Written answers

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Hospital Services
      Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding provided by the Health Service Executive for radiotherapy services in the south east; and if she will make a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is committed to the transfer of the children's hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1 to a modern hospital on the Mater...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards promised and delivered, in view of recent announced figures; her views on the fact that despite...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to date in 2006 to deal with the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu, or worse, a flu pandemic;...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, in view of the accident and emergency crisis and the record number of patients on trolleys, the steps she will take to...
    • Health Services
      Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of speech therapists per Health Service Executive area and per community care area in Dublin; and the waiting...
    • Hospital Procedures
      Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the casemix system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3007/06]
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the delays patients are experiencing in receiving essential medicines; her further views on the fact that...
    • Health Services
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that appropriate funding and services are being provided by the Health Service Executive for palliative...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received the report of the investigation into practices at the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at Our Lady of...
    • Health Services
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that sleep apnoea is a huge concern of morbidity in our health services; the...
    • Health Promotion
      Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will support the establishment of young gardeners' clubs and healthy eating garden projects as part of a programme...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take on implementing the human tissues legislation which has been long promised in view of the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her proposal to build private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals will be continued if public only contracts...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if special unique difficulties of service withdrawal and surgical off-call status were taken into account in her...
    • Hospital Hygiene
      Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the criticisms from the vice president of the Irish medical organisations in relation to...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied herself that BreastCheck is to be rolled out within the target set out; if she is further satisfied...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps which have been taken to address the ongoing issue of MRSA infections; when she expects to have the matter under...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the delays in publishing the report into the death of a person (details supplied) in Monaghan Hospital in...
    • Health Services
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the warning from St. Columcille's Hospital, Ireland's only obesity clinic, that there are currently 500...
    • Homeless Persons
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the programmes and supports in place by the child care policy unit of her Department to tackle youth homelessness; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her proposals for the new consultants' contract will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3051/06]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that enteric coated steroids used for a variety of medical conditions are not...
    • Health Services
      Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there is still no out of hours emergency general practitioner co-op for the north side of Dublin six months...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the protocols for care of vulnerable persons (details supplied) that are in place for professionals working in the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she expects Kerry General Hospital to receive the full-time consultant cardiologist it has long been promised. [2993/06]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the large variation in subvention payments in different Health Service Executive...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the 1,100 nursing vacancies in hospitals and health care facilities here; the figures on the costs involved in...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, in view of the report by a person into the death of a person (details supplied) in Leas Cross Nursing Home, the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on progress in the negotiations on the new contract for hospital consultants; and if she will make a...
    • Water Fluoridation
      Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has referred an article published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (details supplied)...
    • Abuse Inquiry
      Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the proposed review into the inquiry process into alleged abuse at Brothers of Charity in Kilcornan, County Galway...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people covered by medical cards in 1997; the costs of providing medical cards to that number of people today;...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that money for cancer care at Beaumont Hospital was used to make up for funding shortfalls in other...
    • Children in Care
      Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to introduce new support services to address the reasons behind the latest figures on the number of children...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a urology department will be established at Mayo General Hospital in view of the fact that there is currently a seven...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the salaries, bonuses and expenses paid in 2005 to the directors of the different units set up under the Health Service...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of public home stay beds which have been opened in the Dublin area since October 2004; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on reports from the Irish Medical Organisation that up to 27,000 children are losing out on vital checks for...
    • Food Safety
      Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the conditions and requirements set down for country markets with regard to food safety; the way in which...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself that Health Service Executive funding to Peamount Hospital is sufficient and that beds at...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether a statement she made in on the work ethic of nurses in Limerick Hospital may have been incorrect; if...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when Louth County Hospital will receive the promised CT scanner; and when breast surgery services will be restored. [2990/06]
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 99 of 18 October 2005, if she has received the report of the working group chaired by the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the private fees earned by consultants in different specialties and in different regions...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the recent resignation of an accident and emergency consultant at Tralee General Hospital due to the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason public-only contracts were refused to serving consultants in 1997 by the then Minister for Health and Children;...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the campaign by the Irish Cancer Society for the provision of free cervical screening for women aged 25 and...
    • National Cancer Strategy
      Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the new cancer strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3071/06]
    • Asthma Incidence
      Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 12% of the population suffers from asthma and that there have been calls...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the cost of drugs in the general medical scheme; if she intends to encourage the use of prescribing generic...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children being told that the increase in type 2 diabetes has...
    • Prescription Drugs
      Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an expert report launched by her Department on benzodiazepine prescribing in 2002 recommended that private and...
    • Health Services
      Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will be asked for the present geographical distribution of health services; the massive...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the terms of reference, the cost and the deadline for conclusion of the consultancy report on hospital services in the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her proposals which are being put to consultants in negotiations to revise the common contract; the proposals for...
    • Health Services
      Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timescale for the opening of the Ballymun primary care project; the initial proposed budget for the project; the budget...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the problem of access to hospitals has not been solved with particular reference to bed availability and the use...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which funding for an additional 20 new general practitioner training posts will be spent in 2006 when a recent...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to any response from the bishops following a letter from Minister of State, Deputy Brian...
    • Constitutional Review
      Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the decision by the all-party Oireachtas committee that the Constitution should be amended to give regard to...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive is demanding that patients provide a list of...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that general practitioners have been stopped from using patients' PPS numbers...
    • Health Services
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a working group has been set up with regard to the social services inspectorate taking over responsibility for the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself that there are enough public health nurses in the Health Service Executive primary and...
    • Task Force on Obesity
      Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the implementation of the recommendations of the task force on obesity; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the unfortunate departure of the director of the National Hospitals Office, the timescale and details of...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of delayed discharges in the major Dublin hospitals; if she will provide a breakdown for each hospital; if these...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason no reply has been received from the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive for Question...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to comments made at the 36th annual conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland that...
    • Health Services
      Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received the residential and non-acute care accreditation scheme from the Irish Health Services Accreditation...
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the penalty and rewards system to encourage efficiency in hospitals here and that hospitals offering excellent...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the outcome of her meeting with representatives of the One in Four Group on 17 November...
    • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
      Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her decision not to extend the clinical indemnity scheme to the consultants working in the private hospitals on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her response to the recent report of the Pensions Ombudsman, which included particular criticism of employers in the health...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 233: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she intends to take to improve mental health services for children and adolescents, following reports that up to...
    • Health Services
      Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she plans to take with regard to funding for designated transport for cancer patients trying to access...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason final proposals for a new consultants' contract have not been presented to the consultants' organisations before...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the approximate annual cost for the introduction of doctor-only medical cards for those under 16; the cost for a full...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has mental health programmes in place targeted specifically at young males in the 15 to 35 age group, in...
    • Health Care Costs
      Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the variations in charges for private consultations; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that charges...
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason it cost €200 million to establish the Health Service Executive which included paying off debts of the former...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of the numbers of MRSA cases per hospital; if same are not available when she expects them to become...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had concerning the future of Crumlin children's hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Council
      Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposal to have a majority layperson representation on the Medical Council; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on Coovagh House in Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3011/06]
    • Birth-Related Injury Claims
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 18 October 2005 if a process will be reviewed with regard to a no...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that Ireland has one of the lowest ratios of acute beds to population in Europe where the EU average...
    • Cancer Services
      Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is her view that the sparse population of the north-west region presents obstacles to the establishing of a quality...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Tourism Industry
      Question 251: To ask the Taoiseach the income from foreign tourism markets in each year since 2000; the amount spent abroad annually by Irish holidaymakers; [2864/06]
    • Migrant Workers
      Question 252: To ask the Taoiseach the number of non-national workers currently employed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3179/06]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 253: To ask the Taoiseach if the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair, will be called on to hold a full independent public inquiry into the murder of Mr. Pat Finucane in the interest...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are social workers with responsibility for the elderly; if so the breakdown of the number involved per county or...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when she intends to implement the legislation on the liberalisation of marriage venues and have the licence in the person...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin who has suffered from mental illness since early teens in...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if special consideration will be given in the application of the casemix incentivisation scheme to hospitals experiencing...
    • Health Services
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the type of problems that are being identified in respect of the inspection of private nursing homes; the action that is...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards which were available to persons in each county here on 1 January 2006 or the nearest date...
    • Health Services
      Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a health centre in Dunleer, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 267: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if special unique difficulties of suspensions of consultant surgeons and severe overcrowding were taken into account in her...
    • Alcohol Labelling
      Question 268: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she intends to change the law to require that labels be placed on alcoholic beverages warning of the risks of foetal...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 269: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will restore a medical card to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [2849/06]
    • Health Services
      Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will financially support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [2850/06]
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive is considering erecting a portacabin on the grounds of Letterkenny General Hospital which...
    • Health Services
      Question 272: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent of the waiting list for orthodontic treatment; her plans to reduce and eliminate this list; and if she will make...
    • Organ Donation
      Question 274: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her policy in relation to encouraging people to participate in organ donation programmes; if a system will be introduced...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 278: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Hanly report otherwise known as the Report of the National Task Force on Medical Staffing is Government policy. [2877/06]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the year in which she envisages the proposed Ennis General Hospital development central plan will be completed and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children who received out-of-date polio vaccine between January 1998 and December 2000 and who have now been...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer each year from 1995 to date in 2006; the number of women who have died...
    • Cancer Research
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding allocated by her Department for research into breast cancer in each year from 1995 to date in 2006; the funding...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding allocated by her Department to the BreastCheck programme in 2005; the amount earmarked for allocation in 2006;...
    • Health Services
      Question 292: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has been refused dental treatment; and if she will make a statement...
    • Foreign Adoptions
      Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the aspects of the draft protocol on adoption between Ireland and Belarus which have been found to be incompatible with...
    • Health Services
      Question 294: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the current spend or allocation to the various bodies dealing with the Traveller community; the amount of the overall spend...
    • Post-Mortem Results
      Question 295: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average time for the results of post-mortem to be available in each of the Health Service Executive areas; and if she...
    • Health Service Expenses
      Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not had their expenses awarded by the Health Service...
    • Health Projects
      Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to correspondence (details supplied), when a decision to approve a project will be made by the national hospital...
    • Health Services
      Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has initiated a review of the fee arrangements in place for the provision of chiropody...
    • Community Care
      Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the care programme envisaged for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Care Services
      Question 300: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the avenues persons (details supplied) have to pursue to get clearance for the operation of their crèche and Montessori;...
    • Foster Care
      Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if social worker support for foster parents is available on weekends or after 5.30 p.m. on weekdays and if not, her plans...
    • Community Care
      Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if continued respite care can or will be offered to a person (details supplied) who currently receives four night respite...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 can accept secondment to a hospital in the west of Ireland to cover maternity...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason nurses affected by the abatement of pensions for employed pensioners have not received repayment of deducted...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 305: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of neuro-radiologists here; the areas in which they are based; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive southern region has received funding to use the Atlantic Lodge to provide mental health...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the former North Western Health Board built its new headquarters at Manorhamilton; if such funding was...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 410 of 28 September 2005, the progress which has been made by the working group on...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to provide a pre-residential stabilisation unit for cocaine addicts. [36835/05]
    • Health Services
      Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of an application to develop a new health centre in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; her plans to progress the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of court actions regarding the provision of resources such as speech and language therapy, occupational therapy...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 315: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people who have been deemed as qualifying applicants for nursing homes in the southern health service region...
    • Nursing Home Charges
      Question 317: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive refunds of nursing home charges. [3200/06]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 318: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the crisis situation in the national neurosurgery centre at Beaumont Hospital, she will provide for the...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there are no statistics available on the number of children effected by autism here; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Grants
      Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding which has been made available to the Health Services Executive southern area to enable curam grants which have...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 322: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Questions Nos. 218 and 238 of 22 November 2005, if all organs, and specifically lungs, donated here are first...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 328: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase nursing home subvention (details supplied). [3247/06]
    • Compensation Claims
      Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the once off [i]ex gratia[/i] payment of €2,000 in respect of nursing home fees has not been awarded to a...
    • Health Services
      Question 330: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 was discharged early from hospital without proper supports; and if this...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 334: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself regarding the adequacy of respite care for parents and carers of children and adults with...
    • Health Services
      Question 335: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the areas in which the facilities for tuberculosis and respiratory care previously available at Peamount Hospital are...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 336: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has satisfied herself regarding the adequacy of the community care facilities in the event of recent announcements...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 339: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the areas within the health service most deficient in terms of staff numbers at present; and if she will make a statement...
    • Cancer Incidence
      Question 340: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if studies have been carried out on the incidence of the various forms of cancer here; if this indicates any particular...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 341: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has ordered improved entitlements in respect of medical cards with particular reference to the...
    • Hospital Hygiene
      Question 344: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of hospital hygiene audits to date in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3269/06]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 346: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the next phase of the Naas Hospital development plan will be sent to tender in view of the fact that the project has...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 347: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has examined the cause or causes of the prolonged use of trolleys [i]in lieu[/i] of beds in various...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 348: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the programmes and supports in place to promote positive mental health among young people, in particular the 15 to 24 age...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 350: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the National Office for Suicide Prevention has been established; if not, when she expects same to be established; the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 351: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 369 of 28 September 2005, if her Department's consultation process with the Department of Education...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 352: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans regarding the compensation of patients who were forced to pay for private nursing home care due to a lack of...
    • Health Services
      Question 353: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be reassessed for orthodontic treatment. [3299/06]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 354: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the overspend by her Department and the health boards for the years 1998 to 2005 inclusive; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Car Imports
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of left-hand drive cars imported here by non-nationals since January 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2963/06]
    • Tax Yield
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Finance the receipts on an annual basis from DIRT for each year from 1997 to date; the number of people or accounts of same levied in each of those years;...
    • Tax Certificates
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the delays in issuing P60s in respect of 2005; the reason for same; his views on whether this will delay the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Finance if changes will be incorporated into the forthcoming Finance Bill to ensure that childminders who are availing of the new childminding relief scheme...
    • Tax Certificates
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Finance when a P45 will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2835/06]
    • Tax Code
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Finance the statutory instrument which exempts recipients of foster care payments from paying income tax on that part of their income; when such income has...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a format within which reports set out the grounds upon which funding is sought by local authorities from the Office of Public Works with...
    • State Property
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Finance if Black Freren Gate, Kilkenny city, is in the care or ownership of the Office of Public Works; if a recent inspection has been carried out as to the...
    • Departmental Payments
      Question 366: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest paid by his Department to contractors or to others due payments from his Department on account of late settlement of the...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of interest payments made by the Revenue Commissioners in respect of overpayments of tax, and the rate of interest applying; and his views...
    • Tax Code
      Question 368: To ask the Minister for Finance if, arising from provisions included in budget 2006 relating to the provision of home care services for elderly persons in their own homes, such...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the established need for the provision of a central community services facility in the Finglas area, he will consider the retention by...
    • Tax Code
      Question 370: To ask the Minister for Finance if a section to deal with the anomaly whereby pensioners and others not in the tax bracket do not have the opportunity to reduce the cost of payment...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Energy Resources
      Question 371: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the energy regulator has put in place a customer charter; and if the regulator is subject to referral to the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 372: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the third call for funding under the group broadband scheme will be announced for County Meath. [2924/06]
    • Broadcasting Legislation
      Question 373: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the people and groups who have lobbied him or his Department on the designation of the Ryder Cup as a free to...
    • Port Development
      Question 375: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if responsibility for port matters has been transferred to the Department of Transport with effect from 1...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • International Agreements
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the international treaties and agreements which Ireland has signed or are currently to be put before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if there...
    • EU Constitution
      Question 378: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the feasibility or otherwise of the EU pressing on with its efforts to adopt the current EU constitution; if an amended EU...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the deterioration of human rights in Zimbabwe will be raised at the Council of Foreign Ministers; if he will seek to have an extension of...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to move his Department to Limerick in the context of the Government decentralisation programme; and if he will detail the schedule...
    • Freedom of Information
      Question 381: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if requests to his Department for information regarding the use of Shannon Airport by United States military forces have been refused under...
    • Council of Europe Investigation
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department is co-operating with the Council of Europe in its investigation into US rendition flights; the information, if any, his...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 383: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if financial assistance or grant aid from national lottery funding has been advanced to voluntary groups or agencies in County...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the rebuilding of Monaghan town swimming pool; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2863/06]
    • Tourism Revenue
      Question 385: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the increasing tourism deficit between the income from foreign tourism markets and the amount spent abroad annually by...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 387: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has received a report from the Office of Public Works on the Naas swimming pool project; if the report has been...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the progress report on the proposal to locate his Department to Killarney; when the building will be...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Centre for Independent Living in Mayo provides a personal assistant...
    • Work Permits
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to ensure that an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is...
    • Employment Regulation Orders
      Question 393: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is legislation in place or guidelines indicating rates of payment for persons employed in the hotel and restaurant...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an investigation will be carried out in relation to the sacking of a person (details supplied); if this practice will be...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when rent assistance will be put in place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare which has already been...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo can be reassessed for the farm assist payment due to a change in her circumstances....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views regarding ending the practice whereby a person on unemployment benefit will switch to becoming an adult dependent of his...
    • Tax Code
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if arrangements have been made that persons taking up childminding under the €10,000 tax exemption scheme announced in the 2006...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the importance of child dependant allowance for families depending upon social welfare; if in this context the failure to increase...
    • Departmental Posts
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 824 of 25 January 2006 the number of posts that his Department is currently working to fill...
  • Department of Transport
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 409: To ask the Minister for Transport if increases under benchmarking and national pay rounds apply to pensioners of the Dublin Port Company; if rights in respect of payment were...
    • Insurance Premiums
      Question 410: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals to address the issue of young drivers' high insurance premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2860/06]
    • Port Development
      Question 411: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussions which have occurred regarding the future of port facilities on the east coast; if he has completed his review of investment...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Transport if he intends to introduce a system to allow for partial footpath parking in some urban areas at the discretion of local authorities; if such a...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for a Luas line serving Terenure, Harold's Cross and district; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2771/06]
    • Landing Rights
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether it is preferred that housing areas for helicopters awaiting landing clearance should be over agricultural areas rather than...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Transport when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be called for a driving test; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Safety
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of compliance with seat belt wearing requirements amongst motorists in 2004 and 2005. [2883/06]
    • Air Traffic Management
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has satisfied himself that the Irish Aviation Authority has the resources to provide sufficient oversight of Irish airlines in view of the...
    • Road Network
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Transport if correspondence (details supplied) has been brought to his attention; his views on the matter; if funding will be provided to the relevant local...
    • Road Safety
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Transport if left-hand drive cars are treated similarly to right-hand drive vehicles for the purposes of the national car test; if he has satisfied himself...
    • Landing Rights
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Transport if a DC 9 airliner landed on Irish soil at any time in any of the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 or to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Records
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of interest paid by his Department to contractors or to others due payments from his Department on account of late settlement of the...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Transport if the proposed extension of the Luas from Connolly Station to the docklands will terminate at the proposed new mainline station which is to be...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Transport the penalties that apply to non-nationals where their car is seized by the Garda Síochána; if an on-the-spot fine can be applied; if penalty...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 428: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on reports that some red-circle workers at Irish Ferries are being let go; his further views on whether the agreement that was reached to...
    • Local Authority Permits
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the inconsistencies that exist between the different systems used by local authorities relating to the issuing...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 430: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a group (details supplied) in Dublin 10 can apply for funding from the dormant accounts fund; and the way in which...
    • Community Development
      Question 431: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the application under the grant aid for locally-based community and voluntary organisations from...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the single payment scheme. [2974/06]
    • Animal Diseases
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason her Department has failed to implement in full the December 2001 agreement with the Irish Farmers Association on the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Galway who was unable to farm during the single payment reference years 2000-02 inclusive, who...
    • Food Industry
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the support available from her Department for farming markets; her views on increasing supports for the establishment of farming...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 447: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) was not awarded their full entitlement under the single payment; if their file will be reviewed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of interest paid by her Department to contractors or to others due payments from her Department on account of late settlement...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 453: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment under the single payment scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Legal Education
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the need to deregulate the legal education market; and if he will make a statement on the matter in view of the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason it takes so long to process visas for non-nationals wishing to study here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug Treatment Services
      Question 456: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on transferring a person (details supplied) in County Wexford from Mountjoy to Portlaoise or Shelton Abbey to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 regarding their application for reunification of...
    • Firearms Offences
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if reports have been received of persons carrying guns as a form of fashion accessory; if so, the nature of these reports;...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision will be made on an application for a capital grant under EOCP 2000-2006 to a group (details supplied) in...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 460: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timescale for the temporary relocation of Fitzgibbon Street Garda station to allow for its refurbishment; the location...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his decision to refuse residency on the basis of an Irish born child to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that gardaí are not allowed to use the new Garda station at Derrinturn,...
    • Garda Reserve Force
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the terms and conditions which will apply to the deployment of the proposed reserve force to back up the Garda Síochána;...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the legal ownership of a folio (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2815/06]
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 465: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when closed circuit television cameras will be provided for Carlow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2817/06]
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí employed in Carlow town for each year from 2002 to 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision to deport a person who had permission to remain here from December 2000 until March 2004 will be reconsidered....
    • Residency Permits
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be considered; and if...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider his decision to deport a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Garda Vetting Procedures
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason local Garda vetting is not being used until such times as the proper facilities are available in Garda...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 474: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a safety plan will be put in place at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if this person will receive the...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Land Registry will expedite an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the level of speed limit enforcement, in terms of speed checks conducted by the Garda Síochána in 2004 and 2005; and if he...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Land Registry will be instructed to expedite a dealing application on a folio (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
    • Traveller Community
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current spend or allocation to the various bodies dealing with the Traveller community; the amount of the overall spend...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals who have been charged or convicted of crimes by category here; the number of persons...
    • Victims Commission
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Question No. 489 of 2 November 2005, the reason given to the Commission for the Support of Victims...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures the Government proposes to take, such as the provision of a special visa, to the non-Irish spouses of deceased...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of additional and impressive material which goes a very considerable way to authenticate in every detail the...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of additional and impressive material which goes a very considerable way to authenticate in every detail the...
    • Stardust Report
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a copy of the report to the families of victims in the Stardust fire received from the Forensic Science Laboratory...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Listowel Family Resource Centre which caters for over 100 families will be allowed to retain the staff funding from...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is expected that a decision will be made regarding an application for naturalisation made by a person (details...
    • Prison Medical Service
      Question 489: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the service his Department will provide for a person (details supplied) whose mental and health condition brings that person...
    • Public Order Offences
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the situation of anti-social behaviour in housing estates and the fear that same engenders in vulnerable people has been...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to augment the Garda station at Newcastle West to deal with serious anti-social behaviour in sections of the...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the issuing of the proper land certificates to a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [3250/06]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of breathalyser tests, that is, tests conducted with either an alcometer or the blow in the bag alcolyser,...
    • Penalty Points System
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when training will take place to inform the Garda Síochána of the new penalty points offences; the way in which the...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the rise in crime, including break-ins and burglary, in Doon, County Limerick; if...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of drugs seized in the Bray and Greystones area in 2004 and 2005; the breakdown of these drugs; the street value...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided to enable a sports hall (details supplied) in Dublin 8, which was originally built on the understanding...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on organising a driver training initiative with a view to incorporating a suitable programme into the school curriculum at...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 27 October 2005, when the application for capital investment for the provision of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a school building programme at a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the matter will be expedited. [2758/06]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if special needs teaching will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the very dangerous situation involving several near accidents at the entrance to a school (details...
    • School Transport
      Question 506: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department has not replied to letters of 25 October and 7 December 2005 (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is help of a financial nature available to a person in receipt of the widow's pension, in relation to pre-leaving certificate...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 510: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when finance will be allocated to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for the provision of an extra classroom; and if she...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if trained secondary teachers are eligible to take on temporary full-time posts in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 512: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding is available to assist Irish students studying in the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2845/06]
    • Third Level Participation
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of participants in post-leaving certificate courses in counties Monaghan and Cavan, respectively, in the academic year...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of educational psychologists employed in the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS; her views on whether this is...
    • School Transport
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a report will be provided on the recent review of school transport catchment areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if progress has been made in the discussions being held by her Department on the location of a school (details supplied) in the grounds...
    • School Transport
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be collected at a more suitable pick up point with regard to their school transport...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for the provision of a sports hall at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [2905/06]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a refurbishment and extension programme for a school (details supplied) in County Meath will be undertaken; and if she will make a...
    • Traveller Community
      Question 521: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the current spend or allocation to the various bodies dealing with the Traveller community; the amount of the overall spend or...
    • Third Level Enrolments
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason students are registering late for courses in higher education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2927/06]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 523: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the design team will be appointed in respect of the construction of a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she...
    • Transition Year
      Question 524: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students availing of the option of taking a transition year in the years 2000 to 2005; and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she will take to ensure that financial aid is given to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who must attend a...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      Question 526: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in sanction being given to schools (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to amalgamate; the reason a technical...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 527: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will be designated as a disadvantaged school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 528: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when facilities will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of court actions regarding the provision of school places for students with special needs and the provision of resources...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a new school (details supplied) in County Galway; when this project will proceed; and if she will make a...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 531: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the proposed extension to a swimming pool in the ownership of her Department (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be examined and...
    • School Inspections
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of inspections carried out in 2004 and 2005 by inspectors of Irish for second level schools here; the locations where such...
    • VEC Inquiry
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost the inquiry established by her into the County Clare Vocational Educational Committee amounted to; the timeframe she envisages...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the deputations she has met from schools in counties Wicklow and Carlow seeking approval for additional school accommodation since 1...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to implement a scheme in supermarkets whereby after paying for their goods customers can take them...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the staffing numbers for each of the local authorities here; and the number of outdoor staff also involved in...
    • Dog Breeding Establishments
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to set standards for the practice of puppy farming; if his attention has...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the directive which has been issued concerning charges for water meters in schools in view of the fact that...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the increase in the local government fund to Kildare local authorities in the years 1998-2006; and if he will...
    • National Homeless Strategy
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date for the completion of the review of the national homeless strategy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Traveller Community
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the current spend or allocation to the various bodies dealing with the travelling community; the amount of the...
    • Local Authorities
      Question 547: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an assessment has or will be carried out on the extent to which section 142(5)([i]f[/i]) of the Local...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the desirability of, and need for, autonomous local authority architects in general and, with...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the arrangements made between his Department and the building industry that...
    • Housing Management Companies
      Question 551: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all local authorities will be requested to conduct an audit of the extent of unfinished housing estates,...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the date he appointed a company (details supplied) to develop and improve a new house price statistics...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to bring into force the section of the Local Government Act 2000 that will enable the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to publish the Indicon report on local government funding; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to the tender date for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo being passed, when the building...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if legislation is either pending or in force which addresses the issue of light pollution; and if he will make...
    • National Parks
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Lough Veagh in County Donegal has been closed to game anglers; and if he will make a statement on the...