Written answers
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a special case for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [17504/06]
- Hospital Inquiry
Question 8: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the recommendations of the Neary Report into procedures at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda will be implemented;...
- Media Protocols
Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if it is the policy of her Department to instruct doctors or Consultants not to speak to media in relation to general issues...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will request the Health Service Executive to reconsider its decision to refuse a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the status of the vaccine damage compensation scheme which is currently being examined by her Department; when she expects...
- Health Services
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has not made a decision on whether to include strips for co-agucheck S system on the GMS and DPS scheme...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has estimated the cost of increasing the high rate of nursing home subvention from €190.50 to €300, and the cost...
- Health Services
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 to meet with the officials dealings with their mother's...
- Nursing Home Investigation
Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the report into Leas Cross Nursing Home will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17565/06]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Government will provide additional resources to the Health Service Executive southern areas for the provision of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo can expect to be called for a cardiac procedure. [17567/06]
- Health Services
Question 18: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to allow a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim to gain reasonable access to speech and language...
- Medical Cards
Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the criteria in relation to the receipt of a medical card to Irish citizens who live in the UK and who wish to return here...
- Health Service Staff
Question 20: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide locum cover to general practitioners working on Ireland's off-shore islands; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 21: 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 Galway is unable to access respite...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures she is taking to promote the uptake and awareness of domiciliary care allowance; the intention she has of...
- Child Care Services
Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an appeal sent in a person (details supplied) in County Galway concerning an application for funding...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when work will be completed to a house for persons (details supplied) in County Limerick under the housing aid for the...
- Health Services
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be called to Waterford Regional Hospital to have an operation...
- Health Services
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if financial assistance will be offered towards the cost of occupational therapy sessions for a person (details supplied) in...
- Mental Health Services
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 with a view to having them...
- Health Service Expenditure
Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €56.4 million which it was discovered had been left unaccounted for by the Health Service Executive has been...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services Ombudsman
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the remit of the financial service ombudsman is confined to business transactions of business that do not exceed €3 million...
- Garda Stations
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the future of Dundrum Garda Station; and if the Commission of Public Works has issued its report in relation to the building....
- Car Parking Facilities
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals for the reinstatement of Leinster Lawn, the bulk of which was transformed onto a surface car park on what was apparently a temporary...
- Tax Code
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 30 March 2006, if the person will receive a P 21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17634/06]
- Public Service Contracts
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised that the public procurement contracts and some of the requirements set at tendering stage are...
- Ministerial Correspondence
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17691/06]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has given consideration to retrospectively extending the grant for installing environmentally friendly...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position in relation to access to broadband in Shillelagh, County Wicklow; when same will be available; the...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when a decision will be made on the application made by an association (details supplied) in County Cork for a capital grant. [17608/06]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, with regard to the qualifying criteria for unemployment benefit or assistance, deciding officers can rule negatively in cases...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether the pension system for women (details supplied) should change, taking into account the fact that if both...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take to ensure that no rent subsidies or allowances are paid directly or indirectly to the landlords of properties...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has satisfied himself that the national travel card is an acceptable means of identification across all transport modes here....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the qualifying conditions for receipt of the respite care grant; if there are proposals to extend this grant scheme; and if he will...
- Family Support Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the recommendations from the commission which have been implemented since the commission on the family concluded its work; the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on recent decisions by the European Commission on welfare payments to migrant workers and on their impact on the...
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport if legislation exists that allows him, his Department, the National Roads Authority or any other authority to ban cars from the Dublin Port Tunnel;...
- EU Directives
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 3 May 2006, the EU Directive or other legislative measure that prevents him from requiring the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport his view on the fact that when a mini-bus owner is registering with the Carriage Office there is no specific recognition in law to the provision...
- Road Network
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 3 May 2006, if he will address the question raised in relation to use of the right-hand lane of the...
- Driving Tests
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport the grants which are available from his Department towards the provision of a driving school or classroom centre which would be beneficial to young...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Harbours and Piers
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to proceed with the extension of the pier at Brandon, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Inland Waterways
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received the report carried out by PriceWaterhouse Coopers in association with Tourism Developments...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will extend the eligibility criteria for the rural social scheme to include all widows or widowers irrespective...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has plans to review the farm retirement scheme; if so, when this review will take place; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will review an application for entitlements from the National Reserve, from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when a...
- Import Controls
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in view of recent reports of the use of ports here to import pit-bull terriers with Northern Ireland destinations, importation of...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Mental Health Review
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if research has been carried out or a report completed into the level of mental ill-health amongst inmates in prisons here;...
- Court Sittings
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the commitment in the Programme for Government to introduce night and weekend courts; and if he...
- Prisoner Transfers
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will facilitate the transfer of a person (details supplied) who is incarcerated at St Patrick's Institution to a more...
- Asylum Applications
Question 69: 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 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for residency citizenship has been received from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and when it...
- Registration of Title
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to expedite an application in relation to the registration of land of a person (detail supplied) in...
- Garda Operations
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, based on the number of drug samples submitted to the State Laboratory for analysis already in 2006, County Clare can...
- Refugee Legal Services
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the Irish Immigrant Support Centre has not received European refugee funding for their centre; the way in which...
- Registration of Title
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when land registration procedures will be completed on a dealing (details supplied) in County Cork. [17602/06]
- Residency Permits
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who has applied for residency; and if same will be...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 3 May 2006, if the parents apply for naturalisation prior to the child reaching...
- Prison Service Examinations
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of 6 April 2006, if he will investigate the situation in relation to the exam taken...
- Refugee Resettlement
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the rationale behind the accepting of 200 of the 300 Kurdish refugees from a Jordanian refugee camp; and if this implies that...
- Crime Levels
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of reported incidents of vandalism to cars in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 7 to date in 2006; the number...
- Waste Management
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if abandoned cars (details supplied) constitute a fire hazard; and if they will be removed by the Gardaí. [17627/06]
- Garda Operations
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a report from the Garda authorities indicating the action they are taking in response to the concerns of a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 21 March 2006, if a decision has been made on the matter. [17629/06]
- Prison Committals
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of non-Irish national prisoners released here for each of the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006....
- Citizenship Applications
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if naturalisation or residency status will be conferred on a person who has lived in an EU jurisdiction for the past six...
- Visa Applications
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will allow a visitor's visa in the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Donegal is included in the schools to benefit from the DEIS programme. [17497/06]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the unacceptable overcrowded situation in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, where there...
- Third Level Grants
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proposed closing date for acceptance of applications for third level grants for 2006/2007; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Irish Language
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date of receipt in her Department in respect of the Harris Report on competence in spoken Irish in primary schools; the date the...
- Adult Education
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her timetable for the implementation of the McIver Report; her plans to provide adequate resources to post leaving certificate colleges;...
- Capitation Grants
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will offer an explanation for the disparity between the cap on admissions post leaving certificate colleges versus the automatic...
- Adult Education
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to transform the student experience of undertaking courses in post leaving certificate colleges, through addressing...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make arrangements to have a teacher made available to assist a child (details supplied) in County Carlow with autism; or if...
- School Transport
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils who have been deemed ineligible for transport due to lack of seats and safety belts on schools buses for the...
- Department of Defence
- Army Discharge
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Defence if the record of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be re-assessed in regard to the person's army service; and if he will make a...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Election Management System
Question 104: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the contract arrangements for storage of electronic voting machines. [17499/06]
- Waste Management
Question 106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 3 May 2006 the measures he has in place to ensure plastic silage...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the procedure to have a piece of property listed for protection where the property is an esker with extremely...
- Sport and Recreational Facilities
Question 108: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be provided to an association (details supplied) in County Kerry in order that a playground...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 109: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons or families on the housing waiting lists of local authorities in each of the past five...
- House Purchases
Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of new home purchasers who are first time buyers in the last year for which figures are...
- National Parks
Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the lands which have been acquired by the State for the Wicklow National Park within the past five years; the...
