Written answers
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Import Tariffs
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details of the proposed World Trade Organisation import tariff cuts on the main farm sectors; if her Department has...
- Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 13 November 2007, the number of applications and the amount applied for in...
- Food Labelling
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress she is making on ensuring a more comprehensive labelling system for meat and food products imported into this...
- Aquaculture Industry
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will press the European Commission for an EU strategy to support a sustainable fish and shellfish farming sector to...
- Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the situation regarding outstanding applications for the farm improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Animal Feedstuffs
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on the expected impending meat scarcity due to increasing feed prices; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Beef Industry
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has carried out analysis of the economic impact on the Irish beef industry of the decision to re-open...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures she will introduce to alleviate the difficulty facing the pig industry, in view of the clear disparity between...
- Grant Payments
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the EU Commission is seeking the publication of details of the 2007 payments...
- Food Labelling
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures that are in place to ensure that non-organic food is not mislabelled; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Price Inflation
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps her Department is taking to combat food price inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13077/08]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will lobby the European Commission to rescind the decision to pay REP scheme four retrospectively to participating...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific measures she will introduce in the agricultural sector to meet Ireland's national target of reducing greenhouse...
- Obesity Levels
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the consultations she has had with the Department of Health and Children in relation to the recent evidence of an alarming...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all applications for grant aid received and approved under the farm waste management scheme will be paid; and if she will...
- Departmental Communications
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has received communications from the Agriculture Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly in the past year; the...
- Fishing Industry
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the Government's position with regard to internal transferable quotas; her views on the re-flagging of the Johanna Maria...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps she will take in the context of the World Trade Organisation to ensure that the Irish and European food producing...
- Animal Diseases
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the continuing threat to human health and the economy generally from animal diseases, she will consider the...
- Food Industry
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on the impending food security crisis; the measures she will take to ensure the Irish consumer is not adversely...
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason aquaculture licences are not available to inshore mussel dredging fishermen. [13086/08]
- Food Labelling
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all food and food products on sale here are accurately labelled to reflect the country of origin and full traceability; if...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will reopen the farm improvement scheme to enable farmers in the middle of some developments to complete the work so...
- Milk Quota
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will review her allocation of the milk quota to facilitate development farmers and thereby honour agreements to them...
- Noxious Weeds
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of prosecutions and convictions in 2007 for failure to control ragworth; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Planning Issues
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will include forestry under the Strategic Infrastructure Act which came into force in January 2007; and if she will...
- Bovine Disease Controls
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the latest information available to her Department on the outbreak of bluetongue in Northern Ireland; the steps she is...
- On-farm Investment Schemes
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the grants available to individuals hoping to acquire anaerobic digestion systems; the extent to which such grants have been...
- Milk Quota
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures in view of the envisaged changes to the milk quota system, she will bring forward to encourage new entrants to...
- Grant Payments
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all applications for grant aid received and approved under the farm improvement scheme will be paid; and if she will make...
- Alternative Farm Enterprises
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on recent reports regarding the threat which energy crops pose to world food production and the...
- Food Labelling
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will extend the country of origin labelling of beef introduced in 2006 to cover lamb products; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when she will give ministerial clearance for the processing of the 3,000 applications that were received between 21 October...
- Potato Industry
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the efforts being made to promote consumption of the potato which has dropped significantly among younger consumers; and if...
- Sheep Industry
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will implement the Malone report on the sheep industry in full; her timetable for the implementation of its...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Irish Life Tables
Question 112: To ask the Taoiseach when the Central Statistics Office will publish new Irish Life Tables, in view of the fact that it is now nearly four years since Irish Life Tables 14 were...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 113: To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department spent on recruitment advertising, excluding any advertisement conducted by the Public Appointments Service in 2007. [12773/08]
- Waste Management
Question 115: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if he will make a statement on...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 116: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments to State boards, bodies or committees made since 3 July 2007 to date in 2008; the names of the persons so appointed; the dates on which the...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 117: To ask the Taoiseach the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings under the...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 118: To ask the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has statutory effect under the...
- Department of Finance
- Registered Employers
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 30 January 2008, the number of people registered as employers with the Revenue...
- Tax Code
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will estimate the cost to the Exchequer of tax breaks to artists on an annual basis; if there is a mechanism in place to recoup...
- Waste Management
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if he...
- National Monuments
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason Grianán Ailig has been removed from the list of national monuments here; the person by whom and the reason this decision...
- National Pensions Reserve Fund
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the value of the National Pensions Reserve Fund to date and at the end of each year since its inception; the impact global financial...
- Savings Incentive Schemes
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of a savings incentive scheme aimed at welfare dependent and low income families to encourage saving and...
- Tax Code
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be issued with a P21 balancing statement for 2007; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the future usage he has in mind for the portion of the building that remains unoccupied in a complex (details supplied) in Dublin 5;...
- Tax Code
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the grounds on which a form 12 may be sent by the Revenue Commissioners to a tax-payer whose only source of income is PAYE; and if he...
- Garda Stations
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the progress made in respect of providing a new Garda station for the town of Portlaoise; if he will confirm that a site has been...
- Pension Provisions
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will publish an analysis of public sector liabilities at end 2006 and end 2007 in accordance with IAS 19, including the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 25 February 2008, the progress made by the Office Of Public Works in sourcing suitable...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in...
- Tax Code
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the status of the fuel excise duty refund for those in public transport services; if his promise to TDs in different political parties...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position on the provision of premises for decentralisation in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the liability for rates that applies to sporting clubs which are operated on a purely recreational and social basis and where any bar...
- Flood Relief
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 2 April 2008, if he will explain what is meant by where it is considered appropriate on...
- Tax Schemes
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he proposes to implement the mid-Shannon tourism infrastructure scheme promised in budget 2006; the reason for the delay in...
- Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the application for funding for a new community crèche (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make...
- Waste Management
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if she...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the proposed fair deal nursing home legislation; if the legal drafting difficulties have been successfully addressed; when...
- Health Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [12818/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the service plan and overall budget for the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore will be approved; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Staff
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason nine people including a person (details supplied) were offered a permanent nursing position on 15 August 2007 and were...
- Hospital Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the manner in which payments are made with regard to the delayed discharge grant; the criteria used; and if she will...
- Pharmacy Services
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the negotiations that have taken place between the pharmacists and the Health Service Executive. [12865/08]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will present a report on the development of the proposed new National Children's Hospital; the schedule being followed in the...
- Health Services
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in Dublin identified as needing speech and language therapy for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of...
- Health Service Staff
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists recruited nationally by the Health Service Executive for each of the years 2000 to 2007;...
- Health Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in Dublin identified as needing occupational therapy for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of children...
- Health Service Staff
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of orthodontists recruited nationally by the Health Service Executive for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the number of...
- Hospital Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of step down, long term care and rehabilitative beds for each of the years 2000 to 2007; the location of these beds; and if...
- Community Care
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to home helps and home care packages in each of the Health Service Executive community care areas for...
- Mental Health Services
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the extra four child and adolescent psychiatric beds for St. Anne's, Galway and the extra six such beds for St. Vincent's, Fairview,...
- Medical Cards
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [12913/08]
- Pharmacy Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is not responding to legal correspondence from individual pharmacies. [12915/08]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will advise on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [12918/08]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding approval by her Department for a capital plan for a 25 stationed unit at the Mid West Regional Hospital which has...
- Hospital Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that an audit of services is taking place at Sligo General Hospital; if this audit covers breast cancer services,...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if supplies of the BCG vaccine are available following difficulties with the provision of the vaccine at the end of 2007; the timescale...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the anticipated timescale for the payment of refunds under the health repayment scheme for a person (details supplied); and if she will...
- Private Health Insurance
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Competition Authority's recommendations regarding private health insurance that have been implemented by her Department to date; the...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options available to a citizen who is entitled to a medical card and has sought to become a patient of local doctors, but has been...
- Hospital Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the unavailability of laser treatment for neurology conditions in the neurology department of Beaumont Hospital...
- North-South Co-operation
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a joint North-South feasibility study on the potential for future co-operation in the health area (details supplied); and...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay in putting in place the fair deal scheme is causing financial hardship to...
- Health Levy
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a health levy exemption will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Mental Health Services
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on recommendations contained in A Vision for Change; if she is satisfied with the implementation of the plan to date;...
- Departmental Reports
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeframe for delivering the recommendations contained in the National Taskforce on Obesity report published in 2005; if she will...
- Health Services
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12982/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to provide a new dialysis facility at Limerick Regional Hospital. [12984/08]
- Health Service Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Health Service Executive staff currently on maternity leave or leave of absence; the arrangements in place by the HSE to...
- Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to patients having to travel from the midlands, where there is a renal unit at the Midlands Regional...
- Community Care
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to plans to provide a facility (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the construction of a project (details supplied); the background to the project; the status of the project and...
- Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will give her total effort and commitment to removing with full haste the obstacles to the progress of the putting in place of...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide BreastCheck services in Sligo General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13111/08]
- Energy Efficiency
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress her Department has made in achieving the 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings...
- Grant Payments
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the home care grant for the west Wicklow area and the Wicklow area; if funding will be provided as a matter...
- Health Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the specialist palliative care specialist nursing service in Wicklow Community Care, which has been...
- Child Care Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will be providing the extra funding to a home (details supplied) in County Cork to provide staffing grant for week-end cover in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the cancellations of eye assessments at the Mater Hospital due to malfunction of eye photographic...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within her Department's remit, which has statutory...
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures the Health Service Executive has in place to allow pharmacists sell generic medicines instead of branded drugs; if she will...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the expert group to examine the provision of high frequency chest compression vests for persons with cystic fibrosis reported, as...
- Child Abuse
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the reason the Health Service Executive has not furnished to this Deputy the information sought in Questions...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of respite beds that are closed and are planned to be closed around the country; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive in the past three years on computer upgrades, computer programmes and the upgrading of...
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will run a publicity campaign pointing out the dangers to children's health in cars where smoking is taking place; and if she...
- Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and when suitable residential accommodation will be found through the Health Service Executive or private nursing homes in respect of...
- Medical Cards
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or her Department have received correspondence from various persons regarding the continuation of cancer services at Sligo...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if medication required by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be provided under the GMS in respect of their son who...
- Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if full after school and some weekend respite will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their son,...
- Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans for a nursing home in Ballinrobe, County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13388/08]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to be in a position to finalise and publish legislation to introduce the new nursing home support scheme bill, A Fair...
- Department of Transport
- Waste Management
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if he will make a...
- Driving Tests
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Transport the way he proposes to ensure that a functioning system of driving instruction will be in place after the deadline in nine months time, in view of...
- Marine Accidents
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to reports that the Nautilus UK trade union has called for rapid agreement between the UK and Ireland on the...
- Rail Network
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will support a project (details supplied). [12819/08]
- Irish Coast Guard
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Transport when work will begin on the repair and refurbishment of the coast guard cottages; if he will ensure work is expedited on the grounds of health and...
- Traffic Management
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Transport if there is a provision in traffic legislation for the prosecution of traffic signal violations on the basis of camera evidence; if not, the...
- Light Rail Project
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of plans for the development of a Luas line along the Broadstone track to Liffey Junction; the expected time line for the operational...
- Aviation Safety Regulations
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will review safety measures and flight paths over residential areas at private airfields, including Weston Airport, Lucan, County Dublin,...
- Light Rail Project
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Luas extension from Connolly Station to the Docklands will not incorporate a stop at the Docklands Train Station, which is a terminus for...
- Marine Safety
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received and reviewed a copy of the recent publication of an investigation report by the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch into...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Transport if an estimate has been made of the volume of carbon produced by commuter trains and inter-city trains which run on diesel; and if he will make a...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings under the...
- Public Transport
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the promise in the Programme for Government which promised to introduce a minimum requirement for the use of bio-fuels in State-owned...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is in receipt of a report from a person (details supplied) regarding payment for recent development works at Cork Airport; when he will be...
- Public Transport
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Transport the contact he has had with the Department of Finance in relation to the cancelling of the fuel excise duty rebate for those in public transport...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has statutory effect...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Transport when all disabled parking bays in County Mayo and nationwide will be painted blue as directed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representations that have been made over the past month to the Chinese Government in relation to ongoing repression in Tibet; and if he...
- Waste Management
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if he will...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position the Irish Government took on the draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...
- Diplomatic Relations
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to recognise South Ossetia in view of recognition being afforded to Kosovo; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Foreign Elections
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has had a report on the elections in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12878/08]
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of his Department's refusal to publish Irish Aid audits in relation to eight countries due to the fact that disclosure of this...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has statutory...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of discretionary funds allocated to each of the four Irish Consulates in the United States of America, as well as the Irish...
- Cross-Border Initiatives
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are grants available for a club (details supplied) in County Wexford to assist with the running of the club, particularly in...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will process an application for a green card for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick as soon as possible....
- Job Creation
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown by county of jobs created by companies with the support of the IDA for each of the past five...
- Waste Management
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other...
- Departmental Properties
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of an Enterprise Ireland site (details supplied) in Dublin 9; his plans for future use of the site; and if he...
- Job Creation
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of multinational companies that have located here since January 2008; the names of these companies; the number...
- Pension Provisions
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take in view of the fact that the construction workers pension scheme is compulsory to bring all...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which...
- Work Permits
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will issue guidelines in relation to foreign immigrants who come here with a valid work permit issued to their...
- Skill Shortages
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports and services available to employers and employees who are seeking to upgrade their qualifications and skills...
- Job Losses
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the countries to which Irish jobs have been relocated in the past three years; if the underlying causes have been...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Olympic Games
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way the Government will be represented at the Olympic Games in Beijing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12780/08]
- Waste Management
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if...
- Arts Funding
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on establishing a book fair here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12861/08]
- Sports Funding
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will confirm receipt of an application for funding from a sporting organisation (details supplied); when the funds available...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in...
- National Library
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received a report from the National Library of Ireland reviewing the implications of the extension of the legal deposit...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status, activity and output of the working group established under Sustaining Progress to monitor the impact of changes to the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding decentralisation to Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13222/08]
- Waste Management
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when maternity benefit will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who applied for same 10 weeks ago; and if...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted child benefit in respect of their two children; and...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [13382/08]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Waste Management
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other...
- Community Development
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will confirm that the contract between an agency (details supplied) and his Department is to be terminated; his...
- Youth Services
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make funding available for the provision of an extra youth employee at a club (details supplied) in County...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit,...
- Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin
Question 297: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta mar gheall ar an drochstaid ina bhfuil an ché ar Oileán Inis Bó Finne, Co Dhún na nGall agus an chontúirt do dhaoine...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Coastal Protection
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will respond to a query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12802/08]
- Foreshore Licences
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on the granting of a foreshore license to a consortium (details supplied) and the possible...
- Waste Management
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents;...
- Seafood Industry
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the Cawley Report into the seafood industry was received by her Department; when this report will be made available to...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the time will be extended for the farm waste management scheme to cater for people who are having difficulties with...
- Grant Payments
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment. [12857/08]
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her Departments responsibility under the Foreshore Act 1933 as it relates to approvals for the construction of wind farms...
- Dredging Licences
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if steps are to be taken to provide for public participation in decisions on applications for dredging licences under the...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress her Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within her Department's remit, which...
- Animal By-Products
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if it is intended to use meat and bonemeal as a fertiliser on land or on forestry in the future; and the safest means of...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the extent to which she has had discussions with her EU colleagues in the context of the World Trade Organisation with a...
- Alternative Farm Enterprises
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the total area dedicated to growing bio-energy crops; the growth in this regard in the past five years; the projections for...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if in the context of fishery policy reform each country within the EU has been sufficiently penalised commensurate with the...
- Food Labelling
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the extent to which she and her Department monitor the labelling of food and food products imported into this country with a...
- Food Safety Standards
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has taken steps to ensure that all food and food products imported into this country have been subjected to the same...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the extent to which families involved in the fishing industry here have declined in the past five years; the expected...
- Grant Payments
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for any REP scheme or any other grant; and if she will make a...
- Department of Education and Science
- Library Services
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding is available through his Department to assist a group (details supplied) in County Kildare seeking to provide a library...
- Regeneration Programme
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding allocated to the regeneration boards in County Limerick to address educational needs; and if she will make a statement on...
- Waste Management
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if...
- School Accommodation
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12812/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare, in view of the serious concerns...
- Higher Education
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is seeking a transfer to UCD to continue their studies in...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the proposed autism centre at Middletown in County Armagh; when it is expected that this facility will be up and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the already approved ten classroom extension and associated works at a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; if...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of speech and language therapy graduates for each of the years 2000 to 2008; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to the following query (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12917/08
- Higher Education Grants
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to a query from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [12928/08]
- School Enrolments
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children enrolled in national schools under Protestant management and in receipt of public funds; and if she will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants, learning support and resource teachers granted to secondary schools here during the past five...
- School Staffing
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of additional permanent teachers appointed to secondary schools here during the past five years; and if she will make a...
- State Examinations
Question 339: 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. [12981/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the proposed extension for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of home tuition grants paid in 2007; the number of children in 2007 who took part in the home tuition scheme; the cost of...
- School Accommodation
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 13 March 2008, if her attention has been drawn to the need to supply extra accommodation...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for a school building project (details supplied) in Dublin 10; when this project will begin; and if she...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress her Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in...
- School Accommodation
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for grant aid for major capital works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for building works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects a decision to be...
- School Libraries
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status on an application for a demonstration library project for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects...
- School Accommodation
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary who have made an application for...
- School Libraries
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status on an application for a demonstration library project for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for building works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects a decision to be...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within her Department's remit, which has...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of each post-primary school located in Dublin South with regard to the provision of a new school building or...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plans she has to address the concerns expressed in a submission (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant funding to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick, which has previously been turned down, in order to comply...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to implement the strategy document for the development of second-level education which she has received from a group...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools and second level schools in County Galway that applied for the summer works scheme in 2008 prior to her...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a physical education hall at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the provision of a new national school at Bullaun, Loughrea, County Galway in view of the overcrowding...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in securing a site for the new promised second level school as a replacement for a school (details supplied) in...
- Literacy Levels
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of literacy clients who attended courses run by Mayo Vocational Educational Committee for the past five years; the amount...
- Áiseanna Múinte Gaeilge
Question 368: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad atá á dhéanamh aici ar son na múinteoirí atá den tuairim nach bhfuil a ndóthain Gaeilge acu chun í a mhúineadh i gceart de...
- Tionscadail Tógála Scoileanna
Question 370: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad atá á dhéanamh aici chun comhionannas agus rannpháirteachas de réir ráiteas misin na Roinne a chinntiú do mhic léinn na...
- Áiseanna Múinte Gaeilge
Question 371: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cén maoiniú atá á chur ar fáil le háiseanna múinte Gaeilge agus le cleachtais mhúinteoireachta Gaeilge níos fearr a fhorbairt;...
- Foghlaim na Gaeilge
Question 372: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta an glacann sí leis go bhfuil mí-úsáid á baint ag líon mór daltaí as an díolúine ó staidéar na Gaeilge ar scoil agus iad ag...
- Teagaisc Lán-Ghaeilge
Question 373: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cén uair a bheidh na torthaí iomlána ón suirbhé a rinneadh (sonraí tugtha) maidir le beartas teagaisc lán-Ghaeilge na scoile á...
- School Curriculum
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason she insists on pressing ahead with her campaign to outlaw by means of statutory instrument the teaching method of early...
- Teacher Training
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she is taking for teachers who feel, according to the European Commission and Department of Education Report, that they do...
- School Accommodation
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she is taking to ensure equity and inclusion for gaelscoileanna students in dilapidated buildings without proper basic...
- Teacher Training
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding being provided to develop better Irish-language teaching aids and language teaching methods; and if she will make a...
- School Curriculum
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether a large number of students abuse the exemption from learning Irish at school, in view of the fact that many with...
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Question 381: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the complete results of the survey conducted in relation to a school (details supplied) will be published regarding the all-Irish...
- Capitation Grants
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an arrangement will be made between her Department and local authorities whereby water charges will be paid directly to the local...
- Department of Defence
- Commemorative Events
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Defence if an independent Member of Dáil Eireann was invited to the Easter commemoration ceremony at the General Post Office in 2008 and if not, if he will...
- Waste Management
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other documents; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Defence the position of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12966/08]
- Waste Disposal
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Defence when a matter (details supplied) will be dealt with by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12969/08]
- Energy Efficiency
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Defence the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings under the...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which has statutory effect...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Proposed Legislation
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the role of the national Property Services Regulatory Authority in regulating property management agents; and if he will...
- Departmental Statistics
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Roma community believed to be legally resident here at present. [13092/08]
- Waste Management
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and other...
- Asylum Applications
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to a query from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Visa Applications
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12799/08]
- Crime Prevention
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a safety and security plan will be put in place at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [12820/08]
- Visa Applications
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has received an application for a visa from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and when he expects...
- Residency Permits
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be issued in relation to a long term residency application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1;...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 4 March 2008, if he will furnish a copy of the decision by his Department in...
- Crime Levels
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the national figures for reported calls to domestic incidents other than public venues and public houses and so on, on a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the application for naturalisation by persons (details supplied) in County Louth will be dealt with; if his attention...
- Residency Permits
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to make a decision regarding an application for long-term residency by a person (details supplied) in...
- Visa Applications
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) is not permitted to enter Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Joint Policing Committees
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the evaluation of the joint policing committees pilot initiative has been completed; when he will make an announcement;...
- Residency Permits
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the application by persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12 for long-term residency will be processed without further...
- Asylum Applications
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Romanian nationals granted refugee status here prior to Romania becoming an EU State in 2007. [13004/08]
- Energy Efficiency
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of fines being issued for lack of motor insurance and for lack of a certificate of road worthiness in...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument, falling within his Department's remit, which...
- Refugee Status
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 27 February 2008, when a recommendation is expected to be...
- Garda Deployment
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to a query (details supplied). [13381/08]
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Waste Management
Question 416: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 417: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding committed and forwarded by his Department in the years 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 418: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received an application for funding from a local authority (details supplied) in County...
- Planning Issues
Question 422: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to amend section 12 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in order that all landowners must...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 423: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will follow up his endorsement of a preservation order on the Fr. Mathew Hall and designate it as a...
- Property Sale
Question 424: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
- Waste Disposal
Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the information he has received on the level of risk to the health of persons living in a house where mercury...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 426: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will introduce legislation to allow for the sale of local authority flats by Cork City Council to its...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, with regard to his Department's observation in respect of protected structures, an official from his...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in any circumstance, a person who owns land not subject to a compulsory purchase order but who is...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 429: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress his Department has made in achieving the 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector;...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the guidelines that are in place in relation to the rental accommodation scheme of housing; the percentage of...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 433: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument falling within his Department's...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 434: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received a recommendation on tenders to Dublin City Council for the re-development of...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of litter wardens employed in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13387/08]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Inland Fisheries
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the job description, role and responsibilities pertaining to water keepers in relation to inland fisheries; and...
- Waste Management
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has a strategy to reduce the level of printed correspondence, communications, reports and...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the promise in the Programme for Government which promised to require the public sector to lead...
- Statutory Instruments
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the identity of each statutory instrument falling within his Department's...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 440: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband will be provided in Valentia Island. [13245/08]
