Written answers
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Regulatory Regime
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the locations where he will reduce the regulatory burden faced by business; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Import Levels
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he and or his Department have monitored the level and value of imports into this country; the extent to...
- Enterprise Policy
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there will be any shift in the enterprise policy of the new Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the carbon footprint of each of the agencies under the remit of his Department to date in 2007; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of journeys made on Government aircraft by Ministers or staff of his Department or its agencies to date in 2007;...
- Site Visits
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits made by Enterprise Ireland or IDA to County Cork in each of 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007; the...
- Industrial Development
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to encourage industrial investment in areas of rural Ireland such as Cork South-West. [18796/07]
- Skills Development
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he will significantly upskill the workforce here at all levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken or proposes to take to address the issue of the competitiveness of Irish products on world markets;...
- Employment Rights
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the practice of false contracting being used across a wide range of industries in order...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to his Department of implementing the Official Languages Act 2003; the number of documents that were published in...
- Employment Rights
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on progress made in the establishment of the National Employment Rights Authority; and if he will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the decentralisation plans of his Department; the number of staff decentralised to date; the number...
- Employment Standards
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he will ensure that employment standards are met throughout the economy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Competence Centres
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of competence centres he intends to be open by 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18992/07]
- Departmental Programmes
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason he has refused funding to a group (details supplied); if he will review this decision and provide funding for the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he will develop a growing focus on the dynamic SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18987/07]
- Departmental Programmes
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce a robust programme to eradicate adult literacy problems in the workplace; and the specific target dates...
- Programmes for Government
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost and timescale and the methods he will use to ensure delivery on time and on budget for each line item of the...
- Research Funding
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the goals envisaged in the Lisbon Agenda on Research and Development and Innovation will be reached; and if he will...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to alleviate potential difficulties for Irish businesses and workers in view of the recent statements...
- Departmental Staff
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies in place in his Department to encourage the use of public transport by staff travelling to and from work; the...
- EU Directives
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, in respect of EU Directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the...
- Enterprise Initiatives
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will expand on the Programme for Government commitment to make innovation vouchers available to small businesses in...
- Enterprise Policy
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his main priorities for the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18983/07]
- Industrial Disputes
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the number of person hours lost to his Department and its agencies to date in 2007 due to industrial...
- Competition Authority
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to enhance the powers of the Competition Authority; if he will grant powers to the authority similar to those in...
- Research Funding
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to support the establishment of research and development units in manufacturing companies; and if he...
- Flexible Work Practices
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure better and more equal access to the workforce for older persons who wish to continue...
- Employment Rights
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking and the measures he proposes to take to ensure that the fundamental rights of seafaring employees...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who undertook FÁS training courses to date in 2007; the percentage of those who were unemployed, who...
- Employment Support Services
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the dedicated supports available to companies from agencies under the remit of his Department aimed at increasing awareness...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and the number of injuries arising from workplace accidents generally and specifically in regard to the...
- Public Holidays
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland has fewer public holidays than the other EU member states; if he...
- Industrial Development
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on plans for overseas trade missions in 2007; if it is intended that there be a Ministerial delegation as...
- Insurance Industry
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases currently before the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of cases for which rulings have been...
- Job Losses
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he proposes to take to bring replacement jobs and investment to Mallow and the wider east Cork community...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the decentralisation plans of each agency of his Department; the number of staff decentralised in each...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress being made in negotiations with the new Northern Ireland Executive relating to a North-South enterprise policy;...
- Fair Trade Products
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to promote Fair Trade products both within and outside his Department; and if he will make a statement...
- Third Level Qualifications
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way his Department will contribute to the doubling of PhDs in science, engineering and technology; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there has been a negative impact on the work of his Department or its agencies from the Government's public service...
- Job Creation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to provide alternative employment for vulnerable workers in the construction sector when this sector takes a...
- Official Travel
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the international flights taken by his departmental staff on Department business to date in 2007; the number of flights to...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department's progress under the comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the interim arrangement regarding access to the labour market of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens will come to an end;...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his proposals on carbon tax with particular reference to the prevention of a slowdown in the motor industry; and if he will make a...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who was refused the disabled persons and disabled passengers...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which he has examined specific inflationary trends which tend to make the economy uncompetitive; the action he has taken...
- Tax Code
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of people at work who are paying tax at the 41% rate. [19151/07]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties created for young people who wish to open bank accounts, who find that passports...
- Tax Code
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he will publish the distribution of the benefits of pension tax relief across the different income cohorts; and if he will make a...
- Flood Relief
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the problems with flooding in the Raphoe area of County Donegal and that this is a recurring...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the impact on inflation, growth construction industry output and competitiveness of each of the last eight quarter percent increases in...
- Tax Code
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the tax allowance and credits permitted to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of women who retired on marriage who were Civil Servants and local government officials and who were never given the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the property or properties in the ownership of the Office of Public Works in the Youghal area in east Cork; his plans in regard to...
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the statutory basis to her directive to the Health Service Executive in 2005 on co-location of hospitals; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the withdrawal of dental treatment under general anaesthetics for adults with an intellectual disability in Cork...
- Hospital Services
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 27 June 2007, the reason Bantry General Hospital's orthopaedic service was withdrawn four...
- Health Services
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to improve and expand services for persons with acquired brain injuries; the specific budget set aside for this...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken, in view of the strong professional advice that a child (details supplied) in Dublin 6 requires early intervention...
- Hospital Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 27 June 2007, if she has plans to provide a kidney dialysis treatment service in Bantry...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of suicides here by gender in 2006. [19215/07]
- Medical Cards
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason 250,000 people at risk of poverty have not been granted medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19222/07]
- Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the concerns of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [19224/07]
- General Practitioner Services
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of her support for greater use of general practitioner care in the treatment of chronic conditions to keep people with such...
- Health Services
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19273/07]
- Child Care Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made under the current National Childcare Strategy; the priorities for the strategy in 2007; and if she will make a...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 102: 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; and if she...
- Health Services
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [19283/07]
- Child Care Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the amount of funding allocated to a company (details supplied) in Dublin 11 under the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with Galway University Hospital on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo and have them called for...
- Department of Transport
- Public Transport
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the cutbacks being implemented by a transport company (details supplied) in County Donegal and...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine the projects approved in his Department in 2007 which exceed the threshold for a cost benefit analysis; the person who conducted...
- Public Transport
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine the person, in respect of all major capital projects, taking responsibility for the project; if any of the projects have displayed...
- Cycle Facilities
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if the review his Department is currently undertaking on the provision of cycling provisions, including cycle lanes, is being...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Coastal Zone Management
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland's territorial waters have been extended with international agreement; and the background to same. [19167/07]
- Irish Language
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when Ireland will sign and ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; the reason this matter has been delayed; and if...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position and ongoing difficulties regarding the World Trade Organisation talks, particularly in view of the walkout...
- Company Closures
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his attention was drawn to the impending closure of a factory (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he has received...
- Job Losses
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number and location of jobs lost throughout County Kildare in the past five years; the number of replacements or...
- Job Creation
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had discussions with the manufacturing industry with a view to identification of cost factors prohibitive to...
- Work Permits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications for work permits in the past six months; the number for the same period in 2006; the number...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which his Department has identified the cost factors most likely affecting industries proposing to relocate...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date in regard to the decentralisation plans for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy of funding for FÁS to carry out its retraining for community employment or other...
- Job Losses
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost to the economy here in the past 12 months; if all or any have relocated to lower wage economies;...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Funding
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he had a meeting with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19365/07]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Family Support Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the warmer homes initiative which was piloted in Waterford City and County, was...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if changes are proposed in relation to the issuing of PPS numbers which will result in the centralisation of this procedure, in...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Inland Waterways
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department will take steps via Waterways Ireland to upgrade the Royal Canal towpath from Clonsilla to Ashtown;...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Animal Welfare
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the facilities in Irish international airports to deal with pets, specifically dogs, being taken out of the country or being...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has agreed a definition of heath with the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government...
- Afforestation Programme
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will confirm, as reported by the December 2006 Woodmark Audit of Coillte Teo for the Forest Stewardship Council's...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress in reviewing the Forestry Acts begun in 1999; and if she will reconsider her decision not to include the...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has been informed of the sudden death of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if she will have the matter...
- Wildlife Protection
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals to introduce an order confining crop spraying in areas where bee keeping is being carried on to the period...
- Departmental Records
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a farmer's cattle movement monitoring system details and their area aid details can be obtained by a private company with...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will confirm that responsibility for inland fisheries and the development of inland fisheries rests with her...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will purchase the 0.9 hectare strip of land to the west of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 with a view to extending...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application for extension and refurbishment has been received from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; when the...
- Student Support Schemes
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the legal impediments to the proposed Student Support Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19179/07]
- Adult Education
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the AONTAS Demand Your Right to Learn campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19185/07]
- Third Level Fees
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will abolish higher education fees for part-time adult learners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19186/07]
- Adult Education
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will establish a capital expenditure budget for adult education. [19187/07]
- School Accommodation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of extra accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Galway which is seriously...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will provide funding and approval for the long awaited extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway which is...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a report (details supplied) with regard to changing the status of the Waterford Institute of Technology into a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans regarding the education of children with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19218/07]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils by class size range in 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 school years by county; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Management
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the complaint procedures that are in place for a child with a disability who is refused a place on their school tour. [19234/07]
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed new post primary community school in Skibbereen, County Cork which was promised in 2002; and if...
- School Transport
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that school transport is provided for persons (details supplied) in County Sligo in view of the fact the old school...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the allocation of an allowance for vocational educational committee chairmen similar to that provided for county...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to person (details supplied); if funding will be provided as a matter of urgency in order that they can...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Joint Policing Committees
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if additional funding will be made available to the local authorities to resource the Joint Policing Committees; if so,...
- Garda Stations
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are plans or proposals for an additional two Garda stations for the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, since the decision to purchase the property for Thornton Hall, negotiations have been entered into to purchase...
- Court Sittings
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the long waiting list for hearing of both District and Circuit Court cases in County...
- Crime Levels
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the Central Statistics Office's quarterly publication of crime figures without disaggregation and reports on...
- Garda Operations
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the response of the Emergency Services to a 999 call from a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is now divorced can revert back to using their maiden name with their...
- Crime Levels
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who have been convicted under Section 9 of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act 1990, for each of...
- Garda Deployment
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a breakdown of Garda numbers, including ranks and assignments, for each town with a population greater...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will arrange for an independent review of the selection process for the proposed prison at Thornton, north County...
- Garda Operations
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons (details supplied) in County Longford were forced to remain locked in an upstairs room in their home,...
- Garda Strength
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí currently in the force; his plans to recruit additional Gardaí; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Deployment
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the present Garda numbers in Dublin north and in particular Swords, Balbriggan, Malahide, Rush, Lusk and Skerries; and his...
- International Agreements
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to a previous parliamentary question of 9 May 2006, the Government's review of the implications of a decision to...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the fact that the Human Rights Commission has received no increase, over and above inflationary increases, in...
- Legal Aid Service
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a significantly higher level of public interest litigation in the...
- Crime Levels
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the increase in the number of stabbing offences; and if he has proposals for dealing with same. [19310/07]
- Residency Permits
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for long term residency by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will proceed; and if he will...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in the installation of closed circuit television facilities in Athlone, County Westmeath, which...
- Equality Legislation
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is proposed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which Ireland signed in March...
- Garda Stations
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the provision of a 24 hour Garda station for Dunlavin, County Wicklow; if this will be...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Civic Fora
Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the community and voluntary forums will be renamed civic forums; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make arrangements to appoint public representatives to the companies established on foot of the...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason funding for housing and for the elderly has not been allocated to applicants in Counties Carlow...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 190: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the projects approved in his Department in 2007 which exceed the threshold for a cost benefit analysis; the...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the person, in respect of all major capital projects, taking responsibility for the project; if any of the...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has agreed a definition of heath with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food...
- EU Directives
Question 194: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if in preparation for the speedy ratification of the Aarhus Convention as agreed in the Programme for...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 195: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position of a remedial works scheme for a town (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
- Water Quality
Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been recent significant interruptions in the water...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the circumstances in which bonus payments may be made to city and county managers and directors of service;...
- Water Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received an application from Dublin City Council to extract 350 million litres of water per day...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the projects approved in his Department in 2007 which exceed the threshold for a cost benefit analysis; the...
- Departmental Offices
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 785 of 26 June 2007, the present situation regarding the building of...
- Water Quality
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the Groundwater Survey of Ireland has sufficient resources to provide timely responses...
- Departmental Staff
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the additional funding being made available by the Government to the Geological Service of Ireland for...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the dangers of unregulated drilling of boreholes for private and public...
