Written answers

Tuesday, 24 April 2007

  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Drug Abuse
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he has taken to address the explosion in cocaine abuse in Dublin and throughout the State in the past three...
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 46: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the areas to be serviced by the proposed Nitelink buses have been chosen; the criteria used to select the areas;...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 47: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will publish the most recent six monthly Progress Report to the Cabinet sub-committee on social inclusion in...
    • Rural Development
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made during the lifetime of the Government in regard to the achievement in rural Ireland of vibrant...
    • Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla
      Question 51: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an bhfoclóir leictreonach Gaeilge-Béarla. [15018/07]
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      Question 52: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an mó Scéim faoi Acht na dTeangacha atá glactha aige anois; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [15019/07]
    • Irish Language
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress he has made over the term of this Government to advance the use of the Irish language; and if he will...
    • Drug Abuse
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he will take to address the growing heroin problem in Ballyfermot, Dublin, and the lack of a strategy to...
    • Irish Language
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding made available by his Department for the teaching of Irish in educational institutions abroad; the amount...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he questioned the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government on the implementation of the Water...
    • Community and Voluntary Sector
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department will be taking on the task of promoting the group insurance scheme currently open to members of...
    • Drug Abuse
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the growth in crack cocaine and crystal meths abuse; and the steps he has taken to...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the recent report of the Working Group on Drug Rehabilitation, that represents the fifth pillar of the...
    • An Teanga Ghaeilge
      Question 61: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na cainteanna a bhí aige leis an gCoimisinéir Teanga mar gheall ar a Thuarascáil Bhliantúil don bhliain 2006....
    • Community Development
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the operation of the RAPID scheme over the past 12 months; his views on whether more communities...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department will be introducing an initiative to help community and voluntary organisations to meet compliance...
    • Countryside Access
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals arising from the report of Comhairle na Tuaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15016/07]
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      Question 68: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an gcreideann sé go bhfuil tábhacht mhór phoiblí le léarscáil Shuirbhéireacht an Ordanáis, faoi fhorálacha Acht na...
    • Oileáin Mhara
      Question 69: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil iarratas ina Roinn maidir le hoibreacha ar Oileán Ghabhla; cad iad na hoibreacha atá i gceist agus an...
    • An Teanga Ghaeilge
      Question 70: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfoilseoidh sé láithreach an Staidéar Teangeolaíochta Gaeltachta. [14987/07]
    • Clár na dToghthóirí
      Question 72: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta ar chóir go mbeadh sráidaimneacha agus logaimneacha eile dátheangach ar a laghad i gClár na dToghthóirí agus an raibh...
    • Drug Abuse
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he has taken in the past four years to address the major challenges faced by the families of drug abusers...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the adjustments to re-focus priorities and accelerate the roll out and implementation of the various key actions of...
    • Irish Language
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the operation of the Official Languages Act 2003 since it came into force; if he is satisfied...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the funding available for 2007 for the Ballyfermot Local Drug Task...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the organisations that have been allocated funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund since the start of 2007; the amount...
    • Charities Regulation
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the reform and the need for regulation of the charities sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Gaeltacht Areas
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress he has made to promote and support the sustainable and inclusive development of Gaeltacht communities;...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding provided by combat poverty to an organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he is satisfied...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Statistics
      Question 86: To ask the Taoiseach the most recent figures for the number of persons working here with a breakdown of the figures in relation to the different sectors involved. [14425/07]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 87: To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether the proposed transfer of staff from the Central Statistics Office in Swords, County Dublin to a city centre location is going against the...
    • Migrant Statistics
      Question 88: To ask the Taoiseach if there is a mechanism for collecting data regarding the various contributions made by immigrants here, including taxes and fees, volunteerism and local...
    • Awards System
      Question 89: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding a system for honouring Irish citizens for doing voluntary and community work. [14019/07]
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 90: To ask the Taoiseach if, in view of a recent Supreme Court decision (details supplied) an analysis has been carried out as to the impact this decision will have on all EU...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach the provisions that have been made to increase the resources of the Offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Chief Prosecution Solicitor; and if...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 92: To ask the Taoiseach the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press officers appointed by him;...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 93: To ask the Taoiseach the position in relation to the long running dispute involving the State solicitors; the steps being taken to resolve outstanding issues; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Legal Profession
      Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way many solicitors and others qualifying in the legal field can fulfil their training in view of the lack...
    • Violence Against Women
      Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proposals to or actions already made by him into research into violence against women, domestic violence...
    • Regulatory Reform
      Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 6 March 2007, the position regarding the recommendations of the...
    • Community Policing Fora
      Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the commitment to set up 14 community policing fora under the 2002 National Drugs Strategy has not...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will establish an independent inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Collection Permits
      Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will have a complaint (details supplied) treated with due attention and as a matter of urgency. [14116/07]
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is an investigation ongoing regarding the allegations that certain Gardaí are assisting a company...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for reunification submitted by a person (details supplied) will be decided, in respect of...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has applied for the deeds of their house will be...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when Irish citizenship by naturalisation will be approved for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo....
    • Visa Applications
      Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa application for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow has been received by his Department;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision has been made in relation to the application for renewal of IBC/05 permission to remain in the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to make a decision regarding applications for naturalisation by persons (details supplied) in...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision on applications for certificates of naturalisation from persons (details...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of behaviour warnings issued to people aged 12 to 18 since 1 March 2007; the number of cases where...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on restoring, on humanitarian grounds, the visa waiver scheme which facilitated immediate clearance...
    • Garda Training
      Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ensure that front line staff such as gardaí are provided with appropriate training to deal with...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce measures to have the UN protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking of persons,...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in cases of prisoner repatriation to this State, are the remission rules a prisoner is subject to that of...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 121: 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...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason visa applications were refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if this...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, as is provided for, he will accede to a request to him by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position on an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the timeframe for the resolution of the land ownership issue regarding land (details supplied) in County...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a submission made by Dóchas, Kilkenny, on behalf of a number of residents of a hostel (details supplied)...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if maps will be issued for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [14386/07]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review a decision in respect of a person (details supplied) seeking a tourist visa; and if he will...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a closed circuit television system will be operational for Ennis, County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Missing Persons
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons reported missing who were later accounted for as having died in each year between 1999...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 30 May 2006, the position regarding an application; if he will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on correspondence (details supplied). [14468/07]
    • Violence Against Women
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); the directive he has issued to...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a case for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be finalised. [14475/07]
    • Garda Operations
      Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to date of the security operation in Ballinaboy, County Mayo to include all costs; and if he will...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress on the proposed development of a prison at Kilworth, County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for the future of Spike Island; the discussions he has had with other Departments on the issue; and...
    • Garda Districts
      Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 29 March 2007, the electoral divisions (details supplied) which...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 6 February, 2007, if he is in a position to provide the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the dates of correspondence between his Department and An Garda Síochána in 1996 and his Department and the...
    • Insurance Industry
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement detailing the clear distinctions, protections and ethical guidelines to ensure...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a visa will be approved to allow a person (details supplied) with a valid work permit to travel to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who has applied for naturalisation;...
    • National Strategy for Older People
      Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will commit to the development and implementation of a national strategy for older people as...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application to remain here in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in providing a dealing number to register a property at a location (details...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the request to remain here on compassionate grounds in view of the age and background of...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) is under Garda surveillance; and if attempts are being made to discredit him...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the statistics for headline crime in the Dublin north division for the last year; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda cars, vans and motorbikes that are currently available to each station in the Dublin...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cells at Coolock, Raheny, Finglas, Ballymun, Clontarf and Swords stations; the number that are...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of overtime worked by Gardaí in Coolock and Raheny Districts under Operation Anvil for 2005, 2006...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the work of the interim national property services regulatory authority and of its...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the visa application of a person (details supplied) who is anxious to live...
    • Missing Persons
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number who died violently at sea and accidentally in relation to missing persons who were found dead...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Ground Rents
      Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there has been a recent change in the policy regarding fees for the collection of ground rents; if a fee...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he will take with regard to recent attacks on young people at a location (details supplied) in...
    • Firearms Act
      Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the firearms licence fee has gone up by 50% even though the three-year licence means that less...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are plans to increase in 2007 the number of gardaí and community gardaí in the Cabra Garda Station...
    • Garda Reserve
      Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to date of establishing the Garda Reserve. [14804/07]
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for family reunification has been decided upon in the case of a person (details supplied)...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application to remain in the State by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be approved and...
    • Garda Reserve
      Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of fully qualified members of the Garda Reserve and the stations to which they are currently...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received correspondence (details supplied); his plans to address this issue in early course; and if...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí allocated to the Dublin west district; the breakdown by rank and area of activity; the...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to deal with the number of unsolved murders, gangland killings and other serious crimes...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals in relation to drafting legislation to allow for a Property Services Regulatory Authority; when...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 135 and 136 of 14 December 2006 and 273 of 27 September 2006, if he...
    • Sexual Offences
      Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will answer the specific questions raised in Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 27 March 2007 (details...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to deal with an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo....
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has reviewed the situation pertaining to a full-time immigration and customs post at Knock...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way a person who competed in a competition for employment as part of the Garda civilisation programme can...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if arrangements have been made to purchase additional lands in connection with the proposed prison project at...
    • Garda Training
      Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department provided funding or training for members of the Garda in relation to dealing with domestic...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when long term residency will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15030/07]
    • Refugee Status
      Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 207: 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 22; and if he...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 208: 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 Dublin 15; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application for citizenship will be acceptable in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for family reunification submitted by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22;...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Garda station that is responsible for ensuring that the bus lane at the Long Mile Road outbound...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is still on the entry list for training with An Garda...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength in each of the Garda divisions; the breakdown of the number in each division by area and by...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his response to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 5 April 2007, if he will explain his statement...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the population per Garda division and the number of Gardaí assigned to each Garda division using the 2006...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number, rank, duties and location of Gardaí located at each Garda station in County Louth for the years...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 222: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) who wishes to become an Irish citizen and who has an Irish university...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 29 March 2007, when a response will issue; and if he will make a...
    • Missing Persons
      Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons reported missing in 2005; the number who remained untraced at the end of 2005, in view...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the name and the rank of the member of An Garda Síochána who is handling the investigation into allegations...
    • Traffic Fines
      Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the new policy of traffic wardens and Gardaí of not placing parking fine...
    • Port Status
      Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to private airports here; the private airports that have port of entry status; his...
  • Department of Finance
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 229: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt certain categories of people from the recent increase in registration tax on high powered vehicles when such vehicles are used by...
    • Motor Vehicle Registration
      Question 230: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to ensure that no car number plates will be provided to a person without the furnishing of verifying documentation to ensure...
    • National Development Plan
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been a strategic environmental assessment of the National Development Plan; if he will carry out such an assessment; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance if a certificate of standard rate cut point and tax credits from the Revenue Commissioners will be issued for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 237: To ask the Minister for Finance the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press officers...
    • Tax Code
      Question 238: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a group of people (details supplied) have been excluded from the Irish Seafarers Tax Allowance...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance when the cleaning of a river details supplied) in County Donegal will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14256/07]
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 240: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements made with the multi-disciplinary design team producing a redevelopment plan for the Mountjoy sale site, including the main terms of...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of State employees, either civil servants or State agency employees, who have had any of their entitlements or retirement allowances...
    • Tax Code
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for Finance the justification for the imposition of a stamp duty on banks for credit and laser cards; and the action he has taken to ensure that this tax is not...
    • Road Signage
      Question 245: To ask the Minister for Finance if signage will be improved on all approach roads to an abbey (details supplied) in County Wexford in order to cater for visitors from outside the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Galway is entitled to a refund of stamp duty paid on a house which they purchased in view of the fact that...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for Finance if a report has been carried out (details supplied); if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of same; and the action the Office of Public Works...
    • Firearms Licences
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for Finance if the increases in firearms licence fees provided for in the Finance Act 2007 were recommended by the Department of Justice. Equality and Law...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will consider a grant of postponement of liability to the collection of the inheritance tax on hardship grounds in the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for Finance if there are tax reliefs available for high performance athletes for the costs incurred in their training, equipment and attending competition; and...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for Finance when building will commence on the offices for the District Vet Office for County Leitrim based in Drumshanbo; when tenders will be sought for...
    • Tax Code
      Question 256: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief available to commuters who travel by train to work. [14842/07]
    • Political Representations
      Question 258: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of representations from TDs that the Revenue Commissioners have received for each of the years, 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; the...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 259: To ask the Minister for Finance if a local authority (details supplied) has carried out a report on an issue; if this report has been carried out; the proposals that have been...
    • Motor Vehicle Registration
      Question 260: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is flexibility with regard to payment of vehicle registration tax on a vehicle (details supplied). [14899/07]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 261: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Questions No. 306 of 20 March 2007 and No. 193 of 5 April 2007, the status of the contracts for sale; and if he will make...
    • Tax Code
      Question 262: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to an income tax refund. [14949/07]
    • Employment Rights
      Question 264: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will implement the European Union legislation contained in Article 39 EC and Article 7.1 of Regulation No. 1612/68; if his attention has...
    • Tax Code
      Question 265: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to have any tax refund due to a person (details supplied) processed as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Levy
      Question 266: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are pensioners who are currently on €472 per week, and as a result of the 3% national...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not supplied the detailed answer to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied) which is with his Department since 22...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Services
      Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the occupational therapist for the Cork region has not been replaced when they left; if an assessment will be carried out for...
    • Services for Older People
      Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to establish the office of an older persons' ombudsman to inform on advocacy, entitlement and rights; and if she will...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will make an early decision in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 regarding an application for a...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 271: 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...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the past three years; the way in which the amount of...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the increase in fees at a crèche (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if she will provide extra funding...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if speech therapy services will be provided for special needs children (details supplied) in a school in County Louth; and if she will...
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and type of dedicated cocaine treatment programmes which are available nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when, in view of the current figure of only 5 paediatric neurologists currently working here to cater for the entire population and with...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to establish a national mental health service directorate within the Health Service Executive, one of the key...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 281: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a drug (details supplied) will be made available either under the long term illness scheme or the drugs repayment scheme for...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide this Deputy with a copy of the tender document for the new co-located hospitals; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for each cancer condition; the waiting lists for radiotherapy at St. Lukes Hospital in Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the changes made in relation to provision for radiotherapy services by way of PPPs; her plans for provision in each of the four Health...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 285: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to extend BreastCheck to women over the age of 64; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14097/07]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria used in assessing children with disabilities for residential care and deciding whether they are entitled to five or seven...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an assessment with a doctor from the Health Service Executive for their...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the problems faced by so many physiotherapist graduates; the reason her Department is not ensuring that there are...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a document (details supplied); her views on the issues raised in that document; and if she will make...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an appointment for surgery; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when orthodontic treatment will commence for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that older women will not be compelled to change their general practitioner when they become eligible for a medical...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide older women with regular visits from public health nurses with regular health assessments and access to services...
    • Health Services
      Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans in view of the significant increase in the population of a town (details supplied) in County Kildare as of the last Census to...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 296: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 with a medical card as they are paying out a lot of money on medication; and...
    • Health Services
      Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the review of the dental treatment services scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if progress made in relation to resolving the difficulties being experienced by couples here wishing to adopt children from Belarus and...
    • Nursing Home Care
      Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the person who will provide the balance of nursing home costs for a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if she will make a...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for housing aid for the elderly will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to make chiropody services free to medical card holders, people with long term illness and pensioners; and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the years of employment given by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be credited to their record for pension...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny with an orthopaedic consultant...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging an angiogram for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 8 March 2007, the reason a formal reply has not been issued by the Health Service...
    • Foster Care
      Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will given effect to the proposed inter-Governmental agreement known as the Accord with the Government of Belarus...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new medical cards that have been issued in each of the past six months; the number of new general practitioner only cards...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 318: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application under the housing aid for the elderly scheme in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, will be...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 319: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons for the delay in arranging a bone assessment at St. James Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will immediately ensure a safe ambulance service to the Belmullet area of County Mayo by ensuring funding for a full 24 hour...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application under the housing aid for the elderly will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [14245/07]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support St. John of God Kildare Services, St. Raphael's, Celbridge, Kildare and end the unjust charge to disabled persons in...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 326: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that front line Health Service Executive staff are provided with appropriate training to deal with domestic violence;...
    • Domestic Violence
      Question 327: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ringfence annual funding to support agencies dealing with the issue of domestic violence; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 328: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no epidural available for pregnant women outside the hours 9 a.m to 5 p.m in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if...
    • Health Repayment Scheme
      Question 329: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in the administration of the health repayment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14263/07]
    • Adoption Services
      Question 330: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is such a delay in the adoption process; her plans to employ more social workers to speed up the process; the other...
    • Health Services
      Question 331: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding available for those who have had prosthesis and amputations; the funding available for the repair of same; and if she will...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of day hospital beds in 2001 in relation to the Government's commitment to older people, stated in the National Health...
    • Health Services
      Question 336: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the medical need for such an...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason young children with autistic disorders attending mainstream schools are being denied health board services such as speech...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received an appointment for surgery; when the person will receive this...
    • Home Help Service
      Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to have home help hours increased from three hours per week to the original five hours per week for persons...
    • Health Services
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if support will be given to persons (details supplied) with extra support hours; and if she will work with the family on a care plan....
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding training for health professionals dealing with cerebral palsy patients in hospitals; and if these families will...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 344: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 1 February 2007, the progress in reaching a decision in the person's case by her Department...
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite the putting in place of the national protocols in regard to the availability of a drug (details supplied) for...
    • Community Pharmacy Services
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an update to parliamentary questions of 31 January 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14317/07]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with hip surgery. [14338/07]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 348: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an appeal for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the medical...
    • Health Services
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14349/07]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 352: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a playgroup (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if they will be informed that funding will be provided; if...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 3 April 2007, the full details of the services available for severely disabled children who...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for issuing results of smear tests in County Limerick. [14372/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on implementing a pilot domino scheme in County Kilkenny and appointing a lactation consultant to improve the maternity...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the provision of a new accident and emergency at St. Lukes Hospital, Kilkenny has been approved; if the funding will be provided; the...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has processed the application of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in regard to repayments under the...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will increase the funding provided to Headway Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14408/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in calling a person (details supplied) in County Wexford for the outstanding treatment; and if she will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if any county has the first response unit working through any of the county ambulance switch boards; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a long stay bed will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14434/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a facility will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14445/07]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite a decision. [14461/07]
    • Nursing Education
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the situation whereby State enrolled nurses, who have achieved their qualifications in the United Kingdom and...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 370: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with an ambulance taxi service; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 371: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the occupational therapists available for medical card holders in Dublin 15; and the waiting list for same. [14478/07]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 373: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to replace the orthopaedic surgeon at CUH when the present incumbent retires; and the number of orthopaedic surgeons...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a vaccine damage compensation scheme will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14483/07]
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      Question 375: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will implement the recommendations set out in the report of the working group set up by her in March 2006 to examine the nature...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if claims under the nursing home repayment scheme are being processed not in chronological order but on a nursing home basis; if so, the...
    • Health Services
      Question 378: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not qualify for the enhanced subvention; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a transfer; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 381: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment of a nursing home refund will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [14533/07]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the application for a hearing aid for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when and the person by whom the catchment area for physiotherapy services for Beaumont Hospital was set; the person who has...
    • Civil Registration
      Question 387: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a late birth registration of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been dealt with. [14552/07]
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will commit the necessary resources to implement the Dementia Manifesto 2007 to 2009 launched by the Alzheimer's Society of...
    • Health Services
      Question 389: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14556/07]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will again intervene with Cappagh Hospital on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo and have them called for...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, regarding the delay being experienced by cancer patients at UCHG, she will offer the National Treatment Purchase Fund as an...
    • Health Services
      Question 392: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an early appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in view of their concerns in relation to the...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 393: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the length of time it will take to process a claim under the health payment scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny;...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be approved on medical grounds...
    • Health Services
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 27 March 2007, if generic complaints regarding irreversible damage having been caused to...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork, has not received a decision on their application for a medical card. [14573/07]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a service (details supplied) in County Limerick has not been available to date; the capital funding provided for the project;...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for the refund of nursing home charges in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the necessary resources to allow for the establishment at the Mercy Hospital Cork, of a dietician post to specialise...
    • Health Service Executive Property
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a request from a group (details supplied) in County Kerry for the use of around 30 acres of Health Service Executive...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow regarding illegal charging. [14620/07]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an appeal against the decision of the Health Service Executive not to issue a medical card in the case of a person...
    • Health Services
      Question 403: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when provision can or will be made for a special needs dentist to cover children attending a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 404: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when pension pay and lump sum will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has not received payment...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 405: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when repayment of nursing home charges will be refunded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 406: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients released by the Mental Health Tribunal who were, in the opinion of the tribunal, not suffering from a mental...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 407: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare under the housing aid for the elderly scheme will be processed; and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 has not received adequate assistance towards taxi costs in all of the circumstances;...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 410: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite payment of the refund of hospital charges in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she...
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene in the nurses' dispute with a view to initiating meaningful negotiations with the INO and the PNA; and if she will...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason more positions are not created in a service (details supplied) in view of the fact that there are waiting lists of people...
    • Health Services
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with home help; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14678/07]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will increase the value given towards standard prescription spectacles for medical card holders who avail of optical and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive an appointment with an occupational therapist. [14680/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will commence physiotherapy in view of the fact that they were promised this service...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for a medical card will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider the Government's proposal to relocate the Central Mental Hospital to a new site adjacent to the new prison site...
    • Health Services
      Question 421: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to deal with the problem of cerebral palsy here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14685/07]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 on a waiting list. [14688/07]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultant physicians who were appointed in 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients awaiting in-patient treatment and out-patient treatment at Beaumont Hospital; the number of patients waiting for...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for a new child leukaemia unit at Temple Street Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14691/07]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) with a disability; and if she will work with their family on this matter. [14694/07]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 431: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in relation to the national child care investment programme 2006 to 2010 applications for a community based capital grant have been...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to the future of surgical services at Roscommon Hospital and in particular if all surgical services currently...
    • Health Services
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14721/07]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the waiting list for the dental hygienist in Ballina, County Mayo; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the employment record of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for the period prior to 1967 when they...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in having a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny admitted for surgery to Beaumont Hospital; and if she...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 439: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for a disabled driver's grant submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused. [14758/07]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 440: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the State funding currently being provided to the Coeliac Society of Ireland; if she plans to increase the level of funding in view of...
    • Health Services
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a transfer; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide funding at the County Hospital, Roscommon for the development of a support unit and continuing care unit for...
    • Health Services
      Question 445: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the hospice beds in Boyle, County Roscommon will be opened; the steps she is taking to resolve the outstanding issues; the cost of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 447: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in making an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if an appointment and operation...
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 448: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence in relation to benchmarking from the INO (details supplied); her plans in this regard; and if she...
    • Programmes for Government
      Question 449: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from the Disability Federation of Ireland in relation to the Programme for Government 2007 to 2012...
    • Medical Records
      Question 450: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will allow an extension of the statue of limitations, that is three years, to access the medical records of a person (details...
    • Autism Services
      Question 451: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasoning behind the decision not to provide a centre for the care of people with autism at Myshall, County Carlow; the person who...
    • Health Services
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of appointments which have to be made with private professionals for assessment of children with ADD and ADHD in Counties...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 453: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the proposal for private hospitals on public hospital land; if decisions have been made as to which...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has made an additional provision for a CT scanner, MRI and other imaging equipment for Connolly Hospital...
    • Health Services
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposal for a new health centre for Dunleer, County Louth; if a site has been acquired for the centre, the...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish an independent clinical review process to examine all aspects of the care and treatment provided to a person...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be registered. [14898/07]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 459: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make different arrangements for the contribution of persons with long-term acute disability to the cost of long-term...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 460: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the recruitment of specialist staff in the treatment if cystic fibrosis; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a cap on payments to non governmental organisations in relation to funding from her Department or the Health Service...
    • Health Service Accommodation
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of placements available for women in crisis accommodation that are within the control of the Health Service Executive; the...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of current nursing home residents who are entitled to repayments under the national repayments scheme; the number of...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional funding she is providing to the Health Service Executive to employ additional phlebotomists at Waterford Regional...
    • Health Services
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Insurance
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has lived here for the past 10 years has been refused the approval of...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the number of social workers dealing with adoption and fostering has been reduced from six to three; the reason for same; and if she...
    • Alcohol Policy
      Question 474: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the background to her suggestion that the alcohol industry represent Ireland at a World Health Organisation review on alcohol policy, as...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the comments by a leading respiratory consultant at the Mercy University Hospital Cork that the north-side of Cork City has...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their refund payment under the health repayments scheme; when the claim was...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way it has been decided that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare does not qualify for a primary medical certificate under...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from groups, bodies or individuals supporting an organisation (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Home Help Service
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an extra hour home help; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with the Health Service Executive on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo and have their medical...
    • Nursing Education
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation with regard to commencing undergraduate psychiatric nurse training at a college (details supplied) in County Sligo; if she...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines that exist governing hospital health workers who contract MRSA or VRE whilst carrying out their duties; and if, in the...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15092/07]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made regarding the 32 staff working at Ballymote Community Nursing Home, County Sligo, who had been employed...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card will be approved in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene on this person's behalf (details supplied) in County Sligo and have them called for an MRI scan; and if she will...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is such a long delay in processing an application by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath for domiciliary...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not receiving occupational or speech therapy; if her attention has been drawn...
    • HSE Report
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will request a report from the Health Service Executive on the issue raised in correspondence (details supplied). [15209/07]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a response will issue in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 5 April 2007. [15216/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a response will issue in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 5 April 2007. [15226/07]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the introduction of the new half-rate carer's allowance will affect the entitlement to a medical card holder under 70 years; if...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a refund will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Clare in respect of nursing home charges; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the psychiatric unit in Sligo General Hospital is being delayed; if co-location will be an obstacle in the development of...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 510: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to increase as a matter of extreme urgency the number of midwives employed at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital to...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the final list of public hospital sites on which land will be allocated to developers of private for-profit hospitals under the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of her recent meetings including dates of same with Health Service Executive executives regarding acute hospital services in...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will be making additional resources available to deal with public concern that has arisen from the incidence of...
    • Diabetes Services
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe the expert advisory group on diabetes is to deliver recommendations for a national strategy. [15290/07]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of community childcare places that have been created under the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 to 2010 to date....
    • Hospital Services
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if better access to neurological, neurosurgery and rehabilitation services can be provided in respect of people with acquired brain...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will set up an independent enquiry into the care of patients (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      Question 524: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out an inquiry into a nursing home (details supplied) in County Cavan where the incidence of dependent persons falling...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to have a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath admitted for a hip operation, which is urgently required;...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 526: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to decentralisation within the Health Service Executive; if a national transfer list has been established; the...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Housing Grants
      Question 527: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there are grants or other assistance available to householders who wish to install insulation and heat...
    • Coastal Erosion
      Question 528: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will announce funding for coastal erosion projects in County Louth; the amount of such funding; and...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 529: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if works are to be carried out to a slipway (details supplied) in County Wexford or other development works to...
    • Salmon Hardship Scheme
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the amount of funding he will provide to increase the hardship fund proposed for salmon fishermen; and if he...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 531: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans his Department has to roll out the provision of broadband to the Kilgarvan area of County Kerry; and...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, with regard to the American Slipper Limpet, which is a damaging species that is well established in Swansea...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers,...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 534: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the application of Dungarvan Town Council for funding to carry out urgently needed...
    • Salmon Hardship Scheme
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to withdraw the present scheme in regard to the banning of drift net salmon fishing and...
    • Broadcasting Legislation
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by persons in RTÉ relating to the proposal to...
    • Fishing Vessel Licences
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the progress made to process an appeal under Section 7 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003 by a person...
    • Television Licence Fee
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on making the television licence available for fixed terms such as three or six months for people who...
    • Salmon Hardship Scheme
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be compensated. [14441/07]
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to circumstances (details supplied); the directive he has issued to provide the...
    • Coastal Zone Management
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will replace the Foreshore Act 1933 with appropriate legislation and introduce a system of integrated...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has been notified of an application for works in relation to Sligo North West Airport, which would...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 543: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to ensure the full implementation of the Crawley report and sea change document; and if he will make...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the grants announced in Budget 2007 for solar energy panels to be erected on community facilities, such as...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department's attention has been drawn to the fact that Palatine village, three miles outside Carlow town...
    • Fishing Vessel Licences
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on a licensing scheme for full-time fishermen who are engaged in an activity (details supplied) on...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the measures with regard to the issue of poaching for species such as carp, bream and pike, he has put in place...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 550: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the €5 million community support scheme fund to aid the development of those...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 551: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if recent media reports that EirGrid has agreed to take office space in Ballsbridge at record breaking rents of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has received correspondence (details supplied); his plans to address this issue in early course; and if...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the unfairness of the proposed hardship scheme for salmon fishermen in...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the status of the project for the redevelopment of Dunmore East harbour in County Waterford which is expected...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he and his Department will take full responsibility for loss of life or injury caused by the serious delay...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will reconsider the enormous increase, which is being proposed for rent of rooms (details supplied); if...
    • Coastal Zone Management
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has examined the implications of the Foreshore Act 1933 with regard to today's planning environment; if...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will be granting permission for the proposed development of the Oriel windfarm project for Dundalk Bay,...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will examine the cases of two fishermen (details supplied) who have fished for over 30 years each and who...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if progress has been made in relation to the return of confiscated artwork to a person (details supplied). [14619/07]
    • Passport Applications
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Galway, who was born in the United States of America and holds a US passport is entitled to an...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the application for a sports capital grant by a club (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will ensure that funding is granted to the organisers of a festival (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make...
    • National Theatre
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will explain the decision to install new seating in the Abbey Theatre at some expense when the Abbey itself will be moving...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has received a recommendation from the all-party committee established to consider plans to commemorate the 100th...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of applications received from County Roscommon under the sports capital programme 2007; the amount of funding sought; the...
    • Sports Funding
      Question 574: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of moneys allocated to the GAA, IRFU and the FAI respectively each year since 2002 to date in 2007; the amount of grant...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the inquiry in relation to the purchase of Joyce papers is completed within his Department; and when same will be published....
    • Sports Funding
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the assistance being given to the Irish Hockey Association in its promotion of the sport here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when the expenditure review of the local authority swimming pool programme will be completed; and when it is expected that a new...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 580: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the value of capital grants sought under the sports capital programme in 2007 in each county; the number of applications; the value...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the application for funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that over 200 inspections carried out by the Health and Safety Authority...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views in relation to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14271/07]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the temporary office block to house the Company Registration Office in Carlow was chosen in view of the fact...
    • Legal Metrology Service
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 264 and 265 of 14 December 2006, the situation regarding the industrial relations...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the guidelines regarding the length of time a category of people (details supplied) can stay on a scheme....
    • Job Creation
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new IDA supported jobs that have been created here in the past six months. [14425/07]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date between his Department and the Health Service Executive on the mainstreaming of community employment...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 28 March 2007, his views in regard to the redundancy entitlement of a person...
    • Work Permits
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify the situation with regard to the status of au pairs from Bulgaria and Romania wishing to work here; and...
    • Job Losses
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation in relation to a company (details supplied) in County Donegal paying back moneys that may be owed to State...
    • Health and Safety Issues
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a number of former miners in the Slieveardagh coalfields in north...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether preventing those over the age of 55 from participating on community employment schemes constitutes...
    • Work Permits
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of the countries of origin of all persons who applied for a work permit here between 2005 and...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position and method by which carer's leave can be taken by a person; if it is necessary that it should be taken in...
    • Research and Development
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider the concerns of a person (details supplied) regarding Ireland's failure to participate in international...
    • Job Creation
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA assisted jobs that have been lost and created in County Clare in 2006; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position, and method, by which carer's leave can be taken by a person, and if it is necessary that it should be taken...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an investigation in respect of a matter relating to IDA property at a location (details supplied) in County Waterford...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 608: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the status of the community employment and jobs initiative schemes; the number of people...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will ensure an adequate income for older women by increasing pensions in line with inflation and increasing the living alone...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 610: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent supplement for a person (details supplied) in County Clare has ceased; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will amend the Self Employment Pension Act 1988 to allow citizens over the age of 80 years receive a full contributory...
    • Work Permits
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will reconsider the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if they will be granted a PPS number; if they will...
    • Family Support Services
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason his Department has helped establish a new family resource centre in Raphoe, County Donegal where a community resource...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 614: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the maximum limit in secondary earnings of €120 per week was set for people on disability allowance; and his views on...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 615: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 616: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is not being granted the full rate of CDA for their three children. [14251/07]
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals he has to pay arrears of half rate carer's allowance which is due to be introduced for those already in receipt of a...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will raise the rate of contributory old age pension to the level of the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason supplementary welfare benefit was not granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if consideration is being given to increasing disability allowance payments for participants of the national network learning...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 621: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded farm assist. [14433/07]
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to complaints that it is difficult for members of the public to obtain information regarding the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 623: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the financial assistance available to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo towards their rent payment; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 625: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs: 1. The telephone can often ring out unanswered. One of the reasons given is that they have a meeting one morning every week and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 626: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if arrears of invalidity pension backdated to 2001 when they first suffered a stroke, are payable in the case of a person (details...
    • Health and Safety Issues
      Question 627: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a number of former miners in the Slieveardagh coalfields in north Tipperary who...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted the one parent family allowance. [14647/07]
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 630: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to credit those who leave work to rear a family and then resume PRSI contributions in view of the fact that people in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 631: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will reconsider the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; his views on whether contrary to Parliamentary...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department will adopt a more flexible approach to the minimum number of hours people on disability payments are allowed to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 635: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of appeals currently outstanding in each category of social welfare payment on a county basis; and if he will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted the household benefits package. [15036/07]
  • Department of Transport
    • Marine Accidents
      Question 642: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make arrangements to have the [i]Pere Charles[/i] fishing trawler lifted from the seabed off the Waterford coast. [14141/07]
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 643: To ask the Minister for Transport the input his Department has in regard to organising funding and determining routes and so on for the rural transport initiative; the amount of...
    • Road Network
      Question 644: To ask the Minister for Transport if a post-ante analysis of the cost of the construction of the Dublin Port tunnel has been conducted; if not, when this will be conducted and...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Transport the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press officers...
    • Rail Network
      Question 648: To ask the Minister for Transport if Irish Rail has confirmed to him that it will open the western rail corridor to Claremorris by 2014 as set out in Transport 21; if this timeline...
    • Aviation Regulations
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied that legislation and regulations in relation to the use of civilian helicopter flights are robust enough to take account of the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 651: To ask the Minister for Transport his view of the fact that engine manufacturers for large vehicles, both trucks and buses have advanced the designs and taken these new modern...
    • Road Safety
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Transport the measures taken by his Department since 2002 to reduce the level of road deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14306/07]
    • Motor Insurance
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that non-Irish national drivers from the new EU countries using roads here carry an insurance cover of...
    • Road Network
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Transport the value for money or cost benefit analysis that has been carried out in relation to the use of PPPs for the national roads programme; if this...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied with the changeover of driving tests from his Department to the Road Safety Authority; [14660/07]
    • Public Transport
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount it costs Bus Átha Cliath for a modern double decker bus. [14709/07]
    • Motor Insurance
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Transport the redress open to a person whose motor vehicle was maliciously damaged by persons unknown to them and who do not have comprehensive car...
    • Public Transport
      Question 661: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in relation to the routing of circle line buses down Beaver Row, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, there were criteria outlined before the decision was...
    • Rail Services
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from a group (details supplied) in relation to difficulties with punctuality, overcrowding and evening time-gap...
    • Public Transport
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of funding provided for bus corridors in 2006, particularly for those serving Dublin 15 and the Blanchardstown area; the information...
    • Air Services
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason two flights (details supplied) which both receive Government subsidy can vary so significantly in price; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Network
      Question 665: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 29 March 2007 and the press release issued from his Department on 6 April 2007 regarding the Midleton...
    • Taxi Services
      Question 667: To ask the Minister for Transport if the number of wheelchair accessible taxis has fallen by 75%; if he has received correspondence from the taxi regulator in this regard; the...
    • Rail Network
      Question 668: To ask the Minister for Transport if the contracts have been signed for the Kildare route project. [15219/07]
    • Public Transport
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 375 of 5 April 2007, if proposals have been decided upon and cleared. [15224/07]
    • Air Services
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding discussions he or his Department has had in relation to allowing weapons to be carried by cabin or flight crew and...
    • Rail Services
      Question 671: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iarnród Éireann charges for the use of disabled parking spaces in its car parks; if disabled...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Summer Jobs Scheme
      Question 672: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position in relation to the restoration of the student summer job scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether there is an urgent need for the extension of Mulranny Pier, County Mayo; if he will provide the...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position with regard to the re-opening of the Ulster Canal; the timescale envisaged for restoration of the canal;...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      Question 677: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be offered a place on the rural social scheme; and if he will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 679: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the plans in place to give CLÁR status to Ballisodare east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14344/07]
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 680: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department in association with Údarás will carry out a structural survey of Mulranny Pier, Mulranny, County...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 682: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the directive he has issued in relation to the appointments of chairpersons to 38 local Leader partnerships companies...
    • Official Languages Act
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money that has been spent by the various Government Departments in implementing the Official Languages...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 685: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will approve a grant through CLÁR for the Ballyduhig group water scheme, Listowel, County Kerry; and if he...
    • Community Development
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has received an application for funding in respect of an employment development information project...
    • Rural Transport Initiative
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the rural transport initiative scheme will assist old age pensioners with taxi costs; and if he will make a...
    • Community Development
      Question 688: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding will be provided by his Department for an integrated services centre for the Mitchell's area of Tralee,...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 692: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when funding will be provided to a group water scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14877/07]
    • Community Development
      Question 693: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if through the schemes under the remit of his Department funding is available to a number of clubs (details supplied)...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      Question 698: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will allow overseas emigrant groups to apply for dormant accounts funding; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason for the delay in the publication of the Charities Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 701: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will ring-fence moneys seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau for drug treatment and rehabilitation services; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the efforts taken by his Department to encourage sustainable transport by his staff; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      Question 705: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the numbers on the rural social employment scheme operated by Laois Leader are to be increased; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 706: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a grant will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15179/07]
    • Community Development
      Question 707: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason he is discontinuing core funding from the LDP for a group (details supplied); if he will reconsider his...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 709: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans for changes, alterations, amalgamation or administration in the matter of the rural development programmes;...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 717: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of community based schemes involved in drug rehabilitation funded by his Department in 2006 and 2007; the...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Rural Development
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position in relation to the development of a national strategy on rural development; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 722: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Carlow was refused a grant under the scheme of investment aid for farm waste...
    • Alternative Farm Enterprises
      Question 723: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the alternative enterprises that will be offered to farmers following the closure of a meat processing factory (details supplied) in...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 724: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 725: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has received all of their payment entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      Question 727: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the WTO and the CAP review for 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14295/07]
    • Sheep Sector
      Question 728: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the main recommendations in the Malone sheep report; the number of recommendations she has implemented; and if she will make a...
    • Dairy Sector
      Question 729: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the main aspects of the dairy herd improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14297/07]
    • Farm Inspections
      Question 730: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position for 2007 regarding on-farm inspections without notice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14298/07]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 731: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will take steps to ensure that entitlements are available to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath as set out in...
    • Bovine Diseases
      Question 736: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if there is a plan to reduce the 45 day detention period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14381/07]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 737: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when payment under the single payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Bovine Diseases
      Question 746: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will commission experts independent of her Department to examine the handling of instances of cattle sickness and deaths in a...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 750: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure that adequate personnel and resources are provided to ensure that legislation requiring country of origin labelling...
    • Bovine Diseases
      Question 754: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans, in view of the improved brucellosis position here, to protect this situation with the implementation of controls in relation...
    • Food Industry
      Question 756: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure Government support for the horticulture industry and producers of fruit and vegetables, to assist in bringing...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 758: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to fund and implement a 40% grant scheme for on-farm grain storage and processing facilities; and if she will make a...
    • Food Industry
      Question 759: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure that farmers and their representative associations be permitted to negotiate prices and conditions for their...
    • Farm Inspections
      Question 760: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in relation to on-farm inspections, she will ensure that 14 days advance notice of inspections for all schemes will be given; and...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 761: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a decision will be made on an application for a slatted shed by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; the reason for the...
    • Sugar Beet Production
      Question 764: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when beet growers will receive compensation arising from the closure of both the Carlow and Mallow sugar factories; the amount of...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 765: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will ensure that the application for transfer of farm entitlements for a person (details supplied) in Cork south west is...
    • Compensation Payments
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has plans to compensate farmers who lost large sums of money with the collapse of the Tralee Beef and Lamb factory in...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when the single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Equine Sector
      Question 772: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of authorised officers in her Department dealing with equine passport controls; the number of spot checks carried out to...
    • EU Directives
      Question 773: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason the derogation regarding the nitrates directive as agreed in November 2006 has not been signed into Irish law; the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 774: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the delay in the issue of payment to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the single farm payment...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 778: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received Macra na Feirme policy correspondence (details supplied); her plans in this regard; and if she will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a single farm payment will be issued in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 783: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when REP scheme four will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15038/07]
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the new farm retirement scheme will be approved by the EU Commission in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Installation Aid Scheme
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a review can or will be undertaken regarding application for installation aid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 786: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding the present application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for national reserve; and if she will...
    • Food Industry
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on whether the vegetable industry here could become unviable unless a mechanism is found to address the price and costs...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 788: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who maintains that their farm waste management grant...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the expected date of the announcement of details of the farm improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15168/07]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 790: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been granted their REP scheme for 2006; and if she will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 792: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a forestry grant. [15280/07]
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 794: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding allocated for school development purposes at primary and secondary level for each of the years from 1997 to date in 2007;...
    • School Transport
      Question 795: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will investigate the provision of transport for children (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that it results...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 797: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her policy in relation to the removal of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow from the centre of Greystones town to the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her policy in relation to providing ABA education for children who wish to have this particular service provided; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 799: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made regarding a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if the architects...
    • Third Level Education
      Question 800: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a document (details supplied); her views on the major issues for third level students raised in the...
    • Student Accommodation
      Question 801: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will establish a task force on student accommodation for third level students; if she will give particular consideration to the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction a full time learning support or resource teacher solely for a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 803: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a new secondary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Adult Education
      Question 804: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the level of funding provided by her Department through the vocational educational committees for adult literacy; the level of funding...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 805: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo is being considered for funding for extra classrooms, physical education hall and office...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 806: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 which has 36 Traveller children on the roll,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will implement the recommendations of the task force on the physical sciences; the recommendations fully implemented to date;...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 809: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve the proposals which a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has submitted to her. [14246/07]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 811: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a new school building for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7, to replace the ten year old prefabs; and if she...
    • Departmental Records
      Question 813: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in acquiring records of their stay and the stay of their siblings at...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 814: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will expedite an application for an extension to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 815: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when standard sick leave arrangements of 12 weeks in a rolling year including seven uncertified days for school bus escorts will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 816: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow that was approved for grant aid in 2000 and rated a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Galway and that her Department became...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 820: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 1524 of 31 January 2007, if a decision has been made on this application; and if she will make a...
    • Schools of Music
      Question 821: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding from her Department for a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Management
      Question 822: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she or her Department has received further correspondence from the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 823: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason children with a disability are being forced to travel long distances for education services. [14347/07]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 824: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will look favourably on an application for outdoor play facilities and library facilities under the dormant accounts fund and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 825: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application from a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow for a new school; if sanction will be...
    • School Transport
      Question 826: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the school bus service to Knockmajor, County Kilkenny, will be extended by 0.8 of a mile in order to collect a person (details...
    • School Management
      Question 827: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on providing an extra grant to the board of management at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if her attention has...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 828: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the special rate of maintenance grant available to applicants for vocational education committees' scholarship scheme grants; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 829: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the contacts made by the design team appointed by her Department at schools (details supplied) in Dublin 9 to agree the programme of...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 830: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 22 November 2006, if the additional information submitted by the person (details...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 831: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has input into payments of the national learning network scheme; if so, her plans in regard to increasing the weekly payments...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 832: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department ceased the use of a premises (details supplied) in County Mayo; and the person who took over the responsibility of...
    • School Staffing
      Question 833: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which the early retirements advisory committee operates; the procedures they adopt; and if she will provide the names of...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 834: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there has been progress in acquiring a site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14412/07]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 835: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to open up the role of the special needs assistant in the classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14419/07]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 840: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the major works that have been approved for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 841: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will allocate additional special needs assistant posts in primary level and secondary level in 2007; the number of people...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 842: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be viewed as an independent mature student and approved for grant aid towards a...
    • State Examinations
      Question 844: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if she will intervene and have a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 845: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the details including locations and number of the applications currently under consideration by her Department for inclusion in the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 848: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance and advice will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 to attend a third level college. [14494/07]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 849: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress being made in relation to funding towards the reconstruction and improvements of a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 851: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when the statutory committee on educational disadvantage will be re-established. [14570/07]
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 852: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether it is unfair to exclude mature students from the maintenance grant scheme for those attending post-leaving...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 853: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school at Listellick, Tralee, County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 854: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grants available to complete a legal practice course in the UK; and if financial assistance is available towards the course cost...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 855: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when provision can or will be made for special educational needs offices for children attending a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 856: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding can or will be made available to a school (details supplied) for the provision of school hall, assembly and physical...
    • Commercial Marketing in Schools
      Question 857: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ban the presence of vending machines selling unhealthy sugary snacks and drinks from all schools, including those where...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 858: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 896 of 20 March 2007, the status of the application for funding; when a decision will be made on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 859: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will intervene in order to have correspondence (details supplied) to the National Council for Special Education answered in...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 860: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that County Wexford VEC has refused a higher education grant to a person (details...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 861: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a review of an application for inclusion in the new school support programme under DEIS can be carried out for a school (details...
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 862: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount it would cost to abolish part-time fees for those workers earning less than the average industrial wage. [14667/07]
    • Adult Education
      Question 863: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the most recent figure as a percentage of adult population in this State who are participating in lifelong learning; and the way she...
    • Youth Services
      Question 864: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide funding for the ongoing work that is being carried out in relation to a group (details supplied) in County Mayo....
    • School Staffing
      Question 865: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the position of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who has held a job sharing post for the past three...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 866: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, during the course of the decentralisation of 300 personnel from her Department to Mullingar there will be provision for people...
    • School Placement
      Question 867: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 60 qualified children in Celbridge, County Kildare, have failed to receive an...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      Question 868: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 21 February 2007, when an application for incremental credit will be processed for a...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 869: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there has been no increase in grant aid for the secondary education committee in 15 years; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      Question 871: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare is not facilitated with school transport; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 872: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress on the provision of funding towards new facilities for a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14816/07]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 873: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the children with autism currently requiring teaching facilities throughout County Kildare; her...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 876: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a person who undertook a business studies course between September 2004 and May 2005, and who obtained a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 878: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department is in discussions with the patrons of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 with a view to securing more suitable...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 879: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the conversion courses available to teachers, who are employed in special projects or schools and can only teach in those projects or...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      Question 880: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has considered the applications from a PLC college (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to lift the cap on enrolments to allow...
    • School Staffing
      Question 881: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of additional English language support teachers that have been allocated to schools in the Dublin 15 area; the number of...
    • School Placement
      Question 882: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of a number of children who meet all the criteria of living locally and have siblings in the school but have been refused...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 883: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will supply the information previously requested in relation to specific schools in Dublin 15 with regard to class sizes...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      Question 884: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a resolution will be reached in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has an outstanding issue with her...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 885: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress of the planning application in relation to the proposed permanent site in Ongar for schools (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 886: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the existing site (details supplied) is grossly overcrowded; if this site will be...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 887: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress of the planned school (details supplied); if a date has been set for the completion of temporary accommodation and the...
    • School Placement
      Question 888: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a person (details supplied) who to date is without a place for primary school having sought a place at...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 895: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding is available to a person who is doing an Open University degree course in the United Kingdom from their home here; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 896: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will publish the projected building programme for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 for all primary school buildings here in the...
    • Teacher Training
      Question 897: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the projected input of trainee teachers for primary school purposes in each of the training college facilities for 2007/08, 2008/09...
    • School Staffing
      Question 898: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of language support teachers appointed to schools in respect of international children who require language support since...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 899: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a new school has not been provided at Midfield, Swinford, County Mayo which was promised seven years ago; the reason for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 900: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the annual rent paid by her Department for prefab buildings at primary schools here; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      Question 901: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to increase accommodation at a primary school (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the expansion of housing...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 902: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the limited support services available for autistic children in the Waterford and Tramore areas;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 903: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for the construction of a new community school in Ballinamore, County Leitrim; her plans to progress the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 905: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will address the long time lag between when a school (details supplied) becomes eligible for an additional teacher and when it...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 906: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if in view of the demand for secondary school places in the Dublin 15 area she will instruct or give permission to the County Dublin...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 910: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support Irish Autism Action in its efforts to improve autism services; and the improvement for 2007. [14961/07]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 911: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the urgently needed new building for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry. [14971/07]
    • School Placement
      Question 913: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the number of children who cannot find places to begin their primary schooling in a school (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 916: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding funding for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15022/07]
    • State Examinations
      Question 921: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the structure and amount of fees payable by students who wish to complete the preliminary leaving certificate examinations and the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 922: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if communication aids and psychological services will be provided for special needs children (details supplied) in a school in County...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 923: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction a grant for a physical education hall for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 925: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the number of dependants is not taken into account in calculating entitlements for the special rate top up maintenance...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 926: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of dismantling the two storey prefab at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and re-erecting it for another school; the...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 933: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is an application in her Department for the extension and refurbishment of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 934: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to provide an autistic unit in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when is it expected that a decision...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 935: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review her decision to refuse a grant to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal under the summer works scheme 2007;...
    • School Staffing
      Question 936: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding she is making available to provide additional resources to cater for the large number of children of immigrants in schools...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 937: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for funding of the building programme at a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she...
    • Student Support Schemes
      Question 938: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is any financial assistance for this person (details supplied) to attend this course; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 939: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to assist the needs of individual students who have special needs, with specific reference to the pressing...
    • Student Support Schemes
      Question 940: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is financial assistance available from her Department to a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been awarded a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 941: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a technical inspection will be carried out at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 942: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received the stage 1 and 2 submission in relation to the building of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 945: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has finalised the allocation of the additional 31 educational psychologists to different counties; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 946: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has concluded her examination of the NCSE implementation report in relation to the Education for Persons with Special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 947: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a design team will be appointed for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [15231/07]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 950: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the directive she has issued in relation to sanctioning funding under the dormant fund scheme for a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 951: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to tackle the ongoing phenomenon of overcrowding in classrooms nationwide; and her plans to tackle same in a...
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 952: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to pupils attending private colleges; if funding is available; and if not, her plans to provide funding to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 954: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made towards opening a new secondary school in the Tyrrelstown area; if a site has been located; the stage negotiations...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 961: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the provision of permanent classroom accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 962: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the up to date report requested by her Department from the NCSE is expected to be received, regarding a school (details supplied)...
    • Youth Services
      Question 963: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for funding for a centre (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 964: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria that apply for new entrants to a school (details supplied) in County Louth; the number of children refused places for the...
    • Suíomhanna Scoile
      Question 965: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cathain a thabharfar cuairt ar an suíomh i dtaca leis an iarratas ar Mhórthionscnamh Tógála Ghaelscoil Philib Barún (sonraí...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 966: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason farm assist is not included in the list of social welfare payments which are excluded in calculation of reckonable income...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 967: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a pay claim (details supplied). [15380/07]
  • Department of Defence
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 968: To ask the Minister for Defence the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers, personal assistants and press officers...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 969: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 5 April 2007, if any waste is disposed of by burning; if this method of disposal forms part of the...
    • Defence Forces Training
      Question 970: To ask the Minister for Defence if personnel of the Defence Forces who possess third level qualifications such as diplomas and degrees are debarred from applying for the ninth...
    • Air Corps Museum
      Question 971: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has given consideration to potentially moving the existing aerodrome museum in Baldonnell to Collins Barracks, as a means of ensuring that a...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 972: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for lands at Templebreedy, Crosshaven, County Cork. [15287/07]
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Water Pollution
      Question 974: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures of an interdepartmental nature, and the decisions involving inter-ministerial agreement that...
    • Election Management System
      Question 975: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if consideration will be given to correspondence (details supplied) from a students union; and if he will...
    • National Monuments
      Question 976: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status on the Drumanagh archaeological site in Loughshinney, County Dublin; if he will initiate the...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 977: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application for funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County...
    • Fire Service
      Question 978: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an interim injury allowance will be payable to a person (details supplied), as recommended by the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 979: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his decision arising from a meeting in Dáil Éireann on 24 January 2007 with members of a council (details...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 982: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on reducing the means eligibility for applicants who wish to apply for the affordable housing...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 983: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his Department will give approval for the Caherdaniel sewerage scheme in County Kerry in order that...
    • Ministerial Staff
      Question 986: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the names, titles, duties and dates of appointment of each of the special advisers, political advisers,...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 987: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the alleged irregularities in the Part 8 process for social and affordable...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 988: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when contracts will be executed on the purchase of bog (details supplied) in view of the fact that the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 989: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the level of cryptosporidiosis of a human form arising, he will raise the level of grants for...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 990: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the designation attached to a bog (details supplied) in County Mayo; the restrictions for activity in respect...
    • Water Services
      Question 991: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to change the exorbitant costs of metered water on farms where there is more than one drinking...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 992: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the frequency with which decisions of An Bord Pleanála are in opposition to their own...
    • National Parks
      Question 993: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of his Department's consideration of a wetland park in the north midlands (details supplied); and...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 994: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will immediately approve an application for funding by Longford County Council for refurbishment works...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 995: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application for a thatch grant for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 996: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1848 of 31 January 2007, when the payment will be made; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      Question 997: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of all bodies or organisations, public and private, who have access to the national driver file...
    • Turbary Agreements
      Question 998: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 999: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to give local authorities additional funding and resources to produce leaflets translated into...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      Question 1000: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1997 does not cover nuisances which include noise, vandalism to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1001: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is open to a local authority to award priority to applicants within a defined local area when...
    • National Monuments
      Question 1002: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Dublin City Council wins the compulsory purchase order case, the ownership of 16 Moore Street will be...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      Question 1003: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the options open to a landlord having completed all the necessary procedures and statutory notices, but...
    • Road Network
      Question 1004: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received information from Carlow County Council regarding the building of a new bridge...
    • National Monuments
      Question 1005: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to a previous parliamentary question, if he will provide further details in relation to a former...
    • Rural Water Programme
      Question 1006: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to construction procedure, reform and delivery of the rural water programme for...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1007: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way the local authorities can draw down the approved funds before the end of November 2007; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Guidelines
      Question 1008: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is consistent with his Department's tendering guidelines for a company (details supplied) to tender...
    • Control of Dogs
      Question 1009: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the powers local authorities have which would be of assistance to residents who have to endure persistent...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1010: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding was first applied for in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the funding...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 1013: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a vehicle (details supplied) cannot be taxed as a commercial rather than a private vehicle; and...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      Question 1014: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an application by a person (details supplied) in County Galway to have some land reclassified from its...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 1018: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if further towns are to be added to those with a ban on bituminous coal; the assessments being carried out...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1020: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the assistance available for participants in the farm plan scheme for designated areas and commonages, if...
    • Heritage Sites
      Question 1021: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the estimated cost to the taxpayer of the decisions in the High Court and Supreme Court arising out of the...
    • Safety Certificates
      Question 1022: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to nominate a number of people to sign off on certificates of safety for travelling funfairs; the...
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      Question 1023: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason a press statement released by his Department on 3 April 2007 failed to mention the boundary...
    • Housing Management Companies
      Question 1025: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the ODCE consultation paper and draft guidance on the governance of apartment owners management...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1026: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is an obligation on local authorities to provide a waiver towards refuse service charges to people...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 1027: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of applications received from support groups seeking to provide refuge facilities for families...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 1029: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a savings scheme for the payment of motor tax through the purchase of stamps, similar...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 1030: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be provided for the provision of a new fire station at Lismore, County Waterford; and if...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1031: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if she will ensure that implementation of the EU directive which requires water metering and charging for...
    • Water Pollution
      Question 1034: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of submissions he has received from Kildare County Council in view of recent concerns in regard...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 1035: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the carbon sequestration capacity of one hectare of forestry; the most effective way to ensure the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1039: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to the requirement in Part 5 of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 and 2002 he will...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 1041: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 15 February 2007, the position regarding the issues raised; and...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1042: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that tenants of local authority dwellings here who wish to...
    • Fire Service
      Question 1043: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the case being made by the National Retained Firefighters Association for a national standard...
    • National Monuments
      Question 1046: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has visited Maynooth Castle, Maynooth, County Kildare, in his capacity as Minister. [15225/07]
    • Local Authority Services
      Question 1047: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Question No. 1909 of 31 January 2007, if he will issue the regulations this side of the general...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 1048: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of his response to Question No. 570 of 5 April 2007, he will confirm that he has never written...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 1049: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the application by a women's refuge support group (details supplied) in County...
    • County Development Boards
      Question 1051: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the budget for each county development board in 2006 and 2007; if he is satisfied regarding the work being...
    • City Status
      Question 1052: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the significant increase in population in Drogheda, County Louth he will introduce...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 1053: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and when it is expected that a...
    • Housing Management Companies
      Question 1055: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he or his Department has been in contact with Kildare County Council regarding issues relating to...
    • Control of Dogs
      Question 1056: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce new regulations to provide greater protection to the public and animals from dog...