Written answers
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by community groups arising from the termination of participation...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the changes he will make to company law with regard to residential management companies; and if he will make a statement on...
- Employment Rights
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workplace inspections carried out by labour inspectors during 2006 and to date in 2007 to ensure that young...
- Industrial Development
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies located in the Shannon Free Zone for the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and the first six months of 2007;...
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he plans to take to establish the number of people from other countries working illegally here; and if he will...
- Legislative Programme
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans he has to update the current partnership law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30788/07]
- Road Network
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the National Consumer Agency in their opposition to the electronic tolling arrangements that have been...
- Consumer Protection
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of deaths and injuries arising from workplace accidents generally, and specifically in regard to the construction...
- Employment Rights
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of domestic legislation to protect the rights of agency workers. [31095/07]
- Industrial Development
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to support enterprise development in the midland and western regions; and if he will make a statement...
- Work Permits
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to delays in renewing work permits for foreign workers, difficulties...
- Live Register
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of people on the live register for the month of October 2007 was...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed by the Labour Inspectorate of his Department; the number of labour inspectors...
- EU Directives
Question 88: 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...
- Consumer Protection
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals for a consultation process regarding the prohibition of credit card and other relevant methods of payment...
- Wage Inflation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government has plans to review the wage increases agreed for private sector workers under the Towards 2016 agreement...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average industrial wage earned by a male worker and female worker respectively; the average male earnings and average...
- Consumer Protection
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the recent proposals from the European Commission to close down airline websites that...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals to facilitate people to work past 65 years of age by abolishing the mandatory retirement age as recommended in...
- Price Inflation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on reports of recent substantial increases in prices of a range of food prices and forecasts that food prices will...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recently submitted annual report from the stock exchange pursuant to Part V of the Companies Act 1990 in...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases before the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of cases for which rulings have been given...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is intended to proceed with the decentralisation of FÁS to Birr, County Offaly, especially in view of the recent...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried by the Labour Inspectorate to date in 2007; the way this compares with the same period in...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with Ireland's ranking as the 22nd most competitive country in the World Economic Forum competitiveness...
- Job Creation
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the IDA plans for job creation in Rathowen and Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Consumer Protection
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government to introduce on-the-spot fines for...
- Industrial Development
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies located in Ennis and in County Clare excluding the Shannon Free Zone for the years 2004, 2005, 2006...
- Company Closures
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of small businesses here that ceased trading within 12 months and three years of commencing to trade in the past...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of grants paid out by each county enterprise board for each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the programme of decentralisation in respect of his...
- Job Creation
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to provide additional funding to Enterprise Ireland, county enterprise boards and LEADER groups to enhance the...
- Regulatory Impact Assessments
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of regulatory impact assessments that have been carried out in the past two years; if he will provide a list of...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the slow but increasing levels of unemployment and the continuing closure of manufacturing and assembly...
- Consumer Protection
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- International Agreements
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the initiatives Ireland has taken to achieve the implementation of conventions (details supplied). [30896/07]
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Live Register
Question 115: To ask the Taoiseach the number of people registered as unemployed in County Kildare in each of the past five years to date in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Finance
- Site Acquisitions
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 1162 of 26 September 2007, the suitable area of land which the Office of Public Works were...
- Tax Code
Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on introducing assistance for private school bus operators who are to lose the diesel fuel rebate and whose business is in...
- Departmental Offices
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the purpose for which safes are installed in the offices of Ministers of the Government; the documents or things normally kept in...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the contract has been signed for the purchase of the site for the new national school for Kill in view of the fact that the matters...
- Tax Yield
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the revenue received in VAT, capital gains tax, capital acquisitions tax, excise, stamp duty, customs, motor tax and corporate tax...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures being taken to ensure that the youth homelessness strategy is being implemented in a county (details supplied); and if she...
- Departmental Staff
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people that are currently employed at chief executive officer grade, assistant CEO grade, general manager grade, assistant...
- Ambulance Service
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an ambulance service, based in the town, will be provided for a town (details supplied) in County Offaly and its hinterland; the...
- General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application by doctors in a town (details supplied) in County Offaly to provide general practitioners medical...
- Community Pharmacy Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the seriousness of a situation that will develop if agreement is not reached in relation to the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding provided for services for people with an intellectual disability in each of the past five years with a breakdown of the...
- Hospital Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who are inappropriately placed in the Mater Hospital and Beaumont Hospital; the funding available in the winter...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the claim for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick under the nursing home repayment scheme; when a decision will...
- Child Care Services
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns that the new childcare subvention scheme will result in parents of children utilising...
- Medical Cards
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide medical cards for those who are on medication for life such as anti rejection drugs following a transplant; and if...
- Health Services
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if efforts are being made to provide public patients who are placed in private nursing homes by the Health Service Executive with...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason it will take from 18 September 2007 to 21 January 2008 for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 to get to see a...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the contract has been awarded for phase 3C of Naas General Hospital. [31589/07]
- Health Services
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that waiting times for eye tests for children at Maynooth health centre and Naas health centre, County Kildare have...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the three additional speech and language therapists recruited for the Kildare/west Wicklow Service are now in place permanently and...
- Health Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that the waiting times for hearing tests for children in Newbridge health centre in County Kildare and Tallaght health...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that there are 114 people in County Kildare awaiting placement in public nursing homes in County Kildare; and if she...
- Nursing Homes Repayments Scheme
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to extend eligibility under the refund of nursing home charges scheme to those psychiatric patients who lived in...
- Health Services
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the availability of home care packages, especially in area 8. [31611/07]
- Hospital Staff
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a diabetic liaison nurse will be appointed in Limerick Regional Hospital to replace the person who will be going on leave. [31612/07]
- Health Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if speech and language therapy will be reinstated for a person (details supplied) in County Meath; the reason for the cessation of this...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the Health Service Executive commissioned PA consultancy group independent review of acute bed capacity requirements...
- Hospital Services
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a long stay bed will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [31643/07]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [31677/07]
- Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if some chiropodists are charging medical card holders €10 for treatment; and if this practice is allowed or condoned by her...
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding funding for a road (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact further information which was requested in...
- Rail Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Transport when is it expected that the doubling of trains serving the Maynooth suburban line from four rail cars to eight will be completed. [31602/07]
- Road Network
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Transport if he intends to amend Part V of the Roads Act 1993 as amended by the Planning and Development Act 2000 with a view to lifting the toll barriers...
- Rail Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Transport the tonnage of rail freight carried by Iarnród Éireann for the years 1996 to 2006 inclusive; the revenue obtained from carrying this rail...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Irish Human Rights Commission has been in contact with him regarding the practice of extraordinary rendition and the likely use of...
- EU Treaties
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has been notified of a timetable for ratification of the reform treaty being proposed by his counterparts in each of the other EU...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the private consultancy firms his Department and the agencies which report to his Department used to date in 2007; the projects each worked...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the proposals he has in regard to the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford regarding the sentences received by two...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Company Liquidation
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the consequences for business of the Laffoy Judgment (details supplied) which suggests that the Director of Corporate...
- Employment Rights
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of arrears recovered by the Labour Inspectorate from employers in each of the past five years; and if he will...
- Employment Permits
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects a decision to be made in the appeal for an employment permit by a person (details supplied); and if he will...
- Employment Rights
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to introduce legislation that will make it mandatory for employers to grant bereavement leave, as advocated by...
- Work Permits
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Romanian and Bulgarian people who have work permits; the number from each country recruited through agencies;...
- National Training Fund
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the revenue received from the national training fund from 2004 to date in 2007; and if he can provide an estimate for 2008....
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his role in the context of the World Trade Organisation negotiations; if he is conscious of the vulnerability of some...
- Manufacturing and Services Sectors
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he has addressed or proposes to address issues affecting the manufacturing or services sectors; and if...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the issues affecting competitiveness in the economy; his proposals to address such issues in the short term; and if he will...
- Job Creation
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs created in each of the past 12 months to date; the job losses in the same period in tabular form;...
- Trade Missions
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which inward investment has grown arising from the various trade delegations organised by his Department or...
- Job Creation
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to indicate the extent to which overseas investment here is resulting in the creation of extra jobs in the past 12 months...
- Export Markets
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken or proposes to take to improve the prospects for Irish exporters to the US; and if he will make a...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which imports and exports have fluctuated in the past five years and in the past 12 months to date having...
- Job Losses
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost through relocation on a monthly basis in the past 12 months to date; the number of new jobs created...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has provided adequate funds to FAS to ensure the provision of the maximum number and continuation of training or CE...
- Job Losses
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of manufacturing jobs lost throughout County Kildare to more competitive economies in each of the past five...
- International Agreements
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Government will support the call by the Ministers of the Central African Region for more time to negotiate economic...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the fact that communities such as Carrickmacross, County Monaghan are eager that their towns...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the agencies operating under the aegis of his Department for which he is not responsible before Dáil Éireann. [31438/07]
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the expenditure review of the local authority swimming pool programme is completed and when does he expect to announce a new...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when a sports capital grant for €140,000 sanctioned in 2006 to a centre (details supplied) in County Cavan will be paid; and if...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the applications processed by his Department; the average waiting time to process each application; the steps which he is taking to...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if exceptional needs payment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who applied for same through local...
- Grant Payments
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the conditions under which bereavement grants are allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31355/07]
- Departmental Offices
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if arrangements are being put in place in relation to a branch office in Dunmanway in County Cork, which was closed following the...
- Social Insurance
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the revenue received in PRSI, distinguishing between employer, employee and self-employed contributions, from 2004 to date in...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Pet Passports
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [31679/07]
- Domestic Abattoirs
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the support available for small local abattoirs to assist them in complying with the EU hygiene package. [31361/07]
- Registration of Title
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a deed of transfer will be executed by her Department for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that...
- EU Directives
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the date on which a beef farmer can legally spread farm yard manure or slurry on grassland in County Wexford in 2008, when...
- Departmental Staff
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if transfer can be offered or arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare from the Department of Social...
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on correspondence (details supplied); the meetings she or her officials have had with the Health Service Executive in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when construction work will begin on the new national school in Laytown, County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on introducing assistance for private school bus operators who are to lose the diesel fuel rebate and whose business is in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the survey promised regarding the educational needs of all the students of a school (details supplied) will begin; the reason the...
- School Completion Programme
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the response of her Department to the issues raised by a committee (details supplied) in County Limerick; if her Department has been...
- Psychological Service
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of assessments carried out by National Educational Psychological Service psychologists where a recommendation was made that...
- School Transport
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused school transport in view of the fact that there are vacant...
- School Accommodation
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there has been a health and safety assessment carried out on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22; if her attention has been...
- School Transport
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve an additional bus run to accommodate pupils attending a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Kerry has been processed; and if not, when it will be processed; if...
- School Staffing
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the long term staffing figure for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry has been determined by her Department; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a building project for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 has not been commenced despite the fact that this Gaelscoil...
- School Curriculum
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 21 November 2007, the court cases which have occurred since the revised curriculum came...
- Education Schemes
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she plans to establish Education Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31470/07]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the recommendation of the commission on school accommodation area development plan for Dublin north that a second 16...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there has been any successful outcome in relation to the purchase of a site for a permanent school (details supplied) in County...
- School Accommodation
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the new prefabricated school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be in place to move students from the present school for the...
- School Enrolments
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils presently attending a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the numbers expected to enrol in the school in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the design team has been appointed for the new Kill national school in County Kildare. [31579/07]
- Psychological Service
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has finalised the allocation of the additional 31 educational psychologists to different counties; the schools to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the stage three submission has been received in her Department in regard to the required extension to a school (details supplied)...
- School Enrolments
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the total number of national school children in County Kildare in 2007/2008; the number of same in classes of less than 20; and the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has concluded her examination of the National Council for Special Education implementation report in regard to the Education...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has sanctioned the tender process for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [31585/07]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the approval and build of a new national school in Ballygarvan, County Cork; the progress in regard to the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give the go-ahead for a new school building (details supplied) in County Mayo to replace the portacabins currently in use....
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the value of the summer works programme for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and the expected figure for 2007; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a technical assessment will be carried out in order to progress on a project for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
- Psychological Service
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a geographical breakdown of schools with access to National Educational Psychological Service across the country,...
- Department of Defence
- Commemorative Events
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will commission, fund and publish, as a 2016 commemoration project of the 1916 Rising, the compiling of a definitive list of all those who...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Proposed Legislation
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps being taken to comply with the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force Third Mutual Evaluation...
- Garda Operations
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of warrants that are outstanding in each Garda division; the breakdown on the outstanding warrants for each...
- Residency Permits
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the residency application of a person (details supplied). [31399/07]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to support for subtitling services for deaf people in respect of films and other cinema and film...
- Mental Health Services
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress his Department has made in implementing measures to divert persons with mental health problems from the...
- Prisoner Transfers
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in the repatriation of a person (details supplied); if anything can be done to hasten the...
- Garda Strength
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda division in the State and the population of each division as determined in the...
- Garda Operations
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the 2008 annual policing plan from the Garda Commissioner and when it will be laid before the Houses of...
- Residency Permits
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for extended residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if transfer will be offered or arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare from the Department of Social...
- Residency Permits
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the application for leave to remain in the State in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8;...
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Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of the application by a person (detail supplied) in County Mayo to have their husband join them and their...
- Departmental Offices
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made towards relocating the Registry of Deeds Office from Henrietta Street; the action he will take regarding...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford;...
- Residency Permits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residency or stamp four in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 275: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Dublin City Council are liable to pay rates to Wicklow County Council under the new Water Services Act...
- Fire Services
Question 276: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, following his commitment to review the options for the next phase of the change programme as recommended...
- National Parks
Question 277: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on swapping lands (details supplied) for other lands under his Department in the Bourne Vincent...
- Remedial Works Scheme
Question 278: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of moneys allocated by his Department for a remedial works scheme (details supplied) in County...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 279: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made regarding the staffing needs identified by Fingal County Council in relation to the to new...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 280: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in progressing the Burncourt/Glengara water treatment plant in south Tipperary to...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 281: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason persons availing of affordable housing schemes must purchase their mortgages from the local...
- Local Government Elections
Question 284: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if further to Parliamentary Question No. 1161 of 26 September 2007 he anticipates that there will be...
- Waste Management
Question 285: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to introduce further waste packaging legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 291: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when works will commence on the Broadford sewerage scheme in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Fire Services
Question 292: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the Fire Services Act 1981 with regard to the provision of adequate fire...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 293: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth report on climate change, which claims...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Inland Fisheries
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he is taking to protect stocks of coarse fish from being illegally poached; if the instance of...
- Energy Policy
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total value of research development and demonstration projects in the energy sector funded by the exchequer...
