Written answers
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on reducing the rate of VAT charged on non-oral contraceptives to the minimum 5% rate in line with the EU VAT directive; and...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the implications for the Irish economy of the new EU climate change commitments. [7797/08]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the progress being made to find a satisfactory system for deposit protection in credit unions. [7766/08]
- Pension Provisions
Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the impact of stock market losses on the robustness of pension provision; and if there are implications for public...
- Ethics Legislation
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he plans to amend the legislation governing the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 in order that it can initiate its own...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has had reason to modify his economic or public finance projections for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Code
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated number of individuals holding non-domiciled status for tax purposes for each of the past three tax years; if the Revenue...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has reason to be concerned about the high level of personal indebtedness here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Reviews
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the progress made to date in achieving better value for money from the latest round of expenditure reviews. [7760/08]
- Capital Projects
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make arrangements that the maximum possible details in respect of appraisals of NDP projects are published, subject to not...
- Tax Code
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his proposals for a review of VAT classifications with a view to reducing the rate of VAT applied to certain environmental goods and...
- Capital Projects
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has accessed the success to date of the Public Private Partnership projects; and the prospects for use of this system in the...
- Job Creation
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the expected impact on tax receipts of the slow down in job creation predicted for 2008. [7694/08]
- Tax Yield
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the receipts for DIRT tax received in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7713/08]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Government has plans for the review of the programme of decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7726/08]
- Tax Code
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the call by Forfás to introduce changes in the way VAT is calculated under EU rates. [7787/08]
- Programmes for Government
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason he is unwilling to provide a costing of the proposals in the Programme for Government 2007 to 2012. [7792/08]
- Tax Code
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of income tax relief on payments for private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the further progress that has been made in relation to the possibility of an advance party of Public Appointment Service staff being...
- Tax Code
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will estimate the annual cost to the Exchequer of the scheme for accelerated capital allowances for energy efficient equipment...
- International Agreements
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he expects the re-negotiation of the double taxation agreement between the US and Ireland to take place; the impact he expects...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which he and his EU colleagues are satisfied that sufficient controls exist here and throughout the European Union to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on changing the presentation of Estimates in order that they would show the extra pension liability that is being taken on by...
- Tax Code
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of people over the age of 65 who have registered for DIRT free accounts arising from incomes below the relevant threshold;...
- Commission on Taxation
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason he failed to ensure a balanced membership of the Commission on Taxation to ensure that the interest of low and middle income...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the concerns expressed by the EU Commission about the deterioration in the public finances. [7783/08]
- Social Partnership
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his objectives in the negotiations of the forthcoming Social Partnership Agreement. [7753/08]
- Tax Code
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that those entitled to DIRT refund are getting it; and if he has proposals to rectify the apparent under-claiming....
- Fiscal Policy
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the impact of the decline in the construction sector on the economy; if he is satisfied that the budgetary framework of...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to amend the legislation governing the Financial Service Ombudsman in order that he can make rulings on classes of...
- Appropriation Accounts
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that no depreciation is charged in the accounts of the public service and the implications this has for efficient...
- Tax Code
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of income tax relief on environmental service charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Properties
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of the decision of Dublin City Council to support the global campaign Earth Hour 2008 along with cities through out the...
- Tax Code
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will introduce an exemption on excise duty to make it viable for Irish producers of energy crops for biofuel to sell their...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he or his officials have received and studied the special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General into the Financial Regulator...
- Economic and Monetary Union
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the status, in terms of legislation, implementation and monitoring, of preparations for the single European payments area; and if he...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of incidents and value of overcharging of customers by banks and financial institutions each year during the period 2002 to...
- Tax Code
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he proposes measures to ensure that there is no anomaly under the proposed new VRT regime whereby imported second-hand cars are...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of recent developments, he envisages a need to amend the legal framework governing the work of the Financial Services...
- Tax Code
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number and percentage of income earners who paid tax on any part of their income at the higher rate and the standard rate for 2007,...
- Audits Programme
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of random audits carried out by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years 2003 to 2007 and to date in 2008; the number...
- Property Repossessions
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has assessed the level of home repossessions which are occurring; and if there are implications for public policy. [7795/08]
- Tax Code
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on whether the commitments to cut income tax contained in the Programme for Government are viable; and if he will make a...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if in view of the recent criticism by the EU in regard to Ireland's competitiveness he proposes to take financial initiatives to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on amending the legislation relating to approved retirement funds with respect to the taxation of the 3% imputed distribution...
- Tax Code
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the constraints that directives from the European Union put on the ability of this State to make changes to the VAT regime, including...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on recent increases in banks' headline borrowing rates, despite no increase in ECB rates, and their apparent reluctance to...
- Tax Yield
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the Exchequer returns for January 2008; the estimated Budget deficit he expects at the end of 2008 and...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Financial Services Regulator has sufficient powers to deal with banks and credit institutions operating...
- Tax Code
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his plans to have Annex III of the EU VAT Directive amended to include road safety products and thereby reduce the rate of VAT...
- Tax Collection
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will introduce legislation requiring banks and financial institutions to inform customers on an annual basis of the amount of...
- Pension Provisions
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Financial Regulator has advised him as to the need for re-defining the definition of an investment instrument as stated in the...
- Tax Collection
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimate of the number of residents here owning foreign, income generating properties; the number paying tax on such income; the...
- Tax Yield
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will estimate the Exchequer income for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 from the electricity tax proposed in the Finance Bill 2008;...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Social Partnership
Question 90: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the participation of environmental groups in social partnership. [7907/08]
- Departmental Transport
Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of taxis which are accessible for...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has all of their entitlements in relation to their pension and taxation payments; and...
- Flood Relief
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when work is scheduled to begin on the first phase of the Fermoy plan and the second phase of the Mallow flood relief plan in view of...
- Tax Code
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of tax incentives for start-up food companies in regions where traditional food industries have gone into...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 30 January 2008, if his Department will treat an application for acquisition, restoration...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to plans to introduce a savings scheme for low-income households on a pilot basis for two years to...
- Departmental Transport
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of taxis...
- Departmental Properties
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works have paid for a site (details supplied) adjacent to Mountjoy Prison; when it was purchased; if the...
- Garda Stations
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of companies that pre-qualified to tender for the new Garda station in Castleisland, County Kerry; the number of Kerry...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the tax incentive schemes which exist for oil exploration companies operating in the UK and Norway; if similar incentives...
- Tax Code
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he proposes to introduce further tax or other incentives to encourage the production of bio-fuels; and if he will make a statement...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which he has examined the cause or causes of hidden inflation leading to loss of competitiveness and jobs in the...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he and or his EU colleagues directly or through the European Central Bank or otherwise have issued instructions or guidelines to...
- Departmental Properties
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total cost to date of property or properties acquired under the Government's decentralisation programme; the cost of the property...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to ensure the continued services of a service (details supplied) in Dublin 8 which has over 50 people on a waiting...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if sufferers of the muscle weakening disease myasthenia gravis would benefit from the illness being included on the long term illness...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will ensure that all persons with disabilities have a legal right to independent assessment of need; and if she will make a...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many elderly persons and their families were obliged to arrange and pay for private...
- Medical Cards
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 was refused a medical card; if she will re-examine this application in view of this...
- Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for orthodontic treatment. [7430/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is expected that the new Alzheimer's unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Mountmellick, which has been completed and ready for...
- Health Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications to the Health Service Executive to provide medical centres in the County Kildare area; and if she will make a...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is expected that the new accident and emergency unit at Midland General Hospital, Portlaoise, which has been completed and ready...
- Health Service Accounts
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 3 October 2007, the figure for the total owed for the end of 2007; the...
- Research Funding
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding provided for research into prostate cancer; the plans for further investment into research into the cancer; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to ensure the additional services for the elderly as the continued services of a service (details supplied) in...
- Home Help Service
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a review of funding from her Department of the home help services for the elderly is under way or planned, to ensure that adequate...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the number of extra beds supplied to hospitals in 2007 that remain unused; the location of these beds; the cost to...
- Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that an operating theatre at Louth County Hospital remains unused; the reason this facility is not in use; the cost...
- Hospital Staff
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if additional staff will be recruited to operate the MRI scanner installed at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin in October 2007;...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of adolescent psychiatric beds available in the HSE system; if there is a waiting list for such beds; if so, the period of...
- Health Services
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify an issue (details supplied). [7521/08]
- Pharmacy Services
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, before an arbitrary decision is taken to cut fees of pharmacists from 1 March 2008, consideration will be given to the setting up of...
- Hospital Services
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing a cataract operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a date for...
- Smoking Ban
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to introduce a ban on smoking in cars in which children under 16 years of age are being transported (details...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that there is a full consultation with the organisations representing the elderly on the proposed fair deal...
- Hospital Services
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way casemix is compiled in Mallow General Hospital in comparison with procedure in Cork University Hospital and if she is satisfied...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an application for the nursing home subvention by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Health Services
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to extend and develop a health centre (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a specialist neurologist and specialist nurse on myasthenia gravis is appointed, attached to one of the main...
- Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding and other resources will be provided to a group (details supplied) to assist people with this condition and to enhance...
- Community Care
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding training for the community responders; if a person has been appointed to oversee this community scheme; if funds...
- Home Help Service
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a decision in relation to an application for home help assistance; and...
- Pension Provisions
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will sanction the payment of a gratuity allowance under Article 109 of the local government superannuation scheme to a person...
- Home Help Service
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive home help assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapy positions that remain unfilled here; the extent to which the shortage of speech and language...
- Children in Care
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken to deal with the number of children reported missing from the custody of the Health Service Executive;...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the level of dental services available for intellectually disabled people; and if she has proposals in this...
- Hospital Services
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to improve cystic fibrosis facilities for patients in the mid west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Organ Donation
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to initiate legislation to govern presumed organ donations to replace the current voluntary system; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to post a much needed second dedicated cystic fibrosis nurse at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to include cystic fibrosis as a condition that will automatically entitle a patient to a medical card; and if she will make a...
- Neonatal Screening
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to initiate a national neo-natal screening programme for the detection of cystic fibrosis, in view of the documented benefit...
- Ambulance Service
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the direction that north Tipperary ambulance crews by-pass Nenagh Hospital accident and emergency with many of their...
- Mental Health Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive is carrying out a new cost benefit analysis to determine whether it would be cheaper to redevelop the...
- Medical Cards
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a current medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from an association (details supplied) in County Kildare in relation to the proposed closure and...
- Hospital Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an independent audit will be carried out (details supplied); the impact the audit results will have on transfer proposals; and if...
- Health Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a child (details supplied) in County Mayo will be provided with orthopaedic shoes; and when this child was measured for these...
- Health Service Reports
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the report on a person (details supplied) will be released; the reason for the long delay; and if her attention has been drawn to...
- Health Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly are unable to avail of the same service through the Health...
- Child Care Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will urgently review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath where the Health Service Executive has taken no...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the situation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will further investigate the situation...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when BreastCheck will be extended to County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7859/08]
- Hospital Catchment Areas
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the catchment area and population for the district hospitals of Wicklow town, Rathdrum and Baltinglass, by hospital; her plans to...
- Health Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to allow general practitioners to refer clients directly for bone density tests rather than requiring such clients to...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a full and comprehensive reply has not been received to a parliamentary question to date (details supplied). [7870/08]
- Cancer Incidence
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedures or structures involved in identifying cancer clusters here; the regularity with which a review is carried out of new...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of aftercare free beds available at present in the Dublin region in view of her stated aim of freeing up hospital beds...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the ongoing difficulties being experienced in accident and emergency wards here, particularly in some Dublin hospitals...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006 will come into effect; when patients can apply for subvention under the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on correspondence (details supplied) relating to the delays that have been experienced by a patient awaiting essential...
- Departmental Transport
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the taxi companies used by her Department and State agencies under the aegis of her Department have a minimum percentage of taxis...
- Health Services
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are funds available from the Health Service Executive that would help persons (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the therapy unit at St. Bridget's Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway is being closed; if her attention has been drawn to...
- EU Directives
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Directive 92/73EEC or Directive 92/74EEC have been transposed into Irish law; if they were enacted or transposed by way of statutory...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry only receives €94.50 per week subvention. [8017/08]
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Irish Blood Transfusion Service provided live personal data of donors to a third party; if other agencies under the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of employment vacancies within the Health Service Executive in Kildare and West Wicklow in relation to occupational...
- Health Services
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8068/08]
- Hospital Procedures
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action her Department have taken since receiving correspondence from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 relating to another...
- Hospital Building Programme
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the process for the selection of a site for a new regional hospital serving the north east has been concluded; when she expects the...
- Mental Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her Department's and the Health Service Executive plan in relation to moneys saved from the sale of buildings and lands; if in...
- Hospital Staff
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of agreement of a common contract between the Health Service Executive and consultants; the breakdown of the fee structure...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of the gender and the various age groups of people that have committed suicide here for each of the years 2002 to 2007...
- Health Service Reports
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to release the report into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain from the scheme administrator of the health repayment scheme, the reason a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Transport
- Road Safety
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of times together with dates the Cabinet sub-committee on Road Safety met in 2007 or to date in 2008 [7206/08]
- Local Authority Funding
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding allocated to a local authority (details supplied) for a scheme in 2008. [7589/08]
- Public Transport
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost of insurance cover for Dublin Bus for each year since 2000 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7639/08]
- Light Rail Project
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received the report on the feasibility of the Rathfarnham LUAS; when he will publish the recommendations; and if he will make a...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Transport the qualifications and requirements for those who drive taxis, but who are not the owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7546/08]
- Public Transport
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Transport what number of buses purchased by Dublin Bus since 2002 are fully wheelchair accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7564/08]
- Light Rail Project
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Transport if a final decision has been made on the LUAS D line to Broadstone and Liffey Junction, in accordance with the policy outlined in Transport 21; if...
- Parking Regulations
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Transport when the statutory instruments will be implemented to allow match day parking and signage to come into force; and if he will make a statement on...
- Rail Network
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Transport about the position regarding the western rail corridor; and the money spent on this project to date. [7678/08]
- Departmental Transport
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Transport if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of taxis which are...
- Rail Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Transport the measures being taken by his Department to provide increased services in the short to medium term, to commuters on the northern rail and DART...
- Rail Accidents
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the recent accident on the northern rail line near Skerries involving a goods train, he will ensure that there are adequate...
- Private Bus Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Transport the procedures or protocols in place to govern situations where passengers travelling on privately licensed buses sustain injury on the bus where...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Election Monitoring
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if following the all-party resolution of the Dáil on 4 December 2007, in support of free and fair elections in Zimbabwe, the Government has...
- Passport Applications
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish passports which were refused during the period 1975 to 1980 to people living and working in Rhodesia; the number of...
- Departmental Transport
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of taxis which...
- Passport Applications
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the categories of passport applications handled by the special section of the Passport Office referred to in his reply to Parliamentary...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the work the Government is doing to ensure that the millennium development goals are achieved by the target year of 2015; and if he will...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken or proposes to take, directly or in consort with his EU colleagues to ensure the ongoing...
- Insurance Industry
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans he has to introduce amending legislation to ensure that the Personal Injuries Assessment Board awards provide a...
- Employment Rights
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed through the National Employment Rights Agency; the areas that the inspectors...
- Job Creation
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the future use of the former NEC plant site at Ballivor, County Meath; the number of interested...
- Departmental Transport
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage...
- Work Permits
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in relation to an application for a work permit by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [7948/08]
- Employment Rights
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if fines have been levied against employers for the failure to pay the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will support a club (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [7520/08]
- National Museum
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he was consulted regarding the plans to use the Museum of Natural History building to house the Seanad during repair works; if...
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a site has been identified for the proposed swimming pool in Ballybofey/Stranorlar, County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Transport
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department has a minimum percentage of taxis...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he plans to extend the free travel scheme to include the use of the Air Link bus to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a...
- General Register Office
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of marriages for which the General Registers Office has provided clearance over the past three years; and the number of...
- Pension Provisions
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will reconsider the plight of a small number of self employed people who are denied pension entitlements due to the age...
- Social Welfare Offices
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects the social welfare office in Dunmanway, County Cork to re-open following its temporary closure in 2007; and if he...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan can expect a decision on their application for carers allowance; and if he will...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount his Department paid the Health Service Executive for the administration of the rent supplement scheme in 2005, 2006 and...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of cases of fraud detected in relation to claiming of the rent supplement scheme in 2007; if prosecutions were made in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement in 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7697/08]
- Departmental Transport
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is a waiting list in relation to oral hearings of social welfare claims; if so, the period of time an applicant has to...
- Social Insurance
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the problems that persons are having in seeking to obtain a PPS number in County Kildare due to...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Ferry Services
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, in the past three years, his Department has imposed a financial penalty on any ferry operations, sailing between...
- Community Development
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made for an application for funding under the community services programme for a group...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a support group (details supplied) in County Kildare are entitled to funding under the dormant accounts scheme;...
- Departmental Transport
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum...
- Drugs Rehabilitation Programmes
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of community based projects and schemes involved in drug rehabilitation which are funded by his Department...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he will take or the funding he will provide, to assist groups to develop the Gordon Bennett Car Rally...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the research which has been carried out on drug misuse here; if there is ongoing research; the plans there are for...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Fish Quota
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the context for the restrictions put on the catching of the Spurdog species of fish; if these restrictions will be reviewed;...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 13 February 2008 regarding a harbour development (details supplied); the level...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when she expects the construction of the new Bord Iascaigh Mhara offices in Clonakilty, County Cork to be completed; the...
- Forestry Development
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the area of forestry planted in each of the past five years; the area of land harvested in the same period; and if she will...
- Grant Payments
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the 2007 area based payment and single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway.; and if...
- Marine Safety
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the commitment given that boat owners who spent many weeks in the search to locate the...
- Grant Payments
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payments will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Animal Diseases
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if support or compensation is available to a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; the support that can be provided;...
- Offshore Islands
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason the synchro-lift at Dinish Island, Castletownbere has not been operational for the past seven months causing...
- Departmental Transport
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the taxi companies used by her Department and State agencies under the aegis of her Department have a minimum percentage...
- Grant Payments
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the payments that were received from her Department by persons (details supplied) in County Mayo for the years 2001 and...
- Forestry Sector
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the new agro-forestry scheme will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7971/08]
- Bovine Disease Controls
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department have plans to relax the regulations regarding meat and bone meal; if so, if her Department will allow MBM...
- Food Industry
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in granting the necessary approval for a company (details supplied) in respect of food inspections;...
- Grant Payments
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive the remainder of their single payment scheme 2007 payment....
- Department of Education and Science
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when the University of Limerick carried out and published the survey of the SPHE programme in post primary schools, as it was...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the total money spent on the primary school building programme in 2007, with a breakdown of expenditure under the different schemes...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of primary schools in each county where school building projects were progressed to construction during 2007 under the major...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of the primary schools in each county which received capital funding under the summer works scheme and the total funding...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Education and Science for the names of primary schools in each county where school building projects were progressed to completion during 2007 under the...
- Schools Funding
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the level of investment in two schools (details supplied) in County Mayo since the year 2000. [7426/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the contacts between her Department and a school (details supplied) in County Mayo since the year 2000; the content of those contacts;...
- School Enrolments
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of section 29 appeals taken to her Department on a county basis; the number of cases where the appeal was upheld; the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science to confirm the number of people who work at the special education unit within her Department; the number of people who work for the...
- State Examinations
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if pupils of grind schools are assigned examination numbers in public examinations that enable them to be identified as pupils of such...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to a query from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7481/08]
- School Management
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when details of the patron body and enrolment policy will be published for the new school at Clonburris, County Dublin, announced by...
- School Accommodation
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the unsatisfactory accommodation for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason this...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the proposed new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; when she expects works to...
- School Accommodation
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention was drawn to the fact that in 2004 her Department carried out a technical survey on a school (details supplied) in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status with regard to the proposed construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Cork; when she expects work to...
- School Accommodation
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when prefabricated classrooms will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [7591/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [7592/08]
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are developments on plans to bring teachers' salaries into line regardless of whether they achieved first, second or third...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support a matter (details supplied).
- State Examinations
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to the limited resources of readers for State examinations for children with...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if works on a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be progressed in the 2008 building programme; and if she will make a...
- Third Level Grants
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a student (details supplied) in County Kildare is not being awarded a grant towards the cost of their education; and if...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is a link between the level of damages awarded by the Redress Board to individual complainants and the timing of the...
- Inquiry into Child Abuse
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she expects the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse's final report to be published; and the reason the completion of the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to an application for improvement works to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Payments
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person, who is employed for less than 391 consecutive days, in advance of returning to full-time education, loses the...
- Adult Education
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will extend a course (details supplied) until at least June 2008. [7900/08]
- School Transport
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a grant for school transport will be awarded for children attending a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position, views or opinions, of the National Council for Special Education on the provision of applied behavioural analysis...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has received an application to extend a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the progress that has been made...
- Departmental Transport
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the taxi companies used by her Department and State agencies under the aegis of her Department have a minimum percentage of taxis...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the planned reconstruction of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 will take place; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Accommodation
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision is expected on the approval of funding for temporary accommodation for a school (details supplied); if she will treat...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans that her Department has for a new secondary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- School Accommodation
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a report on the future education needs of an area (details supplied) in County Mayo will be completed; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Funding
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that State funding is not available on an equitable basis for the Dublin Institute of...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made on implementing the recommendations of the task force report on dyslexia; the portions of the report...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application for an extension by a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [8012/08]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed works at a school (details supplied) which were to include central heating; the proposed cost of...
- School Accommodation
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the accommodation a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently has; the number of pupils there are; if an application has...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in areas of high population where the demand for school placement is such that her Department is planning or proposing to build...
- Irish Language
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to address the problems of parents who have children in gaelscoileanna to achieve a standard of Irish to permit them to...
- Industrial Relations
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in relation to non-Department of Education and Science organisations, associations, agencies, and so on that receive funding from...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the legal fees paid by her Department in relation to defending cases for parents trying to secure education for their children for the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the commencement date for building works at a post primary school (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on a matter (details supplied). [8088/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools under construction; the location of each in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of portacabins being rented or leased to primary and post primary schools in County Mayo; the cost to the State for each of...
- Department of Defence
- Overseas Missions
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Defence if the necessary medical facilities for the Irish EUFOR mission to Chad have been put in place; if a full level two surgical field hospital with...
- Pension Provisions
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Defence if compensation will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7658/08]
- Departmental Transport
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Defence if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage of taxis which are...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Prison Drug Treatment Services
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prison nurse officers recruited to date, as planned under the National Drugs Strategy 2001 to 2008; the...
- Child Detention Centres
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a secure unit at Trinity House in Dublin under the aegis of his Department at a cost of €4 million was built, is...
- Asylum Applications
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached on the application of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford in regard to...
- Garda Strength
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community and reserve Gardaí in each station in the Wicklow division of the Gardaí; and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) who had a deportation order served on them in November 2007. [7490/08]
- Prison Accommodation
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the intended capacity in the proposed women's prison at Thornton Hall is double that of the Dóchas Centre when...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be decided. [7529/08]
- Judicial Reviews
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for judicial review that his Department was responsible for in 2005; the number of applications...
- Residency Permits
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether measures used by INIS to prevent people gaining residency based on marriages of convenience are...
- Garda Deployment
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí serving in specialist units such as drugs, traffic corps, immigration, detective branch, public...
- Residency Permits
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7576/08]
- Deportation Orders
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7577/08]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the naturalisation application will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Cavan. [7580/08]
- Garda Operations
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual cost for each year since 2002 to date in 2008 of policing League of Ireland football matches. [7612/08]
- Prison Security
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date on the installation of technology in prisons to block the use by prisoners, of mobile phones; the...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people held in isolation in each prison here in 2007; and the length of each such period of isolation. [7615/08]
- Garda Deployment
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí involved in the detection and prosecution of drug-related crime in the Wicklow division; if any...
- Children in Care
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of children under the care of the Health Service Executive who have been reported missing to An Garda...
- Garda Strength
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí currently part of the Garda Traffic Corps; the proposed date for the deployment of 1,200 personnel...
- Road Safety
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Road Safety Authority's target in the Road Safety Strategy 2007 to 2012 on the implementation of a safety camera...
- EU Directives
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the statutory instrument on e-mail data retentions; when he expects to introduce it; and if he will make a...
- Data Retention
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times the Government's data retention file, where there is storage for three years of all the data relating...
- Prison Projects
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the funding allocated to and used by the CONNECT project in each year since its inception; and if he will make a statement...
- Prison Education Service
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the education and training courses on offer in each prison; the number of places available on each course; the courses for...
- Prison Facilities
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the exercise and recreational facilities available to prisoners in each prison; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Deportation Orders
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons issued with a deportation order who had to be subsequently issued with a second deportation order due...
- Visa Applications
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his position on the proposed EU regulation regarding the visa information system; the proposals included in the draft...
- EU Framework Decision
Question 440: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his position on the proposal EU framework decision on the organisation and content of the exchange of information extracted...
- Garda Strength
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí stationed at Ballivor, County Meath; the opening times of the station; if he will commit extra...
- Garda Transport
Question 452: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Garda and the Garda traffic corps currently driving Garda vehicles under chief's permission...
- Departmental Transport
Question 453: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a minimum percentage...
- Visa Applications
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in respect of a visa for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [7951/08]
- Garda Ombudsman Commission
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to receive the second report from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. [7952/08]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views, in view of the increasing volume of representations being received by public representatives in relation to...
- Prison Education Service
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the educational and rehabilitative facilities in place for prisoners and their various age groups in prisons here; and if...
- Firearms Regulations
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the criteria will be published for authorised traders in restricted firearms; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and...
- Asylum Applications
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Meath can remain in the State, if they marry their German friend or if permission...
- Residency Permits
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the residency application in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review his decision to refuse asylum in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, in view of the...
- Residency Permits
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if extended residency will be offered and green card restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and...
- Refugee Status
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for refugee status by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a passport for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; the reason for the delay in...
- Residency Permits
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [8013/08]
- Garda Stations
Question 476: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations in the Kildare/Carlow division that are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; the number...
- Residency Permits
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made in relation to an application for permission to remain in the State on the basis of marriage...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing
Question 479: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on making a change (details supplied) to his circular letter HRT 3/2002 of 6 March 2002 and if he...
- Fire Stations
Question 481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he received communication from Waterford County Council regarding Tallow or Lismore Fire Stations since 1...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 482: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of the 4,858 housing units that were constructed during January 2008 that were social housing...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a decision has been reached by his Department's heritage section to allow proposed works at a graveyard...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 487: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the level of funding granted to councils (details supplied) for the purpose of building local authority...
- Planning Issues
Question 488: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the terms of the European Communities (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and Programmes)...
- Outdoor Facilities
Question 489: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide clarification regarding the legality of camping on beaches; if it is legal to camp on...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when payment issued for the 2008 allocation to North Tipperary County Council for the housing aid for older...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received a copy of a fire safety audit which was commissioned by Bray Town Council on an estate...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 493: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will expedite the funding to Westmeath County Council who have applied for funding for the Athlone...
- Waste Disposal
Question 494: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the effect of increasing the landfill charges in County Mayo from €15 to...
- Register of Electors
Question 496: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the widespread concern regarding the collation and removal of thousands of individuals from...
- International Agreements
Question 498: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement regarding the full implementation of the Aarhus Convention. [7903/08]
- Planning Issues
Question 499: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the legislation regarding unauthorised developments. [7904/08]
- Environmental Policy
Question 500: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the fines imposed for environmental damage and liability. [7905/08]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 502: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage of funding his Department will provide towards a new sewerage plant for a town (details...
- Departmental Transport
Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a...
- Architectural Qualifications
Question 504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to give formal statutory or legal recognition to the qualifications of architectural...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 505: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received an application from Cork County Council for approval in order to construct a...
- Environmental Policy
Question 506: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure, and make a priority of ensuring, that Dúchas provide maps in post offices and other such...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 507: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when drafting of enabling legislation will be completed in order to facilitate arrangements for persons in...
- Arts Funding
Question 508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authorities that employ public art officers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Oireachtas Reform
Question 510: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the targets he has set in relation to implementing Oireachtas reform; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Proposed Legislation
Question 511: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position with regard to the new Fisheries (Consolidation) Bill; the groups and bodies that have been...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 512: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the telephone exchanges that will be modified for the provision of broadband services in Counties Carlow and...
- Postal Services
Question 513: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has occurred in preparation for the transposition of the forthcoming Third Postal Directive...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 514: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband will be provided to the Kilconley area, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Transport
Question 515: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the taxi companies used by his Department and State agencies under the aegis of his Department have a...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 517: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the report of Farrell Grant Sparks into the fisheries industry; his plans for the management,...
