Written answers
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Official Languages Act
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to his Department of fulfilling its obligations under the Official Languages Act 2003 for each year since its...
- Industrial Development
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts made by the IDA to provide employment and attract foreign direct investment into County Kerry in view of the...
- Employment Rights
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an assessment will be carried out to determine whether workers are being denied adequate toilet breaks by employers in...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce a requirement that bullying as a risk, together with policies and procedures to mitigate that risk, be...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will initiate an investigation into the health and welfare of workers who are compelled to stay on their feet for most...
- Manufacturing Sector
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the fact that manufacturing turnover has increased by less than one per cent from 2000 to 2005; and if he will...
- Trade Regulations
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the companies that have been affected by Statutory Instrument 130 of 2006, European...
- Employment Rights
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he proposes to take in view of the commitment in the partnership talks to increase the number of labour inspectors...
- Grocery Industry
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the profit levels of grocery multiples operating here should be published; and if he will make a...
- Employment Rights
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason, in view of the growing concerns regarding the employment conditions of workers who are employed in domestic...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the assessment by a person (details supplied) in a report Productivity; Ireland's Economic Imperative that the...
- Energy Costs
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the research his Department is undertaking or intends to undertake into the effects rising energy prices will have on job...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the various inquiries...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of the National Competitiveness Council's various recommendations which have been implemented; and if he will make...
- Industrial Development
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of small and medium sized enterprises set up here in the past year; the number of such businesses that have closed...
- Business Regulation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of meetings of the Business Regulation Group which have taken place to date; the action which has been taken...
- Export Markets
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if recent trends in exports are a positive indication for the future of the economy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date of the decentralisation plan for his Department and the agencies under its aegis; and if he will make a...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will introduce to increase worker involvement in health and safety risk management in view of the fact that...
- Insurance Industry
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason he has failed to provide consumer protection guidelines for income continuance schemes as recommended by the 2003...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the additional consultancy services that his Department proposes to utilise in 2006; the reason an increase of 66 per cent...
- Workplace Fatalities
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recommendations contained in the Law Reform Commission report on corporate manslaughter published in October...
- Employment Rights
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the investigation on the disclosure that Polish workers employed by a contractor at the ESB power...
- Fairtrade Products
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that only fair trade tea and coffee are sold in his Department's canteens, restaurants and cafés and...
- Adult Literacy
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken, including those in conjunction with the Department of Education and science, to improve the levels of...
- Company Mergers
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proposed company mergers that his Department is currently aware of under its responsibility for the regulation of...
- Insurance Industry
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of the 47 recommendations in the Competition Authority's final report and recommendations in regard to...
- Job Losses
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to bring employment to Newbridge following the announcement of the plan to lay off 250 people at a company...
- EU Enlargement
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the derogations contained in Articles 1-6 of Regulation 1612/68 of the Accession Treaty the Government will seek upon the...
- Postal Services
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the decline in absolute costs of the provision in the estimates for postal services and telecommunications in...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the FÁS national supported employment programme has been designed primarily for people with the least severe...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work of the County Enterprise Boards; the number of personnel employed by the board in respect of each board, for each...
- Employment Agencies
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce legislation to make it unlawful for an employment agency to operate here without a licence having...
- Corporate Enforcement
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of corporate enforcement officers currently employed by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; the...
- Company Law
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work which has been completed on the reform of the Companies Act 1990; the areas that are being examined; the priorities...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Directive 2003/18/EC amending Council Directive 83/477/EEC on the protection of workers from risks related to...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the observation in the Competition Authority's Strategy Statement 2006-2008 that lack of a formal response by...
- National Disability Strategy
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the lack of consultation with people with disabilities in the formulation of the sectoral plan of the...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to each of the inquiries being carried out by or on behalf of his Department; the projected date for...
- Energy Resources
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recent report by Forfás entitled A Baseline Assessment of Ireland's Oil Dependence; the implication for...
- Job Losses
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to counteract the dramatic rise in redundancies, now averaging 523 per month; and if he will make a...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role his Department will take in working against so-called ghost communities where there is a paucity of local...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his view on the decision of the Competition Authority to interpret the Competition Act 2002 as prohibiting self-employed...
- Employment Support Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views of the assessment by Forfás (details supplied); his plans to improve funding in this area; and if he will make a...
- Flexible Work Practices
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the Central Statistics Office figures that some 80 per cent of the workforce are being denied flexible work...
- Science and Technology
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date in appointing a new chief science adviser to the Government; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Staff
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors currently employed by or on behalf of his Department; the number of cases investigated by...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the sums of money that have been deployed within his Department for the employment and human resources development...
- EU Directives
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which he has responsibility that remain to be implemented; and if he will make a statement...
- Industrial Development
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies who made grant refunds in respect of Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland; the reason those refunds...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had discussions with the director general and board of FÁS to ascertain if the proposed decentralisation will be...
- Grocery Industry
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has conducted or plans to conduct research into the effects of the abolition of the Groceries Order on...
- EU Directives
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department will take in view of the consensus between the European Commission, Council and Parliament on the...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the labour inspectorate; the number of prosecutions initiated by the inspectorate...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases currently before the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of cases for which rulings have been...
- Industrial Relations
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times the Employments Rights Group, announced on 24 May 2005 has met; the discussions which took place; the...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and injuries arising from workplace accidents generally and specifically in regard to the construction...
- Company Law
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent liquidation of a construction firm (details supplied) who transferred its...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he intends to take to deal with the high level of unemployment in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the activities of the national Consumer Agency; his views on whether this activity constitutes good value for taxpayers'...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the announcement of the composition of the new Labour Relations Commission was delayed until eight days after the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons on community employment programmes on 1 January 2006 for each county; the number of voluntary or not...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to the investigation by the Labour Inspectorate into allegations of very serious irregularities in...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Commemorative Events
Question 147: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to support commemorations in 2007 of the 150th anniversary of Argentine independence, in view of the long-standing ties between Argentina and Ireland;...
- Department of Health and Children
- Vaccination Programme
Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that pneumococcal vaccination is introduced onto the childhood immunisation schedule without delay as...
- Health Services
Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an audiologist is available to carry out hearing examinations on children in the south Wicklow area; if an appointment...
- Insurance Industry
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the concerns of the Irish Haemophilia Society in regard to the nine year delay in implementation of an...
- Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is being asked to pay for chiropody services; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the serious shortage of speech and language therapists in the Waterford community...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason there is such a backlog of applications not approved for the special housing aid for the elderly in the Health...
- Health Services
Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the criteria for transportation of elderly sick people to hospital clinics by private buses and taxis; if the Health...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be announced regarding the location for the proposed new children's hospital in Dublin; and if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the remarks of the Church of Ireland Archbishop (details supplied); her plans to meet the Archbishop to...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing an urgent operation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if...
- Hospital Services
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of acute beds in hospitals (details supplied); the number of intensive care beds; and the number of day beds in...
- Community Welfare Service
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her position in view of the concerns expressed by community welfare officers regarding their transfer to the Department of...
- Health Services
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of clients in each Health Service Executive area currently waiting for methadone treatment for each clinic; and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for a surgical procedure. [18639/06]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a person enrolled at a special centre (details supplied) in County Cork as this person is on...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an appointment will be brought forward for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the situation whereby there is no funding available to provide assistance to the elderly living at home...
- Home Care Supports
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the funding she has made available in 2006 for the payment of home care packages to persons being cared for at home; if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an appointment for hip replacement; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to receive a motorised transport grant for an adapted vehicle...
- Health Services
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be called for an appointment to Waterford Regional Hospital. [18738/06]
- Department of Finance
- Vehicle Registration Tax
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance the number, make and model of vehicles that have been afforded vehicle registration tax relief on environmental criteria; and if he will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Finance the position in regard to the decentralisation of the Revenue section of his Department to Athy; the number of officials declaring an interest in the...
- Cross-Border Funding
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance the projected and actual spend on INTERREG North South projects in the Border region for each year from 2000 to 2004. [18692/06]
- Tax Code
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers paying income tax in 2005 and in each of the previous 10 years. [18710/06]
- Nursing Home Funding
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance if compliance with the principles of the UN Charter for Older People and Ireland's signature to this Charter is a key consideration for grant aiding...
- Traffic Management
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works is intent on going ahead with traffic restrictions at Ashtown Gate and Cabra Gate, Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin 7; the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the details of pilot projects identified by National Fisheries Management Executive to facilitate the...
- Broadcasting Regulations
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the broadcasting from parish churches on Sunday mornings has...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Middle East Peace Process
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the deepening poverty levels among the Palestinian population, the Government will commit to providing the aid that had been...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will provide significant development aid to eastern European countries in which poverty issues have clearly been...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding his endeavours and contacts in respect of the need to finally settle the Cyprus question; and if he will make a...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the efforts he has made in respect of undocumented Irish in the USA; his recent contacts in the matter; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Implementation of Legislation
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the provisions which remain to be implemented in relation to the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997; and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether employers convicted on breaches of health and safety law resulting in serious injury or death should be...
- Arms Trade
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the relationship between the arms industry lobby and the European Security Research...
- Job Losses
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will investigate the continuing delay in having redundancy payments made to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Job Creation
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average workforce in 2005 and in each of the previous ten years. [18698/06]
- Employment Rights
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to the State of increasing redundancy payments to four weeks of pay per year of service. [18699/06]
- Employment Regulation Orders
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Employment Regulation Orders and Registered Employment Agreements which have been introduced in each of the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the cap on length of service for community employment workers aged 55 or over will be removed due to the particular...
- Job Losses
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the IDA supported companies at which redundancies or lay-offs have occurred; the number of redundancies or lay offs in each...
- Industrial Development
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is intended to provide State funding for the Atlantic Way Project; the way in which the project will function and the...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he has examined the contributory causes to increases in manufacturing costs here; if he has examined the...
- Grocery Industry
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if recent indicators suggest price rises at variance with his previous pronouncements during debate on the abolition of the...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he has taken or proposes to take to combat job relocation to lower cost economies; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits applied for by category in each of the past 12 months; the numbers granted, refused or pending;...
- Skill Shortages
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has identified a shortage of employees in any particular sector of the labour market; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Industrial Relations
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 8 March 2006, the reason discussions have not taken place with staff representatives;...
- Pension Provisions
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he intends to honour the commitment to introduce a personal pension entitlement for pensioner spouses currently in receipt of...
- Data Protection
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which his Department assists the Garda Síochána in the provision of information if requested to do so; the changes...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of the respite grant aged under 18 years in 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively; and the percentages...
- Department of Transport
- Light Rail Project
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the proposals for the extension of the Luas line through Tallaght west to City West in Saggart; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in relation to heavy goods vehicles pulling out on a two lane motorway, having regard to the new penalty points offences introduced in...
- Railway Stations
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department in conjunction with Iarnród Éireann has plans to re-open the train station at Dunleer, County Louth on the main Dublin to...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which his Department is checking the effects of climate change on major infrastructural projects; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rail Services
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects the first Cork, Limerick, Galway trains to operate; and the timetable for the development of such a service. [18845/06]
- Computerisation Programme
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps that have been taken by his Department to upgrade the DTS administration system; the specific new systems that have been provided and the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Scéim na mBóithre Straitéise
Question 228: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé in ann airgead a chur ar fáil le feabhas a chur ar bhóthar contae Achaidh/Ard an Rátha faoi Scéim na...
- Oileáin Mhara
Question 229: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad é an staid ina bhfuil iarratas atá aige faoi láthair ar dheontas le fad a chur le Cé an Rannaigh, Oileán Árainn...
- Forbairt Spóirt agus Chaithimh Aimsire
Question 230: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta mar go bhfuil Rás Snámha Timpeall na hÉireann ag toiseacht ag Carraig Fhinn, Cionn Caslach, Co Dhún na nGall ag...
- Community Development
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to his recent announcement on the extension of the CLÁR areas in County Mayo, if extra funding will be...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment of single farm payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [18600/06]
- Farm Waste Management
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if plastic silage wrappers will be collected from farmers; the reason farmers are not allowed to dispose of plastic silage wrappers to...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department's policies regarding sustainable energy and biofuels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18691/06]
- Grant Payments
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford did not receive the full single farm payment; if there is an appeal system in...
- Irish Horseracing Industry
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the state of the bloodstock industry here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18714/06]
- Grant Payments
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the increase in the rate of grant available to cover rising costs under the farm building grant schemes in each of the past five years;...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Crime Levels
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the south Roscommon area in the Roscommon, east Galway division for each year from 2000 to 2005; if...
- Court Accommodation
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to provide funding for the refurbishment of the Kilkenny courthouse; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if permission to remain here will be granted to persons (details supplied); and if he will expedite a response. [18591/06]
- Garda Stations
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the conditions at Cabinteely Garda Station which is need of improvement in the short term...
- Human Trafficking
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if EU Directive 2004/81/EC has been transposed into Irish law; if not, the reason Ireland has not met the deadline for...
- Court Accommodation
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of plans to extend the Drug Treatment Court currently operating in the Dublin 7 area to the wider Dublin area;...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm receipt of an application for naturalisation from a person (details supplied); the date on which the...
- Penalty Points System
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the protocol in place to allow members of the Gardaí to remove penalty point from a member of the public's driving licence,...
- Community Service Orders
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community service orders which have been implemented in the Dublin metropolitan area over the past five years;...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his office has received a written request from persons (details supplied) to meet with them regarding the death of their...
- Crime Prevention
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on establishing a commission on crime and punishment to identify the factors causing crime and to update and...
- Restorative Justice Services
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on his contacts with the restorative justice services in Tallaght; and, if based on the success of the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the structure of the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in Dublin 9, has been agreed by all parties concerned; if design...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided to enable a sports hall (details supplied) in Dublin 8, which was originally built on the understanding...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the stage the proposed new school (details supplied) in County Galway is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18615/06]
- School Staffing
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the minimum qualification necessary to become a classroom assistant at primary school level; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Enrolments
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been admitted to a school; if the services available at this school...
- Departmental Funding
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to funding from her Department for a school (details supplied) in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she will take to put in place an eight teacher school that is required at Curraghmore, Mullingar, County Westmeath to...
- Departmental Funding
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to provide funding for the Union of Secondary Students; the reason funding was refused following the Union of Secondary...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of further special education resources for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a BCG vaccination is mandatory for new teachers when some health board areas have discontinued this practice and when the...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union is represented on the membership of the Grangegorman...
- Student Support Schemes
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she is taking to address the confusion regarding third level student financial supports; and if she will make a statement on...
- Third Level Fees
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will abolish part-time fees for third level education; if she will introduce financial supports to part-time students who are in...
- Higher Education
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will issue her response to the recommendations contained in the McIver Report; the extent to which the recommendations...
- Third Level Enrolments
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has missed the deadline for late applications through the CAO process, the mechanism...
- School Enrolments
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of Gaelscoileanna established in County Kildare; the number of students attending each Gaelscoil; the projected future...
- Irish Language Education
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's plans for the provision of second level education through Irish in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Recognition
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will give permanent recognition to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a design team has been appointed to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a serious defect in the roof of the sports hall at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the plan for a second level school in the Donabate community will be brought forward; and if same will be made a priority issue....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Down syndrome has the highest incidence of assessed intellectual disability; if Down...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Defence the height requirement for recruitment of females into other EU states' armies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18575/06]
- Overseas Missions
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Defence if Defence Forces have served alongside British forces on UN peacekeeping missions abroad in the last 30 years; if so, when and the location at...
- Application for Club Facilities
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Defence the mechanism a club (details supplied) in County Kildare has to adopt to meet or commence their application for the provision of facilities that are...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Defence if agreement has been reached in regard to the decentralisation of his Department to Newbridge; the number of officials seeking or applying for...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Voting Procedures
Question 297: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria that enables a person who has a mental or physical disability to be assisted while voting; and if...
- Housing Policy
Question 298: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the preparation of the new housing policy statement (details supplied) has been completed; the date on...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 300: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Exchequer capital investment for each of the years 2006, 2007 and 2008, in respect of social housing; the...
- Planning Issues
Question 307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amendments that will be made to the existing Residential Density Guidelines in order to deal with the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 308: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social housing units which are expected to be started and the number expected to be completed in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the schedule including deliverables and timeframes for 2006, 2007 and 2008 for the completion of the RAS...
- Housing Policy
Question 311: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount which the capital funding limits for voluntary and co-operative sector housing will be raised under...
- Disability Support Service
Question 314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reforms which will be applied to the disabled person grant and the essential repairs grant following the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 315: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his strategy for ensuring that housing development includes an appropriate social mix and provides necessary...
- Environmental Policy
Question 326: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if plastic silage wrappers will be collected from farmers; the reason farmers are not allowed to dispose of...
- County Boundaries
Question 327: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the dates on which he received submissions from Waterford and Kilkenny local authorities regarding the...
- Housing Grants
Question 328: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount awarded to each local authority in respect of disabled persons grants in 2005; the amount allocated...
- Planning Issues
Question 329: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department instructed all local authorities to include a requirement for open spaces in housing estates...
