Written answers
Thursday, 7 February 2008
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Rights
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that there are sufficient deterrents in place for breach of employment laws beyond payment of arrears; if...
- EU Treaty
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the potential negative effects the Lisbon Treaty, if passed, could have on Irish workers. [4078/08]
- Trade Missions
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the outcome of his recent trade mission to South Africa. [4054/08]
- Job Losses
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that were taken to avoid the recently announced job losses (details supplied); and the steps being taken to...
- Price Inflation
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on reports of recent substantial increases in prices of a range of food prices and forecasts that food prices will...
- Job Losses
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he or his Department have examined or focused on the cause or causes of job losses throughout the...
- Redundancy Figures
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to his Department during 2007; the way this compares with the same period in each year...
- Industrial Development
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to support enterprise development in the midland and western regions; and if he will make a statement...
- EU Funding
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has ever made an application to the European Commission for the draw down of support from the European...
- Research Funding
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to further attract senior researchers here to meet targets in the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation;...
- FETAC Awards
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his Department has had discussions with the Department of Education and Science to ensure that there are sufficient...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workplace inspections carried out by the labour inspectors during 2006 and 2007 to ensure that young workers...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to update the partnership law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35098/07]
- Consumer Protection
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has undertaken an assessment of the implications for industry, in regard to competitiveness and employment...
- Employment Rights
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to reports that workers on a €50 million ferry due to begin sailings between Ireland and...
- Product Labelling
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors currently employed by the Labour Inspectorate of his Department; the number of labour...
- Industrial Development
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the €4 million in grants paid by the Industrial Development Authority to a company (details supplied) has been repaid...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when, in view of the recently published Central Bank financial stability report 2007 highlighting Ireland's deterioration in...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to ensure that sufficient funding will be set aside in the 2008 services to business budget of FÁS to provide for...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date with regard to the implementation of the programme of decentralisation in respect of his Department and...
- Job Creation
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had recent meetings in relation to bringing new sources of employment to County Donegal; his plan to provide...
- Consumer Protection
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals for a consultation process regarding the prohibition of credit card and other relevant methods of payment...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date in regard to the work of the National Employment Rights Authority; when the authority will be placed on...
- Work Permits
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons granted green cards under the scheme for recruiting highly skilled workers from outside the EU; the...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an overlap in services provided in relation to training from organisations such...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will extend wage subsidies, back to work allowances and supported employment schemes to assist people with...
- Employment Agency Regulation
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the Employment Agency Regulation Bill, which had been on the list of legislation due to be published prior to 30...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps taken by his Department and statutory agencies such as FÁS and Enterprise Ireland in 2007, to promote north-south...
- Workplace Accidents
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the 34% increase in the number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents during 2007; his proposals to ensure a...
- Employment Appeals Tribunal
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to his reply to Question Parliamentary No. 110 of 8 November 2007, the procedure that will be put in place to ensure...
- Work Permits
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in regard to the number of proceedings commenced and convictions obtained for the years 2003 to 30 October 2007, for...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases currently before the Personal Injuries Assessment Board; the number of cases for which rulings have been...
- Employment Rights
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the closure of a number of major hotels with the redundancy of a significant number of...
- Industrial Development
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of grants, aids or other financial assistance provided by the Exchequer to a company (details supplied) to...
- Employment Rights
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Labour Inspectorate during 2006 and 2007 to ensure that the minimum wage was...
- Job Losses
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the announcement by a company (details supplied) of the loss of 220 jobs at its Tallaght,...
- EU Directives
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU Directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the directives that...
- Consumer Protection
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of on the spot fines for breaches of consumer law imposed to date under the terms of the Consumer Protection...
- Price Inflation
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the recent Eurostat report, Consumers in Europe, which found that Ireland...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions his Department has had with the Department of Health and Children regarding the new Office for Disability...
- Employment Rights
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recent findings of the Laval case; and if he will make a statement on the impact the findings may have on...
- Employment Appeals Tribunal
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the average waiting time of up to 11 months to have cases heard by the Employment Appeals...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections carried out by the Labour Inspectorate during 2007; the way this compares with those in 2006; the...
- Department of Finance
- Drainage Schemes
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he plans to fund the recommendations as outlined in the hydrology report recently completed in relation to the lower Fergus...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the status of the decentralisation programme for Drogheda; the stage the building design process is at; if architects have been...
- Drug Seizures
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of vessels that have been intercepted with illegal drugs around the coast of Ireland for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and...
- EU Funding
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of funding made available to his Department by the European Union since Ireland's accession to the Union in respect of...
- Tax Code
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the effects that the recent changes in Budget 2008 will have in relation to the division of family farms between a parent and their...
- Departmental Offices
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department at Government buildings for the past three years; if he will provide a...
- Tax Yield
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the inheritance tax take for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4383/08]
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the persons he appointed to sit on the boards of public bodies during the period 14 November 1991 to 15 December 1994; and if he will...
- Tax Code
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a refund of income tax is due in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Veterinary Inspection Service
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount paid annually to a local authority (details supplied) for the employment of a vet. [4265/08]
- Health Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times for children for each health centre in Dublin for speech and language therapy; the number of children awaiting speech...
- Foster Care
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to implement special training for foster care parents who care for children with difficulties or special needs. [4015/08]
- Care of the Elderly
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of recommendations made by the Forum on Older People established by the Health Service Executive following the publication of...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the necessary legislation will be implemented to ensure commencement of the fair deal subvention scheme; and if she will make a...
- Qualifications Accreditation
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Academy of Medical Science refused an application under EU Directive 92/51 in relation to an application by a person...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is entitled to a personal assistant in view of their extreme condition; and if same will be...
- Health Services
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the success of the new Health Service Executive initiative Hospital In The Home (details supplied); if...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the 14 single rooms for cystic fibrosis patients promised by her and the Health Service Executive will be en-suite; and if she will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is an embargo on recruitment of home helps in the Health Service Executive south area; the impact such a move would have on the...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will increase the age range of all women who should be entitled to cancer screening (details supplied). [4315/08]
- Medicinal Products
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her policy in relation to the availability of benzylpiperazine here; if the pills pose health risks; and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospital Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a project (details supplied). [4321/08]
- Health Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a serious shortage of speech therapy teachers in the midland region, the consequences of which will be...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if type one diabetes in children is covered under the domiciliary care allowance scheme; if each section of the Health Service Executive...
- Departmental Offices
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of electricity used in the offices of her Department in Hawkins House, for the past three years; if she will provide a monthly...
- Health Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an assessment for occupational therapy. [4376/08]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of young people who cannot be discharged from an acute medical or surgical bed because they require long-term nursing care...
- Diabetes Incidence
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children with type one diabetes nationally on a county basis whose parents are in receipt of domiciliary care allowance;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called to St. James' Hospital, Dublin for a procedure. [4400/08]
- Vaccination Programme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that will be taken to ensure that when stocks of the BCG vaccine are available, children who have been on a waiting list over...
- Health Services
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for primary medical certificates received by the relevant adjudicating body in each of the past five years;...
- Child Care Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the basis on which voluntary management childcare groups who have been approved capital funds in excess of €300,000 are required to...
- Health Services
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [4455/08]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who is in urgent need of surgery gains immediate...
- Department of Transport
- Port Development
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Dublin Port has been granted the right to apply to An Bord Pleanála to infill 52 acres as a...
- Departmental Offices
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department at Kildare Street for the past three years; if he will provide a monthly breakdown...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Validity
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will extend the period of the passport to 10 years and six months as travel is often refused in the six months prior to expiry. [4309/08]
- Departmental Offices
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Stephen's Green for the past three years; if he will provide a monthly...
- Departmental Funding
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of times his Department has given, advanced or lent funds for the payment of a bond on behalf of Irish citizens facing...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on issuing work permits to non-EU workers rather than to their employers as is the current practice; and if he...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people who have been registered as unemployed for each of the past three years ending 31 December 2005, 31...
- Job Losses
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of job losses and redundancies which have occurred in Killybegs, County Donegal, for each of the past three...
- Departmental Offices
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Kildare Street for the past three years; if he will...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the increase given by the Department of Social and Family Affairs to...
- Employment Rights
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his view on any possible conflict between competition law and joint labour committees; and if he will make a statement on...
- Job Losses
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he proposes to take to address the ongoing problem of job relocations to more competitive economies; and if he...
- Employment Growth
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs expected to be created in 2008; the number of jobs expected to be lost in the same period; and if he...
- Job Losses
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main cause or causes for the hidden inflation resulting in the relocation of jobs here to more competitive economies;...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will ensure the provision of adequate finances for the expansion of the various community employment schemes; and if...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which his Department has complied with the Government's decentralisation programme; and if he will make a...
- Skill Shortages
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the workforce is adequately qualified to meet the requirements of industry in the future; and if he...
- Foreign Direct Investment
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the extent of inward foreign investment is sufficient to ensure an adequate labour force to meet...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Offices
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Kildare Street for the past three years; if he will provide a...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action taken by the Health Service Executive to recover money from tenants when the landlord makes a complaint to the HSE with...
- Pension Provisions
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of the response received from the supervising committee (details supplied). [4301/08]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to replace State pension books with swipe-cards; the way this will impact on people living in areas that do not have...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made on the recommendations of the Review of Sign Language Interpretations Services and Service Requirements in...
- Departmental Offices
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Store Street for the past three years; if he will provide a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications for respite grant received on a monthly basis in his Department since the inception of the scheme; the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding a project (details supplied). [4322/08]
- Departmental Offices
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Mespil Road for the past three years; if he will...
- Ferry Services
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps that have been taken to ensure a proper ferry service will be made available to the islands off the west of...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the tonnage of a vessel (details supplied) will be transferred to a new boat. [4373/08]
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has received a reduced farm retirement payment; and if she will...
- Approved Abattoirs
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of abattoirs operating in County Mayo; the number of abattoirs closed down in the past ten years; and if she will...
- Departmental Staff
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of vets located in County Mayo working within her Department. [4264/08]
- Grant Payments
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4295/08]
- Farm Waste Management
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the application for the farm waste management scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when...
- Grant Payments
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) will qualify for a grant under the farm improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Offices
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of electricity used in the offices of her Department in Kildare Street for the past three years; if she will...
- Grant Payments
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their REP scheme payment. [4372/08]
- Coastal Zone Management
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps that have been taken by her Department to develop a national database specifying the nature of the coast. [4406/08]
- Animal Diseases
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will ensure that a case (details supplied) is resolved. [4454/08]
- Department of Education and Science
- School Accommodation
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of a school (details supplied) which is urgently seeking accommodation to facilitate enrolments it has...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will guarantee that the existing home tuition allowance payable to parents of autistic children to attend a school (details...
- School Enrolments
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assist in the placement of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [4273/08]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools in Dublin north that have an autism outreach programme; and if she will list the schools and the number of...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the availability of possible alternative sites for the provision of a new school for a school...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on establishing an appeals mechanism within the remit of the Teaching Council which would allow those teachers who are...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made to approve construction by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will publish in full the contents of communications received between her Department and each of the country's vocational...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary and post primary building projects submitted by various schools to her Department at stage three that are...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be taken by her Department to allow a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary, to advance its project for a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will advance the long standing commitment in respect of a proposal to redevelop a school (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Offices
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of electricity used in the offices of her Department in Marlborough Street for the past three years; if she will provide a...
- School Transport
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 6 December 2007, her Department will sanction school transport supports to a group of...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in acquiring a permanent site for a primary school in Tyrrellstown, Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Recognition
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant recognition to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4381/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in issuing the final approval for the construction of a project (details supplied) in County Roscommon; when...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Offices
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Infirmary Road for the past three years; if he will provide a monthly breakdown...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Residency Permits
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an application for residency made in September 2006 by a person (details supplied) who...
- Garda Deployment
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the level of the Garda structural organisation at which the local drugs units are constituted, that is at the regional,...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount that has been allocated to the Property Services Regulatory Authority since its establishment; and if he will...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the Property Services Regulatory Authority Bill will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement...
- Asylum Applications
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be taken in respect of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Work Permits
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a provision (details supplied); the reason for the discrepancy; and if he will take...
- Residency Permits
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to long term residency applications; the month his Department are now dealing with; the length of...
- Refugee Status
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby two Iranian nationals threatened to burn themselves to death...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on the application of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for citizenship which was lodged in May...
- Sentencing Policy
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if drug offenders convicted to less than ten year sentences in prison are eligible for consideration for extra remission;...
- Residency Permits
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is a moratorium in place on applications for long term residency, which have seen no movement since at least...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to have an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath processed...
- Residency Permits
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive authorisation to remain here. [4340/08]
- Private Security Licences
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application by a person (details supplied) in County Louth for a licence will be expedited; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Offices
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department at St. Stephen's Green for the past three years; if he will...
- Garda Strength
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 1211 of 30 January 2008, when next additional personnel will become available to An...
- Residency Permits
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made regarding an application for permission to remain in the State by a person (details supplied)...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if...
- Residency Permits
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 214: 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 County Carlow; and if he will make...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in the matter of naturalisation, residency and family reunification in the case of a person (details...
- Residency Permits
Question 216: 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 Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached in regard to the application for subsidiary protection and leave to remain in the State on...
- Voluntary Assisted Return Programme
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will grant approval to persons (details supplied) in County Waterford in regard to their application under the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached on the application for a certificate of naturalisation of persons (details supplied) in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he will not accept an application for subsidiary protection from a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny;...
- Drugs in Prisons
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of seizures of illegal drugs in prisons; the value of such seizures in 2007 and in each of the preceding five...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 225: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to the proposed sewerage scheme for Burtonport, County Donegal. [4251/08]
- Planning Issues
Question 227: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm receipt of correspondence from a residents' association (details supplied) in County...
- Deer Population
Question 229: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the magnitude of damage caused to passing cars by the increased deer...
- Recycling Policy
Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the high costs charged to consumers for the disposal of CFL light bulbs;...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 231: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to safeguard the health and safety and housing interests in the case of a person...
- Estate Management Companies
Question 232: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the full extent to which management companies are operating throughout County Kildare; if these companies...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects to receive the draft policy paper on next generation broadband networks; if he will implement...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he plans to publish the legislation that will confer statutory responsibility on the Commission for Energy...
- Energy Resources
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has increased the level of the levy on certain oil products in order to underpin Ireland's oil...
- Departmental Offices
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of electricity used in the offices of his Department in Adelaide Road for the past three years; if...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding provided by his Department for a project (details supplied) in County Mayo from the year 2000 to...
- Energy Research
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has, through the Irish Energy Research Council, published a comprehensive Energy Research Strategy 2008...
- Energy Conservation
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps that were initiated in 2007 in conjunction with the Commission for Energy Regulation, Sustainable...
- Energy Review
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a fully costed demand side management plan for industry and consumers was finalised by the end of 2007 as...
- Energy Resources
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has completed the legal unbundling of Bord Gáis Éireann's transmission and distribution operations; if...
