled...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • EU Directives
      Question 199: To ask the Taoiseach, further to Question No. 177 of 2 November 2005, the position regarding the costs of payments to European Union and European Court of Justice counsel; and the...
    • Motor Vehicle Registration
      Question 200: To ask the Taoiseach his estimate of the total vehicle fleet distinguishing private vehicles from commercial vehicles and indicating his estimate of aggregate distance travelled by...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 201: To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and remuneration of each of these...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 203: To ask the Taoiseach 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, and which would...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 204: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent civil servants...
    • EU Directives
      Question 205: To ask the Taoiseach if a list of the implemented, unimplemented and overdue EU directives and regulations and a list of the warnings received from the EU regarding directives and...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Services
      Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [35113/05]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps which are being taken to improve hygiene in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, and Louth County Hospital,...
    • Health Services
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the aggregate number of home help hours delivered here in each year from 2000 to 2004 and the projection for 2005; the...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in approving a grant under the housing aid for the elderly scheme in the name of persons (details...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funds will be made available for Kerry General Hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of her Ministers of State; and the grade...
    • Health Services
      Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 126 of 30 June 2005, when the post of speech and language therapist will be replaced for a school...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who has been awaiting a cranoplast operation...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are arrangements in place to carry out double lung transplants at the Mater Hospital, following the successful...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed at Coovagh House; the position of each member of staff; the length of time each member of...
    • Health Services
      Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of occasions on which she or her predecessor has met the Special Residential Services Board since its...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the duties of child care staff when children in special residential care are in school each day. [35234/05]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive has not instructed the health boards to reverse the punitive rise in charges for...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card which was refused in the name of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny can be...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 212 of 28 June 2005 regarding a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, if the additional...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Mayo General Hospital will be transferred to the Mater Hospital, Dublin. [35240/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a proper transport arrangement with a helper has not been put in place in the case of a person (details...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the death of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin on 3 November 2005; if there...
    • Health Services
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the waiting list for community speech and language therapy at Waterford Regional...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such...
    • Health Services
      Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) from funds voted to her Department in 2005; the...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons waiting for a mammogram at the breast clinic at the Mid-West Regional Hospital; the average waiting...
    • Task Force on Alcohol
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in 2005 on implementing the recommendations of the task force on alcohol; and if she will make a...
    • Air Pollution
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the figures for the deaths due to poor air quality from exhaust emissions particularly PM10s and PM2.5s; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position relating to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kildare following Health Service Executive northern...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be awarded in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when her Department plans to conduct a large-scale public awareness and education programme on violence against women, to...
    • Health Services
      Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to extend the maternity and infant scheme to include visits to the doctor on-call service; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the planned removal of five surgical training posts from Our Lady's Hospital in Navan as of 1...
    • Substance Misuse
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself with the level of provision for addiction counselling and aftercare throughout the State and...
    • Health Services
      Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made to date in 2005 in her discussions with the North regarding sharing radiation oncology...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will secure designated funding to assist patients and their families who must travel for cancer treatments; and if...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made to date in 2005 regarding Letterkenny General Hospital receiving capital funding for 70...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has benefited from BreastCheck available in the east; the number of women's lives which are being threatened by lack...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made to date in 2005 regarding Letterkenny General Hospital retaining its specialist breast...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 264: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding plans for building on the site of the Mater for the development of a new hospital; the timeframe for...
    • Health Services
      Question 266: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person, details supplied, in County Mayo has been deemed ineligible for orthodontic treatment; her views on...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an increase in funding for the rape crisis centres around the country will be considered; if her attention has been...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role played by her Department in relation to the conclusion of a contract between the Health Service Executive and...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of crisis nurses at accident and emergency departments in the health service. [35559/05]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons working in the individual suicide resource offices in each Health Service Executive region. [35560/05]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card will be expedited in the name of a person, details supplied, in County Kilkenny. [35562/05]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the plan to transfer the dermatology clinic in Tallaght Hospital to St. James's Hospital...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging a further appointment with a consultant for a person, details supplied, in County...
    • Health Services
      Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the decision by the Health Service Executive to refuse an application from a person, details supplied, for...
    • Care Workers
      Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether there should be a work-life balance for carers allowing more flexible working arrangements which would...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if medical cards will be provided to all full-time family carers, with one annual health check; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the funding and staffing of a centre (details supplied); her views on whether it is unsatisfactory...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Morning Star Mother and Baby Home was included under the definition of a maternity home in the terms of the...
    • Violence Against Women
      Question 284: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if funding for voluntary organisations that deal with violence against women services have seen their budgets remain fixed...
    • Health Services
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent publication by the Health Service Executive western area on dementia services in County Clare; and if...
    • Water Fluoridation
      Question 286: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on an article in a journal (details supplied) on water fluoridation; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Hib booster campaign to protect two to four year old children from diseases, including meningitis, has commenced; if...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances surrounding the termination of a consultant orthopaedic surgeon...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a warfarin clinic could be established at Galway Regional Hospital; her views on community project for testing INRs in...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 290: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the State, by providing different payments to service providers based purely on the economic means of the recipients of...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 291: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the National Treatment Purchase Fund will give priority in budget 2006 to patients who were refused treatment in 2005;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of the influenza vaccine per person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35649/05]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals to implement a cost of disability payment to persons with disabilities; if her attention has been drawn to...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the serious shortage of beds in Letterkenny General Hospital; and her plans to provide...
    • Health Service Strategy
      Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if policy and direction in respect of health services generally derives from her Department or from the Health Service...
    • Parliamentary Accountability
      Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which it is proposed to achieve a degree of accountability to Dáil Éireann in respect of budget,...
    • Health Services
      Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide primary or hospital care to the population in the event of an epidemic; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the directives she has given in respect of the provision of respiratory and tuberculosis facilities previously available at...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number and location of hospital beds available for isolation in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease; the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 305: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when she proposes to make the necessary budgetary allocations to facilitate the implementation of the next phase of...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has given any direction in respect of the provision of ambulance services with particular reference to call out...
    • Hospital Hygiene
      Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has issued any policy directives to the various hospitals throughout the country following the publication of the...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost to date in 2005 of the treatment purchase scheme; the number of patients treated; the nature of the specialties...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 310: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the availability of adequate accident and emergency staff at all hospitals throughout the country;...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the relatively high incidents of autism here; if she proposes to dedicate any specific...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has studied the number of incidents of the various forms of cancer on a county basis throughout the...
    • Health Services
      Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received recommendations from the Health Service Executive working group relating to the Pollock report; if and...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 316: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of vacant positions in respect of various categories of health works with particular reference to public health...
    • Health Services
      Question 317: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds provided at Maynooth Community Hospital for the elderly; the number currently occupied; the reason all...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the number of medical cards issued to date in 2005 compares with the commitment given by the Government...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses employed throughout the health services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35687/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children awaiting orthodontic treatment; the number who have been forced to seek treatment elsewhere; and if...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she proposes to meet requirements in terms of permanent and respite places for those with physical or...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the adequacy of numbers of psychologists available through the various health boards; her plans to...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she proposes to improve and extend respite care facilities; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 326: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans for the delivery of services in primary care, medical and surgical facilities, special hospital needs and...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 327: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists and child psychologists required throughout the country at present; her plans...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 328: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to waiting lists in respect of hip, heart and eye surgery; the way in which this compares with 2001,...
    • Health Services
      Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that private patients seeking appointments with consultant neurologists have to...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      Question 331: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of medicines paid for by the State, distinguishing that spent under GMS, under the drug refund scheme, in...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of finance allocated to the Mental Health Commission which was not spent in 2005; the areas where these measures...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 333: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the promise of mainstreaming community employment schemes offering services to the disabled will be fulfilled; and if...
    • Health Services
      Question 334: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [35777/05]
  • Department of Finance
    • Great Blasket Island
      Question 336: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements which he has entered into for the purchase of the Great Blasket Island; if these arrangements relate to the provision or development...
    • Tax Code
      Question 337: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce tax relief for family carers for pre-determined categories of expenses associated with their caring; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and remuneration of each...
    • Tax Code
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Finance if restrictions in VAT law would prevent any reduction in rates for certain products for environmental reasons; and if so, the restrictions of same....
    • State Property
      Question 341: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of relocating the Department of Agriculture and Food offices from Hynes building to Dockgate building in Galway city; the cost of relocating...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent...
    • State Property
      Question 343: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date in 2005 for maintenance, insurance, security, health and safety, renovations and other miscellaneous costs for a property (details...
    • Tax Code
      Question 344: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is fair to persons who have paid their €40 annual stamp duty charge on their credit card that they are then charged €40...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 345: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons recruited by the Office of Public Works in specialist trades; the number of general operatives recruited in each of the past...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Finance the role played by his Department in the conclusion of a contract between the Health Service Executive and iSoft; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 349: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date in 2005 of decentralisation arrangements since the latest proposals were outlined; the projected costs for these proposals and...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 350: To ask the Minister for Finance if an official from the Office of Public Works will call to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo regarding the need to clean and maintain...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has identified a site for decentralising the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government staff to New...
    • Tax Code
      Question 352: To ask the Minister for Finance if a club has only limited charitable status; if that club has to pay stamp duty on lands that it seeks to purchase for the benefit of its members...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Finance the permitted carry-over of capital spending in 2004 and expected in 2005; the size of the underspend in 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005 in total; and...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify and justify the requirement that existing long-term contract staff should be subject to the acceptance of decentralisation prior...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there is a limit on the number of coffee trading licences issued for Howth harbour; the reason, in August...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State;...
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 360: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the postal dispute. [35281/05]
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to develop a pier at Parkmore, Kinvara, County Galway; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Broadcasting Legislation
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to provide more broadcasting time for Irish music or dance artists in the context of the...
    • Irish Ferries
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has assessed the decision made by Irish Ferries to make its Irish workforce redundant to employ cheaper...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposed role for Mr. Barry McSweeney with regard to the proposed new energy research council; the proposed...
    • Departmental Appointments
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the policy within his Department regarding the need for open advertising and interviewing for new employment...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • International Agreements
      Question 368: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Government's position with regard to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families; if...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and remuneration...
    • Cross-Border Projects
      Question 371: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he intends to pursue the establishment of an Irish passport office in Belfast; if so, when he will raise the matter with the relevant...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 372: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff, by grade, employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent...
    • International Agreements
      Question 373: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the official relationship of Ireland with the Palestinian Authority; if Ireland recognises the Palestinian Authority as an emanation of a...
    • Military Neutrality
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if searches have been carried out on US or CIA planes landing at Shannon Airport to independently ascertain whether they are transporting...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 375: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the name of the chairperson of the interdepartmental co-ordinating committee on European Union affairs; and for which Department this person...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the use of chemical weapons by the US in Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35773/05]
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide the necessary funding for a new theatre in Monaghan town; if funding will be made available in 2006; and if he...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of staff, by grade, employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      Question 381: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the fact that children from a school (details supplied) in County Dublin are unable to use...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 383: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on the current status of the proposal to develop a new centre-town theatre in Monaghan; his Department's...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person can use his or her own home as a place of employment if his or her employer is paying all the legal payments,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 385: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade...
    • Redundancy Schemes
      Question 387: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount which was paid by his Department under the redundancy and insolvency scheme in 2004. [35186/05]
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding breaches of legally binding agreements and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 389: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff, by grade, employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits to Drogheda, Cavan, Dundalk and Mullingar that the industrial promotion agencies have made in each...
    • Competition Policy
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if forthcoming changes to the Competition Act 2002 will prohibit predatory pricing as an anti-competitive activity when...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      Question 392: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the current employment contract for the director general of Science Foundation Ireland is due to expire; if the...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not qualify for the rent supplement; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Carers' Entitlements
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the implementation of legislation to provide carers with constitutional rights to information on their entitlements;...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to review the regulations governing the free travel scheme with a view to granting free travel to children with...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether it is fair that adult family members who happen to reside at home have their application for the unemployment...
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of households here suffering from fuel poverty. [35200/05]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the lowest social welfare payments will be increased by €17 per week; and the position regarding schemes to assist the weaker...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 405: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff...
    • School Meals
      Question 406: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department administers a grant scheme to enable schools to make a payment to an appropriate supervisor to assist with the...
    • Adult Education
      Question 407: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to encourage single parents to go back to further education; his views on whether this would be made easier if assistance...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved for the free schemes. [35364/05]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 411: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the numbers and grades of personnel employed in the Combat Poverty Agency who have indicated that they wish to transfer to Monaghan...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the campaign by representatives of persons employed as nurse attendants for a change in their...
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Safety
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on issuing every school going child here with a reflective armband; if the cost of such a programme will be investigated; and if he will...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which he has outsourced driving tests as recently announced; his views on whether the outsourcing of core work for example testing is...
    • Rail Services
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann will rebalance and restructure rail fares to and from Dublin in favour of Drogheda and Dundalk commuters; and if he will make...
    • Road Safety
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Transport when he intends to completely ban the use of mobile phones when driving; and if he intends to make same a specific finable offence. [35125/05]
    • Rail Services
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will extend the DART service to Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35126/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and remuneration of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 422: To ask the Minister for Transport the top ten areas in the country where penalty points have been accumulated since the introduction of the system by the Garda Síochána; the...
    • Air Services
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will nominate the three US airport destinations to which Ireland will have access from November 2006; and the factors which will be...
    • Public Transport
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 19 October 2005 if he will grant consent to the Dublin Transportation Office to publish the traffic...
    • Road Network
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the fact that the Dublin Port tunnel will not open until December 2006, as articulated by the Minister for Finance; and if he will...
    • Air Services
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Transport the moneys paid by the Exchequer to City of Derry Airport in regard to the provision of air services operated by the airport or airline firms; the...
    • National Spatial Strategy
      Question 428: To ask the Minister for Transport if Transport 21 is consistent with the recommendations set out for the north west in the national spatial strategy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Network
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Transport if he remains satisfied that he is correct in his view, as expressed in a parliamentary question of 2 November 2005, that the Dublin Port tunnel...
    • State Airports
      Question 430: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received draft business plans from any of the three State airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35295/05]
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 432: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent...
    • Public Transport
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Transport the next step in the planning of the metro north line; the stage and the way in which the public consultation will take place; and if he will make...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Question No. 351 of 15 February 2005 which confirmed that a scheme showing restrictions that were considered necessary for the purposes...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 436: To ask the Minister for Transport if the driving tester recruitment examinations will be carried out in a number of centres around the country. [35520/05]
    • Rail Network
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Transport the provisions made for the cost of each phase of the western rail corridor project under the Transport 21 plan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a test was cancelled with no prior notification to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; the further reason a substitute driver...
    • British-Irish Council
      Question 439: To ask the Minister for Transport the dates of each of the British-Irish Council transport sectoral group meetings since 2002; the matters discussed at each meeting; the actions...
    • Port Development
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects legislation to go through Dáil Éireann regarding Rosslare Port; and if he has had any recent contact with his counterpart in the...
    • Road Network
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Transport the road projects, costing over €20 million which have been completed in the past five years; the road specification and the distance of roadway...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Eagraíocht na Scoileanna Gaeltachta
      Question 445: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil tuarascáil an athbhreithnithe a rinneadh ar Eagraíocht na Scoileanna Gaeltachta faighte ag an Aire agus cathain...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the...
    • Grant Applications
      Question 449: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has received an application from an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if so, when he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 451: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when he expects to make a decision on a submission from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Question No. 426 of 15 November 2005, the estimated cost for the development work on the piers on the Great...
    • Cúrsaí Meánscolaíochta sa Ghaeltacht
      Question 453: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta maidir le Ceist Parlaiminte 551 den 15 Samhain 2005, cathain a sheolfaidh sé iarratas chun an Aire Oideachais agus...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are existing or proposed restrictions relating to development on private lands on the approaches to any...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made on an application for funding from the Carers Association for persons (details supplied)...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 456: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of civil servants and other staff employed on constituency and public relations work for each of her Ministers of State; and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will intervene on a person's behalf (details supplied) and have the penalties waived or reduced on their single payment scheme;...
    • Milk Quota
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of an application under the surrender of dormant milk quota for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 459: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has an overpayment in their area aid compensation allowance scheme; and if she...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who...
    • Local Authority Payments
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the payments to Laois County Council in 2004 for the operation of Control of Horses Act 1996 and the neighbourwood scheme. [35318/05]
    • School Milk Scheme
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of money paid to each local authority in 2004 by her Department in respect of the operation of the school milk scheme and the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if all payments made under every scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be scheduled for 2004 and 2005; and the date...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [35115/05]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a dealing in the Land Registry office will be completed for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35131/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the towns of Cashel, Cahir, Clonmel, Fethard, Carrick-on-Suir and Tipperary town for each of 2000,...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if persons (details supplied) who are in full-time secondary education will be granted leave to remain here; and if he will...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 474: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the audio-visual equipment was installed in each of the Garda stations in County Wexford; if any interview rooms in...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations located in County Cork; the number of gardaí in each Garda station in each of the past ten...
    • Game Shooting Licences
      Question 476: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision of his Department to terminate the long held shooting rights of a gun club (details...
    • Control of Explosives
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions which have been secured in relation to fireworks in the past two years under the Explosives Act...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the closed circuit television cameras promised to residents in Upper Erne Street have been installed; and if he will make...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the death of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin on 3 November 2005; if there...
    • Extradition Arrangements
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the delay in processing the necessary paper work for the extradition of a person (details supplied) from the UK; and if he...
    • Garda Deaths
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to Question No. 369 of 11 October 2005 in respect of a proposed research project into the causes of death...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the information technology companies or other consultants who are presently engaged in connection with the operation of the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be made available for the creche facility at a centre (details supplied) in County Cork. [35294/05]
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied). [35316/05]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number and location of Garda stations throughout County Laois that are open on a full-time basis, on a part-time basis...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a visa has not issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35334/05]
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the effectiveness of the Government's programme on racism in the workplace has been evaluated; and if he will make a...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) will be transferred to this jurisdiction to serve the remainder of their sentence under the...
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Question No. 481 of 15 November 2005, if the Garda authorities were consulted on the temporary release for the...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a full and comprehensive reply will be received in relation to Questions Nos. 486 and 488 of 21 June 2005; the reason...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 to remain here on...
    • Road Safety
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of speed cameras presently operable under the road safety strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 498: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to date in 2005 of the Garda investigation into alleged planning irregularities in Waterford County Council; the...
    • Violence Against Women
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he plans to conduct a large-scale public awareness and education programme on violence against women; when he will...
    • Sexual Offences
      Question 500: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of sex offenders on the register nationally; the number in prison and the number who have completed their prison...
    • Sex Offender Treatment Programme
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the treatment programme for sex offenders in prisons here; the capacity of the programme; the take up rates of...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if permission to remain here will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Louth on humanitarian grounds; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be made available for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35566/05]
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of additional gardaí he intends assigning to Waterford city; when these additional resources will be assigned;...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when closed circuit television will be installed in Waterford city centre and Dungarvan town centre; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Training
      Question 506: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the overtime bill for the Garda to date in 2005 and for the past ten years will be published; and the arrangements put in...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 507: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí that could be released from office work if civilian staff were provided; the way in which other...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 508: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in service on 1 January 2002; the number at present; the number who have retired to date in 2005; the...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant leave to remain on humanitarian grounds to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 510: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 522 of 8 November 2005, the number of persons who entered here on or before 31...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who entered here as unaccompanied minors and whose applications for refugee status were frozen pending...
    • Passports for Investment Scheme
      Question 512: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the individual beneficiaries of the passport for investment scheme; the years they benefited; and the specific grounds on...
    • Teangacha Oifigiúla
      Question 513: To ask the Aire Dlí agus Cirt, Comhionannais agus Athchóirithe Dlí an bhfuil sé i gceist aige leas a bhaint as Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge arna fhorbairt ag Ollscoil na hÉireann...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Child Care Services
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount paid to recruitment companies for child care staff at detention schools annually since 1998. [35226/05]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide core State funding for Educate Together, the national representative organisation for multi-denominational schools;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 516: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when sanction will be approved for an extra classroom to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the first, second and third multi-class group of a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Student Representation
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if students are represented on the governing body of Marino Institute of Education, Marino, Dublin in line with the Health Education...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of the Ministers of State at the Department of...
    • School Staffing
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the one-teacher schools and the number of pupils enrolled in each of those schools as at 30 September 2005. [35170/05]
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the procedure to be adopted regarding senior posts in higher education, when it emerges subsequent to interview that an appointee to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 527: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the condition of a school yard (details supplied) in County Kildare is such that the...
    • School Transport
      Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Question No. 407 of 11 October 2005, if she has received the enclosed appeal of 8 November 2005 from persons (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on funding for a new MIFET college in Monaghan; if this can be built under a PPP system; when Monaghan Vocational...
    • Outdoor Education Centres
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if or when departmental recognition will be given to a group (details supplied) run by Monaghan Vocational Educational Committee; her...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the case of a person (details supplied); and if the maximum support will be given on this matter. [35211/05]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 534: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is a limit to the number of days that a retired primary teacher can work without their pension being affected. [35215/05]
    • State Examinations
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of candidates for the leaving certificate examinations for each of the past ten years; the number of persons who attempted...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the temporary letting of the lands required for a school (details supplied) will be agreed to in view of the intractable problems of...
    • School Transport
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a proper transport arrangement with a helper has not been put in place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in examining an application from a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for improved accommodation; if officials...
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a report from a person [details supplied] in Dublin 11 which her Department received in January 1967...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be included in the summer works scheme in 2006; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a permanent site and new building for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be fast-tracked; and if she will make a...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 543: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on fitness facilities for students with physical disabilities in schools; if funding is allocated towards these...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff, broken down by grade, employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if foster homes such as an orphanage (details supplied) in Dublin 7 can be brought within the ambit of the Residential Institutions...
    • Education Schemes
      Question 547: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to encourage single parents to go back to further education; her views on whether this would be made easier if assistance...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the purchase of a site by her Department and Cork County Vocational Education Committee for the development of a...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 551: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to ensure that the pupils attending a national school (details supplied) in County Kerry have access to broadband in...
    • Weight of Schoolbags
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of copies of the circular relating to the weight of schoolbags which were sent to each second level in the most recent...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance will be provided to students attending third level courses. [35585/05]
    • State Examinations
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the increased costs of running the State post-primary examinations from €33.7 million in 2002 to the projected cost of...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 560: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be released to allow the approved and urgently needed roof repairs proceed at a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a new building for further education facility at Monaghan to replace the current inadequate...
    • School Transport
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing distress of parents and children (details supplied) in County Monaghan where 12 second...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's position regarding the application for funding to proceed with the purchase of essential ground from Coillte for the...
    • State Examinations
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the 2005 exam fee for the leaving certificate was €90 while the repeat leaving certificate exam fee was €236; her...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there is no provision in the south-east region for carpentry and joinery apprentices for block release to institutes of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's receipt of application for approval to replace four prefab classrooms with a permanent extension at a school (details...
    • Academic Appointments
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself that recent appointments in UCD have been made in accordance with proper procedures and with full...
    • School Transport
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if transport will be provided for children in the Rooska area of south County Tipperary who attend a school (details supplied) in...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will progress the acquisition of the site currently occupied by a school (details supplied) in order to provide an appropriate...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 573: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State; and the grade and remuneration of each...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Defence if, further to Question No. 222 of 10 November 2005, he will examine the case for reimbursement of medical expenses (details supplied); and if he...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the number of such staff who are permanent...
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Question No. 106 of 23 March 2004, the extent and total land area covered by the four sub-areas shown on the map forming part of the...
    • Military Investigations
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Defence when legal proceedings will be taken against those persons who murdered two Irish soldiers in the Lebanon 25 years ago (details supplied); the...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the payments to Laois County Council in 2004 for the supply of water. [35318/05]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 580: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of civil servants and other staff employed in the press office for each of his Ministers of State;...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has sanctioned a request by Kildare County Council for funding for the necessary works to prevent the...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the regulations for promotion within local authorities in order that all employees are...
    • Road Network
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the design and construction of the port tunnel has taken account of the recommendations of the report on...
    • Housing Management Companies
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce the necessary legislation or regulation to eliminate the necessity for management...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by members of the Cork City Fire Service regarding...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff broken down by grade employed within the private office and the constituency office; the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to Laois County Council in 2004 and 2005 for the disabled persons grant; the...
    • Road Network
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the spending by his Department on non-national roads in County Laois in the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and...
    • Development Levies
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the guidelines that may have been issued to local authorities in respect of the use of development levies...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason motorists are penalised in the context of renewal of car tax when such tax is paid to a local...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures being taken to ensure that new high density apartment developments are of good quality; his views...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has approved the tender for the waste water treatment plant for Doneraile, Buttevant and Kilbrin, County...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authority housing tenants must cover the cost of repair to windows and doors; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to increase funding to Meath County Council in view of recent events; and if he will make a...
    • State Property
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on all State land in the Meath County Council area to include land audit figures from Meath...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to establish the Irish Heritage Trust. [35534/05]
    • Local Government Funding
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to increase funding provided to Carlow County Council by his Department for 2006 to reflect the drop...
    • Waste Management
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department intends to introduce a range of additional measures to the polluter pays principle to...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on funding a scheme for the placing of the supply lines for telecommunications and electricity...
    • Library Projects
      Question 605: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be provided for the construction of the new county library headquarters in Clones, County...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 15 November 2005 the amount spent and that will be spent in 2005...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will work with the Health Service Executive and other statutory and voluntary agencies to resolve the...

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