Written answers
Thursday, 29 November 2007
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Legislative Programme
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if and when he will bring forward legislation to establish Culture Ireland on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on...
- Film Industry Development
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the tax breaks for the film industry here; the steps he has taken to ensure the extension of section 481 tax relief...
- Heritage Fund
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the heritage fund and plans to have it replenished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31505/07]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress made towards resolving the issue regarding Tallaght Stadium; his views on using the stadium as a mutli-purpose facility;...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he will make a decision regarding the announcement of the 2008 National Lottery funded sports capital programme; his views on...
- Arts Funding
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will take particular initiatives to promote the arts and associated facilities throughout the country in both urban and rural...
- State Airports
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the need from a tourism point of view of autonomous national airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31541/07]
- Tourism Promotion
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the importance of e-marketing for tourism performance here; the policies being pursued by the Government in this area;...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the increasing privatisation of leisure facilities here; if he foresees a future role for the State and local...
- Tourism Industry
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the performance of the domestic market for tourism in 2007; the regional breakdown of visitors; and if he will make a...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of funding allocated to disability organisations and groups under the sports capital programme in 2005, 2006 and 2007...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on new or additional policies being pursued by the Government in order to assist the promotion of the mid west region; and...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will implement any of the recommendations of the ERSI report Fair Play, Sport and Social Disadvantage in Ireland; and if he...
- National Stadium
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the National Sports Campus project will qualify as a strategic planning project for consideration directly by An Bord Pleanála;...
- Youth Services
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the need to provide extra grant aid to fund community based and financially assisted local...
- Sports Funding
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress he has made regarding the dispute between the GAA and GPA over funding; if he has facilitated meetings between the...
- Child Protection
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on establishing a child protection unit in sport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31464/07]
- Tourism Industry
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the performance of the British market for tourism in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31452/07]
- North-South Ministerial Council
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the discussions he has had with the North-South Ministerial Council to bring about the merger of functions between Fáilte Ireland,...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of tax payers in 2006 or the most recent year for which complete figures are available, who returned incomes of €38,000 or...
- Flood Relief
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 11 October 2007 and further questions on the same matter dated 25 October 2007, if he will...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position of the decentralisation programme of his Department to Athy, County Kildare; the number assigned to the advance section of...
- Drug Seizures
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of drug seizures, where the estimated value of the drugs seized has exceeded €100,000, since the year 2000; and the...
- Motor Fuels
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to provide a similar support to the fuel duty rebate scheme for passenger bus transport services which is being...
- Tax Collection
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will take steps to have an application for VAT repayment by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath dealt with, as same...
- Defence Forces Retirement Scheme
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if Army officers are eligible to pay AVC's or pay into PRSA's; the reason these options do not apply; and when he expects to introduce...
- Freedom of Information
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, with reference to his Department's circular number 20 of 1998, dealing with the classification of material by Departments as top...
- Department of Health and Children
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the threat to jobs in the pharmaceutical sector posed by the proposed changes in reimbursement of pharmacists for drugs...
- Nursing Education
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to set up a conversion course here where nurses qualified as SENs in England can upgrade their qualifications to...
- Health Services
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the medical needs of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [31706/07]
- Departmental Transport
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money paid for taxi services in counties (details supplied) by the Health Service Executive for the purpose of transporting...
- Hospital Services
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will have their operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31747/07]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon is on the priority list for a transfer from the Department of Social and Family...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received to date in 2007 under the national purchase scheme; the way this number compares to other years; the...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 26 September 2007 regarding the issue of interest owing to long stay patients, the...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients from County Kildare who have been treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when there will be a 24 hour psychiatric service for County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31802/07]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to increase any of the thresholds for 2008 in respect of the nursing home subvention 2007 which can continue to apply to...
- Ambulance Service
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of ambulance drivers employed by the Health Service Executive nationally; the number of drivers on permanent contracts; the...
- Child Care Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are genuine concerns that the new childcare subvention scheme will result in...
- Health Services
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 23 October 2007. [31836/07]
- Health Service Staff
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive or her Department will appoint orthopaedic surgeons to operate on babies and children in HSE south; the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an urgent hospital appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home help hours were withdrawn in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when payment under the health repayment scheme in respect of persons in residential institutions will be made to a person (details...
- Hospital Services
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the allocation of cancer services to Mullingar, Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals (details supplied) were approved by her; and if she...
- Department of Transport
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will amend the terms of reference his Department has given to transport consultants Booz, Allen and Hamilton in relation to the Broadstone...
- Rail Services
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans for the provision of level crossings along the Galway to Ennis rail line in view of the opening of the western rail corridor; if a fully...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will ensure that when appointing the two outstanding vacancies to the board of Aer Lingus, that at minimum one of the appointees would be a...
- Air Services
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the retention and development of the Aer Lingus transatlantic routes which service Shannon Airport; his further views on the fact that...
- Air Accident Investigations
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a report of an incident on 17 October 2007 at Cork Airport in which an aircraft due to depart for the UK was pushed onto the...
- Tax Code
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he is taking to provide a similar support to the fuel duty rebate scheme for passenger bus transport services which is being withdrawn;...
- Air Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Transport if private consultants or legal experts have been engaged by his Department in relation to Aer Lingus's withdrawal of the Shannon to Heathrow...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he raised the case of a person (details supplied) with the UNMIK authorities on his recent visit to Pristina; if he did, then the response...
- Work Permits
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if and when the Government will recognise an independent Kosovo; if he has plans to work towards a work permit system here for Kosovars in an...
- Whale Conservation
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government has added its voice to the international condemnation of the Japanese whaling fleet that set out to the southern seas to...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of an appeal in relation to an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary;...
- Industrial Development
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new FDIs opened in the mid-west region since 2002, broken down by year, county, company name, address and...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals for the coming year to increase capital or other grants available to groups providing for both passive and active...
- Tourism Industry
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is satisfied that the tourism industry here is sufficiently competitive to meet the challenges of the future; and if he will...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Code
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a supplementary welfare payment can be made on humanitarian grounds in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Offshore Islands
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will commission an independent ten-year plan for the development and sustainability of Ireland's offshore...
- Industrial Development
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of grant-aid for new industries establishing in all Gaeltacht areas; the level of grant-aid that will be...
- Comhairliúcháin Phoiblí
Question 104: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an bpróiseas comhairliúcháin phoiblí a thosnú don scéim nua faoi Acht na...
- Forbairt na Gaeilge
Question 105: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta faoi fhorbairt an phlean straitéisigh i leith fás a chothú in úsáid na Gaeilge agus...
- Community Development
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are proposals to redraw the boundaries relating to Leader areas, particularly in relation to a company...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Wildlife Conservation
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has plans to ensure that an appropriate assessment is carried out before fishery activity takes place in areas...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of staff at the Marine Institute for each year from 1998 to end of October 2007 under headings (details...
- Grant Payments
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be paid under the disadvantaged area scheme. [31709/07]
- Milk Quota
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Cork has applied to the milk quota tribunal for additional milk quota; when the...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details of the membership of the consultative committee advising her on the CAP health check; and if she will make a...
- Fishing Fleet
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of funds provided by her in 2008 to fund the decommissioning of the white fishing fleet; and if she will make a...
- Milk Quota
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has details of quota restructuring within each co-op area since 1995; the average size of milk quotas in...
- Grant Payments
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive their single entitlement payment; and if she will make a...
- Forestry Sector
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the draft forestry and freshwater pearl mussel requirements and the moratorium on felling in the areas hosting...
- Milk Quota
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if additional quota will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31759/07]
- National Reserve
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon to the national reserve;...
- Department of Education and Science
- Youth Services
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of registered youth clubs in the Dublin south central electoral area; the amount of funding each receives; if she will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when construction work will begin on the new school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there is no provision under the maintenance grants scheme for students who qualify for grants and are attending post...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the application by a primary school (details supplied) in County Wicklow for an urgently needed extension, the necessity for...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve the application of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford, who is living independently and who applied to...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will advise and assist on an issue (details supplied). [31705/07]
- School Accommodation
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason payments are being delayed to those who provide school accommodation such as prefabs and so on for purchase, lease or rent;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; if she will allow them a spelling...
- School Transport
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the extension of a bus route for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects a decision to be...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for building works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects a decision to be...
- School Enrolments
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to provide for the future demand for places in secondary schools in Maynooth, Kilcock, Johnstownbridge, Clane, Sallins and...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the price index, and the date at which it was measured, used to increase the value of maintenance payments under the higher education...
- School Curriculum
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Science is she will make a statement in view of the concerns expressed by a person (details supplied) regarding the decision to issue Circular...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Galway, the spiralling numbers on the...
- School Curriculum
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the work that has been carried out in recent years to introduce science modules into the primary school curriculum; if this is being...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a design team will be appointed by her Department to a school (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the fact that the...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a difficulty which has arisen in relation to the acquisition of a site for a school (details...
- Adult Education
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the educational facilities that can be offered to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15 awaiting a decision in respect of a...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Retirement Scheme
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the early retirement options for Army officers, the pension being paid is reduced by the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Residency Permits
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; the circumstances surrounding their...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in respect of a citizenship application for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [31738/07]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in granting an application by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon employed at the...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of dangerous weapons that have been seized in prisons in each of the past five years, broken down by year and by...
- Prison Staff
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount the Irish Prison Service paid out in compensation claims to injured officers in each of the past seven years....
- Sexual Offences
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the numbers of offenders whose addresses are currently known to An Garda Síochána pursuant to notification under the Sex...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of females convicted of murder and manslaughter in each of the past seven years; and the number of same serving...
- Sentencing Policy
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average sentence served for female offenders convicted of murder or manslaughter. [31792/07]
- Garda Transport
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking to ensure the provision of an extra patrol car in the Keshcarrigan area of County Leitrim. [31826/07]
- Residency Permits
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if residency status, temporary or permanent on humanitarian or other grounds can or will be offered in the case of a person...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15;...
- Residency Permits
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a...
- Casino Gambling
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on changes in legislation which would facilitate the introduction of casino gambling here; if he has received...
- Drug Seizures
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the estimated value of drugs seized and destroyed by the State since the year 2000. [31994/07]
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing
Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way rent is determined under the rental accommodation scheme; if a person in receipt of a disability...
- Fire Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has given further consideration to the establishment of full time fire services in areas with a...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 171: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of vacant council houses throughout the State on dates (details supplied); the average waiting...
- Natural Heritage Areas
Question 172: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the remaining appeals under the national heritage area designation will be dealt with; and if he will...
- Register of Electors
Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the voting entitlements of US citizens legally resident here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Fire Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the outcome of his meeting with the Wicklow county manager, Wicklow chief fire officer and the members of the...
- Water Quality
Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to introduce registration and monitoring of the indirect discharges into ground-water of...
- Planning Issues
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of one-off houses outside areas zoned for development in county development plans 2000 to 2005;...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the rate of interest charged on the mortgage element under shared ownership; the rate charged for mortgage...
- Election Management System
Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Government has accepted the Constituency Commission Report on Dáil and European Constituencies 2007;...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Drift Net Fishing
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department will offer a financial compensation scheme for drift net fishermen similar to the scheme...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary can not get broadband at their home. [31774/07]
