Written answers
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 99: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if and when he will limit rent increase to a 5% increase above inflation; and if he will make a statement on...
- Election Management System
Question 100: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the entire cost to date of the electronic voting project including purchase of the machines, maintenance and...
- National Parks
Question 101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to support the establishment of a wilderness park in the north midlands cut away bogs;...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will set a target to cut Ireland's carbon emissions by 3%; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electoral Boundaries
Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason urban councillors are finding that they are unable to make representations for constituents who...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 104: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis on which he placed a Temporary Preservation Order on a National Monument at Rath Lugh on the route...
- Waste Management
Question 105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the general location of each of the municipal waste incinerators which it is proposed to build in the State;...
- Food Labelling
Question 106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason he voted at the Environment Council in Luxembourg in favour of new draft regulations on the...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the legislative restrictions in which the Private Rented Tenancies Board operates, he is...
- Litter Pollution
Question 108: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 12 December 2006, if the National Litter Pollution Monitoring...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 109: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will publish comprehensive legislation on noise pollution as promised in the Programme for...
- Building Regulations
Question 110: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the new building regulations announced recently will result in 60% lower heat energy demand in new...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to improve security of tenure for those in the private rented sector; and if he will make a...
- Homeless Persons
Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will commit to making homelessness a thing of the past by 2010 as requested by the Make Room campaign;...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of affordable houses that will be delivered under Part V in 2007; and if he will make a statement...
- Local Government Reform
Question 114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason provision will not be made for a directly elected mayor with executive powers for Dublin until...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 115: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the proposed purchase by Ireland of additional allowances through the Kyoto Protocol flexible...
- Housing Policy
Question 116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will set up a housing authority under the auspices of his Department whose objective will be to shape...
- Hunting Licence
Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the concerns of wildlife officers in his Department that the deer hunted by a hunt (details supplied) are...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 118: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the files which have been requested from his Department by the Mahon Tribunal; and if he will make a...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 119: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to tackle anti-social behaviour in housing estates and in particular the activities of so-called...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals for a review of the role, procedures and legislation governing the Environmental Protection...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 121: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for his decision to withdraw without notice funding for the local authority playground grant...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 122: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number and location of applications for capital funding for the various sewerage treatment schemes...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 123: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority houses built by the various local authorities in each of the past five years...
- Library Projects
Question 124: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will sanction Fingal County Council's application for additional staff in order to enable them to open...
- Election Management System
Question 125: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to date of the development, roll-out, and promotion of the electronic voting and counting system;...
- Electoral Boundaries
Question 126: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to review local authority electoral area boundaries in advance of the next local elections...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 127: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress of his consideration of legislation to regulate lobbyists as promised in the Programme for...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 129: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will deliver 10,000 social and affordable housing units in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Urban Renewal
Question 131: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he has taken to empower local authorities to designate brown field sites in need of development;...
- Wildlife Legislation
Question 132: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the fact that the activities of commercial shoot operators are frequently unregulated and the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 133: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the directives his Department have issued to local authorities with respect to the use of funding for the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 134: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will as a matter of urgency be appointing a specific project team to carry out a programme of...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 135: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when legislation will be introduced to provide for the Independent Electoral Commission to take...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 136: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action being taken to ensure that local authorities are required to take into account the potential...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons on local authority housing lists at the latest date for which figures are available;...
- Fire Service
Question 138: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of full time fire services there are; the location of same with a breakdown of the number of full...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 139: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding available for the recruitment of litter wardens in tandem with the increase in litter fines; and...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board
Question 140: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the income that has been received by each local authority from the Private Residential Tenancies Board to...
- Local Authority Area Boundaries
Question 143: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 989 of 20 March 2007, if he has given further consideration to a...
- Local Authority Grants
Question 144: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on increasing the maximum grant available from local authorities for disabled persons grants to at...
- Community Facilities
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps being taken to implement the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ensure that local...
- World Heritage Status
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on nominating Georgian Dublin as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [22890/07]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he plans to introduce legislation on foot of the recommendations of the All Party Committee on the...
- Environmental Policy
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to the call by UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn to end the sale of 150 watt light...
- Waste Management
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the income received by individual local authorities, he will put a national waiver scheme in...
- Litter Pollution
Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will amend the Litter Pollution Act, 1997 which enables local authorities to only take action against...
- Fire Service
Question 154: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made to date with regard to implementation of the recommendations made in the Farrell Grant...
- Sustainable Communities
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his special incentives to encourage owner/occupier, especially family owner occupier, apartment living in...
- Housing Policy
Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to enshrine in law the principle of housing as a right; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 158: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the targets outlined in the first National Climate Change Strategy 2000 have not been met; if any...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Properties
Question 159: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or flooding in 2004, 2005, 2006...
- Commemorative Events
Question 161: To ask the Taoiseach the extent of funds available to the commemoration fund for project allocation; the criteria that apply for eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his plans, directly or in conjunction with Kildare County Council, to address the ongoing issue of flooding of properties at an estate...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, directly or in conjunction with the Office of Public Works, he has proposals for the maintenance, upgrading and preservation of...
- Flood Relief
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he or his Department have carried out studies in relation to drainage needs or cleaning of watercourse, streams or rivers...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in site acquisition for the proposed relocation of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food staff to...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views regarding the incidence of resort to contracts for difference in the stock market here; his plans to outlaw the use of CFDs;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he will establish a clear system whereby persons who are opting to remain in Dublin rather than decentralise with their posts...
- State Property
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the properties, excluding heritage properties, owned by the State; the properties leased by the State; the purpose to which they are...
- Departmental Properties
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or...
- Flood Relief
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the plans the Office of Public Works has to ensure that flooding does not recur in an area (details supplied) in County Mayo as local...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to alter the qualifications for the drivers and passengers in the disabilities tax relief scheme in order that persons...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding the decentralising of Ordnance Survey Ireland to Dungarvan, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement...
- Pension Provisions
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the State contribution to the National Pension Reserve Fund in each of the years since its inception; the growth rate expressed in...
- Tax Code
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and percentage of taxpayers paying income tax at the higher rate. [23114/07]
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the criteria for qualification for the mobility allowance to take account of disabilities other than the very narrow...
- Child Care Payments
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the community playgroups are being required to process applications for grant aid to parents for each child that qualifies...
- Ambulance Service
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payments due to members of the ambulance corps in the Health Service Executive area west will be awarded; the numbers involved and...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have applied for the motorised transport grant over the past five years on a county basis; the number of...
- Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath must wait for an appointment to see a consultant urologist; if she is satisfied...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take the necessary steps to cause transport to be provided for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make...
- Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation and status of the proposed one stop shop health centre in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if her attention has been drawn...
- Hospital Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who were re-admitted to hospital within one week of discharge in 2005. [22946/07]
- Ambulance Service
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with arrangements for air ambulance services provided in the State; the number of times helicopters were used for...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a group (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make funding for heart operations a priority. [22950/07]
- Health Services
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints received in relation to the doctor on call service in County Louth since the inception of this service; if...
- Child Care Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is in receipt of assistance under the equal opportunities...
- Ambulance Service
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has required that the Health Service Executive would report instances where ambulances are prevented from leaving accident and...
- Cancer Treatment Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding her proposals in respect of cancer services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22974/07]
- Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the recently published research study titled Taking the First Steps to a Healthier Fettercairn; if this...
- Health Service Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed by each of the health boards in an administrative capacity prior to the formation of the Health Service...
- Health Service Management
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the financial savings that have been made in the administrative areas, both staffing and accommodation, by the absorption of all health...
- Departmental Properties
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or...
- Health Services
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the high costs being experienced by pharmacists operating the methadone programme in the north inner...
- Court Proceedings
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of law suits her Department and the Health Service Executive are in receipt of regarding the failure to provide adequate and...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress her Department has made in implementing the recommendations in the Pollock Report and in particular the number of isolation...
- Health Service Staff
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rules for short-listing candidates in regard to training schemes in psychiatry; her Department's policy on ageism at interviews for...
- Medical Cards
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to increase the income limits for the medical card for persons in receipt of the new half rate carer's allowance on top of...
- Health Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the long waiting list of five months for outpatient physiotherapy services for patients in the Bray, County Wicklow area;...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans her Department has for the mammogram unit and machine in Ennis Hospital; if it will be used in Ennis for cancer screening; and...
- Hospital Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department in its regulatory role or the Health Service Executive is in receipt or expects to receive law suits for damages...
- Health Service Staff
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location in the 2006 Health Service Executive accounts where the charge for agency staff is; the amount this item cost in 2006 with...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a bed will be provided in Galway for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can commence their treatment....
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine his plans to compensate local authorities for the fact that the implementation of health and safety regulations has eaten into the...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a disabled person's sticker for their car; and if he will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if he will take the necessary steps to cause transport to be provided for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will...
- Road Safety
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine if he will introduce legislation requiring the compulsory usage of bicycle helmets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Services
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine the number of applications for exemptions from the prohibition on the carriage of munitions on civilian aircraft either landing or...
- Road Safety
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine when the safe routes programme will be implemented; and if a school (details supplied) will be eligible for this scheme. [23067/07]
- Rural Transport Services
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine the plans in place to improve the quality of rural transport in County Westmeath with particular reference to bus services for the...
- Public Transport
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 2 October 2007, the modes of transport other then airport transport which adequately...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will oppose the Portuguese Presidency inviting President Robert Mugabe to the proposed African Summit; if he will attend or be...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government have plans for the establishment of an embassy in Thailand in view of the number of Irish citizens living and visiting the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or flooding...
- Reconciliation Projects
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the criteria set out by the interdepartmental committee on the reconciliation fund for eligibility for finance allocation for property...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Properties
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire,...
- Pension Provisions
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a small business owner (details supplied) in County Longford is being forced to join a specific pension scheme...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress to date in regard to the provision of the proposed public swimming pool at Leixlip, County Kildare; and if he will make...
- Arts Council
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will respond to the many requests from the arts bodies for increased funding to implement the Arts Council's Government...
- Departmental Properties
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or...
- Participation in Sport
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the definition being used for sport in the Programme for Government which states that only 10% of women are engaged in sport; and...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Pension Provisions
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the complaint that AVCs are sold to public servants without a clear comparison of the relative...
- Departmental Properties
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the income limit for a single parent applying for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance is €331.30 and...
- Pension Provisions
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on add-on cash benefits and non-cash benefits to persons of pension age in each of the years...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an appeal in relation to supplementary welfare allowance payments by a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants he or his Department have to allow persons in receipt of the State pension to purchase house alarms; if he...
- Community Development
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding is available from his Department for all schools wishing to install flashing amber lights on the roads...
- Grant Payments
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason for the delay in paying down moneys to a group (details supplied) in County Cork; his views on whether by...
- Departmental Properties
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Genetically Modified Organisms
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the genetically modified crops grown here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22901/07]
- Pigmeat Sector and Poultry Industry
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will meet with multiples operating in the Irish retail industry to emphasise the urgency of the situation facing pig...
- Fisheries Industry
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the responsibilities her Department has assumed for the fisheries industry. [22912/07]
- Grant Payments
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the clawback provision where single farm payment entitlements are traded; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire,...
- Health Regulations
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will apply health regulations 2006, S.I. No. 307 of 2006 to require caterers to provide information on the country of...
- Forestry Sector
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the factors that inform her decisions when issuing felling licences; the sanctions available to her if false and misleading...
- Department of Education and Science
- Irish Language
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the jobs announced by her for a location (details provided) will commence. [22903/07]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding the provision of a new primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; the commitments given by her...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the services she will make available to assist an autistic person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement...
- Freedom of Information
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will include the Grangegorman Development Agency Act, 2006 within the remit of the Freedom of Information Act 1997. [22919/07]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has purchased a site for a proposed new school (details supplied) in County Cork; and when the proposed new school...
- School Accommodation
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school in County Galway and the increase in pupils over the past few years;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the expected completion date of the construction of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; when it is expected that children might...
- Child Abuse
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department withdrew a Supreme Court appeal in respect of a case (details supplied). [22972/07]
- Departmental Properties
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the construction of a new secondary school in Ballinamore, County Leitrim. [23038/07]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of requests received for special needs assistants in private junior schools in 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007. [23063/07]
- Psychological Service
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 is not included in the National Educational Psychological Service scheme which...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timeframe for the transfer of higher education grants from county councils to VECs; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for an autistic unit for County Mayo; the funding arrangements for this pilot scheme; and if she will...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be deemed eligible for approval for a course; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Transport
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the need to change school bus catchment boundaries in the Goatenbridge Ardfinnan area of County...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Properties
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire, theft or flooding in 2004,...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Ground Rents Legislation
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will bring forward legislation to abolish ground rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22955/07]
- Residency Permits
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will intervene to ensure the safe delivery of a person (details supplied); and the situation with the Dutch...
- Garda Deployment
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí stationed at the various stations throughout County Kildare; the increase over the last 12 months;...
- Civil Unions
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the Civil Partnership Bill, 2004; when further progress will be made on its enactment; and if he will make a...
- Garda Reserve
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons from County Kildare that have joined the Garda Reserve; the number of persons from County Kildare who...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in relation to an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; when a decision will be made;...
- Human Trafficking
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the approximate number of women lured into Ireland for sex purposes; if he will provide full details of a recently...
- Crime Levels
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide data tracking the growth in assaults using knives in recent years; if he is satisfied that the existing...
- Irish Language
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will modify the present Irish language competency requirement which is a precondition for a qualified barrister to...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of acceptable behaviour contracts that have been agreed since the commencement of the scheme; and if he will...
- Departmental Properties
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets through fire,...
- Residency Permits
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to remain in the State; and if he will make...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Area Boundaries
Question 299: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposals he has to extend the Waterford City borough boundary (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 302: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 304: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding funding for village enhancement programmes on a county basis. [23014/07]
- Local Authority Staff
Question 305: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements being made to lift the embargo on the recruitment of council staff in view of the increased...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of social houses that will be delivered under part V in 2007; and if he will make a statement on...
- Housing Grants
Question 308: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an inspection for a person (details supplied) in County Sligo in respect of rural renewal application...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 309: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when, in view of the fact that residents have agreed the regeneration of their flats a number of months ago,...
- Noxious Weeds
Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to announce a date for the banning of the sale of the invasive weed lagarosiphon major here;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 311: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the decentralisation of part of his Department to Waterford City; and if he will make...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to provide the funding for the upgrading of sewage treatment facilities at Ballymore Eustace,...
- Radon Gas Levels
Question 315: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received confirmation regarding dangerous levels of radon gas at any or many locations throughout...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 318: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken or proposes to take to address the issue of the leaking of methane gas from sewage...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 319: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will enhance the public housing programme by way of increased house building by the local authorities...
- Air Pollution
Question 320: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he has studied the results of air pollution monitoring at various locations throughout...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 323: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if has in mind a policy to carry out excavations at historical monuments or sites with a view to making...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Departmental Properties
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department or properties under the control or administration thereof has suffered any loss of assets...
