Written answers
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
- Department of Education and Science
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she is taking to address the lack of sports facilities in schools, particularly primary schools. [6771/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures she is taking to address the backlog in the school building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Education Convention
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she proposes to establish an education convention to consider the future of governance and management in the primary school system...
- Early School Leavers
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will publish the statement of data strategy for 2008 to 2010 that deals with data sharing between her Department...
- Departmental Funding
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the cash flow problems which aggravate the inadequate funding arrangements for primary schools, she will introduce a...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reduce the threshold age of 23 for single parents who wish to continue their studies in full-time education; and if she...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the precise improvements that have taken place since the last general election in respect of the promised reduction in pupil-teacher...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 969 and 970 of 30 January 2008, the annual cost for employment of the 9,800 special needs...
- Psychological Service
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to ensure that the fee paid to psychologists under the SCPA will be increased; and if she will make a statement on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be informed of when to proceed with the procurement of...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 117: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad é an dul chun cinn atá déanta go dtí seo maidir le Halla Spóirt do scoil (sonraí tugtha), an bhfuil socrú déanta leis an...
- School Staffing
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools that have teaching principals; the average size of these schools; the number of pupils, teachers and...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools that amalgamated in the years 2003 to 2007; the number of applications for amalgamation with her...
- School Accommodation
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has completed the technical assessment of a primary school (details supplied) as recommended by the Commission on...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on reviewing her policy in relation to a child who has special needs assistant hours in a particular SENO area being removed...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way she will address the low financial supports available to third level and further education students on low income but above...
- Language Supports
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when assessment packs to test students receiving English language support will be available. [6773/08]
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if informal talks have taken place with the principal or trustees of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 2 regarding its relocation...
- Third Level Courses
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 11 December 2007, if work has started on the comprehensive top level review of...
- Departmental Funding
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of under funding of schools, she will reinstate the summer works scheme to ensure that schools can afford to pay for vital...
- Education Services
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the legislation establishing Education Ireland as a company with responsibility for promoting the development of Ireland as a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the application for an extension for a school (details supplied) in County Cork was first received by her Department; the...
- Water Charges
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that EU Commissioner Stavros Dimas stated on 15 January 2008 that the Irish Government...
- Departmental Website
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of hits that have been recorded on her Department's website in relation to the publication of the 65 school inspection...
- School Accommodation
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has completed the technical assessment of a school (details supplied) as recommended by the Commission on School...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals in the context of the Good Friday Agreement to enable primary school teachers who have graduated in Northern Ireland to...
- Language Supports
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the additional resources she will provide to address the language needs of non-Irish students; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide ABA in-service training for special needs teachers in mainstream schools; her views on whether there are many...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied that the present provision for physical education in both primary and post-primary school is adequate to combat...
- Salary Scales
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made towards the establishment of a separate salary scale for primary school principals; and if she will make a statement...
- School Insurance
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the review of insurance arrangements for voluntary secondary schools which is part of the value for money and policy review...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when capital funds from her Department will be made available for the extension, refurbishment and building programme at Galway...
- Education Welfare Service
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if County Donegal has been allocated a second education welfare officer; if not, when she envisages the appointment taking place; and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent to which the school building programme has been accelerated in the past six months, with particular reference to the urgent...
- Educational Projects
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the widespread and growing use of the Internet in domestic homes, she proposes to take action to ensure that children...
- School Accommodation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department and Fingal County Council have completed the necessary work to acquire a site for a new primary school (details...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether it is essential to give freedom to council and vocational educational committee officials to take into account...
- Pension Provisions
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in the context of the Good Friday Agreement she will examine the possibility of ensuring that a person (details supplied), who has...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she has taken to further increase third level participation rights with a special focus on those from disadvantaged areas,...
- Small Schools Scheme
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools which benefited from the small schools scheme and the amount of funding involved in each of the past five years;...
- Languages Programme
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress on the establishment of Education Ireland, the body responsible for promoting Ireland as an international destination for...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of post-primary schools in the voluntary sector that have applied for an extension to the school infrastructure in order to...
- School Staffing
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will establish a registry of qualified substitute teachers. [6767/08]
- Early School Leavers
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 11 December 2007, when she will make a decision on the way to provide for the learning...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made in the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [6832/08]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will approve an ABA school for autistic children in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6403/08]
- School Staffing
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on proposals for classes with more than twenty pupils having a classroom assistant to help both the teacher and the pupils;...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the increased burden on teaching principals in primary schools, she has proposals to change the basic contract whereby...
- School Transport
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the pick-up and drop-off point distance for school transport from 2.4km to a lesser distance to facilitate large...
- Schools Ownership
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of the 3,300 primary schools which are owned in whole or in part by the State through her Department or the Office of...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Freedom of Information
Question 168: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year since 1997; and if he will...
- Department of Finance
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans for the replacement of the manual sluice gate provided by the Office of Public Works at Darcy's Mills, Ballycahill,...
- Tax Code
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, with regard to the requirement for tenants to deduct 20% of the gross rent payable directly to their landlord's bank account when...
- Tax Collection
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the annual increases in the retail price of different categories of packets of 20 cigarettes since...
- Freedom of Information
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his proposals to rebuild the Dáil chamber; the construction costs projected for the proposed renovation; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount spent for each of the past five years for the lease and rent of occupied premises and unoccupied premises for each...
- Tax Code
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will address the issues raised by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7040/08]
- Departmental Properties
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the payments being received annually in each of the past three years by the Department of Health and Children or the Office of Public...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the policy with regard to the automatic renewal of tax clearance certificates to sole traders has changed; if so, the reason for...
- Tax Code
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their tax rebate under Section 482 despite submitting the necessary form in...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to meet speech and language therapy requirements at all schools throughout the country in the future; the extent to...
- Drug Treatment Programme
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of residential detoxification beds available in Dublin and nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6898/08]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application (details supplied) for the Health Service Executive health repayment scheme will be decided on; and if she will make...
- Primary Care Strategy
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason only 87 primary care teams were established by the end of 2007 despite the fact that the Health Service Executive's original...
- Health Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason that the findings of the Health Service Executive working group on cystic fibrosis have not been published. [6927/08]
- Hospital Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the critical situation in St. Brigid's Psychiatric Hospital, Ballinasloe which is operating on a...
- Health Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a diet supplement has not been granted to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in view of the fact that another...
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Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide in the budget for Kerry General Hospital €20,000 for the provision of four glucose monitoring systems for the...
- Freedom of Information
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by her Department each year...
- Health Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views, following concerns raised by elderly constituents in Tipperary South, on extending the provision of digital hearing aids to...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the purpose of her recent visit to the US; the health care units she visited; the benefit she hopes to bring to services here as a...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for special housing aid for the elderly will be reviewed...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite a hospital bed for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [7009/08]
- Health Services
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps which she is taking to ensure that the therapy services available to patients at St. Bridget's Hospital, Ballinasloe up to 8...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an application to the health repayment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the situation at the children's accident and emergency in Tallaght Hospital; the future plans for the accident...
- Health Services
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects a speech and language therapist to be appointed to Rowlagh Health Centre, Clondalkin; and if she will make a statement...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in a case (details supplied). [7178/08]
- National Cancer Registry
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate and clarify information (details supplied). [7180/08]
- Health Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dunlin 9. [7183/08]
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of discussions between his Department and Mayo County Council in relation to a road project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the...
- Freedom of Information
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year since 1997;...
- Transport Policy
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has considered using carbon neutral cement in the construction of major infrastructural projects in Transport 21. [6991/08]
- Public Transport Licences
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Transport if the licence granted to a company (details supplied) has been renewed by his Department. [7011/08]
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport if consultants have been retained by his Department to stress test the robustness of the business plans submitted by Dublin Airport Authority for...
- Pension Provisions
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Transport if an independent evaluation of the Irish airlines pension plan was carried out prior to the privatisation of Aer Lingus; if not, if his attention...
- Air Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Transport the discussion which took place between his Department and the European Commission regarding an application for a PSO on the Shannon Heathrow...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Freedom of Information
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year since...
- Official Vehicles
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a detailed list of all vehicles owned by his Department here and abroad, including makes, models, engine sizes and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the temporary one year work permit under the married to an EU national programme; if this has been suspended...
- Job Creation
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress being made by the Industrial Development Authority and Shannon Development in relation to the creation of new...
- Freedom of Information
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department...
- Employment Appeals
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of cases based on a complaint of age discrimination that have been brought before the Employment Appeals...
- Grant Payments
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 13 February 2008 the years and value of such State funding; and...
- Job Losses
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in relation to a company (details supplied); when this company ceased to trade; if this company went into...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Freedom of Information
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Grant Payments
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an exceptional needs payment can or will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the high cost to purchase personal alarms for senior citizens for emergency...
- Freedom of Information
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his...
- Rural Transport Scheme
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has a pilot rural transport scheme that operates in the evening time; if so the number of these that are...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Freedom of Information
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by her Department...
- Meat and Bonemeal Production
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount in tonnes of meat and bone meal produced in the State for each of the past five years, with a breakdown under...
- Grant Payments
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the grant aid paid to a company (details supplied) in County Roscommon in each of the past ten years; the steps which are...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of prosecutions taken as a result of inspections by sea fisheries protection officers in the years 2006 and 2007;...
- Grant Payments
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will expedite an appeal which was submitted in June 2007 in respect of a single farm payment of persons (details...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford should be forced to wait almost a year for payment under REPS 3,...
- Department of Education and Science
- Capitation Grants
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on the analysis in the paper Profile of Basic Running Costs in Primary Schools that the capitation grant covers...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a new school will be built in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6889/08]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements she has made between local authority council and VECs for the transfer of the higher education grants in order that...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provision she has made for the promised extension for a school (details supplied) in County Galway which she has identified as...
- School Staffing
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will assign a resource teacher to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [6921/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sign off on funding for the provision of a new national school (details supplied) in County Cork which was recently forced...
- School Accommodation
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she will provide for this school's urgent...
- Freedom of Information
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by her Department each year...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement regarding the approval to build a new school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and when the school...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the proposed amalgamation of the primary schools in Lixnaw; if the long term projected staffing figure...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school has difficulties in dealing with the special education needs organiser assigned to them or if the SENO has difficulties...
- School Accommodation
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the persons who will be the patrons of the first proposed primary school where planning permission has been applied for on a site...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Wexford first applied for major redevelopment works to her Department; the reason there...
- School Management
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 13 February 2008, if she will meet with the principal and chairman of the board of...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will be announcing her Department's multi-annual school building and modernisation programme; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children with autism attending schools with suitable facilities; the extent to which such facilities are required...
- Psychological Service
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she proposes to ensure the availability of adequate and ongoing psychological assessment for children at primary and second level...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects to meet in full the building programme requirements as set out by the authorities of the various schools throughout...
- School Staffing
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects pupil teacher ratios in the classroom to be brought into line with European best practice; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will accelerate the school building programme with a view to ensuring the early provision of adequate accommodation and...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of extra teachers to be employed in 2008; the extent to which this is expected to improve pupil teacher ratios in the...
- School Accommodation
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will eliminate the use of prefabs throughout the country by replacement with permanent structures; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress with regard to the provision of the proposed new school at Ardclough, Straffan, Co. Kildare; and if she will make a...
- School Accommodation
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to provide additional school places for the developing population in the area around and near Kinsale, Cork south...
- Education Welfare Service
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children in primary and secondary schools in the Cork south west constituency who were absent from school for more than...
- School Staffing
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special education teachers and assistants that have been allocated to Clondalkin Primary schools in 2006, 2007 and 2008;...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she will take to assist schools (details supplied) in Dublin 9 to access funding for the urgent upgrading of the school...
- Department of Defence
- Freedom of Information
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department each year since 1997; and...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Ministerial Transport
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a comprehensive list of all cars owned by the State used to drive Ministers and junior Ministers; the...
- Registration of Title
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the situation regarding the requirement of property owners to register such ownership with the Land Registry; and if this...
- Residency Permits
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) who applied for residency on the basis of...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for citizenship made by a person (details supplied) in County Cork who...
- Civil Partnerships
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if in regard to the report of the Working Group on Domestic Partnership (details supplied) he has initiated research into...
- Garda Deployment
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a 24 hour Garda presence at Athenry Garda Station through the provision of extra Gardaí based in...
- Freedom of Information
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his Department...
- Residency Permits
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the options open to non-EEA nationals, who currently have permission to remain in the State on an employment permit, to...
- Judicial Reviews
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total cost to and the damages paid by the State in relation to judicial reviews that his Department were responsible...
- Asylum Applications
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he...
- Sexual Offences
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of registered sex offenders in County Wexford; the amount of times they have signed on at Garda stations; and...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department is drafting legislation or intends to draft legislation to regulate the use of closed circuit television...
- Visa Applications
Question 313: 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 a...
- Crime Prevention
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans his Department have to combat the growing dissident activity in the north-west, in view of yet another...
- Residency Permits
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to acquire long term residency for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to make a decision regarding applications for naturalisation made by persons (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to a query (details supplied). [7182/08]
- Garda Training
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an initiative by a group (details supplied) whereby a number of Gardaí work with a...
- Garda Operations
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he will take to improve emergency access for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to An Garda Síochána; and if he...
- Visa Applications
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to have an application for a visa in respect of a person (details supplied) who wishes to visit this...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 546 of 12 February 2008, the number of prosecutions taken by the Gardaí in respect...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Planning Issues
Question 325: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the total number of developments which have not been taken in charge by...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 327: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a submission from Mayo County Council in relation to extra funding for a sewerage scheme...
- National Monuments
Question 329: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide adequate protection for the Turoe Stone to remain at its present location; his views on...
- Fire Stations
Question 330: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received an application for funding from Galway County Council for the provision of a new fire...
- Freedom of Information
Question 331: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of waste water treatment plants nationally not working to a satisfactory level; the number of...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 334: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has given direction to local authorities entering major development contracts to use carbon...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 335: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position with regard to the planned lower harbour/Cork main drainage scheme. [7007/08]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Television Licence Fee
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if according to legislation, people who have a television, yet cannot receive any signal from the national...
- Electricity Generation
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available to businesses and domestic users who provide renewable energy through private wind...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if broadband will be supplied to a person (details supplied); if not, if he will provide a date of supply; and...
- Freedom of Information
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests that have been received by his...
- Natural Gas Grid
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the difficult situation in towns like Cavan and Monaghan regarding the fact...
- Postal Services
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details of all contracts awarded by Postbank to date; the dates and value of the contracts; and the company...
- Electricity Transmission Network
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the Electricity (Transfer of Assets) Bill is expected to be published; if the Government is still...
- Postal Services
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the implementation of a postcode system here; if he has reverted to Government on the...
