Written answers
Thursday, 24 November 2005
- Department of Transport
- Road Tolling
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which and when he intends to legislate for open road tolling; and the distinction drawn between barrier free tolling and open road...
- Public Transport
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Transport his Department's involvement in the sanctioning of fare increases or the setting of maximum fares in respect of annual commuter tickets; the role...
- Light Rail Project
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost benefit analysis he has completed in respect of individual projects mentioned in Transport 21. [35970/05]
- Public Transport
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied with the provision of public transport for rural areas under the transport plan. [35796/05]
- Light Rail Project
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Transport when construction of the Luas line to Bray, County Wicklow, will commence; if this is being done by the State or by private investment; the area in...
- Park and Ride Facilities
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of funding which has been secured for the provision of increased park and ride facilities nationally; the amounts and location of each...
- State Airline
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the situation at Aer Lingus. [30219/05]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals on bus licensing reform; the way in which these discussions with interested parties have progressed during 2005; and when he will be...
- Traffic Management
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Transport the interim measures he is taking to deal with traffic congestion in the greater Dublin area pending the full implementation of Transport 21. [35902/05]
- Public Transport
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has instructed Dublin Bus to fast-track the delivery of real time information on its bus services in the capital; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which and when he proposes to provide for the commitment in the road safety strategy to amend section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1994 to...
- Staff Pensions
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in meeting the concerns of the Retired Aviation Staff Association regarding pension shortfalls. [35897/05]
- Transport Policy
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which a proper evaluation and feasibility study has been undertaken in respect of his recently announced Transport 21 programme, with...
- Rail Network
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason Navan and Dublin are not proposed to be linked by rail under the new transport plan. [35799/05]
- Staff Pensions
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport if he intends to make the honouring of pension commitments to former staff part of the conditions of sale in the event of Aer Lingus being sold....
- Road Signage
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress that has been made in completing the new traffic signs manual; when same is expected to be completed; the cost of the consultants...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the development of a second terminal at Dublin Airport, when he anticipates work will begin; and if he will make a statement...
- Road Safety
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in providing a legislative basis for the introduction of on the spot fines for licensing and tachograph offences by drivers...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the 9% decrease in subhead C3 in the Estimates 2006; and the way in which this will impact on the establishment of a Dublin...
- Road Network
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Transport if the review of the National Roads Authority policy toward service stations on motorways has been completed as requested by him; the outcome and...
- Cycle Facilities
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to improve cycle facilities in Dublin in view of the high levels of informal cycle parking in the city centre indicating an insufficient...
- Heavy Goods Vehicles
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in persuading industry on the retrofitting of blind spot mirrors on older heavy goods vehicles; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the 20 buses provided to Dublin Bus as part of Transport 21; the cost of these buses; the amount provided by his Department...
- Transport Policy
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Transport if the proposed Sandycove to Sutton coastal route was included for consideration under the Transport 21 plan; the estimated cost for the completion...
- Flight Itineraries
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport if planes (details supplied) entered Irish air space in the period since January 2003; the landings, departure and destination of each of the planes...
- National Car Test
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has not yet published the recommendations arising from the review of the national car test; when same will be published; and the...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in relation to his recent announcement to expand the number of penalty point offences in operation in 2006, his officials have consulted with...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress being made in relation to the introduction of legislation to allow for the full roll-out of speed cameras nationally; and if he will...
- Rail Network
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the proposed electrification of the Kildare line will only run as far as Hazelhatch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36016/05]
- Road Accidents
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any of the reports into the Meath bus tragedy; if so, the actions he intends to take on foot of any recommendations contained in...
- National Car Test
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport if he could clarify that under the terms of the tender, the NCT is to operate under accreditation by the Irish National Accreditation Board within...
- Rail Services
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a cost estimate for the proposed new rail interconnector from Spencer Dock to Heuston Station as proposed in the Transport 21...
- Public Transport
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department intends to fulfil its commitments under the national development plan to Dublin Bus in terms of the allocation of additional, as...
- Road Tolling
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport, in relation to the recent announcement that the new Kilcock-Kinnegad motorway will lift its toll barriers if there is a build-up of five or more...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport if another round of funding for regional airports or any additional funding to such airports is envisaged by his Department; and if he will make a...
- Traffic Management
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made to date in 2005 by his Department in regard to allowing hard shoulders be utilised by public transport operators; if it is...
- Rail Services
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made on the development of a new train depot in Portlaoise; the cost of this project; if a successful tenderer has been chosen; the...
- Road Fatalities
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the estimated economic cost of each road death; and the breakdown of this figure. [35912/05]
- Rail Network
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress which has been made in relation to the commencement of construction work on the re-opening of the western rail corridor; the budget for...
- Public Transport
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Transport the projects, including the roads and public transport projects which contributed to the €100 million underspend in 2005; the amount each...
- Industrial Relations
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has had any contact with management and workers regarding the possible strike action by bus drivers. [35798/05]
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals in co-operation with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to tackle the increasing problem of drug driving; and if he...
- Integrated Ticketing
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount which has been allocated in the 2006 Estimates for integrated ticketing; and when he expects the project to be completed. [35884/05]
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in reaching an agreement with the British and Northern Ireland authorities on mutual recognition of penalty points. [35888/05]
- Road Network
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Transport if, as Minister with responsibility for the National Roads Authority, NRA, he will formally request the NRA to supply quarterly reports on its...
- Railway Stations
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been informed by Iarnród Éireann as to the chosen location for a new rail station in the docklands; the cost of such a station; the way...
- Driving Tests
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy on registration, vetting and education of driving instructors; and if a clear policy will be set out to driving instructors in order that...
- Public Transport
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which he proposes to increase bus capacity in the greater Dublin area by 80,000 places. [35894/05]
- Traffic Management
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Transport if a detailed outline will be provided of the options being explored by the National Roads Authority in their current negotiations with National...
- Driving Tests
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals for tackling the backlog of applications for driving tests; and the timescale for each of these measures. [35891/05]
- Public Transport
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport the percentage of his Department's Vote for 2006 devoted to roads projects and the percentage devoted to public transport projects; his views on...
- Driving Tests
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he is taking to ensure a greater gender balance among driving testers; the consideration he has given to promotional measures in this...
- Public Transport
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Transport if the new buses promised under the Transport 21 plan will be equipped to run on biofuels. [36057/05]
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in providing a legislative basis for the control of mobile phone use by drivers. [35904/05]
- Road Safety
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Transport why key recommendations of the national road safety strategy remain unimplemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36000/05]
- Air Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Transport if the public service obligation contracts awarded to airlines to operate services to and from regional airports contain performance targets to be...
- Light Rail Project
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide details of the timescale for construction of the Sandyford Luas line extension to Cherrywood, broken down into its various stages...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in reaching an agreement with the British and Northern Ireland authorities on mutual recognition of driver...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport the estimated cost and average weekly cost of Operation Freeflow for 2005; and the actual cost for all previous years. [35908/05]
- Light Rail Project
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport if a public sector benchmark has been prepared in regard to the financing of the metro project as a public private partnership; the details of the...
- Traffic Management
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress which has been made to date in 2005 in regard to the Clare Street initiative; the recommendations which have been made by the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the basis on which the State is appealing an award of legal costs, which have already been adjudicated by the Taxing...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the precise date in May 2005 when she or officials from her Department met with a private hospital group from Dundalk; and...
- Hospital Services
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who were treated on trolleys in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital between 1 January 2005 and 31 October...
- Health Service Reform
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the final determinations in respect of each health board for 2004 were discharged and in particular the...
- Medical Cards
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person who holds a medical card must pay the doctor for a sick certificate or a doctor's letter which has been...
- Health Services
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in County Mayo who are waiting for speech and language therapy; the average length of time spent...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the cutback in the funding to the Lucan Disability Action Group is withdrawn. [36103/05]
- Health Services
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the residential homes of the religious orders which are under-utilised in the Crumlin, Drimnagh and Walkinstown areas...
- Organ Retention
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the final Madden report regarding organ retention will be published; if she intends to publish the final Madden...
- Health Services
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in Sligo and Leitrim who require radiotherapy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36130/05]
- Departmental Reports
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the report by a person (details supplied) on the psychiatric profile of prisoners here; and when same will be...
- Community Development
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a social worker will be provided for a number of hours each week at a housing estate (details supplied) in County...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the existing core service staffing and funding deficits for voluntary organisations will be financed with...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of residential nursing homes in County Mayo; the number of these which have respite beds; the number which have...
- Health Services
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the department within the Health Service Executive West region which received the financial allocation for carers; the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure continuity of essential core services provided to people with disability by core funding of staff on...
- Health Services
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has a legal responsibility to plan for the continued provision of speech therapy, language...
- Grant Payments
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a grant for a day care centre (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved; and if she will make a statement on...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 who is on the national purchase treatment...
- Medical Cards
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Staff
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work...
- Department of Finance
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove the condition that has been imposed on many confined competitions that all successful candidates must undertake to decentralise in...
- Departmental Staff
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has traditionally been...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance if correspondence from a person (details supplied) was responded to; the date on which the response was furnished; the contents of the reply; and if...
- Mobile Telephony
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to complete discussions with two mobile operators in respect of de-activating the mobile phone base stations on a house (details...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Harbours and Piers
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has had any approaches from Howth Yacht Club in relation to extending its area on land or sea...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the future of 65 foot polyvalent licences; and his plans to prevent holders of...
- Mobile Telephony
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the progress to date in establishing an all-Ireland mobile phone roaming charge....
- Post Office Network
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of post office robberies that have occurred since 1 January 2004; and the measures his Department has...
- Departmental Staff
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- EU Directives
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that EU Directive 2004/112/EC will be implemented before 14 December 2005; if the directive will not be...
- Industrial Relations
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that all entitlements, pensions and promotional opportunities accruing to Irish Shell employees will not...
- Departmental Staff
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will intervene with the Health Service Executive, north-western area, on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Funding
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36181/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the value of the national fuel supplement and the smokeless fuel premium in each year since 1997. [36212/05]
- Social Insurance
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of increasing the threshold for social insurance from €127 to €200 and €300, respectively; when the threshold was...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost of increasing child benefit by €40 per month across the board; and the cost of increasing child benefit by €40 per...
- Departmental Staff
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has...
- Department of Transport
- Air Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied that a company (details supplied) is fully compliant with and will be offered indemnity under the terms of the Air Navigation...
- Light Rail Project
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport the financial evaluation which has been undertaken by the Department of Finance in relation to the costing of proposed metro north project; when...
- Driving Tests
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy on registration, vetting and education of driving instructors; and if a clear policy will be set out to driving instructors in order...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress he has made in reaching an agreement with the British and Northern Ireland authorities on the mutual recognition of penalty points....
- Public Transport
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the Rathfarnham Luas line, as included in the Platform for Change Transport Strategy, does not form part of Transport 21; and if he will...
- Air Services
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions his Department had with the Department of Defence and the Irish Aviation Authority in regard to recent changes at Weston Aerodrome;...
- Public Transport
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Transport the additional funds which have been sought by his Department to fund subventions in 2006 for bus based transport in the greater Dublin area; and...
- Rail Network
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Transport the preliminary costings for the establishment of an interconnector between Dublin's Connolly and Heuston train stations; the routes which were...
- Public Transport
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Transport if a grant scheme will be introduced to local authorities for bus pull-in bays, filter lanes, and other traffic management measures in areas where...
- Air Services
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself that Weston Aerodrome is fully compliant with and will be offered indemnity under the terms of the Air Navigation and...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Transport if taxi licences will be issued to existing hackney licence holders in a location (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
- EU Directives
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that EU Directive 2004/51/EC will be implemented before 31 December 2005; if the directive will not be implemented by said date,...
- Light Rail Project
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Transport the Dublin suburbs that will be directly served by the proposed orbital metro under Transport 21; the way in which Finglas will be accommodated in...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a breakdown of subhead F of the 2006 transport Estimates for each separate category under appropriations in aid; and if he will...
- Driving Licences
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount allocated to date in 2005, with a breakdown for each year, for the introduction of a plastic card driving licence; the amount expended...
- Rail Network
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Transport if consideration has been given to restoring the rail link between Sallins and Naas in view of increased passenger requirements; and if he will...
- Public Transport
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a request for or will issue a directive in response to such request from Bus Átha Cliath for the provision of bus services to...
- Air Navigation Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress in meeting his commitment given in Seanad Éireann during the course of the Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 to consult with...
- Road Network
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Transport further to the last paragraph of Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 10 November 2005, if he will provide details of the works proposed under the...
- Driving Tests
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent annually on compensation payments to learner-drivers for costs incurred due to the fact that the test could not proceed as...
- Transport Policy
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which he has studied Transport 21 with a view to speedier and more efficient rail and road access to Dublin Airport; and if he will...
- Air Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Transport if it is intended to increase and improve air transport between Dublin Airport and the provinces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Safety
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Transport if his proposals to ban super trucks will be in accord with European court principles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36268/05]
- Road Network
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he proposes to deal with the situation arising from the fact that the port tunnel is unable to accommodate larger trucks; and if he will...
- Rail Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to deal with the serious overcrowding on commuter trains from Kilcock, Maynooth, Leixlip, Confey, Sallins and Hazelhatch stations enroute...
- Departmental Staff
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has traditionally...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has given funding to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul from 1998 to date in 2005; if such funding...
- Departmental Staff
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- EU Directives
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will confirm that EU Directive 2005/13/EC will be implemented before 31 December 2005; if the directive will not be implemented...
- Pension Provisions
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 16 November 2005 regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly, if she...
- Grant Payments
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the special beef premium application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [36171/05]
- Turbary Rights
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if there is bog available for rent or lease either on a short-term or long-term basis in a certain area for a person (details supplied)...
- Departmental Staff
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the specific question raised in correspondence with regard to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person (details supplied) can apply for citizenship and the length of time it would take to process this...
- Registration of Title
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for registration for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
- EU Directives
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm that EU Directive 2003/110/EC will be implemented before 5 December 2005; if the directive will not be...
- Child Care Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be provided for a committee (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Crime Levels
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of house burglaries and car thefts in the Kill area of County Kildare in the past five years; the detection rate...
- Prison Medical Service.
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the report by a person (details supplied) on the psychiatric profile of prisoners here; when same will be...
- Garda Deployment
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí on duty at the Point Depot on 10, 16 and 17 November 2005, respectively; their rank and if they were...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí that have been recruited from outside of Ireland who had already served in other police forces; the...
- EU Programmes
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the titles of all measures emanating from the Hague programme that have been passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; the...
- Visa Applications
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a person (details supplied) for their parents to be granted residency here. [36164/05]
- Registration of Title
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Land Registry Office will be instructed to expedite a dealing application for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Garda Stations
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the situation on the future location of the gardaí presently working at Dromad Garda...
- Garda Investigations
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the progress to date in 2005 in investigating the illegal diesel laundering and the dumping...
- Departmental Funding
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be provided for an organisation (details supplied). [36180/05]
- Garda Operations
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action the gardaí can take when cars and vans without tax or insurance certificates are left in residential streets;...
- Crime Levels
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there has been a spate of vandalism to cars in a street (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if persons have been charged...
- Residency Permits
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if correspondence has been received in relation to a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made regarding same;...
- Garda Strength
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in the Ardee and mid-Louth area for each year since 2000; the number and location of these gardaí;...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if security is being provided for the Thornton Hall farm purchased as a site for a prison and the weekly costs thereof....
- Strategic Management Initiative
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the proposed reorganisation of the Garda in County Louth; the changes proposed to Garda...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Refugee Status
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Refugee Status
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application for refugee status which has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath will...
- Garda Operations
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to a parliamentary question of 9 November 2005, if his attention has been drawn to the overall significant reduction...
- Judicial Appointments
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of barristers who have applied in their own right for consideration for appointment as District, Circuit and High...
- Registration of Title
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason lands contained in a folio and originally in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath when in...
- Departmental Staff
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Materials
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many second level schools have not received the DVD pack of Irish State films and...
- Planning Issues
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the discussions she or her Department has had with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with regard to...
- Departmental Funding
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has given funding to St. Vincent de Paul from 1998 to date in 2005; if such funding was given by her Department, to...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are mechanisms available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with regard to obtaining grant or financial...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to a special needs assistant application for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will...
- Third Level Fees
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has lived here for four years is entitled to an exemption from fees in order to...
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a report from a person (details supplied) which her Department received in January 1967 regarding...
- Road Safety
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of money allocated towards road safety measures at primary schools in each of the past five years. [36196/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has a legal responsibility to provide for the continued provision of speech therapy, language therapy, occupational...
- Recoupment of Legal Costs
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is the standard procedure of her Department to inform litigants pursuing cases related to educational services that her...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the parts of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 which have not yet been commenced; the reason they have...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the higher education grant has not been awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the statutory responsibility and authority the NCSE had prior to the enactment of the Education for Persons with Special Educational...
- Departmental Staff
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 9 November 2005, the reason a newspaper (details supplied) was not amended for 1 October 2005; the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract, or others employed on contract to do work which has traditionally been...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- EU Directives
Question 260: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that EU Directive 2003/122/EURATOM will be implemented before 31 December 2005; if the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 261: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of single applicants who are on the Louth local authorities housing waiting lists. [36110/05]
- Housing Developments
Question 262: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will issue guidelines to planning authorities in order to standardise the instances in which...
- Land Acquisitions
Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the draft sales agreement in relation to the purchase of lands on the Great Blasket Island furnished to the...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 264: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funds from the urban and village renewal measure of the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 265: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the situation pertaining to a scheme (details supplied) in County Galway; if approval will be given for the...
- Waste Disposal
Question 266: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the illegal diesel laundering and the dumping of toxic sludge on the roadside...
- Planning Issues
Question 268: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the need to strengthen tree protection measures will be considered particularly in urban areas in view of...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 269: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if more youth community workers will be provided in Dundalk RAPID housing estates to tackle anti-social...
- Planning Issues
Question 274: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider amending Article 28([i]j[/i]) of SI 600 of 2001 to require local authorities to notify the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of former employees who have been brought back to work on contract or others employed on contract...
