Written answers
Tuesday, 7 February 2006
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the establishment level for the post of labour inspector within his Department; the number of posts filled at present; and...
- Anti-Competitive Practices
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he intends to take to outlaw predatory pricing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4070/06]
- Industrial Disputes
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views regarding the failure of a company (details supplied) to implement a Labour Court decision to allow staff to be...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to develop the county enterprise board investment programmes in the Border, midlands and western...
- Employment Rights
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports of serious under payment and mistreatment of foreign workers employed as...
- Job Creation
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, type and location of Irish Development Authority and Enterprise Ireland assisted jobs created in counties...
- EU Directives
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature and extent of Ireland's representation and participation in the group of national experts on the implementation...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the various inquiries...
- Labour Mobility
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to seek a change to Ireland's current approach to the seven-year transition period for labour mobility as...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he intends to take to ensure the competitiveness of Irish industry, with particular reference to escalating costs...
- Regional Industrial Support
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the implications for State aid for Irish firms of new EU rules that State aid can only be provided in areas that cover 75%...
- Redundancy Statistics
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4068/06]
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for increasing the number of labour inspectors and improving the scope and effectiveness of such inspections that...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the Enterprise Ireland eligibility criteria for companies to include import substitution as an acceptable...
- Sustainable Development Strategy
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made to date in 2006 on the actions contained in his Department's sustainable development...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the events surrounding the closure of a construction site in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4061/06]
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in regard to his announcement of the recruitment of an additional 11 labour inspectors, the number who have been appointed...
- Employee Training Programmes
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on proposals from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions regarding the introduction of paid learning to enable workers...
- EU Directives
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has responded to the detailed questionnaire from the European Commission on the application here of the posting of...
- Science Policy
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the report of the international evaluation panel on Science Foundation Ireland; the measures he proposes to...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that Irish exporters are able to compete with their respective competitors on world markets; the recent...
- EU Directives
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives remaining to be implemented for which his Department has responsibility; the directives that are...
- Workplace Accidents
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the fact that according to the Health and Safety Authority 23 people were killed in workplace accidents in the...
- Jobs for People with Disabilities
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he intends to take to reduce the level of unemployment among people with disabilities; and if he will make a...
- Anti-Competitive Practices
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had communication regarding recent accusations of anti-competitiveness in the cement industry; if his Department...
- Employment Rights
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the investigation his Department has carried out into reports highlighted in the media of the treatment and subsequent...
- Trade Liberalisation
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the implications of the recent round of World Trade Organisation trade talks in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement...
- Regional Development
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for the Ballina and Mayo region in general in view of the Celtic tiger and that Ballina and Mayo as a county...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the labour inspectorate and the number of prosecutions initiated by the...
- Trade Liberalisation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress which has been made towards the establishment of a World Trade Organisation working group to examine non-tariff...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the complement of labour inspectors will be sufficient to ensure compliance with the legal duty on...
- Regional Development
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken to promote Youghal, County Cork in respect of industrial development to tackle the increasing...
- EU Directives
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position his Department has taken in European Union discussions on the services directive; the timetable for the...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in 2006 in appointing a new chief science adviser to the Government; and if he will make a...
- Wage Levels
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has evidence of the lowering of average wage levels within certain sectors of the Irish economy due to an...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he intends to take to deal with phony subcontracting in the construction sector which is playing a role in...
- Pyramid Selling
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of recent revelations regarding the inadequacy of the law on trading schemes, he intends to carry out a review...
- Employment Rights
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workers covered by registered employment agreements; and his plans to increase the number of employments...
- Job Losses
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the jobs lost in counties Wicklow and Carlow in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4106/06]
- Consumer Rights
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in 2006 with regard to implementation of the report of the consumer strategy group; and if he will...
- Information Technology Sector
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on recent research from Dublin City University which shows that job vacancies in the information technology sector...
- National Minimum Wage
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on wage rates within the tourism sector; and if he is satisfied that minimum wage regulations...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the outcome of the investigation his Department held into the circumstances in which 11 immigrant workers were reported to...
- Trade Missions
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the results of his recent visit to India; the contracts signed or trade agreements concluded; and if he will make a...
- EU Directives
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the resolution of the European Parliament of 15 January 2004 on the implementation of the posting of workers...
- Employment Rights
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to the investigation by the labour inspectorate into allegations of serious irregularities in regard...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the sacking of a shop steward with the union, Mandate, from their position in a company (details...
- Employment Support Services
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures which have been taken by his Department to afford assistance to management and staff at C & D Petfoods...
- Competition Law
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his view on the decision of the Competition Authority to interpret the Competition Act 2002 as prohibiting self-employed...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the implications of the Irish Ferries dispute on his Department's policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Job Losses
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the recent spate of factory closures, he intends to implement a monitoring system to establish the detailed...
- Legislative Programme
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is his intention to introduce legislation to provide for the creation of a new offence of corporate manslaughter as...
- Social Partnership
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in 2006 with regard to consideration of the discussion document covering the operation of the...
- Competition Law
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress on the competition agenda he expects to be made following the appointment of Mr. William J Prasifka as...
- Job Losses
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs he expects to be outsourced to overseas locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4065/06]
- Job Initiative
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he intends to take to attract new jobs to Cork following the news that 180 jobs at the GN ReSound plant were...
- Public Contracts
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had discussions with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on the need to ensure full...
- Job Creation
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created by the IDA in County Mayo in the past ten years; the location in the county of where these jobs...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 188: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions on which he has sought advice from public relations consultancy firms or individuals, media advisers or other non-established civil...
- Commemorative Events
Question 189: To ask the Taoiseach his views on having an all-Ireland annual memorial day for the Irish famine victims. [3823/06]
- National Disability Survey
Question 190: To ask the Taoiseach if work has begun on the national disability survey; if not, when same is due to begin; the terms of reference and scope of the survey; when he expects the...
- Public Sector Employment
Question 191: To ask the Taoiseach the reason data are not available on the average earnings of persons employed in the health area of the public service who represent more than one third of...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if funding is available for the person in view...
- Child Care Services
Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if financial assistance, funding or grants are available under the child care system for a person (details supplied) to...
- Health Services
Question 196: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 regarding an appointment with a psychologist; and if...
- Crisis Pregnancy Services
Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the Crisis Pregnancy Agency's work and the issue of reform. [3803/06]
- Health Services
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if the case will be examined; the reason there...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason payment of the mobility allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been discontinued. [3824/06]
- Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if physiotherapy and chiropractic treatment is available to medical card patients over 70 years of age in the Health...
- Organ Donation
Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to organ donation, if she agrees that everyone is considered to be an organ donor unless they opt out by...
- Health Funding
Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that there is an increase in the level of funding going to the Carers Association in order that carers...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services which are being put in place for the care and activation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 who is...
- HSE Correspondence
Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children with diabetes are being sent letters by the Health Service...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for an MRI scan; and if she will make a...
- Social Services
Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason social workers are not on duty after office hours during the week and at the weekend and public holidays; her...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the options regarding a long-term care plan for a person with an intellectual disability; and the services available on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average waiting time at the accident and emergency unit in Naas hospital for each of the past five years; and if she...
- Community Care
Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a day care centre to serve elderly residents in the Borrisokane, County Tipperary,...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of non-resident children who are EU nationals for whom the domiciliary care allowance is payable to parents...
- Cancer Services
Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made to date in 2006 in discussions with Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry in relation to sharing...
- Hospital Services
Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary has been denied the inpatient assessment in an adolescent...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Mayo with reference to previous parliamentary questions; if...
- Ambulance Service
Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position in respect of the ambulance from Baltinglass to Naas; the reason this service was discontinued on Wednesdays;...
- Asthma Incidence
Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people estimated to suffer from asthma; and if free or subsidised medical treatment or drugs will be made...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason it takes over six months for women in the Cork area to get the results of smear tests; and her proposals to deal...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork will be closed or downgraded; and if this psychiatric/geriatric hospital...
- Hospital Services
Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the services, range of activities and frequency of service provided at the oncology department at Mayo General Hospital; if...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the figure available for the domiciliary care allowance for 2004, 2005 and to date in 2006. [4076/06]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive north-west area has accepted that there is a...
- Patient Transfers
Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) cannot be transferred to a Health Service Executive centre; if the person's transfer...
- Alternative Medicine
Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is still engaging in alternative medicine can be condoned; the...
- Nursing Education
Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the requirements for registration in the general division of the register of nurses in respect of training received...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the high level of public concern regarding cervical cancer which was demonstrated in the petition of 55,000...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which the Health Service Executive can take the value of a house in the assessment for nursing home subvention,...
- Departmental Properties
Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of health establishments under lease agreement by the Health Service Executive nationally; the lengths of the...
- Health Services
Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 31 January 2006, the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 234: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment with an eye specialist at Waterford Regional Hospital will be arranged for a person (details...
- Medical Cards
Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the renewal of a medical card will be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny which is under...
- Health Services
Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if improved visiting rights will be granted for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if weekend visits will be...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging the appropriate procedure at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for a person (details...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has reported on its investigation into the death from vCJD of a person (details supplied)...
- Homeless Persons
Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of children reported homeless in Dublin in the year 2004-05; the programmes in place by the child care policy...
- Medical Cards
Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the requirement that medical card holders would have to pay for medical certification of fitness to drive was...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of beds which are available in general and emergency hospitals in 1997; the number which are available today;...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the new regulations regarding nursing home subvention in relation to funds available to the patient and the valuation of...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 25 January 2006 relating to phase 2B project at the Midlands Regional...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if ileostomy bags will be made available under the long-term illness scheme; and the reason they are not currently...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for each of the years 2002-05, inclusive. [4244/06]
- EU Regulations
Question 246: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of people for which her Department received over €420 million in respect of health treatments here for people...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is her policy to encourage the care of the elderly in the home as a first priority; the announcements she made in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be called for their hip replacement operation; and if she will make a...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for the provision of a mobile wheelchair for a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not...
- Organ Donation
Question 250: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the details in correspondence supplied there may be a case for re-examining the arrangements applying to...
- Health Services
Question 251: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if respite or hospitalisation will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 252: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average earnings of persons employed in the public health service, overall by main grouping; and the trend in these...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be given an urgent appointment for the diagnosis of a long-term medical...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to a parliamentary question of 26 January 2006, the commitments the Health Service Executive has made to Ennis...
- Health Services
Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an application for subvention for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be expedited and approved; if...
- Organ Donation
Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to meet the concerns regarding organ donation and transplantation of a person (details supplied) in...
- Nursing Homes
Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes in each county for the year 2005; the number, name and location of nursing homes on a county...
- Health Service Staff
Question 260: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will be pursued for a reply to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 29 November 2005 as she...
- Health Services
Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 22 November 2005, the status of an application regarding the post of speech...
- Hospital Inquiry
Question 262: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the report into the death of a person (details supplied) at Monaghan General Hospital will be published; and if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 263: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the development of Cherry Orchard Hospital as a community and lifestyle hospital; and if she will make a...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible within the provision of support mechanisms for biofuels to restrict duty exemption or other support mechanisms to fuels that are...
- Garda Stations
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects construction to begin on the new Garda station in Finglas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3997/06]
- Oireachtas Members' Remuneration
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Finance the pay scales of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, senior Ministers, Ministers of State, Deputies and Senators at the time of the 2002 general election;...
- Public Works Projects
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Finance when approval will be granted for the extension of a bridge at a location (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Certificates
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be furnished with a P21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3854/06]
- Official Residences
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is proposed to establish a Taoiseach's residence in Dublin; the location of same; the projected capital cost and the estimated annual running...
- Tax Code
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to meet the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford regarding the availability of capital tax allowance on Fáilte...
- Asbestos Remediation Programme
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Finance the location and number of Office of Public Works buildings at present being investigated or previously treated for the presence of asbestos; if the...
- Tax Certificates.
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Finance when the certificate of tax credits for 2006 will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3872/06]
- Tax Code
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax credit applicable for a married couple is allowable to EU nationals and non-EU nationals where the spouse is not a resident here. [3933/06]
- Garda Stations
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Finance the final number of submissions received under the public consultation process for the new Leixlip Garda station; the length of time it will take to...
- Tax Collection
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Finance when an investigation in relation to non-return of earnings and tax deductions for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in the tax year to...
- Flood Relief
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take responsibility for works needed to prevent flooding (details supplied) following numerous queries from affected residents; and if he...
- Tax Code
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a provision in the Finance Act 2006 to make farmers and other land owners exempt of the 20% capital gains tax that they have to pay...
- Legislative Programme
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Finance the legislation covering ethical investment; his plans to review same; the consultation he foresees on the matter; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Metropolitan Area Networks
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to Question No. 179 of 25 January 2006, the existing fibre networks which are being interoperated with...
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the feasibility studies which have been carried out by the Government with a view to providing natural gas from...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposed date for the publication of the Broadcasting Bill; his plans to appoint a single over-arching...
- Departmental Staff
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the qualifications the TAG has to enable it to have input into the Advantica report; and if he will make a...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the extent and nature of his recent correspondence with the European Commission with regard to data provided by...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when it is proposed to open the Marine Institute's new building in Maree, Oranmore, County Galway; the initial...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress he has made in introducing a scheme for the buy-out of drift-net fishermen; and if he will make a...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the decisions of the appeals officer in the determination of two sea-fishing...
- Pension Provisions
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the 673 pensioners who left Eircom in the second half of 1997 were not paid their bonus due on 31...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if regulations (details supplied) were each drafted in the Office of the Attorney General; if not, the reason...
- Metropolitan Area Networks
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he intends to roll-out the metropolitan area network to a town (details supplied) in County Cork. [4417/06]
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- International Agreements
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will sign and ratify the 1990 UN International Convention of the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and...
- Visa Applications
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who were processed by the visa office in December 2005; the number of different countries which were represented...
- Emigrant Supports
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress of his Irish abroad initiative; the assistance being provided to emigrant groups abroad; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when it is proposed that Ireland will ratify the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings; if his...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the claim by a former US marine, speaking in Trinity College, Dublin, that depleted uranium shells were carried on planes that...
- European Legislation
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the opinion of the European Court of Justice Advocate General Mr. Phillippe Léger that the EU-US passenger name records...
- Visa Applications
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether, with reference to the section of the quality customer service plan of his Department, entitled "improvements in visa services",...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of requests which have been received in each year since 2001 to allow foreign military personnel passing through ports and...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Drugs in Sport
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of cases reported to his Department of illegal use of substances in the greyhound industry by Bord Na gCon in each of the...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason a lottery grant (details supplied) was not taken up; if the issues preventing same have been resolved; and if it must now...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in view of the Attorney General's revision of the constitutionality of random breath testing, he believes that the...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding will be sanctioned for a club (details supplied) in County Kerry under the sports capital programme 2006. [4289/06]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- EU Directives
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position his Department has taken in EU discussions on the services directive; the timetable for the approval of the...
- Migrant Workers.
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to seek a change to Ireland's approach to the seven-year transition period for labour mobility as agreed under...
- EU Directives
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 121 to 125 of 4 February 1997 that set out the procedures relating to the position...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of his proposed visit to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4017/06]
- Enterprise Development Programme
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to extending the enterprise development programme to the south-east; and if he will make a...
- Community Enterprise Schemes
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the allocation of funding under the recently announced extension of the Enterprise Ireland community enterprise centre...
- Industrial Development
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for business and industry to locate at the business park at Askeaton, County Limerick in view of the fact that the...
- Job Creation
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Carrick-on-Suir will be prioritised for job creation and investment and to establish a jobs task force for the town in...
- Insurance Industry
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which insurance here, favourably or otherwise, compares with costs throughout the EU, with particular...
- Retail Sector Developments
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has satisfied himself that adequate legislative protection exists to prevent the emergence of a monopoly in the retail...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts he has made to identify the cause of rising costs to industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Job Losses
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the replacement jobs for those being lost at a company (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if child-minders who avail of the new child-minding relief will be able to access maternity benefit or contributory pensions in...
- Information Technology Initiatives
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects the first early childhood supplement to be made; the information technology implications for his Department of the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused unemployment assistance or benefit; if that person will be...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to the fact that under secondary legislation it is a condition of entitlement to social welfare allowance rent supplement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the point at which a delay in deciding an appeal to a designated officer for appeals regarding social welfare allowance rent...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people currently in receipt of unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance; the percentage of the labour force...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of staff in his Department who have expressed an interest in moving to Donegal town under the decentralisation...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for the first time in nine years participants on the Moving On programme (details...
- Department of Transport
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Search and Rescue Service
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 15 November 2005, the position in relation to providing proper facilities for the Doolin coast guard...
- Road Safety
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Transport when his Department first received representations from an association (details supplied) for the provision of the mandatory fitting of so-called...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Transport the facilities which are in place for the physical application of penalty points on current driving licences; the degree of co-operation between...
- Rail Services
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding plans for the reinstatement of the Dublin-Navan rail line; and if resources will be made available to ensure that this...
- Driving Tests
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Transport if stage one of the recruitment process for driver testers has taken place; and when successful candidates will have undertaken all phases of...
- State Airports
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his confirmation by way of reply to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 9 March 2005 that red zones at the State airports were formally...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Transport further to confirmation by way of reply to Parliamentary Question No. 845 of 25 January 2006 that Aer Rianta operated extensive commercial car...
- Road Safety
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on giving the responsibility for investigation of fatal road crashes and related dangerous occurrences over to the Health and Safety...
- Provisional Driving Licences
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to put an end to the ban on provisional licence holders driving on the motorways here. [3964/06]
- Traffic Management
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Transport when his task force reported to him; when a decision will be made on a possible ban on super size trucks; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Driving Tests
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of driver testers he expects to recruit from the Department of Agriculture and Food staff; the level of interest and applications...
- Road Signage
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 413 of 31 January 2006, when the new traffic signs manual will be completed; when it will be published; if it...
- Bus Corridors
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Transport the outcome of the pilot bus corridors operated on the hard shoulders of motorways. [4181/06]
- Driving Tests
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Transport if attempts to retrain staff from the Department of Agriculture and Food to deal with the driving test backlog are in disarray; and the new...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 15 December 2005 the funding received by each body under the aegis of his Department in 2005 and the...
- Transport Regulations
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which a person who has experience on tachograph readings and so on and who is undertaking courses in this field of activity can qualify...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the breakdown on a county basis of the amount of funding provided by his Department in the years 2003, 2004 and 2005;...
- Peace Programmes
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the Government will commit itself to supporting the European Parliament amendment, which adds to the remit of the...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received the single farm payments; and if she will make a statement on...
- Animal Feed Imports
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the quantity of oilseed rape and the forms in which oilseed rape was imported into Ireland over the past three years up until December...
- Pest Control
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures which are being taken to prevent the spread of New Zealand and Australian flatworms here that pose a threat to the native...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to the early farm retirement if she will honour her commitment regarding entitlement and the way in which same will affect...
- Grant Payments
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she will take to protect the entitlements of farmers in the ERS 2 where they are unable to lease out entitlements or where...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the contributory pensions of both spouses are deducted from the ERS pension when a farmer in the ERS in joint management...
- Animal Diseases
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to concerns that elephants imported by Dublin Zoo may have a disease (details supplied) which if passed...
- Grant Payments
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick received a reduced sheep subsidy. [3877/06]
- Assisted Animal Reproduction
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on offering funding for a beef quality initiative (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3945/06]
- Grant Payments
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is having a problem with his single payment scheme on the...
- EU Directives
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the nitrates directive will be withdrawn and sensible regulations introduced that protect the income and livelihoods of all farmers;...
- Grant Payments
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if all moneys due in entitlements will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and the breakdown of all moneys to be...
- Forestry Retirement Scheme
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of increase in the forestry retirement pension; when this increase will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Milk Quota
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding and application of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick for an allocation of entitlements from the...
- Poultry Industry
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if it is the policy of her Department that poultry with an outbreak of mycoplasma gallisepticum will be depopulated; and if so, the...
- Sugar Industry
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the circumstances under which a restructuring levy will need to be awarded by sugar processors; if a company (details supplied) will be...
- Suckler Cow Quota
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the outcome of an application for extra suckler cow quota from the national reserve for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
- Grant Payments
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who has been informed that the Department has not been able to...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in view of the Government policy of rural proofing and due to the fact that all Government policies have to be rural proofed, the...
- Grant Payments
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason slaughter premium was not awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo on a particular animal from the person's...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Foreign Secret Services Abductions
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is aware of the carrying out of abductions by foreign secret services on the State's territory or that of other...
- Missing Persons
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding will be put in place to reinstate the missing persons helpline. [3837/06]
- Adoptive Leave
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to regulate maternity leave for families who adopt children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3900/06]
- Garda Complaints Procedures
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has been informed of allegations that members of An Garda Síochána were allegedly involved in an unprovoked attack...
- Traffic Management
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his expert committee, which chose Thornton site for the proposed new prison, ignored the traffic issues that...
- Visa Applications
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a visa will be granted to a person (details supplied). [3822/06]
- Prison Staff
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances that led to the cancellation of an examination in December 2005 to evaluate the suitability of basic grade...
- Diplomatic Representation.
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, prior to the decision to advance the funds necessary to facilitate the payment of a bond as detailed in Parliamentary...
- Asylum Applications
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if asylum will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Louth on the grounds that she has an Irish born child....
- Prison Accommodation
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners in Arbour Hill Prison; the position regarding the future of Arbour Hill Prison; and if he has had...
- International Agreements
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the Government's plans in respect of the adoption of the Schengen [i]acquis, [/i]the Governments...
- Visa Applications
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a visa will be made available to a person (details supplied). [3883/06]
- Garda Deployment
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if An Garda Síochána foot patrols on Philipsburgh Avenue, Dublin 3 will be improved. [3890/06]
- Asylum Applications
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if assistance will be given to persons (details supplied) to remain here. [3891/06]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 28 June 2005, the position in respect of the provision of the closed circuit...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the views of officials (details supplied) who are involved in implementation of the Garda Síochána Bill 2005 reflect...
- Garda Equipment
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress on the programme to increase Garda visibility and mobility by providing them with mountain bikes; the number of...
- Registration of Title
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application in the Land Registry Office for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
- Garda Investigations
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda file of the arrest of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has been examined by his Department or if it...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the implementation of the national disability strategy; the procedures in place for the preparation...
- Coroners Service
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the lengthy delays in grieving families receiving post mortem results in the greater...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if discussions are still under way regarding the acquisition of a site for monitoring the Garda closed circuit television...
- Garda Investigations
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances surrounding the arrest, handcuffing and imprisonment of a person (details supplied) in County Meath for...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the location of the closed circuit television camera in County Mayo; the towns in which they are located; the towns which...
- Garda Complaints Board
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that the Garda Síochána Complaints Board has sufficient resources at its disposal to carry out a...
- Crime Prevention
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action being taken to combat crime in Ballycullen, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4015/06]
- Garda Strength
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the capacity of the Garda driving and training school; and his plans to increase its capacity to take on the work of...
- Land Registry
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the fee income received and the surplus paid to the Exchequer by the Land Registry Office and Registry of Deeds Office in...
- Garda Training
Question 442: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who held a firearms permit on 31 December 2004 and 2005; if steps have been taken to significantly...
- Garda Investigations
Question 443: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures in place in Garda stations for the secure storage of items of evidence and cash seized from suspects; the...
- Visa Applications
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a visa application for persons (details supplied) in County Cork. [4042/06]
- Garda Deployment
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí appointed to immigration duties at Knock Airport on a daily basis; if the gardaí doing immigration...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application by a person (details supplied) for leave to remain here under section 3 of...
- Land Registry
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for a first registration (details supplied) based on possession which was lodged on 22 October...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes strengthening the legislation to protect against human trafficking, particularly in the context of abuse of...
- Garda Deployment
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí attached to the Limerick city division at the end of January 2006; the number assigned to each Garda...
- Drug Seizures
Question 452: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of drugs seized in the Dublin South-East area between 2004 and 2005; the breakdown of these drugs; the street...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 453: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the extent of trafficking of women for sexual exploitation to and within Europe; if his attention has been...
- Visa Applications
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made in the visa application of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [4248/06]
- Registration of Title
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for registration for a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be completed; and if he will make...
- Asylum Applications
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration he has given to the case made to him that aged out minors should be permitted to remain here; his response...
- EU Directives
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the gender equal treatment directive (details supplied) which was due to be fully implemented by 5 October 2005 has been...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in accordance with the recommendations made in July 2005 by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...
- Deportation Orders
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the proposed deportation of a person (details supplied) who arrived here in 2003 unaccompanied by parents or...
- Sexual Offences
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if prisoners convicted of crimes of extreme violence for example aggravated rape are psychiatrically assessed prior to...
- Youth Diversion Projects
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the funding made available to Garda youth diversion projects will be substantially increased as the running costs of...
- Sexual Offences
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 served their full sentence for aggravated rape; if the Garda Síochána in this...
- Drug Seizures
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 has been charged in connection with the possession of €5,000 worth of illegal...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the breakdown of the convictions for drink-driving in respect of blood, urine and breath samples in each of the years...
- Asylum Applications
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for family reunification for a person (details supplied); the apparent delay in this...
- Visa Applications
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the application of a person (details supplied) for a visitor's visa to Ireland; and the...
- Sentencing Policy
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes to introduce compulsory community service along with fines to all guilty non-custodial offenders in order...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Curriculum
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, due to the number of deaths of young people that has occurred on roads here, she will introduce safe driving techniques as part of...
- School Transport
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grants or assistance which will be given to the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in order to provide...
- Psychological Service
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the fees for the psychological educational assessment report on a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be waived; and if...
- School Transport
Question 474: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not been facilitated with school transport; and if she will make a statement...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 476: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will publish the review of disadvantaged status for schools as promised in 2005; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the application for an extension submitted to her Department by a school (details supplied) in...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 478: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary school children in classes of more than 30; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3861/06]
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 482: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason primary teachers with postgraduate qualifications in learning support do not receive the allowance that teachers with...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding which is available from her Department to replace the windows in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of...
- School Accommodation
Question 485: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 486: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if 100% funding under the summer works scheme will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 487: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary and second level schools in County Westmeath that are classified as disadvantaged; and the additional benefits available to...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 489: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a laptop will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo as recommended by the child psychologist. [3952/06]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount that will be allocated to a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 under the summer works scheme 2006 for gas...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a final report from the National Council for Special Education regarding an application to establish a school...
- Education Welfare Service
Question 492: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the figures for the school year 2004-05 of students in schools in Blanchardstown and Castleknock that have been reported to the...
- School Staffing
Question 495: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funds will be made available in order that a second person may be appointed to the remaining 13 one-teacher schools here on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 496: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to have mechanical and electrical work carried out;...
- School Accommodation
Question 497: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views regarding correspondence (details supplied); the action she intends or proposes to take in regard to the concerns expressed...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 498: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kildare was not successful in its application for the summer works scheme 2006; and if...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 499: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding her efforts to expedite a decision to fund and progress the proposed building programme at a school (details...
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to extend entitlements to participate in the vocational training opportunities scheme to people returning to the workforce,...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 501: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that a school (details supplied) has been waiting approximately 12 years for the school extension and with the...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 502: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be provided to extend the parking spaces at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to ensure safety of the...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 503: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of information from the Department of Health and Children that the Regina Coeli Hostel was subject to its inspection, the...
- School Absenteeism
Question 504: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students reported to the education welfare board for absenteeism in the school year September 2004-June 2005 in the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 505: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's policy in relation to the circumstances when it is appropriate to provide education for children who suffer from...
- Education Schemes
Question 508: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if financial support is available to assist a person (details supplied) in County Louth who has returned to education; and if she will...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 509: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the proposed nature of the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 9 has been agreed within the schools and with her...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 510: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will arrange to have an appeal organised in respect of an application for a higher education grant by a person...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 511: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that funding will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Cork to repair and replace the drains under...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 513: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a maintenance grant has not been approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the decision...
- Home-School Liaison Scheme
Question 514: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of providing home tuition grants to children with autism who were attending school in 2005; and if she will make a statement...
- Languages Programme
Question 515: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 532 of 31 January 2006 the name and location of each school where inspections of Irish were...
- School Inspections
Question 516: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the regulations she has signed in regard to school inspection reports will include written inspection reports on Irish at junior and...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 517: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in refunding spouses and children's contributions to single teachers who retired on 31 August 2005; and when...
- School Staffing
Question 518: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in exceptional cases, she has the discretion to create A1 posts in secondary schools for designated purposes; and if she will make...
- School Inspections
Question 519: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the name and location of each post primary, secondary, vocational and community and comprehensive schools in the current school year;...
- Irish Language
Question 521: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she proposes to provide extra teaching resources in order that young male applicants can improve leaving certificate...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 523: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether autism is a spectrum disorder and the only solution to the needs of each child is an individual spectrum...
- Department of Defence
- Airport Safety Zones
Question 524: To ask the Minister for Defence further to his confirmation by way of reply to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 13 December 2005 that the red safety areas at Casement Aerodrome are...
- Defence Forces Discharge
Question 525: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason a person (details enclosed) in County Clare is being discharged from the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pension Entitlements
Question 526: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason retired army non-commissioned officers and privates have to date in 2006 not received increases in their pensions arising from...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Motor Taxation
Question 527: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected in 2000, 2004 and 2005. [4212/06]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 528: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding for RAPID areas will be made available to South Dublin County Council in 2006 to improve the...
- Turbary Rights
Question 529: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if turf cutting will be allowed in the future in a townland (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3844/06]
- Road Network
Question 530: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of kilometres or miles of non-national routes per local authority area. [3930/06]
- Local Authority Funding
Question 531: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the non-national road grants payable to each local authority for each of the past three years. [3931/06]
- Motor Taxation
Question 533: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason motorists, who are obliged by financial constraints to pay their motor tax on a quarterly basis,...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 534: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of a new sewerage scheme for Askeaton, County Limerick. [4141/06]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 535: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to Monaghan County Council for disabled person's grants for 2006; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 537: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if responsibility for new housing developments' compliance with disability requirements of part M of the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 541: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the water supply scheme will be upgraded at Adare/Patrickswell, County Limerick. [4180/06]
- Environmental Policy
Question 542: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of revenue which has been generated by the plastic bag levy since its introduction; and if he will...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 543: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received contract documents in respect of the application for funding for a sewerage...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 546: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to bring in regulations limiting the employment options available to county managers and...
- Voluntary Housing
Question 547: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the demand among NABCO housing tenants to purchase their houses; the...
- Planning Issues
Question 549: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will appoint a member representing the IRDA to An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Grants
Question 550: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory instrument under which the maximum grant allowed under the disabled person's grant scheme is...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 551: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the timetable for the provision of a sewerage scheme in Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath; if he will ensure...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 554: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1352 of 28 September 2005 the limitations placed on local authorities in...
- Grant Payments
Question 555: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of a cessation of turf-cutting scheme application form for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when it is proposed to provide a sewerage scheme for the village of Ballyheane, Castlebar, County Mayo; and if...
