Written answers

Thursday, 28 February 2008

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employee Facilities
      Question 10: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to encourage employers to set up or to increase employee facilities, such as crèches and gymnasiums; if he has...
    • Skills Shortages
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is an analysis on the amount of emigrants leaving Ireland and of the skills possessed by such workers emigrating...
    • Companies Registration
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide estimates on the percentage of companies that are up to date in filing their returns to the Companies...
    • National Skills Strategy
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to encourage and facilitate the retraining of persons employed by companies that have a definite end life; and if...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has undertaken any assessment of the implications for industry, in regard to competitiveness and...
    • Trade Missions
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign trade missions in the past five years; the follow up that takes place post trade mission; the number...
    • EU Treaties
      Question 16: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he will take to educate businesses on the Lisbon treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8506/08]
    • Employment Rights
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when cross-departmental joint labour investigation teams will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 18: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to introduce a national strategy to address competitiveness as recommended by the National Competitiveness...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date on the work of the National Employment Rights Authority; when the authority will be placed on a...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he will take to close the 23% price gap between the cost of consumer goods and services here and the rest of the...
    • County Enterprise Boards
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the future of county enterprise boards; if he is satisfied with the investment return in previous years; the...
    • National Minimum Wage
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the fact that, of 296 breaches of the minimum pay legislation, detected during 2006 and 2007, prosecutions were...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken to implement the commitment in the programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
    • Work Permits
      Question 25: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made in reducing the time to process employment permit applications; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Live Register
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department have analysed the increased number of people on the live register to determine the industries and...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on allowing local Irish businesses, small and medium enterprises included, to access lands at Industrial...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date on the implementation of the programme of decentralisation in respect of his Department and State...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of proceedings initiated to date under section 83 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007; if he is satisfied that...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of visits to the Industrial Development Authority business locations in counties Meath, Louth, Cavan and Monaghan...
    • Work Permits
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps which he is taking to streamline the issue of work permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8024/08]
    • Job Losses
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the continuing loss of jobs in small construction firms; the analysis his Department has conducted on this...
    • Employment Support Services
      Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 19 December 2007, if the Goodbody review of the FÁS wage subsidy scheme has...
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to reduce waiting times for hearings at the Employment Appeals Tribunal ; if he has had any request...
    • Employment Action Plan
      Question 36: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the negotiations he has had with the Department for Social and Family Affairs on new initiatives to encourage people off the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 37: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional effort has been made by his Department for services since the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement to...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether it is acceptable for a company (details supplied) operating all over this island and with multiple...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the 34% increase in the number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents during 2007; the proposals he has to...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the growing number of construction companies refusing to employ direct workers and the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 41: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs he expects to be created during 2008 in regard to manufacturing and other sectors; the way these...
    • Equal Opportunities Employment
      Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average industrial wage earned by a male worker and female worker respectively; the average male earnings and average...
    • Work Permits
      Question 44: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons granted green cards under the scheme for recruiting highly skilled workers from outside the EU; the...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
    • EU Directives
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, in respect of EU Directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the practical measures his Department has taken to prevent or discourage the emerging trend whereby a number of well known...
    • Job Losses
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to his Department during 2007; the way this compares with the same period in each year...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his priorities for the meeting of the Employment Council of 29 February 2008; if he will raise the issue of the draft EU...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to recent comments by the European institutions drawing attention to a lack of...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on removing the cap of six years on participants over 55 years of age in community employment schemes, in order to...
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the decline from 2002 in 2006, to 1750 in 2007 in the number of inspections to check that the minimum wage...
    • Job Creation
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he proposes to take measures to encourage job creation in view of a downturn in this area in the past five years; and if...
    • Regulatory Reform
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has decided on a benchmark against which the Government's promise to cut business compliance costs by 25% can be...
    • Price Inflation
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on reports of recent substantial increases in the price of a range of food prices and forecasts that food prices...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the Employment Agency Regulation Bill, which had been on the list on legislation due to be published prior to 30...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take measures to prevent English retail stores marking up the euro price of their products here. [8252/08]
    • Trade Union Recognition
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will introduce measures that will oblige employers to recognise trade unions. [8249/08]
    • Labour Inspectorate
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed by the National Employment Rights Authority; the number of labour inspectors...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of on-the-spot fines for breaches of consumer law imposed to date under the terms of the Consumer Protection...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to any situations in the past where companies based in the North and South of Ireland...
    • Consumer Protection
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there have been complaints made to consumer associations regarding the differential between the euro and sterling prices...
  • Department of Finance
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the requirements on a retail outlet that seeks to sell alcoholic drink in terms of the licence fee to be paid; and if he will make a...
    • Airport Development Projects
      Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if consultants have been retained by his Department to stress test the robustness of the business plans submitted by Dublin Airport...
    • Tax Code
      Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision as regard introducing a VRT refund scheme for people who registered cars prior to 1 July 2008 as...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of people who have taken up the scheme of tax relief for season tickets on public transport; the way this has grown over the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular format and in chronological order, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2007, the names of organisations or...
    • Tax Code
      Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will qualify for a tax refund. [8639/08]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Promotion
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the health and immunisation programme in national schools is to be used as an opportunity to work in partnership with parents and...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if Section 4(3) of the competition Act 2002 could be utilised to allow negotiations on contracts and fees between the Health Service...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare is not facilitated with nursing home care; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 79: 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. [8544/08]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed changes in the community childcare funding will have a serious adverse...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the widespread discontent at the level of gynaecology services in the Cork University Maternity...
    • Pharmacy Services
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will present a further report on the developing situation between the Health Service Executive and the Irish Pharmacist Union; if...
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the meeting between her Department and Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly in respect of suicide; if new...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the recommendations in a report (details supplied). [8577/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly is on a waiting list to see an occupational therapist; when this person will be given an...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8605/08]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 684 of 31 January 2007, when the CT scanner will be operational at Ennis General Hospital in County...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a locum dermatologist will be appointed to a hospital (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans of the Health Service Executive to provide a CT scanner in Mallow General Hospital. [8620/08]
    • Health Promotion
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made as to whether Ireland will follow the lead of other EU countries and introduce legislation to ensure that...
    • Suicide Prevention
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional funding that will be provided for suicide prevention in 2008; the funding available in counties Roscommon and Leitrim in...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times and the number of children awaiting urgent and non-urgent child and adolescent psychiatric services respectively in...
    • Health Services
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [8641/08]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to her Department's Disability Act 2005 sectoral plan, if the review of the plan due to take place in mid 2007 has been...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason applications by a person (details supplied) in County Louth to the health repayment scheme were rejected; and if she will...
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Network
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Transport when a contract (details supplied) is expected to be finished; the amount the contract was originally for; if the project is within budget or...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Transport the marine, coastal and fisheries responsibilities currently held by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8531/08]
    • Foreign Registered Drivers
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Transport the requirements on drivers and vehicles from other EU states to comply with Irish rules regarding the testing of vehicles, the recording of...
    • Rail Network
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has made a decision on the Iarnród Eireann proposed use of the Broadstone rail line; when he will make this decision public; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will use Section 41 of the Harbours Act, 2006, to instruct the Dublin Port Company to amend the Dublin Port superannuation scheme in order...
    • Rail Services
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress to date in the provision of a new railway station at Drogheda north; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8719/08]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he envisages a role for Ireland in assisting in conflict resolution in Sri Lanka in relation to the civil rights and identity of the...
    • Passport Applications
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the passport issued to a person (details supplied) was the subject of representations from, transmitted or routed through, or in any way...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Official Engagements
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has information with regard to a visit by a member of the royal family of Saudi Arabia to a health facility here...
    • Work Permits
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if and when a work permit will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a...
    • Audiology Sector
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans the National Standards Authority has to regulate the audiology sector here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Work Permits
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) in County Cork can re-apply for a work permit that has expired since January 2008; and if...
    • Job Losses
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has had talks with the principals in a retailers (details supplied) either before or after their announcement of the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions he has had with the Industrial Development Authority regarding job creation in Dungarvan, County Waterford;...
    • Importation of Fuel
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the guidelines set out by his Department in relation to the importation of coal to Ireland; the procedure an applicant...
    • Work Permits
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the delay in granting a work permit to a company (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if the matter will be...
    • Competition Authority
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will request the Competition Authority to make a declaration under section 4(3) of the Competition Act 2002 in order...
    • Job Losses
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the case of a redundancy payment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [8644/08]
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action taken by his Department in each of the past five years to correct or adjust the competitive element of the...
    • Work Permits
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications for work permits received in each of the past twelve months; the number approved, rejected or...
    • Job Creation
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs he expects will be created in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8671/08]
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 126: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the factors that are most obviously undermining the competitiveness of the economy; the action proposed to address the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost and gained in County Kildare in the past seven years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Skill Shortages
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the skills of the labour force are adequate to meet future requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Job Creation
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in the past 12 months; the number lost in the same period in both the manufacturing and service...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which he or his Department continuously monitored the competitiveness of the economy here; and if he will...
    • Insurance Industry
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied regarding the competitiveness of the insurance industry here in comparison with other European or...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has provided sufficient funding to ensure the continuation and expansion if necessary of various community employment...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will ensure that persons who are not able to present themselves for collection of their social welfare entitlements due to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will issue on a carers allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Leader Programmes
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the rural development programme 2006, that he announced at the ploughing match in 2005, will be put into...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • School Milk Scheme
      Question 137: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost basis of the school milk scheme, including details of the subsidy from the EU; and if the same amount is charged to...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding plans to transfer the responsibilities of coastal protection, coastal flooding and coastal zone...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be awarded their REPS 4 payments; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Road Safety
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when guidelines for the preparation of a road safety plan outside schools will be available to enable schools to prepare their own...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will clarify a situation whereby a directive from her Department prohibits staff in the building unit in Tullamore from...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have submitted an application to her Department for full...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the appointment of design teams (details supplied). [8578/08]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the correspondence her Department has had with a person (details supplied); the action she will take in relation to these matters; and...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 153: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department is considering having English taught to children at an early age in Gaelscoilleanna when surveys have shown...
    • Educational Programmes
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the evidence based intervention programmes that have been introduced to primary schools in line with exemplars of good practice such...
    • Third Level Courses
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if curricula in catering training colleges have been altered to put greater emphasis on healthy food options; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason school transport charges have increased for students in junior cycle from €33 to €46 per term and for students in...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the developments which have taken place since the formation of the Government to achieve a reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio in the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the developments which have taken place since the formation of the Government to improve accommodation and services for children with...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding or grants available for a person who intends taking a course (details supplied). [8654/08]
    • School Transport
      Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason transport is not provided for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon despite the fact that assurances were given...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 21 February 2008, the band rating of the school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when urgent placement will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding provided by her Department to each institute of technology in each of the years 2003 to 2007; and the budgeted funding...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if each divisional public service vehicle inspector must share surveying and other essential equipment with other PSV...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of motorists issued with penalty points on the M1 at Santry in 2006 and who were subsequently refunded their...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for residency by a person (details supplied). [8560/08]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Blessington area, County Wicklow for 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of Gardaí on duty on...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will resolve a matter (details supplied). [8576/08]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason an application for a certificate of naturalisation has been refused for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the use of mosquito sirens which emit a high-pitched sound only audible to younger people as a means of...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the requirements on a retail outlet who seek to sell alcoholic drink in terms of the restrictions on the hours of sale and...
    • Court Staff
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of judges that have a tip staff; the cost to taxpayer of the hiring of same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the time scale envisaged by him in relation to cases within his Department that are to be determined by him as a result of...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be reached on the application to remain on humanitarian grounds by a person (details supplied) in...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 1178 of 30 January 2008, if he has received an application for family reunification...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if matters raised by a residents committee (details supplied) in County Waterford with the Reception and Integration Agency...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has received correspondence from the legal representatives of persons (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or proposed residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for leave to remain in the State in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residency Permits
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has taken place in the past six months in the application for residency in the case of a person (details...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8704/08]
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to educate people in relation to recycling and the use of compost bins and any other such items...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 206: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the marine, coastal and fisheries responsibilities currently held by her Department; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn, in relation to businesses and competitiveness, to the effect the new...
    • Archaeological Sites
      Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure protection of archaeological heritage at both Lismullen and Rath Lugh; if he...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the increase in population and open spaces and roads in charge, he will lift the recruitment...
    • Noise Pollution
      Question 210: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the noise restrictions that apply to licensed premises located within apartment developments; the recourse...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      Question 212: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the marine, coastal and fisheries responsibilities currently held by his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if broadband will be rolled out in a village (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...