Written answers
Thursday, 29 March 2007
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Insurance
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to bring forward legislation regarding risk equalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12015/07]
- MRSA Incidence
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the results of her efforts and associated costs to date in combating MRSA; the number of hospitals or institutions deemed to be entirely...
- Health Service Executive Remuneration
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the remuneration paid to advisers of Professor Brendan Drumm; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12041/07]
- National Cancer Strategy
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Cancer Strategy Implementation Report is due to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12045/07]
- Health Service Staff
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the aspects of the Hanly Report that have been implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12043/07]
- Mental Health Services
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is confident that the provision of mental health teams and professionals for children and adolescents here is acceptable; the...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the private for profit hospital co-location plan, the competitive dialogue phase of the process with the Health...
- Health Service Staff
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding and provision of the promised 100 primary care teams; when these will be available; if she will confirm the relationship...
- Health Service Executive Inquiry
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is now appropriate to have an official inquiry into the sequence of events that took place at the Leas Cross Nursing Home; and if...
- Medical Cards
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the withdrawal of dentists from the medical card dental scheme...
- Hospital Staff
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consultants who work in the hospitals planned for co-location will be allowed to work in both hospitals; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Governments policy regarding stroke rehabilitation services; the funding being made available for same; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on maternity services here, in particular the recent reports that women attending the maternity unit of Our Lady of Lourdes...
- Capital Projects
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all Health Service Executive Corporate Plan Capital Projects were completed in 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Service Executive Inquiry
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has carried out its own internal inquiry into the sequence of events that took place at Leas Cross...
- Hospital Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent case of a baby left in agony in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital for four days before being admitted to Crumlin; her...
- Capital Projects
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of capital projects for 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12053/07]
- Health Insurance
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied the payment by insurers for the treatment of private patients in public hospitals is being fully billed for; if there...
- Certification Requirements
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if school children are required to have a sick certificate if they are off school; if this requirement has meant more work for general...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans on continuing with the decision to locate the National Children's Hospital on the Mater site, despite strong and various...
- Hospital Services
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason cancer patients are unable to get basic surgical treatment at University College Hospital Galway due to a lack of theatre...
- Health Insurance
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent statements by a person (details supplied) that the Irish private health insurance market does not need risk...
- Health Service Contracts
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive does not have a contract with general practitioner trainers; and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when contracts for private hospitals on public lands will be signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11998/07]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy with regard to the general public access to accident and emergency departments; the average waiting period in...
- Hospital Staff
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her co-location plan could have adverse consequences for public patients in public hospitals due to changing work practices for...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the INO and PNA industrial action; her plans to address their member's substantial grievances in view of the...
- Hospital Charges
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the 2005 introduction of charges for long-term residents on medical cards in mental health institutions; if she...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the legal position to ensure the end of the practice of charging of top-up chiropody fees to elderly patients in...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when is the Accident and Emergency Taskforce Report due to be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12046/07]
- Health Promotion
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her Department's policy on people's fitness and exercise; the encouragement in place to encourage people to participate; and if she will...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the recent situation where Health Service Executive supplies of the BCG vaccine ran out; if she has...
- Health Insurance
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether private health insurance premiums could double in the next three years; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the general practitioner only cards do not cover a patient wishing to obtain the...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his views on the Alzheimer Society of Ireland's calls to recognise dementia as a national health priority, to invest €35 million per...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the corporate plan capital projects for 2006 were completed on time and in budget with a list of same; and if she will make a...
- Health Insurance
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the further negotiations that have taken place between her Department and the Quinn Group; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the prohibitive costs of IVF treatment, that is in the region of €4,000, and that this cost is beyond the reach of the...
- Nursing Home Charges
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the nursing home repayment scheme; if she is satisfied that information provided to recipients and their families...
- Eating Disorders
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting list for St. Columcille's Hospital; the steps she will take to aid St. Columcille's Hospital; the measures she will take to...
- Hospital Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will re-consider the proposed move of St. Luke's or if she will ensure that the site remains in possession of the Health Service...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on having a national study on total fluoride intake in the population; if she will do this under section 6 of the fluoridation...
- Eating Disorders
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to services to combat eating disorders in 2006; the amount of funding approved for 2007; the way this...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the pneumococcal vaccine will be introduced into the childhood immunisation programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a strategy in relation to treatment of allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11994/07]
- Health Service Staff
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of advanced paramedics trained by the Health Service Executive in 2006; the target number for 2006; the target number for...
- Child Care Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the most up to date figures on the number of inquiries and the number of voluntary notifications respectively received by the child care...
- Hospital Staff
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding negotiations for a new contract for hospital consultants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11812/07]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that treatments for the rare disease congenital sucrose isomaltase deficiency cost over...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the value of the land approximately to be given to private individuals to build private hospitals on public land; and if she will make a...
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the delays in talks between Health Service Executive and the IPE regarding representation by the IPU;...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cancelled elective operations in each area in 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospitals Capacity
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the expected results of the Health Service Executive extensive survey of capacity across all acute hospitals will be published in...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the delays and waiting times for children with Down's syndrome trying to access a speech therapist; her further views on the...
- Cancer Control Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the warning issued by the Environmental Health Officers Association regarding the risk of skin cancer...
- Health Service Staff
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that there are enough public health nurses in the Health Service Executive primary and community care sector to...
- Cancer Control Strategy
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will appoint the promised Director of Cancer Control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12059/07]
- Health Service Reform
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the controls mechanism retained by her in relation to the spending of the Health Service Executive budget on non-medical consultants who...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on reports that patients for cataract operations are going directly onto the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the number of...
- Hospitals Expenditure
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost per patient per day in 2006 in hospitals (details supplied) in County Cork. [11820/07]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients discharged from acute hospitals to intermediate care beds under the Ten Point Plan to deal with the accident and...
- Child Health Screening
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of primary schools the school screening service was unable to cover within 2006; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Reform
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether a value for money audit should now be conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General following reports on salaries...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the changes in the GMS scheme where prescriptions used to be updated every month and are now updated every three months has made a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the relocation of the Central Mental Hospital; her views on whether the conditions in which patients are kept in...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the recent urgent calls for ICU beds in St. James; the number of major operations postponed due to lack of ICU bed...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the views on the roll out of cervical cancer screening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12081/07]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether Government policy on the cost of private beds in public hospitals and her co-location plan will have a significant...
- Drug Treatment Programme
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the availability of drug free heroin treatment facilities and options; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7728/07]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the reported 30,000 backlogged smear tests waiting to be examined here; if she will confirm reports that these...
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the dental scheme for medical cardholders known as the dental treatment services scheme which is under serious threat due...
- Departmental Publications
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date the Barrington Report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12016/07]
- Health Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of provision for children with acquired brain injury; the measures she will take to address same and when; and if...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who were treated in the Mallow accident and emergency unit in 2005 and 2006; if the unit is a stand alone or under...
- Health Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive tendering a development for acutely ill respiratory patients called Hospital in the Home to a...
- Hospital Staff
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultants who have agreed to renounce their right to treat private patients in 20 per cent of the public beds in...
- Health Service Staff
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the lack of funding for services for cystic fibrosis; the position regarding the medical posts to be filled for the...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the living kidney transplant programme; her views on the family (details supplied) who described receiving a letter...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the €60 charge is applied in cases where a patient is referred to non accident and emergency departments; and if she will...
- Garda Investigations
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Garda Commissioner has made any contact with her Department regarding Garda Síochána inquiries into the sequence of events that...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Stations
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are proposals for a full-time Garda station in Dunshaughlin, County Meath; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a birth certificate was not returned to persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he...
- Garda Districts
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the electoral divisions covered by the Blanchardstown and Santry Garda districts respectively. [12153/07]
- Garda Pensions
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Garda pensions are reduced by €60 per week for Gardaí who retired before 1993; if so, the reason for...
- Transfer of Sentence
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Residency Permits
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application to remain in the State by a person (details supplied); if he will...
- Garda Strength
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí per head of population in Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford; the number of Garda...
- Departmental Publications
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to receive the report from the working group recently established to examine the issue of...
- Identification Parades
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is a provision in existing legislation whereby witnesses in an identity parade have to place their...
- Asylum Applications
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give favourable consideration to extending residency in the case of persons (details supplied) in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has completed his consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1996 as to whether a person...
- Naturalisation Certificates
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on a case in which a person (details supplied) in County Offaly has been refused either an English...
- Garda Deployment
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí appointed to each Garda station in Roscommon and south Leitrim; the numbers based there...
- Residency Permits
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 375 of 31 January 2007, the nature of the information sought; when it...
- Refugee Status
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for refugee status in the case of persons (details supplied) in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he...
- Family Reunification
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for family reunification in the case of persons (details supplied);...
- Residency Permits
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he...
- Refugee Status
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason refugee status has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the distress, anxiety and hardship being suffered in the case of a person...
- Refugee Status
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for refugee status in the past two years; the number refused, granted or pending;...
- Asylum Applications
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 31 January 2007, if his conviction in this respect is as soundly...
- Subsidiary Protection
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision on subsidiary protection in relation to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Family Reunification
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for family reunification in relation to a person (details...
- Asylum Applications
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 31 January 2007, if an application for a person (details...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his previous replies to parliamentary questions on proposals for the future use of the land at...
- Garda Contracts
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures for scrutiny by his Department of service contracts signed between An Garda Síochána and...
- Garda Communications
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures or protocols in place for ensuring that retired members of An Garda Síochána do not, in...
- Garda Insurance
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if serving members of An Garda Síochána are working for or in receipt of fees from insurance companies...
- Missing Persons
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons reported missing in the years 2004, 2005 and 2006; the number of those persons reported...
- Asylum Applications
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision on family reunification will be made in relation to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Finance
- Drug Seizures
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance if customs officials employ a sniffer dog at Shannon Airport; if so, the number of drug seizures and their total value the dog has been involved in;...
- Tax Code
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is hope of getting tax designation for an area (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12126/07]
- Employment Conditions
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to address the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12157/07]
- State Property
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Office of Public Works have not made provision for the driving test centre as part of either the GRO or land registry sites in...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to purchase lands (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12254/07]
- Tax Code
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a tax refund as a self employed person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12288/07]
- Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the regulations regarding procedures for staff of crèches and nurseries for evacuating pre-school children in the event of an...
- Primary Care Strategy
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to locate a primary care centre in a town (details supplied) in County Mayo; the action that has been taken in this matter;...
- Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has to wait seven months for assessment for a primary certificate; her views on...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 199 and 222 of 21 March 2007, if pupils in a special school for children with autism, which is...
- Health Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate an application for home help where the person (details supplied) in County Cork is only prepared to allow their...
- Medical Cards
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason general practitioners are charging medical card holders for signing medical fitness forms in relation to drivers licence...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of community supports in place for older people in order to remain in their own home; if older people who have full-time...
- Ambulance Service
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the provision of ambulance services in the Dublin area; her Department's policy on ambulance emergency services;...
- Medical Cards
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are guidelines with regard to general practitioners charging for smear tests; if a medical card holder is entitled to a free...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an application for the nursing home subvention for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Medical Cards
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12166/07]
- Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be taken into full-time care. [12178/07]
- Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when repayment of nursing home charges will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a portable hoist will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason no member of the Health Service Executive has been appointed on a local basis to deal with relatives queries regarding the...
- Health Services
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the health risks associated with the consumption of polluted water from water schemes in parts of...
- Hospital Staff
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her position on the extent to which a revised hospital consultants' common contract should incorporate special provision for academic...
- Health Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an x-ray; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultants currently employed at Tallaght Hospital; and the comparable figures for 1998 when the hospital opened. [12247/07]
- Hospital Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will refer again to the issue of the National Children's Hospital at Tallaght and confirm that there are plans to maintain and...
- Health Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason repayments have not been made to a person (details supplied) in respect of wrongful charges for nursing home care of their...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when broadband will be provided to an area (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12165/07]
- Inland Fisheries
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the funding spent under the National Development Plan up to the end of 2006 for the development of the angling...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is unable to get a birth certificate or a passport and wants to travel out of the...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 15 February 2007, a reply has been received from the local authority...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the tremendous work that is being carried out for young people at a club (details supplied) in...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has placed an upper limit on the number of community employment scheme places for persons over 55 years nationally;...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way there could be no record of an application for redundancy in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Legislative Programme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to review the legislation covering friendly societies; if he will strengthen their powers to carry out...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was refused supplementary welfare allowance for assistance with water supply...
- Pension Provisions
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will assist farmers who retired before the introduction of mandatory PRSI payments in 1988; and if he will make a statement...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to the Exchequer in terms of revenue foregone of cutting the PRSI from 4% to 2% for employees and from 3% to 2% for the...
- Child Support
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the allowances a grandparent who is minding their grandson full-time since January 2007 is entitled to claim to help towards the...
- Department of Transport
- Planning Issues
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 28 February 2007, the way the proposed public safety zones contained in the Draft...
- Open Skies Agreement
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will sanction the €53 million spend over five years in the economic plan put forward by the Mid-Western Regional Authority and other...
- Marine Accident Investigations
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Transport his intentions regarding the raising of the trawler, Pére Charles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12136/07]
- Driving Licences
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Transport the numbers of persons (details supplied) who were provisional licence holders and full licence holders; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Transport the principle means by which he will make public transport more accessible for persons with disabilities; the measures he proposes for those who...
- Planning Issues
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 12 October 2004 in which he stated that his Department does not appeal planning...
- Railway Stations
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport the position, in relation to the feasibility study undertaken by Iarnród Éireann and Westmeath County Council, in relation to the reopening of...
- Rail Network
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Transport the timetable for re-opening each section of the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12184/07]
- Rail Services
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Question No. 210 of 8 March 2007, if he has made a decision on the railway order application; if he has not signed the railway order,...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the withdrawal of funding from a society (details supplied) means...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has had their single payment reduced by half; and if she will make a...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in receipt of farm retirement payments from 1995 to 2004 is entitled to the increase...
- Grant Payments
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payments. [12141/07]
- Assisted Animal Reproduction
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has fully complied with the EU FVO ban on the use of New Zealand semen; if she has satisfied herself that there is no...
- Grant Payments
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applicants under the installation aid scheme in each of the past 10 years; the maximum payment allowed under EU rules;...
- Turbary Rights
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12256/07]
- Department of Education and Science
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in re-establishing a new Education Disadvantage Committee as provided for in Section 32 of the Education Act...
- School Enrolments
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a school place for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12123/07]
- Psychological Service
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to expand counselling services in post-primary schools to provide support for students with personal or mental health...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for a general purpose room for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; when work will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 835 of 20 March 2007, the reason SENOs are not allowed to assist in applications for resource...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Cork for a new building; the position...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist a gaelscoil (details supplied) in County Limerick to acquire a permanent site; and if she will make a statement on...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Limerick for a grant under the dormant...
- School Services Staff
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the appointment of a full-time caretaker to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take steps to renew a decision made by her Department to refuse an application under the summer works grant scheme by a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of the decentralisation plans by her Department to decentralise 300 personnel to Mullingar; if a site has been acquired...
- School Staffing
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason it is proposed to terminate the employment of the eighth assistant teacher in a school (details supplied) in County...
- Boards of Management
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the full implications of her recent indication to the effect that school boards of management were legally accountable for matters...
- School Closures
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she or her officials are in consultations or discussions with the patron body of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
- School Accommodation
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way she will reduce class size in a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to under 30 students per class, if there are...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 404 and 406 of 22 November 2006, if she has completed the review of the provision of a school...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 22 March 2007, the dates of such meetings and the schools represented at such meetings;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a post-primary application for a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim with her building section; and if she will...
- Youth Services
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if arising from Parliamentary Question No. 1230 of 27 September 2006 she is giving consideration to the provision of a youth...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that adequate sport facilities are provided for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 6 February 2007, if the transfer of a school site (details supplied) in...
- School Accommodation
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application from a school (details supplied) in County Galway for additional accommodation and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the time frame for the provision of a new school at a location (details supplied) in County Galway; if a site has been acquired; if a...
- Irish Language
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements in place to ensure the discharge by universities of their statutory obligation, under section 12 (e) of the...
- School Transport
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the guidelines in relation to the waiting time for students (details supplied) in County Mayo. [12258/07]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has obtained a site for a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the status of the application; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Funding
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide funding for the ongoing work that is being carried out in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Mayo....
- School Accommodation
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 22 March 2007, the funding her Department is making available to provide additional...
- School Transport
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the independent inspector will be appointed to carry out the review of school transport in County Wexford. [12273/07]
- School Libraries
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the proposal by the National Parents Council for parent resource libraries in all primary schools; and if she will make...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department favours the school based educational provision for children with autism spectrum disorders or if home tuition is...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has sent a letter to all VEC's instructing them not to establish themselves as patron to any primary school, pending her...
- School Transport
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm receipt of an updated report from Bus Éireann on the case referred to in parliamentary Question No. 459 of 12...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Status
Question 255: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements required for the creation for a town council. [12124/07]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide additional funding for the development of a skate park in Limerick as the €125,000...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 258: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 945 of 20 March 2007, his legislative plans to address the issue and...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 259: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position pertaining to water quality in water schemes in parts of Galway (details supplied); the...
- Planning Issues
Question 261: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory basis, including SI article reference, for the requirement to have planning permission to have...
- EU Directives
Question 262: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of appeals to land designations submitted since November 2006 under various EU habitat and...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the difficulties surrounding the attempt by the community association in Malin Head, to...
