Written answers

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

  • Department of Finance
    • Programmes for Government
      Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason he is unwilling to provide a costing of the proposals in the Programme for Government 2007 to 2012. [2092/08]
    • Property Repossessions
      Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the level of home repossessions which are occurring; and if there are implication for public policy. [2145/08]
    • Airport Customs Controls
      Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will propose measures, particularly but not exclusively focusing on smaller and regional airports, to clamp down on the evasion...
    • Commission on Taxation
      Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the work which has been done to date within his Department on the proposed establishment of a tax commission; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Government is planning amendments to the Ethics in Public Office Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2320/08]
    • Customs Service
      Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of x-ray scanner machines at the disposal of the customs services at ports here; the plans his Department has to provide...
    • Benchmarking Awards
      Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the emerging strains in public pay policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2114/08]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the implications for the Irish economy of the new EU climate change commitments. [2126/08]
    • Public Service Accounts
      Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that no depreciation is charged in the accounts of the public service and implications this has for efficient...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of house completions that were used in relation to his tax receipts forecasts for 2008 as provided in Budget 2008; if he is...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his estimate of the deferred liability of pension commitments under social welfare provisions, assuming the maintenance of existing...
    • Departmental Projects
      Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make arrangements that the maximum possible details in respect of appraisals of NDP projects are published, subject to not...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that €45 million in tax revenue accruing from business owners or the...
    • Economic Growth
      Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has had reason to modify his economic or public finance projections for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Management Information Framework
      Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the terms of reference of the Comptroller and Auditor General's value for money inquiry relating to the management information...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the carbon proofing of all fiscal measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2096/08]
    • Tax Code
      Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports of under claiming by tenants of rent relief and under returning by landlords; and if he...
    • Tax Evasion
      Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that the Revenue Commissioners brought in €2.4 billion from special investigations since 2002 and the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he foresees any threats to the Irish corporation tax regime; and his plans to mitigate the possible effects. [2128/08]
    • Public Service Pay
      Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost to date of the review in respect of the Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector Higher Civil Service...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the impact of stock market losses on the robustness of pension provision; and if there are implications for public...
    • Tax Code
      Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has been informed of an agreement on the format for compensating for the loss of fuel rebate in public transport. [2150/08]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the timetable for the completion of decentralisation of Government Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2072/08]
    • Price Inflation
      Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of persistently high inflation, averaging nearly 5% for 2007, he will take steps to protect real incomes of ordinary...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of civil servants and other public servants, who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will re-define the definition of investment instrument as stated in the Investment Intermediaries Act 1995, to make authorised...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman
      Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to amend the legislation governing the Financial Services Ombudsman in order that he can make rulings on classes of...
    • Business Regulation
      Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has decided on a benchmark against which the Government's promise to cut business compliance costs by 25% can be judged. [2146/08]
    • Financial Services
      Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and value of savings accounts; the breakdown of the value and number of saving/deposit accounts of less than €20,000,...
    • Social Finance Foundation
      Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when the social finance fund, announced in Budget 2006, will start to issue loans to voluntary projects; the person who will be in...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the expected impact of recent developments in international financial markets on the economy here. [2391/08]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the details of the work of the expert advisory group established to consider measures for the consolidation and modernisation of...
    • Public Service Pay
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the ratio of the chief executive officer's pay to the average pay level for each year since 2000 and including projections for 2008 in...
    • Unemployment Levels
      Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views regarding the recent increases in unemployment, particularly arising among men in industries such as the construction...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the impact of recent developments in international financial markets on the National Pensions Reserve Fund. [2390/08]
    • Tax Forecasts
      Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on and the contents of the findings and recommendations of the report of the Tax Forecasting Methodology Review Group; and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the reports of the complete failure of the Government's e-Government strategy to achieve its...
    • Tax Code
      Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of persons who have successfully received DIRT tax refunds; the value of such refunds, for each year from 2002 to 2007; and...
    • Fiscal Policy
      Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on a reduction in interest rates by the European Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2285/08]
    • Tax Code
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the delay in implementing changes in VRT has not created perverse incentives in the short term. [2140/08]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 16 October 2007, if the contract for the sale of the site has been received by the Office...
    • Tax Code
      Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of persons who have successfully applied for the tax saver commuter tickets in each year from 2002 to 2007; the estimated...
    • Financial Services
      Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the situation whereby personal cheques can take ten working days for clearance by the banks with the...
    • Price Inflation
      Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his Department's forecast for the expected increase in the Consumer Price Index for the full year of 2008; the way this compares with...
    • Tax Code
      Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and percentage of income earners who paid tax at the higher rate and the standard rate for 2007; the anticipated figures...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the number of consumer focused inspections carried out by the Financial Regulator has dropped from 185 in...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views with regard to the Exchequer returns for 2007 on the rapid deterioration to the tune of €3,883 million in the public...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has met with representatives of disabled drivers in order that a phased programme of reform in tax concessions will be developed...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the plans the Office of Public Works have to carry out maintenance work on the River Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services
      Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the fact that not all credit unions are covered by the deposit protection scheme, known as the saving protection scheme,...
    • Property Repossessions
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the recent increase in the number of house repossessions that have been executed by, or on behalf of, banks and financial...
    • Benchmarking Awards
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the recent report of the Public Service Benchmarking Body recommendation of no increases for the vast majority of public...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of outstanding uncollected taxes; the proportion of same the Revenue Commissioners expect to recover; if new measures are...
    • Economic Growth
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his Department's forecast for the expected level of economic growth for the full year of 2008; the way this compares with the forecast...
    • Tax Code
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the constraints that directives from the European Union put on the ability of Ireland to make changes to the VAT regime here,...
    • Public Service Pay
      Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the performance indicators used to quantify the bonuses of chief executives in each of the commercial State bodies for which the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he proposes amending the law in order to clarify the tax implications of receiving an interest free loan from an acquaintance and...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Farm Holdings
      Question 159: To ask the Taoiseach the average size of Irish farm holdings in 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1020/08]
    • Departmental Surveys
      Question 160: To ask the Taoiseach the purpose of the customer satisfaction survey (details supplied) being carried out for his Department; the number of people being surveyed; the way the...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 161: To ask the Taoiseach the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of the years 1997 to 2007...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 163: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were legislation wholly or...
    • Committee Meetings
      Question 164: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times in the past three years that the Cabinet Committee on Children met. [1446/08]
    • Data Protection
      Question 165: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost, missing or stolen from...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 166: To ask the Taoiseach the cost of his recent visit to Africa; the mode of transport used; the dates of travel; the persons who accompanied him; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Data Protection
      Question 167: To ask the Taoiseach the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer security breaches committed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 168: To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 169: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the successful Age Action Ireland Getting Started information technology training course for older people, which is currently running in libraries...
    • Population Statistics
      Question 170: To ask the Taoiseach the population of the border, midland, west, Dublin, mid-east, mid-west, south east and south west regions of the country. [2108/08]
    • Household Incomes
      Question 171: To ask the Taoiseach the disposable per capita household income in each of the years 2003 to 2007 in the border, midland, west, Dublin, mid-east, mid-west, south east and south...
    • Data Protection
      Question 172: To ask the Taoiseach the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were compromised in any way; if the...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      Question 173: To ask the Taoiseach if he will call on the British Government to provide access to all of the original documents relating to the atrocities that occurred in the Dublin and...
    • Departmental Strategies
      Question 174: To ask the Taoiseach when the new strategy for managing the development of e-Government will be completed; the reason no formal strategy has been in place since 2005 as highlighted...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 175: To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation, who have been transferred...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 176: To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota for people with disabilities;...
  • Department of Finance
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will investigate the situation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [1000/08]
    • Airport Customs Controls
      Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which private airfields may have been used for the importation of illegal drugs into this jurisdiction over the past...
    • Statutory Instruments
      Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of statutory instruments issued by the Government in 2007; and the number of same that were issued in order to implement EU...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the arrangements for all imported cars into the State in relation to the new emissions based VRT regime; and if he will make a...
    • Benchmarking Awards
      Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the CPSU's decision to recommend to its members the rejection of the methodology behind benchmarking, after the union's...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the level of excise duty collected in 2006 and 2007 from off-course betting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1820/08]
    • Departmental Payments
      Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding the money received by his Department in respect of the Department of Health and Children from a sector (details...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the plans, following the new VRT emissions-based system, in place to fairly calculate and levy VRT charges on the emissions caused by...
    • Tax Code
      Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will confirm that where a landlord is resident outside the State, that a tenant is required to discharge the landlord's tax...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the efforts his Department is making to ensure that all cars brought into the country by foreign nationals for use here are...
    • Public Sector Contracts
      Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the procedures in place to enable small and medium enterprises to compete for public sector contracts and deliver value for money to...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of civil servants and other public servants who have decentralised as at 31 December 2006 and the current date broken down...
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 194: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current review processes he has requested to be undertaken in respect of the financial and reporting systems within each...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will extend to the Standards in Public Office the power to investigate breaches of standards on its own initiative. [2573/08]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, arising from a legal settlement (details supplied) there are implications for other groups or agencies who have the coordinated...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he plans to provide the same grant for a disabled driver as for a disabled passenger; and to increase the disabled driver and...
    • Tax Code
      Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on extending the tax relief provision to community trusts with taxable income, who donate funds to approved charitable...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of applications that were received for the disabled drivers passengers tax concessions in 2007; the number that were...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he will commence section 101 of the Finance Act 2007 to remove the stamp duty loophole relating to sub-sales; and if he will make...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the funding in place for the Clonmel flood relief scheme; if money will be provided for all stages of the scheme; and if he will make...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 205: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the proposals the Office of Public Works have in place for the Athassal Abbey site in Golden, County Tipperary; when work on these...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of additional off-licence premises, including mixed use premises that were granted licences in the years 2006 and 2007....
    • Tax Code
      Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of primary and post primary schools who have obtained charitable status from the Revenue Commissioners since the scheme was...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 212: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which...
    • Tax Code
      Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive their P60 for 2007 as they need the certificate to allow them purchase...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 214: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when tenders will be invited for the proposed Garda station at Castleisland, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will approve a site for the new school at Listellick, Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Road Network
      Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will take steps to have further remedial repairs carried out to a bridge (details supplied) in County Westmeath as same is in a...
    • Tax Code
      Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has proposals to ensure that the fuel rebate in respect of the school transport service continues into the future; and if he...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 13 December 2007, if the report (details supplied) has been submitted to the National...
    • Tax Code
      Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for mortgage interest relief at source; and if he will...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 224: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if vehicle registration tax relief or assistance towards a specially adapted car can or will be offered to a person (details supplied)...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 225: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he or his Department has taken to provide wi-fi access to the general public in public buildings; the future plans he has on...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 226: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated cost of pension provisions for the next ten, twenty and thirty years for the public sector; and if he will make a...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he or his Department has taken to neutralise anti social behaviour on Office of Public Works owned grounds (details...
    • Data Protection
      Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer...
    • Tax Code
      Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the area of land that can be transferred from parent to child in order to enable the building of a house before there are capital...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 230: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will introduce a cherished number registration system for vintage cars as is the case with standard vehicles; and if he will...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 231: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on exempted payment to drift net salmon fishermen under the hardship fund to be tax free; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 232: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position of the Office of Public Works in relation to finding a resolution to the flooding problem (details supplied) in south...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 235: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if there are job vacancies within the Office of Public Works in Mayo at the present time or in the foreseeable future; and if he will...
    • Business Expansion Scheme
      Question 236: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will extend the business expansion scheme to include tourism and guest accommodation enterprise development on islands; and if...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 237: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the stockbroking firms engaged by his Department, or by the agencies under his aegis, during the years 2002, 2003 and 2004; the fees...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 238: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      Question 239: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were...
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 240: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on awarding primary medical certificates to disabled and handicapped persons or their guardians under the Disabled Drivers...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 241: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the value of the contingency fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2248/08]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimates used to calculate a figure of €101.8 million as the cost of jobseekers benefit and allowance payments in 2008; if he...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will direct or request that the Financial Regulator publish a cross-country comparison of the cost of personal and small...
    • Tax Code
      Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason tax collected by airlines is not refunded to the customer when a trip is cancelled; if a uniform rate of taxation is...
    • Public Sector Pay
      Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the largest single back pay payment that was made as a consequence of the pay rises provided for in the report of the Review Body on...
    • Tax Code
      Question 247: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners received all the P35 submissions from the Health Service Executive on time in respect of the tax year...
    • Departmental Applications
      Question 248: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the applications processed by his Department; the average waiting time to process each application; the steps he is taking to speed up...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      Question 249: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the implications for awarding public contracts, making grant payments and the issuing of various licences of the perception that under...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 253: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the flooding which occurred in Johnstown village, Naas, County Kildare, on 10 January 2008; and the...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 254: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota for...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 255: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he, through the Office of Public Works directly or in conjunction with other relevant Departments have given thought to the...
    • Fiscal Policy
      Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which the national debt is expected to be affected by internal or external events in 2008; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 257: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that tax returns anticipated at the time of Budget 2008 are expected to remain on target; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      Question 258: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with regard to the adequacy of measures to prevent fraud in the banking system; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 259: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the economy continues to be attractive to encourage foreign inward investment; and if he will make a...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 261: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that the economy is capable of competing with others in the marketplace; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Services
      Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been asked to provide speech therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy staff for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Herbal Drugs
      Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to introduce legislation to control the sale of herbal drugs that may be harmful; if studies have been carried out on...
    • Health Services
      Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for domiciliary care by a person (details supplied) in County Cork on behalf of their son is presently being...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the response she has made to a letter received from a group (details supplied); when the Government will implement the recommendations...
    • Health Services
      Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a child (details supplied) in County Wexford that the Health Service Executive's consultant child...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the introduction of an Irish older persons' Bill that would delineate the rights and entitlements of older Irish persons...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) and eight other organisations issued a joint...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a system of mandatory reporting of cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36047/07]
    • Health Services
      Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for a limb fitting. [36053/07]
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in respect of the Health Service Executive repayments scheme for nursing home patients, she will extend the current deadline of 31...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been informed that they have to wait over two...
    • Health Services
      Question 281: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene and ask the Health Service Executive to continue to fund a group (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new nursing home scheme Fair Deal will become operational in particular in the Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has made contact with a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when the last official contact from her Department was...
    • Health Services
      Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to increase the funding to the palliative care unit, Galway Hospice, Renmore, Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a list of payments made under the long-stay charges repayments scheme to individuals will be published in due course; and if a list...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of linear accelerators planned for in the cancer strategy and the timetable envisaged for their installation; the number in...
    • HIV Infection
      Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people being treated in this country for AIDS. [1004/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [1012/08]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the groups and bodies that have been invited to make submissions in relation to the review of the voluntary code to limit the exposure...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will advise and assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [1049/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of supports for children with Asperger's syndrome; the plans in place to increase access...
    • Pharmaceutical Sector
      Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation with regard to the recent dispute between the Health Service Executive and pharmacists; her views on the widespread public...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in progressing the plans to extend and develop St. John's Hospital, Limerick; the expected timeframe for...
    • Nursing Education
      Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the arrangements in place to provide medical practitioners with locum cover in order that they can fulfil the required time commitment...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the opening of the new accident and emergency unit at Portlaoise Regional Hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a knee replacement. [1094/08]
    • Home Care Support
      Question 303: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a home care support package will be put in place for persons (details supplied) in County Cork. [1095/08]
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that her Department were responsible for in each of the...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on documentation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1176/08]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by her Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of physiotherapists employed in the Public Service in each of the past five years; the number of physiotherapists who have...
    • Health Services
      Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an enquiry has been held into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the outcome of the enquiry; if she will meet...
    • Drug Prevention Programmes
      Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the increasing use of pills containing benzylpiperazine here; if the dangers of such use are widely...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare against the decision to refuse their application for...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the mobility allowance is means tested; if her Department will consider reversing this for people with spina bifida and other...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when Professor Tom Keane will be visiting Sligo General Hospital to evaluate the cancer service at the centre; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the position of consultant orthodontist for Kerry was last advertised. [1243/08]
    • Adoption Services
      Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the letter sent to prospective adopters by the Health Service Executive indicating that their declaration may not be...
    • Drug Prevention Programmes
      Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to establish an office of alcohol control along the lines of the Office of Tobacco Control. [1250/08]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a report (details supplied) on the future of acute hospital services in Cork will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 318: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 319: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the projects which received National Lottery funding from her Department in 2007; the organisation and sum involved in each case; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be called for a hip replacement operation. [1287/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 321: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will be advertising vacancies for physiotherapists; the number of vacancies that will be available and...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 322: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will include admissions to Mallow General Hospital in the Health Service Executive's daily emergency department admission...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if arrangements have been made with the Dublin Fire and Rescue Service for the continued operation of the much needed emergency...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of publically contracted beds under the management of the Health Service Executive south at a nursing home (details supplied)...
    • Organ Retention
      Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish the report of the Dunne Inquiry or arrange to meet the Parents for Justice to discuss the contents of same; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 326: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been awaiting an out-patient appointment for...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 327: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a senior radiographer and clinical specialist radiographer will be appointed to Mallow General Hospital in January 2008 as previously...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 328: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of a claim under the health repayment scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 329: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a home care grant package by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Suicide Prevention
      Question 330: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated toward suicide prevention initiatives in 2007; if funding is available for such initiatives in 2008; the...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 331: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Fair Deal scheme for nursing home subvention will be introduced. [1392/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a director of nursing, two assistant directors of nursing and at least five staff nurses working in Cashel General...
    • Health Services
      Question 333: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the serious situation as regards the lack of dental care in some of the primary schools (details supplied) in north...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 335: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1435/08]
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 336: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1436/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 337: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1437/08]
    • Health Promotion
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the evaluation of the outcome of the health promotion campaigns run between 2001 and 2005 will be concluded; when same will be...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has plans for the provision of a cystic fibrosis unit for Galway as current facilities at University Hospital Galway...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a paediatrics rheumatoid arthritis consultant will be appointed to the Health Service Executive for the north west. [1459/08]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intercede with the Health Service Executive to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has their medical...
    • Health Services
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is intended to provide land for a voluntary housing project (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in County Dublin. [1494/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 344: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a service (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [1495/08]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will improve services at the Mid-West Regional Hospital Limerick for cystic fibrosis patients; and if she will make this a...
    • Health Services
      Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [1498/08]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 349: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her proposals to deal with issues relating to cystic fibrosis; if she will note the particular public interest generated recently in...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 350: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the need for no fault insurance for children suffering from cerebral palsy; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost,...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and when it is expected that corrective surgical or medical procedures will be offered to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15;...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will reissue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the full extent of accommodation facilities and services available, on a county basis, for patients and sufferers of cystic fibrosis;...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the travel allowance for medical card applicants; if this has been reduced from 50 cent per mile to 30 cent...
    • Health Services
      Question 360: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a project (details supplied). [1581/08]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of specialist psychiatrists and other dedicated clinicians in place for the treatment of psychiatric orders among children...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting time for children and teenagers seeking to attend specialist psychiatrists in this field; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 372: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people on the waiting list for hip and knee operations at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore; and if she will make...
    • Health Services
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her proposals in regard to the issues raised by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford relating to cystic fibrosis sufferers;...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department in conjunction with the Health Service Executive has plans to roll-out nationally a new vaccination to combat...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the plans to establish a secure psychiatric unit in the mid-west region to care for disturbed and...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the recommendations of the Vision for Change document on mental health services will be implemented; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be supported. [1674/08]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 383: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of midwives in each hospital nationwide in 2007; the number of births at each in 2007; and if she will present the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Health Service Executive to announce the location of the proposed new Regional Hospital for the north east; and if...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 385: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath was denied assistance from the Health Service Executive to cover the balance of...
    • Health Services
      Question 386: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied there is sufficient community physiotherapy services in place for County Meath; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Data Protection
      Question 389: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of and the records kept by her Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation with regard the HPV vaccine; when it will be available to women here; and the type of structure envisaged for its use....
    • Health Services
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist on an issue (details supplied). [1756/08]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 392: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the application for capital grant assistance under the national childcare programme by persons (details...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the frequent cancellation of appointments at the urology department of St. Colmcille's Hospital; if...
    • Health Services
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will advise and assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [1793/08]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a service (details supplied). [1794/08]
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the health repayment scheme. [1811/08]
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when new supplies of the BCG vaccine will become available to the Health Service Executive following difficulties with the supply of the...
    • Health Services
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown per county of the waiting times for aural tests; the number awaiting this test for both adults and children; and if she...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the reduced budget of €571,000 allocated to Mallow General Hospital in 2008; if so, the basis on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will forward information regarding policies with regard to funding for learning disabilities. [1830/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the Health Service Executive's plans to have midwifery expertise in the community in view of the fact that public...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 403: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify a suggestion that women in maternity units will be discharged 12 hours after giving birth; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 404: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Health Service Executive policy in relation to hiring taxi firms for health related trips; if there is a proper, open and...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 407: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be given a dermatology appointment in Mayo General Hospital. [1928/08]
    • Departmental Revenue
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the money received by her Department and the Health Service Executive from a sector (details supplied); if this...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 409: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the fact that BreastCheck began offering free breast screening to woman aged 50 to 64 in the former Eastern Regional...
    • Health Services
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic assessment; and if this matter will be expedited. [1933/08]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are occupational therapists and physiotherapists available within the Health Service Executive to provide a service to children...
    • Health Services
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with home help in view of the fact that they were approved home help in...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 422: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be called for an ultra sound scan in University College Hospital, Galway. [1943/08]
    • Foster Care
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason funding was not in place for a child (details supplied) in County Mayo to obtain specialised foster care in America; and when...
    • Health Services
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if respite care can be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1967/08]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be assisted. [1972/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by her Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if she will...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a payment will be made under the health repayment scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) will be assisted. [2006/08]
    • Community Care
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason only €25 million, or 8% of the additional health spending announced in Budget 2008 will be invested on community care...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to include coronary heart disease as a prescribed long-term illness for the purposes of the long-term illness and...
    • Health Services
      Question 439: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a fully staffed community placement will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be given an appointment for their operation; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Data Protection
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by her Department or any agency under its auspices were...
    • Health Services
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a child (details supplied) with sensory issues in County Mayo will be called for occupational therapy. [2174/08]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 125 of 12 December 2007, the position in relation to the application for a medical card by a person...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 445: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the standard and quality of second hand wheelchairs sometimes offered to elderly persons in the community; her...
    • Health Services
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure a resolution of the dispute between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Dental Association in...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 448: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the scheduled rollout of the National Cervical Cancer Screening Programme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 450: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if consideration will be given towards extending the deadline to facilitate late applicants under the nursing home repayments scheme;...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 451: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the newly built emergency department of the Mercy University Hospital has been lying...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 452: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the budget allocation for the Health Information and Quality Authority for 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2251/08]
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      Question 453: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that non-Irish graduates are not permitted to work as supervising pharmacists for at least three years; and if she...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health allowances that may be awarded by the Health Service Executive or her Department; the number of recipients of each allowance;...
    • Health Services
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the payment of arrears due to home helps for travel payments in the Kildare West Wicklow areas of the Health Service...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the high turnover rate of psychologists at the mental health unit at Maginn Avenue, Buncrana, County...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in possession of medical cards in respect of 1 January 2008 and the same day in each year back to 1998; and the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has submitted P35s for all their employees for the year ended 2006; if there was a delay in submitting...
    • Health Services
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for profiling beds to enable people with specific illnesses or disabilities to be cared for in their own...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of the proposed €39 million upgrading of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis, County Clare; when work is scheduled...
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 465: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the value for money review of the allocation and utilisation of funds for the acute hospitals will be completed; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, she will outline the annual budget 2008 for the Mid-West Regional Hospital,...
    • Organ Donation
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the soft opt-out organ donation policy as adopted in Spain or Belgium as one move to combat low organ donation here; and...
    • Health Services
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide the necessary funding for the Irish Osteoporosis Society which provide an invaluable service; and if she...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will put in place a long-term care plan for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [2400/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that were taken by the Health Service Executive to resolve the complaint by persons (details supplied); the aspects of the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who was given leave of absence from the Health Service Executive for 1 November...
    • Health Services
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2428/08]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 2 October 2007 the position in relation to the re-examination of breast cancer records at...
    • Health Services
      Question 476: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will provide financial support to persons who undergo a specific treatment abroad (details supplied). ...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is still planned to proceed with the long promised psychiatric unit at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 26 June 2007, if she will report on the progress between the Health Service Executive and...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will instruct the Health Service Executive to reinstate a senior grade physiotherapist in a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new accident and emergency department will be opened in Portlaoise General Hospital; the staffing arrangements in place for...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to proceed with the relocation of maternity services in Limerick to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be attended to. [2492/08]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a designated ward or room will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [2493/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to the response received from the Health Service Executive in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 28 November 2007 if...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on 2 November 2007 there were 120 elderly people awaiting a long term care bed in...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 489: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 28 November 2007 if the three additional speech and language therapists hired on temporary...
    • Health Services
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the present number of children awaiting orthodontic treatment and orthodontic assessment in County Kildare; the average time children...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding services and projects (details supplied). [2523/08]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons covered on medical cards and doctors visit cards in County Kildare on 31 December 2007. [2545/08]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on extending breast screening to women aged 65 to 70 years in regions where BreastCheck has been in operation for a number of...
    • Health Services
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people in receipt of home help services in Kildare and west Wicklow in 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of hours allocated...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be assisted. [2565/08]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 500: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services available to cystic fibrosis patients in Cork; the locations where treatment can be received and the number of staff...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in her Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation, who...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 506: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when replies will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 106 to 109 of 13 December 2007. [2617/08]
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 507: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 11 December 2007. [2618/08]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is waiting for a hip replacement; if they will be seen as...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are proposals to reform the grants system to ensure that provision is made for essential childcare costs. [34002/07]
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of civil servants and other public servants who have decentralised as at 31 December 2006 and the current date broken down...
  • Department of Transport
    • Port Development
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will appoint a representative of Cobh to the board of directors of the port of Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1390/08]
    • Road Network
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review the condition of the terms of local improvement schemes to allow schemes that would benefit one adjoining farm to qualify for...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Transport if it is his intention to require local authorities to introduce a visual indicator to replace parking tickets in order to alleviate the present...
    • Rail Network
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the Kildare Route Project with specific reference to car parking in Hazelhatch; when the car park will be completed; the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of buses in operation in the Dublin Bus fleet that ran on alternative fuels on 1 December 2007; the number of buses in operation in the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress, in view of his commitment to introduce compulsory testing for alcohol for all drivers involved in road traffic accidents, that has...
    • Private Airports
      Question 521: To ask the Minister for Transport if the flight plans of aircraft landing at private airports have to be notified; and if a record is kept of such notifications. [1007/08]
    • Taxi Regulations
      Question 522: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason taxis are not permitted to use contra-flow bus lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1027/08]
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 523: To ask the Minister for Transport if there is an urgent need to get the remedial works underway at the Western Pier in Baltimore, County Cork; and if the contract arrangements for...
    • Coast Guard Service
      Question 524: To ask the Minister for Transport if the jobs in Valentia Coast Guard Radio Station are safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1041/08]
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 531: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of the years 1997...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were...
    • Road Safety
      Question 534: To ask the Minister for Transport the persons who have responsibility for gritting county, regional and national roads in County Meath; the procedures in place for this exercise;...
    • Air Services
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prior to the decision to open the Belfast base, Aer Lingus considered expansion plans from a base...
    • Cycle Facilities
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the publication of the revised Cycletrack Design Guidance Manual has been delayed since September 2006; when it is now intended to...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the feasibility study being undertaken by the Railway Procurement Agency for a Rathfarnham Luas; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Transport
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in relation to the bus service from Dublin to Tullow, County Carlow through Baltinglass (details supplied); if approval will be...
    • Rail Network
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for Transport when work is scheduled to begin on the Cork to Midleton railway line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1360/08]
    • Public Transport
      Question 540: To ask the Minister for Transport the plans the Government have to include the quality bus corridor and bus lanes infrastructure under the Strategic Infrastructural Projects; and...
    • Air Services
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to an instruction issued by Aer Lingus to flight personnel operating out of Belfast to the effect that all...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 543: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost, missing or...
    • Public Transport
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Transport if there are currently, or have been in the past two years, any applications lodged with his Department for a bus licence to run a service between...
    • Commuter Data
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Transport the estimate of the number of people who travel through the Dublin inner canal cordon at morning and evening rush hours; the number that go...
    • Regional Airports
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Transport the overall level of debt of Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports; the estimated level of debt for each of these airports for 2008, 2009 and 2010;...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 550: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of roadside checkpoints mounted by driver and vehicle standards inspectors in each of the years from 2000 to 2007; the number of...
    • End-of-Life Vehicles
      Question 551: To ask the Minister for Transport when the report into the presence of car write-offs that have previously been classed as unfit for road use will be published; if it will include...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in the context of the new report from the Environmental Protection Agency which indicates that transport emissions are now 165% above 1990...
    • Rail Network
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps he proposes to advance the Navan to Dublin rail link, phase two Pace to Navan project; the revised cost of this project; if he has...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will investigate the provision of a permanent traffic operation free flow initiative for the town of Navan; and if he will make a statement...
    • Data Protection
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer security breaches...
    • Regional Airports
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 18 December 2007, when the economic and tourism development plan for Shannon Airport will be...
    • Rail Network
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for Transport the time frame for rolling out rail for counties Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal in view of the recent advertisement by Iarnród Éireann (details...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for Transport if a meeting has been requested with him by a local authority (details supplied); if he will meet with this local authority; and if so, when the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a...
    • Data Protection
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were compromised in any...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will initiate the long promised review of the disabled person's parking permit scheme in the near future with a view to ensuring that the...
    • Driving Instructors
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce registration and regulation of driving instructors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2236/08]
    • Taxi Regulations
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a request to make funds available to subsidise the provision of accessible taxis; if and when he will make a decision on this...
    • Rail Services
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 26 September 2007, if Iarnród Éireann have completed their review of plans for re-signalling in the...
    • Road Network
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will approve a grant to provide a new bridge at Ballinagher, Lixnaw, County Kerry as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will set up an interdepartmental working group to look at ways to co-ordinate transport for rural communities, across all Departments to...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota for people with...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 573: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation, who have been...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when he proposes to hold the referendum on the Lisbon Reform Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1606/08]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way overseas development aid is distributed and allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1903/08]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the current political situation in Pakistan; and if he will detail contacts he has had in the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of the years...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1207/08]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will push the potential for a Colombian peace process at UN level; and if he will assist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on this...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the regime of bullying, intimidation and punishment beatings in areas of south Armagh; the action he has...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost,...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a visa to visit the US will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1633/08]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in relation to his contacts in respect of Zimbabwe following the special Dáil Éireann debate in December 2007; and if he will...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his recent visit to South Africa and Tanzania with An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern to see Irish Aid Projects; and if he...
    • Data Protection
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer security...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in relation to undocumented Irish people living in America since the joint motion on Ireland-US bilateral agreement in November...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will encourage and develop recent movements in Colombia towards inclusive dialogue. [2016/08]
    • Data Protection
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were compromised...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he proposes to have the case surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) investigated further. [2213/08]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has the authority to appoint an ambassador to other countries where the appointee has not been a member of the diplomatic service; and...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government paid bail for the so-called Colombia Three; the cost of the bail; if the money has been recovered from the persons...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is monitoring the situation on the island of Cyprus; the political contacts he is maintaining in the matter; and if he will make a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 605: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans initiatives by the Irish Embassy in China to cater for Irish visitors to the 2008 Olympic Games; and if he will make a statement...
    • Passport Applications
      Question 606: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the passports issued to a person (details supplied) were the subject of representations from, transmitted or routed through, or in any...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 607: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if an audit was carried out on funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied); and the result of this audit; and if he will make a...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 608: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota for people...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation, who have...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Research Funding
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action taken by his Department to promote the EU's Seventh Framework Programme among industry and academia; the...
    • Work Permits
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be assisted. [36095/07]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 616: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the regulations that prevent FÁS from employing an individual aged 59 for a period in excess of seven years in a community...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if all employers when registering as self-employed were notified of the construction workers pension scheme by the relevant...
    • Job Creation
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies the Government is employing to increase the number of early stage entrepreneurs here; the support structures...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the precise role of the Central Co-ordination Unit or CCU in relation to the County Enterprise Boards; the Department...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with the operation of the construction workers pensions scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 623: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Joint Labour Agreements may apply to the self-employed and undertakings as well as employees; and if he will make a...
    • International Trade
      Question 625: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an explanation of the legal term inter-state trade to the extent that it affects company and competition...
    • Employment Agencies Regulation
      Question 626: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the systems in place to regulate recruitment agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1149/08]
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 628: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the Joint Labour Committees are compatible with the Competition Act 2002; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 630: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the impact a recent European Court of Justice decision in the Viking Line case has on Irish company law; and if he will...
    • National Minimum Wage
      Question 631: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the month and year that the national minimum wage was first introduced; the numbers in employment at that time; and the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the...
    • Job Losses
      Question 633: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in County Cork would qualify for redundancy, unfair dismissal or other payment. [1332/08]
    • Research Funding
      Question 634: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on funding a number of bio-incubator labs on publicly owned land in Youghal, County Cork for the purposes of...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 637: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of land owned by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland in Cork east; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys,...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 639: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of out of State companies that located in County Kerry and County Cork respectively, between January 2002 and...
    • Job Creation
      Question 640: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of itineraries arranged by the IDA of out of State industrialists between January 2002 and December 2007 in...
    • Work Permits
      Question 643: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when an appeal to refuse work permits will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if...
    • Services Sector
      Question 645: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to deal with the widespread problem of tickets for concerts and other events being resold at inflated prices; if...
    • Data Protection
      Question 646: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the findings by the European Court of Justice in the Laval case; and the implications the findings may have...
    • National Minimum Wage
      Question 648: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the European Trade Union Confederation's warning to the European Central Bank to stop its crusade against fair...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is envisaged the transfer will be competed of six hectares of lands at Demense Castlerea, County Roscommon to...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 650: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has discussed with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources making Tipperary Town a wireless...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 651: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of FÁS schemes that can not fill vacancies due to the six year cap for those over the age of 55 years; if he...
    • Work Permits
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an appeal will be opened in relation to a work permit for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1868/08]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on making a change in relation to the six year regulation for people over the age of 55 years who are employed on...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 654: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to tackle the problems in the electrical contracting industry, namely, the practice of sub...
    • Work Permits
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a work permit can be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 656: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if...
    • Job Creation
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits by prospective employers to IDA sites in Tipperary south in 2007. [2008/08]
    • Work Permits
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the EU agency workers directive; the reason the Irish Government is still opposing the introduction of this...
    • Unemployment Levels
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the unemployment rate in each of the years 2003 to 2007 in the border, midland, west, Dublin, mid-east, mid-west, south...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the investment by the Industrial Development Authority and Enterprise Ireland in each of the years 2003 to 2007 in the...
    • Data Protection
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices...
    • Accountancy Regulation
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action a person can take where they are not satisfied that an accountant or auditor has discharged their...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend the Companies Act 1990 to prevent developers from writing unfair terms in the memo and arts of residential...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of the people who attended the Skills Olympics in Japan in 2007 who travelled business class at the expense of...
    • Employment Support Services
      Question 671: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a list of the all of the applications for Skillnets funding; the county, where applicable, the...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm that an agreement was reached, and when it was reached, for the IDA to purchase the site in east Cork...
    • Company Closures
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding a company (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [2265/08]
    • Employment Agencies Regulation
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will establish a code of standards for recruitment agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2266/08]
    • Industrial Development
      Question 677: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount a company (details supplied) has received or will receive in grants from Enterprise Ireland to establish a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 681: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being encountered by participants and sponsors of community employment...
    • Barriers to Trade
      Question 682: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns that the proposed micro-generator scheme being introduced in the UK places...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 683: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has not been awarded redundancy. [2411/08]
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the services to the business division of FÁS are withdrawing funding in...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 685: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of new IDA supported jobs created in each county in 2007; and the number of jobs per 10,000 of population this...
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of fully trained and deployed labour inspectors with the National Employment Rights Authority; the corresponding...
    • Work Permits
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of green cards issued each month in 2007; when details of the procedure regarding permanent residency will be...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 690: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to bring to a satisfactory conclusion to the ongoing efforts by a person (details supplied) to have...
    • Site Investigations
      Question 691: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 579 of 16 October 2007, if a group has been established to examine the potential use...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 692: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 693: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for...
    • Job Creation
      Question 694: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in respect of IDA backed jobs, he will provide a breakdown of the number created in Limerick and the mid-west, Dublin,...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 695: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants and other public servants, who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 698: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if there are plans in his Department to provide a swimming pool at Ballybofey/Stranorlar, County Donegal; if a site has been...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the locations the money and funding in Budget 2008 for arts has gone to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36063/07]
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 701: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department offers grant assistance for a project (details supplied) in County Cork. [1254/08]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 705: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported...
    • Data Protection
      Question 706: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer...
    • Horseracing Industry
      Question 707: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received Horse Racing Ireland's new strategic plan; if so, if he will take action in relation to the development of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 711: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      Question 712: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were...
    • Sports Funding
      Question 713: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has plans to ensure that Ireland's team at the 2008 Olympics achieves success; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 714: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the steps he is taking to provide sporting facilities for a community (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 715: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the expenditure review of the local authority swimming pool programme is completed; and when he will announce a new round of...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 716: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied his Department has met the 3% employment quota for...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 717: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation,...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 720: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the situation still persists whereby a person aged 65/66 in receipt of a contributory State pension is precluded from working...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount paid out in rent allowance by the Health Service Executive south between the years 2005 to date in 2008; and if he will...
    • Live Register
      Question 723: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people on the live register who are under the age of 25 for each month in each of the past ten years; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 724: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the policy in place to deal with the weakening pound and the currency rate used to calculate a UK payment as part of an Irish...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 725: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if fuel allowance will be backdated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will expedite a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 727: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to and the damages paid by the State on judicial reviews that his Department was responsible for in each of the years...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 729: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 who has lost out on entitlement to widow's pension, because...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 730: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 731: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the review in respect of the Dunmanway Social Welfare Office commenced; when it was completed; and when the outcome of the...
    • Live Register
      Question 732: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people on the live register in Mallow, County Cork including the number of those who are long-term unemployed for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 738: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people who have availed of the back to education allowance scheme during the years 2000 to 2007; and if he will make...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 740: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it is the case that individuals and families who would otherwise qualify for benefit from the State are disqualified...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 741: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 742: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a review will be undertaken on foot of a recent decision to refuse respite care grant in the case of a person (details...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 748: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will refer to the disregard of earnings from employment of €200 per week when assessing means for non-contributory State...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 749: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for widespread consultation in respect of his proposals regarding lone parents payments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Data Protection
      Question 750: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 751: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if it is the case that asylum seekers who are in direct provision sign for a full social welfare payment despite the fact they...
    • Waste Management Charges
      Question 753: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on introducing a waiver system for refuse charges for older people and people on low incomes. [1960/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 754: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 755: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an application for supplementary rent allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will...
    • Data Protection
      Question 756: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 757: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the social welfare payment of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been stopped; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Registration Service
      Question 761: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on correspondence (detail supplied); if it is possible for the State to recognise the marriage referred to; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 762: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review the case a person (details supplied) in County Galway who seeks supplementary social allowance. [2417/08]
    • Counselling Services
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding that is available from his Department for 2008 for organisations working in the area of marriage counselling; the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to review the habitual residence condition for the carers allowance application; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 768: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 769: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 772: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the reconstruction of a facility (details supplied) in County Carlow commenced; when it is expected to be...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 773: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the implementation of the RPS Cairns Report with regard to improving and upgrading the amenity...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 774: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the distribution of the Dormant Accounts Funds and the number of unclaimed bank accounts,...
    • Community Development
      Question 775: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1064/08]
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 776: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 778: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress of the amalgamation of groups (details supplied); the time-frame for eventual merger; and if he will...
    • Community Development
      Question 780: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are proposals to increase funding provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied); and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 781: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory...
    • Data Protection
      Question 782: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other...
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      Question 783: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil iarratas ina Roinn maidir le hoibreacha feabhsúcháin a dhéanamh ar Ché Inis Bó Finne, Dún na nGall; cad...
    • Road Network
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the CLÁR funding that is available for roads in Gaeltacht areas in Mayo for 2008; and the amount that was available...
    • Irish Language
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there is a scheme available for parents towards the costs of sending their post primary children to the three-week...
    • Community Development
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on extending the scheme of community support for older people to include funding for the provision of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 788: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007;...
    • Data Protection
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 790: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his Department's response to national concerns in respect of illegal drugs; his strategy to respond effectively to...
    • Community Development
      Question 796: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the community development funds will be paid out; the groups that will receive funds and the amounts of same;...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 797: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3%...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 801: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement...
    • Foreshore Licences
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her plans for the 17 acre foreshore lease licence (details supplied) in County Donegal. [1879/08]
    • Fisheries Development
      Question 803: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has contacted Mr. Joe Borg, EU Commissioner, in relation to new schemes which would benefit in-shore fishing...
    • Coastal Erosion
      Question 804: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the coastal erosion problems at Quilty, County Clare; the steps she proposes to take to...
    • Movement of Animals
      Question 805: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will ensure that there are no complications for a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan when returning home...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 806: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be considered for assistance under the 2008 single farm payment; if...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the person to whom the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority is responsible. [36110/07]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will consult with an organisation (details supplied) in connection with the Animal Welfare Bill; and if she will...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 809: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her estimate of the value of fish taken illegally from Irish waters each year; and if she has had communications with the...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of times the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority has met since it was established; and when it is due to meet...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 819: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of beneficiaries of installation aid for young farmers for each year since the scheme was introduced; and if she...
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      Question 820: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason pedigree bulls are not required under the new suckler cow grant scheme; the consultations she had with the ICBF...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 821: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her intentions in relation to undertaking the digestibility studies, post-mortems and liver biopsies which her Department...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 825: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the way, regarding the farm investment scheme, a decision was made to cap the amount of money for the scheme; the amount of...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 826: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that her Department was responsible for in...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 828: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by her Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the...
    • Commonage Framework Plans
      Question 829: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has requested reduced stock densities on commonages at a location (details supplied); the reason for her...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 830: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applications submitted from each county under the farm improvement scheme between 21 October and 31 October...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 831: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason persons (details supplied) in County Mayo under the single payment scheme have not received the payments due to...
    • Milk Quota
      Question 833: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon cannot buy back milk quota which they sold five years ago, with...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 834: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment in respect of 2005, 2006 and 2007 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Milk Quota
      Question 836: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 837: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Milk Scheme
      Question 838: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the up-take under the school milk scheme for the school year 2006/2007; the range of milk products made available; the...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 839: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the use of calf hutches for the individual rearing of calves out of doors is permitted; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 840: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys,...
    • Fishing Fleet Protection
      Question 841: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on the night of 12 January 2008 and the afternoon of 13 January 2008,...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 842: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when persons (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of a grant under the farm waste management scheme. [1608/08]
    • Data Protection
      Question 845: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of and the records kept by her Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 846: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when applications which were received from 21 October to 31 October 2007 for the farm improvement scheme for a person...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 847: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the afforestation and premium schemes. ...
    • Animal Identification Scheme
      Question 849: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of double ear tags supplied to farmers on a county basis in 2007; the number of double ear replacement tags...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 850: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will be made on an application to the single payments national reserve 2007 category C by a person...
    • Transfer of Entitlements
      Question 851: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be paid their SPS for 2007. [1832/08]
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 853: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will reopen the farm improvement scheme for applications; the position regarding the farmers that had their...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 855: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the transfer of entitlements application following the purchase of land, will be completed for a person (details...
    • Sheep Industry
      Question 856: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will ring-fence a capital grant aid package for the sheep sector to include handling facilities, mobile units and...
    • EU Directives
      Question 857: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the Minister who agreed the EU Council Regulations 1290/2005 for the Irish Government when that was going through the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 858: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will introduce a REP scheme mixed grazing supplementary measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 859: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the 8,000 sheep farming applicants who have applied under the national reserve; when those cases...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 861: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted the early retirement scheme. [1842/08]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 862: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment. [1843/08]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 863: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment in view of the fact...
    • Rights of Way
      Question 865: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action, following a recent court judgment that a farmer in a situation (details supplied) can take. [1847/08]
    • Aquaculture Development
      Question 866: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the plan and criteria for cross-Border co-operation between shellfish producers operating on both sides of the Border; and...
    • Vessels Decommissioning Scheme
      Question 867: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if two boats (details supplied) fall under the decommissioning scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      Question 868: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the policy with reference to Lough Swilly in relation to licence holders gaining access to mussel seed on licensed ground;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 869: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount spent by her Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and...
    • Coastal Erosion
      Question 870: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the funding provided in her Department's 2008 estimates of expenditure for work to prevent coastal erosion in County...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 871: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals to introduce country of origin labelling for poultry products. [2029/08]
    • Poultry Industry
      Question 872: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when she expects to have the completed Poultry Task Force Report; and if she will publish the report. [2030/08]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 873: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals to resolve the ongoing issue between her Department and persons (details supplied) in County Kildare in...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 874: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive payment of their installation aid; and if she will make a...
    • EU Funding
      Question 875: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the outstanding payments due to beet farmers; the rate of payment; when payment will be issued; and if she will make a...
    • Milk Quota
      Question 876: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has proposals to increase milk quota availability to new entrants bearing in mind that present allocations are not...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 877: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department will be paying grant aid to farmers whose applications under the farm improvement scheme were suspended...
    • Data Protection
      Question 878: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by her Department or any agency under its auspices...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 880: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo did not receive their single payment scheme for the past few years;...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 884: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if she is satisfied that her Department has met the 3% employment...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 885: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in her Department and agencies who have applied for...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Water Charges
      Question 888: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the advice (details supplied) to schools not to pay the bills which they received from local authorities for outstanding water...
    • Youth Services
      Question 889: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for funding to Special Projects for Youth under her Department through the City of Dublin Youth...
    • Educational Qualifications
      Question 890: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied that there are sufficient FETAC-accredited programmes in business and enterprise development and that there are...
    • School Transport
      Question 893: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reinstate the school bus service for persons (details supplied) to a school in County Roscommon; and if she will make a...
    • Youth Services
      Question 894: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the National Youth Work Development Plan for 2008 to 2012 will be published; the budget it will receive; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 895: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [36071/07]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 896: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a grant that has been approved for a school (details supplied) will be granted. [36083/07]
    • School Staffing
      Question 898: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the staffing grade and organisational structure inequity that exists in terms of grades and...
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 899: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a letter dated 1 June 1995 from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 requesting that her...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
      Question 900: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to increase the travel and lunch allowance for people who have to travel to attend VTOS courses as in the case of...
    • Irish Language Education
      Question 901: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding Circular 0044/2007, in connection with those Gaelscoileanna who are not party to the judicial review...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 902: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the alternative scheme she will introduce to replace the summer works scheme; when the proposed scheme will be operational; and if...
    • Education Expenditure
      Question 905: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of GDP that will be spent on education for 2008, and was spent on education for each year over the past 20 years; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 906: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the situation and developments at a school (details supplied). [1010/08]
    • Property Transfers
      Question 907: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist in a query (details supplied). [1011/08]
    • School Enrolments
      Question 908: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of section 29 appeals received by her Department in respect of enrolment at a school (details supplied) in County Cork for...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 909: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will address the slippage that is occurring in a garden (details supplied) in County Dublin adjoining the site...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 910: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will expedite an application for the major capital works grant to a school (details supplied) in County Cork which originally...
    • State Examinations
      Question 911: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received a letter (details supplied) from the senior chemistry students of a school which draws to her attention to the...
    • Traveller Education
      Question 912: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1065/08]
    • Water Charges
      Question 913: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department failed to respond to a proposal (details supplied) in October 2006 to pay for water conservation measures in...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 914: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount that was spent by her Department in providing a copy of a biography of Eamon de Valera to schools including purchasing and...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 916: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the differential in funding between all-girls schools, co-educational schools and all-boys schools; the reasons behind these...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      Question 917: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed amalgamation of the two secondary schools in Tramore, County Waterford; and if she will make a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 918: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that her Department were responsible for in each of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 920: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when work will commence on the new school at Seville Lodge, Kilkenny for a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 921: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by her Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 922: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the project stage for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1206/08]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 923: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary school children in classes of 30 or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1216/08]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 924: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will intervene directly in connection with a request from a school to provide a person (details supplied) with one to one...
    • Education Institutions
      Question 925: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views relating to the fact that businesses in this country can register in the name of their business university, and the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 926: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a site for the new school at Listellick, Tralee, County Kerry will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Psychological Service
      Question 927: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason two schools (details supplied) in County Limerick have not been included under the auspices of NEPS; if she will arrange to...
    • Property Transfers
      Question 928: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if there is an agreement for the school building to be handed over to another...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 929: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will publish the report submitted to her by the expert group on information and communication technology provision in...
    • School Transport
      Question 930: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that a larger bus is provided for the pupils attending a school (details supplied) in County Donegal, in line with...
    • School Staffing
      Question 931: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the on-going delay in restoring educational services for pupils in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 in view of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 932: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be included in the next multi annual school building programme; when that will...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 934: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the imposition of waste charges for schools; if in view of the Government's recent announcement regarding water...
    • School Staffing
      Question 935: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of principals who have retired early in each year between 1997 and 2007; the number for each year of early retirements in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 936: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if contracts have been awarded to various contractors to allow off-site manufacturing for the proposed design and build schools as...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 937: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of meetings between her Department and Fingal County Council under the aegis of the planning coordinating committee for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 939: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will arrange for the report to be made available from the technical team in her Department to allow a school project (details...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 942: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the summer works scheme; if there are plans to reintroduce the scheme or a similar one to provide for small scale repair...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 943: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the policy position regarding a university for the south east and in particular if she will publish the report of Dr Port in respect...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 944: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of post primary school places that were available in County Kildare for the years 2002 to 2007; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 946: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the schools which are receiving funding for capital works in 2008; the extra facilities that will be provided for this funding; and if...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 948: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action the management of primary and secondary schools should take to finance essential once off repair and maintenance works in...
    • Research Funding
      Question 949: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to increase research and development capacity in third level institutions in the south east region to extend fourth...
    • School Staffing
      Question 950: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has had their teacher's salary discontinued by her Department; if the person...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 951: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 952: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the lack of progress in relation to the acquisition of a site for the new post primary school in Kinnegad, County...
    • School Building Projects
      Question 953: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of additional post primary accommodation for the town of Mullingar and the provision of a...
    • School Transport
      Question 956: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will extend an existing school bus route in north Cork (details supplied) to accommodate eleven school going children who are...
    • Adult Education
      Question 957: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a review of the National Adult Learning Council has been carried out; if she has received a copy of this review; if it is proposed...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      Question 958: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the Educational Disadvantage Committee; if there are plans for the committee to reconvene; and if she will make a...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 959: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a no running policy exists in some schools where children are not entitled to run in a school yard; her views in respect of this...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 960: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are grants available for a course (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1397/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 961: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Laois to demolish the existing school and construct a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 962: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the directive that has been given to the National Council for Special Education, in relation to replies to queries regarding people...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 963: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has plans to increase the capitation grants payable to post primary schools to cover the annual maintenance and...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 964: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve funding under the summer works scheme for a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon; when she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 965: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will replace the 12 year old, leaking, draughty, unhealthy building which is school to the 220 young children of a school...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 966: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made in respect of a higher education grant in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 967: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on a pilot scheme of dual enrolment for special needs children between special and mainstream schools; and if she will make...
    • Standardised Tests
      Question 968: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the results of standardised testing at primary school level will be collated by her Department; if such aggregate results will be...
    • School Staffing
      Question 969: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to the Exchequer of employing one full-time special needs assistant; the starting hourly rate of pay for a special needs...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 970: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department monitors the outcome for children with special needs who have been assigned a special needs assistant at primary and...
    • School Staffing
      Question 972: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of teacher principal posts vacant for more than two months in primary schools, voluntary secondary schools, community...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 973: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number in respect of the thirty schools that were contacted by her Department before Budget 2008 that were informed to put a hold...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 974: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the Student Support Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1468/08]
    • School Staffing
      Question 975: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, having regard to the increase of retiring teachers from 641 in 2001 to 1,060 in 2006 and approximately 1,300 in 2007, she will...
    • Water Services
      Question 976: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has advised primary schools to install water meters on their premises as a conservation measure; the number of primary schools...
    • Water Charges
      Question 977: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action or measures her Department has taken to ensure that local authorities do not charge water rates to schools in excess of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 979: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a new school building (details supplied) in County Carlow will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1492/08]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 980: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as BlackBerries and memory keys, reported...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 981: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on purchasing a site for the proposed school (details supplied) in County Kerry from Tralee Town Council at its recently...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 982: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a back to education grant or higher education grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 984: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application from a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow for a new school; if sanction will be...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 985: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will commit to replacing the prefabricated school buildings at a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [1614/08]
    • School Supervision and Substitution Scheme
      Question 986: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of supervisors currently employed in post primary schools in County Mayo; the rate of payment made to such supervisors; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 987: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 473 of 23 October 2007 when the long term projection assessment for a school (details supplied)...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 988: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when finance will be made available for a public address system at a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make...
    • Water Charges
      Question 989: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to deal with the concerns of parents in respect of the recent announcement regarding water charges for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 990: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take steps to provide the financial allocation necessary to enable a school (details supplied) to proceed with its school...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 992: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the acquisition of a site and provision of a new replacement school for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Data Protection
      Question 993: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of and the records kept by her Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 995: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding a school (details supplied). [1744/08]
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 997: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding developments at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [1746/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 998: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding a new building to replace the antiquated dangerous building at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 999: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 11 December 2007 regarding increased resource hours for a pupil (details...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1000: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when sanction will be given to proceed with the building of a new school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1001: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made to identify and purchase a site to accommodate a school (details supplied) in County Cork; when she...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1002: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to a request from a school (details supplied) in County Dublin for funding for a rainwater harvesting...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1003: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to review the planning requirements and funding for school extensions to take into account water and energy saving...
    • School Closures
      Question 1004: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that have shut down in 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008 as a result of rodent infestation; and the number of...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1005: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a new primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; the position in relation to...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 1006: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide on a county basis a breakdown of schools that have already submitted applications for the summer works scheme for...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1007: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a grant (details supplied). [1795/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1008: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress to date in the proposed building of a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 1010: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding that has been put in place for a sports hall in a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the breakdown of the timing...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 1011: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason she abolished a scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1814/08]
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 1014: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will publish her proposals for a comprehensive programme for computers in primary schools; the budgetary allocation for 2007...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1015: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a classroom assistant will be granted to a child (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1863/08]
    • School Enrolments
      Question 1016: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of post primary pupils enrolled at the present date. [1864/08]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1018: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will allocate special resource training to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who has been diagnosed with dyslexia;...
    • Schools Recognition
      Question 1019: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on an application for recognition for a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; if her attention...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 1020: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of immigrant children currently enrolled in primary and post primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Languages Programme
      Question 1021: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provision currently available for English language support for immigrant children; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1022: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for capital funding for major capital works for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; when a...
    • School Absenteeism
      Question 1023: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the breakdown of the figures for student absenteeism numbers for both primary and post primary schools in Cork each year from 2002 to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1024: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent by her Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if she will...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 1027: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the funding promised for a sports hall (details supplied) in County Tipperary in 2006 will be available. [2010/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1028: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide full details in respect of planning permission being sought from South Dublin County Council for a two storey...
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 1029: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself that the Education Welfare Board is adequately resourced; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1037: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm plans to build a new primary school at Saggart, County Dublin; her proposals in this matter; and if she will make...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1038: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made regarding the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Third Level Participation
      Question 1040: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the participation rate in third level education in each of the years 2003 to 2007 in the border, midland, west, Dublin, mid-east,...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1042: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by her Department or any agency under its auspices were...
    • School Catchment Areas
      Question 1043: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the two new VEC national schools in Dublin 15 will have catchment areas; the way the boundary of these catchment areas will be...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      Question 1045: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will introduce legislation to place the establishment of the new VEC national schools on a statutory basis; and if she will...
    • School Staffing
      Question 1046: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received representations from the Irish Sciences Teachers Association, Pharmachem Ireland, The Institute of Physics, the...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      Question 1047: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress being made towards the provision of a physical education hall at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; her views on...
    • School Transport
      Question 1049: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria laid down in relation to the school transport system; if there is special circumstances in relation to families who have...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1050: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the mechanisms that exist to facilitate schools in applying for retrospective funding for building projects. [2429/08]
    • School Fees
      Question 1052: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4 which obtained temporary recognition from her Department in September 1999, under...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1053: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in respect of all of the contracts entered into with various companies under the public private partnership model in building new...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 1056: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of applications received by the Teaching Council since its establishment, from teachers currently working in schools and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1057: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that her Department has agreed to lease a site for a new national school in Maynooth at Railpark where it is...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 1059: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 28 November 2007 if an examination has been conducted as to the reason why 69% of pupils...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 1060: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there has been a successful outcome in relation to the purchase of a site for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare....
    • Psychological Service
      Question 1062: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of educational psychologists employed by National Education Psychologists Service as of 31 December 2006 and 31 December...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1063: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects the stage one documentation to be provided in respect of the new national school for Ardclough in County Kildare....
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1065: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [2522/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1066: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a permanent school for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [2533/08]
    • School Enrolments
      Question 1070: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of national school children in County Kildare in 2007/2008; the number of same in classes of less than 20; and the number...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1071: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the tender has been approved for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [2542/08]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1072: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has concluded her examination of the National Council for Special Education implementation report in relation to the Education...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 1074: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the maximum amount of holiday earnings which a third level student can earn before affecting the amount of higher education grant for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 1075: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has begun a value for money and policy review of special needs provision in schools with details of the terms of...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 1076: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if she is satisfied that her Department has met the 3% employment quota for...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1077: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in her Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation,...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1078: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if approval has been given for a new vocational school in Stranorlar, County Donegal; if planning permission has been approved; the...
    • School Places
      Question 1083: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which she expects each of the schools, primary and post-primary at Maynooth, County Kildare to be in a position to meet...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 1087: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the provision of extra facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 1100: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which she expects each of the schools, primary and post-primary at Clane, County Kildare to be in a position to meet...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1101: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of civil servants and other public servants, who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's...
  • Department of Defence
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 1103: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in each of the years 1997 to...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      Question 1105: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of personnel serving in the permanent Defence Force in 1987; the number serving in 2007; and the proportion that defence expenditure...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1106: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the Acts which were...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      Question 1107: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will review the rules governing the persons who may apply to become a Defence Forces officer cadet in order to include a 3% quota for persons...
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 1108: To ask the Minister for Defence if there is legislation that would prevent groups or organisations outside the Defence Forces from using Reserve Defence Force buildings; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 1109: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for the land owned by his Department in Fermoy known as The Showgrounds in view of the fact that this is the only undeveloped green area...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      Question 1111: To ask the Minister for Defence if the LE Eithne is or has been equipped with a helicopter to assist with rescue operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1623/08]
    • Data Protection
      Question 1112: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious computer security breaches...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1113: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1114: To ask the Minister for Defence the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices were compromised in any...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 1115: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment quota for people with...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1116: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for decentralisation, who have been...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support the call for a proper public inquiry into the Omagh bombing; and if he will support the families in...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of employees the Private Security Authority employs nationally; the number of these that are based in Tipperary...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of dependants of persons who have arrived in this country with particular skills and specialties, and who...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not been responded to; and if...
    • Private Aerodromes
      Question 1124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of private airports in operation within the State; and if they are subject to the same monitoring by customs...
    • Garda Vetting Services
      Question 1125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a clearance certificate will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí participating in bicycle patrols in each of the stations in Swords, Malahide, Balbriggan, Skerries...
    • Television Licences
      Question 1127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of television licences purchased for use in each prison in the jurisdiction for each year since 2000; and the...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 1128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount An Garda Síochána has spent on the purchase of firearms and handcuffs and other restraints each year since...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on bringing in a new law on vehicular manslaughter. [36073/07]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist and advise on a case (details supplied). [36074/07]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 1131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who has applied to remain in...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 13 December 2007, if he will confirm that Operation Bedrock is an ongoing...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if persons (details supplied) will be assisted. [36094/07]
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos 195 and 196 of 24 April 2007 if he will report on the issues and the progress to...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      Question 1137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions and the number of convictions that have taken place for driving under the influence of drugs...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will put in place a safety and security plan at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [1015/08]
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the use of agents and their role in the Omagh bombing; and if he will assist the families on the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 1. [1050/08]
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 844 of 11 December 2007, if he will request the Garda Authorities to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to expedite an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if discussions have taken place between him and the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Education and...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 1146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible for in...
    • Garda Districts
      Question 1148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has requested that the Garda Commissioner reassign the Ongar area to Blanchardstown; the reply he received; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant long-term residency and naturalisation to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drug related arrests that took place in Tipperary south in 2007 and separately in Cashel, Tipperary,...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extra Garda resources and staff that will be allocated to Cashel in view of increased problems with drugs, including...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003 to 2007; the...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 1155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has proposals to fingerprint all non-EU nationals as reported in the media; if so what he proposes to do with the...
    • Sentencing Policy
      Question 1156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes to reform the civil law to promote alternatives to custody by way of civil remedy; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 1157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he proposes to produce legislation to licence and control the debt collection industry; and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps which he is taking to fully implement European Directive 2004/38/EC; the communication between his Department...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for persons (details supplied); and when he expects a decision will be made. [1233/08]
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the make-up of the new advisory group on alcohol abuse, chaired by Dr Gordon Holmes; if it includes representatives of the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for family reunification of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 1165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the judicial review in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement...
    • Child Abduction
      Question 1166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate case no. LR 10.6.1281 (details supplied) regarding the removal of an Irish citizen child from the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for family reunification in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 1168: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans An Garda Síochána have to introduce further youth diversion programmes in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Garda Divisions
      Question 1169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the benefits the re-drawing of the Garda boundaries will have for County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if D study visas for non-EU citizens can be granted for courses that include internships; if the rules concerning same...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if same will be dealt with...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1173: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí currently allocated to Ballyporeen Garda Station, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide the figures (details supplied) for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 1177: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if further consideration will be given to the need for a second Garda station in Tallaght, Dublin 24; if his attention has...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for family reunification will be decided in relation to a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1179: 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 in view of the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 9 October 2007, when he expects an application for a certificate of...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1181: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been granted residency; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      Question 1182: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reply to an e-mail from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1442/08]
    • Paramilitary Organisations
      Question 1183: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the organisation known as the Real IRA exists; if it is a proscribed...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 1186: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the proposed closure of the Watercourse Road Garda Station, Blackpool, Cork; the plans he...
    • Illegal Weapons
      Question 1187: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce regulations to deal with dangerous weapons and swords. [1500/08]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 1188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys,...
    • Detention Centres
      Question 1189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he received the most recent report of the Expert Group on Children Detention Schools; when he proposes to publish the...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1191: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or anticipated residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position in the application for family reunification in the name of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when family reunification will be granted in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a green card will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in view of the fact that the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1197: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a green card will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1199: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if residency status will be extended on a permanent basis in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in view...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an examination for naturalisation will be completed in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin to join a spouse visa who has...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position in relation to a visa application in the case of persons (details supplied) in County...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when naturalisation will be approved in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1208: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 12 December 2007 for persons (details supplied); the...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1209: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the new Kildare Garda division will be up and running; the location of the headquarters; if this change will result...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1210: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of burglaries recorded at each Garda station in Kildare for 2007; the number of detections which resulted from...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 1211: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects additional personnel will become available to An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1212: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed for a stamp four visa application to be made in the names of persons (details supplied) in...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1213: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress in regard to the application for family reunification in the name of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency position in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa to visit the US will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1217: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 1218: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of alcohol breath tests that were carried out over the Christmas 2007 period; the way this compares with the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1219: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in respect of the residency application of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1224: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1225: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) is allowed to remain in the State while making an application to his Department to extend...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1226: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other malicious...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1229: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí stationed at a Garda station (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this number has increased over...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 1230: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application to have the deportation order revoked for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1231: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision is imminent in relation to the application for the reunification of a person (details supplied) with their...
    • Immigration Applications
      Question 1232: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will give the case his urgent...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1233: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; if he will give this case his...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1234: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if responsibility for policing the Kilbehenny area of County Limerick is changing from Mitchelstown, which is in very...
    • EU Directives
      Question 1235: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are protocols in place to allow the Gardaí to obtain information from other jurisdictions regarding the previous...
    • EU Agencies
      Question 1236: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Government contributes directly to Frontex, the EU border monitoring agency; if it has a role in detecting drug...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1237: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who have been granted subsidiary protection here; the average length of time it takes to process...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      Question 1238: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to expand the remit of the Criminal Assets Bureau towards recovering the proceeds of crime from...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1239: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action that can be taken to regularise the status of an undocumented person who has lived in this State for the past...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1243: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a visa application will be granted to a person (details supplied) to enable them to join their spouse here. [1949/08]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1244: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if residency status will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1246: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to 2007; and...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1247: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision has been made on visa applications by persons (details supplied). [2005/08]
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 1248: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on abolishing the upper age limit of 35 for entering An Garda Síochána in view of the fact that other...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1249: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is expected naturalisation will be completed in the cases of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1251: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under its auspices...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 1252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) which dates back to 2007; the reason for the...
    • Garda Vetting Services
      Question 1253: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ensure that the Garda clearance request in relation to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W will be...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 1254: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has satisfied himself with the fact that up to 58% of the alcohol consumed here is being bought in premises other...
    • Road Safety
      Question 1255: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if research has been carried out on the number of accidents that occurred causing death which could be clearly shown to be...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; the length of time it is...
    • Small Claims Court
      Question 1258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to increase the maximum award that can be made by the Small Claims Court; when the limit was set; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will approve the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant long-term residency to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Education Service
      Question 1261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a request from a person (details supplied). [2275/08]
    • Civil Partnership Legislation
      Question 1262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to introduce legislation in respect of civil partnerships; the consultations he has had in the matter; and if he...
    • Residency Applications
      Question 1263: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for residency by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (detail supplied) in County Westmeath. [2414/08]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [2415/08]
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      Question 1267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bullying and harassment cases taken within his Department for each of the past 10 years; and the number that...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 1268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will arrange for the report of an inquiry commissioned by his Department in November 2006 into a matter relating to...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on an issue (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [2443/08]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 1270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision on an application for a working visa by a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be made. [2456/08]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who seeks long term residency. [2457/08]
    • Registration of Title
      Question 1272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a new land certificate for a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be issued. [2466/08]
    • Property Registration
      Question 1273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the outsourcing contracts operational within the property registration authority; the type of work outsourced in each and...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 1274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to ensure that the Garda National Immigration Bureau registration runs concurrent with the term of a persons...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a police clearance certificate is required for applicants for citizenship who meet the five year residency rule; and if...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 1278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has data on the number of fines issued or prosecutions taken in respect of cyclists riding on the footpath or...
    • Garda Accommodation
      Question 1279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ensure that funding is provided for the renovation of private living quarters at a Garda station (details...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 1280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of on the spot fines issued by An Garda Síochána for breaches of the control of consumption and possession of...
    • Neighbourhood Policing
      Question 1281: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Waterford City Council officials have informed members of the JPC that it...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the fact that principle 8 of the Press Council's Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals which deals...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 1284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to ensure tasers which have been available to the gardaí since September 2007 are withdrawn in view...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1285: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on an application for citizenship for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will expedite a decision...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1286: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda division here; and the population of each division as determined in Census...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 1287: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the provisional headline crime statistics for the Carlow and Kildare division in 2007; and the provisional detection rate...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1288: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the waiting period for processing of applications for naturalisation; when the application for naturalisation of a person...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take action in relation to the fact that there are only three gardaí stationed at Ballinamore, County Leitrim;...
    • Irish Language
      Question 1290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will advise and assist on a query by a person (details supplied). [2561/08]
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 1291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the 3% employment...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied for...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 1293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí stationed in the Limerick Garda districts, broken down by Garda station and Garda rank as at the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 1294: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the number of complaints by dissatisfied homeowners against property management...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 1295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); if same will be dealt with urgently. [2626/08]
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 1298: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the allocation made in the years 2006 and 2007 and the proposed allocation for 2008 toward housing aid for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1299: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way the €20 million allocated in Budget 2006 for the purchase of carbon allowances was expended; the...
    • Mobile Telephony
      Question 1302: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps that have been taken to implement the recommendations of the 2005 report by the Joint Committee on...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 1303: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his assessment of the climate change targets set by the EU for Ireland and their impact; and if he will make...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      Question 1304: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to regulate the standard of private rented accommodation. [2881/08]
    • Local Government Elections
      Question 1305: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to review the boundaries in advance of the 2009 local elections; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 1306: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the review processes that have taken place or he has requested to be undertaken in respect of the budgeting,...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 1307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the implications on certain categories as a result of a change in a system (details...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 1309: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive list of the emission reductions projected to be achieved by each of the...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 1310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Department's policy in relation to wind energy development and in particular to the range of factors...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1311: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to the provision of sewage facilities in Broadford, County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Farm Waste Management
      Question 1312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to establish a scheme to deal with waste farm materials other than plastic; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 1313: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the living alone allowance is part of a person's income for rent assessment purposes for local authority...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 1314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to phase out the use of incandescent light bulbs. [1003/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1316: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position on the leasing of storage space for electronic voting machines and equipment on a constituency...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1317: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his Department expects to relocate to County Wexford; the number of civil servants who have applied for...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1318: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will investigate whether the make-up of the board of An Bord Pleanála is in accordance with the...
    • Local Government Reform
      Question 1320: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has proposals to establish a town council in Ashbourne, County Meath; and if he will make a statement...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1321: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities with private waste collection providers have the legal right or if it is possible for a...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 1322: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1324: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on proposals to route a sewer through the Tolka River Valley Park in Dublin 15; the current and...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1327: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1328: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will approve the appointment of a tender for the group water DBO project in County Roscommon; and if...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 1330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that county managers are not required to implement majority or even unanimous motions...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1334: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has quantified the volume of plastic bottles going to landfill; if he plans to introduce a levy...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1335: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an Irish citizen working in the US is entitled to cast a vote in a general election here; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to install central heating in council properties for a local authority (details supplied); if...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 1337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years this century; the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will allocate extra funding to Clare County Council to redress the shortfall in the 2008 Local...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the exact date on which he will publish the revised and updated Residential Density Guidelines 1999. [1432/08]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department is in receipt of a proposal from Galway County Council to build a new sewerage treatment...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 1341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of playgrounds funded by his Department in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number planned for...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 1344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the assumptions underlying his projections for transport related green house gas emissions in the 2008 to...
    • Water Charges
      Question 1346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention to amend the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997 in view of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 1348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the meetings or contact his Department has had with a local authority (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position as regards the provision of a sewerage scheme in Oughterard, County Galway; if the report from...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1354: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 1355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to smoke free status for Wicklow Town, County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Special Amenity Areas
      Question 1357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the process to extend the Liffey Valley Special Amenity Area Order (details supplied) will commence,...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a statutory or working definition of sheltered accommodation for the purposes of local authority...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1360: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent statements by consumer watchdogs listing mortgage protection...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is an application in his Department for the development and provision of a sewerage scheme (details...
    • End-of-Life Vehicles
      Question 1365: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the end of life vehicle facilities, properly permitted and complying with current standard regulation in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding from the local authorities own funds that will be spent by each local authority on...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the National Spatial Strategy with a view to giving hub status to Dungarvan, County...
    • Archaeological Sites
      Question 1372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if in relation to a development by Meath County Council (details supplied), his Department was consulted by...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1376: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention to remove the charge for planning objections; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1377: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action required of citizens of other EU states in order to be entered into the electoral register; if an...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1378: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if teams with responsibility for the negotiation and successful conclusion of Part V agreements have been...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1379: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 1382: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the internationally accepted norm that, of those entitled to register,...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 1383: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of reports that have been commissioned by his Department since he took office; the number of...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 1385: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria under which certain homeless persons who have been less than 18 months on rent supplement, and...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1391: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the proposed improvements to the sewerage system in Castleblaney town; if his...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 1392: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authorities can not require the transfer of school sites to local authorities gratis in the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 1393: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Designation of Lands Act will include provisions relating to new school sites; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      Question 1394: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the regulator framework for waste collection requires competitive tendering; and if he will make a...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1395: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the problems being encountered in Ballymote, County Sligo due to the...
    • Climate Change Strategy
      Question 1397: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the evidence that exists for rising sea levels here; the locations where sea levels have risen; the effect...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1398: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a query (details supplied). [2274/08]
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 1400: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views in relation to the use of food waste disposal units in domestic homes; if such units can play a...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 1402: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position of a local authority housing scheme (details supplied) in County Kildare that a local authority...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1403: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a local authority has made an application to his Department in relation to the provision of a water...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 1404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the Social Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will be introduced; when a legislative framework...
    • Fire Services
      Question 1408: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the risk based approach to fire safety management report has been completed; and his views on providing...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 1409: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the outcome of the review in relation to the ceiling on local authority staff numbers in areas which have...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1410: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received the preliminary report in relation to sourcing additional water for the greater Dublin...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 1411: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 14 November 2007, the names of the nine local authorities who...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 1412: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied his Department has met the 3%...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 1414: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are plans to extend and upgrade sewerage disposable facilities at Dromore/Killygordon, County...
    • Electricity Consumption
      Question 1416: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of electricity used in the Custom House for the past three years; if he will provide a monthly...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 1419: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans, in conjunction with his counterpart in Northern Ireland, to explore mechanisms to allow a single...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 1420: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of drift net fishermen of the River Fergus, County Clare who have received payment through the...
    • Prospecting Licences
      Question 1421: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the possible impact of a project (details supplied) in County Mayo on the tourism industry in...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 1422: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify the cost of tags for the drift net salmon season; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 1424: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to a query on renewable energy (details supplied). [2045/08]
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1425: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a detailed map showing the availability of broadband here; if he will highlight the types...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 1427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to provide highly flexible modern generation plants as backup for the increasing share of Ireland's...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1429: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of the 4,100 primary and secondary schools that have received broadband connectivity under the...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 1430: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amounts that were spent by EirGrid on each of the ancillary services in each of the past five years; the...
    • Advertising Standards
      Question 1431: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures, legislative or otherwise, he will introduce to restrict the use of advertisements that are aimed...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 1434: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 6 November 2007, when in 2008 the results from the research...
    • Judicial Reviews
      Question 1435: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 1437: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the three countries that provided the highest proportions of Ireland's natural gas consumption in each year...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 1438: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Ireland's total energy import dependency on the UK, in the context of SEI's announcement in December 2007 that...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 1439: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Acts passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas sponsored by his Department in each year from 2003...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1440: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband will be rolled out in Lisryan village on the outskirts of Granard, County Longford; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 1445: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1446: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of and the records kept by his Department of attempted hacking or suspected cyber attacks or other...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 1447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a formal consultation on bio-fuels obligation was launched in 2007 as stated in his introductory brief;...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 1448: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the results of the feasibility study and cost benefit analysis on gas to the north west completed in May 2007;...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1449: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on making Tipperary town a wireless Internet hot-spot, in order to boost the communications...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 1452: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if each application for a scheme (details supplied) is checked individually to see that it is compliant with...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1456: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when landline broadband will be available in an area (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1855/08]
    • Community Development
      Question 1457: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a plan to assist fishermen to diversify into projects other than salmon fishing; and if he will...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 1459: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the national television station RTE is not available for free view on Sky and the public have to...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 1460: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money that has been invested in the MANs broadband project in Cork city; the number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 1462: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount spent by his Department on media monitoring or press cutting services for each of the years 2002 to...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 1464: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made to date in the development of a land-bank of ESB owned sites to facilitate...
    • Data Protection
      Question 1465: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details of all instances since 1 June 2002 where personal data held by his Department or any agency under...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 1467: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 23 May 2006, if he is satisfied that his Department has met the...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1468: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of civil and other public servants based in Dublin in his Department and agencies who have applied...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 1469: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the exportation from Ireland of pure plant oil which did not find favour...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 1471: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of civil servants and other public servants, who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin...

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