Written answers
Thursday, 26 January 2006
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Transport Plan
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether the Transport 21 plan will only serve to increase the imbalance between tourism figures in the east contrasted...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of applications which were received under the sports capital programme up to the deadline in January 2006; the number of...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding plans to introduce a new local authority swimming pool programme. [2481/06]
- Arts Funding
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to comments from the chair of the Arts Council to the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism,...
- Price Increases
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if contact has been made with the various stakeholders regarding price increases in view of concerns regarding a Ryder Cup rip-off...
- Tourism Policy
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in view of the report published by Friends of the Earth Ireland named, Ireland's Environment, Common Sense, Not Catastrophe, his...
- National Concert Hall
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the development of the National Concert Hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2384/06]
- National Conference Centre
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a provisional preferred tenderer has been designated for the award of the contract for delivery of the new national conference...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether enough is being done to promote Ireland as a destination for Irish holiday makers; his further views on recent...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the proportion of applications received under the sports capital programme that were related to schools and colleges at primary,...
- Stadium Development
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the situation regarding objections from local residents to the proposed new Lansdowne Road stadium; if these concerns have been taken...
- Theatre Relocation
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the relocation of the Abbey Theatre to George's Dock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2385/06]
- Sports Facilities
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the roll out of a nationwide audit of sports facilities as promised in the programme for Government. [2487/06]
- Tourist Accommodation
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the threat to bed and breakfast facilities here due to competition with hotels; if contact has been made with people from...
- Arts Funding
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if an assessment has been undertaken of the implications for the arts sector of the changes announced in Budget 2006 to the artists...
- Tourism Industry
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the promotion of cultural tourism here; whether there is a need to encourage increased levels of niche cultural tourism...
- Department of Health and Children
- Care of the Elderly
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of elderly people in County Mayo awaiting admission to long-term care nursing homes in that county; the number of...
- Health Services
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost to Westdoc of the creation of the new cell recently established in Glenamaddy, County Galway; if her attention has...
- Foreign Adoptions
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the countries that have agreements with Ireland on inter-country adoptions both within the European Union and outside. [2558/06]
- Health Services
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called to a hospital in Galway for a cardiac procedure. [2612/06]
- Care of the Elderly
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding repayment of pensioners' nursing home fees which were illegally withheld; the time scale envisaged...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the relative position of Ireland on an EU table [i]vis-a-vis[/i] the [i]per capita[/i] number of hospital beds; and if she...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive north east's frustration of the rights commissioner's clear cut recommendation of...
- Health Services
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals for improving health centre facilities in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2638/06]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that there were 16 people on trolleys due to a lack of capacity at a hospital (details supplied) in...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the new building of the phase two development of St. John's Hospital, Enniscorthy; and if she will...
- National Health Strategy
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date on action 76 of Quality and Fairness — a Health System for You; the number of primary care teams...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost per year of provision of a single additional acute hospital public beds. [2720/06]
- Health Services
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a dialysis unit will be provided at South Tipperary General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the relocation of the Children's Hospital Temple Street to the Mater site; and if she will make a statement on...
- Medical Tribunals
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the year the thalidomide assessment tribunal was set up; when same concluded; if persons who went before the tribunal at the...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when approval will issue in the disabled drivers disabled passengers scheme 1994 in respect of purchase of modified motor...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax affairs of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is up to date, in view of the fact that this person is no longer in receipt of the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to lease accommodation in Dungarvan, County Waterford to facilitate the early commencement of the decentralisation of ordnance survey...
- Tax Code
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if childminders who avail of a new tax allowance introduced in budget 2005 will be entitled to make voluntary social insurance contributions in their...
- Insurance Policies
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance if credit card usage is covered by insurers at all times regardless of the age of the user. [2750/06]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadcasting Legislation
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views regarding the free to air broadcasting of sporting events; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the timescale for the decentralisation of divisions within his Department; the number of civil servants who have signalled their intention to...
- International Agreements
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position of the Irish Government in relation to the accession to the EU of Romania; the conditions the EU negotiations have demanded of...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Film Industry Development
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the measures he intends to put in place to revive the Irish film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2552/06]
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if consideration will be given to an application from a club (details supplied) in County Kildare for grant aid from the national...
- Arts Plan
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his policy to popularise the arts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2730/06]
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if grant aid will be offered from the proceeds of the national lottery to Maynooth town social club to facilitate the provision of...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Staffing Costs
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to the State of an increase in the strength of the labour inspectorate to 75 inspectors. [2572/06]
- Land Acquisition
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in relation to a project (details supplied) in County Mayo, when the IDA commenced buying land for same or if land has...
- Job Creation
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to recent statements by Tralee Chamber of Commerce, County Kerry, expressing grave concern...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who have been refused payments due to the habitual residence condition since its introduction on 1 May 2004;...
- Industrial Relations
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 1 December 2005, the discussions which have taken place with staff; and if he will make...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the qualification criterion stands at nine months with regard to the back to education allowance for entry into third level...
- Department of Transport
- Road Safety
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of samples provided to the MBRS arising from arrests for drink or drug driving in each of the years from 1999 to date in 2006; the number...
- Driving Tests
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason driving tests in articulated lorries have ceased in Galway; and if he intends to rectify the situation by re-instating the driving test...
- Road Network
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce shadow tolling on the M50 West Link toll bridge until open road tolling is introduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Driving Tests
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of driving tests conducted in 2005. [2656/06]
- Traffic Management
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Transport the proposals suggested to him or requested by Dublin City Council for regulatory or legislative changes or other statutory provisions in connection...
- Road Signage
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Transport when revised regulations for signage for speed limits outside schools will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2686/06]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in which the social economy schemes are being administered in Cork city now that the responsibility for...
- Grant Payments
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the decision, according to the interview on Galway Bay FM on 18 November 2005, of the chief executive of...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if CLÁR funding will be provided for a project (details supplied) in County Cork. [2562/06]
- Rural Social Schemes
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was employed on a rural social scheme and then told that she did...
- Drugs Use
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a progress report on the measures to counter the increasing use of cocaine and crack cocaine here;...
- Local Drugs Task Forces
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a progress report on the regional drugs task forces; the level of funding for these task forces;...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when area aid payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [2604/06]
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the balance of a single farm payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [2605/06]
- Farm Waste Management
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the revised farm waste management scheme will be made available without further delay; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the Heritage Council's recommendations will be considered in the upcoming REP scheme negotiations in the context of a new REP scheme...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will have their single farm payment issued; the reason for the delay; and if she...
- Grant Payments
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she will issue allocations under the national reserve for the single farm payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Registration of Title
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for registration by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if this application...
- Garda Deployment
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is proposed to make changes in the method by which the gardaí attached to Monivea Garda station, Monivea, Athenry,...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if consideration will be given to the application supported by the community and the Garda authorities in respect of a Garda...
- Disability Support Services
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a copy of the IPA report to the board of the National Disability Authority on the way in which the NDA is...
- Visa Applications
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [2579/06]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for Irish citizenship by persons (details supplied) in County Dublin. [2580/06]
- Missing Persons
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding for a 24-hour permanent freephone helpline for missing persons will be provided; and if he will make a statement...
- Registration of Title
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for registration by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make...
- Crime Levels
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the provisional headline crime statistics for the Carlow-Kildare division for 2005. [2634/06]
- Immigration Unit
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the success of the immigration Border control unit in Dundalk, County Louth incurbing the...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the provision of closed circuit television in the towns of Drogheda and Ardee, County Louth; and if...
- Road Safety
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recent report published by the Louth county coroner (details supplied) in which they concluded that almost...
- Asylum Applications
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for family reunification made in May 2005 in the name of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Road Safety
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drivers involved in a traffic accident where a fatality occurred in each of the past five years; and the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residential status of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2665/06]
- Residency Permits
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application for refugee or residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry will be...
- Deportation Orders
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if further action will be deferred in respect of deportation to Belgium or the Democratic Republic of Congo in the case of a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will...
- Council Meeting
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has been asked to meet a council (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Deportation Orders
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a deportation order (details supplied) will be re-examined in view of the clear and apparent threat of female genital...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied); the reason the...
- Residency Permits
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision to refuse refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 takes full account of the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2586/06]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the school building section of her Department will approve the tender documents for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford;...
- State Examinations
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to extend the CSPE examination from the junior certificate to the senior certificate; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person who is four years or more in a temporary full-time position as a teacher, can be expected to be made permanent on the...
- School Accommodation
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a study will be undertaken by the commission on school accommodation, for the north Kerry area, including Tralee, Castleisland and...
- Education Schemes
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a home tuition grant will be restored to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2617/06]
- School Transport
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be made on the alternative route selected for persons (details supplied) in County Sligo regarding their school...
- School Insurance
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to alleviate the soaring cost of insurance to primary and post primary school boards of management; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the proposed new primary school at Mell, Drogheda, County Louth. [2639/06]
- School Placement
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on her plans to increase the number of secondary school places in Drogheda, Ardee, Dundalk and Dunleer,...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a sports hall and extension to the staff room at a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and...
- School Transport
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if 23 students from Blackwater, County Wexford, who have already been deemed eligible by County Wexford Vocational Educational...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the development regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; when this development will start; and if she will make a...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which her Department examines Montessori teachers; her views on whether same are qualified teachers; and if she will make a...
- Department of Defence
- Overseas Missions
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason no arrangements were made to forward Christmas parcels or presents to the Irish soldiers serving with the UN in Liberia before the...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Defence if, further to the settlement of a recent court action, that freehold interest claimed by a company (details supplied) on former Department of...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Voluntary Housing Scheme
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a project (details supplied) will be approved on the site of the old Cameo Cake site at Tralee, County...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that school traffic wardens are the only local authority employees...
- Litter Pollution
Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the efforts being made to ensure that the recent report on litter prosecutions and litter on the spot fines...
- Waste Management
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to change the provisions of the Waste Management (Amendment) Act 2001 section 75 (2) whereby the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be approved for the window replacement programme submitted to his Department by South Dublin...
- Local Authority Establishment
Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the possibility of establishing a town council in Blessington, County Wicklow. [2644/06]
- Local Authority Representation
Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that the west Wicklow region is under-represented at county council level, with only...
- Local Authority Boundaries
Question 190: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether Bray Town Council needs a boundary, and if so when the process will commence. [2646/06]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Question No. 472 of 31 May 2005 the progress to date on the regional water schemes; and if he will...
