Written answers
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Departmental Advertising
Question 80: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of the current climate change media campaign to date; the expected expenditure in the future; the...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 81: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the €50 collected as part of the €70 Private Residential Tenancies Board registration fee is ring...
- Planning Issues
Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to review planning Part V legislation to stop the practice of some local authorities taking...
- Election Management System
Question 83: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to date of the development, roll out and promotion of the electronic voting and counting system;...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that in 2006 Cork County Council inspected 0.02% of registered dwellings and Donegal...
- Strategy on Homelessness
Question 85: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans in place to develop services and implement the Government strategy to end homelessness by 2010; if...
- Water Quality
Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking in relation to the 28 city and county councils that have in their administrative areas...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if additional funds other than those collected by the Private Residential Tenancies Board are allocated by...
- National Biodiversity Plan
Question 88: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the relevant Government Departments and State agencies that are required to prepare their own biodiversity...
- Election Management System
Question 89: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he supports the view to create an all-party committee to examine constituency boundary changes; and if he...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 90: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to meet the housing requirements of persons currently on local authority housing lists throughout...
- Local Government Reform
Question 91: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to publish the Green Paper on local government reform; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Planning Issues
Question 92: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date on which he will introduce legislation to amend practices regarding developer contributions to...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures his Department has put in place to ensure that local authorities conform to best practice in...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 97: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that affordable sites are made available to local authority housing...
- Water Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has put in place or will introduce to ensure an adequate domestic drinking water supply...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 99: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make dwellings which are the subject of a lease between landlord and tenant liable for...
- Water Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason Roscommon County Council's water waiver system has not remained in place for elderly or hardship...
- National Biodiversity Plan
Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he has taken to find out the local authorities that have a biodiversity plan and a biodiversity...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 105: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures his Department has put in place to ensure that local authorities conform to ensuring that...
- Environmental Policy
Question 106: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the Stein gasification process; and his views on whether it might be a...
- Litter Pollution
Question 107: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the schemes in other countries for removing litter from roads such as...
- Planning Issues
Question 108: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the policy directives that are given to local authority planners as regards density levels in high rise...
- Town Boundaries
Question 109: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received representations from Midleton Town Council asking him to extend the town boundary; the...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 110: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of the sustainable communities fund that has been allocated to social inclusion units and...
- Strategy on Homelessness
Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the lack of adequate funding available to the voluntary...
- Litter Pollution
Question 114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has proposals to deal with the spread of litter here which in many areas is a blot on the landscape. ...
- National Biodiversity Plan
Question 115: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the preparation of the review of the national biodiversity plan that is being carried...
- EU Directives
Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his position on proposals to include biofuel sustainability standards in a revised version of the EU's fuel...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 118: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of Dublin City Council of postponing applications to the...
- Election Management System
Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the establishment of an independent electoral commission to take responsibility...
- Local Authority Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures his Department has put in place to ensure that local authorities conform to quality customer...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Cabinet Committees
Question 123: To ask the Taoiseach the members of the Cabinet sub-committee on climate change [15282/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 124: To ask the Taoiseach the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training; the contractors who...
- National Statistics
Question 125: To ask the Taoiseach the number of people from the international community living in Gorey town, County Wexford. [13948/08]
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 127: To ask the Taoiseach the consultants who carried out work for his Department or for any body under the auspices of his Department during 2007; if each consultant was an individual...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 128: To ask the Taoiseach the areas and functions where responsibility has been devolved from him to a State or statutory agency; the agencies involved; the arrangements in each agency...
- National Statistics
Question 129: To ask the Taoiseach the current rate of unemployment in Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/08]
- Computerisation Programme
Question 131: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the new strategy for e-Government services being developed by his Department; the targets and deadlines this strategy will include; if...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 132: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the campaign or relevant...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 133: To ask the Taoiseach the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation, in the United States for...
- Department of Finance
- Auctioneers' Licences
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of auctioneers or house agents that have been awarded licences by the Revenue Commissioners for each of the past five...
- Pub Licences
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of pub licences issued nationally and in the Dublin 15 area in the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007; and the number of pub...
- Tax Code
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if it is possible for a person on maternity benefit to also receive the home carer's tax credit for the period they were off work...
- Legislative Programme
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication...
- Tax Collection
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to tax rebates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15275/08]
- Departmental Advertising
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost incurred by the Office of Public Works for the rental of car park spaces in Cork, particularly but not exclusive to the five...
- Tax Code
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will expedite the processing of documentation relating to the estate of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Election Management System
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason expenses totalling €780,000 were incurred by the returning officer for County Wicklow in the 2007 general election,...
- Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed child care subvention scheme will come into effect; and when the creches concerned will be notified of the changes....
- Pharmacists' Contract
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provisions she has made to ensure continuity of supply of drugs and other essential medical necessities to medical card holders...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in respect of payment under the health...
- Health Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the maternity services provided at a health centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow, she will ensure provision of...
- Medical Cards
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether it is equitable that the medical card income limit in respect of a single person living either alone or with a...
- Health Services
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has had their home care package grant reduced by two thirds in view of the fact...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount that was spent by her Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training; the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the waiting time for assessment for hip replacement operations within the Health...
- Medicinal Products
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the recent tender for supply of unlicensed medicine to the Health Service Executive; the criteria used for the...
- Hospital Services
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm a recent report (details supplied) that a €500,000 medical CT scanner is in storage behind a filling station in...
- Health Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the alternative arrangements she has made to replace the provision of the roll-over facility to patients who are receiving Alzheimer's...
- Health Service Staff
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been in contact with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform or intends to contact that Department to make...
- Smoking Ban
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the recent call from an organisation (details supplied) for smoking to be banned in cars which carry children...
- Health Services
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will advise on a case (details supplied). [15096/08]
- Health Service Allowances
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will consider back-dating the domiciliary care allowance granted to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [15104/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called to Galway for an MRI scan. [15111/08]
- Health Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of home care packages in each health area drawn down in each year since the inception of the scheme; the number of...
- Alcohol Promotion
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are renewed plans to implement a ban on alcohol related sponsorship of sports or activities involving participants under 18...
- Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 6 March 2008, if an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be...
- Legislative Programme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by her Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication...
- Health Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding for the promised sexual assault treatment unit in Tralee, County Kerry will be provided; and if she will make a statement...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the meetings she has had or is proposing to have with the Health Service Executive in relation to the protection of cystic fibrosis...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason people who are called to an oral hearing in respect of the health repayment scheme are not informed that the appeals officer...
- Adoption Services
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make arrangements for a new assessment to be carried out in relation to an adoption by persons (details supplied) in County...
- Clinical Trials
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in relation to the urgent need for funding for...
- Mental Health Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the need for child psychiatric services at St. Raphael's, Celbridge, County Kildare; when the...
- Health Services
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provision which has been made for County Roscommon clients in a project (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by her Department; the...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the number of continuing care beds will be increased to meet the demands of an aging population; the policy interventions taking...
- Hospital Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who presented to Mallow General Hospital accident and emergency for the years 2004 to 2007; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the community dietician, initially based exclusively in Mitchelstown, County Cork has been withdrawn; if it is intended to...
- Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the appointment of an executive management board at Mallow General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will request the Health Service Executive to intervene to ensure that early medical attention is provided for a person (details...
- Child Abuse
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the delay in producing the McCoy report into allegations of physical and sexual abuse in residential homes managed by an order...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Information and Quality Authority has completed its work on standards for designated residential centres for people with a...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the person who determines the level of specialised treatment received by patients who have transferred to the National Treatment...
- Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is grant aid available for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15345/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding or financial support given by her Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation, in the...
- Health Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of intervention services to a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [15386/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made in relation to the provision of a centre of excellence in County Sligo; the number of meetings she has had...
- Health Services
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the facilities available both in County Mayo and nationally for people suffering from a condition (details supplied). [15393/08]
- Medical Cards
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will formulate a new public policy on childhood orthodontics in view of the unacceptable waiting times for children with serious...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will have the assessment they need in order that they can begin school; when they will...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) in County Clare are not being facilitated with appointments at a hospital; and if she will make a...
- Pension Provisions
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when pension pay and lump sum or calculation of same will be finalised in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Health Services
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when home help will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15476/08]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to funding for the provision of seven day accommodation needs, as opposed to the current five day arrangement...
- Child Care Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding provided for out of school services and after school services in the context of disadvantage and generally across Government...
- Department of Transport
- Public Transport
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 2 April 2008, if a licence has been issued; if so, the date on which it issued; and if he will make...
- Road Safety
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Transport the person who will sit on the Road Safety Authority's appeal board with respect to assessing the qualifications of driving instructors; and if he...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training; the...
- International Shipping
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the precedent created by an EU decision (details supplied), his Department will give similar consideration to the application of...
- Legislative Programme
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication and their...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the campaign or...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will expand on his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 474 of 2 April 2008, particularly regarding car parking costs of the Department of...
- Departmental Records
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will forward the details promised in Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 6 December 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15380/08]
- Legislative Programme
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department provided briefings to date in relation to the recently published Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008; and if he will make a...
- Public Transport
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a service (details supplied) failed to obtain a bus operating licence under the Road Transport Act 1932; if he is aware of other...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of discretionary funds to non-Irish emigrant groups, allocated to each of the four Irish consulates in the United States of...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will endorse the criticism of the Chinese Government's policy towards Tibet and his call for the Chinese Government to enter into...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training; the...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to an article (details supplied); if he will ensure that his Department gives every assistance possible to...
- Legislative Programme
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of days, in the case of every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication and...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the three non-governmental organisations that had their funding by Irish Aid suspended in 2007; the countries in which each of these NGOs...
- Departmental Staff
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of audit and accounting staff currently employed by Irish Aid; the planned increase in the number of such staff that will be...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of projects of €300,000, or greater, that were funded by Irish Aid in each of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; the number of...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount spent by Irish Aid on consultancies in each of the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the countries, currently receiving funding from the Irish Aid budget, that are not approved for budgetary support from that funding; and if...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the...
- Passport Applications
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assistance that will be given by his Department to a person (details supplied) in County Cork whose birth was never registered and who...
- EU Treaties
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the implications there are for the execution of powers of the European Court of Justice here if the Lisbon treaty is ratified; and if he...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Research and Development
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Ireland decided against joining CERN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15012/08]
- Job Creation
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of multinational companies that have located here for each year since 1998 to date in 2008; the names of these...
- Consumer Protection
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when was the deadline for submissions with regard to the commencement of a ban on credit card surcharges; when he will make...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the...
- National Minimum Wage
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the recent ruling with regard to a case in Lower Saxony, Germany, by the European Court of Justice, outlawing...
- Pension Provisions
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on introducing changes to the Registered Employment Agreement (Construction Industry Pensions Assurance and Sick...
- Unfair Dismissals
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will advise in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [14689/08]
- Legislative Programme
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of days, in the case of every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their...
- Pension Provisions
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding requirements that are in place for people employed in the construction industry to be part of an...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to reform the system whereby apprentices are trained and in which they need to find employment with sponsoring...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training;...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position of an application for capital sports lottery funding by a club (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Sports Facilities
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a target completion date has been set for the publication of the national audit of sports facilities; and if he will make a...
- Legislative Programme
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their...
- National Museum
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in view of the findings of the examination to evaluate how well the National Museum of Ireland manages the national collections,...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the funding or financial support given by his Department to agencies, bodies, community, religious or other groups or organisations...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the early child care supplement payment to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was stopped. [15352/08]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures in place to ensure that his Department only pays rent supplement in respect of private rented properties and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is entitled to rent supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15005/08]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on extending the free schemes to persons who are long-term unemployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a carer's allowance appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15049/08]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if pensioners will be forced to operate an exclusively card based-system for collecting payments of social welfare from the post...
- Legislative Programme
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when rent allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department;...
- Departmental Transport
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in responding to Parliamentary Question No. 568 of 2 April 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Pension Provisions
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the checks his Department carries out to verify the State pension claims of the 37,000 non-resident pensioners; the mechanism to...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason funding to an agency (details supplied) will be discontinued after the 31 May 2008; his views on whether...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when he expects to launch the next national drugs strategy, when his Department will be accepting submissions on the...
- Legislative Programme
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or...
- Child Care Services
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding provided for out of school services and after school services in the context of disadvantage and...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Coastal Erosion
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there are funds provided to combat coastal erosion particularly in the north County Dublin-Fingal area; if there is a...
- Legislative Programme
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she plans to introduce a new Foreshore Bill to replace the Foreshore Act 1933 and provide modern legislation to govern...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount that was spent by her Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the...
- Grant Payments
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment. [15051/08]
- Farm Improvement Scheme
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the level of funding available under the farm improvement scheme has been reached; and when applicants will be notified...
- Grant Payments
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be allocated entitlements from the national reserve, particularly in view...
- Legislative Programme
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by her Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the proposals currently being proposed by the EU as part of the World Trade Organisation talks in respect of agriculture;...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if her Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by her...
- Milk Quota
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make a statement on a matter (details supplied). [15326/08]
- Departmental Transport
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress in responding to Parliamentary Question No. 642 of 2 April 2008; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry can expect to receive their payment under the farm waste management scheme....
- Crop Management
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her proposals at European level to eliminate the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides on crops in the EU; and if...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the funding or financial support given by her Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or...
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for a place at a special needs school for a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [15387/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount that was spent by her Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training;...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided under the emergency works programme to replace windows in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12....
- Schools Funding
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools in the Dublin area that have been highlighted to her Department on behalf of the Archdiocese of Dublin,...
- School Staffing
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 9 April 2008, when she will supply this Deputy with the list of the 50 schools in...
- School Completion Programme
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount being spent in each year since the establishment of the stay in school retention initiative by her Department; the amount...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Asbestos Remediation Programme
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6 has been unable to avail of the asbestos...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will confirm that she has received an application for a comprehensive upgrading and improvement of a school (details supplied)...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow and following a visit from an architect from her Department on 28...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant and resource teaching hours will be reallocated to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [15098/08]
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding provided for out of school services and after school services in the context of disadvantage and generally across...
- Clár Tógála Scoileanna
Question 318: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad é an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le feabhsú agus deisiú ar scoil (sonraí tugtha); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has purchased a site for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- School Staffing
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure the continuation of existing staffing levels at a school (details supplied) in County Carlow for the school year...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will publish the list of schools which are being allowed to proceed to construction; and if she will insure that all Deputies...
- School Curriculum
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of music and arts teaching in smaller post-primary education facilities; if a system of peripatetic speciality teachers in...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made towards removing the obstacles with regard to insurance which currently prevents the majority of school halls being...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in the provision of a new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Irish Language
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the lack of textbooks in Irish for students attending all-Irish secondary schools; if she has plans...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to the proposed building project at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if she will make a...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the need to acquire a site for a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she...
- Legislative Programme
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of days between the publication of every Bill and Act produced by her Department since 1997 to date in 2008 and their...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her policy on July provision of special needs education for children in their homes, in the context of the fact that in 2007 there was...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Galway for a new school; if her attention has been drawn to...
- School Staffing
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a school (details supplied) in County Carlow with a third teacher for the coming school year. [15250/08]
- Grant Payments
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will pay home tuition grants that are outstanding to persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if, in view of the circumstances, final sanction will be given;...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 6 was not included in the schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act...
- School Accommodation
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the breakdown of the amount spent per school in the provision and maintenance of prefabs in Cork city and county including a breakdown...
- Family Support Services
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn the number of students within second level education who are young parents; the supports available for...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by her Department; the...
- School Accommodation
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action a school (details supplied) in County Cork needs to take to apply for a devolved grant toward the development of two new...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will appoint a design team without delay in order to ensure work can begin as soon as possible on a school (details supplied)...
- School Accommodation
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to her Department of the rental of temporary school accommodation in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Scrúduithe Stáit
Question 345: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Eolaíochta cad é líon na macléinn a thóg an Teastas Sóisearach agus an Ard-Teistiméireacht i 2007 agus a bhí ag freastal ar mheánscoil...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction the preferred tender for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, to enable...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding or financial support given by her Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation, in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timeframe for completion of an extension sanctioned in December 2006 for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; the reason...
- School Discipline
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the procedures in place to deal with allegations of verbal or physical abuse of students by teachers; if, in particular, there are...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the training; the contractors...
- Reserve Defence Force
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Defence if members of the Reserve Defence Force will be covered under the workers' rights legislation as serving members of the RDF since 1 January 2008; if...
- Legislative Programme
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of days for every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication and their introduction...
- Overseas Missions
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of integrated Reserve Defence Force members that will deploy to Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15202/08]
- Departmental Advertising
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the campaign or...
- Departmental Transport
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Defence the progress in responding to Parliamentary Question No. 820 of 2 April 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15338/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Defence the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or organisation, in the United...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist in the case of a person (details supplied). [15097/08]
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status and mode of operation of the special inquiry into the findings of the Stardust tribunal of 1982; and if a report...
- Residency Permits
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the processing time for an application for long-term residency; the action he has taken to reduce the waiting time since...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the processing time for an application for naturalisation; the action he has taken to reduce the waiting time since his...
- Residency Permits
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of decisions taken to grant or refuse long-term residency for each month for each of the past three years; and...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of decisions taken to grant or refuse an application for naturalisation for each month for each of the past...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the beneficiaries of the...
- Visa Applications
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons (details supplied) were not informed of the outcome of a review of their application; and the reason the...
- Residency Permits
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for residency under the family reunification scheme in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Garda Remuneration
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 922 of 2 April 2008, the reason it is not possible to transfer annual increments...
- Asylum Applications
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency of a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [15134/08]
- Garda Youth Diversion Project
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15137/08]
- Data Protection
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the law regarding the retention of personal data by Internet service providers and mobile telephone operators; if the law...
- Legislative Programme
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of days, in respect of every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their...
- Residency Permits
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Garda Deployment
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the proposed changes in the separation of the Kildare-Carlow division of the Garda will see an increase in the number of...
- Garda Reserve
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda reserves that have passed out to date and are on duty; the allocation to each county of the on-duty...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has proposals to change the law whereby persons with a criminal record who have not offended for a long number of...
- Crime Levels
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on statistics made available in April 2008 by the chief superintendent in the Dublin metropolitan region west...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his...
- Prisoner Releases
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of non-EU national sentenced prisoners who were released from prison between 1 January 2001 and to date in 2008...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [15309/08]
- Registration of Title
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) will be assisted. [15323/08]
- Departmental Staff
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason there is inequality of employment practice in Templemore Garda training college where Garda civilian instructors...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other group or...
- Residency Permits
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on...
- Child Care Services
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the funding provided for out of school services and after school services in the context of disadvantage and generally...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Public Works Projects
Question 393: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ascertain from the Office of Public Works when a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo will...
- Planning Issues
Question 394: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether bad planning has become a thing of the past since he took up office; and if he will make...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 397: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 399: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will set out an analysis of local authority pension liabilities for each local authority here at end...
- Planning Issues
Question 401: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which members of An Bord Pleanála are subject to ethics legislation, annual declarations of...
- Nuclear Safety
Question 403: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a shipment of plutonium dioxide currently being transported from the...
- Asbestos Remediation Programme
Question 404: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, taking account of the expensive process of removing and disposing of asbestos safely according to...
- National Parks
Question 405: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the woods and walkways of Granstown lake in south Laois will be opened again to the local community and...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 406: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [15119/08]
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 407: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will designate Moyode Wood and Turlough at Craughwell, County Galway as a SACRSPA in order to protect...
- National Biodiversity Plan
Question 408: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the implementation of the National Biodiversity Strategy; if an audit has been carried...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 409: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the majority of CFL lightbulbs on sale in the EU and in...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 410: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Dublin City Council had contact with his Department regarding the suspension of applications to their...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 411: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to issue a directive to local authorities indicating that such authorities should not assess...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 414: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the system of loans available through the local authorities for first time home buyers with...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 416: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he last received a request from the various local authorities in County Kildare for approval or capital...
- Planning Issues
Question 418: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has had discussions with the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs with a view to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 425: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses directly built and tenanted by each local authority throughout the country in each of...
- Planning Issues
Question 426: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which he has examined the planning, development and housing needs of smaller towns and villages...
- Legislative Programme
Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of days, in respect of every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008,...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 428: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of units rented through each local authority using the rental accommodation scheme system of...
- Radon Gas Levels
Question 429: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the assistance that will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who wishes to check the radon...
- Water Quality
Question 430: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has allocated resources for the necessary protection of groundwater or groundwater bodies used for the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo; if this scheme has gone for tender; if all...
- Climate Change Strategy
Question 432: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, with regard to his call for an all-party consensus on climate change, he will invite the Opposition...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 433: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 434: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of Doolin, Ballyvaughan and Corofin sewerage schemes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received an application for funding from a housing organisation (details supplied) in County...
- Housing Inspections
Question 436: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied with the accuracy of the information given by him in response to Parliamentary Question...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 437: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a landlord who enters into a lease agreement directly with...
- Planning Issues
Question 438: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chairman of An Bord Pleanála has expressed concerns...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other...
- Waste Management
Question 441: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his success to date in the extension of eco-friendly waste management systems in both urban and rural areas;...
- Election Management System
Question 443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the malfunction of some of the electronic voting technology in the US in the course of the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Electricity Generation
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has honoured his pre-general election 2007 manifesto by instructing the ESB to provide its customers with...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount that was spent by his Department on leadership training in 1997; the persons who were the...
- Legislative Programme
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of days, in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008,...
- Water Pollution
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he or his officials are taking, including in co-operation with other authorities, in order to...
- Departmental Advertising
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has carried out an advertising campaign to promote policies or programmes being implemented...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding or financial support given by his Department to an agency, body, community, religious or other...
