Written answers
Thursday, 4 May 2006
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Environmental Policy
Question 10: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the provision of greater access to environmental information and on the importance of public...
- Waste Management
Question 11: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress he has made to date in considering measures to regulate or reform the waste collection system...
- Nuclear Safety
Question 13: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the national emergency plan for an accident at the nuclear plant at Sellafield was last tested; his views...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 14: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of reports he has received from the Private Residential Tenancies Board on registration of landlords...
- EU Directives
Question 15: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funds will be provided by his Department in order to conduct research into the efficacy and cost...
- Planning Issues
Question 16: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will be supporting the energy efficiency initiative taken by Fingal County Council by...
- EU Directives
Question 17: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that compact fluorescent bulbs, which use 80% less electricity than...
- Recycling Policy
Question 18: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that almost three quarters of recyclable material is recycled abroad; and if he has...
- Building Regulations
Question 19: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on recent media reports that the implementation of the Energy Performance in Building Directive will...
- Departmental Reports
Question 20: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Quigley Report has been implemented in full; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16632/06]
- EU Directives
Question 21: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of European Directives for which he is responsible and which have been transposed into Irish law;...
- Planning Issues
Question 22: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he consults regularly with the Irish Planners Institute in relation to planning issues generally; and if he...
- Water Quality
Question 23: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the trend highlighted in the Environmental Protection Agency's third National Implementation...
- Election Management System
Question 24: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the enumerators employed to conduct the Census will be used to bring the electoral register up to date; and...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 25: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether that an independent inquiry should be conducted into the issues which have arisen at the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 26: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will enter into discussions to direct and encourage in every possible way local authorities to set...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 27: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the €6 million in extra funding for sports, cultural and community facilities announced recently by him...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 28: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the targets, in respect of social housing which he is proposing should be included in the new National...
- Building Regulations
Question 29: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce new building guidelines for larger developments which will include CHP and district...
- Biodiversity Plans
Question 30: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of Government Departments which have dedicated biodiversity units; the number and names of local...
- Recycling Policy
Question 31: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the main findings identified to date as the barriers to the use and marketing of recyclable material by the...
- Control of Dogs
Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he intends to take to control the number of stray domestic pets, particularly dogs and cats; and if...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 34: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total number of persons employed in local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16633/06]
- Nuclear Plants
Question 35: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the operators of the nuclear plant at Sellafield have changed their accounting...
- Environmental Policy
Question 37: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the intended timeframe for the implementation of the 10 key actions recommended in the recent report, Invasive...
- Planning Issues
Question 39: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will remove the present planning restrictions in relation to the installation of solar panels for...
- House Prices
Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will outlaw the practice of gazumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16592/06]
- Noise Pollution
Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the arrangements for dealing with neighbourhood noise are sufficient. [16644/06]
- Environmental Policy
Question 42: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the rise in the number of plastic bags being used here over the past two years; and if he will...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 43: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to ensure that the installation of the types of energy efficient technologies covered in schemes such...
- Planning Issues
Question 44: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will be bringing amendments to Section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to allow...
- Water Quality
Question 46: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the pressures on environment sections of many local authorities to focus on...
- Election Management System
Question 47: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total expenditure incurred to date in respect of electronic voting including promotion, storage, research...
- Building Regulations
Question 48: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on the preparing of his Department's sectoral plan; the number of submissions his...
- Local Authority Playgrounds
Question 49: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority playgrounds here on a local authority basis; and if he will make a statement on...
- Sustainable Development Strategy
Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the National Sustainable Development Policy published almost ten years ago; if so, if...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of units of social housing sold by local authorities under the Tenant Purchase Scheme in 2005. [16558/06]
- EU Directives
Question 53: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the derogation under the nitrates action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Building Regulations
Question 54: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce nationally applicable building guidelines in relation to annual heating requirements for...
- Planning Issues
Question 55: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of decisions by An Bord Pleanála in cases in which the Bord overrules its own inspectors'...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 57: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the situation in Galway whereby a new scheme of affordable houses were sold...
- Litter Pollution
Question 58: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons fined for littering since 1 January 2006; the average fine imposed; and if he will make a...
- Waste Disposal
Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the proposed incinerator at Poolbeg; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16621/06]
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 61: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to encourage the use of zero emission cars and vans by introducing exemption from road tax and...
- Exotic Animals
Question 62: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Department's estimate of the number of exotic animals, once kept as pets, that are now living in the wild;...
- Departmental Press Facilities
Question 63: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is appropriate to use his Department's press facility and website to issue a party...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the Government effort to date in relation to the provision of affordable,...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to introduce legislation requiring a cooling-off period for senior local authority staff...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 68: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the practice that is happening in some affordable housing schemes whereby the houses...
- Nuclear Safety
Question 69: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects a final decision in relation to the UNCLOS case in view of the preliminary judgement in January...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 70: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of move on accommodation units in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16626/06]
- House Prices
Question 74: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the Irish Home Builder's Association statement that development levies add up to 6 per cent to the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 75: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to conduct the housing needs assessment on an annual basis in order to give a more accurate picture...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 77: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if and when he intends to update the minimum standards for rented accommodation to bring them in line with...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 80: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has estimated the likely demand for local authority housing over the next five years; and if...
- Building Regulations
Question 81: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to amend the Building Control Bill 2005 to allow for the setting up of an independent architects...
- Housing Grants
Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will include the provision of radon remediation measures for homes as a qualifying type of work under...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 83: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to build more affordable housing in view of increasing house prices; and if he will make a statement...
- Property Management
Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he intends to take to regulate property management agents; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 85: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of units of social and affordable housing provided under Part V of the Planning and Development Acts...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to produce revised proposals for reducing greenhouse gases; if these proposals will include all...
- End-of-Life Vehicles
Question 87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the end-of life vehicles draft regulations would push up the cost of cars; and if he will...
- Housing Grants
Question 89: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to restore the first-time buyer's grant in view of reports that many developers are passing on...
- Nuclear Safety
Question 90: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view the failure to raise the concerns of the Members of Dáil Éireann at the planned privatisation of...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the targets set for social and affordable housing provision in the 2004 NESC Report Housing in...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 95: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the Environmental Protection Agency advisory committee in order to avail of the...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to give the Private Residential Tenancies Board the authority to collect deposits from tenants in...
- National Spatial Strategy
Question 99: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide the most up to date information on the status of the National Spatial Strategy; and if he...
- Job Creation
Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports indicating that expectations for new job creation in the...
- Water Quality
Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he intends to take to ensure that local authorities have sufficient funds and staff to effectively...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if housing construction schemes which received funding from his Department but also qualified for funding from...
- Waste Management
Question 107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the recent rapid increases in inflation, he intends to introduce a national waiver scheme for...
- Official Engagements
Question 108: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the meetings he has had with the City and County Managers Association in the past year; the topics discussed...
- Housing Sector
Question 110: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if estimates have been done to determine the number of first-time home buyers likely to be in the market for a...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to review the decision whereby companies producing environmentally-friendly cement, or green...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 14 February 2006, if following the receipt of the steering group...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he intends to ensure that social integration of housing is achieved and that the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the projected estimated cost to the Exchequer per annum for carbon credits if the cost was to rise to €50...
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Staff
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the necessary staff will be provided to operate a dialysis machine at Kerry General Hospital. [16674/06]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of companies which responded to the most recent request for expressions of interest in the long stay patients...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Cork who applied to the southern...
- Ambulance Service
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if further funding will be provided to the ambulance services to try and improve transport provision for people living in...
- Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a hospital bed for their home; and if she will make a...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision of...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to previous parliamentary questions and the partial response from the Health Service Executive of 10 March 2006 if...
- Health Services
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether she should take up the offer made by the Galway Clinic 11 February 2003 to provide a BreastCheck...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 5 April 2006 namely that the drugs in question were given on a prescription...
- Health Services
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the positive and sensible strategies in the Cuban primary care doctor services when developing general...
- Departmental Committees
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of the membership of her Department's audit committee; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the discussions between his Department and Kildare County Council to be finalised with a view to the implementation of flood relief...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance if in cases in which persons without dependents die and there is no will in place, there is legislation, current or pending, whereby the estate or...
- Departmental Committees
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/06]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance if the €3.9 billion underspend in the Border Midland Western region will be invested thus recognising the fact that this region has never been...
- Tax Code
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the crippling cost of VAT on home heating oil; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fishing Fleet Modernisation
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if funding will be provided to bring the mussel boats at Cromane, County Kerry up to an acceptable standard...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends to extend the greener homes domestic grant scheme to domestic windmills; and the reason for their...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a...
- Departmental Committees
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action the Government are taking to help stop the systematic killings in Sudan, Darfur; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Committees
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17019/06]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when there will be details of the applicants who will be granted funds under 2006 sports capital programme. [16688/06]
- Departmental Committees
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17020/06]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to include accountants in the list of approved professions for work visas; if so, the time scale for same; and if...
- Employment Rights
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits which were made by his Department's inspectors in County Kerry between 1 January 2005 and to the most...
- Agrifood Sector
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of formal interaction between his Department and the Department of Agriculture and Food in relation to the...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision of the...
- Employment Agencies
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons registered with recruitment agencies each year since 1995. [16830/06]
- Departmental Committees
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Transport
- Marine Accidents
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will confirm the actions which have taken place to help locate the bodies of two fishermen lost at sea (details supplied) in a recent boating...
- Marine Safety
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will exempt vessels engaged solely in fishing near the coast from the IMO 1993 Torremolinos Protocol; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the recent review, The Quality Bus Network, by Dublin Bus, particularly the contention contained within the report that only one of...
- Air Services
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will re-consider his policy on the anti-privatisation of Aer Lingus; and if the proposal of a State holding company to allow Aer Lingus to be...
- Public Transport
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Transport when his Department first received a request from Bus Éireann for authorisation to operate an hourly service on the Rosslare, Gorey, Dublin Road;...
- Regional Airports
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport if a CAT11 navigational status to the Border Midland Western region will be awarded in order that the Border Midland Western region can reverse its...
- Carriage of Weapons
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will extend the scope of the review he has initiated into the carriage of munitions and dangerous goods, on foot of the incident in February...
- Departmental Committees
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17023/06]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Offshore Islands
Question 162: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil iarratas faighte aige do ché ar oileán Inis Bó Finne, Dún na nGall, an bhfuil sé á mheas faoi láthair;...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision...
- Departmental Committees
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Departmental Staff
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of staff who were re-assigned within her Department as a result of the introduction of the single farm payment; the...
- Departmental Complaints Procedures
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of customer complaints received by her Department in each of the past three years; the breakdown of the main categories from...
- Departmental Staff
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has satisfied herself that all district veterinary officers working within her Department are carrying out their duties in a...
- Agrifood Sector
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the level of formal interaction between her Department and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the...
- Animal Diseases
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of animals entering here which were quarantined during 2005 and to date in 2006; the number of quarantine inspectors employed...
- National Development Plan
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of Exchequer funding allocated under the research stimulus fund of the National Development Plan from 2000 to date to...
- Grant Payments
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason entitlements in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been consolidated to persons has not been...
- Milk Quota
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of milk quota sales which have had a clawback in each of the past five years; the numbers associated with an ERS participant;...
- Grant Payments
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not receive the full amount of single payment scheme for 2005; and if she...
- Rural Development
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has studied the submission from the ICSA in relation to farm building grants, bureaucracy in farming, national rural development...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision of the Tribunal...
- Grant Payments
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if full farm entitlements will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if all payments due will be...
- Departmental Committees
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a list of the membership of her Department's audit committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17025/06]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Investigations
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a complaint (details supplied) will be investigated; and if local residents will be assisted in this matter. [16716/06]
- Registration of Title
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for registration under a dealing number by persons (details supplied) in County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage of an application for naturalisation (details supplied). [16735/06]
- Deportation Orders
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners released from prison in each of the past five years who were to be considered for deportation...
- Legislative Programme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in updating the Coroner's Act 1962; his views on whether the report of the Working Group on the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people against whom unexecuted deportation orders have been made; and the steps he is taking in this regard in...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision of the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of Ireland's long emigration history and the positive treatment of its migrants by the US and other States, he...
- Garda Investigations
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an independent inquiry will be held into the death of a person (details supplied); and if the family will be supported on...
- Garda Strength
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community Gardaí in the Clontarf, Raheny, Santry and Coolock Garda stations; and the percentage of their...
- Garda Training
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the backlog in in-service firearms training; his views on whether the present arrangements are entirely...
- Garda Reserve
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide Deputies with a copy of all documentation produced by the officials in his Department, who visited areas...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the groups and bodies that he consulted before publishing the Tribunals of Inquiry Bill 2005; and the extent of their...
- Departmental Committees
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Student Accommodation
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to amend appendix 1 to section 50 of the Finance Act 1999 to include additional institutions and colleges (details...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a student representative from Dublin Institute of Technology will be added to the board of the Grangegorman Development Agency; and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in the context of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, she will consider allowing developers to provide funding for new...
- Capitation Grants
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is seriously committed to reducing the disparity in funding provided by her Department between voluntary secondary schools and...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the proposed expenditure review of Youthreach and senior Traveller training centres is not being undertaken by her...
- School Transport
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a report from the transport liaison officer for County Cork in relation to the change in a special school bus route...
- Youth Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position concerning an application by Limerick Youth Service for funding for a special project for youth in Rathkeale, County...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has given consideration to the children who will lose out completely due to the conclusion of giving children an even break in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position concerning the provision of additional classrooms and school facilities for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; the...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be allowed to retain their rural co-ordinator post 2007; and if this school...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has issued direct instructions in regard to the acquisition of a site for a new primary school at Kill, County Kildare having...
- School Closures
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the outcome of her meeting with the Christian Brothers in relation to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [16774/06]
- Ionaid Oideachais
Question 221: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta an eol di an obair thábhachtach atá ar siúl ag ionaid oideachais Gaeltachta maidir le teagasc na Gaeilge sna scoileanna Gaeltachta...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 21 March 2006, if progress has been made regarding the walk tall support being extended to...
- Departmental Committees
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a list of the membership of her Department's audit committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17027/06]
- Department of Defence
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a decision of the Tribunal under paragraph...
- Departmental Committees
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17028/06]
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Building Regulations
Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the discussions which have taken place between his Department and the house builder representative bodies...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 231: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that despite the recent revelations on RTE's Primetime programme...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 232: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Cork. [16705/06]
- Radon Gas
Question 233: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the location showing highest levels of radon gas in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 234: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason proceeds of a sale of bog contained in a special area of conservation has not been awarded to a...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received from the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments notification of a...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 236: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he expects Ireland to comply with the Kyoto principles; and if he will make a statement on...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of families currently on local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Air Pollution
Question 240: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has observed an increase in air pollutants as recorded at the various monitoring stations throughout the...
- Water Supply
Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself regarding the adequacy and storage capacity of the domestic water supply; if...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 244: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action which has been taken to alleviate methane gas emissions from the main sewer at Leixlip, County...
- Departmental Committees
Question 245: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of the membership of his Department's audit committee; and if he will make a...
