Written answers
Wednesday, 29 March 2006
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Sugar Industry
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to protect sugar beet growers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12035/06]
- Animal Welfare
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a report will be issued by her Department on the case of animal health problems such as high mortality, stunted growth and low milk...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the grant aid which will be made available to small farmers to manage rainwater under the nitrates action plan; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the delay in issuing the single farm payment to farmers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12045/06]
- EU Directives
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of the nitrates directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12032/06]
- Export Refunds
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the impact which the abolition of pre-financing of export refunds would have on the Irish food industry; and if she will make a statement...
- Animal Welfare
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 4 October 2005, the steps she intends to take in that regard; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the grant assistance available in the bio-energy and agri-environment areas under the research stimulus fund. [12209/06]
- Food Industry
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her key priorities under the recently announced action plan for the agrifood sector. [12210/06]
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Infectious Diseases
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of her Department's efforts to detect and combat avian influenza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9501/06]
- Direct Sales
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will liaise with the Department of the Environment and Local Government to put in place a strategy to allow farmers engage in...
- Export Refunds
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to retain pre-financing of export refunds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12015/06]
- Gender Equality
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she has taken, within the context of her responsibilities in respect of agricultural households, to implement Ireland's...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on progress on the introduction of the new farm waste management scheme to assist farmers meet the requirements of the nitrates...
- Export Refunds
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the way in which she plans to secure the current pre-payment procedure for export refunds; and if she will make a statement on the...
- EU Directives
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the means she has or will put in place to encourage cultivation of crops in rotations which have a high nitrogen uptake such as stubble...
- Food Industry
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will comment on her initiative to promote local and regional food economies. [12202/06]
- Sugar Industry
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the distribution of the compensation package arising from the demise of the sugar beet industry here; and if she will make...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of the World Trade Organisation talks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12039/06]
- Food Industry
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the future expansion and development of the food producing sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12220/06]
- Animal Welfare
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action her Department takes to ensure Irish entities conform to European standards on enforceability, animal health and welfare and...
- Export Refunds
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her position regarding the abolition of export credit refunds by the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12058/06]
- Departmental Funding
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the themes of the latest round of research projects to be grant aided under the food institutional research measure. [12206/06]
- Forestry Sector
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the value of the forestry sector to the economy here; and the number of jobs involved in the sector. [12198/06]
- Farm Waste Management
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the way in which she expects the new scheme of investment aid for waste management to proceed; and the advice she has for farmers...
- Grant Payments
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payments will be made under the national reserve; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12024/06]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the prospects of REP scheme three in 2006 and on progress in the REP scheme four consultation process. [12207/06]
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Infectious Diseases
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department's strategy in dealing with the threat of avian flu among the wild bird population. [9584/06]
- Grant Payments
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when all farmers will be issued with their single farm payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12030/06]
- Dairy Industry
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had at EU level to protect dairy supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12034/06]
- Vaccination Programme
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to introduce a bovine vaccination programme for tuberculosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12006/06]
- EU Directives
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her role to date on the implementation of the nitrates action plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12027/06]
- Food Labelling
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she is taking to end the fraudulent and dangerous practise of agricultural produce being imported and labelled in restaurants...
- Food Agency Co-operation Council
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of meetings of the Food Agency Co-Operation Council in 2004 and 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12052/06]
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will give a report on the incident of illegally imported Syngenta BT 10 GM maize, 2,500 tonnes of which was stored in a shed at a...
- Live Exports
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on progress on the recommencement of live sheep exports to the continent. [12208/06]
- Milk Quota
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the future operation of the milk quota system here. [12211/06]
- Seed Potato Sector
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the assistance available to the seed potato sector; and her plans for the sector. [12205/06]
- Bio-Energy Crops
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to develop the biofuel sector; the discussions she has had with the Department of Communications, Marine and...
- Beef Exports
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on prospects for Irish beef exports to continental Europe in 2006. [12203/06]
- Animal Remedies Regulations
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of the animal remedies regulations; the discussions to date with the EU on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Animal Welfare
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she intends to take to develop an all Ireland animal health regime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12036/06]
- Dairy Industry
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who were involved in milk production on 1 January 1998; the number who are now involved; the number she expects to...
- Animal Diseases
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the incidence of BSE and brucellosis in cattle herd in 2005 compared with 2003 and 2004; and if she intends to introduce...
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her position on the release of genetically modified potatoes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12056/06]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures she intends to take to address the problems experienced by farmers in the Shannon Callows, as a result of current proposals...
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on proposals to change EU law to enable the European Food Safety Authority to conduct its own scientific assessments of the...
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Afforestation Programme
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the prospects for forestry planting in 2006. [12197/06]
- Foodstuffs Provision
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the commodities in which the European Union is sufficient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12227/06]
- Export Refunds
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the removal of the current pre-payment procedure for export refunds at EU level is the first step to the complete...
- EU Directives
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the role her Department has in assisting farmers to comply with terms of the nitrates directive. [12175/06]
- Sugar Industry
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans for the future utilisation of lands previously used to grow sugar beet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12011/06]
- Horticulture Industry
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the progress in expanding the horticulture sector here. [12204/06]
- EU Directives
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of Ireland's application for a derogation under the nitrates directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12049/06]
- Animal Diseases
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the funding provided by her Department for the control of varroa in bees; the funding specifically available to beekeepers to control...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the action she intends to take to reduce the incidents of farm accidents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12236/06]
- Food Safety Standards
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is satisfied that all meat and poultry products imported here conform to EU and Irish traceability, production and processing...
- Grant Payments
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she intends aiding digesters and other new technology to deal with pig and poultry manure arising from the application of the...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to implement the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food's report on the early retirement scheme; and...
- Animal Diseases
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide this Deputy with copies of presentations made (details supplied); and the person who represented Ireland at those...
- EU Directives
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether an integrated rural environment research centre is necessary in the wake of the nitrates directive chaos where...
- Food Labelling
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to establish an all-island food label; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12031/06]
- Departmental Submission
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if Ireland has submitted results (details supplied) to the European Union; if so, when; if not, the reason for same; if she will provide...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps which she is taking to encourage the planting of forestry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12054/06]
- EU Directives
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the aspects of the nitrates directive Ireland which were found to be in breach by the European Court of Justice in 2004; if she will...
- Forestry Sector
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason her Department has not sought a prosecution in the case of an alleged illegal felling of 71 mature native trees (details...
- Organic Farming
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the percentage of agricultural land and the acreage which is certified as organic in each EU member state in each of the past ten years;...
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to evaluate the economic implications of the use of genetically modified organisms; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Land Management
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the means she has or will put in place to promote the planting of cover crops over winter to reduce nitrate losses and soil erosion....
- Environmental Policy
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the areas of research that have been identified by her Department into bio-fuels; the action which has been taken to ensure research in...
- Animal Welfare
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of animal welfare officers here; the steps she is taking to ensure good animal welfare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Beef Imports
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she is satisfied with Brazilian beef imports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12043/06]
- Tuberculosis Incidence
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to review the tuberculosis eradication programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12007/06]
- Veterinary Service
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to provide a countrywide and weekend veterinary service for the issue of prescriptions for animal remedies; and...
- Animal Welfare
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of cases involving animal welfare problems which were dealt with by her Department's district veterinary offices in each of...
- Live Exports
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure adequate shipping capacity for the live export of calves to continental Europe; and if she will make a statement on...
- Sugar Industry
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the outcome of her meeting on 21 March 2006 with a delegation from Mallow, County Cork, to discuss the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Care of the Elderly
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding will become available to the mid western region for care packages to provide home care grants for elderly...
- Medical Cards
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she stands by her statement in Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 7 March 2006 that the long-term illness scheme provides...
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Infectious Diseases
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding preparations to deal with an outbreak of avian flu; and if all necessary supplies have been ordered...
- Health Services
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding that was provided to Peamount Hospital for the last five years of its operation towards the treatment...
- Child Care Services
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she will put in place to ensure that all crèches and child care facilities are inspected on a regular basis...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding illegal nursing home charges in so far as it applies to persons who were not considered [i]compos...
- Health Services
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the action she has taken to ensure that home help service providers are being fairly treated in respect of their contracts;...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of working groups and committees that she and her Ministers of State have set up since she has come to that...
- Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if financial assistance will be provided to the Irish Society for Autism to assist it with the running costs attached to...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the directive she has given to the Health Service Executive to implement greater consistency to the different levels of...
- Child Care Services
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will re-assess the application for funding for a group (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Strategy Statements
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 197 and 198 of 15 February 2006, when the formulation of recreation policy for young...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason elderly medical card holders are being required to pay for certificates from doctors in order to avail of...
- Health Services
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive has not responded to a request from a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 8 for...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a hospital (details supplied) in County Wexford has been included in the Health Service Executive capital plan for 2006...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a directive as Department policy will be given to the Health Service Executive exempting a persons home from inclusion...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have availed of the BreastCheck diagnosis in Kildare for each of the past three years; if the...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the urgency and importance of the issues raised in Question No. 198 of 28 February 2006, she will intervene...
- Health Services
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will give financial assistance to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [12456/06]
- Home Help Service
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will consider the provision of home help in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of unconcluded court actions before the courts in which her Department is participating regarding the provision...
- Health Service Projects
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the review of PPARS has been completed; if she has been informed of the outcome; if she will publish the findings of...
- Department of Finance
- Civil Service Recruitment
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people with intellectual disabilities who are employed in the Civil Service; and if there are plans to recruit more under the 3%...
- National Parks
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement in relation to the project steering committee, chaired by the Office of Public Works, in respect of the Liffey Valley...
- Tax Collection
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax which has been received by the Revenue Commissioners arising from taxable income gained from pyramid schemes. [12328/06]
- Tax Code
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a recent court case concerning companies (details supplied) in which evidence was given of arrangements in respect...
- Freedom of Information
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 21 March 2006, the reason a fee of €150 was charged by the Office of the Information Commissioner in...
- Tax Code
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to increase the tax credit in regard to certain fees paid to private colleges from the present €5,000 maximum relief to cater for...
- Tax Collection
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a large number of certificates of tax credits which are normally issued in early January have not been issued causing in many instances...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Inland Fisheries
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans or reports envisaged in regard to determining the value of marine life on the Rivers Liffey and Barrow...
- Energy Resources
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received communication from or issued instructions to the Regulator in respect of conditions, cost or...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there is a target date by which broadband services will be fully provided for in Kildare; if not, if his...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he has taken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12319/06]
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the breakdown by country of overseas aid donations made by the Government to developing countries in the past five years. [12323/06]
- Marriage Certificates
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the paperwork has not been released to persons (details supplied) who are due to get married in Scotland in May 2006; and if he...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has schemes through which a plan could be developed to take over a swimming pool which has been an enormous asset to the...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding will be allocated to a company (details supplied) for their sports facility in Coolaney community park; and if he will...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to a recent court case concerning companies (details supplied) in which evidence was given of...
- Greyhound Industry
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the increasing use of unauthorised drugs in the greyhound industry including most recently in the Irish Coursing Club's...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Job Losses
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the circumstances which led to the issuing of redundancy notice to 81 employees of a company (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Employment Conditions
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that is being taken to investigate the malpractices and underpayment of wages to workers on the Spencer Dock site...
- Trade Missions
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign trade missions attended by him, his junior Ministers or Department personnel in each of the past three...
- Job Creation
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment positions created by IDA initiatives in the south Kildare region for each of the past five years;...
- Industrial Development
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits organised by the IDA for foreign investors or industrialists for Newbridge, Rathangan, Kilcullen,...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if public servants paying full PRSI whose pension is integrated with their occupational pension will, upon reaching 66 years of...
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport the spend on national roads in the Border, midland and western region as against the planned spend to date under the national development plan...
- Parking Fines
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason parking fines for illegally parked vehicles have been raised from €19 to €40. [12333/06]
- Driving Licences
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps which are taken to inform companies or drivers of foreign commercial vehicles of the need to carry licences when operating here. [12334/06]
- Road Traffic Regulations
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Transport if it is a legal requirement for drivers of foreign commercial vehicles to carry test and insurance certificates while operating here; the steps...
- Aer Lingus Staff
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the retirement age for pilots and cabin crew employed by the State airline; and if he will make a statement on...
- Road Traffic Regulations
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has considered the possibility of dangerous convoys of slow moving heavy goods vehicles and buses moving at the speed of the slowest vehicle...
- Public Transport
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a request for permission to provide a feeder bus service to all rail stations throughout County Kildare; if his attention has...
- Road Network
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the amount spent on the upgrade of the major inter-urban routes since 1999 to date; the amount it is estimated...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications received by his Department for houses for the provision of security measures by senior...
- Inland Waterways
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding will be made available to Waterways Ireland for the upgrade of the Royal Canal from Crossguns Bridge to...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his Department's appraisal of drug abuse in areas (details supplied) in County Kildare; his proposals to deal with the...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Farm Waste Management
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the new grant scheme will be available for farm waste management; the discussions which she has had with the Department of the...
- Live Exports
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has satisfied herself that there is sufficient shipping accommodation for live cattle out of this country; her views on whether...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of acres which has been planted in forestry for each of the past ten years on a county basis; the number of acres she expects...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason on the 29 July 2005 she promised 70% aid and 10% top up for eligible young farmers in Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim and Donegal...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when she plans to increase the forestry premium; if her attention has been drawnto the fact that farmers who invested 13 years ago into...
- Grant Payments
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the single payment will be awarded to persons (details supplied) in County Cork; the amount which will be awarded; if she will...
- Sugar Industry
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the countries likely to become the main producers of sugar throughout the European Union; the steps she has taken to protect producers...
- Food Industry
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the extent of her proposals to develop the agricultural sector with particular reference to the need to maintain this country's position...
- Food Exports
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of countries to which Irish beef, pig meat and lamb are currently exported; the extent to which new markets have been...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers in receipt of farm retirement pension; the number of applications on hand; the length of time it currently takes...
- Food Industry
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the production, home consumption and export of venison in each of the past five years; the extent to which markets have expanded or...
- EU Directives
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has evaluated the extent to which agricultural production and, as a consequence, farm income will be restricted arising from the...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the extent to which the effects of the CAP review and WTO have affected the agricultural sector to date; the likely effects for the...
- Food Labelling
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she will take or has taken to ensure the authenticity of food labelling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12471/06]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Deployment
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to reports that on St. Patrick's night 2006 there were only three gardaí on duty in...
- Garda Vetting Procedures
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress which has been made with regard to Garda clearance for child care workers; if he has satisfied himself that the...
- Crime Levels
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes recorded and detected across all headings in the Tipperary Garda division during 1997, 2000, 2001,...
- Asylum Applications
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision on the asylum application of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when decisions will be made on applications for naturalisation by persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12312/06]
- Crime Levels
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the figure for headline crime in each of the Garda sub-districts in County Louth for each year since 2002. [12313/06]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his intentions regarding the residency rights of Irish citizens' same sex partners from outside the European Union; the...
- Crime Levels
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the headline crime figures for the Garda sub-district of Ardee for each year since 2002. [12316/06]
- Garda Deployment
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the percentage of gardaí on duty at any particular time who are on patrol in public areas; the percentage of these on foot...
- National Women's Strategy
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in publishing the National Women's Strategy to which Ireland originally committed at the Beijing...
- Registration of Title
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on a land registry application; if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Deployment
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a safety and security plan will be put in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 3 to deal with vandalism and anti-social...
- Garda Investigations
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions in 2005 for breaches of the three tonne limit at Reilly's Bridge, Ratoath Road, Dublin 7; if this...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the provision of a facility for a group (details supplied) in County Kildare; if funding is...
- Asylum Applications
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin, the applicant...
- Garda Investigations
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will agree to meet with the family of the late Terence Wheelock who died following an incident in a cell in Store...
- Department of Education and Science
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the people who were in Artane can expect to have their cases heard under the Residential Institutions Redress Board; if she will...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding implementation of the McIver report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12301/06]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made on the site for a new national school in Gurteen, County Sligo to accommodate the amalgamation of...
- School Management
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will arrange to have her officials communicate with a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 on the issue raised in...
- School Accommodation
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her recent visit to Naas in the matter of the extra facilities required at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare,...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of unconcluded court actions before the courts in which her Department is participating regarding the provision of...
- School Staffing
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to grant equality of conditions to primary school secretaries and caretakers who are currently being paid from school...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 is the only one of 11 schools designated disadvantaged in the Finglas area not...
- Department of Defence
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of the serious concerns being expressed in regard to the state of the Curragh plains, his plans for protecting this great national asset;...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Road Network
Question 272: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the recent NCB report predicting that the number of cars on the road will double to 3 million...
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Animal Welfare
Question 274: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his reason for recently referring statutes governing animal welfare, that is, the Protection of Animals Acts...
- Housing Grants
Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding approval for a thatching grant for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
- Local Authority Funding
Question 276: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent of funding provided by him to the various local authorities in regard to part-time or full-time...
- State Property
Question 277: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities which have swapped lands with developers in the private sector in the past five years;...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 278: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the level of funding available for urban renewal in the Kilcock and Clane areas in County Kildare; and if he...
