Written answers
Thursday, 14 February 2008
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Íocaíochtaí Deontas
Question 11: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil an t-iarratas le haghaidh an bhalla cosanta, Baile Thiar, Oileán Thoraí á mheas ina Roinn agus an gceadófar...
- Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
Question 12: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an mó scéim faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla atá ceadaithe anois; an ainmneoidh sé iad; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...
- Community Development
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the breakdown of his recent announcement of grant assistance to the Orange Order; the effect it is envisaged the...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the fact that the shortfall in detox and rehabilitation beds identified by the expert working group...
- Job Creation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he is satisfied with the job levels, following the recent publication of the Údarás na Gaeltachta annual report;...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the research carried out in relation to the use of illegal substances on a county basis; the determination of such...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposed expenditure in 2008 under the RAPID and CLÁR programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Grant Payments
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of grants made under his Christmas Lights as Gaeilge initiative; the organisations which benefited; the...
- Irish Language
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made to date in regard to the development of the 20 year strategy for the Irish language; and if he will...
- Youth Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding provided by his Department for youth cafes; the location of this funding; the plans to increase...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action his Department has taken to implement the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism,...
- Job Losses
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has held discussions with a company (details supplied) in County Mayo or with Údarás in relation to recent job...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans or proposals to ensure a document (details supplied) or a document of a similar nature is given to every...
- Community Development
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of the recently announced RAPID thematic strategy; the targets and objectives that are expected to be...
- Irish Language
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the discussion he has had with the Department of Education and Science in regard to the proposed Irish Language...
- Drug Seizures
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views in relation to the major drug find in County Kildare on 6 February 2008; if he had meetings with the...
- Tourism Development
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding to be made available in 2008 under the LEADER programme for the development of rural tourism; the...
- Irish Language
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has had discussions with the Department of Education and Science regarding the provision of education through...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if it is within the remit of local drug task forces to liaise with schools, particularly with senior cycle classes; if...
- Grant Payments
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding he has allocated through the grant programmes operated by his Department to each constituency...
- Foras na Gaeilge
Question 35: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas maidir leis an mbagairt don Ghaeilge sna meáin chlóite mar gheall ar chinneadh Fhoras na...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position of the decentralisation of his departmental offices; the cost to date of such decentralisation; the cost...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the breakdown of all funding provided to local drug task forces; the research that has been carried out in relation to...
- Community Development
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the effectiveness of youth clubs in relation to community development in view of the changes in respect of the number...
- Calafoirt agus Céanna
Question 41: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na céanna i nDún na nGall a bhfuil iarratais ina leith ina Roinn faoi láthair le haghaidh deontas tógála nó...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action taken by his Department in relation to the report of the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism,...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants available through his Department or agencies under the remit of his Department that deal with security in...
- Rural Development
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the decisions and outcomes of meetings and discussions that have taken place between him and the Ministers of State in...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the significant piece of research undertaken by the Ballyfermot local drugs task...
- Irish Language
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent of the work of the placenames branch to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5515/08]
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
Question 49: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na hathruithe ar chumhachtaí agus feidhmeanna Údarás na Gaeltachta a bheidh sa Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta...
- Committee Reports
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the actions he has taken as a result of the reports commissioned over each of the past five years by the Joint...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his view on the fact that all local drugs task forces except two are situated in Dublin; and if, in view of the...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has had or proposes to have meetings with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the telephone...
- Department of Finance
- North-South Co-operation
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the action, in chronological order, he, his Department or the North-South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South co-operation...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason, in view of the requirement under section 62 of the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997 and section 1094 of the Taxes...
- Tax Code
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on introducing legislation that would add registered veterinary premises to the definition in section 268 of the Taxes...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the rules for the primary medical certificate in relation to supports for drivers with a disability in view of...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork in respect of domiciliary care allowance in February 2007...
- North-South Co-operation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action, in chronological order, she, her Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South co-operation in...
- Health Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the situation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if there is any source of funding for minors...
- Hospital Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if they will be seen as a matter of urgency; and if she will...
- Grant Applications
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the application by an organisation (details supplied) for a grant in the amount of €145,000 to host an...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be assisted. [5770/08]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funds allocated to the nursing home subvention scheme in 2007; the increase in funds allocated for 2008; the scope that exists to...
- Health Services
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason no treatment for anorexia has been offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose husband has been employed...
- Homeless Persons
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expenditure by the Health Service Executive on services for homeless people in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Waterford and Dundalk in each of...
- Health Services
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if they will have the necessary treatment as a matter of...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 5 February 2008, the number of appeals which have been rejected by the health repayment...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the accident and emergency unit at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise will open; if the unit will open at full capacity or...
- Medical Cards
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will seek guarantees from the Health Service Executive that the medical card public counter service currently provided at a health...
- Hospital Services
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason adult patients are unable to access general anaesthetic dental treatment at Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the final report from the vaccine damage working group; the recommendations of same; and if she will make a statement...
- Health Reports
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the report, Taking the first steps to a Healthier Fettercairn, launched in September 2007; and the...
- Hospital Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Tallaght Hospital has the busiest accident and emergency trauma hospital in the State; and if it is €18.2 million in red and was...
- Hospital Staff
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a shortage of six physiotherapists at Tallaght Hospital; and the way this is affecting patients recovery and care. [5881/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the centre of excellence designation being awarded to St. James's Hospital, she will move cancer surgery from Tallaght...
- Hospital Staff
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is only one accident and emergency consultant assigned to Tallaght Hospital despite it being the busiest accident and emergency...
- Hospital Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding was to be set aside for a new CT scannner in Tallaght Hospital; the status of that proposal; and if the outdated machinery is...
- Hospital Staff
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if one ward in Tallaght Hospital is short seven and a half nurses; if there is any prospect of those positions being filled in the near...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for a hip operation in Tallaght Hospital. [5891/08]
- Infectious Diseases
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on establishing an official register to record deaths from hospital acquired infection; if such a register is in place; if...
- Health Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is anxious to be seen by the orthodontist as they have been...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people over 66 years in Dublin 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; the number of people over 66 years in Wicklow, Kildare/west Wicklow, in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a bed will be found for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [5921/08]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 29 November 2007 regarding the issue of interest owing to long stay patients, the...
- Health Services
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the supports and assistance available through her Department or the Health Service Executive for the families and carers of people with...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to regulate the private hearing aid sector and to establish the minimum qualifications and training required by...
- Department of Transport
- North-South Co-operation
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport the efforts made to bring together those with executive responsibilities in Northern Ireland and the Irish Government to develop consultation,...
- Rail Network
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding Tipperary town station and its train lines; the plans for repair and upkeep of these train lines; the plans for development...
- Motor Insurance
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the less comprehensive legal requirements of mandatory insurance in eastern European countries and the possible...
- Public Transport
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the recent presentation to the Joint Committee on Transport relating to quality bus corridor pinchpoints where...
- Driving Tests
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department will fulfil his commitment to clear the backlog of 122,000 driving test applications by early March 2008; the structures in...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress that has been made towards the development of autonomous airports for Shannon and Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Consular Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made on an investigation (details supplied); the plans his Department has to provide further assistance to the family during...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Industrial Development
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason there are no grants available for people to set up small new businesses in rural areas; and if he will make a...
- Work Permits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a work permit will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the new measures he proposes to introduce to tackle a growing problem (details supplied), particularly in the manufacturing...
- Job Losses
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is taking to overcome the loss of employment in Athy, County Kildare due to the closure of a company (details...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- North-South Co-operation
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the action, in chronological order, he, his Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position in relation to developments on Ballaghaderreen swimming pool, County Roscommon; when the project is expected to...
- Employment Statistics
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of people directly and indirectly employed in the sporting sector of the Irish economy; and if he will make a statement...
- Tourism Industry
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the value of the tourism sector to the economy annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5876/08]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- North-South Co-operation
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action, in chronological order, he, his Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when arrears of basic payment will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5781/08]
- Social Welfare Payment System
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he proposes to proceed with the switching from book to swipe card payment for a number of social welfare payments; if his...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the options open to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin whose rent has been recently increased by their landlord and now...
- Pension Provisions
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to provide a pension for women who were debarred from continuing work in the Civil Service from the 1960s to the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 22 November 2007, the reason his Department has failed to address the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the protection his Department has under social welfare regulations, legislation or guidelines to ensure that social welfare...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- North-South Co-operation
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action, in chronological order, he, his Department or the North South Ministerial Council has taken for...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made by Pobal on an application made on 14 November 2007 by a committee (details supplied)....
- Departmental Programmes
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which he proposes to increase expenditure and funding to the RAPID programme; and if he will make a...
- Youth Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he proposes to increase expenditure under the various programmes operated by his Department in County Kildare with...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications for funding received by his Department for County Kildare in 2008; his proposals to...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- North-South Co-operation
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action, in chronological order, she, her Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South...
- Grant Payments
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will look favourably on an application for a single farm payment for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the way the proposed rearrangements under the REP scheme and in particular in relation to the existing participants in REP...
- Grant Payments
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
- Crop Losses
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the contingency plans that have been and are in place for the outbreak of brown rot in potatoes here; and if she will make a...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason her Department's staff mileage expenses are being curtailed when there are a huge number of farm waste management...
- Grant Payments
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted their REP scheme payment. [5909/08]
- Department of Education and Science
- North-South Co-operation
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action, in chronological order, she, her Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for North-South co-operation...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15, an applicant for naturalisation has sufficient research qualifications to obtain a higher...
- Youth Services
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to increase funding to the Kildare Youth Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5814/08]
- Pension Provisions
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if in the context of the Good Friday Agreement she will explore the possibility of ensuring that a person (details supplied) who has...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 964 of 30 January 2008 and in view of the fact that the board of management have submitted an...
- School Transport
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [5732/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding funding for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [5733/08]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on providing permanent positions for special needs assistants who have served a minimum number of years within a particular...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes of either 30 children or more within primary schools in respect of children under the age of nine; and if she...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will estimate from discussions she has had with the Teaching Council, the number of unqualified teachers currently teaching in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of small scale building works which are required to be undertaken and funded at a school (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of State funding allocated to private minority religious schools per annum. [5857/08]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the high demand for places in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24, her Department is actively looking to identify...
- Communications Masts
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views, in view of the growing health concerns surrounding the siting of telecommunications masts near schools for both pupils and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the devolved grant will be in place for 2008; when she expects to invite applications from schools for this grant in 2008; and if...
- School Enrolments
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines or procedures laid down by her Department for a situation (details supplied); the mechanisms available to ensure that...
- Energy Resources
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary and post-primary schools that use renewable energy for the purposes of heating the school building or the...
- School Curriculum
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way primary and post-primary curricula incorporate awareness of the need to conserve energy; and if she will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a school (details supplied), an ABA school in County Galway had to secure funding through the court in 2002, and the budget...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she will take to refund the costs to schools of submitting applications under the defunct summer works scheme 2008; and if...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Citizenship Applications
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary for long term residency in the State; when...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions for driving without a full driving licence, that were handed down to learner drivers from...
- Garda Investigations
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make available the Garda forensic engineer's report on a fatal accident (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12, who has applied for long term residency some time ago has not had a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the naturalisation process will be concluded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is in full...
- Visa Applications
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose wife has a permit to work here; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of residency status and family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [5853/08]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date on the pilot scheme announced by his Department in March 2007 to provide capital funding for...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- North-South Co-operation
Question 225: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action, in chronological order, he, his Department or the North South Ministerial Council have taken for...
- Electoral Boundaries
Question 226: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that immediately following on the next census of population, a Dáil Constituency Boundary...
- Planning Issues
Question 227: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the exact date on which he will publish the consultation draft of the guidelines for planning authorities on...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 228: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to his answer to Parliamentary Question No. 1360 of 30 January 2008, the details of the negative...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 229: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans, both funding and time-frame, in place to continue the urban and village renewal scheme 2000 to...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 230: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects a site (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be issued post tender approval; and if he will...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 231: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the expenditure on services for homeless people, excluding capital support funding, by local authorities in...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 232: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, under his Department's regulations on rent payments to local authorities, the living alone allowance and...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 233: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will seriously review the local government budget allocated to Clare County Council as services across...
- Water Quality
Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the continuing partial boil notice on the public water supply in Ennis,...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of wastewater and sewage sludge being imported to Tipperary south; if all this sludge is licensed;...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 239: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding tenders for a sheltered housing complex (details supplied) in County Cork. [5856/08]
- Register of Electors
Question 240: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that all possible measures were taken to update the election registers in the run up to...
- Voluntary Housing Associations
Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if public representatives, that is, TDs, county councillors and borough councillors are entitled to be...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 244: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the time-scale for establishing the agreed country-wide regime for local authority levies for school waste...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
Question 246: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason, in view of the requirements under the Housing Regulations 1980, and Housing (Amendment)...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 248: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB is seeking a payment on deposit of €300 towards an...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- North-South Co-operation
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action, in chronological order, he, his Department, or the North-South Ministerial Council have taken for...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe for funding Leader companies under his Department's new scheme; the criteria for drawing down...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is proposed to provide the Menlough area of County Galway with broadband; and if he will make a...
- Coal Imports
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the guidelines set out by his Department on the import of coal to Ireland; the procedure an applicant should...
