Written answers
Thursday, 23 February 2006
- Department of Defence
- EU Battle Groups
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Defence the type of activities that Irish troops serving in EU battle groups will be involved in; if activities will be confined to intervention in conflict or...
- Defence Forces Personnel
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received a report from the chief of staff of the Defence Forces further to his request for an investigation into whether or not some members...
- Defence Forces Appointments
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Defence the circumstances surrounding the appointment of a medical professional (details supplied) to minister to troops in Liberia; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Personnel
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Force personnel currently on service overseas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7204/06]
- Medical Facilities
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Defence the level of capacity at military hospitals or convalescent facilities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7211/06]
- Defence Forces Investigations
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence the actions he will take following the publication of the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Defence if there will be an update to the regulations governing minimum height for entry to the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Aerial Surveillance
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to seek repayment from Irish banks for the cost of providing aerial surveillance by the Air Corps; the estimated annual cost accruing to the...
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to criticism by Comhairle Fo-Thuinn, the Irish Underwater Council, of the Naval Service's diving capability following...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Defence if he continues to hold the view that allowing larger aircraft which could land and, more particularly, take off from Weston is undesirable, as their...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Defence the position with regard to decentralisation in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7190/06]
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Defence the strength of the Defence Forces; the extent to which it might be advisable to increase the numbers in view of the likely overseas postings under...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the €36.5 million contract he signed in December 2005 with Mowag for 15 additional Piranha armoured vehicles for the Defence...
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has carried out, or intends to carry out, a study into the impact of sea-going time on naval personnel retention; the impact on the families of...
- Defence Forces Investigations
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Defence the position concerning the investigation into allegations regarding the misappropriation of funds by two quartermasters; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of nuclear, chemical and biological suits available to the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7216/06]
- Commemorative Events
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Defence the Government plans to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme later in 2006; if there will be military involvement in any...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Defence the position concerning the inquiry into allegations of the theft of diesel by a member of the Defence Forces in Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Departments or agencies with responsibility for emergency planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7191/06]
- Common Foreign and Defence Policy
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Defence the agenda of 7 March 2006 meeting of the European Defence Agency; his views on whether Ireland, along with other EU states must spend more on defence...
- Overseas Missions
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Defence the procedures that are used to vet the qualifications and employment records of all non-Defence Forces staff who are employed to work directly with...
- Avian Flu
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces have had a role in advance planning for treating a possible outbreak of avian flu here; if the Defence Forces may be called upon...
- United Nations Reform
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will expand on comments made at the ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of Ireland's membership of the United Nations that crucial to UN...
- Hearing Impairment Claims
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Defence the efforts he has made to address complaints that have been made against solicitors who may have overcharged clients making Army deafness claims; if...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Defence if and when members of the Reserve Defence Forces will be able to serve overseas; if legislation is required to enable such a provision; if so, the...
- Overseas Missions
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Defence the new tasks and responsibilities that have been given to Irish troops serving in Liberia following the expansion of their operation to provide...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Defence the steps being taken to increase the number of female recruits to the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7193/06]
- EU Battle Groups
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on statements by Finland's Ministry of Defence highlighting the close link between EU battle groups and NATO. [7420/06]
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that speech therapy services will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Recruitment Procedures
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to complaints in relation to recruitment procedures with the Safefood agency. [7558/06]
- Health Service Staff
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an alleged verbal assault on a member of staff by another member of staff at a hospital (details supplied) will be...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if core funding will be provided for community employment positions currently supporting personal social services for people...
- Health Services
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who are on waiting lists to see consultants at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan; the length of time each...
- Avian Flu
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of other countries stockpiling anti-viral drugs to combat a possible pandemic of A1 flu virus, the preparations...
- Civil Registration Service
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to an increase in the fee for photocopying birth, marriage and death certificates; and its...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a bed was provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in the Galway Regional Hospital on 15 February 2005; if...
- Hospital Staff
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost of non-medical consultants to each hospital for each year since 1997 to date in 2006. [7557/06]
- Hospital Procedures
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when hip replacement surgery will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Child Care Services
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the procedures to be followed to safeguard the well being of a juvenile deemed to be under the influence of older, unrelated...
- Medical Cards
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards and doctor-only medical cards issued in Kildare in 2003, 2004 and 2005; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the evaluation of the provision of front line therapy services by the Health Service Executive as it relates to demand for...
- Medical Cards
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a response will be expedited....
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the commencement of a further development stage of a project (details supplied) in County Cork;...
- Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the Health Service Executive, south-east region, proposals for cancer services transport are...
- Traveller Community
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the further plans she has to improve circumstances of the Traveller community; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Finance
- Customs and Excise
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason all non-draught alcohol products, bottles, cans, cartons and plastic bottles, do not have a traceable excise stamp carried thereon; his...
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Departmental Offices
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has approved the sanction for a temporarydistrict livestock office in Drumshambo, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadcasting Legislation
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has completed the review of the submissions he received regarding the televising of the Ryder Cup free to...
- State Agencies
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there have been a number of complaints from ESB customers...
- Electricity Charges
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the steps available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who is not being charged the correct rate per...
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the final costs of infrastructure required to bring natural gas to Galway; and the comparison between the end...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
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Emigrant Support Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the intervention he has made or plans to make in the effort to secure rights of residency for Irish people working in the USA; his assessment...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Factories Regulations
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if SI 203 of 1972, Factories (Woodworking Machinery) Regulations 1972, is still in force; if the statutory instrument has...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the maximum period of backdated payments which his Department will make where persons were unaware of their entitlements; the...
- Social Insurance
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has received correspondence (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances outlined; if the...
- Traveller Community
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the further plans he has to improve circumstances of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7640/06]
- Department of Transport
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport the strength of the air and sea rescue service; if any augmentation is required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7592/06]
- Road Network
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the huge number of people who are excluded from using the motorways here due to the lack of service stops; his...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide information to this Deputy within a reasonable time of the minimum and maximum penalty that applies to each road traffic...
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a person from Clare Island, County Mayo, in advanced labour and a patient of Mayo General Hospital, who was airlifted by the Air Corps...
- Rail Network
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his failure to address the issue in his response to a submission in Dáil Éireann on 16 February 2006, if the Government intends to...
- Driving Tests
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport if a CPC certificate can be issued to a person who has passed each section of the test separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Transport the stance Ireland has taken on the harmonisation across all European states of the blood-alcohol threshold level for driving; the action he has...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport the changes in law he intends making in respect of mandatory retesting for drivers convicted under a drink-driving offence; the way in which and...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount accruing to his Department in 2005 from penalties imposed under section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1994; the number of cases this...
- Road Safety
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to encourage more additional training of drivers in order to reduce the number of road accidents; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount which has been spent in tackling drug abuse by each regional drug task forces since their establishment;...
- Grant Payments
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of grant applications submitted or received in his Department from locally based community groups here in...
- Traveller Community
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the further plans he has to improve circumstances of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Poultry Industry
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department at any time compensated for the slaughter of poultry following an outbreak of mycoplasma gallisepticum. [7563/06]
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Sugar Beet Sector
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to CAP reform in respect of the EU sugar regime, which she negotiated, the extent to which Irish beet growers are likely to have...
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Grant Payments
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the farm payments made to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be reviewed; if the correct acreage is being used; and...
- Milk Quota
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the procedure for a milk producer who has extra milk quota that is required for use by a local cheese manufacturer; and if she will make...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Residency Permits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will issue a travel document to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick to enable them to travel to London to...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who have been prosecuted each year from 2000 to date in 2006 for driving a small public service vehicle...
- Registration of Title
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a land registry application for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
- Public Order Offences
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the serious disruption to public order in Leixlip village, County Kildare on weekend...
- Deportation Orders
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to ensure that an application for residency status by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath...
- Visa Applications
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Question No. 444 of 7 February 2006 if a person (details supplied) can stay here indefinitely; and if he will...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bus drivers, public and private, prosecuted for breaking the speed limits; and if he will make a statement on...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if fines for restaurants which sell alcohol without a licence are outdated and ineffective; his plans to update the law in...
- Residency Permits
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residential status of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7574/06]
- Visas Applications
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 9 February 2006, the procedure to be followed in an application for a visa in...
- Residency Permits
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed in order to obtain a national passport in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Deportation Orders
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if consideration has been given to the threat of persecution, torture, or other life-threatening conditions in the event of...
- Missing Persons
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a helpline for families of missing persons is not established on a permanent basis; and if he will make a...
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Registration of Title
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the arrangements which are in place to make current maps available in the Land Registry office in either hard or digital...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11 was closed; the alternative options which exist with regard to...
- Crime Prevention
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the powers afforded to gardaí to stop and search for knives; and the statutory basis for same. [7624/06]
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount which has been set aside for 2006 to commence implementing the McIvor report on further education; and if she will make a...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of Ireland's aim to cherish equally the children of the nation, the reason 77 children in a classroom in a school in a...
- School Curriculum
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects her review of the senior cycle Irish curriculum to be complete; and when she expects that this will be published. [7497/06]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application for home tuition for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow has been received by her Department; if her...
- School Enrolments
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who attend schools here from the ages of four to 18; the breakdown of these figures into primary and secondary...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on fact that two third level science programmes (details supplied) will be delivered at Dundalk Institute of Technology in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the development of a community school (details supplied) in County Cork. [7544/06]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to expand the role of the special educational needs organiser beyond organising educational supports to one of...
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Early Childhood Education
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the value she places on pre-school education in the context of the education system; if she intends moving towards a situation where...
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students in post-leaving certificate courses and in dispersed VTOS in the 2004-05 school year and the 2005/2006 school...
- Irish Language
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the procedures and regulations which underpin the current elections of parents, teachers and patrons' representatives to the new board...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the main findings of the recently published Review of Occupational Health and Safety in the Technologies in Post-Primary...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Property
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Defence the remaining property owned by his Department in Crosshaven in view of the imminent transfer of property at Fort Camden, Crosshaven, County Cork set...
- Defence Forces Training
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Defence if special training will be required for Irish troops participating in EU battlegroups; the nature of such training; and if he will make a statement...
- Naval Service Missions
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Defence if he expects the Naval Service to participate in EU missions associated with proposed battlegroups; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Defence the full extent of moneys realised from rent or disposal of military installation since 1998; the amount of such or extra funds spent on upgrading...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Recycling Policy
Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all of the output of recyclable material from the south east...
- Property Disposals
Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is holding an inquiry into the disposal by Limerick City Council of a portion of the Peoples' Park in...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if money has been allocated during the current year for the Duleek and Donore, County Meath sewerage schemes;...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide additional funding in 2006 to Roscommon County Council to upgrade cul-de-sac roads under...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 179: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who is not being charged the correct rate per...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to an application for sheltered housing by an association (details supplied) in County...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any 2005 funding for the disabled persons grant scheme has been returned to his Department from any local...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a restriction on the number of local authority housing waiting lists on which an applicant may be...
- Planning Issues
Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the responsibilities which he intends should not be shifted from local authorities to private management...
- Traveller Community
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the further plans he has to improve circumstances of the Traveller community; and if he will make a statement...
