Written answers
Thursday, 1 December 2005
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Pension Provisions
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps his Department is taking to address continuing concerns regarding reported large scale abuse of the construction industry...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he intends to take as a result of his decision to make carers a priority for the social reform agenda; and if he will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views of the recent report from the OECD that suggests that the current statutory retirement age should be scrapped and that...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on the hiring or use of outside consultants in each year since 2000; if he has satisfied himself...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of recipients in receipt of family income supplement at the latest date for which figures are available; the way in which...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the national anti-poverty strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37247/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if under the proposed new family friendly payment, lone parents will be required to seek employment to benefit from the entitlement....
- Pension Provisions
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the European Commission's new proposed portability of pensions directive; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress which has been made on a European wide pensioners free travel pass. [37303/05]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has made changes to the habitual residency condition; if he will outline the changes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Co-Operation
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cross-departmental co-operation between his Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when revised regulations will be introduced in relation to the diet supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37243/05]
- Migrant Workers
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the resident condition is a factor in Irish Ferries being able to recruit staff at such low wages and poor...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects to reach a decision on an increase in the fuel allowance; his views on whether due to the recent considerable rise...
- Pension Provisions
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons who have taken out PRSAs at the latest date for which figures are available; the overall proportion of the...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has a formal arrangement with the Department of Education and Science in relation to tackling educational...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the service delivery modernisation provision of €4.5 million which is included in his Department's Estimates under the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if consideration will be given to the financial needs of younger widows and widowers who do not qualify for free schemes with a view...
- Employment Support Services
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs why, in view of the social policy reform agenda in which his Department is committed to assisting those dependent on social welfare...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide a description of the projects that are being funded under the €6.85 million increase in ICT infrastructure...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on paying persons their qualified adult allowance directly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37245/05]
- Family Support Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which he intends to assist lone parents to return to education and employment with regard to the high unemployment rates...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an independent social welfare appeals office that is separate to the Department of Social and Family Affairs will be established....
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he intends to take as a result of his decision to make child poverty a priority for the social reform agenda; and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of lone parents who are in receipt of the one parent family payment; the number and percentage of OPFP recipients for...
- Community Development
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a statement on the outcome of his consultations with community and voluntary organisations in advance of budget...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will expand on the warning he gave to Irish emigrants in London on 17 November 2005 of the potential costs of returning to...
- Social Insurance
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of exemptions from payment of social insurance employment contributions, for a period not exceeding 52 weeks, granted in...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make a statement on his Department's Estimates for 2006. [37215/05]
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he has taken to address the relatively new phenomenon of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Free Travel Scheme
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide an update on the introduction of an all-Ireland free travel scheme; the latest discussions he has had on this...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the role of his Department in supporting Irish emigrant groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37276/05]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 55, 88 and 96 of 27 October 2005, regarding the number of families who would be eligible...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his priorities for social welfare in the context of budget 2006 and the Social Welfare Bill; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis for his Department's original estimate that the granting of pensions to persons who paid social welfare contributions...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the welfare-to-work initiatives that exist within the social welfare system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37254/05]
- Departmental Records
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of the investigation his Department held into the circumstances in which several civil servants are reported to have...
- Pension Provisions
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received the review of pensions strategy that he has asked the Pensions Board to complete; when it is intended to publish...
- Financial Services Access
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 27 October 2005, when he expects the report regarding financial exclusion from access...
- Farm Incomes
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there has been a decrease in the numbers being awarded farm assist in the past year (details supplied); and if he will...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider amending the situation where persons in receipt of a widow's pension are restricted in accepting employment; and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons from EU countries that joined the community in 2004 who have applied for and received unemployment benefit or...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the improvements to his Department's services that he envisages from the e-Government related projects allocated funding under the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the introduction of tapered social welfare payments for persons who are close or barely exceed means test levels. [37128/05]
- Migrant Workers
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position with regard to his discussions with the European Commission regarding the Government's implementation of the two year...
- Department of Health and Children
- Care of the Elderly
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of applicants to date in 2005 for the Cúram home grant in counties Cork and Kerry; the number of applicants...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the efforts she is making to ensure that a registrar is appointed for the accident and emergency department of Kerry...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the feasibility of an early appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Hospital Staff
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the case made by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association that there is serious under-staffing at Bantry...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will work with all relevant Departments...
- Child Abuse
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the case of neglect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be examined; if this matter will be...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the provisions for post operative care and follow up care for patients who receive treatment under the treatment purchase...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of money made available to the Health Service Executive in 2004 and 2005 and proposed for 2006 in respect of...
- Hospital Services
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny with the ear, nose and throat department of...
- Health Services
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be investigated; if the cost of their treatment will be...
- Hospital Services
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason behind serious delays in delivering services at Cork University Hospital; and if she has satisfied herself with...
- Health Services
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the possibility of using trains with specially adapted ambulance carriages as an alternative to very long road journeys...
- Health Service Reform
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the role her Department plays in overseeing the work of the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an instruction is handed down from her Department to the Health Service Executive with regard to the budgetary...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have encountered a growing trend of workers reclassifying themselves as self-employed service providers; the figures as...
- Offshore Islands
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money expended by his Department to date in 2005 on the State purchase of the Great Blasket Island and associated works; the amount of...
- Tax Code
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief will be provided to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37431/05]
- Pension Provisions
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance if the additional voluntary contribution scheme arrangements will be extended to allow persons who have no pension scheme to retrospectively make...
- Tax Collection
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the types of account which are subject to 20% retention tax and 23%, respectively; and the circumstances in which relief can be claimed on same....
- Flood Relief
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Finance the applications which have been received by his Department from Kildare County Council in 2005 to fund flood relief works; if successful, when...
- Tax Code
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a P45 has not issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37529/05]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he intends to roll-out the metropolitan area network to a town (details supplied) in County Cork. [37341/05]
- Postal Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the earliest profit projections made by An Post and the final actual outturn on profits by the company for each...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself with the progress of the MANs to date in 2005; if the necessary co-operation is...
- Postal Services
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when process will be concluded appertaining to the postcodes issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Overseas Armed Forces
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the call by PDFORRA that all rights of association be afforded to the Portuguese Representative Association as is the case...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the stage of a refurbishment project (details supplied) in County Kildare; when funding will be provided to Kildare County Council to...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if steps will be taken to mainstream community employment funding into core funding in order that disability groups such as...
- Employment Rights
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a minimum wage to be payable to qualified electricians; and if so, the details of the minimum wage and the terms...
- Regional Development
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Asdee, Ballylongford, Tarbert area is designated a less-developed part of the mid-west region (details supplied); and...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason an Irish born citizen who has returned from America to care for their mother has been refused the carer's allowance...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an application form will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork to enable them to obtain a PPS number. [37381/05]
- Industrial Relations
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 28 September 2005, the discussions he has had with staff representatives to address...
- Grant Payments
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of farmers in receipt of the farm assist payment; the number of persons his Department estimate are eligible for such a...
- Family Support Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in receipt of the family income supplement payment; the number of persons his Department estimate are...
- Pension Provisions
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if home-makers receive a credited contribution towards pension entitlement or merely are allowed disregard the years for averaging...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the difference in the treatment of capital in the means test for ordinary social welfare payments and for supplementary welfare;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused unemployment benefit. [37479/05]
- Pension Provisions
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when consideration will be given to offering old age pensions to Irish missionaries who have retired overseas; and if he will make...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if child benefit will be increased sufficiently to take account of child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport
- Rail Network
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Question No. 437 of 22 November 2005, the indicatory cost of the western rail corridor project under the Transport 21 plan, in view of...
- Road Network
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport the specific statutory instrument that requires a local authority or contractor to apply the National Roads Authority's manual of contract...
- Road Safety
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Question No. 824 of 28 September 2005, the outcome of the review of the special permit scheme; when he intends to streamline the...
- Official Engagements
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Questions Nos. 439 and 440 of 23 November 2005, if he will set out the agenda, minutes and agreed actions reached at the December 2000...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Question No. 174 of 24 November 2005, the breakdown of all expected receipts under the categories to F2, F8 and F9. [37427/05]
- Public Transport
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Transport the CIE and RPA fares and fare increases approved by him or his predecessors since 2000 with a breakdown for each fare increase in respect of...
- Rail Network
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the interconnector between Dublin's Heuston Station and the DART line will take ten years to complete; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Harbours and Piers
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if money has been expended by his Department to date in 2005 on the development of piers on the Great Blasket Island...
- Drug Rehabilitation Projects
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department can assist the North West Training and Development Project, Dublin 7, which provides rehabilitation...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if payment of the EU single payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork by post instead of direct lodgement to...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37429/05]
- Grant Payments
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the moneys which will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in single payments and entitlements in 2005/2006 and 2006/2007; and if...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the acreage of land covered by REP scheme plans; the acreage of such plans which are designated and proposed to be designated under the...
- Land Policy
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the provisions of section 3 of the Land Act 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37438/05]
- Sugar Beet Production
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food, further to a previous parliamentary question regarding the pension fund at Greencore, her views on the issues raised in view of the...
- Compensation Schemes
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a compensation agreement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited; the number of sheep farmers...
- Fur Farming
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons who are employed full-time and part-time on fur farms here. [37459/05]
- Grant Payments
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive the single farm payment; if same will be received before mid-December...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Children's Rights
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason Ireland's second report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child refers to the administrative procedures in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the meaning of "false passport" in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if the reference is in respect of...
- Registration of Title
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the reason for the delay...
- Garda Stations
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to provide a new Garda station in Dunmanway, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37344/05]
- Asylum Applications
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider the decision taken in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and give them leave to...
- Garda Deployment
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a Garda sergeant will be appointed for a station (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Visa Applications
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has retained the passports of persons (details supplied) whose visa applications were approved on 8...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions for driving under the influence of drugs other than alcohol in each of the past five years; the...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received an application for a closed circuit television scheme for an area (details supplied); if same will be...
- Garda Deployment
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí serving in each of the Garda stations in the constituency of Cork South-West; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a decision on leave to remain here with regard to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the grounds on which he has awarded the Garda Síochána the general supervisory role in the management of the calibration...
- Deportation Orders
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 can remain here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37416/05]
- Garda Investigations
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the technical expertise in relation to road surfaces and road engineering within or available to the Garda Síochána for...
- Garda Operations
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to the Garda Síochána of storing seized vehicles for the past three years for which figures are available; and...
- Residency Permits
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached on the residency application on the basis of an Irish-born child of persons (details...
- Deportation Orders
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a leaving certificate student (details supplied) in County Meath in regard to family unity;...
- Child Care Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a staffing and capital grant for a group (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
- Deportation Orders
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) has not been granted leave to remain here, in view of the fact that they are not...
- Garda Operations
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans in place both in the short-term and long-term to provide an increased Garda presence in towns (details supplied)...
- Crime Levels
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of burglary and car theft in towns (details supplied) which have been reported to the Garda...
- Child Care Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a child care grant will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [37506/05]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed to obtain citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
- Visa Applications
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a multi-visit or joint visa will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the higher education grant application for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford referred to her Department by...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils in primary schools in County Kerry in class sizes of less than 20, between 21 and 30, 31 and 40 and greater than...
- School Services Staff
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of secondary schools which employ a caretaker on a full or part-time basis; if these caretakers are paid directly by her...
- School Transport
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will issue from her Department in respect of an application for the extension of the school bus service to an area...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the £500,000 allocated for the construction of a sports hall for the secondary school in Blarney in 1997 was not paid; the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has appealed a decision by her Department not to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when approval will be granted for a three classroom extension to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [37372/05]
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37386/05]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be prioritised. [37387/05]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position on a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [37393/05]
- Education Funding
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 599 of 8 November 2005 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- School Staffing
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether all post-primary schools should have a laboratory technician on their staff; if her attention has been drawn to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a gratuity payment will be introduced for persons who have served long years as caretakers in schools and for whom there is no...
- School Discipline
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of appeals which have been lodged and finalised under section 29 of the Education Act 1998 in 2004 and to date in 2005; the...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the authenticity of a letter issued by her Department (details supplied) will be confirmed; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Transport
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if this Deputy can be supplied with a school bus catchment area map for County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Training
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Defence the contents of the international military observers and staff officers course delivered at the Defence Forces Training Centre, Curragh Camp, County...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps which are taken to deal with drug dealers who reside in housing estates; if there is a policy of...
- Offshore Islands
Question 238: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money expended by his Department to date in 2005 on the State purchase of the Great Blasket...
- Hunting Licences
Question 239: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of deer killed during the 2004-05 Ward Union hunt; the causes of death; the circumstances in which...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the delay on the progress of a scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal being put out for tender; when...
- Planning Issues
Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be provided from his Department to list public rights of way for inclusion in county...
- Turbary Payments
Question 243: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be issued with a top-up payment for bog purchased by...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 244: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of appeals currently within the independent appeals board on the proposed designation of lands as...
- Traveller Accommodation
Question 246: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1,380 of 28 September 2005, the status of the application with his...
- Departmental Funding
Question 248: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the financial help available to persons on social welfare who wish to have radon gas testing carried out in...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 249: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the consultants' report following the review of the needs and resources model of funding local...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 250: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is aware that although a new library has been constructed in Leixlip, it remains unopened due to staff...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 251: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the extension to Castleisland sewerage scheme, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
